8 Video Game Trophies That Took YEARS To Get

5. Three of a Kind - Gran Turismo 6

Gran Turismo 6
Polyphony Digital

A rarity in this next one as a good handful of Gran Turismo 6 players have popped this trophy but it’s just as likely to be obtained by those who weren’t trying to get it as those who were, and that’s because the requirement for this one is frankly bullshit.

It would be a good day to be a person who doesn’t care about trophies and a very bad day to be somebody who does in the case of this particular trophy because it doesn’t matter if you know exactly what to do to get it. In fact, you don’t even have to be any good at the game.

That’s because achieving the Three of a Kind trophy is pretty much a crapshoot. In order to pick it up you need to register a lap record where the three digits after the decimal point are the same. That’s right, this is either a trophy you could get immediately after starting the game or one that could elude you for years since getting it is just dumb luck.

Well, dumb luck and math since there is a 1% likelihood of getting it whenever you register a time. 

You can game this one a little by running the shortest track in the game over and over but there’s not much more you can do to grab this one other than that. In any case, this trophy made a lot of achievement hunters deeply annoyed and honestly, fair enough.

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Jess has been a journalist and content creator in the games industry for over 15 years and has been WhatCulture's resident Australian import and sorry cop since 2020, upping the quotient of swearing and apologising in WhatCulture Gaming's annual blooper videos considerably. She previously worked at GameSpot for 10 years, most notably hosting GameSpot News in addition to E3 live shows, and PAX panels. She regularly livestreams a variety of games on her 'jessmcdonell' YouTube and Twitch channels and hosts the 'Do It On The Day' podcast. She has won awards for her news and feature work in gaming as well as an accolade for her comedic writing (likely an admin error). She can be found on X at @jessmcdonell and Instagram at @jessicamcdonell sharing her current videogame fixations, industry insights, and videos of her cat, Karma.