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So the thing that inspired this thread is that when I played BOTW last year, I left a couple SIde quests uncompleted when I stopped playing(I plan to get back to it later, I swear). Notably, there's a side quest in Kakariko village where a kid asks you to play hide and seek with him. Well, I looked around for a bit, couldn't find the kid and then went off to explore the world and do stuff and save Hryule. I never went back to look for that kid. He's probably still hiding in the village, waiting for Link to come back and find him so he can stop hiding.
I sometimes think about that for no reason, like "That kid is still hiding, waiting for me to come back. It's been close to a year now. Maybe I should go find him". I don't have that feeling about any other quest in that game, but for some reason that fictional child who doesn't know I'm not coming for quite a while is bugging me. Maybe because it reminds me of the poor dog from Futurama who waited for Fry to come back and when he never did, the pupper just kept waiting there forever.
I guess I'm asking is what stuff in games left unresolved, either by you or the game, bugs you.
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So the thing that inspired this thread is that when I played BOTW last year, I left a couple SIde quests uncompleted when I stopped playing(I plan to get back to it later, I swear). Notably, there's a side quest in Kakariko village where a kid asks you to play hide and seek with him. Well, I looked around for a bit, couldn't find the kid and then went off to explore the world and do stuff and save Hryule. I never went back to look for that kid. He's probably still hiding in the village, waiting for Link to come back and find him so he can stop hiding.
I sometimes think about that for no reason, like "That kid is still hiding, waiting for me to come back. It's been close to a year now. Maybe I should go find him". I don't have that feeling about any other quest in that game, but for some reason that fictional child who doesn't know I'm not coming for quite a while is bugging me. Maybe because it reminds me of the poor dog from Futurama who waited for Fry to come back and when he never did, the pupper just kept waiting there forever.
I guess I'm asking is what stuff in games left unresolved, either by you or the game, bugs you.
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