7 Easily Missable Achievements We Can’t Be Bothered to Restart The Game For
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
- Sometimes you only have one opportunity to unlock an achievement or trophy in a game, and if you miss them, the only way to unlock them is replay the whole game! What?! Here are the ones we can't be bothered to go back for...
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What’s even worse are mutually exclusive achievements. Where a story choice locks you out of some achievements
Excpecially when you can't make a save to scum back to after a short while
Or can't skip cutscenes
Or ones for getting all endings. And it's 2 or more in long games or multiple smaller ones. Re1 and Infamous come to mind
@@madamminalost Infamous 1 did that pretty well by having good and bad be two almost completely different stories, right down to the side missions. The games that suck at it are like Mass Effect, where it's basically exactly the same game, but you're just snarkier and embody the cringey amoral tough guy trope.
@@ledumpsterfire6474 if i remember right didnt the missions in the series change depending on your alignment?
Video idea...A longform/unscripted 7 worst captures you had to get for a list. Be cool to see a little behind the scenes stuff.
Never knew how much I needed this in my life
That's an awesome idea! There's a list they did about tough areas or something and it involved very tricky and skilled platforming in Hollow Knight and given how much trouble I had just early on in the game, I'm still very impressed at whoever had to get the capture of that bit of the game.
@@SolaScientia Hollow Knight was Mike. And yes, that was brutal, so much so I commented and that's how I discovered it was Mike.
Yezzzzz!!
I remember i think jane saying she once had to get footage of the end of red dead redemption, and she now has 2 saves, one where she got the capture and one where has yet to finish it, so thats probably up there.
I have often wondered if easily missable achievements are what the devs term a "replayability" "feature".
Can’t tell if the quotes are sarcastic, but I agree that this is what they would say and this is why modern devs will be going to hell right next to the people who talk during movies
Put the blame where it belongs - the publishers. They're the ones who hold the money. They're the ones who make the decisions.
Yup that’s more than likely right, and it works sometimes lol. At least some devs have the decency to give you a prompt before you advance the story that lets you know you can’t go back.
Yes, because they are?
There are some achievements I like because they extend the life of the game by incentivizing replay, if the game is enjoyable. New Game + completion if it’s well designed, different game style or karma outcomes if they really effect the gameplay and the world, challenge modes if they aren’t crazy hard. Then there’s other ones that are just like, just play the game again. Non-stacking difficulty mode achievements, or ones where you have to unlock higher difficulties, different game style or karma where it doesn’t change the game much at all (like playing as different classes in Mass Effect), different endings where it’s just one decision at the end and it doesn’t let you reload from a save.
That party pooper fight is also the best place to get the 50+ combo achievement
Not to mention it’s a good chance to get any remaining upgrades you missed
I still felt bad about doing it.
Yeah that was another achievement i'd missed during my first playthrough.
Also "Freeflow Perfection" where you have to use every move and gadget in one combo.
Unless you're crap at the Arkham series' combat system.
Shantae and the Seven Sirens has one for beating the game without ever "startling the lobster girl." She's looking in through windows in 4 specific rooms, some of which you'll pass through multiple times. Get too close to the window and you're starting the game over. The only way to guarantee success is to remember to CRAWL through each room EVERY time you need to cross it.
oh my god I didn't even knew it was possible to not scare her away lmao
The fact that it's a hidden achievement made it even more annoying.
The sheer conviction in Ellen's voice as she calls the AI a bastard is so raw 😂 now there's a person who has experienced some janky AI in gaming.
Deus Ex Human Revolution has an achievement for reading every book in the game. It is incredibly easy to miss one random book that’s kept in the corner of a random level.
Literally my last achievement and I refuse to go through the intro again
Ooof. Imagine this achievement being in Skyrim
@@mwambachileshe6150as someone who has collected all of skyrims books for fun it’s not that bad :)
I was going to suggest the achievement for playing through the DLC without any Praxis upgrades or using any weapons, but the book one’s worse.
For my money, the stealth achievement, Foxiest of the Hounds is the worst. Like the book achievement is tedious, but if you are following a guide, you can do it.
This one is a not set off alarms achievement, which has all sorts of weird rules that are never really explained.(see the difference between the Ghost bonus and the Smooth Operator bonus.) You can't track the achievement, so the only way you'll know if you got it or not is when you complete the game.
The first and last levels in the game are really not designed for stealth at all, so they can kill your stealth playthrough right there.
And then there are the bugs. The closest way to track that achievement was to see if you got the Smooth Operator bonus after you cleared a level. If you got the bonus, you were on track to get the achievement. Except later versions of the game had a bug which would stop you from getting this bonus if you loaded a saved game after being spotted.
And the Picus level had a bug where Smooth Operator wouldn't display, even if you cleared the level without setting off the alarm. So you never knew if you didn't get that bonus because you were spotted, or due to a bug.
In short a really frustrating achievement.
This is exactly why even though I rarely consult guides on a first playthrough, I always consult achievement lists for anything missable.
When I played Arkham Asylum I charged in to the party and just started fighting. I assumed the trophy was for a scripted story fight, and it was years before I realized (from videos like this) that you could actually just walk through and not fight the thugs...
Same, I have a tendency to rush into everything in the Arkham games so if I saw a thug I'd pounce. Definitely forced me to repeat the required sneaky parts multiple times though.
