MrJKapowey said:
I broke a 360 controller. After 45 minutes trying to get the 'jump of cliff and stabby-time' achievement for HALO Reach I threw it down in anger to go and get a drink and a cookie but (I play sitting on my bed) I didn't realise that the bar at the end of my bed was there. I threw the controller right onto it and the left analog and D-Pad stopped working properly...
Ah, that achievement. It took me several hundred or so tries to get it. As far I can tell, it is one of those achievements that the game doesn't tell you that there has to be precise things happening when you do the action:
Like:
Before you jump, the wind has to be blowing from the west, and the Grunt standing next to the Elite you are about to jump on, has to be picking his nose, while the other two Grunts are taking a whiz behind the burned out truck.
It must have been that complicated a condition, because I counted how many times I succeeded in assassinating the Elite mid jump so that I didn't die from the fall, as the achievement wants, and I did it properly, without dying, 30 times before it gave me the achievement. I even tested the jump/fall position that I completed those with, and if I had hit the ground I would have died.
The game was just anally picky.