Max (MaXximumCARNAGE) from The MoogleCast and the Trophy Talk Network has picked Cursed to Golf as the game to cover. Armed with a few clubs and some incredible luck, we both describe our unique journey golfing our way out of purgatory. Even though neither of us tend to jump into rogue-like games, we both talk about what made this different enough to eventually win both of us over. We introduce a new platinum shout-out segment since we are now part of the Trophy Talk Network. Then Max talks about how he happened upon some of the greatest beginner’s luck that will make even the best of us jealous. I share my own frustrating story about the game driving me to almost give up on it. Just like with any other rogue-like, we both learned that failure is a learning experience and to not give up, because there is always a fresh start with new possibilities in Cursed to Golf.

Hello there everybody and welcome to the first episode of 2025! We hope that you all had a wonderful and restful holiday season with your family and friends, and got to enjoy some quality relaxation and gaming time.

If you haven't heard our announcement episode / dispatch from a week or so ago, there are lots of fun and exciting changes in 2025 for Trophy Talk and the other shows under the Trophy Talk Network. One of the not so fun things, in fact very bittersweet things though is that this episode is Darryl's last episode as a co-host of Trophy Talk. With life changing events on the way for him (which he goes in to this episode) he felt that it was the right time for him to ride away into the sunset. Fear not though, Darryl will still be in the community and we hope to have him on as a guest whenever he feels up to it!

Having said that, this episode in the main focuses on what we've been playing for the past two weeks, which as been a lot! Josh has fully immersed himself in the realm of 3D with his foray and continued exploits with the PSVR2. Does it add a whole new dimension to trophy hunting? In some sense yes it does! Darryl closes out the year strong with Life is Strange: True Colors and the platinum in a Discord favorite, Resident Evil: Remake. Colin, eager to game after being away from his console for a few weeks continues his grinds in Resident Evil: Revelations, and Black Ops 6 but also takes a much needed trip to Constantinople / Istanbul in Assassin's Creed: Revelations.

Thank you for listening, and enjoy!

Hello everybody, and welcome back to another episode of Trophy Talk!

This time, Josh and I (Colin) come together for our last recording of 2024 to go over the statistics and information presented in PlayStation's 2024 Wrap Up. These end of year reviews have become customary over recent years from PlayStation, and we always have an absolute blast recording them. If you're thinking that there are some pretty big differences in the number of games played, or trophies earned between Josh and I you'd be correct. The fun in reviewing these numbers though is in figuring out the why behind the stats themselves. Why do Josh and I both have the most hours played in CoD for 2024? How did Resident Evil 6 and Ghost Recon: Wildlands sneak into our top 5? These are the types of questions that are fun to look at and explore in this year in review.

On top of all that goodness we have our Platinum Shout Outs, Rage Gods, Patreon questions, and a quick discussion on our favorite Game Awards announcements. Thank you for listening, and enjoy. We'll see you in January of 2025!

Hey All!

We've been quietly working behind the scenes on something for the last 6 months or so here at Trophy Talk and it's finally time to unveil what that is. Please enjoy this 20 minute or so update from myself, Josh, Max, and Kevin. Thank you for listening and have a wonderful holiday season.

Warmest of Welcomes everybody and SURPRISE! As a little extra something Myself and Zaclre decided to sit down and have an impromtu catch up to talk about what we've been playing and to give our initial thoughts on the majority of exciting new announcements/trailers featured at The Game Awards 2024.

This was an informal discussion with not scripts or notes present, 100% rawdogged.

For the pre show we discussed the differences between christmas in the typical media sense vs christmas in New Zealand. Which would you prefer? Christmas BBQs on the beach or Mini christmas in July? These are normal things in this corner of the earth. We hope you enjoy the rawdog nature of this episode and we'll see you soon! Be excellent to each other this holiday season!

Max

Well hello there everyone and welcome back to another episode of Trophy Talk. In this our second to last episode of 2024, the crew has all assembled together to chat about the games that have been grabbing our attention during the final weeks of the calendar year. And what an exciting end of year it's turning out to be with the game awards announcements, PSN Wrap Ups, and new games still releasing at a steady clip. 2024 will undoubtedly go down as a great year in gaming for many of us.

However, while we were intending to talk about our official PS wrap ups during this episode, at the time of recording the roll out of the year in review feature was experiencing significant delays and issues, with most people unable to actually access it as intended on December 10th. The end result is that most of this episode is spent discussing Patreon submitted questions, plat shout outs, and Rage God mentions from our Discord. There's nothing wrong with that though, not in the least, as celebrating this community that we've built and the accomplishments that you all have had is one of the best parts about making Trophy Talk episodes.

Topics include, what would change in our trophy hunting habits if we got banned from PSN Profiles, what game we think Trump would be an excellent commentator of, and what movie released this year would have had a great opportunity for a tie in AA game. In terms of our individual hunts and successes, Darryl talks up and praises his time on PS Extra this year with two more titles, Tales of Kenzera: Zau, and Killer Frequency. All the while, Josh continues his vole exterminations while also taking time to become incredibly proficient at a tough rhythm game Spin Rhythm XD. Finally, Colin takes some time to discuss one of his favorite ever GameCube era games in Time Splitters 2. We hope that you all enjoy the content and the episode, thank you for listening!

