I actually got Dead Rising's "7 Day Survivor" achievement. It was one of the last ones I unlocked before 1000/1000'ing the game -- the first game I did that with on the 360. The gameplay footage you guys used shows the right strategy: you collect both survivalist books and then stock up on the major healing items milk, OJ, and coffee creamer. However, it is possible to hang out on the roof I believe and not get attacked. There's a certain area where zombies don't spawn. So you literally just pull up the wristwatch on screen, go do something else for a bit, and drink some juice in-game once in a while. You do have to eventually go back into the mall and restock on items a couple times, but it's manageable. Just VERY tedious. Apparently the achievement is a big deal. Some of my friends at the time were impressed but I just blew it off, lol. I found Dead Rising's achievements for saving 50 people and having 8 women survivors following you at the same time to be MUCH harder.
I got this when it first came out one of my first 1000/1000. The kicker is the first time I was going for this achievment It was like day six and I needed to go restock food and the game froze when zoning lol. Got it the next day but I was so nervous it was gonna freeze again.
I got it too. IIRC I just was able to hang out in the movie theater with a ton of OJ. It actually was my 2nd attempt because my first attempt, I think I was like 12 hours in and wanted to play a little. Went outside and got stun locked by the clown boss. Kept hitting me while i was trying to get up. I couldn't believe it. So I was so pissed off I had to do it the next day.
Harder maybe, but seriously... 7 Day Survivor is just so freakn boring. When I read about it I stopped playing the entire game, because it felt like a waste of time. Could've beaten the game at least, but it kinda broke me. Rather play other games with fun achievements.
Wasn't expecting to see Europa Universalis here. Three Mountains requires an absurd amount of skill to pull off but it is doable. I would counter with Stellaris's 'Outside Context' where you must, by pure chance in a randomly generated galaxy, not only stumble across Earth, an Earth occupied by humans, and in the middle of a World War, but you must invade them before the nukes start flying.
Yeah i was surprised to see it on here too. I think sunset invasion achievement is harder than the 3 mountains because you also have to reform the religion which is hard in its self and require tons of patience, but not only that, you have to somehow invade Europe. Also gothic invasion is pretty difficult as well.
Outside context can be grinded with relative ease by setting up the galaxy the right way (no other empires, tiny galaxy, maximum hyperlanes etc). It takes a few hours but is very much doable. I think the decision to include Three Mountains was dumb, it is not the hardest or even the second hardest achievement in EU4. Eat you greens, True heir of Timur and arguably One faith (on the current patch) are more difficult
@@exantiuse497 Just because other achievements are even harder to get, doesn't mean any of the mentioned EU4 achievements are easy at all. Lets be honest here: getting any of them is already worth celebrating.
@@peterpan4038 If the video is called "impossible achievements", you'd expect it includes the most difficult achievement the games it mentions. EU4 does have a lot of extremely difficult achievements, but Three Mountains isn't even one of the hardest (it can be cheesed by relatively low skill level players using the Shogun vassal swarm strategy). Meanwhile something like Eat you greens is extremely difficult if you use exploity strategies (preventing age of absolutism from beginning) and outright impossible if you don't, so I think it's weird they chose the challenging but doable Three mountains instead of it
"The Shadows Rushed Me" on Max Payne 3. Complete the game in New York Minute Hardcore. So basically complete the entire game, both disks, in one sitting, without dying, under a time limit increased by kills, and on the hardest difficulty with no auto aim. I cried when I got that one.
FF9 is one of my favourite FF games but I really couldn't do the skipping rope minigame myself so did use remote play and a controller script to get that trophy. So I would congratulate anyone who can do that legitimately :)
Getting the script to work was actually harder than doing it legit, the fagging internet kept going out for over three days making me go insane cause every other trophy in the game is doable , No one can do it without a script due to new input lag etc I did it legit when I was 13 on the original. King of jump rope should have been an ultimate weapon for someone seriously or allowed you to skip parts of the game so you could still obtain Excaliber and then all the enemies' levels rescaled to your current level..
I tried to do it with a small group of friends on medium difficulty. However, it was round one of said friend's houses, and their girlfriend got bored four hours in and decided she wanted to play something else instead. Still makes me salty to this day.
I did it on guitar myself. There are several songs that have stretches at the beginning with little to no guitar involvement, you can sneak in a quick bio and get back before you’ve missed enough to fail.
My personal "nightmare" was the Diskun trophy in Super Smash Bros Melee, which involves completing an absurd number of (mostly extremely easy) tasks, one of which is beating the game without taking any damage. The Internet told me this was easiest to do on All Star Melee Mode by spamming Donkey Kong's area effect moves, and after trying a LOT of times because it was seriously a lot harder and more rng based than the Internet claimed, I finally got to the last round with this tactic. And hit an exploding barrel at the same time I killed the final opponent. Turned me off from the game for like a year. Later I did a no damage run on Classic mode without much difficulty as Falco, whose damage+knockback projectiles make it extremely easy to keep your distance from the opponents and still kill them on the easiest difficulty. Stupid Internet should've told me that.
My friends and I back in high school completed bladder of steel as a full band all on expert. Was a blast to do over the course of an afternoon all those years ago
I actually got the Hail to the King Trophy on FFIX without having to using the script. What I did was that I remapped the X and O buttons on the controller to L1 and R1 through accessibility options in settings. Then (here's the crazy bit) I turned off the background music, either closed my eyes or looked down and counted each time I heard Vivi's feet hit the ground. The tricky part was the 200-300 jump segment since in that part, you have to double tap each button; but once you get past that part, 301-1000 is pretty much like the 100-200 segment where the tempo is fast. At that point its an endurance round.
I really appreciate the youtube gameplay footage credits! It's nice to have a bunch of new names attached to interesting obscure games that pique interest but that typical youtubers would never cover.
A few games have achievements that are literally broken. Raving Rabbids: Greatest Rayman Ever: Get 174000 points in score mode (you can only ever attain 173000) Cars Race-O-Rama: Overachiever: Get all other achievements (Achievement itself is actually broken) Arcania: Gothic 4: Master Chef: learn all recipes (one of the required recipes is unlearnable, breaking the achievement)
One of the earlier Burnout games (it was either Takedown or Paradise) had an achievement where you had to upload crash replay to the EA servers, and your replay had to be voted #1 by the community every day for a full week. That was the hardest for me to ever get (never did), since it was less dependent on you and moreso on the public.
