Quest for the Sidequest!
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It's quests like those that destroys the atmosphere of the game and brings you back to reality to realize it's a game and reason and simple logic does not or can not apply here. Depending on how severe it may take a long time to get re-immersed into the game again.
I remember in resident evil 5 I was in this army base thing (couldn't give a toss about the plot) and there was a locked door, the only way to open the door was to kill two heavily armed brute guys with miniguns. Me and sheva managed to kick down every other door in the game so why not this one?
Ahh for the days of Deus Ex where you could solve everything with: multi-tools, lockpicks, hacking, explosives, or crate stacking.........
Bioshock. The two penultimate levels.
Despite the fact that even if I waste all my ammo shooting at Splicers, I'm still telekinetic and can shoot fire from my fingers, Tennenbaum makes me undergo an irreversible transformation into a Big Daddy. I lose the ability to speak in order to open a (yes, wooden) door. And guess what's on the other side of said door? An escort mission. A HORRENDOUS one.
Sacred 2 had some very annoying fetch quests. None related to area access, but annoying all the same due to the size of the world, and limited travel options. Also, pretty much every quest in Oblivion and Morrowind. "Here, I need this thing that I, a man who can't fight, left at the bottom of a monster infested dungeon." HOW DID HE SURVIVE?
I remember my first run into the Scarlet Monstary in WoW. The dungeon is made up of 4 different instances of difficulty. If I remember the level difficulties were 31,33,35,38. I was 35 at the time and one of like 4 rogues with a competent lock-pick skill. We were gonna do Armory (35) which was blocked by a locked door, which could of been picked. Despite having told the tank I could open the door and having did so several times I was forced into the Library section (33?) so we could get the key at the end boss. It was the only group on my server at the time so I rolled with it but that made me feel under valued and generally peeved.
Resident Evil 5 annoyed me.
At the end of the first level there is a gate that must be blown up, but your roket launcher has no effect.
You have to wait for a teammate with an Identical rocket launcher to blow it up.
Screw this, I said. And went Back to RE4.
At the end of the first level there is a gate that must be blown up, but your roket launcher has no effect.
You have to wait for a teammate with an Identical rocket launcher to blow it up.
Screw this, I said. And went Back to RE4.
In Dracula: Origins, you pretty much fight the Prince of Darkness with fetch-quests.
At one point, you need holy water as part of a door key. That's right, you never use it as a weapon, you need sacred water (and like 5 other obscure items, including a diamond, a silver coin, and *exactly* 5 ounces of gold) to open a magic door. There is only one priest in town because you're in Cairo and everyone is Muslim, and he refuses to bless water that has toucher the earth, because it is polluted. And so you must steal a casserole dish, take it to a camel trough and fill it with dirty water. You must also shatter a mirror, then hold it about the casserole dish while you boil the water over a barbecue pit. Once you have done this, you can gather the condensation on the mirror shard and pour it into an empty whiskey flask. Congratulations, you have one of five items needed to unlock a door. Naturally, since Dracula can turn into fog to pass through the door, finished his business, and left long before you got there, so chasing him here was mostly pointless.
At one point, you need holy water as part of a door key. That's right, you never use it as a weapon, you need sacred water (and like 5 other obscure items, including a diamond, a silver coin, and *exactly* 5 ounces of gold) to open a magic door. There is only one priest in town because you're in Cairo and everyone is Muslim, and he refuses to bless water that has toucher the earth, because it is polluted. And so you must steal a casserole dish, take it to a camel trough and fill it with dirty water. You must also shatter a mirror, then hold it about the casserole dish while you boil the water over a barbecue pit. Once you have done this, you can gather the condensation on the mirror shard and pour it into an empty whiskey flask. Congratulations, you have one of five items needed to unlock a door. Naturally, since Dracula can turn into fog to pass through the door, finished his business, and left long before you got there, so chasing him here was mostly pointless.
