Gimmicky Achievements and Gimmicky DLC

[Key Sharkz 69]

Okay, I just want to preface this by saying that I love the living crap out of Borderlands. However I am about to throw it under the bus in this thread as an example to illustrate what I am talking about. So bear in mind that I do not hate the game, but damn does it do something that annoys the crap out of me that game makers are doing lately.

 

So some of us have probably gone achievement hunting, or gotten a new DLC and wanted to complete it right? Well, what the most annoying thing for me is what achievements or DLCs are made is a gimmicky fashion for the sole purpose of artificially inflating the length of a game. What am I talking about? Well let's take Borderlands' Mad Moxxi DLC: It's crap. Sorry, but I can't even lie, it's crap. To get the last 3 trophies in it, you need to survive 3 100 round tournaments with no checkpoints, and you can't even die once. You die? You start from the beginning. It can take around 9 hours to beat all 3, and the reward? 1 skill point (I.e. the equivalent of going up one level). All of that for 3 silver trophies and 1 gold. It's frustrating that a lot of games are  making achievements or DLC like this though. A "challenge" that is more or less a test of patience rather than skill. The underdome challenge is HARDLY difficult, it's just boring.

 

It's really annoying when game devs are just making expansions like this, and then turn around saying it adds "several hours of new gameplay!" when in reality it's just adding 10 hours of grinding which isn't fun or valuable gameplay (considering the game is already an RPG). I get that gamers are demanding longer and longer games, but their demands are for legitimately longer games, not games that take 100+ hours because of all the grinding you will need to do to complete side quests.

 

What are some games that have achievements or trophies that did  this kind of crap to you that you loathe?

[HeyMouseSayCheese 1,133]

I don't know about achievements, but both Bioshock 2 and Infinite had the same kind of "challenge arena" DLC that Borderlands did. I never played the one in Infinite (because that game was lame) but I did in 2 and for the most part, it was lame. There were like 5 or 6 different arenas and a handful of challenges in each one (as in, protect the Little Sister from Splicers with different loadouts), and barring a couple that specified in using the drill- by the way, drill+bees=pure fun, in case you were wondering- they were all fairly uninteresting. The only real reason to even finish it is that it unlocks a special bonus plasmid in the Minerva's Den DLC, and it's really not worth it.