I just managed to get a quite mean achievement in Despotism 3k I've been chasing for the last 2 or 3 weeks which took me almost 10 attempts I guess.

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Finish the campaign while always choosing the first answer in dialogues

Despotism 3k is sort of a worker placement / puzzle game with rogue-like elements where you play as a despotic A.I. trying to enslave humanity. It can be rather frustrating because it makes Dark Souls look like Hello Kitty Online but if you're into that sort of thing I can definitely recommend you give it a go since some of you probably picked it up when it was free directly via Steam a while ago.

The basic goal of the game is to balance energy production, breeding & food production and keep your labour camp going for 25 days and at the beginning of every day you get a random event with tons of references to stuff like Back to the Future, Star Gate, Blade Runner, Matrix, Spider-Man and many more...

Most of those events can be solved with both a positive or negative outcome but the achievement I was chasing requires you to always pick the first option which makes it mostly luck-based hoping you get events that don't screw you over too bad.

I was pretty close to getting it on my maybe 5th attempt but I had to punish those pesky humans for killing John Connor which I had sent to them as spy They didn't. by turning off the breeding tube for a day and forgot that an earlier event had turned all of them into ghouls who would only feed on recycled human flesh from the Bio-reactor. So no fresh meat ment I had to stop sending all my exhausted workers to the Bio-reactor switching them out and giving them rest periods instead. Forgetting that the Bio-reactor was the only thing that kept my little ghoul party going.


So long story long getting that achievement made me think it was probably the singular hardest / most annoying achievement I spent the most time to get I can think of - and made me wonder what were your White Whale achievements that were a real pain in the ass to get?

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If this post inspires you to try the game (which I really hope it will for 1 or 2) I have to warn you the game has a rather unfair difficulty spike around day 8 which might kill you a few days later without you even realizing what happened 😡 Once you've gotten past that point it's pretty smooth sailing ⛵

Maybe I was just being stupid but it took me a couple trys to identify the problem but once you know you can get past it pretty reliably.

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I honestly don't remember but it all pales in comparison to some of the things I accomplished in World of Warcraft. I had a knack for both surprising and aggravating people when I would go into mythic level dungeons(5 people) and pull all the trash up to each boss and burn everything down solo. I would usually tell people to just kick back and enjoy the ride but a lot of times they wouldn't listen and usually ended up taking dirt naps. I also had instances where I would be in a raid(10+ people) and the entire raid would die but the boss was low enough that I could finish it before whatever rage gimmick would kill me so I would just do my thing while impatient people would say things like "this isn't possible to solo" or "just die already so we can reset". I got bored of playing it because there was not much challenge outside of mythic 20+ dungeons and heroic+ raids or 2000+ pvp ratings and it's almost impossible to get into reliable teams doing those things and most of the people doing them are real assholes who shitlist you if you make even the smallest mistake. And like I said all the other people would usually complain when I tried to push myself at lower difficulties. Lose lose.

1 hour ago
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What class and which expansion?

34 minutes ago
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really hard to say, likely some of my stuff from the days before achievements/trophys... like beating Ocarina of Time without taking damage from anything, beating Halo 1/2 on Legendary solo, stuff like that.

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I didn't do many difficult or crazy ones, the hardest one must be Eternal God from the binding of Isaac

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I didn't do many difficult or crazy ones

I haven't played it yet but from I heard Binding of Isaac is pretty hardcore in general and that achievement is what we call a Platinum trophy on console so I'm pretty sure that qualifies 😄

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my rarest that im most proud of is
Ultimate Rage-table top simulator
Flip the table over 1000 times.
Unlocked Jan 30, 2015 @ 11:28am
achievement i worked the hardest on was joining a server with Garry from Garry's mod.
he would play from time to time and i was part of a HUGE steam group of people just trying to help each other get that one achievement. i missed him so many times. when he was on you had to wait over an hour for your turn to join the server and sometimes no spots opened up

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its been a decade since i did that....fucck im old

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Flip the table over 1000 times.

Hehe Despotism has one of those as well.
But in Despotism that's actually one of the easier ones with the main problem it being a hidden achievement which might you might not stumble over naturally.

Yes, I am the real garry!

I've heard about achievements like this but I don't think I have one yet 🤔
Guess they're a bit controversial among hunters because they might become unobtainable if the dev or everybody from the team stops playing when the game already is older but that only makes them feel more special when you actually manage to get them.
I've also seen games make those trophies infectious so basically playing with anybody who already has the achievement will grant it too you as well.

When I checked earlier if there already was such a thread I came across this. It's a really cute idea but I wonder how they handled that achievement. If the devs unlocked it manually?


Guess that achievement was removed at some point but apparently it did exist because there are guides and people asking about it on the Steam forums.

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my is on ark survival is no that hard but proud to finely complete lol
Perfect Explorer
You've discovered 100% of the Explorer Notes on the ARK!

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Poly Bridge. Play it 6 years ago, but still remember the pain

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Finishing Dead Space 3 in Hardcore.

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