Achievement Millstones

[jawsy]

Just looking at the other thread and my head got to turning; what achievements have seen you grind away at a game fruitlessly for hours on end, or are there any that you achieved only thanks to the skill of 'perverse repitition'?

I do remember putting on a movie while I left the 360 on and tapped the same button over and over to get to 100% completion in Bully (drinking sodas was all that was left).

I also remember starting a second character on NBA Homecourt with the plans of getting the Seeing Double achievement. After about two hours I realised I had no real desire to see it through and gave up a long way from the end point.

So, any of those achievements weighing you down?

[Cian]

Does this really differ enough to warrant a new thread?

[jawsy]

Yeah, we all need a place to show off our e-peen every now and then.

So... what's your most prized achievement? Hardest to unlock? Latest accomplishement?

Other one was about showing off accomplishments. I'm interested in hearing about the ones that make you cringe and die a little inside.

Edit: But, you know, only if you contribute...

[Cian]

Other one was about showing off accomplishments. I'm interested in hearing about the ones that make you cringe and die a little inside.

Edit: But, you know, only if you contribute...

General rule of thumb, your most prized achievement will be one that you've worked really hard for. So it's essentially the same topic...

[jawsy]

Jesus, dude. Read it. I didn't say anything about prized achievements or working hard. In fact, I specifically asked for 'fruitless' endeavours, or those that required no skill bar an embarrassing amount of time.

So, you know, basically the opposite of the other thread where people were celebrating those gloriously happy achievement milestones.

[aubergine]

Lips gives you achievement points just for looking at menu screens, I kid you not.

The only game I've 100%ed is Pacman Championship Edition. I tried to get many single player achievements for Half Life 2 but found it difficult and gave up.

[Spudzilla]

Again, it was finishing Through The Fire And Flames on expert in Guitar Hero 3. I did that damn song over and over again for about 2 weeks until I just about wanted to smash the TV.

[AranchineD]

I got about half of the achievements in Team Fortress 2 for Orange Box on 360.

Anyone who knows my internet situation knows there's something very wrong with me doing that.

[jawsy]

I have to say that I felt pretty dirty knocking over 1000/1000 for Lost. Most of it came from just playing along but I did bother to do some research into one particular achievement (which ended up being more wasted time with the damn game).

Here's a question- have people ever/often found themselves playing a game simply for the lure of more achievements (Avatar probably doesn't apply here)? I can remember that I kept plugging away at Sega Rally for days despite the fact that I was utterly and entirely over the game (for little reward in the end).

Oh, and I bothered to sit through the tutorials of GH:M the other day for no good reason other than the 5pts. I think I tried to convince myself it was to see whether or not the Lips microphones worked with the game (err...they do).

Edit: Aran, that's nuts. Actually, the Hardcore achievement (1000 kills on TF2) was another one that I got very sick of towards the end. In fact, I don't even remember getting the achievement because I apparently did it after a big night out. I was pleased to see it gone from my life the next day.

[JC Henderson]

I often set credits rolling for achievements. Splosion man and I think a guitar hero had one.

[Sweating Bullets]

I am still working on getting all the hidden orbs in Crackdown.
Managed to get all the agility orbs.

[Tukenstein]

None of these posts are going to matter when Bronze rolls on in here. >.>

[Jickle]

Edit: Aran, that's nuts. Actually, the Hardcore achievement (1000 kills on TF2) was another one that I got very sick of towards the end. In fact, I don't even remember getting the achievement because I apparently did it after a big night out. I was pleased to see it gone from my life the next day.

At some stage we should organize a game so that we all get the "play with seven people on your friend list" achievement. :p

[jawsy]

Actually, I felt a bit stupid getting that one as well. I think I was with five people from my friend list and I sent out requests to the other two players on my team. Only one accepted at first, but after some subtle begging (come on...) the other guy called me a nerd and relented.

You would think that getting called a nerd by a twelve year old, acne-ridden fatso on the other side of the world would make me re-assess my life.


