@logiclunacy606 Yeah, they stopped using it...until they bring it back and use it again. I believe the current version is on a clipboard for convenience.
As The Ghoul so eloquently put it in the Fallout TV show, “Golden Rule of The Wasteland: Thou shalt always get sidetracked by someone else’s bullsh!t.” If that doesn’t perfectly encapsulate the idea of video game side quests, I don’t know what does.
While it's more or less the same as escort missions, I have to give a dishonorable mention to protect quests. You know, the ones where someone has to do something that leaves them open and vulnerable, so you have to intercept the bad guys while they work on...whatever it is that they have to do, and they've apparently taken lessons on how to do it as inefficiently and painfully slowly as humanly possible.
Bonus points for when this character is supposed to be as strong or stronger than you, but gets erased by 2 errant gusts of wind during this special procedure, or magic ritual.
Oh, Rob. You have no idea how much you have improved my day. Thanks!! 😊💙🎉 Oh oh, I got one. You get to a new town and a quest giver needs you to go give something to three different npcs that are all like 5 seconds from the quest giver. If I didn’t know they were going to be so close, I probably wouldn’t bother. 😂
So weird, I was just thinking about this topic the other day 😂 And how one I see all the time is when you have to find a missing person, but you inevitably find their corpse instead. You loot their corpse and if the game has dialogue options then you have the option to return the loot to the quest giver or keep it for yourself. Seen this exact quest in more games than I can count 😂
Those quests always provide some thrilling tension though, because until you find the corpse, there is always the looming threat that the missing person might still be alive and the second half of the quest might turn out to be a dreaded escort quest.
Escort quests are devs revenge for criticizing their games. They are easily the most detestable quests in RPGs. This channel is also better than anything on TV or Cable
Photo qursts have been my favorite side quests since Beyond Good and Evi. Now i find myself trying to get that perfect shot in any game that gives me a camera or photo mode. One thing I'd like to see in more games are photo quests that test your mettle. Getting that one shot during a boss fight, sure you might sacrifice a bit of health, but just look at the sheer majesty of that attack. Breathtaking.
Not a side quest as such but in every rpg there's always a "walk really slowly towards a trading post because you're massively over encumbered but want to sell all the goodies" moment.
The best part of this is that Rob hasn't class changed from "noob" yet. Hopefully he can class change into something else soon. Though I dunno what classes he has Access to...
It was kinda mentioned but the "Save the cat" mission is in EVERY game. Also, the escort missions where instead of following you stealthily around the shadows, you have to follow them as they run directly down the middle of the road through the enemies.
There's one I like to call the cataloguing side quest. It's the one where some NPC asks that you gather information about specific things, whether it's artifacts or enemies. Cataloguing quests really grind my gears 😂
For the Scooby Doo quest, Ghost Of Tsushima's "vengeful ghosts in the forest at night" quest, whatever it is actually called, would have been perfect to use.
The type of quest that comes to mind, I recently saw in Stellar Blade. A person asks you to look for another person who went to get some crucial supplies. After going to the place where that person should be, you find not only a dead body but also a boss battle just waiting to greet you. A lot of that type of side quest exists in other games too.
Especially if they are rare drops. It’s one thing to do something repetitive, it’s another to not control the outcome due to RNG. Looking at you Giant Eagle eggs from Nier…
You're forgetting the "herding animals", usually that worlds representation of a sheep into a three walled structure. Sheep that will instinctively go the opposite direction to whichever you need them to go. Great fun always.
