Most pointlessly hard achievement there is?

[Jaxs]

G.R.A.W
Become #1 on the universal leaderboards.

 

[irishstormtrooper]

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.

 

[Undead Dragon King]

"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

 

[Pandaman1911]

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 would say that one is a close second to Get Some Grub, from the same game... I've combed every single square inch of that stupid freakin' cave complex, and I'm still missing TEN of those little wormy bastards... And you usually can only do it in one play-through, because if you do it again, how the hell are you supposed to know which ones you've already squished, or shot, or zero-point energy manipulated?

Oh, or either Seriously or Seriously 2.0 from Gears of War, and the Zombie Genocider in L4D. I don't have that much time to kill 100000/53595 enemies. It's just a grind, it's no real challenge of skill. And I *HATE* grinding.

 

[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....

 

[TheTim]

I'd have to say seriously 2.0 on gears, that would take days of doing the final mission constantly to get.

 

[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.

 

[Nouw]

'I am Bad Company.' You have to get all the awards. You have to be skilled with every single weapon, vehicle and weapon to get this one!

'Perfect Knight.' Extremely difficult unless you have a shitload of time on your hands and l33t skill >.>

The one in Portal where you only go through the Orange one. Let's not go there mate!

 

[MrGalactus]

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.

 

[TiefBlau]

"Pointless achievement" is redundant.

 

[Rossmallo]

The one you get on Super Meat Boy for unlocking The Kid. Holy shit.

 

[Rossmallo]

Hurk double post. Sorry!

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

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

Huh... I... actually have it.

Weird. Probably thanks to constant reloads, but still.

OT: The Kane & Lynch ones for being first and second on the leaderboards. Yeah... no.

Oh, and Seriously 2.0. But I'm guessing it's supposed to be.

 

[Critical_Sneeze]

I quite enjoyed the One Free Bullet achievement.

Aperture Science achievement in Portal. Screw. That.

 

[subject_87]

The one you get on Super Meat Boy for unlocking The Kid. Holy shit.

Oh yeah, the Super Meat Boy ones are absolutely sadistic; in retrospect, I should've included those.

 

[AMMO Kid]

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.

I actually enjoyed that achievement cause it required teamwork.

OT: I think the achievements in Ass. Creed 1 for finding all those flags. Seriously...

 

[Timmaaaah]

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.

I was going to say that one too, but I got that one just the other day quite easily. I'm thinking about trying it out on difficult setting next time. I think the random acheivements like "This is a secret achievement" and that neighbourhood watch one when you gotta destroy all striders before they take out any building is rediculous. I managed to save the saw mill but then when there are a bunch of them running around with hunters everywhere it's really hard to get there and stop them in time.

 

[Easton Dark]

Auf Wiedersehen Petrovic

You know it to be true.

I was going to say that one too, but I got that one just the other day quite easily. I'm thinking about trying it out on difficult setting next time. I think the random acheivements like "This is a secret achievement" and that neighbourhood watch one when you gotta destroy all striders before they take out any building is rediculous. I managed to save the saw mill but then when there are a bunch of them running around with hunters everywhere it's really hard to get there and stop them in time.

There's a pattern of which ones comes at which times and it took me so many times to learn it and which path to take to get to the ones quick enough. Takes awhile, but after the first 5, it gets super easy. Also, just run over the hunters, they should've gotten out of the way.