the problem with most rewards in games is that once you unlock them theres nothing left to do because you had to do everything to get it unless its a multiplayer game
This x10. I wanna do the sekiro challenges but I already platinumed it so there's nothing I can really use it for :/ I feel like this is a problem among nearly every game when it comes to these brutal unlockables
Note: for dark souls 2 there are two difficult challenges, no dying and no resting on bonfire. complete both and you get two illusionary rings. one for left hand, and one for right hand
I've never had the drive to play on the hardest difficulty for most games unless it adds new mechanics. I'll play fallout 4 on survival difficulty because I love the added challenge of needs management, no autosave/fast travel, and illness, but if the game just nerfs you and buffs enemies with no other new things, I've just never cared about playing on high difficulties.
CoD WAW not only nerfs you and buffs the enemy, it gives the enemy infinite grenades with infinite range. same with the other first 3 CoDs edit: it also gives the enemy 600,000,000x accuracy, but that’s not to special from the other cods on veteran.
@@AlqhemyA Oh man that took me back, storming the Reichstag was the most nerve-racking thing I think I've ever done in a game. You couldn't stand still for a second without a literal ring of grenades landing around you.
New mechanics is all well in good but the real drive to play harder difficulties is a reason to use the existing mechanics in the first place, lol. Normal mode in most games is so easy you barely have to use half the features of the game to beat it.
Totally agree, my favorite example is Sonny 2. Playing on max difficult also enables The Legend run, which is a completely different experience and I loved it.
Big boss emblem in mgs4. The pinnacle of my gaming achievement lol. Beat the game on hardest difficulty, no deaths, no alerts, no killing and do it under 5 hours. Good times.
While still an impressive feat, MGS4 is by far the easiest MGS to get big boss on, having unlimited saves and getting life replenished after certain events throughout the game makes it significantly easier than any other MGS game.
Beating a game on "Impossible" to unlock an award to make the game easy on a 2nd playthrough always seemed pointless to me. Once I beat a game I rarely want to do a 2nd playthrough making the item pointless.
same here Smoking Man... i only play games over and over if they are FUN to play several times instead of impossibly hard and frustrating the first time and then it's suddenly close to easy mode.. where's the fun in that ?
@@snakefriesia6808 The only game I can recall trying to get something for a 2nd playthrough was Resident Evil 2 back in the day by doing a Speed run with no saves. But back then I was a kid and games were hard to come by so you just played them over and over.
Lufia 2 on the SNES rewarded you for just beating it with something like that. It had a mock NG+ that put a star on a save file with it. It didn't carry over anything but increased EXP and Gold earned in battle by 4x! They really wanted you to just replay it.
The point of OP items is actually to give you the ability to just mess around in-game. It’s like unlocking a “sandbox mode” that makes the game easier as a means for the player to identify and discover all the little things and quirks of a game that may have been overlooked due to focusing on the difficulty of the things that directly affect you in game.
HOLLOW KNIGHT YEAHHHHHH. Players can get the weathered mask if they beat the pantheon of Hallownest with every binding. Spent many tens of hours working on it.
There's also the 3rd version of the Void Idol that you get for beating every boss on the Radiant difficulty in the Hall of Gods and then inspecting the Void given Focus statue. I'm currently working on it as I got all the bosses on Ascended but I'm not really lloking forward to facing Markoth and Zote with no room for error... Even Absolute Radiance seems more doable
@@Aenorial for me, Absrad was hardest the first time, with Markoth and oblobbles being 2nd and 3rd. Second time, Absrad was easiest of the 3 and Markoth was the hardest
For me, one of the hardest things to get (which I somehow managed myself) was the platinum icon on Rock Band 2, which you got for beating the endless setlist on expert difficulty without taking a break. That's over 6 hours of some insanely difficult songs, and if you failed ONE song, you had to redo the entire thing, AND you couldn't pause the game!
@@Obi-Swgoh damnnnn bro I couldn’t even try that shit.. just accidentally one time checking your phone to see how much time you have or something. You should at least be able to pause for like a total of 10 mins or some shit like that. That’s totally insane whoever’s done that props to yall
@@shadechylde3790 Knowing that I'm safe in the knowledge I'm not trying to compare a video game to a real life instrument. I don't know who you're trying to impress, but it isn't me!
They was an armor, Helioskrill, in Halo 5 that you couldn't unlock in that game. You had to beat Halo MCC's four original campaigns on legendary to unlock it. They have since added it to the RNG "REQ Packs". That was a punch to the gut from 343i as someone who earned it after days of angry grinding through the Jackal Snipers in H2 and Knights in H4 to see someone who basically gambled and has the same armor.
just to add more to the Dark Souls 2 one. On top of beating the game without dying, if you also beat the beat WITHOUT sitting in a bonfire, you'll also get a 2nd ring of illusion. Each ring makes each hand an invisible weapon
the not resting one is arguably easier, because you can still die, you just start from the beginning again, and with the limited enemy spawns you can just whittle your way through the map and only ever really have to worry about bosses
I remember beating the 17 bosses Boss Rush in Sekiro, it takes an enormous amount of time and it even tells you before you start that you wont get any rewards for completing it. But beating it feels like you've mastered the game.
@@robertyocum7200 I think you have to unlock the related endings. So immortal Severance, Immortal Severance version 2, Path of Shura and Dragon's Homecoming. I envy your fresh journey, have a ball bruh
To get that you have to complete all the others boss rushes with each respective inner boss: genichiro, owl and isshin. I am not sure if there is any other requirement, but i got it yesterday after doing that
I remember beating GoW2 on Titan mode when I was in my teens. It was the only thing I could play on the PS2 at the time. I remember spending so much more time on Theseues a lot more than Zeus. On Zeus I spent about an hour or less, but Theseus cost me around 6-8 hours. I did it not because of the Hercules costume but for Athena's. I was curious if the voice would change. At the time, videogames and TH-cam wasn't as much of a thing as it is now, and if I'm not mistaken Yahoo was bigger than Google. I was naïve back then.
Beat Deadspace 1 on hardcore AND did the only use Plasma Cutter challenge at the same time, which honestly kind of helped, I think. Loved that series, only 360 game I got all achievements for.
Deadspace is a fairly easy game tho, takes most people 3 days to get every achievement for it, I unlocked the "complete the game on any difficulty" achievement on the 9th of Jun 18 2:08 PM and unlocked both the "completed on hardest difficulty" and "plasma cutter only" on the 10th of Jun 18 4:00 PM.
@@takeitorfuckyou Hey good for you bud! 😄No one here said it was hard or took long, and my comment wasn't about either of those points. Really cool how you remember the exact dates and times you got the achievements for a game that came out in 2008, down to the minute even! Like whoa!!! I honestly think achievements are a wasted of time, but I liked the game enough to get them all, over the course of maybe a year. YIKES right, a whole year, it's almost like it wasn't to impress anyone and was just for myself because I loved the game. Congrats though, very edgelord.
The halo 3 hayabusa Armor really lost it's worth once they brought the DLC achievements out. to unlock it you needed 1000 total achievement point things which originally was every achievement in the game but once the DLC achievements came out you could basically skip all the difficult ones and get 1000 score pretty easily. so eventually everyone and their dog had it. then it lost even more value once the MCC came out. I still remember been bitter about that :D
Definitely was fun at the time back then though, as a middle school assignment they asked us what achievements we where proud of and I put, that I got all Halo 3 achievements. I had all the armor and it was a great feeling, hopefully infinite will have something for beating on legendary.
For Horizon: Zero Dawn you can still unlock the face paints if you play a New Game +. This allows you to have all the weapons and outfits unlocked from the start of the game as long as you got them in your previous playthrough. It makes it much easier.
I m much of a begginer (i mean, monster hunter world is really difficult for me), and just like you said i got the face paints with the ng+ on ultra hard, and i can't say i really struggled to get it (the one thing i had to redo a few times was the fight against Helis (main villan warrior)). So i guess this isn't much of an achievement for seasoned gamers
Most people just want to play the game not try to get through insane challenges that would make us quit and play something else (like I did near the end of Sekiro after trying for 48 hours to beat the goddamn father boss that's optional in the past lol). The f****** game itself is a challenge, you have to block everything just perfect...
I have gotten the ones from Halo 3, Dark Souls 2, and Dead Space 2, and every time I did, I immediately quit those games and never played them again... The rewards may be useful, but by the time you get them you are so burned out you never want to play them again. Maybe they should make it so you unlock a new mechanic to the game, something that makes you want to play even more...
Only one on this list I've managed was the Uncharted golden AK And NO IT WAS NOT WORTH IT The struggle was fun until about halfway...then the enemies just get super annoying
@@magicpyroninja ive done it aswell and its way more enjoyable to just use a standard pistol imo Each year i come back to uncharted for a crushing run of uncharted 2 and 3
I knew it wouldn’t be on this list but I feel the Tzkal slayer helmet from Old School RuneScape is worthy of the list as it is super difficult to obtain. I requires completing all of the Grandmaster Combat Achievements requiring a lot of skill, game knowledge, and of course time…. Of course you’re not just unlocking a cosmetic appearance for a helmet, you are unlocking the right to flex on everyone else.
@@jorgebermudez1019 right? But I wouldn't say any of that is difficult necessarily just Uber time consuming and fuck that I've been playing for 16 years and never cared to go for it. I mean I play rs3 but.