You mean the gate that leads to the area with the bridge that got destroyed after you killed the first enemy? At least, that's what I'm assuming from "back the way you came in when yu first entered the village".Shamus Young said:
Well, considering that you're not supposed to get the Rocket Launcher until you get to either Chapter 3 or 4? What were you expecting really.ziggybogidou said:
Nearly all of Half Life 2 left me in tears with the amount of doors and blocked ways that Gordon couldn't open just because it had some weird alien locker combo on it. The man is armed with an RPG, a Crowbar, a presumably heavy and clumsy HEV siut my (justification as to why he isn't as spry as Alyx)why couldn't he just bash through, explode, or otherwise decimate every arbitrary barrier in his path?
There was a very long, very difficult mod for the original half-life. This brutal single-player mod was based loosly off day of the dead and apocalypse now. There was a very long Resident Evilesque sequence where the player had to get "the rusty key" for the rusty door. After battling your way through unspeakably difficult hoards of opponents to get the red key, the blue key, the yellow key, the purple key, etc... you finally get the rusty key. Of course, the key snaps off in the lock, and the message came up "that he gave the door a slight kick, and it opened right up."
Urge to kill... rising.
Urge to kill... rising.
I haven't played as many games as i should have but as far as fetch quests go, the worst i've done is probably in Morrowind. If i had to pick one out i'd say the dark botherhood stuff in the first exspansion. (as i remember it and i may be wrong) You are sent by the king to kill a bunch of assassins with paralying blades and tough ************ armour to find a bounty notice on yourself placed by the king. why doesn't the king just tell the assasins who are working for him to not kill you? Also some of the assassination missions in morrowind of which there are more than a few are pretty shady on the logic.
The main plot quest does this a bit too. I'm level 35 and smashing through the country with mjolnir in my hands and the title of grandmaster of the fighters guild and i still need to get the abritrary approval of all the great houses and tribes Which will require yet more fetch quests and assassinations. and thats all to get the weapons and equipment i could get anyway without their approval. couldn't i just get the stuff when i'm strong enough, go kill satan, then go on a book tour or something getting there approval then?
Also in the exspansions you're a god and they still treat you like you just got off the boat. Why am i running errands at the beginning of bloodmoon and tribunal, logically with the character made in the original, to gain expeirence and trust when i'm a FREAKING GOD! like the king and the goddess in tribunal think you aren't strong enough to help them when i traveled to the top of a demon filled volcano, fought an evil god and his demigod minions and trancended my mortal coil, defeated a ancient giant robot thing and won the respect of the main tribunal god and all the people of the country? What more do you want? oh i have to pick up your groceries.
aside from that though the game is pretty solid and fun i wasn't complainign about it then so whatever.
The main plot quest does this a bit too. I'm level 35 and smashing through the country with mjolnir in my hands and the title of grandmaster of the fighters guild and i still need to get the abritrary approval of all the great houses and tribes Which will require yet more fetch quests and assassinations. and thats all to get the weapons and equipment i could get anyway without their approval. couldn't i just get the stuff when i'm strong enough, go kill satan, then go on a book tour or something getting there approval then?
Also in the exspansions you're a god and they still treat you like you just got off the boat. Why am i running errands at the beginning of bloodmoon and tribunal, logically with the character made in the original, to gain expeirence and trust when i'm a FREAKING GOD! like the king and the goddess in tribunal think you aren't strong enough to help them when i traveled to the top of a demon filled volcano, fought an evil god and his demigod minions and trancended my mortal coil, defeated a ancient giant robot thing and won the respect of the main tribunal god and all the people of the country? What more do you want? oh i have to pick up your groceries.
aside from that though the game is pretty solid and fun i wasn't complainign about it then so whatever.
World of Warcraft, actually. A chain in Terrokar forest. They give you a disguise, and ask you to go talk to some people in an orc camp, including an advisor right next to their commander. You do that. You turn it in. They ask you to go back and kill the commander. Do they give you back that disguise that let you effortlessly walk up to him without him even blinking? The one he can give you over and over and over for that first quest? No. They don't. You have to slaughter your way through the camp to finish that particular quest.
It's so frustrating because the guy giving you the quest has the disguise, and he JUST gave it to you, and the experience you get from killing your way up there is marginal at best. It's just frustrating from a logical standpoint.
It's so frustrating because the guy giving you the quest has the disguise, and he JUST gave it to you, and the experience you get from killing your way up there is marginal at best. It's just frustrating from a logical standpoint.