Most pointlessly hard achievement there is?

[OniaPL]

I don't know if this has been posted already, but rather than being hard, the true endurance test is:

Gears of War 2
Seriously 2.0
Kill 100,000 enemies
(I completed the single player campaign 3 times and played some multiplayer, but I racked up about 2500 kills!)

 

[Red-Link]

"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.

I used to try for every achievement in whatever game I played, despite being relatively poor at games, even after all this time. Then one day I remembered that servers can be closed and some games just die, making certain achievements literally impossible. That was the end of my achievement-whoring days (not counting Kongregate). I still go for some, though I tend to not care about multiplayer achievements.

OT: Any achievement that's "secret." Having to go online and look up how to do an achievement is one thing, and merely means I lack skill/patience. Having to go online to figure out what and achievement even is is just stupid unless it's story progression. I know just because it's secret doesn't mean it's hard, but the title says pointlessly, and that's the only point where I consider it such, otherwise, it's on you to go for it or not, but when you don't even know what it is, the line is drawn.

Cool, double rant.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

There was a scrapped Achievement for Fallout 3 that was going to be "beat the entire story quest with max level in one sitting"
Fuck that.
I'm glad they didn't include that one. Oh wait, it could've been New Vegas. One of the two.
Either way, fuck that.

I just attempted that very feat earlier this month---and failed horribly. There's simply no way to do it short of using cheats (and the "one sitting" and console commands are mutually exclusive since the latter disables achievements for that session) in less than 40-50 hours, and even I can't stay awake that long (around 30 hours it becomes a real risk of me falling asleep in my chair).

I guess you could just leave the PC on and paused, though...

On-topic, Civilization 5, "Gotta Catch 'Em All". You need a supercomputer to beat a Huge map once, never mind doing it four times, once for each map type. It's not a matter of difficulty (you can play on Settler difficulty if you just want the achievement), it's having the patience to deal with the horribly poorly optimized code.

If one were already level 20 and one was already equipped, it would be a mercifully brief experience of perhaps six hours at most. If one were instead required to go from level 1 to 20 and beat the game, then it would take a bit longer. Still, my playthrough of the game (the first time) took well under 20 hours and I had long hit the cap by the end.

 

[Merkavar]

I don't recall what the title is, but there's a trophy in Resistance 2 for getting 10,000 kills in multiplayer.
Bad Company 2 also has a ridiculous one, where you have to knife 5 different people on your friends list. Getting that without specifically setting it up is nigh on impossible.

yeah that sounds impossible. since your normally on the same team as your friends or not on the same server

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

I know Little Rocket Man has been mentioned, but what about Guardin' Gnome (Left 4 Dead 2)?

Pissed me off to carry the gnome that far.

That WOULD have pissed me off, except that my friend and I had a really epic experience getting that one. It actually ended with me running to the helicopter being followed by, I shit you not, the horde AND a tank simultaneously. With low health. And no health packs. And a teammate sacrificing themselves to save me from a smoker. (I was the only one who didn't already have it). It was...well, epic.

Anyway, OT: Beating any COD game on Veteran. Maybe I'm just a wimp, but Veteran mode beats the shit out of me every time.

 

[SJXarg]

I'm going to go with Rocket Knight, finish level 3.2 without taking taking damage, the Nimble Knight achievement. This level is full of environmental hazards, lasers, projectile firing enemies, and the final part is a timed race against an explosion. Sometimes I fail it on the first enemy, and just rage.

 

[Imat]

Wrecking Ball from Just Cause 2. I just can't seem to aim it right. I have 2 kills, of 5 needed, and 1 of which came from the enemy driving into my tethered object and exploding themselves.

 

[SimuLord]

If one were already level 20 and one was already equipped, it would be a mercifully brief experience of perhaps six hours at most. If one were instead required to go from level 1 to 20 and beat the game, then it would take a bit longer. Still, my playthrough of the game (the first time) took well under 20 hours and I had long hit the cap by the end.

No doubt it could be done very easily in Fallout 3, especially if we're talking pre-Broken Steel where the level cap's only 20. New Vegas, on the other hand (the game with the Steam achievements), that I can't see doing in any less than 40 hours with the provided stipulations, and my playthroughs run far longer than that as a general matter.

 

[phxprovost]

theres a couple in Lost Planet 2 that are next to impossible to get, dont remember what they were though

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

If one were already level 20 and one was already equipped, it would be a mercifully brief experience of perhaps six hours at most. If one were instead required to go from level 1 to 20 and beat the game, then it would take a bit longer. Still, my playthrough of the game (the first time) took well under 20 hours and I had long hit the cap by the end.

No doubt it could be done very easily in Fallout 3, especially if we're talking pre-Broken Steel where the level cap's only 20. New Vegas, on the other hand (the game with the Steam achievements), that I can't see doing in any less than 40 hours with the provided stipulations, and my playthroughs run far longer than that as a general matter.

The only real variable as far as I can see is if one is allowed to be at the cap before starting or if they have to make it to the cap while pursuing the goal. Hitting the cap in New Vegas (or broken steel) takes 66,700 experience and as such would require a player to pursue side quests in order to reach the cap (unless they simply go hunting across the wastes for hours on end). It is even worse in New Vegas considering the relative scarcity of incidental contact in the wasteland.