I didnt trust any of them was thinking they would attack me when my back was turned or i touched the doors. I didnt think about a trophy because i didnt bother reading the list but my own paranoia got me that trophy lol.
Same. I got the trophy completely by accident, because I thought you were supposed to beat them all.
Wait a minute you don't have to punch them? How can you not punch them they are right there?
some more easily missed achievements are the "read all the stuff" ones in Resident evil 7 & 8. In the start of both of these games there are sticky note on a fridge at the very start that count for the achievement.
Resident Evil 8 is the worst for this because you can ONLY read them if you are carrying the baby, putting her down to sleep and then walking to close to the kitchen triggers the rest of the game.
There's actually another door to the kitchen where you can read the note on the fridge after putting down Rose. You go down the hall between the stairs and the living room to reach that part of the kitchen without triggering the next scene. Still have to watch your step.
Reminds of the Piggy game on Roblox where notes are not only missable, but also lock you out of finding future notes if you happen to miss one in the previous chapter. Not as bad as RE obviously since you can easily revisit chapters, but still rather annoying 🤔
the example you chose is not very good as that is literally in the first area of the game, if you missed it you can just do NG+ and read it
@@motalux Due to how the tracking works on those documents, it certainly is easier to start a new game (they don't need to be on one file). So not even NG+ is required.
Resident Evil games are pretty short, and the ones that aren't have convenient chapter systems. Missables are bad relative to how much progress you have to throw away to go back for them.
The tomb raider entry gave me an idea for a list video, 7 characters that didn't deserve their fate.
I'm still hung up over Roth in Tomb Raider all these years later. That one stung hard.😭
Io from Code Vein in the good ending. Sure, she chooses to turn herself into a tree to sustain revenants since her purpose is an extension of Cruz's desire (lot of lore to explain this), but we lose her in turn.
Richard Aiken in resident evil 1 and it's remake, when you first find him he's been bitten by Yawn and dying from it's venom. And if you find and bring him anti-venom, he ends up dying for real later either by the aforementioned Yawn if your playing as Jill or by Neptune if your playing as Chris.
I thought for sure it would be Jonah to get the terrible fate.
Hosea from Red Dead 2. THAT MAN DESERVED THE WORLD.
Paladin Danse in Fallout 4. That death hit me like a freight train.
There's the one in Arkham City where you need to talk to Calendar man on specific days of the year. Playing dishonestly, you have to disconnect the console from the internet and change the date in your base console settings manually. Playing honestly though, if you miss one you have to wait A WHOLE YEAR to try again.
I doubt Rocksteady intended people to get that one honestly, because changing the console to a specific date is EXACTLY the kind of thing Batman himself would do.
You have to go offline to get the Easter egg dialogue anyway, although my Xbox 360 couldn't go below 2005 so it felt more like a Playstation exclusive lol 😝
@@joenesvick7043 ooh I didn’t know about this one.
What's dishonest about changing your console's internal clock? The achievements are easy to get, you're just too lazy to do what needs to be done :P
The gwent achievement is actually easier than it used to be, as a bunch of cards were made to be collectible even after the NPC who possessed them is gone (although as you said, some cards must be won, and during encounters only available during specific missions)
As someone who plays a LOT of Magic I completely fell in love with gwent and played way too much of it in the game. As a result I found the gwent achievements to be pretty easy, but then I never once passed up a chance to play gwent when the game offered it.
Yup! I got it despite not really caring about Gwent until quite a bit later in the game.
Plus there's an in game tracker for how many cards you have left to collect, so you're not left wandering in the dark for how many cards you have left to connect.
I still wish there were a tracker (ESPECIALLY on the map, though I'd settle for a dialogue notation) to let you know which NPCs you've beaten in Gwent and won a card from.
@@LizzardGirl713 that would be so good. I had to use a guide to figure it out.
Any achievements requiring me to take part in the online/multiplayer aspect of a game are going to stay missed. As for the ones that take a lot of prep to do, those are the ones I look up a guide for to make sure I don't screw up. See getting the Usurpation of Flame ending for Dark Souls 3 and the squid ending of Bloodborne (also just all of Eileen's quest so I could keep her alive and not angry at me). If I do ever Platinum Bloodborne, it's going to take me ages since I haven't even touched the Chalice Dungeons beyond a little exploring of the very first one I made. Happily the dungeons to do not scale up in NG+, so I can just do them then. I'm also honestly bad at achievements that require me being too mean or whatever, or choosing paths that I can't bring myself to choose.
That Tomb Raider one definitely isn't worth the effort just based on the fact that you have to do all the conversations in one run. At least most games are pretty generous at letting you get the achievements whenever you want and not all in the same run. Hell, most of them require multiple runs because of different endings.
"Can this not count as one of the fetch quests?" lmao. I took a break from RDR2 after not getting very far into it because I didn't have the energy to devote so much time and effort in it at the time. I've reinstalled it after getting a M.2 SSD to expand my internal storage of the PS5, but I still haven't started it up. I'm so rusty and I can't remember what all I was doing, so I'll need to start a new game. I don't want to do that tutorial bit again.
FightingCowboy has a 100% plat walkthrough for Bloodborne. You need to read the comments sometimes to avoid making fatal errors though, like letting the wrong hunter die (or accidentally killing her). As thorough as he was through most of it, there were moments like that which could completely fuck your whole game up if you weren't quick enough on hard closing it out before tragedy struck.