I'm a super 100% completionist, especially with Final Fantasy... that jump rope segment is pretty much the only part that I have never completed. I think about it on occasion.
The way you said “I think about it on occasion”, made me picture you (though I don’t know what you look like...or do I!? haha) as some character from an old black and white French film, sitting alone, in a little cafe: you’re drinking coffee, and smoking a cigarette, with the rain gently splashing against the window, as you wistfully stare out, watching the world pass by... ...and then, just as you’re about to take another sip of coffee, you pause, staring out more intently, as two children pass by the window; they are laughing happily, as they skip through the puddles, with their jump ropes...suddenly, a look of pain darkens your features, and, like contemplating a lost chance at love with the perfect person, you flash back to that one “Achievement that got away”... After a long moment of deep, painful, contemplation, you push the bitter memory aside; you angrily stub out your nearly finished cigarette, before instantly lighting up another, and taking a long, calming drag from it, heaving a heavy sigh as you exhale. Suddenly, a determined look replaces the one of pain, and you quickly get up from the table, thanking the waitress that served you, as you leave; you rush past the skipping children, trying not to either look at them, or listen to their joyous shouts, and laughter, which burn your ears, and torture your very soul, as you stumble along... You try to push the torment aside, as you scan the street, searching for a particular store; a slight smile curls one side of your lip, as you spot the very place you need; you make a dash for it, with the echoes of the children’s laughter, and their splashing jump rope, still ringing in your ears, as you enter the shop. Entering the store, you rapidly scan the shelves, for what you need; once you’ve found it, you head to the counter, and pay for it as fast as you can, attempting to eschew any attempts smalltalk, from the person who is serving you; you don’t even wait for your receipt, and tell them that they can keep the change, as you make for the exit, and head back out into the rain... You eagerly look up, and down the street, hoping that those tortuous skipping little bastards haven’t already gone; but there was no need to worry, as you spot them immediately: still skipping through the many large puddles, just down the street from the cafe. You stroll down the street, towards the children, tightly clutching the item you just purchased; then, when you reach the skipping soda, you stop beside them, not even minding that they splashed you as you approached. As the jump rope goes over one of their heads, you swiftly make a grab for it, and cut it in two, with the item you purchased a moment ago: a very large pair of sharp scissors; the kid stares at you, a puzzled look on their face, but you ignore it, and do the same to the other child’s jump rope... Then, before either of them can ask “why the hell you just did that”, you casually walk away, sparking up a celebratory cigarette as you go; you take a long drag, closing your eyes, and exhaling with a moan of ecstasy; a satisfied smile on your face, as you make your way down the rain-soaked street...with a slight skip in your step... ...or something like that haha. Apologies for the incredibly lengthy, and very stupid, little tableaux that I just came up with; I didn’t intend for it to go on that long, but, once I got started, I just couldn’t stop; brevity is obviously not my strongest attribute haha. Good look with your Achievement/Trophy hunting. 👍😀🤞 Hope you, you’re loved ones, and anybody that reads this comment, is keeping safe, well, and sane, during these fucked up times. 🤞🙂🤞 All the best. 👍😀
Of the Ultimate weapon completion challenges I thought the 100 lightning bolt challenge wasn't too bad. I think getting Waka's Blitzball stuff was far more time consuming and then there was Tidus's Chocobo challenge was more annoying to me. Never did the 1,000 Rope jump though so I can't say if it was better or Worse than the lightning dodging.
You can force the spawn of the lightning bolts in a specific spot, so then you can just turn on No Encounters and go back and forth there for about half an hour or so. I would advise just keep going until you fail as you don't put pressure on yourself. The jump rope challenge is another level of bullshit.
Is that the 1000 skip challenge I see on the thumbnail there? Iremember how horrendous that was back in the day but I did it. I remember literally having to step with my feet in time with my presses to get into the zone. It was the switch to alternating fast and slow timing that took a while to get used to.
My friend and I discovered if you unplug or disconnect the controller during the Bladder of Steel achievement it won't register as a pause. Enjoy your breaks.
I did the "Hail to the King" achievement back on PSX, it took literally hours to get the inputs right but i was so proud of it. But the Remaster on Steam made me grab a script, its not the honest way but i did it once in my life and thats enough.
Got the 7 Day Survivor achievement in Dead Rising back in the day. I had made several to do so, after the first attempt I had realised that it required nearly 12 SOLID hours of playtime, the 2nd attempt in which the game crashed on me, and the 3rd attempt ended with me encountering a bug that if you go into a particular area after a certain time the game will freeze. Utter ball-ache of a game to complete
The Stanley Parable has a couple of ridiculous ones, including one that requires you to not play the game for five years. There's also the "art" ending that, while not associated with an achievement, requires playing a particularly terrible and annoying minigame for four hours straight.
Another Achievement i thing is literally impossible is in DMC 5 where you have to earn all S ranks in the hardest difficulty Hell to Hell mode. Mind you one hit and you die and you enemies has full health good luck with that
I now know I will only play this game once on easy. Because I see no way to platinum it. Not only do I find achievement trophies lazy, but to attach it to s rank?! Fuck that. I want to enjoy my achievements not resent them.
Me and my brother did the Rock Band 2 achievement. It did take all day, but you take breaks. You can't pause in the song, but you refrain from pushing 'A' to start the next song. Your arms get tired toward the end, but having a partner, you could build your meter to revive them if they are about to fail. Way easier than the others.
My biggest achievement was getting the Big Boss Emblem on MGS4. That was an absolute nightmare thanks to the on-rails section of Europe. The achievement I'm most proud of as a gamer is getting 100% FC on The Devil went down to Georgia in Guitar Hero 3. It took me literal years of practice to get that song 100%.
Not that it's impossible, but in Ratchet And Clank PS4, there's a trophy that requires you to use Groovitron on EVERY kinds of enemies in the game. Worse part is, you are bound to miss maybe a few so to be very safe, you have to start all over, or think of an area you probably missed.
The ESO "Emperor" trophy is literally what prevents me from playing and enjoying the game, as i collect platinum trophies as well. I'd keep playing after getting the plat, if only it was feasible to attain in the first place. Absolutely stupid idea for a trophy.
