There is an entire fraction of people who were PISSED the Arena wasn’t included in Skyrim to the point mods were made. I never played Oblivion, but I think that inclusion was a little unfair.
Tell me about it...I liked most of the quests,EXCEPT for the quest where you have to friggin' STEAL,which the game does NOT joke around with punishing you for the aforementioned theft. But...I think my least favorite mission is probably the questline for Lord Harkon. SO.FREAKING.IRRITATING.
I actually like the arena questline in Oblivion. I complete it every time I start a new character, which is kind of odd given that my prefered play style is a stealth mage/archer
I always play as an assassin type character, but I always do the arena. If nothing else the exhibition shows you can do as grand champion are a nice little earner for very little effort. And if like me you like to walk that line of being good/bad those 31 fame points can keep you on the right side of some people. 😂
I always loved these types of side quests because the completion rate is always so low on the achievements especially the riddle trophies. Plus when I was younger I couldn’t afford new games so I would play the same ones over and over again so the long quests let me get more time out of the game. I still remember hunting down those damn feathers in AC2
Le reddit silver member the feather quest was long and annoying and some needed you to pull of feats that took multiple tries to get. In later ac games it actually got worse like in unity and syndicate where you had glitches that where near impossible to actually get.
Riddler trophies in Asylum: an okay diversion Riddler trophies in City: a pain in the derriere Riddler trophies in Knight: mood & pacing-breaking insanity that hide the true ending behind a slog you'll never want to do again
Agreed. Saving Catwoman should've been the only ending requirement from Riddler. The trophies should've been a separate thing that unlocked, I dunno, some unique Batmobile upgrade or something instead.
@@MonkeyDCeddy If you switch the view to First Person, the races are a million times easier. i know it sounds like it would make it worse, but somehow it makes the races very easy. Try it next time and you'll see
I got infuriated whenever I had to race for a single trophy because the batmobile would sometimes be like did you say "Fall down and restart the entire thing? okayy" but I finished it anyways, just did Origins like 5 minutes ago actually
Never in my life have I felt a stronger urge to murder a fictional character than when doing the Riddler quest from Arkham Knight. What the hell were the devs thinking ? City was bad enough with its glowing puzzles sticking out everywhere like warts on a face and its subquest locked behind the collection of all 400 trophies, but Knight devolved into Vaas-levels of insanity.
Connor Kenway Exactly what I was thinking. There are entire mods dedicated to making it possible. And even then it takes countless hours to collect all 24... I don't even know what you get for doing it, since I'm far too busy shouting villagers off cliffs to deal with it.
That's not it. You get a crown but you also get a passive ability called "Prowler's Profit." And like I said, it causes you to find massive amounts of gems in every urn and draugr. One trip through any dungeon will result in finding more gems than you can carry. That, plus the merchant perk will allow you to buy any item from any merchant with gems. It basically makes everything free. I'm such a nerd.
those are just radiants though, you can't actually 'finish' that questline anyways Valentine's loyalty quest is far far worse Hey there Sole Survivor I know you're busy trying to uproot the evil of the Institute while fighting raiders and the brotherhood of steel but if you don't mind I want you to visit EVERY SINGLE POLICE STATION IN THE COMMONWEALTH and hunt down a tiny tape somewhere inside them so I can kill a guy really anticlimactically and you can get my companion perk. Oh and I'm going to bug you about it every ten minutes making me even more annoying than Preston for the duration. But don't worry, as a reward you get a .44 revolver that is objectively worse than the one you almost assuredly looted off Kellogg 20 hours ago.
On the GTA one: literally tie a rubber band or something around the controls to make michael go in a circle and come back to it after grabbing a bite to eat. Also you get a couple million at the end so it is worth all the awkwardness
re: Dragon Age: Inquisition. You think the shards were a pain? What about the mosaic pieces. At least the shards appeared on the map. You just stumbled upon the mosaic pieces at random and for a long time some of them were glitched so you couldn't reach them.
The Arena in Oblivion was one of my favorite things about video games in middle school, and I was sad about the feature not returning in skyrim. I remember getting the Champion to not attack me in the final fight, and burning him for being a vampire 🔥
DeathByProcrastination I poured about 50+ hours making sanctuary my kickass headquarters with a full smallish shanty town as well as a docter that was secretly a cannibal a church houses ability on top of the houses in sanctaury a sheriff office a bar walls made of that cool things with tires and scraps of wood rug glitches together and sentry toweres and gun turrets and a an arena. My point is I spent ages in sanctuary and would go to Preston for the quests because I wanted settlements to build in and as soon as you get the castle the radio can give you the quests and you can send him to the castle along with sterges. Now the actually annoying one is marcy
When you think about the figurine quest in Zelda that gives you nothing at all, I think it would be actually worst if it was giving you something amazing. And yes, I remember that quest. I took a couple pictures, the dude tald me it wasn't good enough and I immediately stopped that nonesense. Apparently, that was the right call.
Amen to that. Out of the side quests here that were so awful to finish, only the Petruccio one really, uhhh, rankled my feathers. I love the arena, I didn't mind shard collector (because the rewards were so solid). The Queen in FFVIII isn't great, but again, the rewards are solid. Where are quests like the Battle Trophies from Star Ocean?
the nirnroot thing actually gets you a really good reward, that's why its not on here. The potions you can buy are really good: Nighteye, Fortify Health and Fatigue 20 points, Fortify Blade, Blunt, Destruction, Restoration, Security and Sneak 10 points. Lasts 300 seconds. Additionally, finishing the quest line gives you an incredibly high disposition with Sinderion. He also has an extremely low Mercantile skill. This makes him one of the best merchants in the game.
Hah, you think that's bad? So assuming you've mastered the speech skill (yes the speech skill) you get a mastery quest to do for it. What you must do is go around and talk to every beggar. Literally every beggar in the entire game. And no you do not get updates on the quest, and no you don't get any quest markers. So if you accidentally missed one you might as well start all over. Worst side quest ever
I was sure that was going to be on the list. The figurines are actually cool and the reward for them all is a figurine of Link and the King of Red Lions. The reward for all 900 Korok Seeds is a literal piece of crap. So yeah, figurines are way better!
Started the GTA V mission really late at night, didn't realize how long it would take. Instead of taking the easy option of running around in circle, I decided to run up and down the runway of the desert airfield. But after all that my game crashed, so long story short, I don't play GTA V anymore.
Honestly, they forgot to mention how great the rewards are for completing it! You get an Adoring Fan that will follow you around for the rest of your days, idolizing over you! Absolutely the best companion character Bethesda ever created, hands down. Take that, Dogmeat.
Lots of people have finished the Arena in Oblivion. Seeking Your Roots, on the other hand, half of us ignored. Handled well, the Riddler can be threatening. Like Jigsaw without the gorror movie baggage.
Sort of in the same boat, since the rewards for the shard collecting and the storyline of the Overlord DLC for ME2 made them actually worth playing through.
uhhhh the combat was bs in oblivion but the arena really had me charged up. I was annoyed Skyrim didn't have any of that. Arena was awesome, you are wrong.
With the new(er) combat style in skyrim, the arena would be fuckin amazing, i think that after you become the grand champion that they should have let you fight more people tho, not just random creatures
Luis Guzmán The true raid boss. Close runner up is the To Arms mission in The Pre-Sequel. Take fifty weapons to an annoying post box in a corner of a large map, all for a sub-par legendary shield.
No, the nirnroot's do regrow, as well as there are more nirnroots in blackreach than the amount you need for the quest; heck I even ate one right before I finished the quest; thought I had doomed myself, but no, all I had to do was drop a extra nirnroot and pick it back up, bam quest is completable again. If anything is a total pain it's the stones of barenziah; cus they are all over the world. Sure they're mostly in places you'll go for other quests, but unless you go out of your way to collect them fast, they stay in your inventory filling up weight and space.
Yeah, collecting The Stones of Barenziah or restoring the glory of the Thieves Guild in Skyrim would have been better. (To be honest, I think pretty much everything about the Thieves Guild in Skyrim kinda sucked) And on a side note, the Dark Brotherhood party quest (Whodunit?) is great... until you realize that you can just run around and punch everyone, because they don't care if you kill someone right in front of them and they have basically no health at all.
The only thing that annoyed me about that quest was the fact that you couldn't loot your opponents after they're dead, and the bloody door you couldn't go through.
How about main quests we're never going to finish as a video idea? Frankly in Fallout 4 I'm too busy combing the wasteland for aluminum cans to worry about... What's his name? "Shuan?" "Ron?"
When you've experienced 4 of these and completed 3, youknow you have a completionist problem... Still, Pettruccio's feathers??? Heck no. That was the first one I thought of when I saw the title.
