10 Truly Terrible Video Game Quests We're All Sick Of

4. Find That Special Someone

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The human version of the dreaded fetch quest, ‘locate’ quests are pretty obnoxious too. Your quest-giver asks you to find someone and instead of rightly punching them in the face, you agree to travel halfway across the map, locate said person, talk to them and…

That’s about it, really. They’ll typically explain that they can make their own way back home from here, then vanish. So, what’s the point in even finding them then? And anyway, if they’re supposedly lost, how did you know which area to search in the first place?

Occasionally the game will shake things up a bit, and order you to find clues that point you in the right direction, as if you’re Hansel and/or Gretel reluctantly following a breadcrumb trail home. Which is just as exciting as it sounds.

Well, at least you’ll get a stingy amount of XP for saving them. Every cloud…

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