I actually did the 1k jump ropes in FF9 back on the PS when the game first came out took me forever and I refuse to ever try and complete that again, I just don't have that kind of free time anymore.
I enjoyed playing Dragon Fin Soup but I stopped playing it because I accepted an unbeatable side mission where you had to deliver something. I had almost no inventory space because I was hoarding everything to get the trophy to craft 100 things. I always hoped they would patch the game but alas.
7 Day Survivor isn't that hard to get, you just have to set aside the whole day to do it. I still remember doing it on a day where I had nothing going on and just watched movies and organized my room while I intermittently drank orange juice and stood on an awning that the zombies couldn't get to me from. I started early in the morning and ended close to midnight if I remember correctly. No regrets one of my proudest achievements, and reminds me of a time where I could waste a day on a meaningless achievement. I've always wanted to get an endless setlist achievement in one of the Rock Band games, it's on my bucket list.
I had an egg salad sandwich on rye bread today. It was mediocre at best but the sour cream and onion chips made up for a it a bit. Washed it all down a diet Canada Dry ginger ale. All in all, an underwhelming, yet filling meal. No real complaints. 6.5/10.
Worst trophy I ever got was “All sales are final” from Twisted Metal (PS3). Win one ranked game per day for 30 days in a row. Plus the trophy was bugged and didn’t pop for me until 35 days.
This one was really bad, I had to boost it. It doesn’t seem that bad on the surface, but you are in for a rude awakening when you try it. Everyone is super sweaty on starfighter assault and having cards makes it very unlikely you will die to one of those pleb ships. Hope you got it.
My hardest achievement was "nothing special" in L4D. You had to complete a campaign without taking any damage from special infected. And if a boomer vomit's on you, any regular zombie hit counts. We found a cheat that allowed us to only survive the last level without getting hit, and we found a room special couldn't get into for most of the horde rush, and it still took hours and hours and hours cause just running from that secret room to the helicopter was almost impossible as there are tanks and dozens of specials going after you. so dumb.
I did actually did help get Iron Bladder back in the day on a friend's account. Me, him and his bro just switched out guitar every so often. It wasn't 6 hours, only like half that. Annoying for sure, but perfectly doable if you dedicate a day to it.
Do you really have 174 platinums? That's impressive! I only have about half that many (86) I'm always shocked to find that hosts of most gaming shows don't seem to have many at all.
That’s because hosts of gaming shows are generally busy being hosts of gaming shows lol. There isn’t some number of trophies you need to have in order to pass into the super exclusive game show host club lol
You want difficult? Try completing all 99 Achievements in The Orange Box, especially the one where you have to play TF2 with 7 people from your friends list
I did the 7 Day Survivor achievement in high school during one of my summer vacation days. It was done on the slim 360, so it didn't have the heating problems the og 360's had.
Another Final Fantasy one that's "impossible" to get is a variation of "server shut down", but not exactly. FFXV has a multiplayer mode called Comrades. Although it's multiplayer focused, you can play it offline and the trophies are theoretically obtainable. However, Comrades used to be part of FFXV proper, but it was later turned into a standalone game. Which means the trophies associated with the original version of it are no longer obtainable because the mode was removed from the game in favour of the standalone version. The only way to get them now is to trick your console into downloading an old version which still has Comrades included.
@@AlmightyPolarBearAt least these trophies aren't required to get the platinum. Comrades was DLC, so its trophies don't count towards it. Just annoying that it will never list your trophy completion as 100%.
It took me three attempts to get The Bladder of Steel. That third try (the one I got said trophy) I was doing vocals. My voice was hoarse for days afterwards. Never again.
@0:35 That statement is not entirely accurate! "Star Ocean: Till The End of Time" (PS2 2003); was THE FIRST GAME with achievements. They were saved onto the #2 Memory Card Slot, and unlocked perks within the game, when loaded...
The Steel Bladder achievement was so much fun but since I did it on singing my voice got super sore. We started at 3 and we literally ended at 9 and got some lunch. It was so much fun.
Steam achievements mean more than a rando gamer score or sad little "trophy" since they do not get lost to subsequent generations of outdated upon arrival consoles.
Where The Water Tastes Like Wine has the worst type of achievement on Steam. It's specifically designed to be unachievable because it's thematic that you will never find a place where water tastes like wine, and chasing it is pointless.
Speaking of multiplayer achievements, I know of one that sounds absurds even in the description. For 'Enemy Front' there is a MP achievement, that requires the player to win a DM.... without dying once. Win a DM without dying? What in God's name were they thinking!?!
Mine is rather recent, I was going for the Valhalla Hills platinum trophy (a mediocre strategy game) which requires you to play *250 rounds* and get *1000 Vikings to Valhalla* (100'000 Honor is required. Enemies and building gets from 5 to 25 each). I had done *249* rounds and had *869* Vikings to Valhalla. On the 250th round the game decided to *delete my save file.* Weeks of progress gone. No Platinum trophy for me.
I used to be a hardcore trophy hunter but since having two kids I just don't have the time and also cannot be bothered going for trophies that require endless grinds or online multiplayer because let's face it, all they are at the end of the day is a few pixels on a screen.
I got Dead Risings '7 Day Survivor' achievement. It was a little tough, but very doable for average gamers (like me). I went out early and collected as much pizza and orange juice as I possibly could and then camped in a little store, where I could shut the front door. Every 20 mins, I'd drink some OJ or eat some pizza, so I didnt starve and that was it. The game 'Haydee' (which is a pretty tough puzzle/platformer/shooter) has an achievement for completing the whole thing without taking any damage. Thats impossible.
The worst part of never having Emperor! is not getting the chair. I'd let my kingdom fall to ruin in a day, but if I had the chair I wouldn't give a damn. Sadly that reserved spot at my table will probably be empty forever, because pvp can suck it.
