Un-achievable Achievements?

[Batou667]

If they came to hear me beg...
I just can't jump of a cliff and perform an assasination on an elite to survive a fall that normally would have killed me in halo reach.

Oh yes you can. Load up The Pillar of Autumn and spend a happy afternoon leaping off the starting cliff onto the Elite below. Use Youtube videos if it helps. Also remember that although running before you jump is probably a good idea, the run button must not be held while you're attempting the assassination.

Halo Reach does have more than its fair share of bullshit unachievable achievements, though. Map-specific achievements for gametypes that never appear on aforementioned maps? Check. 343i is having a great time trolling the Reach community.

 

[Antitonic]

Any of the online ones from any of the Smackdown Vs Raw games. If there's anyone online at all, odds are they're a hacker. If they aren't a hacker, they disconnect before losing. If they don't disconnect, they're too good/spam unblockable moves.

Actually, make that any "Defeat X People" online ones. Australian Internet makes them ...interesting. How can you shoot someone who's two or more seconds ahead of you?

 

[MetalDooley]

Seriously ...

Kill 10,000 people in versus ranked match total

Nobody has mentioned this infamous achievement from the first Gears of War yet?

It's probably the single-most time-consuming achievement there is, to recent memory.

To be honest that achievement pales next to the "Seriously" achievements in Gears 2 & 3

Gears 2 - Seriously 2.0 Kill 100,000 enemies

Gears 3 - Seriously 3.0 Reach level 100 and unlock all onyx medals.For a list of what it takes to unlock all the onyx medals have a look here http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showthread.php?t=330268

 

[reiem531]

Achievements in multiplayer very often negatively impact the game for those who're not aiming for them but instead are trying to actually achieve something meaningful... like winning.

I lol'd

 

[SovietX]

Well for me its basically every Platinum trophy for every game I own on PS3.

Mainly because alot of games have online achievements and I don't like playing online. I prefer single player games on console. I especially dislike co-op trophies. I hate playing with other people because most of the time you have to wait for them to catch up or perform a mundane task that takes way too long and is ultimately pointless.

Example, playing Resident Evil 5 with the unlimited ammo cheat on for pretty much all weapons, yet my co-op partner kept wasting time picking up ammo and getting himself killed trying to do so. I ended up just turning the PS3 off.

So, in short, Trophies that require online, because I don't play nicely with others.

 

[TheOneMavado]

Seriously ...

Kill 10,000 people in versus ranked match total

Nobody has mentioned this infamous achievement from the first Gears of War yet?

It's probably the single-most time-consuming achievement there is, to recent memory.

To be honest that achievement pales next to the "Seriously" achievements in Gears 2 & 3

Gears 2 - Seriously 2.0 Kill 100,000 enemies

Gears 3 - Seriously 3.0 Reach level 100 and unlock all onyx medals.For a list of what it takes to unlock all the onyx medals have a look here http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showthread.php?t=330268

If I recall, the one in Gears 2 wasn't THAT bad. You just had to replay the Brumak ride a few(?) times (didn't bother myself though).

 

[MetalDooley]

If I recall, the one in Gears 2 wasn't THAT bad. You just had to replay the Brumak ride a few(?) times (didn't bother myself though).

Not that bad?I beat the campaign 3 times and put probably over a hundred hours into the multiplayer and horde modes and I was nowhere near 100,000 kills.Last time I checked I had around 30,000.

A buddy of mine got the achievement by doing the Brumak bit you mentioned and he said it took him around 15 hours of just grinding that section over and over to unlock it

 

[Fijiman]

Two of the ones in Fallout 3 Expansion packs (Mothership Zeta and The Pitt) - collecting all the alien prisoner records and picking up 100 steel ingots. Can't find all of them, and any walkthroughs just give ambiguous 'it's in this general area' directions for them.

Finding all the ingots can be tricky, but I've done it two or three times. Finding all the prisoner records, however, I've only tried that once and missed about half of them. Hell, next time I try playing either of the recent Fallout game I'm going to have to have a computer next to me so I can refer to the Fallout wiki every two seconds just to make sure I've not missed something.

Seriously ...

Kill 10,000 people in versus ranked match total

Nobody has mentioned this infamous achievement from the first Gears of War yet?

It's probably the single-most time-consuming achievement there is, to recent memory.

To be honest that achievement pales next to the "Seriously" achievements in Gears 2 & 3

Gears 2 - Seriously 2.0 Kill 100,000 enemies

Gears 3 - Seriously 3.0 Reach level 100 and unlock all onyx medals.For a list of what it takes to unlock all the onyx medals have a look here http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showthread.php?t=330268

I'll be honest, I seriously expected the Gears 3 Seriously achievement to be 500,000 or even 1,000,000 kills. What they chose for it is just as hard though. I might go after Seriously 2.0 at some point (I'm already over a fifth of the way there), but I say screw it to the first one. There is no way you can make me sit through BS match after match (if you can find one that is) in order to get that achievement.

 

[rvbnut]

Keep Off the Sand (or whatever the hell it's called) - Don't step on the sand in that one level in Half Life 2 (I spent and over an hour on that level, being really careful to not step on the sand, and I was pissed when I didn't get my achievement)

Easiest achievement to glitch past.

Surf the sand using a door and the gravity gun.

Step 1:
Stand on door

Step 2:
Pull door to self

Step 3:
Face opposite direction to where you want to go

Step 4:
Adjust direction you are facing

Step 5:
Win game

 

[replingham153]

Achievements being completely worthless to begin with, along with how they negatively impact gaming in general is pretty much the reason I have to respond to this with a shrug and a yawn.

Why do you think that?

 

[Hatchet90]

I generally hate achievements. Let me ask you: What are their purpose? Most of the time they're used to get the player to continually play a game past the end credits. The fact is, if a game is actually really good, I'm going to continue playing it anyway. Achievements add un-needed stress and frustration to a game, and that's why I never have really paid any attention to them. I'm done with a game when I say I'm done with a game.

 

[Kreett]

If they came to hear me beg...
I just can't jump of a cliff and perform an assasination on an elite to survive a fall that normally would have killed me in halo reach.

I've done that in multi-team^^

 

[ghostrider9876]

I used to be an achievement whore. But after running afoul of a few achievements that were driving me up the wall trying to get, I finally had a moment where I asked myself, "Why am I doing this?" Now, I only try get them if they sound like something fun/interesting to do, or if I think I can get all of them without too much frustration. And if it's a game with many multiplayer achievements I usually don't bother at all.

Having said that, I can think of one positive aspect they add to games. Sometimes they impose a challenge that you might not otherwise have thought to try. Two good examples for me being "The One Free Bullet" and the one where you go through Ravenholm using only the Gravity Gun. I never would have thought to try either of those things, but they ended up being fun challenges.

 

[Fijiman]

Achievements being completely worthless to begin with, along with how they negatively impact gaming in general is pretty much the reason I have to respond to this with a shrug and a yawn.

Why do you think that?

It's mostly because they serve no real purpose other than, as Hatchet90 said, to try and get people to keep playing the game. I still try to get as many as I can because it can sometimes be fun, but there are always going to be some that I could care less about. Now if there was some sort of reward for getting a certain gamer score or certain number of trophies that was actually worth getting, then there would be a point to the things.