The almanac pages in ac 3 are way worse you got to climb up high and dangerous buildings and be speedy for if you take a tiny amount to long they disappear until the next time you go to that area and lets be honest the next time you get to that area is most likely after you finished the darn gsmr
I ACTUALLY finished the one in GTA, and yes, at the end you have to pay 50,000$, but you also have an option to blow up one if the vehicles, and get like 10 million dollars. I’M NOT EVEN JOKING, I DID IT ON PS3
Don't know if they changed it, but it's only 2 mil on ps4. Still, it shouldn't have been so satisfying peppering that heli with bullets and generally creating mass destruction in a 2x4 parking lot for all that Kifflom BS they put me through...BUT IT WAS. >:D Didn't even bother to replay for the tractor. You can also get one near the lighthouse, I believe.
Little xbox tip for finishing that quest get an elastic band, put it round the 2 analogue sticks so they're facing each other then get something to jam the run button in. Tony runs around in a small circle for about half an hour and it's done. Don't watch or you'll be sick
No Stone Unturned in Skyrim is _the worst,_ and.....whatever that quest with the crimson nirnroot is...that one's pretty bad too. But man, the second you guys mentioned Shard Collector, I died on the inside. I have yet to finish that quest on _any_ of my Inquisitors.
I LOVED the arena quests in Oblivion! I got so pumped up for them, and the one on one duelling was so thrilling. I absolutely loved it and it's sad to see that other people didn't like it. That's a shame.
The Arena in oblivion must be comment bait, and it worked? Nobody can believe that is the worst side quest in elder scrolls. Also the Firewalker quests in ME2 were really quick and easy. And I thought this was an Xbox channel, why is Zelda here?
Yeah, seriously. The Hammerhead wasn't great, but it was a hell of a lot better than doing everything on every planet with the Mako. WHICH GOT MENTIONED HERE but somehow didn't rate as worse?
the firewalker are boring but soo easy and quick regardless of what difficulty you play on. They take like 5-10 min to do or something like that. And the exp reward is very important in the early stages when you play on hardcore or was is it insane its called. ehh either way not even close to be on a list like this. Skyrim Blackreach fuck me that is a drawn out place with the worst side mission of all time the damn Crimson Nirnroot
Oblivion was collectively garbage. The entire game should have been on this list. To the point that they recommend burning your game console instead of playing that trash fire of a game.
"why is Zelda here" You do realize Final Fantasy 8 was on the list as well, right? It's because they're not some shit advertisement channel, they're free to pick games from other companies' consoles. It's honestly one of the better qualities about the channel.
Not gonna lie, I was that guy who went and got every riddle trophy. "Oh, you mean every riddle trophy in Arkham Asylum?" No, I mean every riddle trophy. "What, you mean the ones in Arkham City too?" No, I mean e v e r y riddle trophy. "Ah, so you did the ones in origin as well?" No I mean EVERY riddle trophy. Every Riddler challenge across every main Arkham game. The only one I haven't played is Blackgate. I just love embarrassing that cocky green-suited bastard.
Yeah I did them all too because I just wanted to rub it in nigmas face (although I love his design in city and the fact that the predator and combat challenges are set up by him)
There is about 30 incredibly obnoxious side quests in the Elder Scroll series that requires you to go all over the map collecting stupid crap and you choose the Arena? What the hell? The Arena was awesome.
A group of 3 or so raiders in lvl 3 gear, got into my heavily-fortified fortress called my settlement with fully-armed settlers and missle turrets that OHKO the said raiders, with spotlights and walls to foil any stealth plots, got in and nabbed an entire armored settler and got out without triggering any alarm what-so-ever.
I kind of liked the firewalker quests in mass effect 2 because I was one of like three people that enjoyed running around on planets with the Mako. Not saying that the Firewalker was my favourite part of the game, but it wasn't that bad in my opinion. What took me much longer was a side mission in Time Spiltters 2 called Nice Threads and is one of the reasons ill never get all golds in the Arcade of that game. It took me about ten years to just get a silver. Off and on play and many hours of yelling at the game for being cheap scumbags. You have semi-decent amount of time to beat it if you don't mind a bronze, but I believe under five if you want a gold. Trust me... Its harder than it sounds.
The people who complain about the Mako are the people who don't treat it as what it is, it's an APC and it handles like one. That is to say: like shit.
Oh fuck those feathers. I had to look up a map of where all the feathers were then I had to go around to every single place around the map. Of course I missed a couple so ended up re-going through every single location 4 times. Not sure if the platinum trophy was worth it lmao.
Hannah its funny, I'd heard from several people how annoying the feathers were to collect, but just by exploring the game naturally I was able to find 60-70 percent of them. Using the map to see what sections the remaining feathers were in I was able to find the rest after just a few hours. I was almost let down by how easy it was, and had expected a far greater challenge. The thing that took me much longer to finish were the missions from the pigeon coops. Those just seemed to never end.
I did the feathers easy. Had the Stratguide map, then as a new area became avalible, complete all Feathers in that area before moving on. Doing it this way cuts the time in half.
Petruccio’s Feather quest is easy. I do it on every character. The REALLY annoying one is the Glitch Quest where you need to find those damn glyphs on buildings in the Animus. I had to wait until end-game for that.
Skyrim and Oblivion I did the opposite... Mastered guilds, thanes, skills, exploration and any side mission that didn't involve actually finishing the story!
They are such a cute couple. Though, romancing Bull is hilarious amd completely worth it. It was my favorite. Dorian is just going to have to find someone else lol.
@@AmySorrellMusic I love romancing Dorian too. Such a heartbroken man who uses humour as his armour. Besides, he looks hot. Well both look hot. Help, I can't decide.
Right? Literally the first place I go in any playthrough, it's good money, good training for skills, and if you happen to have that cool tower as a house you can make enough to have access to enchanting and spellmaking tables without needing to do the mages guild questline.
Haven’t watched the vid yet so saying now: IF THE CRIMSON ROOT QUEST IS NOT ON HERE I SWEAR THAT DAMN QUEST Okay how is the Arena from Oblivion here but NOT Finding Your Roots or the Stones of Barenziah No Stone Unturned?? Both were tedious and annoying and the reward was little
Riley Nayyman not infinite money since vendors run out and I find gems easily enough and get money easily enough. It’s especially easy once you finish the Thieves Guild missions and such in the first place. Being a thief character. And sure you can go up the speech skill and invest and such with merchants but even then. The effort is definitely not worth the Prowlers Perk. It’s rather useless, I’d prefer if they gave me the perk AND the crown to wear.
Barenziah was less tedious and more so just picking them up when and if I happened to come across them. It might be tedious if you memorized/looked up the possible spawn locations though I suppose and decided to hunt them and only them for a period of time.
I was so offended when the arena was slated in Oblivion until i came to the comments and found that everyone else too loved the arena. My favourite faction in oblivion was the arena tbh
i enjoy it, too. it´s one of the first things i do. nice easy way to get money, experience, some armor and weapons, a place to sleep, and easy handy victims if you choose to become a vampire.
at the time the arena was really fun. even without brilliant modern combat systems it's still an RPG and being grand champion does feel kinda cool if u play oblivion
No borderlands 2. “I like my monsters rare” is a quest made by satan. Kill a bunch of randomly spawning enemies that have no set spawn and may never spawn. So when the RNG gods say no this quest goes on forever
Bose-Einstein oh yeah that quest was Suuuuuuuuper annoying i feel like i have picked up all the stones in hyrule 2x because ig you forgot if you checked smth or not u better check it just in case especially towards tge end
Oh my god I’ve never heard anyone else agree with me that the dark brotherhood party quest was the absolute best! Thank you mike! Also I loved the arena
The Shards of Dragon Age Inquisition aren't that bad... You just.... Have to climb a mountain and... Fight a dragon... And... Sacrifice your new born child...
I can't believe they left off the elemental resistances! Those were super helpful. Also wait, when do you sacrifice a child? I don't remember that part...
Yeah, Oblivion. A game where there's a side quest to collect every nirn root in the region. Or a quest where you have to follow innocent people doing normal things the whole day, just because some paranoid guy told you to. But yeah, you chose the arena questline.
I loved that crazy dude's quest in Skingrad. It doesn't take that long and IIRC you get to decide what happens to him. The nirnroot one definitely sucks though
Yeah Skingrad crazy guy and Nirnroot were terrible. Which is when I played it on the pc I got the respawning Nirnroot mod to make it easier. I also got the useful Adoring Fan Mod which actually makes him useful in combat. Also with paranoid guy I took his house key off his body and crash at his house.
Actually, the Queen of Cards sidequest gives you the Kiros card pretty early in the quest, and that can be card modded into 3 accelerators, which teach your GFs auto haste, which effectively breaks the game once you use those and equip to the entire party. In other words, Queen of Cards, absolutely worth it despite the headache.
I now feel like a massive loser, having found all the shards in Dragon Age: Inquisition and opened up the temple. Strangely, once you've done it once, it seems even easier to do on repeat play-throughs, to the point where it becomes part of play and doesn't even take long. Practice makes perfect, I guess? o.O
Same happens with lots of collectibles in games. So many Riddler trophies I pick up without thinking about it when I'm just doing a "quick" run through of a Batman game.
