A few years back, Microsoft made it a requirement for all of its Xbox 360’s games to have a set of achievements — a list of goals and tasks in-game to strive to complete, rewarding usually only with bragging rights points, also known as your gamerscore. Sony later copied this concept, calling them awards, I believe. Regardless, the achievements have personally added a lot to the games, setting up goals and forcing me to play extra hours of a given game to try to unlock some of these achievements.
Game-to-game, and even within a single game’s list of achievements there’s a huge continuum of difficulty and practicality in the achievements. Screwattack.com highlights seven that border on the unrealistic and tear-inducing:
7 Achievements That Will Make You Cry