Most pointlessly hard achievement there is?

[lacktheknack]

Rock band 2 "Bladder of Steel"

They say about 6.5 hours and their is one on expert.

Imagine failing the second-last song.

 

[Timmaaaah]

Well, how about "Rocket Man" from Episode 2?

Haul the friggin' garden gnome around the WHOLE game and send him into space with the rocket. I didn't even have CLOSE to enough patience for it.

I am SO trying that. Where is the garden gnome?

 

[BioHazardMan]

"Pointless achievement" is redundant.

Zing!

But seriously I think most people in the thread like achievements. I don't live for nothing but achievements however I try to get as many as possible, seems more of an OCD thing.

 

[Timmaaaah]

You know you can get Half Life achievements with cheats on right? At least on 360.

I still can't get Mile High Club or Sum of All Zeroes (Cod 4 and COD WAW)

I spent a straight week on Mile High Club. And I still don't have it.

Mile High Club is all about strategy. It's wierd, with stuff like that it's always been like, formulate a strategy and stick to it, and keep going til you get the execution right. Eventually I gave up after trying for freakin hours, bu then took a break and the next day I tried it again, got it first pop.

 

[Iron Mal]

I would have to say '7 day survivor' on Dead Rising, it's not that staying alive for 7 days is hard it's the fact that this requires you to play the game for 14 hours consecutively with no saves and with your health constantly depleting because Frank's metabolism apparantly has a very sadistic sense of humour.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

Doesn't guitar hero 3 have achievements for NOT using a plastic guitar?
I was like, wtf ...

You can use the regular Dual Shock controller instead of the faux-guitar. It's bloody hard though.

 

[Skorpyo]

Well, how about "Rocket Man" from Episode 2?

Haul the friggin' garden gnome around the WHOLE game and send him into space with the rocket. I didn't even have CLOSE to enough patience for it.

I am SO trying that. Where is the garden gnome?

Under one of the shelves in the shed where Alex first tells her father that she has the Combine code.

 

[THEMILKMAN]

Collect all the feathers in Asscreed 2 or the damn blast shards in Infamous. I don't know why I'm still trying.

Not for a trophy though trying to finish MGS4 in under 5 hours with:
No Alerts
No kills (yep you have to use non lethal weapons on bosses)

You basically have to memorize the whole damn game to do it.

Were you going for the ultimate challenge (Big Boss emblem)? For that you have to fulfill those requirements plus no deaths, no healing items used, and extremely limited ammo (tranq darts are rare as hell and you can't buy them). Also, cutscenes count towards the time so you gotta skip them.

That was the most challenging thing ever but I am a MGS fanboy so I was more than happy to do it.

Also, the flags in "Asscreed 1" were much harder than AS2's feathers.

 

[LiftYourSkinnyFists]

World of Warcraft's Insane Title... pre-Cataclysm

 

[BabySinclair]

And I think I'll carry it a long, long time. What lift off brings me I've yet to earn. It's not the gnome I think it is at all, no, no, no, no; it's the "Rocket Man"

 

[Blemontea]

How about Infinite undiscovery 1g achievment... beat the game on normal mode, beat the game on hard mode, beat the game on impossible mode, and beat the Final Boss on impossible.... and its all for 1G! just 1G! the G for beating the game on normal is 99G so basically they are torturing OCD's with uneven gamerscore....

If I hadn't already given up on Infinite Undiscovery because of that damn bat & snake door, that would have certainly cured any interest I initially had in getting a perfect gamerscore.

Everybody has trouble with that and whats sad about it is that its only in the second chapter. Did you ever get past it?

 

[TiefBlau]

"Pointless achievement" is redundant.

Zing!

But seriously I think most people in the thread like achievements. I don't live for nothing but achievements however I try to get as many as possible, seems more of an OCD thing.

The way I see it, if you took everything bad about sidequests and stuffed it into your DRM system, it's called an "achievement". I used to be an OCD gamer, but given how horribly the industry treats gamer OCD these days, I just I'd rather suffer the sinking feeling of incompletion than have to collect 420 flags and kill 60 templar in random, untrackable areas (Assassin's Creed).

I do sidequests when they're done right. See: Arkham Asylum.

 

[LCP]

Well, how about "Rocket Man" from Episode 2?

Haul the friggin' garden gnome around the WHOLE game and send him into space with the rocket. I didn't even have CLOSE to enough patience for it.

I actually legitly got it... gosh it was fun-ish...

 

[goddz001]

any acheivement in kingdom for keflings. the game is just...so intesne D:

 

[Ridgemo]

Getting the all the bonus' and getting all team bonus' in one game on AC:Bro

 

[Vhite]

http://www.wowwiki.com/The_Insane
Its even harder then it looks but yay! you get a title, which is well deserved because if you have done it, you are clearly insane.

 

[KiKiweaky]

Didnt Halo have one called 'Seriously?' a million headshots in multiplayer?

 

[migo]

How about Infinite undiscovery 1g achievment... beat the game on normal mode, beat the game on hard mode, beat the game on impossible mode, and beat the Final Boss on impossible.... and its all for 1G! just 1G! the G for beating the game on normal is 99G so basically they are torturing OCD's with uneven gamerscore....

If I hadn't already given up on Infinite Undiscovery because of that damn bat & snake door, that would have certainly cured any interest I initially had in getting a perfect gamerscore.

Everybody has trouble with that and whats sad about it is that its only in the second chapter. Did you ever get past it?

Never got past it. Are you saying that there's nothing that's a PITA in the rest of the game, so if I get past it, I'm good?

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

Most online Trophies can go fuck themselves. I love you dearly Resistance 2, but I never even got 10k kills in Call Of Duty 4, how the hell am I supposed to do it with you? Whore.

And Prototype, finish the game without dying. It's impossible because of the fucking Hunters.

The prototype one is really easy actually if you beat the game once before, then play on easy.

OT: Right now for me its for the Halo reach dlc. Capture all the flags in a game of stockpile.

 

[burningdragoon]

Rock band 2 do all the songs in one go without pause.

"Bladder of Steel"

I "cheated" on that one. Took a pee break during the BRE on Let There Be Rock and a little bit into the beginning of The Trees.


I would say any "collect all x" achievements, but they are really more tedious and aggravating than difficult. I'd imagine a pretty hard trophy would be beating 3D Dot Game Heroes on Spelunker mode since it's one hit kills.