I find it interesting that people are often pretty quick to admit that chasing an achievement can at times be a largely negative experience, but continue to do so anyway.

[fearofthesky]

I was itching to visit the casino on Saints Row 2 the other day, and finally canvinced my bro to come along. I wanted more money! They only had video poker and blackjack, we played for a bit, lost heaps of cash, till my bro looked up a 5G achievement (I'm Not Addicted!) for gambling a total of 500,000 bucks. Max you could spend on a hand was 500 on Blackjack, 1000 on poker.

So we stayed there for half an hour, mashing A. Started with 170,000, ended up with 50,000 or so when it popped. But I just loaded my game!

That was a worthwhile half hour of my life. My bro likes to get every achievement, he has 100% on 17 games. I have none yet...

[Pauly]

Currently playing COD4 and trying to get:

Mile High Club
Sky dive to safety on Veteran difficulty

i've spent about 4 hours and only reached the final hostage shot once. and i killed my guy :(

[jawsy]

I've been churning through Guitar Hero: Metallica, looking for the 'Seek and Destroy' achievement for playing 20 online matches. I must seriously be up to about 40 and have yet to hear it pop. Apparently it's a glitched achievement and some unlucky bastards (such as myself) just have to keep going until we get lucky.

Bummer, yo.

[Pauly]

Currently playing COD4 and trying to get:

Mile High Club
Sky dive to safety on Veteran difficulty

i've spent about 4 hours and only reached the final hostage shot once. and i killed my guy :(
just spent another hour this morning on this. got to the hostage part 3 times and missed. but finally got it :D i don't think i've been this happy with any achievement. it was death!

[ThePhotoshop]

1000 kills in TF2? Man you 360 players are behind. I just got an achievement that's 1000 kills with the Sniper.

[AyatollaofRocknRolla]

Orbs in crackdown were a killer. I printed out maps and all sorts but couldn't figure out where the last one was and just gave up, one orb short.

In Bioshock I was trying to get all the audio logs in a playthrough and I realised about 3/4 of the way through that I'd missed one that you couldn't go back to.

[jawsy]

Orbs in crackdown were a killer. I printed out maps and all sorts but couldn't figure out where the last one was and just gave up, one orb short.

That's brutal. Was it Stevo who had a similar thing with pigeons in GTAIV? I think he was hearing them in his sleep or something.

[Bronze]

None of these posts are going to matter when Bronze rolls on in here. >.>

Final Fantasy XI. Goddammit.

Level 75 Red Mage (30G) took approximately 900 of playtime to obtain. Level 100 Alchemist (50G) took another 400 hours on top of that.

I wasn't playing for the achievements because, quite frankly, I don't have a spare 12,000 hours to unlock them all. Still, just having them present in the game was a mental millstone... something that just sat there and teased me.

Crackdown's orb collection drove me loopy. I managed to find the last agility one by chance when I was playing co-op online. The hidden orbs were a lot harder. I was just about to give up after searching high and low for the last one, and when I was reaching for the power button I saw it on a cliff above a freeway way off in the distance. Pretty lucky.

I've done the EZI (321G) achievement in Eternal Sonata twice now (once in the English version, once in the Japanese version). It requires two successive playthroughs of the game whilst collecting absolutely everything, completing a ridiculously hard endgame dungeon, and interacting with NPC's all over the world playing music with them for trinkets. Loved the game, but that was a really goddamn frustrating achievement.

Boom Boom Rocket's 'Sore Thumb Award' eluded me for a very long time. You have to play through five laps of any song in endurance mode on Hard difficulty. The song gets faster with each repeat, to the point where you feel like your thumb is going to drop off. That felt like an actual achievement for me.

Ditto for Meteos Wars 'Mission H' achievement for beating the Mission Mode on Hard. That almost took me to sobbing-mess-on-the-floor breaking point. Kas can attest to that if she's still arround.

