Side Quests, Are they worth it?

[stompy]

Depends on the game. Some can be pretty damn good, and some, like Mass Effect and Assassin's Creed, aren't so good. It's better if the side-quests are small and varied (and fun) than long, tedious and often.

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

I liked the sidequests in Assassin's Creed. Sure, they might have all been the exact same one... I suppose I really just liked doing those things over and over.

My vote for the worst sidequest evar is the Golden Chocobo in FFVII.

 

[Copter400]

I mean the really big sidequests, usually involving 100% completion and your only reward is a different ending movie, or a medal.

Well, that would be the alien artifacts from Destroy All Humans 2. The other collectibles help you gameplay-wise.

 

[The Thief]

In most games I enjoy sidequests more than the main quest. Depending on how involved the sidequests are I'll do as many as I can in the first playthrough. If the game is worth a second playthrough then I'll give in to my nagging completionism and try to get them all done.

 

[Daymo]

I have given up on compleating ff12 for the time being because i got bored of the game doing all the marks. Even worse is i have like one more bit of the main story to go but can't be bothered doing it now.

 

[Jumplion]

If the sidequest includes finding beads/scarabs/skulls/things you'd find in treasure chests I wouldn't mind because I always explore every inch I can in games. It's a habbit that i've grown to appreciate, you never know what you'll find.

But it I get all those beads/scarabs/skulls/things you'd find in treasure chests and I get a crappy reward, you'll be your sweet ass I'll go apeshit.

 

[Dommyboy]

If you really love a game, you will do the side quests for it. Just to milk it of all its awesome-ness.
But apart from that, there is no real point unless you gain a big advantage like some insane weapon or the golden sword in Lost Odyssey.

 

[KenzS]

I completely agree with geldonyetich on this one.


I enjoyed doing the side quests in final fantasy 10, getting the magus sisters really helped(even though they are the dumbest looking aeons in the game). I basically killed Seymour with one aeon.

But doing the side quests in games like GTA i just dont bother.... especially GTA IV, I'm not interested in the random street encounters or the freaking pidgeons... the game was short enough.

Has anyone ever completed 100% on FFX-2? I couldnt stand it, and I even had the game guide.

 

[Mathew952]

Marine! You need to save the universe! But first, Little joey in GOLDENTOWN lost his CAT. can you help him?

 

[N-Sef]

I generally don't bother with sidequests, unless they are exceptionally fun or interesting. Zelda games have some great sidequests in them, as do the Megaten games. Besides those, I really can't be arsed going through several hours of pointless nonsense that generally does nothing to enhance the game experiance. If you like sidequests more power to you, I just don't care for them.

 

[Theo Samaritan]

Sidequests are worth it if something good comes out of them.

Either or I tend to end up playing through a whole game so I get the plot then going for the sidequests in a second game when I'm not in such a hurry to know whats next.

 

[Larmo]

I think Assassin's Creed wins the "worst sidequests" award.

Then you've never played Mass Effect. Since when is traveling to almost every unimportant planet in the entire galaxy looking for minerals in exchange for almost nothing considered a side quest?! And I was the perfectionist chump who actually went out and did it!

Honestly, great game; horrible side quests.

I did that, also i got even more minerals than was advertised by the game. Afterward i felt somewhat cheated because i traveled a whole freaking galaxy for them but all i got was EXP no good weapons or something.

 

[Zombie_King]

I hear a lot of 'stuff' about Assassin's Creed on this thread. Let me adress that. Not that anyone will read this post, I'm just typing on my laptop while waiting for a taxi.

I do most, if not all side quests if it's convenient and they don't do much to affect the story. I was ok with 'saving the civilian' a million times in Assassin's Creed. The only time I ever got fed up and didn't do every side quest was in the final memory block. There was one Assassination Target...thing, and every time I stealth assassinated a templar, five more would've seen me do it and haul ass out of there. On a different note, I loved Assassin's Creed despite all its flaws. Taxi's here.

 

[Chartist]

Chrono trigger, now that's some damn fine side questing. Pretty much the whole second half of the game was optional but it rewarded you and it actually affected the game world.

 

[jezz8me]

Has anyone ever completed 100% on FFX-2? I couldnt stand it, and I even had the game guide.

guilty, i loved the game. terrible story but fantastic battle system. I did it 100%, took me a bit to get Lady Luck (stupid mini-game), but i got 100% and let me tell you the mascot completely pwns every enemy in that game so hard but it is still fun and not broken to play.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Ninja gaiden sigma. You have to get all of the fucking stupid scarabs but some of them are well hidden, and then you found because you've moved past the room they're in the door has magically locked and you can't get them. Ever. Then you restart the fucking game to get that single god damn scarb. Then you find out the plasma sabre sucks anyway and the only enemy left to fight after you get it is the end boss who can pretty much only be killed with the dragon sword anyway.

Unless they changed it for Sigma, the only scarabs you can miss forever are the ones on the airship, all the others you can backtrack for at the end of the game (and the plasma saber is the Dragon Sword).