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What Are Some of Your Favorite RPG Quests?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fun-times-in-role-playing dept.

Ryosen asks: "The current issue of PC Gamer Magazine has a rundown on the MMORPGs due out this year. Reading over the list of hopefuls and checking out some of the websites and comments, I continually ran across complaints from players about the tedium in a lot of the quests from various games. These are typically of the non-imaginative 'take this message to that person' variety, or 'go kill 4 of these creatures' sorts. Obviously there have been some great quests and plots in games of the past and, with so many new RPGs in development, I thought this would be a great time to reminisce over some of our favorites. Who knows? Maybe some of those designers might find some inspiration for their upcoming creations."

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  1. While in Final Fantasy... by MrChom · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..I loved the "Scream every time you hit a random battle" quest. I used to go back over and over just to play that!

  2. Returning back to real life ? by AwaxSlashdot · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is the most challenging quest I ever faced !

    AWx

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  3. Re:My old time favorite... by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Somebody get this freaking duck away from me!"

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  4. Are we there Yeti? by mESSDan · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is a chain quest in WoW in Winterspring. It starts off normal enough, but the second or third part of it has you taking a mechanical yeti and scarying different npcs spread out around the continent. It was quite amusing, and provided quite a fresh look at the NPCs and their reactions. Everyone I've told about that quest has loved it too.

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  5. Paranoia by GhaleonStrife · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd have to say my favorite quest was in a tabletop game of Paranoia. "Deliver this note to the clone across the hall." Of course, what the briefing officer neglected to mention was the fact that they still had to go to outfitting and R&D, which were on the other side of the complex. By the time they were done and found the clone they were supposed to deliver it to, they got in a fight over who would deliver it, and not only killed him with a grenade, but blew up half to 3/4 of Alpha Complex.

  6. Re:Involve players in the epic storyline by supersocialist · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anything automatic will eventually become boring to players.

    Like Nethack?

  7. Re:My old time favorite... by poopdeville · · Score: 3, Funny

    My favorite quest is getting E.T. back to his planet in that old Atari 2600 game.

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