Painfully tedious, yes, but collecting the 100th feather was possibly the highest point of my entire life. I've been riding that good feeling for...what, 7 or 8 years?
Same here i really enjoyed Assasin's Creed 2 so i wanted to complete everything in the game and i did but it did take from release in november 2009 to january 2010 to get a full 1000 gs
i come back to this video a lot just to hear Andy say "is it building a new son out of feathers?" And it always makes me laugh As of July of 2024, still doing it lol
I remember ACII. I was so damn close to 100% synchronization. Got every mission perfect, every side quest, ever treasure box... and 99 sodding feathers. I could never find the hundredth.
It's probably because that's a continuous quest that never ends no matter how many settlements you helped. Frankly though I enjoyed it, I loved the idea of rebuilding the world for good and raising all these new communities.
1. The Arena was easy! Even on a harder difficulty with combat improvement/difficulty mods! 2. Skyrim's shouts. I will never collect them all because they are useless, except Dragonrend.
What about To Arms! In Borderlands the Pre Sequel. You have to collect 50 common weapons and donate them to the revolution, and then they end up just using them to make a piece of modern art
How big is your inventory in TPS? Assuming that it is around 27 items, and you have no quest items, then you can go to a Dahl machine from early game and buy all of the stock from it. It will put you about 20,000-200,000 into a hole, but you get a lot of money and don't go through it very quickly.
While that sounds like a nice easy answer, you have to do that at least 6 times and as you said can cost a lot of money. If you focus on it it isn't difficult, just annoying as hell. Like, why can't I just donate money so they can walk to their nearest Dahl vending machine?
I just had a second controller and kept bringing in a character with a guest account drop the weapons right next to me and pick them up put them in and you can finish that quest in about 3 minutes
To be fair, that's just Fallout 4. Also, to be pedantic, it's infinite random quests. If it was random inifinite quests, it would be literally impossible to finish one 😜
Batman Arkham Knight is to me hands down the worst for collecting the riddlers trophies for the fact that you're forced to collect them all to get the real ending of the game!!!
not to mention they make you do it in your tank. SERIOUSLY IT TAKES THE FUN OUT OF FINDING THEM WHEN 70% OF THE GAME FORCES YOU TO PLAY IN THAT THING! The only true action you get is against man bat and the random thugs. That's it.
Oblivion arena was one of the best missions to do at the beginning of the game it can easily be done at level one. it is responsibly good starter equipment, good gold and the final fight can be made into a murder with by doing the quest which instantly starts the dark brotherhood. Not to mention at end game the beast fights is a great place to farm grand souls If the combat gets too annoying you can take everything not nailed down sell it and get the staff that does like 90 damage a hit over in the merchant quarter and with the exception of the guy with the magic shield it will oneshot everyone.
By doing the arena quest you get well over 5000 gold to spend, I should know as I use the money I got to buy the cursed mansion in Anvil. I did kinda find the Adoring Fan to be a bit annoying though...
You can get a lot of money if you see the Exercising the Truth mission through to the end, and you get to screw over those Epsilon jerks in the bargain.
The most tedious is lego stars Wars TCS as you have to repeat the story at a minimum of 4 times to 100% it. The lego games are extremely easy to complete.
You chose the Arena questline over collecting every single Nirnroot in Cyrodil? What's wrong with you!? You could finish the whole Arena questline within two in-game days as soon as you left the dungeons, but Nirnroot collecting? They're rare as all hell, and the only two hints you have to find them are "they grow by water" and "they make a noise". And there's like a hundred of them all over the place. The sad thing is, that's not even the only annoying collection sidequest in Oblivion. You've also got the one where you have to collect Shadowbanish Wine, if you want to crawl around the dank, uninteresting forts scattered around Cyrodil.
The Paragon Try it in Skyrim! Had to run around an underworld Dwarvern city filled with Centurions, Falmer, Poisonous insects, Wispmothers, Human slaves, a hidden dragon. There isn't enough to vent all my frustration on and I don't have enough space to carry their shit. Since I can't leave until I get this quest off the list, since much is glitched in there with the extra items that are quest items :/
I don't want to confess how much time I spent using myself as live bait to try and catch those bloody slaughterfish in that bloody lake. Sure, they're all OVER the place when you don't want them...
+Jimmy V no, it just depends how much time each fight takes you, they have set Arena business hours, so long as you kill your opponents quick you can get away with several fights a day.
I'm surprised you didn't mention collecting 100 Nirnroot in Oblivion. It gave me such Nirnroot based anxiety by the time Skyrim came around that I had to impulsively collect them whenever I saw them, even though they're virtually useless.
I forgot what the side mission was, but there's this one in Metro Last Light where you're playing as a Nazi, and have to defend against an attack by the Reds. That mission was very hard. And I mean very hard. I guess the moral of the story is that you shouldn't play a game as a Nazi.
Got that moral a long time ago. I mean it honestly annoys me when I see people says they want to play like a COD game or whatever as the Axis side. There is honestly no fun in that it's just a losing battle. we're gamers, we like to win, unless it took place in just the very early stages of the war you're going to just be slowing down an inevitable doom.
The Raccoon that's only if its based on realistic events and occurs like our WW2 did otherwise it could go anywhere change one event such as nazis never attacking the russians or they attack the russians not in the middle of winter and things can change drastically or rather than attacking through Belgium they attack france at their boarder keeping Britain out of the war while isolated america doesn't get involved
@@Ragan31687 Catwoman's the only thing he can't ignore. Arkham Batman is fine ignoring a bunch of victims being tortured if he doesn't know them and it's too much to be asked to do.
I always do the firewalker missions. Even though the firewalker is Made of Explodium, ugh. But how could you bring up Oblivion and NOT pick the damn nirnroot collection mission?
Having completed both quest (nirnroot and Barenziah), I would say the nirnroot is definitely the worst one. There are simply so many of them you have to collect. If you are using a guide and let's face it, you are if you are trying to collect them, the stones are at places you are already going, while the nirnroots will have you explore, just to get them.
Nirnroot is workable because you can always find it near water, and you start near a massive lake that proceeds into a river. You can just go along the shore and grab Nirnroots as you see them.
And then you just have to find those near lakes, small ponds and if my memory serves me right, hidden in homes. I never touched nirnroot when I was replaying Oblivion just not to trigger the quest.
I gathered the 100 feathers in AC2... it was mildly annoying but *nowwhere near as aweful as gathering landmarks in Prototype or shards in the InFamous games!*
This guy chose the fun and short arena sidequest in Oblivion. If he doesn't like it, that's fine. But adding it to a list called, "8 Infuriating Side Quests You're Never Going to Finish"? He's obviously an idiot with no credibility at all. I could see the feathers being added for sure, but you're right that there are worse quests out there that could have and should have been added.
At least the shards in InFamous give your instantly tangible and useful reward every bunch of shards. They're also a good marker of "oh I don't need to go here ever again. Sweet!"
Heeyyy! I liked Triple Triad. Even though its tedious, you can convert the cards into high level items through the Card Mod GF skill. Honestly the Nirnroot and Barenziah quests from Skyrim is worse.
The real pain was getting master rank in FFIX's tetra master, you had to: (1) collect all 100 cards, (2) make sure each one had a unique arrow combination and (3) use your cards until they all get to the maximum rank. Reward: of course, nothing!
90% of MMORPG side quests. Do you prefer to roam around a huge world collecting a million quest items that only certain mobs drop and maybe get something cool in return, or do you want to PvP?
Fernando Castro The answer to your question is: No, on both counts. If I am absolutely required to choose, however, I'll take the "Collecting useless junk" quest.
The combat was pretty screwy in Oblivion, not just the arena part. I remember some caves and other areas I'd completely avoid because the goblins were ungodly strong. That's why no one chose their main skills as their main skills. Like if you were a fighter, you'd choose magic and stealth as your main skills. If you chose the skills you actually use, you'd level up too fast and enemies would level with you and overpower you.
You forgot to mention that for Queen of Cards, you don't even have to complete it in order to get all the cards. You can just wait until disk 4 and find her at the Escape Pod site and win them from her there instead... While playing with every single card rule active, which is a lot harder for some people than doing the quest anyway.
There is an entire fraction of people who were PISSED the Arena wasn’t included in Skyrim to the point mods were made. I never played Oblivion, but I think that inclusion was a little unfair.
You should play it, it's great with mods and looks as good as Skyrim. The quests are awesome.
Helgen Reborn has a slightly shorter Arena-style questline. Also, there's a mod to give windhelm a fighting pit.
If you never played Oblivion then I'm going to assume you're 12 years old right now
@@deusvult5405 To be fair, I never played Morrowind
As with most things Bethesda on PC, there's a mod for that. Unless it's a shitty online co-op game. No mods for that.