Prototype's 'Pt' and 'Revenge Revisited' achievements were a little tricky. The first one makes you go back and do every challenge on Platinum difficulty, and the second makes you completely play through the game again on Hard (with nightmarishly-hard bosses as a result). Those achievements sat there laughing at me, so I decided to man up and tackle them. Got all GS for the game now.

Aaaand... THE IDOLM@STER has an insane achievement called 'True Idolm@ster' where you have to get your producer rank to Level 10. Explaining this would take far too long, but it basically entailed mastering the game to the tiniest detail. It took seven complete playthroughs to finally unlock it.

All I can think of off the top of my head. I'm sure others have got equally millstoney achievement horror stories to tell.

[jawsy]

I'm sure others have got equally millstoney achievement horror stories to tell.

Umm, nope!

:p

[AranchineD]

All I can think of off the top of my head. I'm sure others have got equally millstoney achievement horror stories to tell.

Like getting the "Finish career mode on Hard or Expert using only the controller" achievement in Gh3?

[kirok]

I've beaten brutal on C&C3 Kane's Wrath it was either 10 or 20 points can't remember, in lost oddsey I've beaten all the secret bosses except for the immortal they where reasonably hard and I think they where worth 20 point each.

[Lex]

Like getting the "Finish career mode on Hard or Expert using only the controller" achievement in Gh3?

please tell me you didn't

[AranchineD]

please tell me you didn't

Ah, back in my high school days, when there were only 2 Guitar Hero games and I had nothing better to do with my time, like studying or something.

[Dr Skinnybones]

Orbs in crackdown were a killer. I printed out maps and all sorts but couldn't figure out where the last one was and just gave up, one orb short.

I've been doing Assassins Creed flags, just so I can 1000/1000 a game, and I've missed one in Damscus. It could be in the poor district, it could be in the middle district. It WILL send me crazy

[FF Freak]

In lost oddsey I've beaten all the secret bosses except for the immortal they where reasonably hard and I think they where worth 20 point each.

That reminds me I have to go back and redo Persona. took me an hour and a half to get it down only to have a blackout occur straight after completing it so even though I got the achievement I didn't get to save.

Don't have any knightmarish achievements yet though I'm working towards a couple particularly in Star Ocean: The Last Hope and Ghostbusters.

[Second]

Like getting the "Finish career mode on Hard or Expert using only the controller" achievement in Gh3?

Apparently there's a way to glitch it so you can get it by only finishing one song. <_<

[AranchineD]

Apparently there's a way to glitch it so you can get it by only finishing one song. <_<

And there's a way to glitch the "Get 100% on 20 songs on Expert" achievement but damned if I could get either of them to work so I just did it the hard way!

[Pauly]

I've been doing Assassins Creed flags, just so I can 1000/1000 a game, and I've missed one in Damscus. It could be in the poor district, it could be in the middle district. It WILL send me crazy
same happened to me. then i used youtube :D

[Bronze]

Just knocked over another millstone. 200/200 on Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. :D

Had been missing the last two achievements (200.6% explored and finishing it again as Richter) for two years. It was one of those things I always told myself that I'd get back to eventually, and never did.

Tempting to do it all again in Japanese, but I'm all Metroidvania'd out after finishing Shadow Complex twice, and then this twice. ;)

[Pauly]

Okay so I've been getting extremely frustrated playing Naruto the last few nights. A big sum of achievements in this game is for the online fights. You have to win 6 matches in a row to win a tournament and then you get the achievement for that character. You need to do all characters....

And I can't for the life of me win. Furthest I've gotten is the final match. I usually lose out in the second/third though. Soooo frustrating.

[Jickle]

Okay so I've been getting extremely frustrated playing Naruto the last few nights. A big sum of achievements in this game is for the online fights. You have to win 6 matches in a row to win a tournament and then you get the achievement for that character. You need to do all characters....

And I can't for the life of me win. Furthest I've gotten is the final match. I usually lose out in the second/third though. Soooo frustrating.

