10 Dated Video Game Clichés That Need To Die

8. "Collect 200 Snow Yeti Tears? You're joking, right?"

Side quests can arguably provide more pleasure than a game's main quest, granted they're done with the right amount of creativity. Side quests, you see, give players a sense of freedom that allows them to feel like, "Hey, I'm just living a normal life in this world, running errands and helpin' out good, honest folk." And that's fine, because side quests create the illusion that you're just one of the normal people. No dragon to kill. No Dark Lord to defeat. Just gotta deliver this message for a farmer!

Side quests can also make you want to set fire to your house and everybody in it. Because sometimes developers pad out games by having players race around massive open worlds, worlds that are literally miles and miles squared, searching for specific pink petals or dragonfly guts or essence of dog farts. And you usually know that you're about to get hit with one of these quests when an old man approaches you and suggests that, hey, if you really, really want this super amazing sword that would definitely help you out, go and collect the tears of 200 snow yetis. Oh, and the only way to extract said tears, of course, is to defeat the snow yetis in battle. All snow yetis - by default - are on level 100, though, so be careful. And they only come out at a very specific hour during the night time. I don't recall which hour that is exactly, so you'll have to wait around. Hopefully the game will allow you to kill NPCs.