Damn, why the hate for Perfect Dark Zero? The 16 vs 16 multiplayer was downright epic for an opening day xbox 360 release. It had massive maps, several different multiplayer game modes that required unique strategies and weapons with multiple(sometimes even obscure) functions to serve in those strategies. The campaign offered single player, 2 player, and online 2 player with difficulties ranging from a sunday stroll through the park to so F-ing hard the completion achievement should have made this list. I guess the developers owe you an apology for not making a second re-skinned bond game? Which reminds me, one of the maps in PDZ was an actual map from 007 on N64. It even had the same weapon spawn points.
not gonna lie, i tried so damn hard to do that jump rope minigame in FF9, i must've spent like 2 hrs straight on that alone, just couldnt pull it off... have the same problem doing the 30 jump challenge in Super Mario RPG, i guess my timing or reflexes need tuning.
yeah some ff trophies suck ass to actually do like when I was playing ff15 I was going for the platinum and had to get Noctis to max fishing level which took me much longer then I'd like to admit (about 3 months on and off)
@@insertname717 i'd sooner grind fishing than deal with a minigame that you only have a small window of time to deal with, because you can only do it AS Vivi during the beginning of the game, once the play begins the minigame is kaput.
@@UltimateGamerCC You can play it again, I believe whenever you have access to the town part of Alexandria, even when you're as far as the final dungeon. Just bring either Vivi or Eiko to talk with the kids. I thing dodging lightning in FFX is way worse; it's the same principle, but you need instant reaction to a extremely small window with nearly no visual cue, that comes out seemingly at random, 200 times without failing. Plus it's mandatory to get one of the ultimate weapons so it's not just for bragging.
I remember my dad did the endless set 2 times technically 3 but the 1st attempt sometime in the middle the internet went out of a spilt second disconnecting him from the game and the friend he was playing with. He did one by himself expert mode. And another with another friend expert . Drums every time
i completed The Bladder of Steel on Expert guitar back on the day by myself, on Painkiller, the last song, in the solo i was about 1 or 2 notes away from failing but managed to pick it back up lol.
Some difficult to impossible achievements I've encountered during my completionist adventures. Stardew Valley; Fectors Challenge. You had to beat the game without dying. "Oh well that's what you're meant to do already right?" No, you can get multiple lives and beat the game, but I know professionals who couldn't get the achievement while using mods for infinite money/bullets/speed. It's a 0.7% achievement. Ghost in Dishonored isn't IMPOSSIBLE, especially with saving (Though sometimes you have to redo an entire level.) 1,000,000% on Binding of Isaac, you have to 100% three different files, that means every challenge, everything on the sitcky note with every character, and every item, in ALL THREE files. Honor Mode on Divinity Original Sin/Divinity Original Sin 2. Perma Death, saves when you die, only one save file. Keeping in mind these games are 60 - 200 hours long each, if you're not speedrunning. The 100% achievement in Super Meat Boy, I know the Super Beard Bros got that.
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I actually got Dead Rising's "7 Day Survivor" achievement. It was one of the last ones I unlocked before 1000/1000'ing the game -- the first game I did that with on the 360. The gameplay footage you guys used shows the right strategy: you collect both survivalist books and then stock up on the major healing items milk, OJ, and coffee creamer. However, it is possible to hang out on the roof I believe and not get attacked. There's a certain area where zombies don't spawn. So you literally just pull up the wristwatch on screen, go do something else for a bit, and drink some juice in-game once in a while. You do have to eventually go back into the mall and restock on items a couple times, but it's manageable. Just VERY tedious.
Apparently the achievement is a big deal. Some of my friends at the time were impressed but I just blew it off, lol. I found Dead Rising's achievements for saving 50 people and having 8 women survivors following you at the same time to be MUCH harder.
Yeah, the idea of getting even **one** woman to follow you (oneself) is mind blowing.
I got this when it first came out one of my first 1000/1000. The kicker is the first time I was going for this achievment It was like day six and I needed to go restock food and the game froze when zoning lol. Got it the next day but I was so nervous it was gonna freeze again.
I got it too. IIRC I just was able to hang out in the movie theater with a ton of OJ. It actually was my 2nd attempt because my first attempt, I think I was like 12 hours in and wanted to play a little. Went outside and got stun locked by the clown boss. Kept hitting me while i was trying to get up. I couldn't believe it. So I was so pissed off I had to do it the next day.
Harder maybe, but seriously... 7 Day Survivor is just so freakn boring. When I read about it I stopped playing the entire game, because it felt like a waste of time. Could've beaten the game at least, but it kinda broke me. Rather play other games with fun achievements.
Wasn't expecting to see Europa Universalis here. Three Mountains requires an absurd amount of skill to pull off but it is doable.
I would counter with Stellaris's 'Outside Context' where you must, by pure chance in a randomly generated galaxy, not only stumble across Earth, an Earth occupied by humans, and in the middle of a World War, but you must invade them before the nukes start flying.
Yeah i was surprised to see it on here too. I think sunset invasion achievement is harder than the 3 mountains because you also have to reform the religion which is hard in its self and require tons of patience, but not only that, you have to somehow invade Europe. Also gothic invasion is pretty difficult as well.
Outside context can be grinded with relative ease by setting up the galaxy the right way (no other empires, tiny galaxy, maximum hyperlanes etc). It takes a few hours but is very much doable. I think the decision to include Three Mountains was dumb, it is not the hardest or even the second hardest achievement in EU4. Eat you greens, True heir of Timur and arguably One faith (on the current patch) are more difficult
@@exantiuse497 Just because other achievements are even harder to get, doesn't mean any of the mentioned EU4 achievements are easy at all.
Lets be honest here: getting any of them is already worth celebrating.
@@peterpan4038 If the video is called "impossible achievements", you'd expect it includes the most difficult achievement the games it mentions. EU4 does have a lot of extremely difficult achievements, but Three Mountains isn't even one of the hardest (it can be cheesed by relatively low skill level players using the Shogun vassal swarm strategy). Meanwhile something like Eat you greens is extremely difficult if you use exploity strategies (preventing age of absolutism from beginning) and outright impossible if you don't, so I think it's weird they chose the challenging but doable Three mountains instead of it
Starts FF9, Vivi enters city.
13 hours later: F U jump rope.
"The Shadows Rushed Me" on Max Payne 3. Complete the game in New York Minute Hardcore. So basically complete the entire game, both disks, in one sitting, without dying, under a time limit increased by kills, and on the hardest difficulty with no auto aim. I cried when I got that one.
