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Dragon Quest 9 has to take the cake for this because it's filled with retarded shit like that.

The Green Hills of Stranglethorn

>>16122123

That's why they never put it on a real console.

>>16122116

Anything that's "follow this random asshole, don't get caught"

>>16122199

Except 11 has some of the exact same shit, just that none of it is borderline mandatory.

>>16122201

>the fucker stops and gets out of the car at some point but the mission isn't over.

>>16122116

Mythic weapon quest, FF11. No being without giga-autism has ever possessed one except bonanza winners i guess.

>>16122116

In Might & Magic 6 there's a bullshit quest where you're tracking down a runaway noble. His location on the world map changes depending on the tour schedule of a circus he joined. The only hint where he might have gone is a throwaway line from an NPC who's implied to be untrustworthy. The circus plays no other role in the game and you get the quest 50 hours after you've learned to ignore it.

>>16122273

I feel like it would actually be worse if the reward was something good. Then you'd actually have a reason to do that tedious timewasting bullshit.

>>16122116

Fuck yeah! Etrian Odyssey! I'm not that far yet but ai'm loving it

>>16122273

In Japan it's called the 金のうんこ, which literally means "golden poo", but it can also be read as "good luck". It's a pun that doesn't translate well.

River City Ransom Underground. Deliver the bottle of milk and the bullshit that can happen.

>>16122713

I like how the more useless ones were harder to get.

Deep Ocean, Vast Sea in World of Warcraft.

>underwater

>mobs that social aggro

>mobs that heal themselves and each other

>caster mobs

>mobs that run away

>very high density of said mobs

>in a sunken ship

>they can run and aggro and melee through walls

>it's a low level quest

>rewards are shit

Honorable mention: Of 100 nobles watching, 99 were impressed.

>>16122738

Oh ya, if you die the run back to your corpse takes like 7-8 minutes. And since it's underwater you can't eat or drink.

>>16122738

There was another one like that where you go to a coral reef and it's literally impossible without some way of breathing underwater. Also the reward is shit and it's part of an overly long chain.

>>16122762

The real kicker is that the weapon is terrible outside of a low level run.

>>16122765

I fucking hate "don't open treasure" requirements. Fuck that. Annoys the perfectionist/completionist/autist in me soo much

>>16122199

Honestly off all the shit that made me stop playing 11, it was one of the more mundane quests. To do one of the post game quests you needed a silver map. Not silver or better, just silver. I could never get the RNG to cough one up and had to abandon the game.

>>16122795

I can't think of any off the top of my head either. I know I've experienced it in other RPGs tho

Which FF game had either a final boss or a option boss that would instant kill someone if they were a level that was evenly divisible by 5? If you maxed all you characters to level 100, the fight would be horrendous. Was it the one with Squall? Never played it but remember a friend going apeshit about it at the lunch table.

>>16122116

Relic weapon quest in FFXIV original version is the absolute worse thing in the history of video games (and I completed it for every weapon in the game).

you had to penta meld your shit (shit had like a 5% chance of success and every time it broke you had to start all over and costs millions of gil every time, you lost the item and the materia), you had to solo with a broken weapon for like 10,000 mobs to feel some meter up on each weapon, among other incredibly gay shit, near impossible speed runs of the dungeons, and killing ifrit xtreme at the end.

>>16122859

That was indeed the Omega Weapon in FF8. Thankfully optional. The real kicker was that defeating it rewarded you with the "Proof of Omega", a COMPLETELY USELESS item that simply displayed a congratulations screen if you used it. Back in the glory days of Usenet we used to refer to it as the Lousy T-Shirt.

>>16122895

Hah, I quit FFXIV when that was implemented. When those relic pieces went into one's regular inventory instead of quest items tab, I laughed. Big middle finger to people who crafted/gathered… go buy another $1/month retainer to hold more useless shit. That and recent costume items not being able to go into costume armoire storage really irritated me.

