Poll: What's your favourite, or in your opinion the hardest Xbox 360 Achievement?

[latenightapplepie]

Some of the speedrun achievements for Mirror's Edge were certainly a little frustrating, but the hardest I've probably ever done would be beating RAAM on Insane. That was tough. I also got all the flags and templars in Assassin's Creed, but that wasn't so much hard as just time-consuming.

About RAAM, its damn near impossible without Co-op. About AC, I used a map site, and I'm missing two Kingdom flags and one Damascus flag. Fuck...

Yeah I did it alone and I think I entered some kind of trance when I did it because I can't remember anything. Yeah I used a map site for AC as well, but that doesn't mean it's easy. I've used a map site to get the pidgeons for GTA 4 and after I don't know how long, I have TWO different save files, BOTH just ONE pidgeon away from the achievement. So frustrating.

 

[Kikosemmek]

'Smile,' from Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2. It involves losing specifically seven out of twenty hard-as-fuck stages on a game mode called Sequence. You cannot lose more than seven times, or lose on any other stage than the specified ones.

To illustrate how difficult this achievement is to get, there's another achievement that challenges the player to simply reach, not beat, the end of Sequence.

 

[51gunner]

Ruling out patently impossible ones (Multiplayer achievements on singleplayer and so on)...

Probably some of the achievements for FPS's on their hardest difficulties (except Bioshock, I got 'Brass Balls' without breaking a sweat) are just the most unfair at times. I know Halo 3 on Legendary wasn't exactly fun due to a lot of one-hit-kill snipers. Frustrating.

The One Free Bullet on the Orange Box is a hard one I've never gotten around to doing.
The achievements for Time Trials on Mirror's Edge are frustrating as all hell because I can't seem to find the hidden best routes, and refuse to steal other people's answers. (It feels too much like cheating.)

I heard about an achievement that's worth 250 points, if anyone knows what it is could they PM it to me? The biggest I've seen was 125 for Halo 3 on Legendary.

Edited: I have Geometry Wars Evolved and cannot get past the first score achievement, let alone all the other ones which boil down to racking up a MASSIVE score.

 

[stompy]

What pissed me off, though, was that on my 10th or so try, I got up to the hostage part, and accidentally shot him. The frustration made me take about 90 more tries to beat it.

You think that's bad? I head-shoted the hostage-taker, then shot the hostage. This happened on three separate occasions. Yeh, I twitch quite a bit...

 

[TopHatTim]

survive 5 minutes with a six star wanted rating. this one freaked me out till i knew the secret for beating it. (yey hiding underground!!!)

i battled it out with the cops until 6 and hopped into an armed helicopter(police chopper) there i fought an endless amount of other heli's and then did my awesome get to the highest altitude and jumping out and falling into the water...it really gets you about 3/4 of the way out then you swim to shore and they lose track of you

 

[TopHatTim]

I have always liked Xbox Achievements, cause they seem to give me a reason to keep coming back to a game that feels like its getting old. I don't have a favourite achievement but although i don't find it hard, Serously 2.0 for Gears 2 (Score 100,000 kills) could only be completed by someone who plays Gears 2 way too much.

So list your favourite or what you think is the hardest achievement ever (or both), along with what game and what you have to do to earn it.

i didnt bother with that one becuase it felt to much like i was trying to get the dead rising achevment again!

The Zombie Genocide achievement u need to kill 53595 zombies in left 4 dead

 

[Aoi Denkou]

This isn't technically an achievement but getting the Katana in Halo 3, you have to earn every freaking achievement in the game......'nuff said

 

[AdjectiveAnimal]

"The Shot" in COD 4. I never got it, but on the bright side I managed to temporarily take out a four-year-old with my controller.

Newb question: How do I post links?

 

[Aiden Rebirth]

'Smile,' from Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2. It involves losing specifically seven out of twenty hard-as-fuck stages on a game mode called Sequence. You cannot lose more than seven times, or lose on any other stage than the specified ones.

To illustrate how difficult this achievement is to get, there's another achievement that challenges the player to simply reach, not beat, the end of Sequence.

oh fuck yeah...

 

[Silver Patriot]

You hid? Be a man and fight through the cops with an ass load of ammunition and an ungodly amount of good luck

Or do what I did, and go into the rail road tunnel that connects to an island you can;t access yet... and wait. You immediately get a 6-star wanted rating, and cops can't reach the area (nor do they spawn there).