Loved that Hayabusa armor. So glad I took the time to get it in H3. I hope infinite makes some changes with customization. Every other Halo was filled with so much customization . Now it just sucks to load into Halo and see such little difference in each Spartan.
To be fair that's usually the case when the game launches. Games like 3 and 4 start you off with the "default" set before you start unlocking things slowly. Infinite's actual customization isnt bad, its just REALLY slow to start unlocking anything of notice. So much that most people are going to look the same right now. Give it a month or so, and I net we'll see a LOT more diverse spartans
@@CumeronThomas lemme rephrase: Just because it isnt awful (IMO) it is FARRRR from good. Coatings are still the worst decision, armor cores have almost no use, and locking customization not only behind a paywall but ALSO both those restrictions blows my damn mind. I doubt the game will stay like this in a year, but daaaammnnn is this an awful first impression lol
@@SackMan039 I would blame 343 but Bungie has been shifting over to that with Destiny for awhile now too... I miss when games would give you sweet skins and armors by just doing cool challenges like getting the Hayabusa armor. Maybe the campaign will have skulls and secrets like the old days, I sure hope so
@@SackMan039 nah Halo Infinite's microtransactions blow and is a big step down from the vast armor customization in Halo Reach where you didn't need to spend real life money to unlock a coat of armor color.
For the record, the hardest achievement to get on Halo 3 ( for me) was the double kill with one spartan laser shot. Just getting a Spartan laser was a challenge, because everybody wanted it on the few maps it spawned in. Then you had to find two enemy Spartans fighting and somehow manage to time it just right so you killed both of them. It sounded so easy to me when I first read it....
It can be hard if you put it that way, but what about just playing on a bigger map with lots of vehicles? Sometimes you get triple kills for hitting a warthog
@@stevenwiegand2611 the only maps it spawned in had no vehicles. I remember it taking several days to get this achievement, and it was the last one I needed for the Hayabusa armor. It was worth every second.
The beautiful thing about hard mode in sekiro, no Kuros charm, isn't just increased damage. It actually requires improved mechanics because you can't block anymore without taking damage from it. This is much better than games that just increase difficulty by increasing damage taken. That is just tedious
Some more I thought of while watching: 1. The wigs in MGS2. I couldn’t even beat the first boss, Olga, on the hardest difficulty. I just couldn’t aim fast enough. 2. The trophy for beating Mass Effect 2 on insanity. I did actually do this one, and all I have to say is: insanity is a fitting name, because it absolutely was. 3. God of War (2018) Beating the Valkyries on Give Me God of War difficulty. I couldn’t even finish the first area on that difficulty. 🤣 4. The platinum trophy for Dirt Rally. (Not Rally 2.0) This is the hardest racing game I’ve ever played. It’s very sim-heavy, and it’s almost impossible to drive well on a controller. You need a wheel to even have a chance of making any progress. It might actually be easier to rally race in real life!! 5. All gold medals for all the licenses in Gran Turismo 6. Most all them are doable with practice, but there are two tests in the super license that are incredibly strict. S4 & S5 You must drive perfectly on S4, because the time is so tight. Then for S5 the time isn’t the problem, it’s just controlling your incredibly heavy Bugatti Veyron so it stays on track. It’s a long course and if a single pixel of your car touches the grass or a wall, you instantly fail and have to start over from the beginning. Another game where a wheel is almost a requirement.
I'm currently playing Mass Effect 2 LE on Insanity as a Male Infiltrator, working on side missions before going after the last two missions before the end, and I did beat God of War '18 on that exact difficulty, though I didn't bother trying to go after all of the Valkyries. The one thing I had going for me in both games was that my playthroughs are NG+ runs.
Recon armour was much harder to obtain than Hayabusa armour in the original halo 3, required 7 achievements. 3 of those in a different game, and one of those achievements you could only get one day a year. Still my greatest gaming achievement 🏆
I was 5/7 when they gave it to everyone. While it does REALLY cheapen it for everyone who had it before, I was glad I didn't have to grind multiplayer wins for VidMaster: Lightswitch anymore.
Skelly's trophies and the hidden aspects in Hades are some of my favorites. Not too hard to get until you realize you need at least 25 titan's blood to even have a shot at unlocking them and THEN having to talk to the right person. It's super worth it if only because some of the hidden aspects are really fun i.e. Aspect of Arthur and Aspect of Lucifer
Totally agree! I usually do a short one after the breakfast and before my work time, just for fun And I not even started my second run, addicted to gauntlets and reflections
@@batinimagus for real, Sekiro's combat was so addictive that i honestly hoped they'd keep on adding challenges with different rewards just so i could fight bosses again and again. Played and completed the game 8 times in total and got every trophy and ending but i would always try to find a way to come back to it just because of the combat whether that was modding it or setting challenges myself lol.
@@cosmicbilly Its not just an opinion. Its FACT. EOD and Hayabusa were PRE-SCHOOL compared to the Vidmaster Challenges! It took me actual months to get them, and that's mostly because I had to collect team-mates reasonably GOOD at the game to actually win! If I could've relied only on myself then I would've had Recon a lot sooner! Vidmasters are DEFINITELY harder, that's an objective fact! No room for opinion.
@@MurakumoVanceomg yeah! lol i remember me and my buddy were on a mission to get recon armor but he went to bed and i stayed up all night and managed to do it by myself and got lucky with a good team... But then i had to do it all a SECOND time to help my friend get recon too cause i got it while he was away... that shit was so hard but so worth it! I remember how mystical the recon helmet was back in the day when only bungie employees had it and they had a flame on their heads... and it was so extremely rare to see one in matchmaking... years later they finally let us have it... but at a price. One of the most rewarding achievements ive ever done.
I remember finishing the "Total Pandemonium" den in Muramasa: The demon blade. The reward is actually worth the hassle, I cannot imagine doing this one in Shigurui mode where you only have 1hp....I bet very very few people have ever managed that.
Watching this video reminded me of a guy who played and finished all the dark souls (including Bloodborne I think) without getting hit once, everytime he did he had to restart the game. Now that's real commitment right there
Boss rush modes are always amazing at beating the confidence out of players who just beat bosses in the story mode. It basically tells the player that they never beat the bosses in story mode completely, they just got lucky each time and cannot do it again without losing again, lol.
hell yeah! I remember being so proud getting the Hercules skin for Kratos and finishing VERY challenges in both games. also the most dumbest thing I've experienced is with the first LOU, finished the game on hardest diffuculty and got no trophy, nothing on new game+ :')
I remember feeling so proud completing MGS2 on the European Extreme difficulty. The sequence when Solidus strangles you almost made me brake my own hands ;P
Nothing is more humbling than invading someone that seems new to DS2 only to get hit by their long sword *and also the invisible +5 Fume Ultra Greatsword*
I remember supporting my bro thru the boss rush in sekiro, I was on deck rolling blunts to smoke after every heart crushing defeat. He got all the skins tho, took him like 2 days 🤣
I consider myself an average level player, and I kept at it until I finally got the Shura outfit. It took a whole lot of emotional suffering though to get through the last boss.
In the old Game Cube version, of call of duty. You unlocked really awesome cheats. Though, later I found out,that I didn’t have to play the entire story to unlock the cheats. Just the last level on the hardest difficulty. Which made me realize, I didn’t have to go nuts. But hey. I earned those things. The cheats were both hilarious and great. One of the cheats shrank both enemies and friends, while making others huge too. It was great. Plus, their hit boxes either shrank or increased with them. I miss back when Games were more creative, and didn’t need patches.
I was so happy when I unlocked the Handcannon. I spent a whole weekend going for it and probably replayed the intro a dozen times. I did nothing but upgrade the assault rifle and statis but damn it if the worse parts of the challenge were the environmental deaths. It was worth it for the Plat and hearing Isaac go pew pew 😆
Getting the 3 final bosses for the second ending cutscene for each character in the original Bushido Blade was a task Required using a specific weapon with each character, running through several zone walls to jump down a well, all without being hit. Finally, you had to defeat three special bosses, all of whom functionally cheat, still without being hit.
"Super" mode skins in any Devil May Cry game by beating all the difficulty modes. One of which puts the enemies at the second to highest difficulty (but still gives them an "enrage timer" devil trigger) and you also die in one hit. The Super mode skins are not just aesthetic, but also grant infinite Devil Trigger.
Hell and Hell mode in DMC3. All I'm going to stay about that mode is Leviathan stomach acid. Provided one can get that far. I couldn't but I've beaten Heaven and Hell mode where enemies also die in one hit and the acid gets me in that every time.
I just unlocked the Tengu and Shura outfits today and holy shit, my heart was still rushing like crazy after beating Inner Isshin. Getting the Shura outfit is pretty easy though
In the beginning of *Matrix: Path of Neo* ; After you take the red pill, you'll be taken to a dream lobby where you fight a series of enemies. If you manage to reach the end and beat Agent Smith, you get to play on The One difficulty. Failure means that you only get to play on lower difficulties.
In Halo 4 you get a REALLY COOL cutscene at the end if you beat it on legendary. I play every Halo on legendary from the start, and getting that cutscene at the end was totally unexpected and amazing.
The Katana requirements you mentioned in Halo 3 are incorrect. When they added more achievements, all you need to do now is unlock at least 49 achievements and have at least 1000gs from them. It was significantly easier to get after the map packs and new achievements. The one that’s borderline impossible now was the Recon armor in Halo 3 because of the weird community achievements.