I got a freebie copy of The Broken Bond when it came out. I wasn't expecting much (and I've never actually seen Naruto), but it was really fun. I'd suggest an upgrade to the sequel!

[AranchineD]

I was working on getting the "Spend 250k fans" in Brutal Legend, I got up to 100k before I realised "Wait, why the **** am I doing this again?"

[Pauly]

I got a freebie copy of The Broken Bond when it came out. I wasn't expecting much (and I've never actually seen Naruto), but it was really fun. I'd suggest an upgrade to the sequel!
Yeah I'm definitely planning to but wanted to 100% this one first. Not sure how likely that is to happen unless I actually put some effort into getting better in the fights. Games like this make me hate online achievements :p

[AranchineD]

So I'm trying to get the Ironman achievements (don't die) in Frontlines: Fuel Of war. Thanks to the fact that after the second level 75% of the enemies are equipped with rocket launchers, the physics in the game are wildly inconsistent, your allies appear to actually be physically incapable of killing enemies, and that the game has one of the worst implementations of auto-aim I've ever seen, not to mention that even if you're surrounded by allies, every single enemy will aim for YOU, I'm finding it stupidly frustrating to get these achievements.

[NiB]

Just spent 3 hours attempting Mile High Club on COD4....I can't think of a harder achievement on xbox :(

[Sweating Bullets]

I was working on getting the "Spend 250k fans" in Brutal Legend, I got up to 100k before I realised "Wait, why the **** am I doing this again?"

I just need to collect them darned serpents and I should be at 100%
... once my exams are over I will get them.....

[Chilli]

It must be some sort of masochistic tendancy but I love grinding away at achievements.

Some of my tougher ones so far include,

Far Cry 2 - Soldier of Misfortune, Mercenary, Field Hospital
Chromehounds - All the Valor Medals
Command & Conquer 3 - 100 hrs online mp
Dead or Alive 4 - Grade SS
Fear - 1000 MP games
Call of Duty 3 - General (took me 69 days)
GRAW 1 - Host 1000 matches
Catan -1000 VP
Perfect Dark - 1000 Dark op games + 1000 Deathmatch games
The Darkness - Win 250 MP games
Shadowrun - 100 games as each race
Ridge Racer 6 - Win 200 online races

Here's a few I'm currently actively grinding away at (slowly)
The Club - 10,001 kills in ranked MP
Bejeweled 2 - Endless mode reach lvl 280 - has crashed and reset on me twice got to lvl 130 or something like that
Army of Two - Retirement Savings Plan
Far Cry 2 - Warlord - lvl 30
Forza - Earn 1Million online
Lips - Win 20 challenges
Lost Cities - Win 300 online games (has been taken off Marketplace so very hard to find a game)
Saints Row 2 - Kingpin - earn 30 mp badges
Sega Rally - Host 100 races online
Unreal Tournament 3 - Get 200 kills in mp on 50 different days

Plus about 50 others, that i've shelved for the time being, especially the soul destroying level 100 in Gears of War 2

[jawsy]

C'mon, dude! You've been offline for 19 hours now! You need to get cracking!

[Gee_Yai_Bro]

Only achievement I've grinded out and actually accomplished; Genocide in Dead Rising
Attempted and failed so many in other games, trying to do a 1000 metre basejump in Just Cause being a good example

[Blob]

Far Cry 2 - Warlord - lvl 30


I thought about this one then realised that the only people who had this acheivemnet had around about 700 multiplayer hours... Achievements like this shouldnt exist they are rediculous.

[Chilli]

Yeah it's a tough one - if I recall correctly Level 20 is only a sixth of the way to Level 30

[Blob]

Yeah it's a tough one - if I recall correctly Level 20 is only a sixth of the way to Level 30

1,500,000 is the points needed for 30. Frankly its not worth it. I say that even though I love Farcry 2 online. 20 is 250,000.