1. Find X amount of an item. Ex: Feathers in AC2 2. Help solve a mystery. Ex: Find a killer in Fallout 4, solve an murder mystery in Skyrim, or help the police solve crimes since they're short-handed in Sherlock: Chapter 1 3. Gather X items to help an NPC complete a ritual of some kind. Ex. Fable 2 to bring Lady Gray back to life 4. Join a faction or factions if the game lets you. Ex: Skyrim, Bloodborne, or Dark Souls 5. Get married/Romance either a party member or random NPC: Final fantasy 7, Fable series, & the Dragon age series
Escort missions aren't the bane of just RPGs, they are in EVERY genre. Ask Jak why he is so pissed and he'll tell you he had to escort Sieg through Metal Head territory. XD
Every RPG is an endorphin boosting ego trip. And *ALL* XP bars are just "Self Worth" metres. "Excuse me, hero. 'Tis I, a regular person. I lost my thing in the dangerous woods. I know exactly where I lost it (so it isn't lost) but 'tis too dangerous for a mere mortal, such as I." "Of course. What's the point in saving the entire realm, if u can't take a moment to squeeze more popularity from the small folk. That's what I always say."
An escort mission in a non-rpg is in Star Wars battlefront 2015, the training mission overpower, where you pilot an AT-ST escorting an AT-AT. It’s probably an okay escort mission, as you’re defending an armoured vehicle, and it usually only takes minimal damage, especially if you’re quick. Other than that, I can understand the frustration with escort missions, though I can’t remember specifically what games I’ve played where there are any but I remember doing them. They are so frustrating, for the reasons Rob says, as the devs conveniently forgot to give the escorted character enough IQ points to not do the dumbest things possible.
The production and creative quality of these are just 👌🏻 incredible! Please please continue including outtakes at the end they're my new favourite bit 😂😂
Although not in every RPG, there is also the mini game side quest that can also tie into the collectable side quest. e.g Triple Triad, Gwent, Chocobo hot n cold.
The obligatory "you've lost all your equipment and must reclaim it" side quest. Have you been drugged/robbed/tricked or convinced out of your equipment to level the playing field for one particular side quest. Yes, it happens in every game.
My least favourite side quest is the follow someone and eavesdrop on their conversations. Especially when you have follow them without being seen and they always manage to see you by looking up at the rooftops or can see round corners and through walls. Assassins Creed is the biggest culprit for this quest.
Even worse when you have to follow someone and can still see them even though you are 'too far behind them' and you fail the mission. This is worse in games like GTA, especially when the car you are following is driving down a straight road with clearly no side turnings anywhere!
Retrieve the legendary artefact side quest... jump through multiple hoops, solve riddles and return the item to it's owner who rewards you with said artefact, usually a weapon, that has worse stats than your current weapon that you found in a bin and sells for less than 2 health potions and a can of Dr Pepper. I'd like my 5 xp now.
Hello! You caught me watching another great Friday Feature 😊 It got me thinking of the next topic…7 Best Game Pause Menus in Videogames, not sure if it was done before, but that be something 😇
The way Rob stressed 'escort' made me think it was the sort of side missions you'd find down a back alley in GTA rather than one involving accompanying someone to their destination
What about the Collectathon? The ones where you spend 90% of your time on a game with the annoying line jammed open in the log until you collect all the MacGuffins or scan every random animal on the planet...
I find the killing rats as your 1st mission oddly satisfying. I think of the og baldurs gate bar rat infestation mission and the ff12 sewer rats opening and the rdr2 bar rat cleaning oddly alot.
What about Turret missions. You know the ones where you man a gun turret and have to take out a certain number of enemies or try to stay alive for a certain amount of time.
The "princess" monster: - oh adventurer! You have come to kill the evil monster, well... Actually the monster is in another castle (repeat 3 or 4 times for good measure)
I like that Greedfall was designed with a goal to avoid fetch quests. Sometimes, I enjoy doing fetch quests to add more exploration to the world and lore and to do something easy if I'm not up for more challenging quests, but it was nice to play a game where quests had a deeper narrative payoff. I absolutely adore photography sidequests. I end up spending a ton of time in photomode anyway, so it's nice to get some XP, reputation or unlockables out of it too. I'm pretty sure l spent about 100 hours in Ghost of Tsushima just taking beautiful shots of the scenery, and Jin looking pensive ir badass.