Where's that stupid Crimson Nirnroot quest from Skyrim?! I'll forever have ringing in my ears from those stupid things.
Tell me about it...I liked most of the quests,EXCEPT for the quest where you have to friggin' STEAL,which the game does NOT joke around with punishing you for the aforementioned theft. But...I think my least favorite mission is probably the questline for Lord Harkon. SO.FREAKING.IRRITATING.
Seriously the worst quest ever I can’t believe it didn’t make it
the quest stones of barenziah also makes me mad
It's making you forget it...
Yeah - they should have used that instead of the Arena!
I actually like the arena questline in Oblivion. I complete it every time I start a new character, which is kind of odd given that my prefered play style is a stealth mage/archer
I always play as an assassin type character, but I always do the arena. If nothing else the exhibition shows you can do as grand champion are a nice little earner for very little effort.
And if like me you like to walk that line of being good/bad those 31 fame points can keep you on the right side of some people. 😂
I do the same thing 😅
I like it too
Plus the Adoring Fan! He’s worth winning the game for, much less a side quest.
I also do it every time
I always loved these types of side quests because the completion rate is always so low on the achievements especially the riddle trophies. Plus when I was younger I couldn’t afford new games so I would play the same ones over and over again so the long quests let me get more time out of the game. I still remember hunting down those damn feathers in AC2
Le reddit silver member the feather quest was long and annoying and some needed you to pull of feats that took multiple tries to get. In later ac games it actually got worse like in unity and syndicate where you had glitches that where near impossible to actually get.
Riddler trophies in Asylum: an okay diversion
Riddler trophies in City: a pain in the derriere
Riddler trophies in Knight: mood & pacing-breaking insanity that hide the true ending behind a slog you'll never want to do again
Agreed. Saving Catwoman should've been the only ending requirement from Riddler. The trophies should've been a separate thing that unlocked, I dunno, some unique Batmobile upgrade or something instead.
Them damn race tracks in Knight were just.....ugh.
@@MonkeyDCeddy If you switch the view to First Person, the races are a million times easier. i know it sounds like it would make it worse, but somehow it makes the races very easy. Try it next time and you'll see
I got infuriated whenever I had to race for a single trophy because the batmobile would sometimes be like did you say "Fall down and restart the entire thing? okayy" but I finished it anyways, just did Origins like 5 minutes ago actually
Never in my life have I felt a stronger urge to murder a fictional character than when doing the Riddler quest from Arkham Knight. What the hell were the devs thinking ? City was bad enough with its glowing puzzles sticking out everywhere like warts on a face and its subquest locked behind the collection of all 400 trophies, but Knight devolved into Vaas-levels of insanity.
Where was the stones of berinziah from Skyrim?!!
Connor Kenway Exactly what I was thinking. There are entire mods dedicated to making it possible. And even then it takes countless hours to collect all 24... I don't even know what you get for doing it, since I'm far too busy shouting villagers off cliffs to deal with it.
That was one of the first quests I did on my second playthrough. Get the crown and every damn urn you open is filled with 20 flawless diamonds.
You get a crown. That's basically it.
That's not it. You get a crown but you also get a passive ability called "Prowler's Profit." And like I said, it causes you to find massive amounts of gems in every urn and draugr. One trip through any dungeon will result in finding more gems than you can carry. That, plus the merchant perk will allow you to buy any item from any merchant with gems. It basically makes everything free.
I'm such a nerd.
Dude, what.
I'm getting those gems.
When you're done watching this video there's another settlement that needs your help.
Cory Baxter damn you Cory Baxter
Okay Preston I will get right on that... *sigh* I guess I will never see my son Shaun again...
I actually reached a point with Preston where he doesn't give me quests anymore. No mods. He just says he'll let me know if anything comes up.
Cory, I wish I could give you 100 thumbs up! 👍🏼
those are just radiants though, you can't actually 'finish' that questline
anyways Valentine's loyalty quest is far far worse
Hey there Sole Survivor I know you're busy trying to uproot the evil of the Institute while fighting raiders and the brotherhood of steel but if you don't mind I want you to visit EVERY SINGLE POLICE STATION IN THE COMMONWEALTH and hunt down a tiny tape somewhere inside them so I can kill a guy really anticlimactically and you can get my companion perk. Oh and I'm going to bug you about it every ten minutes making me even more annoying than Preston for the duration. But don't worry, as a reward you get a .44 revolver that is objectively worse than the one you almost assuredly looted off Kellogg 20 hours ago.
On the GTA one: literally tie a rubber band or something around the controls to make michael go in a circle and come back to it after grabbing a bite to eat. Also you get a couple million at the end so it is worth all the awkwardness
I turned on a UA-cam video and watched it while running back and forth a barrier and a certain bush, took 15 minutes or so I think
Do it on Trevor's airfield. No predators spawn there
They wouldn’t know that they never finished
Only takes half an hour to complete, just run up n down Trevor's airstrip. It's one of the easiest missions in the game@
@@leonpaelinck that's what I did
re: Dragon Age: Inquisition. You think the shards were a pain? What about the mosaic pieces. At least the shards appeared on the map. You just stumbled upon the mosaic pieces at random and for a long time some of them were glitched so you couldn't reach them.
I need to get out more.
i played this game from start to finish a few time but i never NEVER managed to complete even One Of those Damn Mosaic
I hate those mosaic
i did them all by pure luck. tried on another character and i couldnt manage to get 1
na we're good where we are.
I made a checklist with all those mosaic pieces for my third playthrough. Couldn't stand finishing it again without having all of the pieces.
The Arena in Oblivion was one of my favorite things about video games in middle school, and I was sad about the feature not returning in skyrim. I remember getting the Champion to not attack me in the final fight, and burning him for being a vampire 🔥
If there is an Oblivion quest which should be featured it is Speechcraft mastery quest a.k.a. “Talk to all beggars”
Another settlement needs your help
Rik Elsbergen I was waiting for this
As soon as we got back to Sanctuary with Preston I left him and Sturges there and never came back for the rest of eternity.
DeathByProcrastination
I just never went to concord. I walked around it and helped the settlements by just going to them.
Soooooo annoying!!!
DeathByProcrastination I poured about 50+ hours making sanctuary my kickass headquarters with a full smallish shanty town as well as a docter that was secretly a cannibal a church houses ability on top of the houses in sanctaury a sheriff office a bar walls made of that cool things with tires and scraps of wood rug glitches together and sentry toweres and gun turrets and a an arena. My point is I spent ages in sanctuary and would go to Preston for the quests because I wanted settlements to build in and as soon as you get the castle the radio can give you the quests and you can send him to the castle along with sterges. Now the actually annoying one is marcy
When you think about the figurine quest in Zelda that gives you nothing at all, I think it would be actually worst if it was giving you something amazing.
And yes, I remember that quest. I took a couple pictures, the dude tald me it wasn't good enough and I immediately stopped that nonesense. Apparently, that was the right call.
This video feels like a side quest I'm not going to finish.
@Tealwraith
I'm with you on that brother.
yeah too boring and no rewards
Amen to that. Out of the side quests here that were so awful to finish, only the Petruccio one really, uhhh, rankled my feathers. I love the arena, I didn't mind shard collector (because the rewards were so solid). The Queen in FFVIII isn't great, but again, the rewards are solid.
Where are quests like the Battle Trophies from Star Ocean?
"want to finish"
FTFY
14 minutes of my life I’m not getting back
"i don't understand how fidget spinners work.. do you battle them?"
proof that beyblades should make a comeback
You needed proof?
How is that proof
Beyblade s are still a thing, look at a country outside your own.
How about not over analyse a simple joke?
Isaac Southern No.
Did they really just unclude the Arena but not Seeking Your Roots(Collecting Nirnroot)? Or the Stones of Barenziah(collecting the 24 gems in Skyrim)?
I absolutely despised the Stone of Barenziah quest line, especially considering how hard it is yet how little you get for it
Did both.
Don't have a life...
the nirnroot thing actually gets you a really good reward, that's why its not on here. The potions you can buy are really good: Nighteye, Fortify Health and Fatigue 20 points, Fortify Blade, Blunt, Destruction, Restoration, Security and Sneak 10 points. Lasts 300 seconds.
Additionally, finishing the quest line gives you an incredibly high disposition with Sinderion. He also has an extremely low Mercantile skill. This makes him one of the best merchants in the game.
I just read the story of barenziah. Which is much more interesting than getting the stones.
Hah, you think that's bad? So assuming you've mastered the speech skill (yes the speech skill) you get a mastery quest to do for it.
What you must do is go around and talk to every beggar. Literally every beggar in the entire game.
And no you do not get updates on the quest, and no you don't get any quest markers. So if you accidentally missed one you might as well start all over.
Worst side quest ever
Now we would see collecting all 900 kolog seeds on Zelda BOTW
I was sure that was going to be on the list. The figurines are actually cool and the reward for them all is a figurine of Link and the King of Red Lions. The reward for all 900 Korok Seeds is a literal piece of crap. So yeah, figurines are way better!
