Achievements with exotic requirements

[LauriJ]

Same as title. I can name one achievement in Hate Plus that basically requires you to eat cake as in actual IRL cake with a certain character and send out a picture of it to the developer. And then there are the trio of achievements for Team Fortress 2 that essentially makes you submit a video of your replay to YouTube and hope that enough people will see it for the achievement to register.

 

[りょ]

How about the unachievable achievement from the game The Stanley Parable?

Only if you 'hack' the game will you be able to get it.

 

[Laguna]

How about the unachievable achievement from the game The Stanley Parable?

How about EVERY achievement from Stanley Parable? You know, like the one that requires you to not play for like 10 years.

Also the one achievement in Minceraft where you have to shoot a skeleton from 50 blocks away. I still have no clue how you're actually supposed to do that.

 

[Megan]

How about EVERY achievement from Stanley Parable? You know, like the one that requires you to not play for like 10 years.

It's actually just 5 years. Although, I have to say, I really liked the Commitment achievement:
"Play The Stanley Parable for the entire duration of a Tuesday." {XD}

 

[Legobricks]

Also the one achievement in Minceraft where you have to shoot a skeleton from 50 blocks away. I still have no clue how you're actually supposed to do that.

You... just use a bow as normal, no? With some practice and/or enough arrows it's not too hard to land long arcing shots. Or you could do something creative like excavate a 50 block high roof above a skeleton spawner chamber, then simply drop arrows on them. Minecraft is the sort of game where devising solutions to such matters is in the spirit of its gameplay, so really I'd say it's better for the game's achievements to be obscure.

 

[Judge Mandolore Shepard]

Another exotic achievement in Team Fortress 2 is one the achievements that can only be gotten while playing as the Soldier. The achievement I am thinking of is Banner of Brothers which requires a player Buffing 5 Steam Friends at once with the Buff Banner. The reason it is exotic is because it is very unlikely that five of your Steam friends will be in the same lobby playing the game at the same time.

 

[Bounsweet]

Wow, some of these are crazy ahah.

The only ones I can think of are from Red Dead Redemption, one requires you to hogtie a woman and place her on the train tracks to get run over, that trophy is called "Dastardly."

My favorite one from RDR is where you get a bounty of a specific amount, and while riding a white horse you have to go south to flee from the lawmen, and you get a trophy called "Heading South On A White Bronco" lmao.

 

[☆Rei☆]

The Half Life 2 achievement where you have to bring a godforsaken lawn gnome through the entire game just to send it to space, which if you go to fast on your vehicle it'll fly off into space anyway, but sadly it doesn't count for the achievement when it definitely should. Oh, and if you forget to close the door on the rocket, guess who has to restart the entire game again just to get the achievement... (I learned this one the hard way)

 

[Lumina]

There's an achievement in Destiny to fully upgrade an Exotic-class weapon.

That counts, right?

 

[Necrum]

In Halo: Reach there was an achievement for surviving a deadly fall by performing a melee. I can't actually remember if I ever pulled it off but holy shit it was one of the hardest achievements I ever attempted. There's one spot in the entire game where it can be done and sometimes you can pull it off and it won't give you the damned achieve. Frustrating as hell, man!

 

[☆Rei☆]

In Halo: Reach there was an achievement for surviving a deadly fall by performing a melee. I can't actually remember if I ever pulled it off but holy muk it was one of the hardest achievements I ever attempted. There's one spot in the entire game where it can be done and sometimes you can pull it off and it won't give you the damned achieve. Frustrating as hell, man!

That was easy, just put it on Legendary, with all gold skulls on for the last campaign level. Then as soon as you start there's a cliff and an elite, jump aim and assassinate the elite. Now you have the achievement.

Anyway, for pure difficulty?

I remember this bat shit insane achievement in Dead Rising called "7 Day Survivor" which basically is you trying to survive in Dead Rising's Infinity mode for 7 Days, or 14 hours of real time. The catch is that there are no saves so you have to do it in one sitting.

I never even got it yet. xD

 

[Necrum]

That was easy, just put it on Legendary, with all gold skulls on for the last campaign level. Then as soon as you start there's a cliff and an elite, jump aim and assassinate the elite. Now you have the achievement.

Anyway, for pure difficulty?

I remember this bat shit insane achievement in Dead Rising called "7 Day Survivor" which basically is you trying to survive in Dead Rising's Infinity mode for 7 Days, or 14 hours of real time. The catch is that there are no saves so you have to do it in one sitting.

I never even got it yet. xD

Yeah, I did that about 200 times and still didn't pull it off right. That Elite is not easy to hit correctly!

 

[Aeroblast]

I remember one frustrating achievement on persona 4 that required hearing 250 different random lines from rise or something like that. made me do another playthrough just because I missed out on it first 2 playthroughs.

You... just use a bow as normal, no? With some practice and/or enough arrows it's not too hard to land long arcing shots. Or you could do something creative like excavate a 50 block high roof above a skeleton spawner chamber, then simply drop arrows on them. Minecraft is the sort of game where devising solutions to such matters is in the spirit of its gameplay, so really I'd say it's better for the game's achievements to be obscure.

I tried that it didn't work. it has to be a horizontal distance, though I don't know if they changed it or the achievement requirements are slightly different in ps4. this is approximately how I did it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXgfKd-YxBM

 

[☆Rei☆]

Yeah, I did that about 200 times and still didn't pull it off right. That Elite is not easy to hit correctly!

I don't understand, I did this on like 4 different profiles, 3 of which are from people who just can't get it right. .-. Maybe I'm just a skilled assassin?

 

[pkmin3033]

Agh, I hate trophies like these; they're damn near impossible to pull off half the time, or are just plain awkward and/or time consuming. Some of the ones in Metal Gear Solid 2 are definitely...exotic, though:

Spoiler:

Sexting
Send Otacon a picture of the marine with no pants

Johnny on the Spot
Hear Johnny's bowel noises in two locations

Snake Beater
Get caught by Otacon stimulating yourself

 

[LilyGardy]

There was an achievement in one of the Wwe games called 'Man of 1,004 Holds' Where you had to hit 1,004 Finishers in one match...Poor Santino could barely stand by the time I was finished.

Also there was an achievement in one of the Saints Row games where you had to shoot a number of bad guys in a sensitive area. Not hard but very silly.