Like any of the side quests in Borderlands 2 or 3, for example you get to a part in borderlands 2 where you get that one guy who has a side quest for you to shoot him in the face, but you don't get much for a reward for doing it
the rats in the basement one remind me of Baldurs Gate 1, particularly the Enhanced Edition when I played it on Legacy of Bhaal for the first time. The rats in that have 99% resistance to all and any damage, armor class higher than full plate and a very high to hit chance, meaning they can easily do away with a level 1 scrub. which they did... 😀
An unavoidable escort mission where your run is too fast, and your walk is too slow (compared to the NPC)
The moment he said escort I audibly sighed as a reaction!
*Ubisoft has left the chat.
@@ArienDrakon Got a lowered head and groan of dread from me when he said it.
Well if it's unavoidable then it's not a sidequest.
World of Warcraft: has entered the chat.
How does Rob not have a side quest for "mentioning Metal Gear Solid"?
That's a main quest for him
The Friday features are the side quest towards the main quest of mentioning Metal Gear Solid
That's what we call a legacy/radiant/permanent quest
I think they stopped using the metal gear solid checklist gag for a few years now.
@logiclunacy606 Yeah, they stopped using it...until they bring it back and use it again. I believe the current version is on a clipboard for convenience.
I love how you guys are putting outtakes at the end of Friday features now!
Which others have had outtakes?
@@RD_Clarke I think it was about two weeks ago?
Rob might be the best list maker on yourube. Especially in his talking skills
As The Ghoul so eloquently put it in the Fallout TV show, “Golden Rule of The Wasteland: Thou shalt always get sidetracked by someone else’s bullsh!t.” If that doesn’t perfectly encapsulate the idea of video game side quests, I don’t know what does.
I'm so happy that Rob's Friday Feature is weekly again...
It's like It's 2016 all over❤
The quest where you get a 'legendary' item that's less useful than your current gear...
Looking at you Horizon Forbidden West
Or ten levels above yours, so you can't use them
The legendary item that a shopkeeper will buy off you for 20 gold but charge 1000 for if you want it back.
Or you get really cool armor or weapons after you've done everything there is to do in the game.
Elden Ring yes, Ranni quest line with a strength build lol.
While it's more or less the same as escort missions, I have to give a dishonorable mention to protect quests. You know, the ones where someone has to do something that leaves them open and vulnerable, so you have to intercept the bad guys while they work on...whatever it is that they have to do, and they've apparently taken lessons on how to do it as inefficiently and painfully slowly as humanly possible.
Bonus points for when this character is supposed to be as strong or stronger than you, but gets erased by 2 errant gusts of wind during this special procedure, or magic ritual.
the last level of red dead revolver. you have to cover jack picking the lock, its miserable!
Hello you've caught me waiting all day for this
I am a simple man, I see a Friday Feature and immediately watch and drop a like.
A man of fine culture in fact
Oh, Rob. You have no idea how much you have improved my day. Thanks!! 😊💙🎉
Oh oh, I got one. You get to a new town and a quest giver needs you to go give something to three different npcs that are all like 5 seconds from the quest giver. If I didn’t know they were going to be so close, I probably wouldn’t bother. 😂
Fishing side quests are getting more common now. I don’t care for them myself.
If at least you'd get something useful for them.
Clearing out bandit camps over and over and over again.
A side quest that involves stealth in a game that isn’t normally about stealth. Yeah those are fun. 😢
So weird, I was just thinking about this topic the other day 😂 And how one I see all the time is when you have to find a missing person, but you inevitably find their corpse instead. You loot their corpse and if the game has dialogue options then you have the option to return the loot to the quest giver or keep it for yourself. Seen this exact quest in more games than I can count 😂
Those quests always provide some thrilling tension though, because until you find the corpse, there is always the looming threat that the missing person might still be alive and the second half of the quest might turn out to be a dreaded escort quest.