YES.
Don't the korok seeds expand your weapon slots? I'd say that's useful.
I'm 500 in and planning on getting them all
@@wolfcafe3745 they do up to a point. It's not endless. And doesn't allow for any more expansion after a certain point
Started the GTA V mission really late at night, didn't realize how long it would take. Instead of taking the easy option of running around in circle, I decided to run up and down the runway of the desert airfield. But after all that my game crashed, so long story short, I don't play GTA V anymore.
Tahmidul Amin sounds like something I'd do
Those annoying thieves guild gems from Skyrim. The ones that don't have quest markers. I have yet to complete the mission.
Those made me want to die
Used a guide to cheat my way through it all, it still sucks 😒
If you think that is hard try picking up any other open world game with collectibles. Many of those games have much more like GTA and AC.
Absolutely and worse they a re stuck in your inventory until you find ALL of them.
I completely this ONCE. I have to say you get a pretty cool crown when you do.
I loved the arena questline it never felt like a chore to me
Connor Kenway I know right? I thought i was gonna be the only comment
i did it for the easy money
yeah i quite liked it
Honestly, they forgot to mention how great the rewards are for completing it! You get an Adoring Fan that will follow you around for the rest of your days, idolizing over you! Absolutely the best companion character Bethesda ever created, hands down. Take that, Dogmeat.
+Dialask Isel It doesn't look like you're joking...
Lots of people have finished the Arena in Oblivion. Seeking Your Roots, on the other hand, half of us ignored.
Handled well, the Riddler can be threatening. Like Jigsaw without the gorror movie baggage.
Wait... did you just say that the arena quests were worse than the nirnroot ones in oblivion?
The nirnroot ones were so aggravating
To this day that sound still annoys me...
*Nirnroot humming intensifies*
@@moonraven6145 *Crimson Nirnroot humming intensifies*
I know, right? All the fans hate that one, but this is the first I've heard anyone ripping on the Arena.
But i liked the arena in oblivion. :(
TheRoadSoFar same! I hated having to kill the grand champion though. That whole back story with him made me sad.
I love playing that part too.
It was the first faction I finished and I was pumped about the arena because Morrowind had such a lack of straight up duels in arenas.
John D. Yeah you can only fight a few specific people. Meaningful battles, but not enough
Sort of in the same boat, since the rewards for the shard collecting and the storyline of the Overlord DLC for ME2 made them actually worth playing through.
uhhhh the combat was bs in oblivion but the arena really had me charged up. I was annoyed Skyrim didn't have any of that. Arena was awesome, you are wrong.
I missed the Arena in Skyrim too, it would be amazing!
With the new(er) combat style in skyrim, the arena would be fuckin amazing, i think that after you become the grand champion that they should have let you fight more people tho, not just random creatures
To them, they didn't like it. They're not wrong in how they feel, albeit it's subjective.
@@joshparsons716 Skyblivion is comming.
@@ricknovais i would love oblivion with skyrims in game mechanics and spell work
“That’s because everything you have ever thought is wrong, Zondar.”
I am IMMENSELY disappointed that that line wasn’t followed with a “WASTED” tag.
What bout Granny Torgue's disgusting side quest where you actually had to listen to her boring story for 10 straight minutes
Luis Guzmán The true raid boss.
Close runner up is the To Arms mission in The Pre-Sequel. Take fifty weapons to an annoying post box in a corner of a large map, all for a sub-par legendary shield.
Sean Rea Did that one. It was an OZ-Kit, though.
~ TDG
TheDanishGuyReviews Oh God😨 that's even worse, considering there's no need to have any Oz Kit other than 3DD1.3
Luis Guzmán I hate that side quest because I didn't know you had answer a question and if you get it wrong you have to start over.
How bout in borderlands 1 Braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiins quest?
Does no one remember Preston Garvey. You can literally never escape the infinite amount of settlements that need your help
Come on ,Andy! You forgot the crimson nirnroot mission from the Skyrim. One wrong move and you eat one of them, failing the mission FOREVER.
the no stones unturned
Alexander Mowat Actually, they regrow, after a helluva long time though...
No, the nirnroot's do regrow, as well as there are more nirnroots in blackreach than the amount you need for the quest; heck I even ate one right before I finished the quest; thought I had doomed myself, but no, all I had to do was drop a extra nirnroot and pick it back up, bam quest is completable again.
If anything is a total pain it's the stones of barenziah; cus they are all over the world. Sure they're mostly in places you'll go for other quests, but unless you go out of your way to collect them fast, they stay in your inventory filling up weight and space.
Axle Tensa Quest items don't count towards your carry weight in Bethesda games.
Oblivion's nirnroot collecting is way more annoying than the one in Skyrim and also than the Arena fighting
I actually genuinely like the Arena in Oblivion and I regularly do that quest when I make new characters. For the levels and money mostly, but still.
The arena is the very first thing I do whenever I play Oblivion, tf? It's actually a lot of fun.
"WELCOME TO THE ARENA!" I love it.
Yeah, collecting The Stones of Barenziah or restoring the glory of the Thieves Guild in Skyrim would have been better.
(To be honest, I think pretty much everything about the Thieves Guild in Skyrim kinda sucked)
And on a side note, the Dark Brotherhood party quest (Whodunit?) is great... until you realize that you can just run around and punch everyone, because they don't care if you kill someone right in front of them and they have basically no health at all.
khgameplaye same
In my first play of the game thats what I did and getting familiar with the combat there helps so much
The only thing that annoyed me about that quest was the fact that you couldn't loot your opponents after they're dead, and the bloody door you couldn't go through.
The funny thing is someone obviously had to complete these missions just for the purpose of this video.
How about main quests we're never going to finish as a video idea? Frankly in Fallout 4 I'm too busy combing the wasteland for aluminum cans to worry about... What's his name? "Shuan?" "Ron?"
I know, right? Who cares about a son you barely know when you can pretend to be an overly-melodramatic superhero with a tommy gun? :P
When you've experienced 4 of these and completed 3, youknow you have a completionist problem...
Still, Pettruccio's feathers??? Heck no. That was the first one I thought of when I saw the title.
I mean, that one wasn't awful like some of the others. You can make them show up on the map, so it's just a matter of going to collect them.
The almanac pages in ac 3 are way worse you got to climb up high and dangerous buildings and be speedy for if you take a tiny amount to long they disappear until the next time you go to that area and lets be honest the next time you get to that area is most likely after you finished the darn gsmr
I ACTUALLY finished the one in GTA, and yes, at the end you have to pay 50,000$, but you also have an option to blow up one if the vehicles, and get like 10 million dollars. I’M NOT EVEN JOKING, I DID IT ON PS3
Yeah i too feel like they should've included it in the video. The wonderful feeling when you steal (back) all their money, mm mmm!
Don't know if they changed it, but it's only 2 mil on ps4. Still, it shouldn't have been so satisfying peppering that heli with bullets and generally creating mass destruction in a 2x4 parking lot for all that Kifflom BS they put me through...BUT IT WAS. >:D
Didn't even bother to replay for the tractor. You can also get one near the lighthouse, I believe.
Little xbox tip for finishing that quest get an elastic band, put it round the 2 analogue sticks so they're facing each other then get something to jam the run button in. Tony runs around in a small circle for about half an hour and it's done. Don't watch or you'll be sick
@@Steo-y4m who is tony?
@@jaycee4900 he been playing 'The ballad of gay tony' too much I guess😂
No Stone Unturned in Skyrim is _the worst,_ and.....whatever that quest with the crimson nirnroot is...that one's pretty bad too. But man, the second you guys mentioned Shard Collector, I died on the inside. I have yet to finish that quest on _any_ of my Inquisitors.
Stones of Barenziah Quest Markers mod and Crimson Nirnroot Markers mod makes those 2 quests pretty easy.
5 miles through the desert? Yeah i put a rubber band on my controller and went in the pool.
Jeff Sandt lool ch3473r
That's genius!
The cougars would probably kill you
But wouldn’t you eventually run out of the desert and have to restart?🤨 since you’re running in one single direction
I LOVED the arena quests in Oblivion! I got so pumped up for them, and the one on one duelling was so thrilling. I absolutely loved it and it's sad to see that other people didn't like it. That's a shame.
The mysterious stones side quest in skyrim 24 hidden around the map with no waypoint
The silant gamer I've been playing the game for over a year now and have only found 4 of them
no stone unturned?
Yeah and the reward isn't even good I mean the crown looks cool but still
The only thing you can do with it is put it on a maniquen
Cailin Overholt theres also a perk called that lets you get a massive amount of flawless gems
The oblivion arena was fun. Pretty much the first thing I do
I also like the arena and I found to not take to long. Certainly not hours like Andy suggests. Now finding those nirnroots is another matter.
