Personal experiences with Achievements from Hell!

me and like 700 people in a group got a single achievement. Yes, I am the real Garry from Garry's Mod. got it back in 2014 before he quit
its not so much hard as always be on the look out and hope you get lucky when trying to join the server. took me like half a year before i got it

Um... you thought you could just walk through a Roguelike Platformer... which has fall damage? ^_^'

Personally, I don't mind hard achievements as long as the "difficulty" doesn't come from plain randomness.
Obnoxiously grindy achievements on the other hand... Well... Let's say that Torchlight got really really really boring even before I found out that I need to play through it at least 4 extra times because for some reason each "Beat the game on (Easy/Normal/Hard/Very Hard) Hardcore Difficulty" (basically "Single Life, No Revives" difficulty) is unlocked only on that difficulty and not on higher ones. And then there's all the other pointless grindy bullshit, the worst of which is completing 50 instances of a fetch quest which one NPC gives... only around 8 times per playtrough... and they unlock as you progress through the story.
Basically, screw that game. XD

try Angvik and La-Mulana
https://store.steampowered.com/app/278890/Angvik/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/230700/LaMulana/

well, one thing that bugs me was when i played sleeping dogs. because the dlc was never buyable on steam for germans i wasnt able to complete it. another bad achievment trip is the original borderlands, damn i hate all those arena missions where you had to play like 2-3 hours for a shitty unfun tournament or grinding claptraps for those collectables ... the alternate is to fight minac, hide behind a rock and let the pc on over night for all the drops

Well, one of my nightmare achievements game is Super Meat Boy. I do like to go for 100% when i feel games are fair. All my respect to whoever has done that with SMB. This is beyond my gamer skills.

only achievements that matters to me are those in World of warcraft :D
i dont personally care about steam achievements but if i had them it would be good problem is i dont play anything but wow these days

and i cant see my time-play on battle.net app !! is that the way it is ?

been a part of this steam group for some time https://steamcommunity.com/groups/100pAG bunch of people that help each other earn achievements. learned a bunch of exploits and tricks from them. like how in portal you could noclip to the end of the puzzle save and then reopen to get gold in time steps and portals
they also introduced me to this website

I hate those "kill 10,000 enemies" or "kill 100,000 enemies" achievements. Really, what the hell is the point in those? They're usually in games that most people won't want to replay hundreds of times to get them so they really screw over completionists.

Also, Deponia has a lot of brutal achievements.

i gave up an Spelunky quickly. i got one achievement. I don't usually try to get all achievement. But for some reason I got all for Lego Ninjago the Movie, probably because it wasn't hard.

I'm definitely a completionist, which is why I try it one game at a time and only move on to the next when I got all my cheevos. There are exceptions, e.g. for Age of Empires, cause some of those are hella grindy and I didn't wanna use the 'save just before you win the game' exploit either. So that one is sorta steady WIP. And those cheevos seem fairly obvious in that they are meant to rack up your gaming hours. Mind you, AoE is a great game series. I'd have several hundred hours in them even without achievements that force me to play so long and so often. So that sours the experience just a smidge XD

Generally I also like to check if any form of guide exists. Not so I can work the cheevos off with a list but just for knowing that if I do get stuck, someone can help me out XD Of course, the more obscure the game, the less likely there'll be one. But for some of the trickier, sneakier achievements it definitely helps if there's been at least one person struggling before I have, to get those tips and tricks.

So far I've avoided games that specifically require you to play with a dev etc online (GM isn't the only one there), but it gives me hope that some of these are extended to "the dev or a person that has this achievement already". Spreading the cheevo like a virus... oh wait, poorly timed analogy. But you get me? I absolutely loathe achievements that cannot be obtained at your own time, with skill and/or patience. Like pre-order achievements lol.Getting the game later? too bad, you'll never 100%.

There's also at least one dev I know whom specifically made achievements to call out people who use SAM or similar programs, because you ca 100% not get that achievement from playing the game, so anyone who has this achievement is effectively a 'cheater' as they dub it. That's not even trolling anymore that's just crappy behaviour imo. Played through the game twice only to find that I couldn't get it :V And the game wasn't even that bad or anything (bit trippy perhaps) but the cheevo thing kinda ruined my overall liking for it.

A difficulty tag could be a nice hint for what you're getting into but that is probably subjective haha. I generally don't have the patience for memorizing platformers to begin with,but I do like me some strategy games.

Suffice it to say I have yet to start Spelunky. My backlog keeps getting more intimidating with each nice sale or bundle whoops. Well and having a bit less time than I used to, I guess.

Im trying to complete the only achievo in Noita - to finish it just once. Currently 350hrs in and counting)

I used to be more of a completionist in the past, had to complete the pokédex, defeat Omega in FFVIII, get all the orbs in Jak And Daxter, such things, and I even felt bad if I didn't do it. But nowadays I try to cut hard on that because there's too many games and not all of them are worth the time, plus since I got Steam I got quite a few ones which include multiplayer which is not really my thing.

I have heard spelunky for quite some time, but i end up not buying it because it is 1) roguelike and 2) difficult. I'm a completionist so i might be turned off from some many good games because of this but leaving a game with no 100% achievement is really hard to do.

One time it took me months to 100% bastion. One of the achievements was very hard and i ended up playing a few hours everyday (or week, whenever i can play). It feels satisfying after i beat it though.

I did the same with jotun afterwards. I think it took longer because the game was relying on RNG and i just suck at timing, but at least it is not as hard as the first one.

I'm trying to do the same with horizon shift now. This game is trouble. Performance issues, achievements that doesnt make any sense, and other issues related to the gameplay makes me wanna give up everytime i play it. Heck, i hate it so much that i never finished my session without cursing, unlike the first two that i enjoyed so much.