[Dr Skinnybones]

Finished the flag and templar hunt in Assassins Creed. Just need to do the 10 minute conflict one for 1000/1000

[Chilli]

Just got Kilopiece Colossus in Puzzle Arcade.
Complete a 1000+ piece puzzle on expert - for 20 gamerscore
Thing is there's no save, so has to be done more or less in one sitting.
Took 18 hours 24 minutes.
Worst part is I also did it earlier in the week but didn't have it on expert, and that took 10 hours 25 min.

[Jabbz]

Just got Kilopiece Colossus in Puzzle Arcade.
Complete a 1000+ piece puzzle on expert - for 20 gamerscore
Thing is there's no save, so has to be done more or less in one sitting.
Took 18 hours 24 minutes.
Worst part is I also did it earlier in the week but didn't have it on expert, and that took 10 hours 25 min.

Wow.

Just, wow.

[jawsy]

You are a certifiable madman, Chilli. You gave Bronze a run for his money, and then you stole his wallet and sprinted away.

[Chilli]

I ended up late for work this morning because I was grinding away at Ticket to Ride.

Two achievements - 25 wins, & play 50 games, both of which I should have gotten at least 20 games ago, must have been glitched and were not popping up.

Occasionally I give them another go, and today it finally decided I was worthy, and they popped up in consecutive games.

[NiB]

"Mile High Club" and 1000'd COD4.....

I felt like I having a smoke afterwards ;)

[Pauly]

Sooo I recently starting playing Prince of Persia again from scratch due to a game breaking glitch that wouldn't allow me to enter the final temple and finish the game. I just finished it today, however I have run into yet another glitch. This time it is the light seed glitch. I have collected every seed in the game however it only counts 1000.

On my third playthrough now trying to get 1000/1000 >_<

[fearofthesky]

Sooo I recently starting playing Prince of Persia again from scratch due to a game breaking glitch that wouldn't allow me to enter the final temple and finish the game. I just finished it today, however I have run into yet another glitch. This time it is the light seed glitch. I have collected every seed in the game however it only counts 1000.

On my third playthrough now trying to get 1000/1000 >_<

Shit. Game breakin glitches? I've had this game in my to-play pile, unopened, for ages. And Far Cry 2, which is another with a bad glitch I hear. Haven't they been patched?

On topic: Bloody excessive multiplayer achievements, thy name is Saints Row 2. The multi is so shit, no one would ever bother...you would think. Co op is a blast though.

[Pauly]

Unfortunately Ubisoft don't care enough to patch it.

[FF Freak]

is it glitching after the seed you get after you destroy the tree because to get the achievement it's actually 1001 seeds you need to get. 1000 from collecting through the game and the last after you destroy the tree and re-release Ahriman to save the girl. got it on my first playthrough.

[Pauly]

Yeah it's actually a lot earlier in the game. I however didn't realise at the time and kept on going/replacing save files, so my older saves can't help me.

[Flaps]

As this is more of a self achievement than anything else it doesn't really count, but it's still painful to admit and remember. I collected all the books in Fallout 3 and planned my character ahead so he had 100+ in every skill and 10 in every SPECIAL attribute.

[Chilli]

Finally earnt 1 billion dollars in Army of Two :)
... just in time for the next game. :(

[Sweating Bullets]

**** yeah!! Just got Mile High Club!!!!!!

[dimorphic]

**** yeah!! Just got Mile High Club!!!!!!

No fighting in the war room has been kicking my arse since last year.

[Sweating Bullets]

Managed to finish the game on Veteran last weekend I think.

No Fighting In The War Room wasn't too bad as long as the checkpoints registered - otherwise it was really annoying.

Which part are you stuck on? Going prone is extremely helpful when you are in those tight corridors.

[Sprinkles]

No fighting in the war room has been kicking my arse since last year.

amen brother, the bit where you need to shoot down a corridor which is blocked by pipes and crates, then vear off to either the left or the right has really been busting my chops

[StorminNorman]

This happened a few months ago, but one day I just somehow decided to do the endless setlist 2 in RB2.