@@ledumpsterfire6474 For Bloodborne I need just 9 trophies in order to pop the plat. 3 of those are endings (which also takes care of the trophies for Gehrman and Moon Presence since those bosses are directly tied to the endings, thankfully), 3 are bosses, 2 are hunter weapons (main game and DLC), 1 is for hunter tools. I'll get Orphan and Laurence this time. Queen of Yharnam will be at some point when/if I do the Chalice Dungeons. The weapons are annoying to get though. I'm also not sure which tool I'm missing. All the major ones are done though and weren't too bad to get. Bloodborne is, on the whole, a lot more straightforward with things than the Souls games.
@@SolaScientia Truth be told, I don't really like the Souls games because of that. The exploration is too "messy," convoluted. For me at least.
Never knowing if a boss was ridiculously hard because it was a hard boss or because I'm simply there too early.
Landing yourself in an area that's very near impossible to escape from with your current build/stats, because the way you came in closed off behind you and is now forcing you to get through an area you shouldn't have been in for another several hours or so.
An area or boss battle where some obscure item is damn near mandatory to get through it without god-like skill, but that item is arbitrarily tucked away somewhere totally unassuming, possibly in the middle of an optional area.
Bloodborne circumvented a lot of that, and thank fucking god it did, because it's a masterpiece.
@@ledumpsterfire6474 The messy aspect is mostly seen in Elden Ring with so much freedom of exploration. In the Soulsborne games and Sekiro, them being more linear a bit makes it easier to see if you're overleveled or not. Part of that too is leveling up when you have the souls/echoes to do so and not spending them on stuff early on. I was overleveled when I fought Alrdrich in Dark Souls 3, because I cleared the Irithyll Dungeons and killed Yhorm before him. At least with Yhorm the sword you need is right in the room with you. I'm barely in the level range for the Orphan of Kos (level 89), but I'm managing it just fine. I will say that when I need to farm echoes in Bloodborne to restock my blood vials, they sure make farming easy. I don't really farm for souls in Dark Souls 3, but if I did I'm having a hard time thinking of places that are easy to farm. Bloodborne has a number of good areas for farming. As for being at the right level, I only run into that question when I'm up against an optional boss. If it's mandatory I'm usually always in the right level range for it. The Old Hunters kicked my ass hard when I first started it. Martyr Logarius was also a pain.
I will say that I find the Orphan of Kos actually easier than Laurence. I hate Laurence. His boss run is trash. I can't read his moves very well and it's just horrible. I nearly had the Orphan last night (just 2-3 hits away). I can parry him and backstab him pretty easily now. Laurence is the most bullshit boss I've ever fought, I think.
Gears of War comes to mind. "Seriously..." requires you to get 10 THOUSAND kills. I'll go for any achievement where I feel like I can get it, but ones like that I don't even bother.
Judgement's "Oh Look, a Cat" achievement/ trophy; you have to look at every cat the game while in investigations mode. And they are story/ substory specific.
Stick of Truth had several Chinpokomon that could be missed throughout the game, and collecting all of them was an achievement.
Plus, many friends can be missed (same with the one for collecting all 30 chinpokemon).
Clyde is one example. As you need to talk to him first, before talking to Cartman to start the tutorial. This means, you can be locked off from all friends in the first five minutes of gameplay without even knowing.
Plus, that game has many more easily missed trophies.
SPOILER ... If I remember correctly, Shoe is the worst one to collect, because it doesn't look like anything you'd be expecting to search for, and it's at a missable point where you're rushing to complete another task so you might run through the room without stopping to look at anything.
@@yuvi3000you'd really only know to look if you were a diehard South Park fan since Shoe was a Chinpokomon that was advertised in the episode.
@@msthecommentator2863 Yep, I personally remembered it from the show but I missed it in the game. It pops up at a point where a lot of things are happening and the game gets you excited to progress, so it's easy to forget to examine everything around you at that point.
Tales of Vesperia has a bunch. Almost every boss has a secret objective you have to complete during the battle, there's also the achievement where you have to manually scan every enemy with an item... including the tutorial specific enemies.
All Tales games are the worst in that regard
I 100% Vesparia and if I remember correctly it's requires 2.5 playthroughs.
True that. At least with Definitive edition you can redo the bosses for some achievements. Still missed the freakin soldiers in the cave that I can't get anymore R.I.P
Those aren't even the worst ones. The worst by far is the all titles trophy, which requires you to complete both the item book and the monster book. Some items are easily missable, some enemies can only be fought once, and some titles can glitch. And if you miss a title, you can't get the last bunny ears, which means another missed trophy.
Assassin’s Creed 2 had an achievement in a story mission, and this was before the days of sequence replay so it was entirely missable if you didn’t kick someone off the roof during your flight in Da Vinci’s flying machine, they even had to add the ability to use the machine as a mini game in the Forli DLC just so people wouldn’t have to play through most of the game again to get the opportunity
They could make a musical about this list:
"Les Missables"
"I dreamed a dream of achievements gone by..."
"Look Down, Look Down. Collectable in the grave"
@@SporkSlayer Look down, look down, back to your last save
@@Sunegami I would have preferred missing that terrible joke
One Game More......
There's also "Art Collector" in Dishonored 1 & 2. Sometimes I wish I'd been lazy enough to give up after my first screw up.
I have dishonored. How do I get that achievement? I may try for it, but not sure at this point.
