Most pointlessly hard achievement there is?

[SageRuffin]

I'm not that gar for the hard achievements. Hardest thing I've ever tried to do was finish Mass Effect 1 with Liara in my party for most of the game. I STILL don't have that achievement. ¬_¬

So, you're not likely to see me with any of the ones you've all listed here.

That's one's not too hard. You have to make sure to do no sidequests until you get Liara. Once you do that, do everything while having her present and you'll have a nice tasty new cheevo. Oh, collection quests (turian medallions, matriarch writings, etc) are inconsequential outside of some extra credits, so don't bother.

 

[hecticpicnic]

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That's easier than pressing start to play the game. >.>

On Topic. Killzone 2's Valor Grand Cross. Some might call it a grind as it involves being in the top 1% of players in a given week, but I say it's more a matter of skill.

That thing just gets harder the less people play the game because there are these clans of spawn killers just playing non stop to get this achievement.
I had magazine that had the hardest achievements in it.Hold on...Ok it says here 2# Street fighter 4 Name:No challenge to hard.Clear hard trail in challenge mode. and 1# From ghost recon.Name:World Champion(multilayer).Climb to the top.Climb to the top of the universal leaderboard(i remember one like that in mirrors edge 2).And you only get 40g for being the best player in the world.Number 3# was a wipeout HD trophy.Easiest are NBA 2K6, Name:All five of them.You can go into the options and change to get higher scores per goal.2# is the simpsons game with Easiest achievement...ever.Press start to play>1# is Avatar :the burning earth.All five achievement it takes about 2 mins as long as it takes to boil an egg all you have to get is 1000 points.

 

[Yureina]

My vote is for HL2: Episode 1's 'The One Free Bullet'. You only get to fire one bullet throughout the entire game, to knock off a padlock (Rockets, crossbow bolts, grenades, energy balls, physics objects, etc. are fine though). Runner up is 'Little Rocket Man', from HL2: Episode 2, where you must carry a garden gnome through the entire game and deposit it in the missile at the end.

So, what are your candidates? (Note: Grind achievements like dealing one million damage points and so on don't count, because they're not really hard, they just take an ungodly amount of time.)

I got The One Free Bullet. It actually wasn't as bad as it sounds, though I did play that game on Easy difficulty to make it less of a hassle. It turned out fine!

"Three Mountains": Conquer the entire world as Ryukyu: a tiny pagan island nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Europa Universalis III: Divine Wind

That's one I need to try sometime... after I conquer the world as Ottoman Turkey.