FF9 is one of my favourite FF games but I really couldn't do the skipping rope minigame myself so did use remote play and a controller script to get that trophy. So I would congratulate anyone who can do that legitimately :)
;)
That game had soooo much hidden content
Getting the script to work was actually harder than doing it legit, the fagging internet kept going out for over three days making me go insane cause every other trophy in the game is doable , No one can do it without a script due to new input lag etc I did it legit when I was 13 on the original. King of jump rope should have been an ultimate weapon for someone seriously or allowed you to skip parts of the game so you could still obtain Excaliber and then all the enemies' levels rescaled to your current level..
When final fantasy ix came up, my thought was, "wait, I've done everything in that game... nope, never done that"
I did it, I can actually say i did everything.
I actually broke my controller after falling on 97 jumps.... Hell with trying again "yawn"
I actually did the bladder of steel achievement on drums. Wasn’t that bad. Plus you got mild breaks when the songs loaded
I did it with my then gf. We switched off guitar and vocals whenever the other got tired.
I did that as well, was tiring
I tried to do it with a small group of friends on medium difficulty. However, it was round one of said friend's houses, and their girlfriend got bored four hours in and decided she wanted to play something else instead.
Still makes me salty to this day.
@@Joe90h I can feel the raw salt mines shaking from over here
I did it on guitar myself. There are several songs that have stretches at the beginning with little to no guitar involvement, you can sneak in a quick bio and get back before you’ve missed enough to fail.
You guys make my days better lol
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8:18 14 hours straight, that sounds like a really good way to overheat the Xbox & get the RROD!
1:38 the most notorious Wallace and Gromit villain: Feathers McGhost Recon Advanced Warfighter
This is a violently under-rated comment.
My personal "nightmare" was the Diskun trophy in Super Smash Bros Melee, which involves completing an absurd number of (mostly extremely easy) tasks, one of which is beating the game without taking any damage. The Internet told me this was easiest to do on All Star Melee Mode by spamming Donkey Kong's area effect moves, and after trying a LOT of times because it was seriously a lot harder and more rng based than the Internet claimed, I finally got to the last round with this tactic. And hit an exploding barrel at the same time I killed the final opponent. Turned me off from the game for like a year.
Later I did a no damage run on Classic mode without much difficulty as Falco, whose damage+knockback projectiles make it extremely easy to keep your distance from the opponents and still kill them on the easiest difficulty. Stupid Internet should've told me that.
My friends and I back in high school completed bladder of steel as a full band all on expert. Was a blast to do over the course of an afternoon all those years ago
I actually got the Hail to the King Trophy on FFIX without having to using the script. What I did was that I remapped the X and O buttons on the controller to L1 and R1 through accessibility options in settings. Then (here's the crazy bit) I turned off the background music, either closed my eyes or looked down and counted each time I heard Vivi's feet hit the ground. The tricky part was the 200-300 jump segment since in that part, you have to double tap each button; but once you get past that part, 301-1000 is pretty much like the 100-200 segment where the tempo is fast. At that point its an endurance round.
Thumbnail almost made me not want to click, literally the only throphy i have needed for years
I really appreciate the youtube gameplay footage credits! It's nice to have a bunch of new names attached to interesting obscure games that pique interest but that typical youtubers would never cover.
A few games have achievements that are literally broken.
Raving Rabbids: Greatest Rayman Ever: Get 174000 points in score mode (you can only ever attain 173000)
Cars Race-O-Rama: Overachiever: Get all other achievements (Achievement itself is actually broken)
Arcania: Gothic 4: Master Chef: learn all recipes (one of the required recipes is unlearnable, breaking the achievement)
One of the earlier Burnout games (it was either Takedown or Paradise) had an achievement where you had to upload crash replay to the EA servers, and your replay had to be voted #1 by the community every day for a full week. That was the hardest for me to ever get (never did), since it was less dependent on you and moreso on the public.
Like they said: it's like devs didn't know what to do when achivments were just beggining
“Don’t kid yourself, we’re all goners” LOL
I have Crypt of the Necrodancer platinum.. Lowest of the low is literally the hardest trophy ever. Hands down.
I got the Bladder of Steel achievement back in the day. I did it with the mic and the next day I couldn't use my voice at all. Worth it.
I'm a super 100% completionist, especially with Final Fantasy... that jump rope segment is pretty much the only part that I have never completed. I think about it on occasion.
Try using a turbo controller.
The way you said “I think about it on occasion”, made me picture you (though I don’t know what you look like...or do I!? haha) as some character from an old black and white French film, sitting alone, in a little cafe: you’re drinking coffee, and smoking a cigarette, with the rain gently splashing against the window, as you wistfully stare out, watching the world pass by...
...and then, just as you’re about to take another sip of coffee, you pause, staring out more intently, as two children pass by the window; they are laughing happily, as they skip through the puddles, with their jump ropes...suddenly, a look of pain darkens your features, and, like contemplating a lost chance at love with the perfect person, you flash back to that one “Achievement that got away”...
After a long moment of deep, painful, contemplation, you push the bitter memory aside; you angrily stub out your nearly finished cigarette, before instantly lighting up another, and taking a long, calming drag from it, heaving a heavy sigh as you exhale.
Suddenly, a determined look replaces the one of pain, and you quickly get up from the table, thanking the waitress that served you, as you leave; you rush past the skipping children, trying not to either look at them, or listen to their joyous shouts, and laughter, which burn your ears, and torture your very soul, as you stumble along...
You try to push the torment aside, as you scan the street, searching for a particular store; a slight smile curls one side of your lip, as you spot the very place you need; you make a dash for it, with the echoes of the children’s laughter, and their splashing jump rope, still ringing in your ears, as you enter the shop.
Entering the store, you rapidly scan the shelves, for what you need; once you’ve found it, you head to the counter, and pay for it as fast as you can, attempting to eschew any attempts smalltalk, from the person who is serving you; you don’t even wait for your receipt, and tell them that they can keep the change, as you make for the exit, and head back out into the rain...
You eagerly look up, and down the street, hoping that those tortuous skipping little bastards haven’t already gone; but there was no need to worry, as you spot them immediately: still skipping through the many large puddles, just down the street from the cafe.
You stroll down the street, towards the children, tightly clutching the item you just purchased; then, when you reach the skipping soda, you stop beside them, not even minding that they splashed you as you approached.