>>16122795

The spear isn't that good because it can't combo for shit, but it's pretty fast and scales well with strength so it's really easy to hit max damage with it even in a 1/2/whatever game. It gets outclassed by Masamune, any of the latter ninja swords and greatsowrds depending on the element simply because of comboing and the damage cap. It stays useful a bit longer in zodiac but that's not saying much since you can assfuck Yiazmat with ninja swords since they got a massive buff and can do even more damage with dark robes. Think massive comboes with each hit doing at least 15k damage.

>>16123000

Well, Wizardry had attacks that effected levels directly, so I guess they just went from there.

>>16122859

I remember there being a boss in FFV that could instantly be killed with that same spell, not to mention that a lot of the bosses in that game had odd weaknesses you typically wouldn't expect a boss to have. I wish more games rewarded you for experimentation like that even though it trivializes future replays.

>>16123023

You can use chemist to level any boss to 255 with dragon power and kill them with lvl5 death.

>>16122999

By combos do you mean those… the hell were they called. Those quicktime things where you'd see cutscenes? Never got the hang of doing those.

Quick story: Ended up cheesing that one optional boss in the colosseum by hiding in a tunnel, setting two people to constantly buff/heal Balthier & absorb-MP/regenMP, and having him just shoot that boss. Process took 4hrs and used 4 sets of gambits. Or at least I think I'm remembering this correctly. My brother went to work a quick 4hr shift at his part time job and came back right as the fight finished. I was doing homework while it was playing itself, lol.

>>16123027

>>16122795

Chrono Trigger gets you better/more loot if you open some of the chests in the right order, timeline wise that is.

>>16123023

>>16123027

FFV is full of weird shit. Fun game, just quirky.

>>16123037

No, I mean successive melee hits. They only happen reliable with katanas and ninja swords, but you can boost the chance by being at low HP and having genji gloves. The game never tells you any of this by the way. Just skip around this video so see what I mean.

Ohhh, I remember that. For some bosses, vaguely remember keeping someone in a constant state of berserk and 1/3 HP. That ninja set, was that what you needed to steal from the boss with all the arms?

>>16123054

was supposed to quote >>16123054

>>16122116

Entire first half of Golden Sun: Dark Dawn is focused on a fetch quest to get something to fix what Garet's son Tyrone stole and broke.

>>16123045

At least in Chrono Trigger there's an understandable reason in that you're fucking with time and paradox the chest in opening it first later, but it does require either being aware of it, or making that particular leap. And at least the sealed chests can't be opened from the beginning, and once they are able to be, there's a prompt asking if you actually want to to let you second guess it.

>>16123092

>escort quest

>guy sees a wolf

>runs 100 yards ahead to kill it faster than you can even move, directly in front of the destination

>runs all the way back to where he was when he aggroed them

>starts walking back to the destination

>>16122116

>miner's ring

In tomba 2, there is a quest where you have to find a lost ring. The information given is cryptic at best and the search area is gigantic. Said area is accesible from anywhere in the game, and in the second stage, you may access it by simply dropping in any bottomless pit.

Bottom line is, you have to drop in a very specific part of the stage in order to find it, its not accesible by any other way.

I remember pulling my teeth to this quest as a kid for that sweet 133/133 quests completed.

>>16122762

Talking about bullshit quests hpw about facing not and capturing Ultima but the youngest of the Espers and his bullshit immunity buffs and literal bullshit party ohko. And their name is Zodiark

Any escort mission, and any mmo tier "kill X Y all the way over there and walk all the way back to talk to me again"

>>16122116

That reminds me of Gurumin. There's a collectible hat/accessory system to the game and each of the items give you unique buffs, most of them useful. Each of the hats is found in the various stages, hidden in various ways. One of the hats is a samurai helmet and it is obtained on a stage with a room that is an homage to Donkey Kong, with the camera switching to a side perspective and rolling rocks coming down ramps that you have to jump over. There is a cryptic number display in the very next room which doesn't seem to do anything. That number is a counter, which counts the number of rocks that reached the end in the last room. So what does this have to do with the stupid hat? You have to wait until the counter reaches 999 and then a chest containing the hat appears. Waiting is not a fucking game mechanic.

