10 Truly Terrible Video Game Quests We're All Sick Of
2. Go Collect X Amount Of X... For No Reason
Hey, you there. You look like you’ve got time on your hands. Go collect 10 butterscotch candies from the surrounding area. That’s what heroes do, right?
When asked to collect a set number of objects, you are well within your rights to cut that quest-giver’s head off and force-feed it to your companion. No court in the fictional land will argue with your motive here. If you're super lucky, sometimes you won't even have to collect stuff, you can just scan it instead, which is... exactly the same as collecting stuff, as it goes.
Collection quests are fetch quests to the power of ten (It’s almost always ten items, although if you’re lucky, and the game likes your hair that day, you’ll only have to find five – not that it makes these types of quests any more enjoyable).
It’s just a grind designed to add purpose to your exploration of the locale, as if you weren’t going to scale that big-ass mountain without the incentive of finding ten magical tomes.