As the jump rope goes over one of their heads, you swiftly make a grab for it, and cut it in two, with the item you purchased a moment ago: a very large pair of sharp scissors; the kid stares at you, a puzzled look on their face, but you ignore it, and do the same to the other child’s jump rope...
Then, before either of them can ask “why the hell you just did that”, you casually walk away, sparking up a celebratory cigarette as you go; you take a long drag, closing your eyes, and exhaling with a moan of ecstasy; a satisfied smile on your face, as you make your way down the rain-soaked street...with a slight skip in your step...
...or something like that haha.
Apologies for the incredibly lengthy, and very stupid, little tableaux that I just came up with; I didn’t intend for it to go on that long, but, once I got started, I just couldn’t stop; brevity is obviously not my strongest attribute haha.
Good look with your Achievement/Trophy hunting. 👍😀🤞
Hope you, you’re loved ones, and anybody that reads this comment, is keeping safe, well, and sane, during these fucked up times. 🤞🙂🤞
All the best. 👍😀
@@ThisCharmingMan1984 yep, that was the tone I wanted to evoke. Haunted by lyrical wistfulness and flailing ropes! My life is complete. Except...
I'm still not sure which is worse. 1000 rope jumps, or 100 lightning bolts dodged.
Of the Ultimate weapon completion challenges I thought the 100 lightning bolt challenge wasn't too bad. I think getting Waka's Blitzball stuff was far more time consuming and then there was Tidus's Chocobo challenge was more annoying to me. Never did the 1,000 Rope jump though so I can't say if it was better or Worse than the lightning dodging.
@@whathanul5798 1000 jumps is worse.
You can force the spawn of the lightning bolts in a specific spot, so then you can just turn on No Encounters and go back and forth there for about half an hour or so. I would advise just keep going until you fail as you don't put pressure on yourself. The jump rope challenge is another level of bullshit.
Did rope challenge when there was no achievments on my old ps1. Now i have this one on steam. I did it twice. Am i stupid? =/
Nah, that's dope lol
I never bothered on the PS1. I think the closest I got was over 100 on the PS3 but seriously, I do not have the patience!
Well done, you! 👍
Yeah, but you're also honorable. You earned that achievement!
Now please never do it again on any future releases, its not worth it.
Yeah i've done it wwaaaaaaay too many times. Im unsure why beyond that I just love the game a lot
I can't do it on ps4, I'm ready to give up. It's one of my favorite games of all time but that trophy broke me.
Is that the 1000 skip challenge I see on the thumbnail there? Iremember how horrendous that was back in the day but I did it. I remember literally having to step with my feet in time with my presses to get into the zone. It was the switch to alternating fast and slow timing that took a while to get used to.
This was a very fun list. Thank you guys for the consistently excellent content.
My friend and I discovered if you unplug or disconnect the controller during the Bladder of Steel achievement it won't register as a pause. Enjoy your breaks.
I did the "Hail to the King" achievement back on PSX, it took literally hours to get the inputs right but i was so proud of it.
But the Remaster on Steam made me grab a script, its not the honest way but i did it once in my life and thats enough.
Once is more than enough :)
and here i thought the jump rope in mario odyssey was nightmarish.
Seriously in Gears 1 was probably my toughest achievement, mainly because everyone was basically a robot and the lag was horrible
It's called Infinite Mode in Dead Rising, Overtime Mode is just how you get the real ending.
Got the 7 Day Survivor achievement in Dead Rising back in the day. I had made several to do so, after the first attempt I had realised that it required nearly 12 SOLID hours of playtime, the 2nd attempt in which the game crashed on me, and the 3rd attempt ended with me encountering a bug that if you go into a particular area after a certain time the game will freeze.
Utter ball-ache of a game to complete
The Stanley Parable has a couple of ridiculous ones, including one that requires you to not play the game for five years. There's also the "art" ending that, while not associated with an achievement, requires playing a particularly terrible and annoying minigame for four hours straight.
Another Achievement i thing is literally impossible is in DMC 5 where you have to earn all S ranks in the hardest difficulty Hell to Hell mode. Mind you one hit and you die and you enemies has full health good luck with that
I now know I will only play this game once on easy. Because I see no way to platinum it. Not only do I find achievement trophies lazy, but to attach it to s rank?! Fuck that. I want to enjoy my achievements not resent them.
you could earn physical patches to show off your achievement? that's so sick why don't we still do that
Me and my brother did the Rock Band 2 achievement. It did take all day, but you take breaks. You can't pause in the song, but you refrain from pushing 'A' to start the next song. Your arms get tired toward the end, but having a partner, you could build your meter to revive them if they are about to fail. Way easier than the others.
My biggest achievement was getting the Big Boss Emblem on MGS4. That was an absolute nightmare thanks to the on-rails section of Europe.
The achievement I'm most proud of as a gamer is getting 100% FC on The Devil went down to Georgia in Guitar Hero 3. It took me literal years of practice to get that song 100%.
It took me WEEKS to do that jump rope trophy, but I gosh dang DID IT!
with some help
took me 3 whole months. Not really proud of that
Got the skip rope, got the cards, and the secret mimic boss
I’ve gotten emperor a couple times, soooo much game time lol
Not that it's impossible, but in Ratchet And Clank PS4, there's a trophy that requires you to use Groovitron on EVERY kinds of enemies in the game. Worse part is, you are bound to miss maybe a few so to be very safe, you have to start all over, or think of an area you probably missed.
Nah the real hardest achievement at least for me, is having a life.
You watched a video about game achievements on RUclips. I think achievement still unattained.
@@evandavis5223 That's the least of my worries, watching anime ramps the difficulty up significantly.
The ESO "Emperor" trophy is literally what prevents me from playing and enjoying the game, as i collect platinum trophies as well. I'd keep playing after getting the plat, if only it was feasible to attain in the first place.
Absolutely stupid idea for a trophy.
So you're just a sperg.
I actually did the 1k jump ropes in FF9 back on the PS when the game first came out took me forever and I refuse to ever try and complete that again, I just don't have that kind of free time anymore.
One of my proudest achievements is The Real Platinum God in Binding of Isaac Rebirth. Getting those achievements with The Lost was a pain.
Took me around 26 hours to get that Skipping Rope achievement on FF9. The real FF9 endgame boss were those 3 girls.
