10 Video Games That Made Us Look Like Idiots

Grand Theft Auto V may be a wonderful game, but it's also one which relishes making fun of players who actually expect something neat in return for completing time-consuming side content.

If the infamous "What Lies Beneath" side mission isn't bad enough - which asks players to painstakingly collect 30 submarine parts, only to be rewarded with $10 and a signed photo - the game's series of Epsilon missions make an art-form out of treating players like idiots.

Epsilon is the Scientology-like cult which Michael can join as a side mission, opening up a branch of quests which generally require him to do busy-work, such as wearing Epsilon robes for 10 days straight and walking for 5 miles in the desert, while also making sizable donations to the "cause."

The last mission, "Unknowing the Truth," promises that Michael will finally receive "limitless knowledge" after helping deliver $2.1 million in "apocalypse funds" to a waiting helicopter, but upon doing so, you'll actually end up being gifted...a rusty tractor.

The delicious irony, of course, is that players who followed the entire quest-line expecting a real payoff fell into the exact same trap that real cult victims do.

At least in GTA V, there is an alternate option: you can decide to kill the Epsilon goons instead and make off with the $2.1 million yourself.