>>16123417

Guessing the speed of the rocks isn't particularly fast/high quantity spawned at once?

Anything from GTA V, but this one's a highlght.

>>16123428

Not at all, they go at about the pace you would expect the barrels to roll down in Donkey Kong.

>>16123252

Taking Reynauld to the Greatwall, an endgame area with two cyclopes, two chimeras, and a bunch of bandits and a fuck you ambush of Sulphur Saurians at a river crossing. You can grab and carry him to run past the most dangerous sections, only the last Chimera in the Barta Crags will be trouble as it has a huge aggro radius that covers the main road up to the edge of the Soulflayer canyon portal. Another similarly difficult quest is to escort Adaro to the Shadowfort, offered even earlier for worse rewards with only one path available at the time of the quest's earliest availability, crawling with bandits who can oneshot you and a fuckton of hobgoblins. Funfact, the reason why there seems to be an endless wave of hobgoblins/direwolves is because their encounter areas are usually saturated with spawns, easily more than can be loaded in at once, so more "pop in" as you kill their compatriots, though they were technically always there just unloaded.

Getting Excalibur II was fucking retarded in FF IX. You had to speed run trough the whole game, miss a bunch of stuff just to get a stupid sword.

>>16122201

This. So much this.

>>16122116

Just looked because there was an old challenge in Nintendo Power to beat Final Fantasy 3 US with least steps. I see it can be done in 10,550 while getting 3 optional party members (instead of trying to finish with only 3). So…yeah 3600 steps in one area is retarded.

>>16123613

Keep in mind steps in Etrian Odyssey are the dungeon crawler kind, so they take way longer to do than a top down game like FF6 too.

>>16123589

Forcing speed running in long RPGs was a retarded move (same goes for Clive quest in Suikoden 2).

>>16123619

man i thought that was supposed to be a wolverine; that thing looked like it was berserking

I have a lot of respect for Prey (2017), but goddamn if the Treasure Hunt quest wasn't a load of crap.

>Find 4 maps on the bodies of the 4 dnd players (or in their email). This is the easy part

>Figure out where the maps correspond to. This is kind of fun but also really annoying because you can't look at the map for an area unless you're in it, which makes the maps hard to follow

>Enter the code, which is slightly annoying because it only gives you the numbers and not the order, you just have to guess the order

>Your prize: a fucking useless chipset

It would be a good chipset in the early game because it increases wrench damage and recycle yield, but both of those are completely obsolete stats by the time you get it, which won't be until late game. And as an additional kick in the nuts, if you try to skip the quest and just enter the code so you can get the prize in the early-mid game when it would actually be useful you get a joke item instead that detriments you in the ways that the real one helps you. What a reward for the longest quest in the game other than the main one.

Some of the trophy unlock requirements in Smash Bros Brawl are just awful, like clearing 15 minute brawl with all characters.

that Romeo and Juliet quest in old runescape because Romeo was a little faggot

>>16123663

>Atleast they let you murder some cultists at the end.

Not really worth the headache.

Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanda, Chapter 9

After hours of fun fights and likable enough characters, this fucking chapter drops in in the game's never ending attempt to make you hate Yukimura Sanada. The whole chapter is literally

>Oh hey I'm in osaka

>Oh hey it's that blonde bitch I met as a kid, let's say hi

>Conversation where she's a bitch but SHE WENT THROUGH A LOT AS A KID SO IT'S OKAY

>Oh no she's sad about something

>Fade out

>Fade in, spawn at one end of the Osaka town map

>Yukimura: "I should see how Lady Chacha is doing!"

>Repeat for nearly an hour, no multi stage battles or anything

Fuck this character. All I want to do is follow Masayuki being a turbo autist about strategy.