Overview:
- Estimated Trophy Difficulty: Trophy Difficulty Rating - PlaystationTrophies.org (1/10 personal estimate)
- Offline: 13 (10, 2, 1)
- Online: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 100%: 10-20 hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: Minimum of 16 tournaments
- Missable trophies: none
- Glitched trophies: none
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: N/A
- Do cheat codes disable trophies?: N/A
Introduction
Telltale Games' Poker Night at the Inventory 2 is a single player poker game pitting the player against popular characters from video games, movies, and TV. You will be trading chips with Borderlands' Claptrap, Max of Sam & Max fame, Ash Williams from Evil Dead and Army of Darkness, and Brock Sampson from the Venture Brothers, with Portal's GLaDOS serving as the dealer.
All trophies for this game are essentially tied to collectibles unlocked by completing challenges and earning money and tokens. Keep winning tournaments and enjoying the witty banter and eventually all of the loot and trophies will be yours.
Walkthrough
Step 1: First Tournament
The game will begin by throwing you into your first tournament and introducing you to the basics of Texas Hold 'Em. Win this tournament to unlock I Tournament to Do That.
Step 2: Bounties
After your first tournament is completed, the game will introduce the bounty system. Complete your three challenges and win the following tournament to collect a bounty. Continue repeating this process until you have completed Orb 'n' Legends, Trophy Wife, Book 'Em, Banjo Hero, and Personality Goes a Long Way.
Step 3: Clean Up
At this point you should have accumulated a good amount of tokens and, hopefully, money as well. Continue winning tournaments in order to achieve a high enough lifetime balance for We Are the 1% and to gather enough tokens to unlock Unlock all the Things.
General Tips
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XMB Exit
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Poker Night 2 autosaves your tournament progress after every hand. This means that if a hand does not go in your favor, you could pause the game, exit to the XMB, and rejoin the tournament at the end of the previous hand. If you wanted to complete this game as fast as possible, you could go all in every hand and use this system to ensure you never lose. One caveat to this system is that you must wait until the second hand of a tournament. If you exit and try and rejoin during the first hand, the computer will register this as you "re-entering" the tournament and deduct another $20,000 entrance fee from your lifetime balance.
This technique could also be used in your favor if you receive a set of bounty challenges you feel are too difficult. When the challenges are randomly selected at the beginning of the tournament you can exit out and return to receive new ones, but since this is the first hand of a tournament it will cost you $20,000 to do so.
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Poker Night 2 autosaves your tournament progress after every hand. This means that if a hand does not go in your favor, you could pause the game, exit to the XMB, and rejoin the tournament at the end of the previous hand. If you wanted to complete this game as fast as possible, you could go all in every hand and use this system to ensure you never lose. One caveat to this system is that you must wait until the second hand of a tournament. If you exit and try and rejoin during the first hand, the computer will register this as you "re-entering" the tournament and deduct another $20,000 entrance fee from your lifetime balance.
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Lagging/Freezing Issues
- Frequent lagging and freezing issues plague this game as a result of its frequent autosaving. The best advice is to remain patient when you see the Saving message pop up in the bottom righthand corner of the screen and to wait for it to finish before proceeding. This won't eliminate all issues but it should help to reduce them.
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Buying Drinks
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As players drink their "tells" become more pronounced. They might make more bad decisions (not easy to notice). Buying drinks should make it easier to win, but you are spending tokens.
As RedKing points out, drinks make it more obvious to spot when the computer opponents are bluffing. Drinks cost 5 tokens each but can be useful in helping you win tournaments. To purchase drinks, select while at the poker table and choose a player to buy for.
The folks over at the Inventory Wikia have put together a pretty comprehensive list of the various character tells and you can find their list here:
Poker Night 2 Character Tells
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As players drink their "tells" become more pronounced. They might make more bad decisions (not easy to notice). Buying drinks should make it easier to win, but you are spending tokens.
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