I remember putting in serious hard work to get both at the time. I would wear the recon armor with the katana and get compliments online all the time. You really felt like you were a special class of player wearing that elite stuff, lol.
I personally really liked unlocking the 2 special lenses in Fatal Frame 2. Finishing it under 3 hours and on nightmare mode is certainly not the MOST difficult thing to do, but the reward is still truely satisfying. Makes you pretty much unstoppable :D Some rewards in some games are so not worth it though...
To this day, beating Halo 3 on legendary with my 3 closest friends while collecting every skull on launch day is *my greatest gaming achievement* period
The thing with Halo 3's Hayabusa armor was that there was a second version with a katana on the back that was only unlocked after reaching ranked 50 in the multi-player. I remember at that time people were selling Xbox profiles with ranked 50.
My tip for her horizon Zero Dawn: speedrun your way to the frozen wild DLC and find as much blue gleam as possible. It's really hard to do because of all those super OP enemies, but get enough blue gleam and you can buy the Nora stealth armor. That's how I've been getting my way through ultra hard.
Ah Sekiro, favorite game, the best single player game of the last 5 years imo. However, idk how anybody ever beat those Boss gauntlets. Beat Ishiin, Demon of Hatred, and Owl back-to-back no deaths? That's INSANE. Only God-level gamers are capable of that.
Great video. Also worth mentioning the Impossible mode on I Wanna Be The Guy and doing all cartridges with their achiviements in "The end is Nigh". Those are not an easy feat.
7:02 There’s greater hell than Embrace the Void. If you give the Godseeker a flower during the flower quest before playing through Pantheon 5, you get the 5th ending
@@LobsterPuncher gotta know when to run away 😂 Head straight to Trevelyan, and aim for his head as much as you can, and he’ll run straight to the bottom.
I love playing games on the hardest. If you start on the hardest you don't realize how difficult it truly is bcuz it's as if it's the only way to play. It's not always fun though lol.
I would like to say another thing with the dark souls 2 mention: There is another ring that they did not talk about called the illusory ring of the exalted, which in my opinion is better, although much easier to obtain. To get it you have to beat the game without *resting* at any bonfires, although you can *light* the bonfire. The illusory ring of the exalted makes it so your right hand weapon, or in other words, your main hand weapon, is invisible, meaning if you are using a lighter weapon, you can make it look like you aren't wielding anything. The real challenge that people do though, is getting both rings in a single run, which requires you to not die, but also, 1. only use melee weapons, and maybe a bow every once in a while, because magic is entirely tied to resting at a bonfire. If you do not rest at a bonfire, you do not refill magic, and cannot set a different spell. 2. you have to rely on secondary forms of healing, as the "main" heal in dark souls games only refills at bonfires, although ds2 added some items that can kind of break the balance by making you carry up to 99 of multiple healing items at a time. And 3. Unless you decide to go to a rather annoying area to NOT die in as a melee player, you have to constantly worry about your weapons breaking, as bonfires are used to repair weapons before they fully break, and blacksmiths are used otherwise. TL;DR, ds2 has some stupid stuff, that requires a lot of effort to get, in what a lot of people consider to be a bad game (although personally after playing most of it, i find it better than i was led to believe. Still not my favorite game of all time though), and thanks for reading
Yeah but you can prepare in a previous run. As you can go this in NG+1 and the enemies aren't too much worse. And just stock up on repair powder, lifegems, arrows, and the magic recovery items.
Blacksmith powder will solve the repair issue, healing items that you can buy at vendors will solve the healing problem, you can have magic if you start as a mage - cleric class since they get basic magic but thats it , no more magic for you, use items to restore magic charges in case, collect souls if you'd rather avoid a certain boss to bypass directly to the castle . You can upgrade, you can get items, you might have an issue with npcs not appearing tho, since i think once dialogue is exhausted you rest at bonfire and they relocate, but no bonfire resting so no relocating. mostly talking about the stairs guy for the grave of saints. It's Defenitely a big challenge, but Ds2 does make it possible due to how the game is made. Certnanly its a pain in the buttocks to run back and forth, but if you havent died, there will be no enemies around since they dont respawn unless you rest. i have to ask tho, can you use the bonfire that is at the end of the primordial soul bosses or not even that one ? like the lost sinner etcetera . the one that brings you back to Majula.
@@marcolaudani2851 I think with npcs you can reset the game, i.e. quit out and reload, and they will go to majula, also you can "rest" at the primal bonfires iirc, which just take you back to majula, but don't work anything else like normal bonfires. Also, idk if there are enough souls to bypass any bosses without resets, although i might be wrong.
Hitting inherititer rank in halo reach and getting the skull helmet definitely deserves a spot. You saw someone with that in your match you knew you were probably gonna get shit on.
Me not having played most of the games on this list: *oh yea this sounds like it'd be a challenge, though most just sound like you can do it with just enough time and practice* Sees Halo armor: *wait, that's how I got that?! I didn't even know that was hard to get*
Another fun one is the gold crown in Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix. This probably slipped by the radar because the final mix wasn't avaliable outside of Japan until the ps4 bundles. But in order to get it you must defeat 14 of the hardest bosses in the entire series, 5 of these bosses can only be unlocked by beat 5 different optional bosses that are relatively difficult, and one of the 14 bosses required for the crown is considered the hardest boss in the game, and to many the whole series. For a series that includes super hard hidden bosses in every game these ones are brutal.
@@letseat352 Sephiroth can't even hold a candle to lingering will. If you wait to fight him at an appropriate level he's not even that hard. Lingering Will on the other hand. I was max level and managed to survive in the fight for what felt like 10 minutes before dying having not landed a single hit.
Ah yeah. Bronze crown: beat all XIII challenges. Easy. Silver crown: beat data organization XIII. Ah. True gamer challenge :^) Golden crown: beat lingering spirit. Mama, am I masochist?
I have actually beat infinite warfare on the specialist difficulty, tried to do Yolo but the farthest I ever got was like the second mission? Shit was ridiculous
I was also doing on Specialist difficulty. Needless to say, I got stuck cuz my dumbass decided to do that Jackal mission next to the sun. Which good god I couldnt complete. Dropped it.
I considered Halo3's Legendary Hyabusa armor fairly easy. It took forever, but I got it. The REALLY Difficult Legendary armor to get was Halo5's Legendary Heliskrill armor. This armor required you to beat Halo CE, Halo2, & Halo3 on Solo Legendary in MCC. But without skulls on. Considering I did this for fun, in the original games, I had no issue going for it again in MCC. The real issue was a random glitch that would not allow the armor to unlock. A glitch I, at the time, did not know existed. So I assumed I read the rules wrong. And thus I went after Halo5's, Halo Reach's, Halo ODST's, AND Halo4's Solo Legendary runs. I completed ALL OF THEM (See My Achievements For Proof), and the armor STILL did not unlock! I didn't learn it was a glitch until I complained about it on Twatter! It literally took FIVE FREAKING YEARS for my Heliskrill armor armor to finally unlock. But by then, the idiots at 343 placed the armor as random REQ Pack armor. Making ALL of my hard work and waiting COMPLETELY POINTLESS! It was the closet you could get to slapping a customer in the face without literally doing so. And thus, I refuse to buy Halo Infinite. I'll just play it via GamePass and call it a day.
Not being able to bring it to online play, makes it not worth it. I don’t know about you, but I like seeing players with ridiculous gear, and knowing they worked there azz off for it. Thanks for another great video.
The nostalgia you gave me of loading up a game of Halo 3 multiplayer as a kid with the full set of Hayabusa with the katana you felt like a god among mortals lol.
Specialist Mode on Cod Infinite Warfare was amazing Campaign mode with the Helmet/Limb damage mechanics. it really throws out the standard COD 'run n gun' Campaign style for a more methodical and careful one without losing the action.
i'd personally say that the land of the storms from hollow kinght is more difficult to get than the embrace the void, where you have to do all the pantheon with all the bindings which are debuffs and significant ones at that
I managed to get the ending, but I have long accepted I am not skilled enough to get to the Land of Storms. I actually did all bindings on the first 4 pantheon but the Pantheon of Hallownest is completely insane. Just getting the ending is good enough for me.
you get the weathered mask which is basically permanent proof since its in your journal and not just a screenshot of the land of storms. I can proudly say I got it after more than 8 months of just playing it in my free time. I did soul and shell at the same time and shell and charm seperately (charm was by far the hardest for me)
RE 4 Remake Cat Ears, unlock by beating Professional Mode in 5 hours and 30 minutes, which stupidly difficult, but if you pull it off you get an acessory that grants you unlimited ammo for all your guns when equipped.
getting the one down mask in payday 2 was one of the more difficult challenges for me from the sheer amount of heists you have to do on the hardest difficulty
Honestly I don't think it belongs here. I love Isaac, it's one of my favorite games along with Hollow Knight, but the ability to get game breaking item combinations make completing runs trivial in some cases. It's such an amazing game, but I wouldn't classify it as the pinnacle of gaming skill required to complete.