I liked it too, especially the announcer and of course the reward of rewards: the adoring fan
Same here. It's a good way to earn a bit of gold and xp in the beginning. I did it every time just for that.
Agreed, Nirnroot quest is by far more annoying than the arena, i always used the arena for quick easy levels at the start of the game
Right? I *love* beating that smug Yellow Team Champion. can't call me a welp if ya dead
The Arena in oblivion must be comment bait, and it worked? Nobody can believe that is the worst side quest in elder scrolls.
Also the Firewalker quests in ME2 were really quick and easy.
And I thought this was an Xbox channel, why is Zelda here?
Yeah, seriously. The Hammerhead wasn't great, but it was a hell of a lot better than doing everything on every planet with the Mako. WHICH GOT MENTIONED HERE but somehow didn't rate as worse?
Yip, I completed ME2 Firewalker. I've got no idea what he's talking about to be honest. Perhaps they were running dry for content?
the firewalker are boring but soo easy and quick regardless of what difficulty you play on. They take like 5-10 min to do or something like that. And the exp reward is very important in the early stages when you play on hardcore or was is it insane its called. ehh either way not even close to be on a list like this. Skyrim Blackreach fuck me that is a drawn out place with the worst side mission of all time the damn Crimson Nirnroot
Oblivion was collectively garbage. The entire game should have been on this list. To the point that they recommend burning your game console instead of playing that trash fire of a game.
"why is Zelda here"
You do realize Final Fantasy 8 was on the list as well, right? It's because they're not some shit advertisement channel, they're free to pick games from other companies' consoles. It's honestly one of the better qualities about the channel.
I'm betting she used the feathers to make a son-shaped pillow
That would be the one good use of those feathers tbh
Maybe a husband shaped pillow so she you know
Another settlement needs your help!!!
THIS! ^... and the doctoring the books thieves' guild quest in Skyrim.
I actually really enjoyed the minute man side quests....
I’ll mark it on your map
If the 'No Stone Unturned' isn't here, I will be mildly disappointed...
I am mildly disappointed...
Trash Man Oh god not that quest I spent 3 hours searching for all of them.
Trash Man it's not a quest it's just collecting collectible stuff
is that the quest from TES 5 with those pink stones you have to collect?
It is a side-quest in the game, seeing that it is given to you by Vex and the reward is an effect that is mildly useless.
"You've wasted precious hours of the only life you'll ever have."
I need to get off UA-cam.
Not gonna lie, I was that guy who went and got every riddle trophy.
"Oh, you mean every riddle trophy in Arkham Asylum?" No, I mean every riddle trophy.
"What, you mean the ones in Arkham City too?" No, I mean e v e r y riddle trophy.
"Ah, so you did the ones in origin as well?" No I mean EVERY riddle trophy.
Every Riddler challenge across every main Arkham game. The only one I haven't played is Blackgate.
I just love embarrassing that cocky green-suited bastard.
Yeah I did them all too because I just wanted to rub it in nigmas face (although I love his design in city and the fact that the predator and combat challenges are set up by him)
There is about 30 incredibly obnoxious side quests in the Elder Scroll series that requires you to go all over the map collecting stupid crap and you choose the Arena? What the hell? The Arena was awesome.
giantWario but aren't most of those quests radiant? They literally never end, so I don't think they apply
**another settlement needs our help here i'll mark it on your map**
The side quest you'll never truly finish,even though you own every settlement
They didnt include that lind of quest because those quests are radial quests
*Vietnam flashbacks intensify*
Prince Sky I need a super thumbs up for this 😂😂😂
A group of 3 or so raiders in lvl 3 gear, got into my heavily-fortified fortress called my settlement with fully-armed settlers and missle turrets that OHKO the said raiders, with spotlights and walls to foil any stealth plots, got in and nabbed an entire armored settler and got out without triggering any alarm what-so-ever.
People didn't like the Arena?
I played through oblivion several times and i was always happy to fight in the arena
No he's just lying
PaleNerdPlays Arseholes didn’t like the arena quest.
I kind of liked the firewalker quests in mass effect 2 because I was one of like three people that enjoyed running around on planets with the Mako. Not saying that the Firewalker was my favourite part of the game, but it wasn't that bad in my opinion.
What took me much longer was a side mission in Time Spiltters 2 called Nice Threads and is one of the reasons ill never get all golds in the Arcade of that game. It took me about ten years to just get a silver. Off and on play and many hours of yelling at the game for being cheap scumbags. You have semi-decent amount of time to beat it if you don't mind a bronze, but I believe under five if you want a gold. Trust me... Its harder than it sounds.
The people who complain about the Mako are the people who don't treat it as what it is, it's an APC and it handles like one. That is to say: like shit.
I love that you actually did complete most of these side quests for the footage, was this list just a way of taking back lost time?
Fun fact: They started working on this video in early 2015
TheNuroshi Really, where did you hear that?
Andy Mcp yes,I guess...
Thomas the dank Engine Probably heard it from Facetious the Sarcastic.
Andy Mcp they could have gotten the footage from someone else.
Oh fuck those feathers. I had to look up a map of where all the feathers were then I had to go around to every single place around the map. Of course I missed a couple so ended up re-going through every single location 4 times. Not sure if the platinum trophy was worth it lmao.
Hannah I literally printed a map of all the locations and manually crossed each one off as I did it XD
You know they told you how many were left in each section. Should have been relatively easy to track down.
Hannah its funny, I'd heard from several people how annoying the feathers were to collect, but just by exploring the game naturally I was able to find 60-70 percent of them. Using the map to see what sections the remaining feathers were in I was able to find the rest after just a few hours. I was almost let down by how easy it was, and had expected a far greater challenge.
The thing that took me much longer to finish were the missions from the pigeon coops. Those just seemed to never end.
I did the feathers easy. Had the Stratguide map, then as a new area became avalible, complete all Feathers in that area before moving on. Doing it this way cuts the time in half.
Petruccio’s Feather quest is easy. I do it on every character. The REALLY annoying one is the Glitch Quest where you need to find those damn glyphs on buildings in the Animus. I had to wait until end-game for that.
Skyrim and Oblivion I did the opposite... Mastered guilds, thanes, skills, exploration and any side mission that didn't involve actually finishing the story!
Yeah, screw the story in those 2. They made everything else much more pleasing and fulfilling. Finishing the games was, sadly, a let down.
In Dragon Age Inquisition the shards quest isn't too bad. Especially if you want to get The Iron Bull and Dorian into a relationship.
At least not collecting 900 korok seeds in legend of zelda breath of the wild
They are such a cute couple. Though, romancing Bull is hilarious amd completely worth it. It was my favorite. Dorian is just going to have to find someone else lol.
@@AmySorrellMusic I love romancing Dorian too. Such a heartbroken man who uses humour as his armour. Besides, he looks hot. Well both look hot. Help, I can't decide.
@@ahmadkazan7994 omg! Ikr!? That was stupid. And after every yahaha I wanted to stab them.
Also just a boss fight who has a hand full of loot? iirc you got quite a bit of loot and some buffs been awhile tho
I was a grand champion in oblivion, I loved the arena
Zachary Boswell It is very forgetable imo
It's easy money.
I could never forget it. It was honestly my first questline I completed in Oblivion
Right? Literally the first place I go in any playthrough, it's good money, good training for skills, and if you happen to have that cool tower as a house you can make enough to have access to enchanting and spellmaking tables without needing to do the mages guild questline.
Every playthrough of Oblivion I do starts like this: create character, escape sewers, lower difficulty, enter arena, become grand champion
Haven’t watched the vid yet so saying now: IF THE CRIMSON ROOT QUEST IS NOT ON HERE I SWEAR THAT DAMN QUEST
Okay how is the Arena from Oblivion here but NOT Finding Your Roots or the Stones of Barenziah No Stone Unturned?? Both were tedious and annoying and the reward was little
Reward is large for the stones. Basically infinite money.
Riley Nayyman not infinite money since vendors run out and I find gems easily enough and get money easily enough. It’s especially easy once you finish the Thieves Guild missions and such in the first place. Being a thief character. And sure you can go up the speech skill and invest and such with merchants but even then. The effort is definitely not worth the Prowlers Perk. It’s rather useless, I’d prefer if they gave me the perk AND the crown to wear.
Barenziah was less tedious and more so just picking them up when and if I happened to come across them. It might be tedious if you memorized/looked up the possible spawn locations though I suppose and decided to hunt them and only them for a period of time.
Finding your roots takes like 10 minutes, dude.
Und3adCrows thing is I never finished. By the end of the Thieves Guild questline I was already rich enough
I was so offended when the arena was slated in Oblivion until i came to the comments and found that everyone else too loved the arena. My favourite faction in oblivion was the arena tbh
You are quite correct about the arena, I really enjoyed it. Personally I think they should have added it into Skyrim as well.