@@justincooper5189 you just gotta collect all the paintings that you can pick up throughout the game
The audio diary achievement in the original Bioshock. You can revisit areas and find almost every one, but there are a couple in the starting area, which you can’t return to, and is early in the game so you almost certainly didn’t look at a guide yet on your first playthrough.
I think there are also a couple in later areas that you lose access to (like maybe Ryan’s office and Tenenbaum’s shelter?)
Burnie from Rooster Teeth once mentioned a great idea, that there should be an achievement website, spoiler-free, that just tells you what you need to know to not miss whole-game achievements (I think he was talking about doing 30 missions with the same horse in RDR).
I also lamented not talking to Lucy at every opportunity in Assassins Creed, and not throwing a batarang at Azrael when I had the chance in Arkham City.
BioShock also has annoying achievements with buying tonics, i think. Because you might buy ones that you can find later and waste Adam. I remember being about 50 Adam short, even though I saved every little sister, because I happened to buy the wrong things. Or inventing 100 items because you can just run out of the materials you need, especially if you don’t spec properly to get the discounts.
@@Diphenhydra true. Im a hoarder and I resist respeccing so i never ran into that problem. However, another one I did run into was the research achievement. I didn’t realize that you need to research turrets, cameras, and maybe even the sentry drones? in addition to living enemies. And turrets and cameras don’t respawn once you break them. So if you finish the game and go back to do achievements, you can’t complete the research because of one or two enemy types.
I do love Bioshock but the achievement design drives me crazy.
@@VeronicaWarlock oh god, the research. Going into every fight with a camera while enemies are attacking you. I’ll cut them some slack because it was 2007 and achievements were still new. That achievement list almost ruins an excellent game.
@@Diphenhydra especially because I think they’re all good achievements, the implementation is just screwy.
Also, buggy. I have collected all the audio diaries twice, on the original and the new-gen remaster, confirmed, and I have never gotten the achievement.
@@VeronicaWarlock what platform? I did the achievements on PS3 and PS4 and never had a problem with them.
The "oblivion walker" achievement from Skyrim is a huge pain given how many chances you have to it mess up. You have to collect 15 unique items from the various daedric quests. Unfortunately three of them are permanently missable and basically require you to not do what you're told; either refusing the reward you're offered, talking to a random grave robber you've been told to kill, or actively siding with someone you were sent to kill and then betraying them at the last possible moment.
Missing to catch Trico pooping in The Last Guardian will make it mandatory for you to replay the whole thing and see if you actually catch him in the act next time. If, that is.
Twice have I missed the "Infernal Justice" achievement in Kingdom Come: Deliverance, where you have to find a killer and dropping his corpse in the same hole he's dropped his victims. It's a bit out of the way and in the middle of the game, but how the save system works (on Hardcore mode), your last save can have been a full day or even longer ago, and if you go too far away from the encounter, the body will disappear and you have to replay the game to be able to drop the body in the hole and get the achievement.
when the nier replicant remaster came out two years ago, i got every single trophy except for one: complete route a in 15 hours, something you won't want to do in a first playthrough because of how much you'll need to rush, and said rushing could lock you out of getting a lot of other trophies, since route a is the only one where you play through the first half of the game.
i finally got that trophy, and my platinum, yesterday.
You want an odd one? UFO from Final Fantasy 8. If you are not using a guide the UFO scenes are only found in magazines that are misable, let alone the last location. AND even then you can still miss You if you don't have enough elixirs.
Or if you do have enough elixirs but don't have the item command junctioned
Night in the Woods is divided into days, where you can do stuff each day and it'll allow you to do more stuff the next day. Needless to say, you'll miss out on an event or achievement if you forget about something or someone. However, there's a lot of stuff that the game doesn't tell you about, and you'll have to play the entire game over again if you mess up or miss something. For example: the "Accidentally Good Dinner" achievement requires you to hang out with Bea 3 times and pick the right combination of ingredients. As far as I know, there's no way to know in-game what combo will give you the achievement.
This is why chapter points you can jump to at anytime after starting/completing (depending on the game) said chapter are a blessing.
One easily missable achievement that comes to mind for me (no pun intended) was the achievement "I think they were impressed" from the original Psychonauts. This achievement needs you to introduce Mr. Pokeylope (the talking turtle with a crown) to all the camp kids. What makes this achievement so easy to miss is that this talking turtle doesn't show up until the end of game, right before the "Save of no Return" that makes you unable to go back to the camp grounds for the rest game (and there's no post game).
Which means you also needed to find all the brains. Most weren't so hard, but some were definitely out of the way.
@@OriginalPiMan Yeah, Dogan's brain was the hardest for me as it was the only one I missed in my first playthrough
I got the Batman one out of paranoia because I was expecting them to all ambush me.
In any case, the collectible idols in Far Cry 3. There's one in a cave while your character is looking for specific mushrooms, steps on some, and gets intoxicated. Well, I missed it as it's an early mission and I didn't realize to look for it. In the original release, the cave closes up once you're done with the mission locking it inside forever.
Dark Chronicle (AKA Dark Cloud 2) is a huge pain for this. You have to create every invention via photgraphs you take in game, and some of the photographs are of specific boss attacks. You only fight the bosses once.
You also need to get every dungeon medal for completing specific level tasks (time limits etc). One of the later dungeons is closed after you beat the boss and you can't get back into it to get all the trophies if you miss them.