 

[SimuLord]

If one were already level 20 and one was already equipped, it would be a mercifully brief experience of perhaps six hours at most. If one were instead required to go from level 1 to 20 and beat the game, then it would take a bit longer. Still, my playthrough of the game (the first time) took well under 20 hours and I had long hit the cap by the end.

No doubt it could be done very easily in Fallout 3, especially if we're talking pre-Broken Steel where the level cap's only 20. New Vegas, on the other hand (the game with the Steam achievements), that I can't see doing in any less than 40 hours with the provided stipulations, and my playthroughs run far longer than that as a general matter.

The only real variable as far as I can see is if one is allowed to be at the cap before starting or if they have to make it to the cap while pursuing the goal. Hitting the cap in New Vegas (or broken steel) takes 66,700 experience and as such would require a player to pursue side quests in order to reach the cap (unless they simply go hunting across the wastes for hours on end). It is even worse in New Vegas considering the relative scarcity of incidental contact in the wasteland.

As I see it, hunting across the wastes means knowing where to find 50XP enemies and having the knowhow to get enough caps to supply weapons and ammo. That means Golden/Fire Geckos, the stronger flavors of Feral Ghoul, Radscorpions (regular and Giant but not Small), Cazadores, and Deathclaws. All faced with enough skill to pop 'em, sometimes below the level you'd need to be at to feel comfortable.

Beyond that, knowing where to find a compact place for sidequests (Freeside is great in this regard and GI Blues provides 1500XP, almost 2.5% of the total, for less than twenty minutes' worth of work) helps too.

I'm not saying a speedrun with a full-level stipulation from 1 to 30 is impossible. I'm saying that any way you slice it, you'd need a hell of a lot of endurance (the real-world kind, not the SPECIAL stat), a mini-fridge full of energy drinks, and oh by the way not one crash to desktop. Which I suspect is the real reason they'd take an achievement like that out---nobody on the PC would ever get it.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

I'm not saying a speedrun with a full-level stipulation from 1 to 30 is impossible. I'm saying that any way you slice it, you'd need a hell of a lot of endurance (the real-world kind, not the SPECIAL stat), a mini-fridge full of energy drinks, and oh by the way not one crash to desktop. Which I suspect is the real reason they'd take an achievement like that out---nobody on the PC would ever get it.

You know, I didn't even consider that aspect. I don't think one could reasonably complete the game without a CTD or the console equivalent. Even in my relatively bug free play-through the game dumped me unceremoniously to the desktop on two occasions and quietly crashed upon loading a cell at least a half dozen times.

 

[AK47Marine]

Apparently there's a couple achievements on WoW that would take something like 2500 game play hours to get... and another one that requires your entire guild assisting you and doing 40-50 odd fetch quests to build an item that gets one person the achievement.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[Aeshi]

"Dot of Doom" from Killing Floor.

Get 25 headshots IN A ROW?

 

[Wutaiflea]

Dragon Age origins, the traveller, took me FOUR PLAYTHROUGHS before I got it right. .

Really? Maybe its just the way I play, or maybe I've gone insane due to my father-in-law making dog noises, but I got this achievement entirely by accident.

I honestly can't think of any tough achievements, but that's really because I couldn't care less about earning them- especially things like taking garden gnomes through the game

I suppose it's the stupid Guitar Hero and Rockband achievements that stick out for me. I mean, by the time we're all pissed enough to think playing the Endless Setlist is a good idea, we make it through 5 songs and pass out on the floor.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

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.

You too? I spent two fucking hours trying to get that door to open before giving the game back to my friend.
OT: BlazBlue challenge achievements can be....frustrating.

 

[RuralGamer]

Double whammy on Black Ops - two helicopters with one missile. The only conceivable way to do it would be for one chopper to be hit and crash into the other, but lining up such a shot is impossible; no idea how others have managed; one guy on his walkthrough for it described getting it as sheer luck and having failed for over an hour, I'm inclined to agree.

 

[Something Amyss]

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

"Bladder of Steel"

Wow, that'd take how many hours?... Also, is there a certain score you have to reach on each one, to add another level of sadism?

BoS requires you to not pause or fail. It's about 6 hours. There's no score beyond whatever the hypothetical minimum is to not fail any song. Which should, for the most part, be pretty low. The achievement can also be done on medium, IITC. So it's mostly just tedium.

Tedium I've never done, but still.

 

[feauxx]

Double whammy on Black Ops - two helicopters with one missile. The only conceivable way to do it would be for one chopper to be hit and crash into the other, but lining up such a shot is impossible; no idea how others have managed; one guy on his walkthrough for it described getting it as sheer luck and having failed for over an hour, I'm inclined to agree.

i got that one fairly quickly, and if you fail, just shoot the rocket at the floor because you respawn right where you have to take out the choppers. the trick is to run away so the choppers follow you and then get out of sight so they hover/wait close together for you to come out. shoot the one slightly higher than the other.