+Anarchy Antz It was gonna be in the game, but unfortunately it was cancelled.
the arena is amazing
i enjoy it, too. it´s one of the first things i do. nice easy way to get money, experience, some armor and weapons, a place to sleep, and easy handy victims if you choose to become a vampire.
at the time the arena was really fun. even without brilliant modern combat systems it's still an RPG and being grand champion does feel kinda cool if u play oblivion
No borderlands 2. “I like my monsters rare” is a quest made by satan. Kill a bunch of randomly spawning enemies that have no set spawn and may never spawn. So when the RNG gods say no this quest goes on forever
Collecting 900 Korok Seeds. That mission is seriously something barely anyone will ever complete.
What game
turtle h Legend Of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Bose-Einstein oh yeah that quest was Suuuuuuuuper annoying i feel like i have picked up all the stones in hyrule 2x because ig you forgot if you checked smth or not u better check it just in case especially towards tge end
yeah theres no way im collecting all 900 seeds
OH YEAH!! And all you get in return is... poop...
SKYRIMS STONES OF BARENZIAH
The only "thief" here is Bethesda stealing my time.
Had to scroll way too far for this. Take an upvote!
Armuks Thanks :)
Mash There's also that group of masks quest, where you put them all on a special display pedestal.
Russell Michaels that wasnt really a quest...
Haha, the stones, you're funny, try seeking your roots.
The look in Andy's eyes that silently spoke of his regret at taking part in so many side quests
Oh my god I’ve never heard anyone else agree with me that the dark brotherhood party quest was the absolute best! Thank you mike! Also I loved the arena
The Shards of Dragon Age Inquisition aren't that bad... You just.... Have to climb a mountain and... Fight a dragon... And... Sacrifice your new born child...
Honestly that last part isn't so bad. Frees up a lot of time.
But you actually get something for your trouble.
Yeah. It wasn't that bad. I finished the game 5 times. I collected all the shards everytime.
And you get permanent elemental resistance in those chambers which is great
I can't believe they left off the elemental resistances! Those were super helpful.
Also wait, when do you sacrifice a child? I don't remember that part...
Ive beaten the Oblivion Arena fights dozens of times, its not that bad.
Yeah, Oblivion. A game where there's a side quest to collect every nirn root in the region. Or a quest where you have to follow innocent people doing normal things the whole day, just because some paranoid guy told you to. But yeah, you chose the arena questline.
I loved that crazy dude's quest in Skingrad. It doesn't take that long and IIRC you get to decide what happens to him. The nirnroot one definitely sucks though
Nuppusaurus With the crazy guy you just wait 24 hours, you never have to follow anyone, that quest is rather easy to do and amusing.
Yeah Skingrad crazy guy and Nirnroot were terrible. Which is when I played it on the pc I got the respawning Nirnroot mod to make it easier. I also got the useful Adoring Fan Mod which actually makes him useful in combat. Also with paranoid guy I took his house key off his body and crash at his house.
And then there's the crimson nirnroot quest in skyrim, which is the same thing, but with more falmer
The Arena is totally pointless; that's why it was cut from Skyrim. But I agree, Oblivion had far more pointless quests than the Arena line.
Actually, the Queen of Cards sidequest gives you the Kiros card pretty early in the quest, and that can be card modded into 3 accelerators, which teach your GFs auto haste, which effectively breaks the game once you use those and equip to the entire party. In other words, Queen of Cards, absolutely worth it despite the headache.
I now feel like a massive loser, having found all the shards in Dragon Age: Inquisition and opened up the temple. Strangely, once you've done it once, it seems even easier to do on repeat play-throughs, to the point where it becomes part of play and doesn't even take long. Practice makes perfect, I guess? o.O
Same happens with lots of collectibles in games. So many Riddler trophies I pick up without thinking about it when I'm just doing a "quick" run through of a Batman game.
Also, the place you unlock with them has a bunch of hints about the secret villain of the game.
You can farm lots of essences from them if you leave the other, useless, item in the chest (coffin?). Just have to leave the map and come back.
Painfully tedious, yes, but collecting the 100th feather was possibly the highest point of my entire life. I've been riding that good feeling for...what, 7 or 8 years?
Take pleasure in the little things in life.
Because god knows we'll never get anything better.
Same here i really enjoyed Assasin's Creed 2 so i wanted to complete everything in the game and i did but it did take from release in november 2009 to january 2010 to get a full 1000 gs
Hazmick yes but you havent attempted the AC1 flags
Hazmick I did it too...can't believe how many years ago that was
I attempted the AC1 flags, but never finished. When I die it will be the lingering regret that binds me to the earth as a ghostly Vexillologist.
"99 side-quests in the Hinterlands, 99 side-quests in the Hinterlands. Take one down, look around... 120 side-quests in the Hinterlands!"
i come back to this video a lot just to hear Andy say "is it building a new son out of feathers?" And it always makes me laugh
As of July of 2024, still doing it lol
I remember ACII. I was so damn close to 100% synchronization. Got every mission perfect, every side quest, ever treasure box... and 99 sodding feathers. I could never find the hundredth.
jrcbroolz go to game FAQs and check their guides for help.
tbh, it's been years since I played the game. I haven't even turned on my 360 in a while.
I have not used it since before halo 4 came out. :(
I think the last time I used it was to play some nostalgic Blur with an old friend
I missed when games didn't cost more than a tank of gas
Guys, you completely missed Fallout 4, goddamn Preston just wont stop giving you guests to help other settlements
Peter Yioutsos fuccccck Preston.
There's another settlement that needs our help.
This one deserves a spot on the list
It's probably because that's a continuous quest that never ends no matter how many settlements you helped. Frankly though I enjoyed it, I loved the idea of rebuilding the world for good and raising all these new communities.
Good for role-playing bad for anything else. Ah Preston I never wanted to betray you because I'm too nice.
NIRNROOT
Sunshine yessss fuck that shit. Arena takes less time and sanity than either Nirnroot quest in Oblivion and Skyrim
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1. The Arena was easy! Even on a harder difficulty with combat improvement/difficulty mods!
2. Skyrim's shouts. I will never collect them all because they are useless, except Dragonrend.
What about To Arms! In Borderlands the Pre Sequel. You have to collect 50 common weapons and donate them to the revolution, and then they end up just using them to make a piece of modern art
How big is your inventory in TPS? Assuming that it is around 27 items, and you have no quest items, then you can go to a Dahl machine from early game and buy all of the stock from it. It will put you about 20,000-200,000 into a hole, but you get a lot of money and don't go through it very quickly.
While that sounds like a nice easy answer, you have to do that at least 6 times and as you said can cost a lot of money. If you focus on it it isn't difficult, just annoying as hell. Like, why can't I just donate money so they can walk to their nearest Dahl vending machine?
Sid Samel Wait that happens? Fuck that then
I just had a second controller and kept bringing in a character with a guest account drop the weapons right next to me and pick them up put them in and you can finish that quest in about 3 minutes
I just couldn't be screwed enough to do that and just finished literally the rest of the game.
No fallout 4? Well after this video a new settlement needs your help.
to be fair, thats just random infinite quests
To be fair, that's just Fallout 4.
Also, to be pedantic, it's infinite random quests. If it was random inifinite quests, it would be literally impossible to finish one 😜
Dont forget to find technical documents and blood samples
@@DanielH-uq2qc While taking this scribe and this annoying kid with you
Fallout 4 itself is a side quest I’m unwilling to complete
Batman Arkham Knight is to me hands down the worst for collecting the riddlers trophies for the fact that you're forced to collect them all to get the real ending of the game!!!
King Kilo sucks more that I had to do it twice on both consoles just to get the platinum trophy and Max cheevos.
There isn't really an ending change...
not to mention they make you do it in your tank. SERIOUSLY IT TAKES THE FUN OUT OF FINDING THEM WHEN 70% OF THE GAME FORCES YOU TO PLAY IN THAT THING! The only true action you get is against man bat and the random thugs. That's it.
Lol wow haha
It doesn't take long at all...
This video felt like a side quest..... I lasted 1 minute
Oblivion arena was one of the best missions to do at the beginning of the game it can easily be done at level one. it is responsibly good starter equipment, good gold and the final fight can be made into a murder with by doing the quest which instantly starts the dark brotherhood. Not to mention at end game the beast fights is a great place to farm grand souls
If the combat gets too annoying you can take everything not nailed down sell it and get the staff that does like 90 damage a hit over in the merchant quarter and with the exception of the guy with the magic shield it will oneshot everyone.
dragonlogos1 I loved it too. Tbh I don’t understand why it’s on this list?
It shouldn’t be on the list. Usually these guys are spot on, but they whiffed big here. The Adoring Fan alone makes this quest worthwhile.
By doing the arena quest you get well over 5000 gold to spend, I should know as I use the money I got to buy the cursed mansion in Anvil. I did kinda find the Adoring Fan to be a bit annoying though...