You guys only have 100k subs!!???? Wow. Definitely gonna be a big channel one day!
1:20 How long ago was this VO recorded?
I’d love to see a list of the easiest platinum trophies on PlayStation
The Megamind game on PS3 can be platinumed in literally 2 hours
Fractured Minds you can platinum in under an hour
I don't think Marvel's Spiderman platinum is easy but it's the only one I have earnt! 😂
Detroit: Become Human is easy af
There are tons of Japanese visual novels that can be platinumed in like 5 minutes
I’m a proud owner of Stampers Forever. It was some of the most fun I’ve ever had with a game, and I’d do anything to live through it again.
I managed to survive 8 straight days in dead rising for a total of over 16 back to back hours. Most insane achievement ever accomplished for me
I enjoyed playing Dragon Fin Soup but I stopped playing it because I accepted an unbeatable side mission where you had to deliver something. I had almost no inventory space because I was hoarding everything to get the trophy to craft 100 things. I always hoped they would patch the game but alas.
7 Day Survivor isn't that hard to get, you just have to set aside the whole day to do it. I still remember doing it on a day where I had nothing going on and just watched movies and organized my room while I intermittently drank orange juice and stood on an awning that the zombies couldn't get to me from. I started early in the morning and ended close to midnight if I remember correctly. No regrets one of my proudest achievements, and reminds me of a time where I could waste a day on a meaningless achievement. I've always wanted to get an endless setlist achievement in one of the Rock Band games, it's on my bucket list.
I have the steel bladder achievement with every instrument on expert, if you did it on expert your icon became platinum. so it had to be done.
I had an egg salad sandwich on rye bread today. It was mediocre at best but the sour cream and onion chips made up for a it a bit. Washed it all down a diet Canada Dry ginger ale. All in all, an underwhelming, yet filling meal. No real complaints. 6.5/10.
Worst trophy I ever got was “All sales are final” from Twisted Metal (PS3). Win one ranked game per day for 30 days in a row. Plus the trophy was bugged and didn’t pop for me until 35 days.
Battlefront 2 platinum, I'm one trophy away been that way for almost a year now. Just gotta shoot down 25 hero ships using a fighter class... 😭
This one was really bad, I had to boost it. It doesn’t seem that bad on the surface, but you are in for a rude awakening when you try it. Everyone is super sweaty on starfighter assault and having cards makes it very unlikely you will die to one of those pleb ships. Hope you got it.
My hardest achievement was "nothing special" in L4D. You had to complete a campaign without taking any damage from special infected. And if a boomer vomit's on you, any regular zombie hit counts. We found a cheat that allowed us to only survive the last level without getting hit, and we found a room special couldn't get into for most of the horde rush, and it still took hours and hours and hours cause just running from that secret room to the helicopter was almost impossible as there are tanks and dozens of specials going after you. so dumb.
I used to be an Emperor, until I took an arrow to the knee.
I did actually did help get Iron Bladder back in the day on a friend's account. Me, him and his bro just switched out guitar every so often. It wasn't 6 hours, only like half that. Annoying for sure, but perfectly doable if you dedicate a day to it.
I have all of these achievements on my other account...
Deadass
@@YormanOrtiz no u
@@LordmonkeyTRM oh
Yeah my other account to 🙄
Same honestly. Fucking noobies
CSGO has some of the longest and hardest achievements to get. I'm so close after 8 years of owning that game lol.
you are a fucking legend
"Ah! Excuse me!? EXCUSE ME!?!?!?!"
*My reaction to him insulting Perfect Dark Zero*
Do you really have 174 platinums? That's impressive! I only have about half that many (86) I'm always shocked to find that hosts of most gaming shows don't seem to have many at all.
That’s because hosts of gaming shows are generally busy being hosts of gaming shows lol. There isn’t some number of trophies you need to have in order to pass into the super exclusive game show host club lol
I did the FFIX jump rope thing. It was on the PS1, before achievements were a thing.
You want difficult? Try completing all 99 Achievements in The Orange Box, especially the one where you have to play TF2 with 7 people from your friends list
5:18 "Use footage of borderlands"
A bit of a slip up there :P
I did the 7 Day Survivor achievement in high school during one of my summer vacation days. It was done on the slim 360, so it didn't have the heating problems the og 360's had.
Another Final Fantasy one that's "impossible" to get is a variation of "server shut down", but not exactly. FFXV has a multiplayer mode called Comrades. Although it's multiplayer focused, you can play it offline and the trophies are theoretically obtainable. However, Comrades used to be part of FFXV proper, but it was later turned into a standalone game. Which means the trophies associated with the original version of it are no longer obtainable because the mode was removed from the game in favour of the standalone version.
The only way to get them now is to trick your console into downloading an old version which still has Comrades included.
Wait, really? More reasons to avoid that game. I wanted to get 100% since I'm an RPG player, yet XV scares me off more than the others.
@@AlmightyPolarBearAt least these trophies aren't required to get the platinum. Comrades was DLC, so its trophies don't count towards it. Just annoying that it will never list your trophy completion as 100%.
@@Psyk60 That's what I'm saying. I am willing to go for 100% (as I have the Royal Edition, yet it being unobtainable is disappointing.
Keep up the good work Ben, you are a funny guy 👍
It took me three attempts to get The Bladder of Steel. That third try (the one I got said trophy) I was doing vocals. My voice was hoarse for days afterwards. Never again.
@0:35 That statement is not entirely accurate! "Star Ocean: Till The End of Time" (PS2 2003); was THE FIRST GAME with achievements. They were saved onto the #2 Memory Card Slot, and unlocked perks within the game, when loaded...
Which I still think is the best form of achievements.
I completed all achievements in Rare Replay. It was a long but fun grind. It was my first time playing Jet force Gemini and it was the highlight.
How did you end up getting the Piñata game achievements? I just can't seem to do well in those.
@@kyle95smile79 they arent quick but what really helped was having an xbox 360 camera to scan in qr codes to get pinata easy to help breed them etc
@@Nemesis2K Ah, didn't know that was a thing. Thank you!