Warmest of Welcomes everybody.

As promised DLC Pack episode 6 welcomes the return of SluggerJD aka Josh, where we continue our PS+ Premium Classics Wishlist, this time focusing on the PS2 and what better time to be focusing on this console after Sony recently raised a middle finger to Nintendo and moved the goal post with 160 million PS2 confirmed to have been sold, a fantastic achievement. This time myself (Max) and Josh shortened our lists and named 10 games with 5 honourable mentions, but on an ultra rare occasion decided to open the flood gates and invited all TrophyTalk Podcast discord community members whether patrons or not to write in with PS2 games they'd like to see added to the service, and within the 18 hour window for submissions you guys came through with some great picks bringing us up to around 60 games mentioned. So thank you guys for your submissions. We hope you enjoy this one, please keep an eye out for the announcement as mentioned in the episode, until then I'll be back next month with ThePortlandKevin of the Playstation Plus Game Club to talk about our memories of the Nintendo 64. Until then enjoy the show and be excellent to eachother.

Max

Hello one and all and welcome back to another episode of Trophy Talk!

As has become somewhat of a tradition in these parts, Josh, Colin and Darryl gather during this episode to provide their definitive ranking for their favorite trophy hunts of 2024! Each member of the crew brought an honorable mention, a bronze award, a silver award, a gold award and a platinum meaning all in all, we talk about 15 games here! That's a ton of games to go over, and you'll be happy and delighted to hear that we actually don't have as much overlap on titles as you might initially think!

Before all that though we talk about Josh's new job as an exterminator of Voles as the critters have declared all out war on his house. Even though it's necessary to defend ones home from invaders, it doesn't mean it feels good to do so. From there we also touch on Patron submitted questions including some of our Thanksgiving and holiday favorites, as well as rage about the seemingly never ending stories of stick drift with the Duel Sense controllers.

We sincerely hope that you enjoy this episode, and that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving if you observe it. We'll see you soon and happy gaming!

On July 1st 1999, Capcom and Shinji Mikami released their follow up to the wildly successful Resident Evil (Biohazard). Building on the technology, and using fixed camera angles and tank controls once again, Dino Crisis would be described as an evolution of the formula, and "Panic Horror" instead of "Survival Horror."

Dino Crisis follows Regina, a special member of the S.O.R.T team, along with her companions Gail, Rick, Cooper, and Tom (poor Tom), as they attempt to infiltrate a government research facility on Ibis island and extract Dr. Kirk and his research into "Third Energy Development." This "Third Energy" technology could be the source of unlimited and free power that the world desperately needs. However, in the wrong hands the technology can also be weaponized and used by global super powers to exert their influence on the world. As Regina and her team arrive at Ibis Island, it quickly becomes apparent that something is wrong at the facility. Researchers and staff are no where to be seen, at least alive anyway. It appears that someone, or something is roaming the island and killing the scientists in gruesome ways. Just what is hunting these people down, where is Dr. Kirk, and will Regina and her team make it out alive?

In many ways Dino Crisis attempts to take what made Resident Evil successful and iterate on it, adding in true 3D backgrounds and environments, and updated crafting system, decision trees for key story moments, and smarter more brutal enemy AI. Largely these efforts were successful, and while Dino Crisis never reached the popularity and heights of Resident Evil, it still garnered its own cult following to this day.

Come along with Josh, Max, and Colin as they try to survive Ibis Island in Episode 8 of Surviving the Horror. We hope you all enjoy the episode!

PSA: This game was played through the PS5 PS Premium Collection and as such rewind and quick save state features were available to us during our playthroughs.

Hello everyone, and welcome back to another episode of Trophy Talk!

In our second episode of November the crew is here to chat all about what we've been playing and spending our time in. As you can see from the episode title though, we take a good deal of time in this episode discussing the notion that time is indeed a resource, and our scarcest one at that! With so many great games out, and coming out, just how exactly does anyone play all the things they want to play. With our normal jobs, friends, and family obligations all vying for this same resource of time, it gets tough to juggle. It's a good problem to have though and all of us here on the show take some time to reflect on that fact.

Our Patreon submitted questions this week take us down memory lane a bit as we discuss what really got us in to trophy hunting, and what we both like and dislike about the hobby. This of course isn't a new topic for us here on the show but it's a good one to revisit once a year or so as thoughts on the hobby can morph and change over time. Additionally, we chat about what types of trophies make us feel the most satisfaction upon earning them in our hunts!

As far as what we've been playing, Darryl has managed to make his way through the brutal 2D metroidvania game of Blasphemous and has great things to say about it. Josh and Colin continue their journey in Black Ops 6 with some updates on the mp and zombies while pausing to play a surprisingly good and addicting Pokémon TCGP. And lastly, Josh discusses a surprise hit in the politically driven narrative game of Road 96 (and it's prequel). Needless to say the boys have been very busy indeed.

Thank you for listening, and we hope that you enjoy the episode!