The good thing about Dark Chronicle boss photos is it let you import the photos in NG+ from an older save.
For me anything tied to Multiplayer in story specific games sucks. I'm playing a happy little game in the hour I have between kids going to bed and getting food for me and the wife. I don't want to go online just for the two achievements about sharing resources or waving to a friend
One trophy immediately came to mind & that is Curiosity killed the Cat from Sherlock Holmes The Awakened remake as you can only get this throphy at the end of chapter 2 & while you can replay any chapter once you've completed it you do have to do the entire chapter all over again. Also there are only two ways to get this trophy: Accidentally or by looking up a guide otherwise you will absolutely miss it
Ellen I feel your pain regarding AC3. That game did Connor dirty.
Connor was the most uninteresting character until Arno came along and said whatever "Hold my beer" is in French, only he'd say it with a heavy British accent because French people are British.
I don't. He's probably my favorite of the broody bland hoodie-wearing losers they used to think were acceptable protagonists. Why is he the one that gets signaled out?
@@ChristophBrinkmann Play the game in French and read the subtitles.
In BioShock there are several missable achievements around Sander Cohan. If you kill him in the first chapter you've seen him, then you don't get in his apartment several chapters later. So you miss the achievement "an artist's apartment". You also miss a weapon upgrade station, wich you need for the "getting all weapon upgrades" achievement. Once killed the only chance to get these achievements, if you start over a new game and let him live. :/
FUN FACT ABOUT PLATINUM AT THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN
Platinum deposits don't really exist in europe. consequently, around the time of the conquistadors, it was known as "unripe silver". It was thus deemed relatively worthless, even though its a much rarer metal. And since the platinum the conquistadors brought back was being used to forge gold ingots back in spain, the spanish crown decided to chuck all of the platinum in the country into the ocean.
That's actually where the name "platinum" comes from. In Spanish, it's known as "platina", a diminutive of the word "plata" (silver).
@@Munster_Mash neat
There's one in smt3: nocturne where you have to use 2 vending machines at the beginning of the game, with no indication that they're interactive. If you miss them, you can't go back cause of the big event that happens shortly after the prologue
Stupid thing is, by doing those Homestead mission in Assassin's Creed 3, you also unlock some of the weapons available in the game too that otherwise wouldn;t be achieveable. I don't remember if they were particularly powerful (some of them probably were) but I can't say for certainty as it's been a couple of years since I last played that game. I think one of the weapons you can craft after completing a certain amount of homestead missions was either the Lincoln sword, or Washington's broken sword "knife". it was something like that.
This isn't about an achievement but the RD2 thing reminded about how in, I think, all of the Rune Factory games you have to wait for events to trigger randomly. Even if you have met the conditions for it, it would be almost an in game year later before it triggers ☹️
I think I got the Party Pooper achievement on my first playthrough, because I immediately started punching when I arrived.
Then once inside, I was confused, walked by, then was so weirded out I just punched everybody.
Movie Critic Achievement in Final Fantasy IX, you need to watch all of the Active Time Events - some of these events will disappear if you watch them in the incorrect order, or may never show up if you walk through a set of areas incorrectly.
Funny, isn’t it? No matter how terrible all our days can sometimes be, seeing that little notification that OX have released a video can always make you feel so much better. Thanks guys.
Some of these achievements makes me realise my insane habit of checking and re-checking for new dialogue after every mission or side mission in every game a good thing and not just me being hyper obsessed with not missing a single word from anyone for no reason
I resemble that remark
fr i got the rdr2 one on accident. i just love talking to people around camp and i usually already have whatever it is they want. i got the achievement at the beginning of chapter 2
So you're telling me there are some people who, when playing Arkham Asylum, don't beat every goon they see senseless?!?!? INCONCEIVABLE!!
Look i have 1 rule i dont beat up people unless they attack me first
Seeing that some Batman fans play this and Batman really doesn’t fight unless he has to…Yes
“You keep using that word… I do not think it means what you think it means.” - Inigo Montoya
@@celestialstar6450 finally the response I was looking for...lol
@@Brian-tn4cd Do you beat up people who have basically been running around killing guards and releasing violent prisoners? These aren’t innocent people we’re talking about… At the very least, I think that Batman would strongly suggest to them to peacefully return to their cells…
I played through all of Senua's sacrifice just to miss the last bloody lore stone near the end of game and I couldn't go back and get it. I was so angry at myself.
I missed out on "Stories From the North" for like 100g and it was the last achievement I needed before I could say I had 100%ed the game. Its a shame because that game was amazing but I could not handle another playthrough just for one lorestone, it would be koa all over again... I need all the knowledge 😅
That was my first platinum and i wasn't even trying for it. only wanted the lore stones to get the extra ending and the rest just came naturally.
This happened to me and I was absolutely furious. Apparently you can collect the lorde stone BUT if you happen to die in the last segment of the game apparently you lose it. 🤷♂️ And you can’t go back for it. I actually went back I. A second play through and made sure I cranked it down to easy in that last segment just so this didn’t happen. It was just annoying.
In Read Only Memories, the main character has a wilting plant in their home, and at the start of the game, they get a tip on how to nurse it back to health... Which includes backtracking to it at a point in the story where you have NO REASON to go back home whatsoever. Meaning you'll only get the plant half recovered even if you applied the instructions. And by the time you see the results of what you did with the plant (and get the corresponding achievement), chances are you don't have a save from when you should have backtracked home anymore. And even if you do, it was so early in the game that you may as well restart.
