9 Best Video Game Quests Triggered At Random

3. Acquired Taste - Horizon: Zero Dawn

This is one of those quests where if you know you know and if you don’t know, you’re going to love this.

In Horizon: Zero Dawn there’s a side quest that’s super easy to miss as the area it’s in doesn’t contain any of the main mission content so if you’re jumping from marker to marker, you’re unlikely to find it. Deep within the centre of the game world you can stumble on a man named Brin. Locate him in his home buried between the walls of the canyon and he’ll ask you to take on a few challenges which involve getting blood from machines.

When you return the goods he has a series of visions after ingesting the blood.

Each time you complete a portion of the quest he’ll describe his visions but the final one is the most fascinating. Here he says, “But no more stories of the past—all told! All done! Future stories. I saw an onrushing storm. The future comes hungry, for man and machine. It will catch me, I expect. Catch us all! So enough hunts, enough visions. I’ll run—chase that teasing sun to the Forbidden West."

Yep, that’s right, a quest that almost no-one stumbled across actually introduces the plot of the sequel. Pretty cool.