Escort quests are devs revenge for criticizing their games. They are easily the most detestable quests in RPGs. This channel is also better than anything on TV or Cable
That jab at Dragon Age Inquisition 😂😂😂
For real besides from the exaggeration he is completley right
Hinterlands: the game
Hello, you've caught me watching my favorite UA-cam channel on a Friday. Cheers.
Good to see Dave’s saving system in ff7 being put to good use
I was actually wondering how many takes it took for the party popper bit, so I’m glad the outtakes were put in there 😂
It's videos like these that made me fall in love this channel.
Photo qursts have been my favorite side quests since Beyond Good and Evi. Now i find myself trying to get that perfect shot in any game that gives me a camera or photo mode. One thing I'd like to see in more games are photo quests that test your mettle. Getting that one shot during a boss fight, sure you might sacrifice a bit of health, but just look at the sheer majesty of that attack. Breathtaking.
Not a side quest as such but in every rpg there's always a "walk really slowly towards a trading post because you're massively over encumbered but want to sell all the goodies" moment.
Excellent video as always, though I will hear no slander towards the 'bow wow wow' song
The Pictograph Contest in Majora's Mask is really useful to the game. Worth a heart piece that Deku King picture.
The best part of this is that Rob hasn't class changed from "noob" yet. Hopefully he can class change into something else soon. Though I dunno what classes he has Access to...
Playstation Access Overlord
It was kinda mentioned but the "Save the cat" mission is in EVERY game. Also, the escort missions where instead of following you stealthily around the shadows, you have to follow them as they run directly down the middle of the road through the enemies.
There's one I like to call the cataloguing side quest. It's the one where some NPC asks that you gather information about specific things, whether it's artifacts or enemies. Cataloguing quests really grind my gears 😂
love how creative the Friday Features have been since they came back, cracking work PA.
For the Scooby Doo quest, Ghost Of Tsushima's "vengeful ghosts in the forest at night" quest, whatever it is actually called, would have been perfect to use.
The type of quest that comes to mind, I recently saw in Stellar Blade. A person asks you to look for another person who went to get some crucial supplies. After going to the place where that person should be, you find not only a dead body but also a boss battle just waiting to greet you. A lot of that type of side quest exists in other games too.
The outtakes at the end are fantastic
I love the end bloopers, feels like a 90s-2000s pixar movie
Don't forget the shop orders in the Star Ocean games 🫠
Also 🎵 Bawawow Bawawow!! 🎵
My least favorite obligatory sidequest is to go collect XX items like feathers.
Especially if they are rare drops. It’s one thing to do something repetitive, it’s another to not control the outcome due to RNG. Looking at you Giant Eagle eggs from Nier…
We need a bloopers/outtakes compilation video. Really enjoyed this weeks Friday Feature. Thanks guys
You're forgetting the "herding animals", usually that worlds representation of a sheep into a three walled structure. Sheep that will instinctively go the opposite direction to whichever you need them to go. Great fun always.
The side quest where you have to pop a party popper onto Robs head ... genius 😂 ❤
So glad your back Rob 🎉 I stopped watching when you stopped doing stuff like this 🎉 we missed you
My weekly side quests include watching Rob's lists.
Surprised Baldur's Gate 3 didn't get a mention with the 'rats in the cellar' quest. Doesn't show up until Act 3, but it's still there 😂
He did have Baldur's Gate 1 and Dark Alliance. And as they say, three is a crowd. 😜
1. Find X amount of an item. Ex: Feathers in AC2
2. Help solve a mystery. Ex: Find a killer in Fallout 4, solve an murder mystery in Skyrim, or help the police solve crimes since they're short-handed in Sherlock: Chapter 1
3. Gather X items to help an NPC complete a ritual of some kind. Ex. Fable 2 to bring Lady Gray back to life
4. Join a faction or factions if the game lets you. Ex: Skyrim, Bloodborne, or Dark Souls
5. Get married/Romance either a party member or random NPC: Final fantasy 7, Fable series, & the Dragon age series
last Friday, I was told to check if there's an available slot for promotion. Well?
love watching Friday Feature.
