15 Sadistic Xbox One Achievements Only Hardcore Gamers Unlocked
No problem, it's only one THOUSAND hours...
For as long as the medium has existed, there have been certain feats gamers brag about to their friends. Whether it was completing Resident Evil with only the knife, or gaining all 120 stars in Mario 64, we've always found something to show off.
Then Microsoft instituted achievements, and everything changed. Now you had a definitive list you could easily compare to said friends, just to show how much better you were. It was only natural then, that as a result, games evolved and the achievements got harder.
We still had the easy "Complete X mission" and "Kill X amount of enemies" to look forward to, but on top of those came ones that left us in awe - like completing "Through The Fire And The Flames" on Expert in Guitar Hero III, or Seriously 3.0 in Gears of War 3.
Certain achievements became legendary, and they became achievable only by those who put in the time and effort. You won't simply be completing the game to earn these monstrosities, you'll be sinking hours upon hours of your life just for one of them.
But still, you'll be one of the best, it'll be one of the rarest around, and you'll have earned the right to shove that reward in everyone's face.
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15. Energiser - Outlast
Outlast is a survival horror where you play as an investigative journalist surrounded by lunatics in an insane asylum. Lunatics want to kill you, and on top of that, it's oh, so very dark. But luckily enough, you have a handy night vision camera to guide you through the death maze...
That is, until you go for the Energiser achievement, which forces you to play the game on the hardest difficulty without changing the batteries in your camera. Oh, and the hardest difficulty here means if you die, you restart from the very beginning. No checkpoints, nothing. You'll have to manage to beat this game in essentially absolute darkness, without dying once. And good luck, considering everything is basically a one hit kill.
Even worse is at the end of the game, the actual last thing you do, is a jump across a big gap. If you misjudge the jump or simply miss, you're going to be replaying the ENTIRE game all over again.