Edit: Think with your head, not your p...istol.

I ran into the hospital and fought them off at the door. It's not nearly as hard as fighting the army in previous games.

The hardest achievement I think I have seen would be the "What are you trying to prove?" acheivment in Left 4 Dead. (Oh noes, we have to actually work together!) But i can't think of an achievement that caused me as much anger as the "Mile High Club" achievment in Call of Duty 4. The words "Veterans get headshots, not flesh wounds." is forever burned in my memory.

The closest equivalent on the PS3 for me would have to have been the Big Boss emblem in MGS 4. LIQUID!!!

 

[Flour]

I'm guessing this is an achievement for an online leaderboard, which means very few people will ever get this one:

Quake 4
Number One 20G
Achieved the number one rank on the All Gametypes leaderboard.

I've only got 2 games for my 360, and neither of them have hard achievements.(the hardest achievement in LEGO Indiana Jones is the "It's not the years" achievement, completing a level without dieing and the invincibility cheat)

 

[Zeromaxx]

You hid? Be a man and fight through the cops with an ass load of ammunition and an ungodly amount of good luck

Or do what I did, and go into the rail road tunnel that connects to an island you can;t access yet... and wait. You immediately get a 6-star wanted rating, and cops can't reach the area (nor do they spawn there).

Edit: Think with your head, not your p...istol.

I actually tried that and for some reason all the cops still came after me...I didn't have much of a choice but to shoot for the head.

 

[Molts]

The 'Little Rocket Man achivement' is challanging but fun. The 'Lamb 2 Slaughter' achivement in Left 4 Dead is also hard, but requires a lot of luck and the right opportunity. It's where you play as an infected then incap a Survivor who has entered and left a safe room.

 

[Space Spoons]

My favorite achievement right now is "Sagat's Scar", from Super Street Fighter II HD Remix. It's not especially difficult to get, if you have decent timing; defeat Sagat with Ryu by using a Fierce Shoryuken. Not too hard, but certainly fun.

There was also the "Terminal Velocity" achievment for Portal. The developers knew that the first thing we'd do once we got a fully functional portal gun was create an endless fall. I always got a kick out of that.

 

[Fire Daemon]

Ya know, I didn't have much trouble with Mile High Club. No fighting in the war room though... christ that was hard. So was the level where you had to snipe like a billion Russians as Cpt Price. I think they put that glitch in the game so that people can actually beat the damn thing.

 

[mGoLos]

I quite like 'The One Free Bullet' for Half-Life 2: Episode 1. It's challenging, but not impossible, and it's quite fun in the process. Hell, I was able to get it, along with 'Citizen Escort', at the same time.

I hear ya.

Little rocket man was also a good challenge, if you can get past the damned chopper with the gnome still in your car. Took me two hours to get past that section ... totally worth it!

 

[stompy]

Little rocket man was also a good challenge, if you can get past the damned chopper with the gnome still in your car. Took me two hours to get past that section ... totally worth it!

I was about to try and get 'Little Rocket Man'... and then, I suppose I just stopped playing Half-Life 2: Episode 2, or even The Orange Box. I might try it again, but I've heard that area you've described is a bloody nightmare.

I actually tried that and for some reason all the cops still came after me...I didn't have much of a choice but to shoot for the head.

They came for you? Wait, where did you hide? You have to go in the underground rail road, underneath the water between the two islands. That's so strange...

I ran into the hospital and fought them off at the door. It's not nearly as hard as fighting the army in previous games.

The hardest achievement I think I have seen would be the "What are you trying to prove?" acheivment in Left 4 Dead. (Oh noes, we have to actually work together!) But i can't think of an achievement that caused me as much anger as the "Mile High Club" achievment in Call of Duty 4. The words "Veterans get headshots, not flesh wounds." is forever burned in my memory.

The closest equivalent on the PS3 for me would have to have been the Big Boss emblem in MGS 4. LIQUID!!!

Yeh, the army isn't as hard, and rampages are a lot easier in Grand Theft Auto 4... however, they surprised me when they could climb over walls, something I hadn't seen them do before. Ruined a good holding-out spot too...

Oh, and 'Mile High Club'... christ, don't get me started with it. Here's what I said earlier:
You think that's bad? I head-shoted the hostage-taker, then shot the hostage. This happened on three separate occasions. Yeh, I twitch quite a bit...