@@lunarjellyfish5538 that’s like the whole genre of rougelikes/lites. And even with amazing luck, you can still very easily lose an issac run. Especially on the, now second, easiest character to die on. Having good stuff doesn’t mean you have good skill
basically crank all enemy stats up by 2000% and call it highest difficulty, that is just lazy and the worst is you expect people to just appreciate and play it like it is a "challenge"
In the Binding of Isaac you can get an achievement called 3.000.000% were you have to do literally everything in the game for all the 3 different save slots, which is pure pain
Unlocking the Extra Characters on Super Smash Bros., where you had to practically speed-run the whole main campaign, bonus stages and all. That means fighting your opponents, breaking the targets, boarding the platforms, racing to the finish, and defeating the Master Hand within a certain amount of time, and THEN you had to defeat your opponent to unlock them.
Halo 2/3 LASO is still the hardest thing I've ever done with my friends. Personally, I don't think Legendary difficulty is all that hard. But LASO... Bro, we almost ruined friendships and multiple fights broke out that almost got physical lol
its worth mentioning, when halo 3 added achievements with dlc you only had to get the original total of i think 50 achievements to unlock the katana for busa
finishing pantheon 5 on hollow knight required you to be very very very skilled. this was the best achievement ive gotten so far. and it actually injured my thumb. next would be black ops 3 simulation on realistic mode.
To note the difficulty of halo 3's legendary mode I finished halo reach's after a slog, not that bad but took ages. Then attempted halo 3 and..... Goddamn the first levels were as difficult as halo reach's mid game and I could only get half-way through before admitting defeat. Maybe one day I'll try again with all skulls on but not today.
It legit took me an hour to get past one section of the very first level of Halo 4 on Legendary. I stuck to MP after that, never went back to finish the campaign.
the trinity bonuses for the ghostship and ghostship chaos, from the resident evil revelations is kinda tough too, imagine not being hit by 435 enemies, with different speed and attacks, dogs come out in bunches, there are invisible enemies. but since the internet is convinient, it can actually make it look easy, but its really hard.
I was expecting Recon armor for Halo 3. If you earned all the 'Vidmaster Challenge' achievements in H3, H3:ODST and Reach you'd unlock the armor in Halo 3. This was THE armor everybody wanted, as it used to be for Bungie-employees only. It was also the hardest to get. Those were the times.
Whatever you win for beating the Dark aeons in FFX should be on this list. Or beating Penance from the monsters arena, whichever is impossible without putting HELLLLLA hours into the game. Ive put over 100 hours in it and I barely beat Dark Valefor! The first Aeon lolol. I still can't attempt fighting Penance because I still can't come close to beating the 10 monsters before Penance. I would need another 200 hours just to be able to fight Penance and actually attempt to it. Penance
I'd say the minigames are leagues harder than the dark aeons and penance, and like you said the method to even get strong enough to fight them is horrible. That's why I edited a save to have all monsters captured, and nodes filled to eliminate sphere grinding.
Honestly once the dark aeons are down Penance is an absolute joke. Sure the fight takes about 45 minutes but once you get set up with the right armor abilities, celestial weapons and Rikku's mixtures at the beginning it's just a rinse and repeat fight. Dark Anima was harder. Dark Bahamut is the best fight in the game IMO
What about the fabled “black camo” in planetside 2? This is insanely tough to get and most people result to cheats or alt acounts to grind! Edit: if you make a multiplayer only version of this video idea, be sure to include this!
Arkham Knight gold armor: beat the game once on any difficulty with 120% completion, beat the game again in new game+ on hardest difficulty to earn 240% completion, do all riddler challenges, trials, trophies, fights, and riddles, face waves of enemies as Azrael where you die if you get hit even one time with no threat indicator, and all you get is the default bat suit with a golden bat symbol. Not the hardest, not the easiest, still worth mentioning.
The trick to Dead Space 2 is to play the Xbox 360 version that has two discs. The disc swap acts as a makeshift checkpoint. I played through the first disc without dying and then died doing something dumb in the next chapter on the second disc and thought I had to start all over again because I hadn't used any saves up to that point, but then the game just puts me at the start of the second disc and I was forever grateful. Also, another trick is to have the DLC stuff in the game. There's some suits and improved weapons and a secret room only accessable thanks to the DLC. You just need to be able to survive to the first shop with the base stuff.
the problem with most rewards in games is that once you unlock them theres nothing left to do because you had to do everything to get it unless its a multiplayer game
Seriously I hate that s***, how hard is it to give you all the rewards in the game before you do like the last mission or two?
This x10. I wanna do the sekiro challenges but I already platinumed it so there's nothing I can really use it for :/ I feel like this is a problem among nearly every game when it comes to these brutal unlockables
except for the DS one
Agreed this is my frustration as well. I really felt this in the riddler challenges in Arkham knight getting the gold bat suit
@@cameronhetzler5407 pretty much.
Not getting your reward for never dying in Dark Souls because you skipped the credits is the most Dark Souls thing ever.
pretty much yes
are you for real? if have sued for hate crimes
That kind of makes the end credits the actual final boss.
True
How long are the credits? Because that was snails pace of what was shown in the video.
Note: for dark souls 2 there are two difficult challenges, no dying and no resting on bonfire. complete both and you get two illusionary rings. one for left hand, and one for right hand
Basically enemies can't see shiit on either hands? Only to be fucked via both?
Soapimie Yes, this ring makes your weapon completely invinsible
killing people in pvp with invisible grand lance is the funniest shit ever
@@soapimie2665 it has no effect on the enemies.. only useful in PvP and even then a skilled player will guess your weapon from your animations
@@tomjones6347 no , he was like , the enemy can't see what's in your hands , so .. the enemy probably has a hard time dealing with that
I've never had the drive to play on the hardest difficulty for most games unless it adds new mechanics. I'll play fallout 4 on survival difficulty because I love the added challenge of needs management, no autosave/fast travel, and illness, but if the game just nerfs you and buffs enemies with no other new things, I've just never cared about playing on high difficulties.
CoD WAW not only nerfs you and buffs the enemy, it gives the enemy infinite grenades with infinite range. same with the other first 3 CoDs
edit: it also gives the enemy 600,000,000x accuracy, but that’s not to special from the other cods on veteran.
@@AlqhemyA Oh man that took me back, storming the Reichstag was the most nerve-racking thing I think I've ever done in a game. You couldn't stand still for a second without a literal ring of grenades landing around you.
New mechanics is all well in good but the real drive to play harder difficulties is a reason to use the existing mechanics in the first place, lol.
Normal mode in most games is so easy you barely have to use half the features of the game to beat it.
I call that "The division" cause man that game got dumb when facing higher difficulty enemies becoming bullet sponges 🤣🤣
Totally agree, my favorite example is Sonny 2. Playing on max difficult also enables The Legend run, which is a completely different experience and I loved it.
Big boss emblem in mgs4. The pinnacle of my gaming achievement lol. Beat the game on hardest difficulty, no deaths, no alerts, no killing and do it under 5 hours. Good times.
and no health and special items like the bandana
While still an impressive feat, MGS4 is by far the easiest MGS to get big boss on, having unlimited saves and getting life replenished after certain events throughout the game makes it significantly easier than any other MGS game.
4 controllers later and totally worth it
I don't even think they had trophies, just in game trophies. Ouch
@@joeschmoe7099 it will be in my heart and external hard drive until the day I die.
Beating a game on "Impossible" to unlock an award to make the game easy on a 2nd playthrough always seemed pointless to me. Once I beat a game I rarely want to do a 2nd playthrough making the item pointless.
same here Smoking Man... i only play games over and over if they are FUN to play several times instead of impossibly hard and frustrating the first time and then it's suddenly close to easy mode.. where's the fun in that ?
@@snakefriesia6808 The only game I can recall trying to get something for a 2nd playthrough was Resident Evil 2 back in the day by doing a Speed run with no saves. But back then I was a kid and games were hard to come by so you just played them over and over.
That's why replayability is a huge factor
Lufia 2 on the SNES rewarded you for just beating it with something like that. It had a mock NG+ that put a star on a save file with it. It didn't carry over anything but increased EXP and Gold earned in battle by 4x! They really wanted you to just replay it.
The point of OP items is actually to give you the ability to just mess around in-game. It’s like unlocking a “sandbox mode” that makes the game easier as a means for the player to identify and discover all the little things and quirks of a game that may have been overlooked due to focusing on the difficulty of the things that directly affect you in game.
HOLLOW KNIGHT YEAHHHHHH. Players can get the weathered mask if they beat the pantheon of Hallownest with every binding. Spent many tens of hours working on it.
Congrats! Its super hard to do it, im missing one binding to get it, one would assume it gets easier, it doesn't by a lot lol
I got it only cause covid gave me the time too lol
There's also the 3rd version of the Void Idol that you get for beating every boss on the Radiant difficulty in the Hall of Gods and then inspecting the Void given Focus statue. I'm currently working on it as I got all the bosses on Ascended but I'm not really lloking forward to facing Markoth and Zote with no room for error... Even Absolute Radiance seems more doable
@@Aenorial for me, Absrad was hardest the first time, with Markoth and oblobbles being 2nd and 3rd. Second time, Absrad was easiest of the 3 and Markoth was the hardest
That's insane
For me, one of the hardest things to get (which I somehow managed myself) was the platinum icon on Rock Band 2, which you got for beating the endless setlist on expert difficulty without taking a break. That's over 6 hours of some insanely difficult songs, and if you failed ONE song, you had to redo the entire thing, AND you couldn't pause the game!
