The Top 10 Most Frustrating Xbox LIVE Achievements
08. Portal
Very few games have managed to develop so significant a love-hate relationship with gamers on console as has the epic puzzler Portal - and that record stands just in terms of regular play and getting through an entire game, forget the Achievements! Well, maybe not all of them, but we are certain that there is one particular Achievement a lot of gamers would love to forget existed.
One of the titles in Halflife 2: Orange Box - which by the way happens to be the game with the largest number of Achievements that still totals 1000G - Portal was an instant hit, especially among gamers who enjoy puzzle play. Thanks to one Achievement is also one a lot of gamers wish they could forget.
Aperture Science (40G)
Earn gold medals on all Portal challenges.
Unlocking this one basically requires the player to obtain a gold medal for all 18 challenge maps. This one actually stacks with the Basic Science (all Bronze Medals) and Rocket Science (all Silver Medals) Achievements, which are easier to unlock as they don't require a perfect run on each map.
Getting a perfect run - or at least one perfect enough to unlock gold - for all 18 challenges now, THAT is a massively spectacular accomplishment in and of itself. Assuming you don't employ cheats to do it, which it seems a lot of desperate gamers do in fact do.
The reason it is a so well-hated, rage-inducing Achievement has more to do with the 18 challenges than with the Achievement itself, since depending on your play strengths and skills the problem challenges will be different for most players.
The prevailing wisdom suggests that the secret to unlocking this one is to play through all 18 challenges to determine which ones are the problematic ones for you, then approach each one with a plan.
Whether that plan involves simply trying different tactics, or hitting YouTube for video examples of how other players managed to do it, well, that would depend a lot on you and what you think is ethical and right. Or how desperate and angry you are. Just saying.
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