Spent all the money on party poppers, no money left for wages. Sorry.
Hello! you caught me grinning while reading your reply. thanks!
Escort missions aren't the bane of just RPGs, they are in EVERY genre. Ask Jak why he is so pissed and he'll tell you he had to escort Sieg through Metal Head territory. XD
Loving how clever these new Friday features are! Very entertaining!
Oh this looks like a good one. If one person understands the mind of an RPG player it’s Rob 😂
I love seeing clips of Stellar Blade on this channel cuz you know Access is trying their best to only show work appropriate attire lol
Just reiterating the universal joy that Friday Features have returned.
Hello, you've caught me absolutely loving the re-introduction of this series ❤
Every RPG is an endorphin boosting ego trip. And *ALL* XP bars are just "Self Worth" metres.
"Excuse me, hero. 'Tis I, a regular person. I lost my thing in the dangerous woods. I know exactly where I lost it (so it isn't lost) but 'tis too dangerous for a mere mortal, such as I."
"Of course. What's the point in saving the entire realm, if u can't take a moment to squeeze more popularity from the small folk. That's what I always say."
you can't forget the classic "you have to not get caught by the npc to gather information" side quest
Tailing Missions. Ugh
And it's often done in a game that isn't a stealth game where the game engine isn't really built for stealth mechanics.
oh, stealth-quests with randomly turning-around NPCs. Yeah, those are "fun".
I am loving the blooper reels at the end of these videos. I would love a blooper compilation
An escort mission in a non-rpg is in Star Wars battlefront 2015, the training mission overpower, where you pilot an AT-ST escorting an AT-AT. It’s probably an okay escort mission, as you’re defending an armoured vehicle, and it usually only takes minimal damage, especially if you’re quick. Other than that, I can understand the frustration with escort missions, though I can’t remember specifically what games I’ve played where there are any but I remember doing them. They are so frustrating, for the reasons Rob says, as the devs conveniently forgot to give the escorted character enough IQ points to not do the dumbest things possible.
I remember how the rats in cellar was somewhat mocked in Dragon Age Origins during the human noble origin story. XD
Or Skyrim where you protect the women's pet rat from cougars
@@sinned6us The pet rat job I remember was in Oblivion. It's in the Fighter's Guild quest line.
@@marybdrake1472 right thank you cause in Morrowwind you were tasked with killing rats for the fighters guild there
@@sinned6us Why does that no surprise me?
Yeah, Oblivion was my start point for the Elden Scrolls. I've never played Morrowwind.
Kudos for referencing the original Baldur's Gate. I salute you, Access.
The production and creative quality of these are just 👌🏻 incredible!
Please please continue including outtakes at the end they're my new favourite bit 😂😂
The delivery quest! Go talk to Bob half-way across the kingdom, give him this letter, then come back and tell me.
Friday feature idea. 7 video game jump scarse that almost made you soil yourself. Dave should be the master of this.
baldur's gate and ice wind dale mentioned in a Friday feature? Nice!!!
Although not in every RPG, there is also the mini game side quest that can also tie into the collectable side quest. e.g Triple Triad, Gwent, Chocobo hot n cold.
The “introducing a new game mechanic” sidequest
Catching Rob on Fridays.. best accomplishment !!
The obligatory "you've lost all your equipment and must reclaim it" side quest.
Have you been drugged/robbed/tricked or convinced out of your equipment to level the playing field for one particular side quest. Yes, it happens in every game.
My least favourite side quest is the follow someone and eavesdrop on their conversations. Especially when you have follow them without being seen and they always manage to see you by looking up at the rooftops or can see round corners and through walls. Assassins Creed is the biggest culprit for this quest.
Even worse when you have to follow someone and can still see them even though you are 'too far behind them' and you fail the mission. This is worse in games like GTA, especially when the car you are following is driving down a straight road with clearly no side turnings anywhere!
