What is that Power-up/Achievement/item that you worked incredibly hard for?

[mikey7339]

For the Alliance!

 

[MrAkuma201]

It's the pacifist thing on Deus Ex HR It was a pain and I had to do it on the hardest setting 8D

 

[InsomniJack]

I'm not a hardcore achievement guy, but the hardest thing I accomplished was beating Alan Wake on the highest difficulty mode.

However, during that particular playthrough, I looked up the achievement list and realized "Hey, I'm at the place where I can get Gunless Wonder... I should go for it!"

Well, I got it.

But never again.

Never again.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Mine will be Assassin's Creed 2. I need to play through the game again to get trophies that I weren't awarded due to the game's bugs.

Not much, but I HATE the game.

 

[mikey7339]

Time Travel Will Tell
What the fuck, Treyarch?

I forgot about Ensemble Cast and Stand In from Call of the Dead. And damnit, somehow I pressed the red button again...

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

"Angel Slayer" Completeing all the Alfheim portals in Bayonetta... all the rage.

Most lengthy one i ever did, hm... "Card Sharp" in Mafia 2. Got a couple other achivements at the same time since it was such a fuckton of driving around to collect all the Wanted Posters.

That or the "Capture the Flag" in AC Brotherhood. Collecting all those flags was such a bore...

 

[Lawnmooer]

I did get the "Only fire one bullet" achievement in Half-Life, but I don't think that counts since I had fun doing it... (And it wasn't too hard, it became tricky when I ran out of things to fire at combine though (Hurrah for using a tiny splinter to repeatedly bash a guys head in))

I've got every Pyro achievement in TF2... That took a while to get...

I can't actually think of any difficult achievements that I've actually gone for (Except the supposedly difficult "Finish X on the hardest difficulty" but those were just side effects of me wanting a bit more challenge)

I've also not really worked very hard for any items or power ups... Though that could be because a lot of games I play either have simple progression (Starting with a Sword and ending with a Sword +5) give everything as part of the story or only give items for new game plus...

Oh just remembered a few things I worked hard and long to get in Demon's Souls:

Sticky Compound Longbow +5 (Took forever to get the Shard of Spiderstone after +3)
Cresent Uchiganta +5
Dull Gold Leggings (Ugh... Need pure white world tendency on world 5? God-damn poison and plague swamps...)

I think that's it... Everything else I either got rather easily or I wasn't after at all (Such as most of the items I picked up)

 

[RYjet911]

EDIT: I wish newer games would have those elusive uber-weapons that required you to find every single treasure chest and magic orb in the game and kill the super-hard optional mega boss with nothing but your ears just to get it. And then you realize that the only thing you did was prove you didn't need it, but you know deep in your heart that you'd do it again and you indeed will on the next game that has such a thing.

Well the first post mentions Metal Gear Solid 4's ridiculous requirements to unlock Stealth Camo and Infinite Ammo Bandana, requiring not being seen and barely shooting (At least with fatal weapons) respectively. xD

Milder example in Resident Evil 4, when you go through the game a second time you can unlock the infinite ammo rocket launcher. The fact it's a post-game finish unlock kinda proves you don't need it.

I remember back in the PS1 days Spyro 2 having one of these, granting the player an infinite ability to shoot the more powerful fireballs rather than spit little streams of flame, after obtaining every single possible gem and pickup in every level...

To be honest, I want them phased out of games completely, unless they can provide a better reason for going after them other than bragging rights. Maybe some extra hidden levels that actually make proper use of the granted ability.

 

[targren]

This [http://hom.guildwars2.com/en/#page=main&details=IbyBA8%2F%2F%2F%2Fj47%2F7%2F%2Fp%2FHA4%2BNwGAAAAAAdSggAAAAAAA&todo=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&todo=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA].

And then two months later, they made sure I wouldn't be buying GW2 by selling power in the store... dammit!

 

[UNHchabo]

Super Meat Boy: "The Real End". When I finally get it, "The Kid" will top this list.
Counter-Strike: Source: I got both "Ammo Conversation" and "Spray and Pray" with the same shot of my Scout.
Half-Life series: Obviously, both "The One Free Bullet" and "Little Rocket Man", but I'm also proud of "Neighborhood Watch".
L4D2: "Chaos Generator".
On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One: "Nine Lives", "Silent But Deadly"
Portal 2: Got "Scanned Alone" on my first playthrough
TF2: "Moon Shot", "Triple Steal", "Shorn Connery" (random swing happened to kill a cloaked spy), "Show Trial".

 

[DementedSheep]

This [http://hom.guildwars2.com/en/#page=main&details=IbyBA8%2F%2F%2F%2Fj47%2F7%2F%2Fp%2FHA4%2BNwGAAAAAAdSggAAAAAAA&todo=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&todo=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA].
And then two months later, they made sure I wouldn't be buying GW2 by selling power in the store... dammit!

Damn you got all the way to 50? I only bothered with 35.
I thought they were only selling cosmetics, stuff you can get in the game anyway and extras in store like in GW1? Not unbalancing shit.

 

[Mozza444]

The handcannon in RE4 was a pain in the ass for me.
Hate mercenaries mode but had to put up with it for that gun.

 

[Mouse_Crouse]

The one is always reply with in these types of threads. The only achievement I have gone so far out of my way to practice to obtain. Guitar Hero 3: The Inhuman Achievement.

 

[ssgt splatter]

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

I forgot the name of the achievement, but it's the one where you complete the Epilogue level in less than a minute on Veteran. Talk about insanely hard. Like, more-cursing-than-a-blue-shell hard. But I did it!

I believe it's called the Mile High Club and I know exactly how you feel. The next tough achievement I'm gonna go for will be the Insane difficulty playthrough of Gears 3.

 

[Juicebox52]

Probably something my Beating Banjo Kazooie or Super Mario 64. Not difficult games, But i took me over a decade for 100%.

 

[2xDouble]

And then two months later, they made sure I wouldn't be buying GW2 by selling power in the store... dammit!

Whoever told you that is an idiot.

I also got 50/50, and God Walking Among Mere Mortals. That's right non-Guild Wars fans, I got an achievement for getting most of the other achievements. Never again. [sub]Well, maybe once for fun.[/sub]

 

[Flour]

10 billion damage man trophy in Disgaea 3. I've been somewhat lucky with Disgaea 3, so it only took me about 10 hours of in-game grinding to get all the required items and innocents(item boosts).