I remember attempting this and maybe and hour or 2 in I slipped and paused the game... Never bothered to try again
That’s torture
@@Obi-Swgoh damnnnn bro I couldn’t even try that shit.. just accidentally one time checking your phone to see how much time you have or something. You should at least be able to pause for like a total of 10 mins or some shit like that. That’s totally insane whoever’s done that props to yall
@@shadechylde3790 Knowing that I'm safe in the knowledge I'm not trying to compare a video game to a real life instrument. I don't know who you're trying to impress, but it isn't me!
@@shadechylde3790 Peak cringe guy, peak cringe.
They was an armor, Helioskrill, in Halo 5 that you couldn't unlock in that game. You had to beat Halo MCC's four original campaigns on legendary to unlock it. They have since added it to the RNG "REQ Packs". That was a punch to the gut from 343i as someone who earned it after days of angry grinding through the Jackal Snipers in H2 and Knights in H4 to see someone who basically gambled and has the same armor.
Sounds like something 343 would do
Either I’m super skilled, or Horizon Ultra Hard was not very, well, hard.
just to add more to the Dark Souls 2 one. On top of beating the game without dying, if you also beat the beat WITHOUT sitting in a bonfire, you'll also get a 2nd ring of illusion. Each ring makes each hand an invisible weapon
Note: You do not have to do both of these at once to get the rings.
@@Mustacheoro But if you do its probably the most difficult challenge on this list
@@olegkijko7785 you can do it in ng+
the not resting one is arguably easier, because you can still die, you just start from the beginning again, and with the limited enemy spawns you can just whittle your way through the map and only ever really have to worry about bosses
@@Mustacheoro Yeah but it's actually easier doing both. I did both at the same time, and even without using estus.
I remember beating the 17 bosses Boss Rush in Sekiro, it takes an enormous amount of time and it even tells you before you start that you wont get any rewards for completing it.
But beating it feels like you've mastered the game.
How do you unlock that? I've just beaten the game for the second time, and only have 2 of those boss rushes, neither of which are nearly as long.
@@robertyocum7200 I think you have to unlock the related endings. So immortal Severance, Immortal Severance version 2, Path of Shura and Dragon's Homecoming. I envy your fresh journey, have a ball bruh
@@B0ULLIE wait theres more than just the two endings you get from the choice you make with daddy dearest? That's news to me lmao
@@robertyocum7200 ROBERTOOOO
To get that you have to complete all the others boss rushes with each respective inner boss: genichiro, owl and isshin.
I am not sure if there is any other requirement, but i got it yesterday after doing that
Brutal difficulty was actually pretty balanced. Balancing pain and suffering worked pretty well.
I remember beating GoW2 on Titan mode when I was in my teens. It was the only thing I could play on the PS2 at the time. I remember spending so much more time on Theseues a lot more than Zeus. On Zeus I spent about an hour or less, but Theseus cost me around 6-8 hours. I did it not because of the Hercules costume but for Athena's. I was curious if the voice would change. At the time, videogames and TH-cam wasn't as much of a thing as it is now, and if I'm not mistaken Yahoo was bigger than Google. I was naïve back then.
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Beat Deadspace 1 on hardcore AND did the only use Plasma Cutter challenge at the same time, which honestly kind of helped, I think. Loved that series, only 360 game I got all achievements for.
Deadspace is a fairly easy game tho, takes most people 3 days to get every achievement for it, I unlocked the "complete the game on any difficulty" achievement on the 9th of Jun 18 2:08 PM and unlocked both the "completed on hardest difficulty" and "plasma cutter only" on the 10th of Jun 18 4:00 PM.
@@takeitorfuckyou Hey good for you bud! 😄No one here said it was hard or took long, and my comment wasn't about either of those points. Really cool how you remember the exact dates and times you got the achievements for a game that came out in 2008, down to the minute even! Like whoa!!! I honestly think achievements are a wasted of time, but I liked the game enough to get them all, over the course of maybe a year. YIKES right, a whole year, it's almost like it wasn't to impress anyone and was just for myself because I loved the game. Congrats though, very edgelord.
You didn’t have to do him like that lmao 💀
@@escanorsamada8225 Dudes YT name is "takeitorfuckyou".......yeah I had to do it, trolls be trolling.
i think using only the plasma cutter is the best way of doing it
The halo 3 hayabusa Armor really lost it's worth once they brought the DLC achievements out. to unlock it you needed 1000 total achievement point things which originally was every achievement in the game but once the DLC achievements came out you could basically skip all the difficult ones and get 1000 score pretty easily. so eventually everyone and their dog had it. then it lost even more value once the MCC came out. I still remember been bitter about that :D
Definitely was fun at the time back then though, as a middle school assignment they asked us what achievements we where proud of and I put, that I got all Halo 3 achievements. I had all the armor and it was a great feeling, hopefully infinite will have something for beating on legendary.
@@jaggerknife aw that’s a cute story ☺️
@@hisammy3969 definitely
Getting that overkill achievement in multiplayer was very hard. That and the 2 for 1 with the spartan laser.
Wait theres DLC for Halo?
For Horizon: Zero Dawn you can still unlock the face paints if you play a New Game +. This allows you to have all the weapons and outfits unlocked from the start of the game as long as you got them in your previous playthrough. It makes it much easier.
Thanks for this, was about to attempt ultra hard but wasn't sure if you got the face paints from Ng+
plus if you have the armor set that gives you a barrier, the enemies just get pathetic.
I m much of a begginer (i mean, monster hunter world is really difficult for me), and just like you said i got the face paints with the ng+ on ultra hard, and i can't say i really struggled to get it (the one thing i had to redo a few times was the fight against Helis (main villan warrior)). So i guess this isn't much of an achievement for seasoned gamers
@@sabinegorla70 Frozen Wild on Ultra Hard is much harder
Yup I got it that way too
better to hide the true ending behind an insane challenge than to hide it in a dlc
Most people just want to play the game not try to get through insane challenges that would make us quit and play something else (like I did near the end of Sekiro after trying for 48 hours to beat the goddamn father boss that's optional in the past lol). The f****** game itself is a challenge, you have to block everything just perfect...
@@Azhrei2000 git gud
@@Azhrei2000 but you didn't have to pay actual money for it unlike some other games
@@madmanwithaplan1826 the hell are you talking about...
@@Azhrei2000 Look at the original comment.....
I have gotten the ones from Halo 3, Dark Souls 2, and Dead Space 2, and every time I did, I immediately quit those games and never played them again... The rewards may be useful, but by the time you get them you are so burned out you never want to play them again. Maybe they should make it so you unlock a new mechanic to the game, something that makes you want to play even more...
Theres also a glitch in DS2 where sometimes it won’t give you the hand cannon
I feel so touched to be able to say I completed HZD on Ultra Hard difficulty and got all the face paints. Got to brag naturally
Only one on this list I've managed was the Uncharted golden AK
And NO IT WAS NOT WORTH IT
The struggle was fun until about halfway...then the enemies just get super annoying
@@magicpyroninja nah uninstall
Idk man for me it was satisfying as hell after finally beating it on all 3 games. Just took some patience.
@@lukepm7166 yeah I beat all 3 on brutal. even using glitches, it's still very hard to beat the game.
@@magicpyroninja ive done it aswell and its way more enjoyable to just use a standard pistol imo
Each year i come back to uncharted for a crushing run of uncharted 2 and 3
@@Bored2deathofgames 🤣
God bless Gameranx, you guys just get it.
Right? They just say the right things that make us gamers happy.
At least, Jake does.
@@oxeexo6540 what about Falcon?
We can all agree Falcon is the best part of this channel.
Yes, yes they do🙏👍
Playing Halo CE on legendary used to be a sleepover staple back in the day 👌👌👌
Yep Library all day all night
I can smell the little ceasars hot and readys as I read that
Biggest of facts
It was the best game I ever played over and over in my childhood memories.
This is the truest comment ive read all year.
R.I.P. my kidneys from all the energy drinks used
Sekiro was an absolutely incredible experience. Platinum was well worth getting 👌 👏
I knew it wouldn’t be on this list but I feel the Tzkal slayer helmet from Old School RuneScape is worthy of the list as it is super difficult to obtain. I requires completing all of the Grandmaster Combat Achievements requiring a lot of skill, game knowledge, and of course time…. Of course you’re not just unlocking a cosmetic appearance for a helmet, you are unlocking the right to flex on everyone else.
In that case you might as well just say completionist cape
Isn’t RuneScape turned based? Turn based games don’t require skill dude just better gear and luck than the ai
@@Godslayer4000 lol no, it’s a MMORPG. That being said, turn based games do require strategy. One of my favorites was advanced wars for the gameboy 😊
@@Godslayer4000 why comment when you clearly know nothing about the game
@@jorgebermudez1019 right? But I wouldn't say any of that is difficult necessarily just Uber time consuming and fuck that I've been playing for 16 years and never cared to go for it. I mean I play rs3 but.
Loved that Hayabusa armor. So glad I took the time to get it in H3. I hope infinite makes some changes with customization. Every other Halo was filled with so much customization . Now it just sucks to load into Halo and see such little difference in each Spartan.
To be fair that's usually the case when the game launches. Games like 3 and 4 start you off with the "default" set before you start unlocking things slowly. Infinite's actual customization isnt bad, its just REALLY slow to start unlocking anything of notice. So much that most people are going to look the same right now.
