Best and Worst Achievements/Trophies

Now that the idea of unlockable and trackable bragging rights has been well established through Achievements on Xbox Live, Windows Live, and Steam, as well as through Trophies on PlayStation Network, there are some fairly common patterns in terms of types. Some of these have been especially clever and well-designed and others are just awful. Which are your favorite types and which do you hate?

Favorite
Single player, possible on a single play-through, yet challenging

Hate
Cumulative number of kills, hours played, miles driven, etc.
Require day one purchase and/or random luck, such as playing with developers

I'm fine with "oh he's gotten this far" ones, balls-hard ones, and quirk side mission ones. Hell, those are the only ones with any kind of merit.

I wish all achievements were secondary type things, mostly with subtle hints on what is (so it's not just a checklist). I also wish the only MP achievements were teamwork related, not 'use this weapon' or 'get the most kills on your team in a CTF match'. I also hate the end-game or either-or achievements that force you to play the game to completion multiple times. I will play some games more than once but I don't want the achievement to stay hanging.

Good ones are WAX OFF in Geo Wars 2 where you have to move your ship around the border of the entire playfield in one of the modes twice. It's a different way to play the same mode.

worst = the ones that rely on peripherals to get, like the camera shot ones in burnout paradise that I'll never get cause fuck buying a camera

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

Require day one purchase and/or random luck, such as playing with developers

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These are always viral; you can play with someone who has played with someone who has played with a developer.

Best - single player

Worst - online

I can't say that I have once actively tried to get an achievement. My 6400 points are spread up amongst 30+ games and are acquired by normal playing. But I'll admit....they really put some dumb shit as stipulations and there will always be somebody that feels they have to do it.

Achievement Unlocked: Awesome Sandwich!

My favorite one is probably "Mile High Club" from COD4.

I really hate achievements where you have to collect everything, like every light seed in PoP.

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

Achievement Unlocked: Awesome Sandwich!

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Dude, unlock that for me, I'm fucking hungry.