Most pointlessly hard achievement there is?
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I know Halo reach has one for completing each campaign mission on Legendary, solo, "A monument to all your sins" I think it's called
Also, I downloaded Sonic Adventure from the Xbox Marketplace, it has an achievment for collecting all 130 emblems in the game, which one of them is ridiculously hard to get, whics involves Big the cat having to catch a 2000g fish on his first level, where none seem to show up at all.
Also, I downloaded Sonic Adventure from the Xbox Marketplace, it has an achievment for collecting all 130 emblems in the game, which one of them is ridiculously hard to get, whics involves Big the cat having to catch a 2000g fish on his first level, where none seem to show up at all.
I don't really think that there can be a such thing as a "pointlessly hard" achievement. What's wrong with having it be really hard to get? The whole idea of achievements is to be able to showcase what you can achieve. Sure, maybe some of them should be easy so that you get a reward for just doing stuff, but they would be worthless as a concept if they were all easy to get wouldn't they? The harder it is to get, the more badass it is to have gotten it, right?
Pointlessly hard. Just shoot the gnome onto the bridge and then you can go pick it up when you have the car.Geo Da Sponge said:
Also all of the gnome achivements were piss easy. Even the car sections weren't that bad if you know where to put the gnome in the car you can drive for a while with it sitting inside. And the gnome makes a good melee weapon in l4d2
I don't think anyone on this site have played "Seal Hunter" but if anyone has, they should know that there is a lot of achievements that are just pointlessly hard to get in that game.
There's one called "Shotgun Master" where you have to have 100% accuracy and at least 100 kills with a shotgun. (It's impossible!)
There's one called "Shotgun Master" where you have to have 100% accuracy and at least 100 kills with a shotgun. (It's impossible!)
i have legitimately gotten the "little rocket man" achievment in HL2:ep2 and "the one free bullet" in HL2:ep1. but the hardest achiev ever thought of by human kind is the one for beating the Cotton Alley Dark World in SMB without dying once. i have a friend who has it, but he obviously cheated because most of his levels times are slightly over 1 second.
Little Rocket Man and The One Free Bullet are probably two of my favourite achievements. Valve aren't completely off the hook with me though thanks to Aperture Science (for earning gold medals on all Portal challenges - god damn you, 'Least Steps' challenges) and Neighbourhood Watch (do not allow a single building to be destroyed in the climax of Episode Two). Those two achievements have driven me crazy for years.
Well get you. I don't know why you'd try to boast about how it was by quoting someone who already has those achievements, but hey...dududf said:
Anyway, I don't see why leaving the gnome at the start and picking it up at the end is significantly harder than punting it onto the bridge.
BB King from World of Warcraft. You need to get to the leader of each race in the opposing faction and hit them with a BB gun. The BB gun does no damage and does not auto-hit, you need to get it from a Christmas present with a very low chance of dropping it, and you can only get it during 2 weeks of the year.
Alternatively, "The Insane" from the same game. You need to raise reputation with several factions, 4 of whom you will lose rep with by gaining it with one of the others and have few ways of getting rep from. Before Cataclysm came, you could expect to spend 360 hours on getting it. Access to a rogue was also non-optional. Not sure what it's like now, but it should still take a long time.
Alternatively, "The Insane" from the same game. You need to raise reputation with several factions, 4 of whom you will lose rep with by gaining it with one of the others and have few ways of getting rep from. Before Cataclysm came, you could expect to spend 360 hours on getting it. Access to a rogue was also non-optional. Not sure what it's like now, but it should still take a long time.
That's the key with incredibly difficult achievements like Mile High Club. If you get pissed, odds are you're going to keep failing. Take a step back and relax for awhile and come back to it. I got it for myself and my friend, but I tried to get it for my ex but I got so angry she turned the xbox off on meTimmaaaah said:
EASIEST game long achievement I have ever gotten. There is one mission that requires you to use a gun but that isn't counted. Also its EASIER to take out the guards without using a gun.Witty Name Here said:
I actually sat there and got that achievement. Simultaneously a very proud/very unproud momentwill1182 said:
OT: I would say the seven day survivor achievement from Dead Rising. Survive for 14 real-time hours without saving and with your health slowly depleting. I am yet to attempt this one
Simpsons Game, the 'pwnd' achievment. Die ten times and you get an achievment worth 0 gamer points.
Mate sorry If I'm stepping on your toes here but those 2 barely count as hard achievements. BB King is about luck just getting that thing. After that u'll just die a few times getting to the leaders. Other than orgrimmar/ironforge you probably won't even have any players do deal with.DaJoW said:
As for "Insane in the membrane" it's just a grindfest. I've done the Cartel/Buccaneers/some of Ravenhold but let it go cuz Cata was comming(btw Darkmoon Faire beats ALL of them combined). And getting "Battlemaster" now is like 1000times harder than getting "The Insane".
Think of getting "The Immortal" when Wotlk 1st came out. I think that was especially hard since if only 1 person out of 25 fucked up and died at any time u'd have to try next week. But what really requires skill are pvp achievs like win 10times in a row at 2300arena rating or something. I can't remember remember details and names cuz I've quit wow some time ago but i know there are achievs that were simply impossible in pvp without setting the whole thing up with the other team.
OMG YES!IamSofaKingRaw said:
i never really tried that hard for the feathers in AC2, but the blast shards in inFamous? *shudders* There's just sooo many of them...
not a single achieve but a whole games worth, FFXI. The vast majority of them are "Achieved level 75 in *insert job*"
The 2 from reach (solo legendary and the assassination one) were a tad enfuriating at times, solo'ing that stupid flying chapter especially.
Quite a few of the earlier guitar hero ones too
The 2 from reach (solo legendary and the assassination one) were a tad enfuriating at times, solo'ing that stupid flying chapter especially.
Quite a few of the earlier guitar hero ones too