Give it a month or so, and I net we'll see a LOT more diverse spartans
@@CumeronThomas lemme rephrase:
Just because it isnt awful (IMO) it is FARRRR from good. Coatings are still the worst decision, armor cores have almost no use, and locking customization not only behind a paywall but ALSO both those restrictions blows my damn mind. I doubt the game will stay like this in a year, but daaaammnnn is this an awful first impression lol
@@SackMan039 I would blame 343 but Bungie has been shifting over to that with Destiny for awhile now too...
I miss when games would give you sweet skins and armors by just doing cool challenges like getting the Hayabusa armor.
Maybe the campaign will have skulls and secrets like the old days, I sure hope so
@@SackMan039 nah Halo Infinite's microtransactions blow and is a big step down from the vast armor customization in Halo Reach where you didn't need to spend real life money to unlock a coat of armor color.
me to
Beating DMC3 on DMD and DOOM ETERNAL on ultra nightmare should be on this list. Both of these require you to be a literal master of the game
I broke a controller on DMD 😂 I just couldn't do it.
Same with shadow warrior
A UN run in Doom Eternal isn't as difficult as some of the things on this list though. A lot of people do UN runs.
But they don't unlock anything tho
Pre-nerfed possessed marauder.
The pure grind to get the Halo armor was worth it tho :O
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For the record, the hardest achievement to get on Halo 3 ( for me) was the double kill with one spartan laser shot. Just getting a Spartan laser was a challenge, because everybody wanted it on the few maps it spawned in. Then you had to find two enemy Spartans fighting and somehow manage to time it just right so you killed both of them. It sounded so easy to me when I first read it....
Pretty sure u could have just shot a warthog or a mongoose with a passenger
It can be hard if you put it that way, but what about just playing on a bigger map with lots of vehicles? Sometimes you get triple kills for hitting a warthog
@@stevenwiegand2611 the only maps it spawned in had no vehicles. I remember it taking several days to get this achievement, and it was the last one I needed for the Hayabusa armor. It was worth every second.
Get 3 more controllers go into custom game and line them up and boom
@@therazor9927 it had to be in ranked.
The beautiful thing about hard mode in sekiro, no Kuros charm, isn't just increased damage. It actually requires improved mechanics because you can't block anymore without taking damage from it. This is much better than games that just increase difficulty by increasing damage taken. That is just tedious
Some more I thought of while watching:
1. The wigs in MGS2. I couldn’t even beat the first boss, Olga, on the hardest difficulty. I just couldn’t aim fast enough.
2. The trophy for beating Mass Effect 2 on insanity. I did actually do this one, and all I have to say is: insanity is a fitting name, because it absolutely was.
3. God of War (2018) Beating the Valkyries on Give Me God of War difficulty. I couldn’t even finish the first area on that difficulty. 🤣
4. The platinum trophy for Dirt Rally. (Not Rally 2.0) This is the hardest racing game I’ve ever played. It’s very sim-heavy, and it’s almost impossible to drive well on a controller. You need a wheel to even have a chance of making any progress. It might actually be easier to rally race in real life!!
5. All gold medals for all the licenses in Gran Turismo 6.
Most all them are doable with practice, but there are two tests in the super license that are incredibly strict. S4 & S5
You must drive perfectly on S4, because the time is so tight. Then for S5 the time isn’t the problem, it’s just controlling your incredibly heavy Bugatti Veyron so it stays on track.
It’s a long course and if a single pixel of your car touches the grass or a wall, you instantly fail and have to start over from the beginning. Another game where a wheel is almost a requirement.
I'm currently playing Mass Effect 2 LE on Insanity as a Male Infiltrator, working on side missions before going after the last two missions before the end, and I did beat God of War '18 on that exact difficulty, though I didn't bother trying to go after all of the Valkyries. The one thing I had going for me in both games was that my playthroughs are NG+ runs.
Me2 on insanity is pretty easy, it does get a bit hard in the beginning, but if you do all the side quests at the right time then it's very easy.
man the walkure on god of war 😔😔😭
I think I did really well in rally dirt 2.0, got to elite in carrer using the controller only, hell I even got to top 20 in monte carlo using an evo x
"insanity is a fitting name, because it absolutely was. "
You're joking, right?
"Insanity" in ME games is barely worth being called "medium"
Recon armour was much harder to obtain than Hayabusa armour in the original halo 3, required 7 achievements. 3 of those in a different game, and one of those achievements you could only get one day a year. Still my greatest gaming achievement 🏆
Same thing I was thinking, or hell even the Helioskrill armor from Halo 5. Had to beat all 4 previous Halos from the MCC on Legendary to get it.
Agreed. Such a shame they gave everyone Recon after the split, felt like they spat in my face
Same dude probably what I was most proud of doing in any game ever. The bragging rights were real.
@@paytonkeller7074 Agreed, use to get friend requests an messages jus for havin the armor lol
I was 5/7 when they gave it to everyone. While it does REALLY cheapen it for everyone who had it before, I was glad I didn't have to grind multiplayer wins for VidMaster: Lightswitch anymore.
Skelly's trophies and the hidden aspects in Hades are some of my favorites. Not too hard to get until you realize you need at least 25 titan's blood to even have a shot at unlocking them and THEN having to talk to the right person. It's super worth it if only because some of the hidden aspects are really fun i.e. Aspect of Arthur and Aspect of Lucifer
Aspect of gilgamesh is still my favourite
I remember getting the hayabusa armor within a month of release. It was more of a grind, rather than a challenge.
Yeah halo 3 really wasn't all that hard compared to its predecessor !
Those Sekiro gauntlets were such a fun challenge to complete!
Yes!!
Woahhh... Are you a pro? 🤩
True
Totally agree!
I usually do a short one after the breakfast and before my work time, just for fun
And I not even started my second run, addicted to gauntlets and reflections
@@batinimagus for real, Sekiro's combat was so addictive that i honestly hoped they'd keep on adding challenges with different rewards just so i could fight bosses again and again. Played and completed the game 8 times in total and got every trophy and ending but i would always try to find a way to come back to it just because of the combat whether that was modding it or setting challenges myself lol.
Feels so good to see you mention the Hayabusa armor knowing it was one of the few things on this list I've done
Same man, hardest grind of my life but it was worth the flex while it lasted
I was expecting them to say the Vid aster challenge instead. I grinded so hard at beating that Firefight mode.
@@theiranmilitary1514 the recon helmet was way harder in my opinion
@@cosmicbilly Its not just an opinion. Its FACT. EOD and Hayabusa were PRE-SCHOOL compared to the Vidmaster Challenges! It took me actual months to get them, and that's mostly because I had to collect team-mates reasonably GOOD at the game to actually win! If I could've relied only on myself then I would've had Recon a lot sooner! Vidmasters are DEFINITELY harder, that's an objective fact! No room for opinion.
@@MurakumoVanceomg yeah! lol i remember me and my buddy were on a mission to get recon armor but he went to bed and i stayed up all night and managed to do it by myself and got lucky with a good team... But then i had to do it all a SECOND time to help my friend get recon too cause i got it while he was away... that shit was so hard but so worth it!
I remember how mystical the recon helmet was back in the day when only bungie employees had it and they had a flame on their heads... and it was so extremely rare to see one in matchmaking... years later they finally let us have it... but at a price. One of the most rewarding achievements ive ever done.
I remember finishing the "Total Pandemonium" den in Muramasa: The demon blade. The reward is actually worth the hassle, I cannot imagine doing this one in Shigurui mode where you only have 1hp....I bet very very few people have ever managed that.
I remember doing that challenge, and it was a blast for me. The reward is indeed worth it, and makes you feel powerful with no worries.
Watching this video reminded me of a guy who played and finished all the dark souls (including Bloodborne I think) without getting hit once, everytime he did he had to restart the game. Now that's real commitment right there
Boss rush modes are always amazing at beating the confidence out of players who just beat bosses in the story mode.
It basically tells the player that they never beat the bosses in story mode completely, they just got lucky each time and cannot do it again without losing again, lol.
Those Sekiro gauntlets have all been really fun to do, I just beat all of them a month ago
hell yeah! I remember being so proud getting the Hercules skin for Kratos and finishing VERY challenges in both games.
also the most dumbest thing I've experienced is with the first LOU, finished the game on hardest diffuculty and got no trophy, nothing on new game+ :')
I remember feeling so proud completing MGS2 on the European Extreme difficulty. The sequence when Solidus strangles you almost made me brake my own hands ;P
I did the same thing for MGS3. Escaping Groznij Grad on European Extreme was some of the most edge-of-my seat entertainment that I've ever played.
I love your videos. But I always seem to crack up every time your falcon animation shows up and has this look of WTF on his face. It's just hilarious.
Nothing is more humbling than invading someone that seems new to DS2 only to get hit by their long sword *and also the invisible +5 Fume Ultra Greatsword*
I remember supporting my bro thru the boss rush in sekiro, I was on deck rolling blunts to smoke after every heart crushing defeat.
He got all the skins tho, took him like 2 days 🤣
Hell yeah. A true homie.
Sounds tight
You a real one
I consider myself an average level player, and I kept at it until I finally got the Shura outfit. It took a whole lot of emotional suffering though to get through the last boss.
