The worst achievements of all time

[Interference]

Ok, here's one for you: what do you consider the worst achievements (or trophies)any game has ever had?

There are some pretty awful ones out there and I'd firstly nominate the "Wax Off" achievement for Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved, which seems deceptively simple but you'll be sat trying it over and over to the point where it becomes soul destroying monotony and, by the time you stare bleary-eyed at the screen and realise you've suddenly done it (after 2 hours of trying) you just won't care anymore.

Another kind of awful are the Eternal Sonata ones, which clearly took bugger all effort to devise. Pretty much all of them are secret ones, meaning you don't have any idea what you're meant to do to get them. A little digging aaaand.. you find out they're all for completing chapters of the game. I mean, that's IT? Even Infinite Undiscovery managed better than that.

So, achievements that are either mind numbingly hard to the point of dribbling insanity or are crushingly uninspired.

Aaaaand... GO!

 

[Space Spoons]

Start of a New Era (Soul Calibur IV) - Awarded for watching the game's opening cutscene. Pretty ridiculous to call something so frivolous an "achievement". It's like giving someone an award for having the patience to sit through a traffic light.

 

[Shanecooper]

Achievements for completing a chapter. Congratulations, you did something most people would have done anyway.

 

[AkJay]

I absolutely hate "complete the game" achievements. It's not an achievement! It's what I've been trying to do! it's the entire point of buying the f*cking game!

 

[Carlston]

Achievements for completing a chapter. Congratulations, you did something most people would have done anyway.

Achievement - Disc slinger "You bought the game and put it in your console!"

Congratulation the winner is you!

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

OHH!!! Reached 10th Prestige in WaW.

Congrats. You play CoD a shit ton. Now what?

 

[Flight]

I'd have to agree with the achievements for completing a chapter being pretty bad. Other than that, story rewards can be pretty annoying, like the

Spoiler

"Master of Removing" achievement you get for removing Wesker's mind-controlling device from Jill in Resident Evil 5, even if it was pretty funny to those of us who remembered the "Master of unlocking" jokes from back in the day.

Aren't we presumably going to get through the story anyway? Why do we need achievements for it?

 

[ZiggyApplepie]

I absolutely hate "complete the game" achievements. It's not an achievement! It's what I've been trying to do! it's the entire point of buying the f*cking game!

It is an achievement in some games. Although it's not really an achievement as much as a measure of how much time you have to kill.

 

[Instant K4rma]

Collect all the flags in AC1. Good god... The late nights of... Searching and searching and... Ugh....

 

[Angerwing]

Trail of Corpses, Prototype. Kill 53,596 (one more than Left 4 Dead and two more than Dead Rising) zombies.

 

[BigDonTheDJ]

You would be amazed at how many people here in my hometown would never get the stoplight achievement.
I don't even care about achievements anymore.4 years ago, maybe. Now, who gives a ass rat's.

 

[Daveman]

Neighbourhood watch in HL2 Ep2. Stop any buildings being destroyed during the strider assault. Impossible because:
1) You have to kill about 3 hunters before taking on the strider else they'll shoot off your magnusssons. Not to mention there are a fuckload of striders to take down, each with a herd of hunters. Sometimes you have to take on more than one... I think you do 3 at once in the final bit.
2) You have to keep going back to base to find magnussons as you can only carry one at a time for some ridiculous arbitrary reason (I mean he has already got a crowbar, the gravity gun, two handguns, a machine gun, a pulse rifle, a shotgun, a crossbow, an RPG, some grenades AND ammo for all those).
3) The way they scale the difficulty is such that if you do better it becomes harder exponentially. So you have to be exponentially better than any normal person playing the game. This means that even on easy difficulty it's fucking ridiculous.

 

[Freedomario]

Some games have a "Kill your first baddie" Achivs

 

[Interference]

There is one game that has an achievement for pressing the start button.

I think the Matt Hazard game (the retail one, not the XBLA one) has that. Sweet jesus.

 

[Go Fighting In The War Room]

Goodnight Sweet Prince from Farcry 2. You have to kill a guy who probably saved your ass more times than you can remember, because you can't heal him back to good health.

Suprisingly the game gives you 40G for that.

 

[plastic_window]

There is one game that has an achievement for pressing the start button.

That wouldn't be Eat Lead would it?

I just hate achievements that have a value that doesn't end in a 5 or a 0. There's one in Fifa 09 that's worth 1 point and it's for scoring in the 89th minute. Now, I don't play football games. My brother bought it to play with some of his friends on XBL, but he has to use my account to play online.

Now, if I want to get my score back to normal I have to get another achievement in Fifa 09 that's worth 19 points. It's for playing the game for 50 hours. Swell.

 

[ShakesZX]

Start of a New Era (Soul Calibur IV) - Awarded for watching the game's opening cutscene. Pretty ridiculous to call something so frivolous an "achievement". It's like giving someone an award for having the patience to sit through a traffic light.

However, some people choose to skip the opening cutscenes, so this one might require effort.

But you are right, anything such as this, somethign that doesn't require any work or skill shouldn't be an achievement

 

[Inco]

There is one game that has an achievement for pressing the start button.

The simpsons game has that one, as a joke against easy achievements.

The Avatar (the last airbender) game.

200G- Get a 10 hit combo
200G- Get a 20 hit combo
200G- Get a 30 hit combo
200G- Get a 40 hit combo
200G- Get a 50 hit combo


Yes, that is all 1000G that you could get in the tutorial.

Now thats what i call lazy. They were not even bothered to give them smart names.

 

[Hutchy_Bear]

Achievements for completing a chapter. Congratulations, you did something most people would have done anyway.

To be honest though I failed those ones quite badly on Eternal Sonata - I couldn't be arsed to get past chapter 4.