Most pointlessly hard achievement there is?

[The Hero Killer]

Tales of Vesperia

To Points Unknown (10) Travel for 100,000 KM (Outside of Battle)

Pretty much 10+ hours of just flying.

 

[Da Chi]

"Zen" From "Flow".
Not hard to get, impossible to discover on your own. I was lucky enough to beat the game, and be so psyched about it that I set my controller down to grab my room-mate to play along. Ding!

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Honestly, if pursuing an achievement seemed to be too much trouble or I could not envision having fun doing it, I simply don't bother. Guardin' Gnome is the only one listed thus far that I've gotten and that was simply because it seemed like it would add a fun twist to the game.

 

[Joshdemon]

I would say either Treasure Hunter on FF13 (hold every accessory and weapon) or the one where you 5* all the Cie'th stone missions (I only got 3 on the final fight, I have all the others!)

 

[imnot]

I found 'One Free Bullet' pretty easy and fun to do. 'Little Rocket Man' was fine as well, up until the vehicle bit. That was just annoying as all hell.

For me though, Peacekeeper on Mega Man 9. Go through the game killing only the necessary enemies (bosses and mini-bosses)

I've attempted it at least twice. No chance of me doing it. It annoys me.

One free bullet was tons of fun!
Havnt bothered with little rocket man though.

Seriously 2.0 in GoW2 is just insane.

 

[Vakz]

I just attempted that very feat earlier this month---and failed horribly. There's simply no way to do it short of using cheats (and the "one sitting" and console commands are mutually exclusive since the latter disables achievements for that session) in less than 40-50 hours, and even I can't stay awake that long (around 30 hours it becomes a real risk of me falling asleep in my chair).

Honestly, I see no reason why you couldn't just leave the game on. That would make it very simple, even if it would be somewhat annoying to not be able to use it for anything else (I recall Fallout 3 not like tabbing very much, it tended to crash).

 

[dragonslayer32]

You know you can get Half Life achievements with cheats on right? At least on 360.

I still can't get Mile High Club or Sum of All Zeroes (Cod 4 and COD WAW)

I spent a straight week on Mile High Club. And I still don't have it.

If you are on 360, check ou the insider moves video's. They have one on mile high club and walk you through it, step by step.

 

[Trolldor]

Anything which requires you to be at the top of a leaderboard or go online.

I don't have xbox live gold, so there are achievements I simply can not get.

 

[Vakz]

In Duke Nukem Forever there is an achievement for turning off the Xbox, leaving the house, meeting an attractive member of the opposite sex, and living happily ever after with three brown haired children knowing that you didn't waste 12 years of your life waiting for a game that would never happens. You have to start over if any of the children have blonde hair though. Very strict, very difficult.

is this not from Zero Punctuation?

 

[Wolfenbarg]

In Duke Nukem Forever there is an achievement for turning off the Xbox, leaving the house, meeting an attractive member of the opposite sex, and living happily ever after with three brown haired children knowing that you didn't waste 12 years of your life waiting for a game that would never happens. You have to start over if any of the children have blonde hair though. Very strict, very difficult.

is this not from Zero Punctuation?

Of course it is. Being from his home site, I thought that would be obvious.

 

[drbarno]

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.

 

[Eumersian]

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?

 

[katsumoto03]

Any achievement in Mirror's Edge, because it would require you to play that god-awful game.

 

[kortin]

Star 69 in Modern Warfare 2. Yep. I blasted through all the other achievements. Have yet to be able to get 3 stars in every single mission.

 

[dududf]

2. When you have to go and get the car off the bridge you can leave the gnome with Alyx and the vortigaunt. WARNING: Make sure you leave the gnome right next to the gate which you open after you get the car, the one which Alyx and the vortigaunt come through. It only opens very briefly when you pull the lever for it, and if you're not careful you may lose it. Especially as the door opens for slightly longer when they come through, and after that you really can't get to it fast enough to pull the gnome through.

Pointlessly hard. Just shoot the gnome onto the bridge and then you can go pick it up when you have the car.

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

 

[Fredrikorex]

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!)

 

[Alyssa the gamer girl]

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.

 

[Mysten]

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.

 

[Mute52]

The Burger King games.

I was going to mention these actually. Finding someone online in Pocketbike racer is near impossible, took me several dedicated days to find anyone.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

2. When you have to go and get the car off the bridge you can leave the gnome with Alyx and the vortigaunt. WARNING: Make sure you leave the gnome right next to the gate which you open after you get the car, the one which Alyx and the vortigaunt come through. It only opens very briefly when you pull the lever for it, and if you're not careful you may lose it. Especially as the door opens for slightly longer when they come through, and after that you really can't get to it fast enough to pull the gnome through.

Pointlessly hard. Just shoot the gnome onto the bridge and then you can go pick it up when you have the car.

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

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...

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.