I'd like to add to the list the trophy "A Perfect Job" from the original Persona 5. You must complete all requests, some of which are unlocked only if you read certain missable text messages from Mishima. And your phone in the game only shows your most recent text messages, so if you forget to read them, you're starting the 100+ hour game over again. There's also a trophy for creating all types of infiltration tools which you might miss because you're probably never going to use the vast majority of them.
5:33 If your goal is to platinum Eldin Ring, you need to get every ending, so you theoretically have 5 more chances to come back and get that Bolt.
I've been watching both of your channels for a few years, now and I have to say that your spoiler warnings are some of the better ones on the platform. I love that you list them in order, and I love the speed at which they go by
I agree with this. I've seen other channels say "spoilers ahead for the following games" with no list, and even the description doesn't have anything.
Unlocking all of the secrets in Vampyr. To get one of them, you have to talk to your buddy at specific times, then go all the way around plagued-up London (since the easy way is blocked) to go back to him, instead of following the game and going to the boss fight. If you do the boss fight, you can't get the secret. And that even assumes you don't get any of the secrets wrong.
Deus Ex Human Revolution:
Doctorate: Read all 29 unique XP books within a single playthrough.
Not only are there areas of the game that you can't go back to but with the nature of the game you might get a book, reload (after being seen or dying) and then forgetting to get that very well hidden XP book.
I have all of the achievements in that game except that one, including beat the game on the hardest difficulty and beat the game without setting off an alarm. The second one of which is also easy to miss because if you set off an alarm and don't notice you'll finish the whole game without realizing that you failed that one.
I ended up replaying Asylum after accidentally missing that one myself, fortunately it was a good game so I didn't mind.
If you're gathering materials for making fire arrows in RDR2, is that a fletch quest?
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Boo.
Listening to all the lore stones in Hellblade.
All because it’s such a mentally heavy game, I couldn’t bring myself to play the whole thing again to grab it.
I only missed one and I know exactly which one but that doesn’t help lol
I remember a single player fps with a sniper training mission all about patience. Your target will appear in front of your fixed position sometime in the next 12 HOURS or something stupid, and you're supposed to just pay attention until then so you don't miss it. I thought, "they can't be serious!" ...and rage-quit when i realised they were. Can't for the life of me remember what it was called.
For YEARS I missed the my brother is a Italian plumber achievement from borderlands. I didn't know how to get the achievement until three years ago when I found out that you actually have to jump on any enemy's head multiple times and kill it in order to get the achievement. What makes the achievement very hard is that borderlands isn't a platformer, yes you can jump onto stuff but the main point of the game is The vault hunters pulling the trigger finger and making things go boom and bang. Hearing that secret achievement sound when I finally got it felt so goddamn satisfying.
The Halo: Reach If They Came to Hear Me Beg achievement is as easy to miss as it is cool to pull off.
Tales of Berseria has an annoying one with its "Witness to the Mystic" trophy. Not only do you have to view every mystic arte used by your characters (some of which are already optional,) but you also have to view every enemy Mystic Arte. On top of needing to sit around to make sure a boss uses a Mystic arte, there's even one that comes down to straight rng and another that only occurs if you happen to use an item, which many players may feel discouraged from doing, at that point, due to the loss of Grade.
Going off the encyclopedia achievement, Mass Effect 1 has a similar achievement where you need to ask specific characters specific questions at certain times to find all Alien codex entries
Final Fantasy 9 had one, called Movie Critic, for viewing all the ATEs in one playthrough, and all 79 of them were time sensitive or had very specific unlock conditions. I doubt anybody could unlock it without a guide. Also one playthrough can take about 40 hours or more.
oh, i recent saw a video where some game, i forget the name, had an achievement for NOT SKIPPING A SINGLE CUTSCENE.
edit: no, wait, it was worse: the game has a bunch of collectible Records you can collect and play, and you need to find ALL of them AND play every single one ALL THE WAY THROUGH to get the achievement!
Crisis Core Reunion is a fun game to Platinum! The toughest trophy to get is definitely the Minerva fight but as long as you keep multiple save files it’s easy to jump around and go back to get an old mini game related trophy. Maybe it’s my 90s gamer brain but I would never keep just one or two save files for a game.
I honestly didn't think the legendary armaments achievement was that easy to miss but I have always played soulsbourne games hyper-exploratory
The achievement in Cyberpunk 2077 for saving Takemura and helping him get his revenge is insanely easy to miss. Even if you know to save him, there's nothing suggesting it's possible, and the game actually tells you not to even try. you also have to replay a huge chunk of the story if you miss it.
I lucked out on this one. Something told me to go back and check. Glad i did.
In the first Assassin’s Creed game there’s an achievement for going through all of Lucy’s conversations. Unfortunately the game does absolutely nothing to even let you know that she has any conversations at all. You have to go up to her and click the converse option, then once that’s done click it again and hope she has something more to say. And if you accidentally leave without exhausting the options available, the only way to try again is to restart the game from the start.
Very frustrating when you miss an important reward or storyline. I always have this with persona games.