Creeperinside Link - He’s supposed to be annoying. That’s why it’s extra fun to kill him.
You can get a lot of money if you see the Exercising the Truth mission through to the end, and you get to screw over those Epsilon jerks in the bargain.
Take down an entire Hong Kong triad? Done. Complete five karaoke songs no one listens to anymore? Now, hold on a sec.
The arena in Oblivion is awesome, I love every fight in it and did 'em all with several different characters.
What about every single Lego game? Those gold bricks and Stan Lee's arent going to collect themselves!
NutellaChomper I can proudly say I got 100% on the Lego Harry Potter years 1-4 😂😂
NutellaChomper those are easy
They're fucking everywhere, so it's not that bad.
The most tedious is lego stars Wars TCS as you have to repeat the story at a minimum of 4 times to 100% it. The lego games are extremely easy to complete.
I enjoyed collecting everything in Lego LOTR
You chose the Arena questline over collecting every single Nirnroot in Cyrodil? What's wrong with you!? You could finish the whole Arena questline within two in-game days as soon as you left the dungeons, but Nirnroot collecting? They're rare as all hell, and the only two hints you have to find them are "they grow by water" and "they make a noise". And there's like a hundred of them all over the place.
The sad thing is, that's not even the only annoying collection sidequest in Oblivion. You've also got the one where you have to collect Shadowbanish Wine, if you want to crawl around the dank, uninteresting forts scattered around Cyrodil.
The Paragon Try it in Skyrim! Had to run around an underworld Dwarvern city filled with Centurions, Falmer, Poisonous insects, Wispmothers, Human slaves, a hidden dragon. There isn't enough to vent all my frustration on and I don't have enough space to carry their shit. Since I can't leave until I get this quest off the list, since much is glitched in there with the extra items that are quest items :/
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I don't want to confess how much time I spent using myself as live bait to try and catch those bloody slaughterfish in that bloody lake.
Sure, they're all OVER the place when you don't want them...
The Paragon not to be that guy... but couldn't you only fight once a day in the arena?
+Jimmy V no, it just depends how much time each fight takes you, they have set Arena business hours, so long as you kill your opponents quick you can get away with several fights a day.
I collected all the Shards in Dragon Age. It was pretty damn worth it, considering the loot you got from it. And the Arena was fun.
Yep 20% resistance from any elemental magic and allll that gold
The whole game was pretty awful. The shards didn't make it that much worse ...
Yeah, I didn't mind it either. The artwork tablets on the other hand....
it's crazy to me that i got DAI + all dlc for just under 7$ canadian on steam lmao
I'm surprised you didn't mention collecting 100 Nirnroot in Oblivion. It gave me such Nirnroot based anxiety by the time Skyrim came around that I had to impulsively collect them whenever I saw them, even though they're virtually useless.
I forgot what the side mission was, but there's this one in Metro Last Light where you're playing as a Nazi, and have to defend against an attack by the Reds. That mission was very hard. And I mean very hard. I guess the moral of the story is that you shouldn't play a game as a Nazi.
Certain world leaders need to play that game then.
Got that moral a long time ago. I mean it honestly annoys me when I see people says they want to play like a COD game or whatever as the Axis side. There is honestly no fun in that it's just a losing battle. we're gamers, we like to win, unless it took place in just the very early stages of the war you're going to just be slowing down an inevitable doom.
wasnt a side mission, was dlc. a damn good one at that.
So you were a nazi fighting red nazis? amazing stuff right there.
The Raccoon that's only if its based on realistic events and occurs like our WW2 did otherwise it could go anywhere change one event such as nazis never attacking the russians or they attack the russians not in the middle of winter and things can change drastically or rather than attacking through Belgium they attack france at their boarder keeping Britain out of the war while isolated america doesn't get involved
On the bright side, if you don't finish the final fantasy 8 side quest you can always tell yourself it just wasn't in the cards.
GhengisJohn ha! This guy knows how to internet.
In Arkham City he has citizens hooked up to Saw like death traps though. Bats can't ignore that!
And in Arkham Knight he kidnaps Catwoman. Batman can’t ignore that either!
These missions were awesome, and also fun to collect the trophies
@@Ragan31687 Catwoman's the only thing he can't ignore. Arkham Batman is fine ignoring a bunch of victims being tortured if he doesn't know them and it's too much to be asked to do.
who cares, buttons and mouse clicking is too hard for "outsidexbox" so it's declared to be boring and time consumign
10:54 this is why this is my favorite UA-cam channel
I always do the firewalker missions. Even though the firewalker is Made of Explodium, ugh.
But how could you bring up Oblivion and NOT pick the damn nirnroot collection mission?
I can't be the only one who actually enjoyed the Firewalker missions.
Having completed both quest (nirnroot and Barenziah), I would say the nirnroot is definitely the worst one. There are simply so many of them you have to collect. If you are using a guide and let's face it, you are if you are trying to collect them, the stones are at places you are already going, while the nirnroots will have you explore, just to get them.
Angela Fortin or the skyrim version with the Crimson nirnroot? I think that one is worse cuz of blackreach
Nirnroot is workable because you can always find it near water, and you start near a massive lake that proceeds into a river. You can just go along the shore and grab Nirnroots as you see them.
And then you just have to find those near lakes, small ponds and if my memory serves me right, hidden in homes. I never touched nirnroot when I was replaying Oblivion just not to trigger the quest.
Best side quest is OutsideXtra
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Am I the only person who thinks the OxBox crew were acting a bit weird in this episode?
DeathByProcrastination I thought it was a bit weird when Andy called riddler a dick, never heard the crew swear before
Everyone and their mother liked the arena side quests...
“You’ve wasted precious hours of the only life you’ll ever have” idk why that hit so hard
I'm upset that the "Tree Hugger" side quest from Goat Simulator RPG didn't make this list.
You lick a specific tree 10000 times. I gave up after 17.
please tell me that was a joke...
doctor_with or in the mmo where you had to lick 10,000 things, im somewhere between 500-1,000......
I gathered the 100 feathers in AC2... it was mildly annoying but *nowwhere near as aweful as gathering landmarks in Prototype or shards in the InFamous games!*
OR the shards of barenziah in skyrim
This guy chose the fun and short arena sidequest in Oblivion. If he doesn't like it, that's fine. But adding it to a list called, "8 Infuriating Side Quests You're Never Going to Finish"? He's obviously an idiot with no credibility at all. I could see the feathers being added for sure, but you're right that there are worse quests out there that could have and should have been added.
Feathers, the nightmare continued in AC3...
At least the shards in InFamous give your instantly tangible and useful reward every bunch of shards. They're also a good marker of "oh I don't need to go here ever again. Sweet!"
@@lutzvonnemesis5935 At least after AC2 they were tagged.
Wtf Oblivion arena was fun. Gambling bloodshed, vampires. What doesn't it have
A god damn sprint button
sliferred
Agrees. My favorite part of Oblivion, aside from Oblivion Gates.
sliferred good content!
I'm glad I'm not the only one.
Heeyyy! I liked Triple Triad. Even though its tedious, you can convert the cards into high level items through the Card Mod GF skill.
Honestly the Nirnroot and Barenziah quests from Skyrim is worse.
The real pain was getting master rank in FFIX's tetra master, you had to: (1) collect all 100 cards, (2) make sure each one had a unique arrow combination and (3) use your cards until they all get to the maximum rank. Reward: of course, nothing!
I did not like triple traid in this game i do like it in FFXIV(wierdly enough)
@@Unapologeticweeb FF8's Triple Triad was fine
90% of MMORPG side quests. Do you prefer to roam around a huge world collecting a million quest items that only certain mobs drop and maybe get something cool in return, or do you want to PvP?
But to be competitive in PvP, you often have to complete tedious raids/mobs...
The former. I don't like PvP.
Fernando Castro The answer to your question is: No, on both counts.
If I am absolutely required to choose, however, I'll take the "Collecting useless junk" quest.
Definitely the PVE quests. I'm not a fan of PVP.
Most of the quests in most MMOs take like 5 minutes lol.
Funny thing is I actually loved the arena side quest in oblivion 😂
Aneurin Pritchard a lot of people do
HOLD TF UP I FRICKIN LOVE THE ARENA WHY DO YOU HATE MY FAVORITE PART. ALSO THE COMBAT WASNT THAT BAD.
The combat was more jarring than skyrims
The combat was pretty screwy in Oblivion, not just the arena part. I remember some caves and other areas I'd completely avoid because the goblins were ungodly strong. That's why no one chose their main skills as their main skills. Like if you were a fighter, you'd choose magic and stealth as your main skills. If you chose the skills you actually use, you'd level up too fast and enemies would level with you and overpower you.
You forgot to mention that for Queen of Cards, you don't even have to complete it in order to get all the cards. You can just wait until disk 4 and find her at the Escape Pod site and win them from her there instead... While playing with every single card rule active, which is a lot harder for some people than doing the quest anyway.