Well there are certainly more, but it has been so long since i played them and i forgot the full story. Most of these are actually enjoyable if you like the game, but if it is a terrible game that you hate so much... i don't know. It's also one of the reasons why i refrain getting games with difficult achievements nowadays. I'm too old for challenge.

I'm a completionist too (sort of), but I really hate some achievements like the ones to finish the game without dying - Limbo, Ori nd the Blind Forest or the grindy ones, like the one mentioned above (kill 50k idiots, collect 1 million stones, etc) - I look at you Torchlight; and for me are really annoying the ones who require coop or multyplayer in mostly singleplayer games (I'm talking about Saints Row games, now I'm stuck at SR 4 with last achievements implying coop...). There are some impossible achievements for me in Sandbox Universe, I regret starting that game...

one of the hardest ones I can remember was killing a guy with the razor of a helicopter in rising storm 2 Vietnam

I just hate any multiplayer achievements but the worse was dead rising 2. There was no one playing that game, I managed to find a group of people who helped but its a buggy mess. It would take multiple tries to be able to get all 4 players together, for it to actually work you would need people to leave the match as soon as it started or it would crash. Minigames were random so you had to just get lucky if you got the one you needed and only then can you win the last minigame which crashes before it counts as beaten. It probably wouldn't be so bad if you could play it with like 1 person but needing all 4 slots is not so easy

It took 225 hours for me to get 100% in Steredenn, started playing in 2016 and just finished last month

Spelunky looks cool, what you said about it sounds appealing (i already see myself screaming to my computer), and i have it in my backlong, i might give it a try.

My ultimate achievement goal for now, is obtaining the only achievement in Devil Daggers, such a fabulous game, but such a difficult game... I have only managed to get to 216 seconds in all my hours of playing, without farming, and with farming, i can hardly pass the first centipede. Then a few months without it, and now that i have a new screen, i have tested it again, and i realize i see things much better. I see the spiders clearly now, it's gonna change everything ! This game is like chess : very few rules very few pieces, but everything is balanced and doesn't need more.

Achievements ruins more than it adds to games for me personally.. Just another little annoyment that takes my focus away from enjoying the actual gameplay.

Maybe it's the effort put into them, or maybe it's the time, but games like this somehow end up being quite memorable. For me it was like that with Penarium (2D platformer) which is about dodging incoming dangers on unmoving arena. Min story got progressively harder, though last level was not neccessarily the hardest. After that, all that was left was getting 150 points in survival arena, which to me at the time seemed to be very hard, though at present I would say it's just moderately hard.

2nd game like that was Deadlings (also 2D platformer), where there are 10 bonus levels at the end meant to be hard, and while they are, the last one is especially frustrting, due to being 3 minutes of perfectly precise platforming (you can't stop moving during unless you die, but blink in the wrong moment and you also die) similar to Flappy Bird. The worst part is, that I had trouble with my spacebar, so instead of remapping the keys, I switched to a different computer, and after seeing that there are no levels unlocked there, I figured that the game doesn't support cloud saving, only to turn off the game (with 0% progress) and see that steam started synchronising save data, run back to original computer, and after turning on the game see 0% progress, while I was just struggling with last level...

3rd game is a win from SG. It's different from the other 2, because it's also a platformer, but it's 3D! (it's called RAZED). Player character loses time resource while not moving, but regains it while moving. This game is very much about speed, momentum, and level map knowledge. There are achievments for getting S rank in lowest time spent beating every level, of which there are over 60. I only miss one level right now, and that's because for some reason developer decided that this level will use a glitch as an in-game mechanic (press space twice very fast, and your character jumps higher, though douple jumps don't exist), without ever introducing players to it, and I can't really pull it off more than 1 in ~40 attempts.

Anyway, I'm still not sure if the feeling I get at the very end, when I get the final achievment is a relief that I made it, and don't have to try again, or it's just pure satisfaction.

As long as you get them with trying it's not so bad, it's the not dieing once, or speedruns that suck the life of yourself but also a game.

I love achievements, but not for completion sake - it shows me when I played a game, what month/year, when I unlocked them etc. Some are also great and deserve to be called that - Super Meat Boy and The End is Nigh which I am currently playing for example. 99% simply can't finish them all because they require extraordinary amount of skill and time invested and would probably simply detract from the fun playing them. I adore that kind of games and will do as much as I can - but some I won't even try to get. There is too many great games waiting to be played, I won't spend hundreds of hours in order to master one.

Just avoid achievement spam games - can't understand people who "play" them just to boost a number on their profile. At least Valve removed some of that garbage from the store.

It's SO hard being a completionist! (I've currently got 52% of my games 100%ed \o/)
I hate games with difficulty achievements. I really do. Even more so, when I CAN'T do it. There are games out there, that I just... can't. I'm not that good with fighting games - the whole Batman series, I just gave up on a lot of achievements there and I sometimes still feel the pain.
But let's see: most ANNOYING achievement ever was from a visual novel, where you had to bake a cake, take a picture and send that to the devs. They also included an achievement, that was never meant to be achieved. Just impossible by default. Ned less to say, I stay clear of them ever since.

As to others, most rewarding ones... I really can't say, if I'm honest. Maybe it WAS a hardmode achievement - not on steam though. For Mass Effect 3. I was so proud having done that.
Otherwise it made me very happy to have 100%ed the Thief game or just recently HITMAN. I have a couple of achievements I gave up on - which would probably have made me very happy if I did get them - but I can't really recall one, that made super proud and happy. Which really is a shame. I gotta think about this :D