10 Truly Terrible Video Game Quests We're All Sick Of
6. Craft This For Me (More Than Once, Probably)
Crafting is usually a necessary part of RPGs, and we have no problem with a tutorial side-quest that underlines how it all fits together.
You know the drill: you need 12 scraps of sheepskin combined with 20 lilac petals and a goblet of poisoned troll mead to create the finest armour the eyes of the world hath ever witnessed. There are a lot of rules, and the game wants to show you how it all fits together. That’s cool.
But then these games get greedy (or lazy, depending on how you look at it). They take this one sweet mechanic and use it to fill a few more hours of gameplay – usually combining it with a collection quest for added insult – and ordering you to craft a set number of items. Then, once you’ve done that, how about crafting some superficially different items and giving them away.
Often they’ll combine these sort of distractions with collection quests (more on those later), so you get two quests for the price of one, you lucky thing. Because you'll totally use that basic spell potion and it definitely won't sit in your inventory until the first moment you can sell it.