Another from the Witcher 3 I’d suggest is the David and Golyat achievement from the Blood and Wine DLC. Golyat is a giant you face at the very start of the DLC. To get the trophy you need to instakill him with a crossbow bolt to the eye to get it and the game doesn’t even give any indication you can do that. So if you kill him normally you miss out on the trophy and since Blood and Wine is the highest leveled DLC quest line it’s going to be a long playthrough to give it another go just for that trophy alone
You can start a new playthrough with the blood and wine quest line and levelled up geralt unlocked..
Dishonored 2's Royal Spymaster achievement. You have to read / listen to all audio logs and journals on the Dreadful whale between missions. There is no counter so you won't know until the 9th mission if you actually got them all.
The Souvenirs achievement is similar but at least you can see your progress in your room and there's only one per level.
Both of these have ~3% achievement rate
Auto Enthusiast in LA Noir. Unlocking every single car in the game. The only way you know if you've seen this one particular car is from the main menu gallery, or by sitting in it and crossing your fingers you get the "New Vehicle" notification. That one took me forever, and I almost rage quit. So not missable in the traditional sense, but if you have no patience.
I replayed the Witcher 4 times just to get all the cards and then what you guys didn’t mention were if you download the dlc “blood and wine” there is a whole other faction of skellige
How about the "Determiner of Fate" achievement from Code Vein? This is the achievement for seeing every ending in the game. And there's 3 achievements for endings. So you'd think there's only 3 endings, but there's actually 4. There are two variants of the Dweller in the Dark ending, with an absolute minimum of variation, and they're both required. Furthermore, all endings must be seen on the same save file in order to trigger the acquisition of "Determiner of Fate". And while the key trigger can be done AFTER you initially beat the game, if you've already done it you must start NG+ a 3rd time rather than just twice to obtain all of the endings.
At least it's worth a comparatively hefty 50g on Xbox.
Ended up getting the Arkham asylum platinum 10 years after I started because of that damn trophy,
I could not be bothered to replay for that long, and frankly it was a miracle my ps3 hadn’t died in the mean time.
i think it's worth mentioning that in Arkham Asylum, the door at the end of the corridor full of goons is a "point of no return", so if you missed ANYTHING before that, you can't go BACK for it!
i missed out on a few Riddler Trophies that way, in my first playthrough!
The Trails of Cold Steel games all have a trophy for opening all treasure chest from the prologue to the end of the game. If you miss 1 in a locked off area- sorry about your luck. You're playing a 70 hour jrpg all over again. And don't miss another one- they don't stack
Tales of Beseria: Velvet's side quest needs you to see several skits AND get Velvet's cooking level to 20.
That's not cooking 20 times. It's leveling the cooking to 20. The easiest way is to have Velvet auto cook at the beginning and get into way too many fights.
Guess who found that out at the end of the game!!!
Honestly several of the Tales of Beseria side quests could go here.
Yeah tales games are notorious for having so many missable things.
Hey you didnt go back to the towns in and sleep 3 times after a certain point or interaction with little or no hint.
Then after the skit go to another town to talk to soneone and or do another skit etc
@travisrolison9646 it's my first Tales game! I have a walkthrough open just to see how far I've gotten but I only checked the side quest part recently.
... yeah I'm not replaying. I love you all, but no.
The only tales game that is worth replaying is vesperia and arise. The others are good but good for one play through.
@@madamminalost yeah i dont even bother. I remeber tales of the abyss for ps2(so no trophies) but a good item or soemthing .
Anyway there is a long fetch quest that spans chapters, at one point a town gets wiped. Which is the only place that sells this basic and useless sword weapons which you need i think like 4 of to go-to the next phase of quest .
I was pissed
Darksiders has a few that could make this list. Taking out a helicopter can only be done in the intro sequence and the window to do it is only a few seconds so if you miss it you miss out,kill more angels than Ulthane can only be done in your first encounter with him and shoot down a ton of enemies while riding the griffin is only available in one very short encounter and all of these require you to replay the whole game up to that point if you miss them
similarly there's also the achievement in The Darkness where you have to kill every single person shooting at you during the opening car chase, it requires a lot of trial and error before getting it.
@@ichijofestival2576 the helicopter is early enough to not be a problem but the others are a good bit into the game
Oh this reminds me of the trading sequence in Eternal Sonata - if you miss any one of the unmarked npcs along the way, the quest will be stuck for the rest of the game as there's no way of going back to previous areas...
So I accidently ran into that elden ring side boss while running around. It gave me quite the scare
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This is exactly how I felt about Outer Worlds, you had to do missions in a set way to trigger achievements, and if you made the wrong decision, you'd have to load an old save. I'll never see all of that game.
I feel like speedrunning trophies should count for this as well, since they're almost always easily missable if you don't know they exist before hand and are planning on going for them, and force you to replay the entire game, (usually in a fairly specific way if you want to be fast enough), to get them. I pretty much immediately give up on getting the platinum in most games if I learn that there's one for speedrunning, since while that sort of thing can be fun on its own, it's annoying to be forced to do it.
I'm currently replaying The Last Of Us yet again. Why? Because apparently I need pause every two minutes to see whether Ellie wants to tell any Ellen-level puns.
... but I _will_ get that Platinum!
thats an actual trophy?
@@mattalan6618 yes there's a trophy for getting all of Ellie's jokes, had to restart checkpoints several times to get all of them.
I forgot about this channel, time to fix that mistake
Good news, mistake already fixed
Yeah. Congrats.
totally reminds me of the cards from FF8 or the titles in LOTRO. I am talking about the one about getting certain levels with out dying. if you die ONCE you are locked out of all the titles.