Six and a half hours later: Bladder of Steel!

I'm pretty proud of that (and no, I didn't cheese it by using the vocal cheat. I did it on good old-fashioned Medium Guitar. :p)

[jawsy]

I was planning to knock it over this holidays but RB has so far eluded me.

[Chilli]

I finally just got Rainbow Six Legend. You have to play through the single player story mode at realistic difficulty.

I've tried it three other times but each time it seems when I save the game it was reverting back to normal difficulty.

So this time I did it in one sitting over the last two days, pausing only for sleep, pizza and beer. :)

Sorry to the guys playing GTA the other night I couldn't join in as I couldn't stop my game.

I've had so much trouble with this game, and even on this playthrough encountered at least 6 glitches where rooms would be empty of enemies or the last guy you needed to kill to progress would not spawn.

Anyway it's all over now, I can shut my 360 off and let it cool down, luckily I remembered to install to the hardrive or I'm sure the disc drive would have crapped out at some point.

[FF Freak]

Just finished 1000/1000 on Assassin's Creed 2. Nothing big except for it's the first game I've actually knocked out all the achievements on. Now it's back to bayonetta and darksiders.

[MacGuyver]

Just got the Test of Faith achievement in Mirror's Edge for not shooting anyone during the entire game. I did it on normal, wouldn't like to attempt it on hard.

I've also got my sights on trying to finish Call of Duty 4 on veteran. I'm up to the All In stage, but No Fighting In The War Room is just around the corner...

[MacGuyver]

I've just managed to finish Call of Duty 4 on veteran, but I haven't done Mile High Club yet.

No Fighting In The War Room was especially frustrating because I swear it seemed that sometimes my flash bangs wouldn't go off properly. So I'd throw one into a room, wait for the explosion and run in only to find enemies shooting at me who weren't blinded by the light!

[Pauly]

I've just managed to finish Call of Duty 4 on veteran, but I haven't done Mile High Club yet.

No Fighting In The War Room was especially frustrating because I swear it seemed that sometimes my flash bangs wouldn't go off properly. So I'd throw one into a room, wait for the explosion and run in only to find enemies shooting at me who weren't blinded by the light!
They run in to most of those rooms as you get closer to them. So you'll find that they're not even there to he dazed by your flash bangs.

Mile High Club will give you hell... worst part about it for me was getting to the end 3 times but shooting the hostage >_<

[MacGuyver]

Finally beat Mile High Club on veteran! After I finished the main game on veteran I played Mile High Club constantly trying to beat it but I could never even get close to the final shoot out so I gave up on it for a while.

Then last night I thought I'd try it again for a few laughs and managed to get up to the hostage shoot out on my first try! But then I shot the hostage. And I shot him another 2 times before finally beating it. :D

[ireadtabloids]

Edit: Aran, that's nuts. Actually, the Hardcore achievement (1000 kills on TF2) was another one that I got very sick of towards the end. In fact, I don't even remember getting the achievement because I apparently did it after a big night out. I was pleased to see it gone from my life the next day.

TF2 is brilliant. How many other games can you imagine yourself playing while inebriated?

[jawsy]

All of them. I have a very good imagination.

[Nic Xtreme]

**** you Eggman you piece of shit I never want to play that Mean Bean Machine game again I beat him finally stupid mother****er.

[AranchineD]

More like "F*** you the very second opponent in the game making me use passwords just to get to Eggman in the first place"

[Nic Xtreme]

More like "F*** you the very second opponent in the game making me use passwords just to get to Eggman in the first place"

I used passwords in the first place <_< probably why it was so hard to beat him in the first place, I didn't lrn2play :(

[fearofthesky]

I met a guy ages ago who absolutely destroyed everyone at the Puyo games (I think it was Kirby's Ghost Trap on SNES). He was just beyond awesome at setting up huge piles of blobs and chaining them all into one huge combo.

I, meanwhile, have never been able to wrap my head around it. I'm gonna give that one a go soon.