Retrieve the legendary artefact side quest... jump through multiple hoops, solve riddles and return the item to it's owner who rewards you with said artefact, usually a weapon, that has worse stats than your current weapon that you found in a bin and sells for less than 2 health potions and a can of Dr Pepper. I'd like my 5 xp now.
Hello! You caught me watching another great Friday Feature 😊 It got me thinking of the next topic…7 Best Game Pause Menus in Videogames, not sure if it was done before, but that be something 😇
those after video ending scene of the production are great 🎉😂 love them. also, that Bow wow wow song is a Jammer 🕺
Collectibles! Gotta find every chest, feather, flag, fragment, cocade, skultalla, etc
The album full of Barret photos is such a mood.
Doesn’t hold a candle to the number of beefcake photos I took in Baldur’s Gate 3 (mostly starring Halsin).
These videos and the weekend are the best thing about Fridays! 😊
6:07 Hot damn Rob, HOT BLOODY DAMN!!😂😂
"Shots fired"
The way Rob stressed 'escort' made me think it was the sort of side missions you'd find down a back alley in GTA rather than one involving accompanying someone to their destination
Outtakes!? Yes please and thank you!
What about the Collectathon? The ones where you spend 90% of your time on a game with the annoying line jammed open in the log until you collect all the MacGuffins or scan every random animal on the planet...
The "fetch" quest is definitely in every rpg. Go there and fetch something and bring it back to the quest giver.
I honestly love fishing side quests
I find the killing rats as your 1st mission oddly satisfying. I think of the og baldurs gate bar rat infestation mission and the ff12 sewer rats opening and the rdr2 bar rat cleaning oddly alot.
What about Turret missions. You know the ones where you man a gun turret and have to take out a certain number of enemies or try to stay alive for a certain amount of time.
The Fluffy side quest was great and tied in so beautifully with Traces of Two Pasts idk what to tell you.
Loved the bloopers!
Always a treat!
12:47 Rob’s face 😂😂😂
The "princess" monster:
- oh adventurer! You have come to kill the evil monster, well... Actually the monster is in another castle (repeat 3 or 4 times for good measure)
11:20 Now let see who The Fridge Ghost thief really is.
GASP! DELSIN RODENT!!! 😮
I like that Greedfall was designed with a goal to avoid fetch quests. Sometimes, I enjoy doing fetch quests to add more exploration to the world and lore and to do something easy if I'm not up for more challenging quests, but it was nice to play a game where quests had a deeper narrative payoff.
I absolutely adore photography sidequests. I end up spending a ton of time in photomode anyway, so it's nice to get some XP, reputation or unlockables out of it too. I'm pretty sure l spent about 100 hours in Ghost of Tsushima just taking beautiful shots of the scenery, and Jin looking pensive ir badass.
Ah side quests. Usually a fun delight and a must if you're a curious completionist myself.
Nothing like a good end game side grind
Like any of the side quests in Borderlands 2 or 3, for example you get to a part in borderlands 2 where you get that one guy who has a side quest for you to shoot him in the face, but you don't get much for a reward for doing it
This was a really good one!😂😂👏
I enjoyed the "Bow wow" song in FF7R. :) thought it was very anime and fun
Say what you will but bow wow wow absolutely slaps!
the rats in the basement one remind me of Baldurs Gate 1, particularly the Enhanced Edition when I played it on Legacy of Bhaal for the first time. The rats in that have 99% resistance to all and any damage, armor class higher than full plate and a very high to hit chance, meaning they can easily do away with a level 1 scrub. which they did... 😀
Racing sidequests, they drive me insane.
Take away fetch quests from DA and the game is only 8mins long. Lmao, priceless Rob. Scooby Doo quest, lmao
Delsin's return is triumphant. More please.
Lovely vid as always!! 😄
Can't forget the murder mystery side quest!
What about the side quests that just involve talking to an NPC. Maybe it’s a person, maybe an animal, or even a vending machine.
Y'all should do a list of Scooby-Doo missions. I love them.
Please do a fri feature outtake montage video that last bit was class 🎉😂