"Death by Disco" trophy in Ratchet and Clank is also extremely missable where you have to throw groovy bombs on EVERY enemy (including different versions of the same enemy). Some enemies appear only once in a playthrough.
Chinpokemom in Stick of Truth. One is on the alien ship which you only go up to once
I honestly loved the homestead side missions in AC3.
Easily my favorite part of the game
Thank you for the Elden Ring one; I'm in Leyndell now on my first playthrough and because I'd watched this video I was keeping a very close eye out every time I was passing over a bit of the dragon for an item sparkle (I could have rewatched the video _first_ and known to watch when near the weapon specifically, but that would have been the smart thing to do) and I'm pretty positive I would have missed it without the forewarning.
Best bromance from the original final fantasy 7. You have 4 options for Cloud to go on a date with. All 4 characters have invisible affection values for Cloud. Barret starts the game with 0, and Aeris/Aerith starts with the most at 50. You basically have to guide all the dialog options up to that point in the game to get the trophy. Very easy to miss.
Prey (2017) has an achievement at the very beginning of the intro, for killing yourself on the blades of the helicopter before the game even begins.
Though if you want to get 100% of the achievements you’ll probably have to play through the game *at least* 3 times, and complete several timeloops in the Mooncrash DLC.
I did about 5.5 Preythroughs not including DLC before I platinumed the list.
I love System Shock 2 (BioShock's inspiration) and I usually love story based games.
But I couldn't get through it. I eventually Let's Played through it. No way in hell would I go achievement hunting lol
@@ChristophBrinkmann really? It’s one of my favorite modern games, not including Soulsborne titles. And it’s only one of like 5 non-souls games I’ve cared to 100%.
There are so many different way to navigate the station depending on what Neuromods and Chipsets you own/invest in.
Or you can literally just stack blobs from the Gloo Gun to create a path.
And there are multiple endings, so 3 Preythroughs really isn’t asking too much, as unless you’re married to a particular Preystyle, each time feels unique.
The only reason it took me more than three is because I wasn’t being careful on my Kill All Humans run, and let one self detonate by accident, so it wasn’t by my hand, and the attempt was void.
I was on NG+2 when I finally remembered to go get the bolt. Luckily, i have a friend who was kind enough to drop it for me.
One game that's filled with missable achievements is South Park: The Stick of Truth. The one the infuriated me the most was the one to add everyone as a friend. You could miss the first one within the first 10 minutes, and not realize it was missable, and have to play through the entire game again to get the achievement.
I needed 3 playthroughs because I missed Clyde twice...
Luckily I was smart enough to save before the Bishop quest so could realise he was a friend with minimal effort.
Just before the era of 'systematic console/platform achievements, Dungeon Siege had a easter egg of a secret level on the default multiplayer campaign...that was only accessible with three items - an extraneous book found in the campaign's final boss battle, a crystal from a challenging 'extra' dungeon...
...and the 'noob knife' that your character starts with in the single-player campaign; that you would probably discard after finding better weapons from the spoils of your first combat.
Well I did get the bolt of gransax on a second playthrough, but I didn't do a second to get the bolt -I did it to get a different ending trophy ^.^ just one more playthrough to go!! Thanks for all the great videos ^.^
Final Fantasy 9, "Ultimate Sword". Not only it is an easily missable achievement, to unlock this one after you missed it you have to replay practically the whole game again.
The first Rage (an FPS) had one of those collectible card games too. I tried finding them all but missed a few that were in obvious places, in hindsight.
In the original Assassin's Creed (1), the cutscenes would display a random shimmer at points. If you pressed the right button at the right time when that shimmer appeared, it would switch to a new camera angle. It didn't tell you that's what they were, or which button to press. You just had to know. Or discover it several missions in.
There was an achievement for catching every camera change prompt in every cutscene in the game.
I also missed the Bolt of Gransax when I played Elden Ring. Thing is, I was more than happy to play through the whole game again to collect the weapon because Elden Ring is absolutely brilliant.
Same. I missed Bolt of Gransax in my first run too. But I liked Elden Ring so much I was quick to do everything I hadn't missed in that cycle, then do NG+ for the two remaining endings and Bolt of Gransax.
The Sinking City has so many missable trophies based on dialogue options, moral dilemmas, and willful acts of dickishness that I had to start frequently quicksaving and reloading to make sure I got them all. And don’t even get me started on Call of Cthulhu.
My personal addition is the 'Daredevil' achievement from Nier Replicant. It requires you to play through the game AT LEAST 2 TIMES (One whole run through parts 1 and 2 and then another 2 runs through part 2. Oh, and make sure you don't miss any of the weapons in part 1 or else getting the ending required the progress through them all will now be unobtainable.) just to have the OPPROTUNITY to get it, and how you get it is by looking up a character's skirt 10 times when she becomes playable. And she only becomes playable after you've played those 2 times. If you complete her section before getting the achievement, welp, you'll have to start over completely from scratch on a new save. And by the way, getting to her section already requires you to wipe your old saves and make a new one then play through the first 2-4 hours of the game AGAIN.
A game a was sure will be in here was ratchet and clank 2016 and the Death by disco achievement where you have to hit every type of enemy with a groovitron including bosses. So if you miss a single boss you need to replay the game again.