What was the name of the game at 8:50
I think dodging lightning in ffx was harder for me to do than the 1000 jump rope in 9.
what is that music in the background
I did actually complete the jump rope achievement in the original ff9 (which was also the first final fantasy I ever played)
5:29 so it is not normal to say yes 3 times well …
The Steel Bladder achievement was so much fun but since I did it on singing my voice got super sore. We started at 3 and we literally ended at 9 and got some lunch. It was so much fun.
I lost days of my life as a kid doing the rope thing as a kid.
The only platinum trophies I have are the ones for the Spyro games - never been dedicated enough for other games!
Steam achievements mean more than a rando gamer score or sad little "trophy" since they do not get lost to subsequent generations of outdated upon arrival consoles.
pc master race 👍👍💪💪
Where The Water Tastes Like Wine has the worst type of achievement on Steam. It's specifically designed to be unachievable because it's thematic that you will never find a place where water tastes like wine, and chasing it is pointless.
Speaking of multiplayer achievements, I know of one that sounds absurds even in the description. For 'Enemy Front' there is a MP achievement, that requires the player to win a DM.... without dying once.
Win a DM without dying? What in God's name were they thinking!?!
Mine is rather recent, I was going for the Valhalla Hills platinum trophy (a mediocre strategy game) which requires you to play *250 rounds* and get *1000 Vikings to Valhalla* (100'000 Honor is required. Enemies and building gets from 5 to 25 each). I had done *249* rounds and had *869* Vikings to Valhalla. On the 250th round the game decided to *delete my save file.* Weeks of progress gone.
No Platinum trophy for me.
I used to be a hardcore trophy hunter but since having two kids I just don't have the time and also cannot be bothered going for trophies that require endless grinds or online multiplayer because let's face it, all they are at the end of the day is a few pixels on a screen.
I got Dead Risings '7 Day Survivor' achievement. It was a little tough, but very doable for average gamers (like me). I went out early and collected as much pizza and orange juice as I possibly could and then camped in a little store, where I could shut the front door. Every 20 mins, I'd drink some OJ or eat some pizza, so I didnt starve and that was it.
The game 'Haydee' (which is a pretty tough puzzle/platformer/shooter) has an achievement for completing the whole thing without taking any damage. Thats impossible.
The worst part of never having Emperor! is not getting the chair. I'd let my kingdom fall to ruin in a day, but if I had the chair I wouldn't give a damn. Sadly that reserved spot at my table will probably be empty forever, because pvp can suck it.
Me and a homie did the bladder of steel achievement. If you can just switch off with someone it's easy. Setting aside the time is the tough part
The fact that I've beaten Necrodancer a couple of times is achievement enough...
I got through the first zone. The fact the daily challenge is also "Get through four zones" is just ridiculous.
6:46 Wait, couldn't like 6 people just pass the guitar around every half hour & get it done. Yeah it wouldn't know if you did that!
Damn, why the hate for Perfect Dark Zero? The 16 vs 16 multiplayer was downright epic for an opening day xbox 360 release. It had massive maps, several different multiplayer game modes that required unique strategies and weapons with multiple(sometimes even obscure) functions to serve in those strategies. The campaign offered single player, 2 player, and online 2 player with difficulties ranging from a sunday stroll through the park to so F-ing hard the completion achievement should have made this list. I guess the developers owe you an apology for not making a second re-skinned bond game? Which reminds me, one of the maps in PDZ was an actual map from 007 on N64. It even had the same weapon spawn points.
not gonna lie, i tried so damn hard to do that jump rope minigame in FF9, i must've spent like 2 hrs straight on that alone, just couldnt pull it off... have the same problem doing the 30 jump challenge in Super Mario RPG, i guess my timing or reflexes need tuning.
yeah some ff trophies suck ass to actually do like when I was playing ff15 I was going for the platinum and had to get Noctis to max fishing level which took me much longer then I'd like to admit (about 3 months on and off)
@@insertname717 i'd sooner grind fishing than deal with a minigame that you only have a small window of time to deal with, because you can only do it AS Vivi during the beginning of the game, once the play begins the minigame is kaput.
@@UltimateGamerCC You can play it again, I believe whenever you have access to the town part of Alexandria, even when you're as far as the final dungeon. Just bring either Vivi or Eiko to talk with the kids.
I thing dodging lightning in FFX is way worse; it's the same principle, but you need instant reaction to a extremely small window with nearly no visual cue, that comes out seemingly at random, 200 times without failing. Plus it's mandatory to get one of the ultimate weapons so it's not just for bragging.
I remember my dad did the endless set 2 times technically 3 but the 1st attempt sometime in the middle the internet went out of a spilt second disconnecting him from the game and the friend he was playing with. He did one by himself expert mode. And another with another friend expert . Drums every time
i completed The Bladder of Steel on Expert guitar back on the day by myself, on Painkiller, the last song, in the solo i was about 1 or 2 notes away from failing but managed to pick it back up lol.
I've actually pulled off the 7 Day Survivor Achievement!
10:13 Actually Emperor isn't the hardest thing to get in ESO, I think achievement like Flawless Conqueror (vMA perfect run) is harder to get
nop, Flawless Conqueror is so easy, maybe the trifectas of new trials are the hardest achievement(based in % of getting).
Well, it's only 9am & I don't start WFH until 10. But for lunch today I'll be having chicken & broccoli. Fun, I know...
I had cheese on toast!.... It was glorious!!
14:33
Some difficult to impossible achievements I've encountered during my completionist adventures.
Stardew Valley; Fectors Challenge. You had to beat the game without dying. "Oh well that's what you're meant to do already right?" No, you can get multiple lives and beat the game, but I know professionals who couldn't get the achievement while using mods for infinite money/bullets/speed. It's a 0.7% achievement.
Ghost in Dishonored isn't IMPOSSIBLE, especially with saving (Though sometimes you have to redo an entire level.)
1,000,000% on Binding of Isaac, you have to 100% three different files, that means every challenge, everything on the sitcky note with every character, and every item, in ALL THREE files.
Honor Mode on Divinity Original Sin/Divinity Original Sin 2. Perma Death, saves when you die, only one save file. Keeping in mind these games are 60 - 200 hours long each, if you're not speedrunning.
The 100% achievement in Super Meat Boy, I know the Super Beard Bros got that.
I've literally got all of these except the first one......... and the last one......... and the ones in-between 🤷♂️
So, none of them. ;P
But you have a life