10 Truly Terrible Video Game Quests We're All Sick Of
3. Escort Quests
Escort quests are dull. We discovered this circa 1991, and yet developers still insist on adding these filler missions into their games. After all, who doesn’t love running, stopping, waiting for the AI to extract themselves from part of the scenery…
Usually, your escort will be utterly defenceless, which means you can’t just bolt it to the marker and complete the quest; you’ll have to stop and fight every enemy your devout follower irritates – which is all of them. To add insult to injury, you can’t even kill your follower yourself, in order to speed up proceedings.
An inversion of this is the ‘follow me there’ quest, which really changes the pace by making you follow them. Ingenious! Or would be, if the NPCs didn’t walk slower than an asthmatic ant.