That fucking 17 in a row boss rush is pure mental torture
In the old Game Cube version, of call of duty. You unlocked really awesome cheats. Though, later I found out,that I didn’t have to play the entire story to unlock the cheats. Just the last level on the hardest difficulty. Which made me realize, I didn’t have to go nuts. But hey. I earned those things. The cheats were both hilarious and great. One of the cheats shrank both enemies and friends, while making others huge too. It was great. Plus, their hit boxes either shrank or increased with them. I miss back when Games were more creative, and didn’t need patches.
I was so happy when I unlocked the Handcannon. I spent a whole weekend going for it and probably replayed the intro a dozen times. I did nothing but upgrade the assault rifle and statis but damn it if the worse parts of the challenge were the environmental deaths. It was worth it for the Plat and hearing Isaac go pew pew 😆
Bang bang
Getting the 3 final bosses for the second ending cutscene for each character in the original Bushido Blade was a task Required using a specific weapon with each character, running through several zone walls to jump down a well, all without being hit. Finally, you had to defeat three special bosses, all of whom functionally cheat, still without being hit.
Had the katana on Halo 3 as a 14 year old. Didn't even know how hard it was but I played that game every day. Thanks for the compliment 😄
I think unlocking Recon through the Vidmaster achievements was WAY tougher than getting Hyabusa.
for SURE
It was much harder
You had to get a 50
the hardest part was the firefight but damn it was all hard
Firefight took me a whole day almost
"Super" mode skins in any Devil May Cry game by beating all the difficulty modes. One of which puts the enemies at the second to highest difficulty (but still gives them an "enrage timer" devil trigger) and you also die in one hit. The Super mode skins are not just aesthetic, but also grant infinite Devil Trigger.
Hell and Hell mode in DMC3. All I'm going to stay about that mode is Leviathan stomach acid. Provided one can get that far. I couldn't but I've beaten Heaven and Hell mode where enemies also die in one hit and the acid gets me in that every time.
I just unlocked the Tengu and Shura outfits today and holy shit, my heart was still rushing like crazy after beating Inner Isshin. Getting the Shura outfit is pretty easy though
In the beginning of *Matrix: Path of Neo* ; After you take the red pill, you'll be taken to a dream lobby where you fight a series of enemies. If you manage to reach the end and beat Agent Smith, you get to play on The One difficulty. Failure means that you only get to play on lower difficulties.
In Halo 4 you get a REALLY COOL cutscene at the end if you beat it on legendary. I play every Halo on legendary from the start, and getting that cutscene at the end was totally unexpected and amazing.
The Katana requirements you mentioned in Halo 3 are incorrect. When they added more achievements, all you need to do now is unlock at least 49 achievements and have at least 1000gs from them. It was significantly easier to get after the map packs and new achievements. The one that’s borderline impossible now was the Recon armor in Halo 3 because of the weird community achievements.
I remember putting in serious hard work to get both at the time. I would wear the recon armor with the katana and get compliments online all the time. You really felt like you were a special class of player wearing that elite stuff, lol.
For sure those vidmaster challenges sucked
I personally really liked unlocking the 2 special lenses in Fatal Frame 2. Finishing it under 3 hours and on nightmare mode is certainly not the MOST difficult thing to do, but the reward is still truely satisfying. Makes you pretty much unstoppable :D Some rewards in some games are so not worth it though...
I was expecting DOOM Eternal's Ultra-Nightmare difficulty and the golden suit you get for beating it
To this day, beating Halo 3 on legendary with my 3 closest friends while collecting every skull on launch day is *my greatest gaming achievement* period
The thing with Halo 3's Hayabusa armor was that there was a second version with a katana on the back that was only unlocked after reaching ranked 50 in the multi-player. I remember at that time people were selling Xbox profiles with ranked 50.
My tip for her horizon Zero Dawn: speedrun your way to the frozen wild DLC and find as much blue gleam as possible. It's really hard to do because of all those super OP enemies, but get enough blue gleam and you can buy the Nora stealth armor. That's how I've been getting my way through ultra hard.
Hzd was my first platinum trophy, thank for this!
stealth is optional, but it's definitely not useless
Ah Sekiro, favorite game, the best single player game of the last 5 years imo. However, idk how anybody ever beat those Boss gauntlets. Beat Ishiin, Demon of Hatred, and Owl back-to-back no deaths? That's INSANE. Only God-level gamers are capable of that.
Once you master their move set the only one that is really hard to beat is Isshin, maybe inner father too but that’s pushing it.
Someone already completed sekiro without getting hit once^^
@@munkkittaja as expected, how many bosses did they skip? or did they do every possible boss in one play through?
I'll take that as a compliment, thank you! :)
Can't believe you haven't included a single MGS reward in this list. Like the Stealth Camo.
Didn't collecting all the dog tags in each difficulty level of MGS2 get you a link to a website congratulating you that probably doesn't work anymore
Great video. Also worth mentioning the Impossible mode on I Wanna Be The Guy and doing all cartridges with their achiviements in "The end is Nigh". Those are not an easy feat.
7:02 There’s greater hell than Embrace the Void. If you give the Godseeker a flower during the flower quest before playing through Pantheon 5, you get the 5th ending
Unlocking all the stuff in my 007 Goldeneye, and Perfect Dark games for the N64. That was hard.
The Cradle on 007 mode was the first time I ever remember raging at a game. But I was ecstatic when I finally got it.
@@LobsterPuncher gotta know when to run away 😂 Head straight to Trevelyan, and aim for his head as much as you can, and he’ll run straight to the bottom.
I love playing games on the hardest. If you start on the hardest you don't realize how difficult it truly is bcuz it's as if it's the only way to play. It's not always fun though lol.
In c.o.d you don't need skill to unlock stuff you just need to give Activision your credit card details
Dont?
That is a skill too
Are we just gonna ignore competionist camos. U cant buy them, and its fucking hard to get.
I would like to say another thing with the dark souls 2 mention: There is another ring that they did not talk about called the illusory ring of the exalted, which in my opinion is better, although much easier to obtain. To get it you have to beat the game without *resting* at any bonfires, although you can *light* the bonfire. The illusory ring of the exalted makes it so your right hand weapon, or in other words, your main hand weapon, is invisible, meaning if you are using a lighter weapon, you can make it look like you aren't wielding anything. The real challenge that people do though, is getting both rings in a single run, which requires you to not die, but also, 1. only use melee weapons, and maybe a bow every once in a while, because magic is entirely tied to resting at a bonfire. If you do not rest at a bonfire, you do not refill magic, and cannot set a different spell. 2. you have to rely on secondary forms of healing, as the "main" heal in dark souls games only refills at bonfires, although ds2 added some items that can kind of break the balance by making you carry up to 99 of multiple healing items at a time. And 3. Unless you decide to go to a rather annoying area to NOT die in as a melee player, you have to constantly worry about your weapons breaking, as bonfires are used to repair weapons before they fully break, and blacksmiths are used otherwise.
TL;DR, ds2 has some stupid stuff, that requires a lot of effort to get, in what a lot of people consider to be a bad game (although personally after playing most of it, i find it better than i was led to believe. Still not my favorite game of all time though), and thanks for reading
Yeah but you can prepare in a previous run. As you can go this in NG+1 and the enemies aren't too much worse. And just stock up on repair powder, lifegems, arrows, and the magic recovery items.
Blacksmith powder will solve the repair issue, healing items that you can buy at vendors will solve the healing problem, you can have magic if you start as a mage - cleric class since they get basic magic but thats it , no more magic for you, use items to restore magic charges in case, collect souls if you'd rather avoid a certain boss to bypass directly to the castle . You can upgrade, you can get items, you might have an issue with npcs not appearing tho, since i think once dialogue is exhausted you rest at bonfire and they relocate, but no bonfire resting so no relocating. mostly talking about the stairs guy for the grave of saints. It's Defenitely a big challenge, but Ds2 does make it possible due to how the game is made. Certnanly its a pain in the buttocks to run back and forth, but if you havent died, there will be no enemies around since they dont respawn unless you rest. i have to ask tho, can you use the bonfire that is at the end of the primordial soul bosses or not even that one ? like the lost sinner etcetera . the one that brings you back to Majula.
@@marcolaudani2851 I think with npcs you can reset the game, i.e. quit out and reload, and they will go to majula, also you can "rest" at the primal bonfires iirc, which just take you back to majula, but don't work anything else like normal bonfires. Also, idk if there are enough souls to bypass any bosses without resets, although i might be wrong.
@@namelessnightingale8991 1 million souls for Ng. Should be possible.
not saying its easy. but potentially possible.
Hitting inherititer rank in halo reach and getting the skull helmet definitely deserves a spot. You saw someone with that in your match you knew you were probably gonna get shit on.
Me not having played most of the games on this list: *oh yea this sounds like it'd be a challenge, though most just sound like you can do it with just enough time and practice*
Sees Halo armor: *wait, that's how I got that?! I didn't even know that was hard to get*
Another fun one is the gold crown in Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix. This probably slipped by the radar because the final mix wasn't avaliable outside of Japan until the ps4 bundles. But in order to get it you must defeat 14 of the hardest bosses in the entire series, 5 of these bosses can only be unlocked by beat 5 different optional bosses that are relatively difficult, and one of the 14 bosses required for the crown is considered the hardest boss in the game, and to many the whole series. For a series that includes super hard hidden bosses in every game these ones are brutal.
getting ptsd of Sephiroth and Terra here...
