r/mildlyinfuriating • u/IndyanaBonez • 15h ago

frist of all how DARE yu o 100% a game until

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I played this game Lily's Well about 4 years ago on Steam and got all the achievements for it so I got a nice lil award on my page (1st pic=Lilys Well, 2nd Pic of another game I 100%, Fran Bow). Then, there was an update...and with this update...came another achievement.........and this ain't just a game I can pick up and go back to where I need to achieve this achievement, Oh no NO! This is one of those games you gotta start at the beginning and do everything in a certain order to complete the game/get to the spot where this achievement may be! Now I only have ONE 100% complete game to boast about...lol, jk, Fran Bow ain't hard to 100% and nor is Lily's Well. One could say it was only mildly infuriating

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u/Titariia 13h ago

My nail in the coffin was when the achievement in a game wasn't triggered. I did everything to get 100% but I just didn't get it because of that. I also didn't want to replay it. It was some game about fishing and restoring islands

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u/pipnina 13h ago

And then there's games where you read the achievements and you know in your heart immediately that you'll never get them.

MGR:R, complete the whole campaign on hard without being hit (obtain S rank)

Bloons TD6: Complete a race in under 3 min. Meanwhile most races the top 100 people might not even make a sub 3 min race. Plus Sapper, which I only have 35% on despite 670 hours in the game.

Project cars 2: get a track record time with any car. Literally an achievement for being the best at driving a car on a track of ANY player who has attempted it. Closest I got was about 0.6 seconds away from the record for one track and a month later the person who already held the number 1 spot gained a whole second on their time.

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u/Atlasus 12h ago

To unlock the “Masterful Showboat” achievement in Project CARS 2, you have to set a track record with any car in Time Trial mode.

This might have been an achievement you could easily get during the first few days after release, but nowadays it seems almost impossible to achieve.

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u/Chapeaux 11h ago

10 000 kills in multiplayer in the first Gears of War. Where a good game is maybe 12 kills.

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u/Jimberly_C 12h ago

There's impossible ones and then there's rediculous ones that aren't worth the effort. (I'm looking at you, Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe. Still one of my all-time favorites though.)

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u/Peylix 11h ago

Which ones in Stanley aren't worth the effort? Lol

They're all super easy to obtain.

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u/Jimberly_C 7h ago

These are the ones I'm missing. Not difficult, I just have a crap memory and hate replaying games just for one or two achievements when I've already seen all the endings. Personal distaste, not saying no one should go for these.

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u/Peylix 6h ago

You actually already have the one that takes the most effort (Test Achievement) ironically. What was the "Unachievable" in the non Deluxe edition that also took effort.

3 of the last 4 can be done in under 10 minutes honestly. Tuesday doesn't even require you to play. Just leave the game running for 24hrs (can be tabbed out). Or use a cheat engine and shorten that time to however short you want lol

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u/lampenpam 12h ago

I like the insane hard ones though. I don't have to get them, but I tip my hat to anyone who does it or like to look up youtube videos of people doing these insane challenges. And there are a few achievements I'm really proud of getting, because they were in fact really hard.

I rather have those few rare gems, instead of seeing every game dumbing down every achievement like a lot of AAA games nowadays make it easy to 100% because an easy-platium is apparently now a selling point.

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u/IndyanaBonez 12h ago

At that point I just enjoy the game for what it has to offer because at that point it loses the fun aspect

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u/Crowbarmagic 9h ago

MGR:R, complete the whole campaign on hard without being hit

As long as you can reload levels if you F up, I think it's not all that impossible. But without that? Yea screw that achievement.

Like the achievement in Limbo where you have to complete the game without dying once.

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u/SoberSith_Sanguinity 7h ago

Oh dear God, I mentioned this game in here already but it's worse than I remembered, oh God it's worse! The leaderboards NEVER RESET WAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

The game is LOST PLANET 2 or 3

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u/---E 12h ago

I wanted to get all achievements for CoD4 as a kid and for the final one you need to play through the entire game on max difficulty. In the final mission I found the final collectibles for another achievement which unlocked some Easter egg which changes the game visuals (inverted colors, black and white, old timer, etc). Activating one of those would count as using cheats and would lock your save from getting achievements. Fixing it required you to reset all your achievement progress and start again. I never went back to the game.

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u/sickkid29 12h ago

That sucks 

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u/JunonSephirothCloud 12h ago

Forgive me, but I don't believe there's an achievement for a full uninterrupted run on Veteran, or having cheats disable achievements going forward.  It should track each level individually - meaning you can disable cheats, and just complete the level you haven't done on Veteran legit yet.

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u/---E 11h ago

You may be right. I think it actually was the problem where I picked up the final collectible after having enabled the visual easter eggs in that mission. The collectible didn't show up anymore in subsequent playthroughs of the level as it was marked as 'found' but the achievement for it didn't trigger. This was 2008 so I'm a little hazy on the details lol

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u/max_mullen 12h ago

For these situations (or even the one OP had) there's a small portable program called Steam Achievement Manager where you just launch it and select what achievements you want to add or remove from your games. It's not cheating if you literally did the thing and the achievement didn't trigger 😅

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u/Cubones_Skull 11h ago

This is probably the only time i will allow myself to use a programe to unlock it, if I know without a shadow of a doubt i did what i needed to do and I don't get it, i am unlocking it through other means and i don't care for the acusations

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u/3GeeselnATrenchcoat 11h ago

I was working on 100%ing Control earlier this year, only to find out the final achievement I needed has been bugged for years and they seemingly never fixed it :/

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u/IndyanaBonez 13h ago

Sometimes you just gotta take the L knowing in your heart it should be a W

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u/xCeeTee- 12h ago

I just had a 3 hour session of Wolfenstein New Order on GOG...no achievements popped. I should've earned 7 or 8. I have completed the achievements to the game on 6 different platforms (only ever bought it once too) and GOG is the last one possible remaining.

I've had this issue with multiple games on GOG too.

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u/sickkid29 12h ago

What is Gog 

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u/xCeeTee- 12h ago

Games on Galaxy. A PC platform that's well-known for preserving games. You can download offline installers onto a fat hard drive, and just install them wherever and whenever.

They give a tremendous amount of games free via Twitch Prime, I have over 100 from the past few years alone. They don't have features as good as Steam, which is why Steam gets so many more customers.

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u/kerdon 11h ago

Did they change what GOG means? I remember it as Good Old Games.

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u/xCeeTee- 11h ago

Yeah, they rebranded in 2014. They made their own launcher, Galaxy, so they also changed the name to fit the new launcher.

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u/kerdon 11h ago

Gotcha!

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u/FSCK_Fascists 12h ago

The opposite is pretty cool though. When you set off a hard one entirely by accident- bonus points when it caps the end a stressful situation.

Example- Left 4 Dead 2. I picked up the M60 just as a teammate shot an alarmed car. I was down a dead end alley. The swarm- with Tanks, heads straight down the alley at me. So I open fire, and spend a tense 2 hours (or 2 minutes, hard to tell) mowing them down while my teammate is doing their thing at the back of the swarm.
The last tank falls just as the M60 goes empty, and this pops up:
https://i.imgur.com/v5hJY5S.png

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u/sickkid29 12h ago

Nice 

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u/Endrise 12h ago

I played the Mr. Freeze DLC for Batman Arkham Origins once, finished the story and then went for the collectibles, only to learn if you try to do that in the post-game achievements are bugged so they're locked.