9 Most Pointless Achievements In Video Game History

2. Insomniac - Dead or Alive 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS3OTIw2mKQ Dead or Alive 5 has missed out on the top spot by an inch, only being beaten because, unlike the trophy in first place, this one didn€™t nearly give me a nervous breakdown. Those of you familiar with it will know this appalling excuse for a trophy should not logically exist, and for the unfamiliar among you it asks for the player to finish story mode without having skipped any cutscenes. Yeah, that€™s right, the story is so realty-implodingly awful players get rewarded for tolerating the sodding thing. However, the real travesty behind this trophy isn€™t that the story is so uninteresting, nonsensical, and drawn-out players need an extra incentive not to give up on it, but that the developers knew it was all those things. It is a lazy fart in the face of every loyal fan who bought the game, demonstrating how the writers both know and don€™t care that their game is unacceptably bad, no longer giving the slightest toss as to whether their buyers actually enjoy themselves with the disc they€™ve just spent a two week food budget on. The very notion of this trophy is insulting and whoever came up with it should be immediately fired. Cutscenes are so tedious the promise of a trophy wouldn€™t even convince Ghandi to have the patience to sit through the dross, leaving what is supposed to be a reward simply as a malicious little reminder that nobody involved in the game could care less about player or their happiness.
 
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