@@letseat352 Sephiroth can't even hold a candle to lingering will. If you wait to fight him at an appropriate level he's not even that hard. Lingering Will on the other hand. I was max level and managed to survive in the fight for what felt like 10 minutes before dying having not landed a single hit.
lingering will is a secret boss for a reason, hell, the game even warns you about entering the portal, it's questioning your sanity
@@letseat352 you can slap sephi out of heartless angel
Ah yeah.
Bronze crown: beat all XIII challenges. Easy.
Silver crown: beat data organization XIII. Ah. True gamer challenge :^)
Golden crown: beat lingering spirit. Mama, am I masochist?
I have actually beat infinite warfare on the specialist difficulty, tried to do Yolo but the farthest I ever got was like the second mission? Shit was ridiculous
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@@gameranxTV wtf are these useless replies
I was also doing on Specialist difficulty. Needless to say, I got stuck cuz my dumbass decided to do that Jackal mission next to the sun. Which good god I couldnt complete. Dropped it.
I considered Halo3's Legendary Hyabusa armor fairly easy. It took forever, but I got it. The REALLY Difficult Legendary armor to get was Halo5's Legendary Heliskrill armor.
This armor required you to beat Halo CE, Halo2, & Halo3 on Solo Legendary in MCC. But without skulls on. Considering I did this for fun, in the original games, I had no issue going for it again in MCC.
The real issue was a random glitch that would not allow the armor to unlock. A glitch I, at the time, did not know existed. So I assumed I read the rules wrong. And thus I went after Halo5's, Halo Reach's, Halo ODST's, AND Halo4's Solo Legendary runs. I completed ALL OF THEM (See My Achievements For Proof), and the armor STILL did not unlock! I didn't learn it was a glitch until I complained about it on Twatter!
It literally took FIVE FREAKING YEARS for my Heliskrill armor armor to finally unlock. But by then, the idiots at 343 placed the armor as random REQ Pack armor. Making ALL of my hard work and waiting COMPLETELY POINTLESS! It was the closet you could get to slapping a customer in the face without literally doing so.
And thus, I refuse to buy Halo Infinite. I'll just play it via GamePass and call it a day.
Not being able to bring it to online play, makes it not worth it. I don’t know about you, but I like seeing players with ridiculous gear, and knowing they worked there azz off for it. Thanks for another great video.
The nostalgia you gave me of loading up a game of Halo 3 multiplayer as a kid with the full set of Hayabusa with the katana you felt like a god among mortals lol.
Specialist Mode on Cod Infinite Warfare was amazing Campaign mode with the Helmet/Limb damage mechanics.
it really throws out the standard COD 'run n gun' Campaign style for a more methodical and careful one without losing the action.
i'd personally say that the land of the storms from hollow kinght is more difficult to get than the embrace the void, where you have to do all the pantheon with all the bindings which are debuffs and significant ones at that
I managed to get the ending, but I have long accepted I am not skilled enough to get to the Land of Storms. I actually did all bindings on the first 4 pantheon but the Pantheon of Hallownest is completely insane. Just getting the ending is good enough for me.
you get the weathered mask which is basically permanent proof since its in your journal and not just a screenshot of the land of storms.
I can proudly say I got it after more than 8 months of just playing it in my free time. I did soul and shell at the same time and shell and charm seperately (charm was by far the hardest for me)
Your name is spelled wrong. It’s A* Honda Civic.
That's one of the reasons why I always play games in the hardest difficulty, there's always some reward at the end!!
RE 4 Remake Cat Ears, unlock by beating Professional Mode in 5 hours and 30 minutes, which stupidly difficult, but if you pull it off you get an acessory that grants you unlimited ammo for all your guns when equipped.
getting the one down mask in payday 2 was one of the more difficult challenges for me from the sheer amount of heists you have to do on the hardest difficulty
Great to see The Binding of Isaac is getting the showcase (and love) it deserves!
Honestly I don't think it belongs here. I love Isaac, it's one of my favorite games along with Hollow Knight, but the ability to get game breaking item combinations make completing runs trivial in some cases. It's such an amazing game, but I wouldn't classify it as the pinnacle of gaming skill required to complete.
@@lunarjellyfish5538 that’s like the whole genre of rougelikes/lites.
And even with amazing luck, you can still very easily lose an issac run. Especially on the, now second, easiest character to die on. Having good stuff doesn’t mean you have good skill
Playing the game for 1 000 hours on the hardest difficulty and beating and your reward beanie golden hat.
Ah yes. The Hayabusa set... that took me a long ass time.
basically crank all enemy stats up by 2000% and call it highest difficulty, that is just lazy and the worst is you expect people to just appreciate and play it like it is a "challenge"
In the Binding of Isaac you can get an achievement called 3.000.000% were you have to do literally everything in the game for all the 3 different save slots, which is pure pain
Unlocking the Extra Characters on Super Smash Bros., where you had to practically speed-run the whole main campaign, bonus stages and all. That means fighting your opponents, breaking the targets, boarding the platforms, racing to the finish, and defeating the Master Hand within a certain amount of time, and THEN you had to defeat your opponent to unlock them.
Don't forget the snipers who never miss in Halo on legendary
Halo 2/3 LASO is still the hardest thing I've ever done with my friends. Personally, I don't think Legendary difficulty is all that hard. But LASO... Bro, we almost ruined friendships and multiple fights broke out that almost got physical lol
LMAO it's definitely an impressive feat to accomplish dude, Congrats.
its worth mentioning, when halo 3 added achievements with dlc you only had to get the original total of i think 50 achievements to unlock the katana for busa
finishing pantheon 5 on hollow knight required you to be very very very skilled. this was the best achievement ive gotten so far. and it actually injured my thumb. next would be black ops 3 simulation on realistic mode.
To note the difficulty of halo 3's legendary mode I finished halo reach's after a slog, not that bad but took ages. Then attempted halo 3 and..... Goddamn the first levels were as difficult as halo reach's mid game and I could only get half-way through before admitting defeat.
Maybe one day I'll try again with all skulls on but not today.
It legit took me an hour to get past one section of the very first level of Halo 4 on Legendary. I stuck to MP after that, never went back to finish the campaign.
Halo 2 LASO is the hardest gaming experience of my entire life. I made 4 levels in and cried in pure anger because I didn't want to hate Halo lmao
@@ijustmakeinflammatorycomme9839 Sounds exhausting haha, maybe one day when I grow a taste for pain
@@g0oberdm417 don't do it man, it's not worth it.
@@ijustmakeinflammatorycomme9839 It's okay, my suffering shall be a conduit to motivate you to pass this trial, REMEMBER ME
Fuck me the pantheon of hallownest broke me to fucking pieces and i loved it
We're all watching this to see if we unlocked any of these items 😂
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the trinity bonuses for the ghostship and ghostship chaos, from the resident evil revelations is kinda tough too, imagine not being hit by 435 enemies, with different speed and attacks, dogs come out in bunches, there are invisible enemies. but since the internet is convinient, it can actually make it look easy, but its really hard.
I was expecting Recon armor for Halo 3. If you earned all the 'Vidmaster Challenge' achievements in H3, H3:ODST and Reach you'd unlock the armor in Halo 3. This was THE armor everybody wanted, as it used to be for Bungie-employees only. It was also the hardest to get.
Those were the times.
HZD ultra hard is really nice. Love that deathseeker face paint!
@windbreak if i start mew game + will armour will be with me or need to obtain agai?
Whatever you win for beating the Dark aeons in FFX should be on this list. Or beating Penance from the monsters arena, whichever is impossible without putting HELLLLLA hours into the game. Ive put over 100 hours in it and I barely beat Dark Valefor! The first Aeon lolol. I still can't attempt fighting Penance because I still can't come close to beating the 10 monsters before Penance.
I would need another 200 hours just to be able to fight Penance and actually attempt to it. Penance
I'd say the minigames are leagues harder than the dark aeons and penance, and like you said the method to even get strong enough to fight them is horrible.
That's why I edited a save to have all monsters captured, and nodes filled to eliminate sphere grinding.
Honestly once the dark aeons are down Penance is an absolute joke. Sure the fight takes about 45 minutes but once you get set up with the right armor abilities, celestial weapons and Rikku's mixtures at the beginning it's just a rinse and repeat fight. Dark Anima was harder. Dark Bahamut is the best fight in the game IMO
What about the fabled “black camo” in planetside 2? This is insanely tough to get and most people result to cheats or alt acounts to grind!
Edit: if you make a multiplayer only version of this video idea, be sure to include this!
Arkham Knight gold armor: beat the game once on any difficulty with 120% completion, beat the game again in new game+ on hardest difficulty to earn 240% completion, do all riddler challenges, trials, trophies, fights, and riddles, face waves of enemies as Azrael where you die if you get hit even one time with no threat indicator, and all you get is the default bat suit with a golden bat symbol.
Not the hardest, not the easiest, still worth mentioning.
The trick to Dead Space 2 is to play the Xbox 360 version that has two discs. The disc swap acts as a makeshift checkpoint.
I played through the first disc without dying and then died doing something dumb in the next chapter on the second disc and thought I had to start all over again because I hadn't used any saves up to that point, but then the game just puts me at the start of the second disc and I was forever grateful.
Also, another trick is to have the DLC stuff in the game. There's some suits and improved weapons and a secret room only accessable thanks to the DLC. You just need to be able to survive to the first shop with the base stuff.