Tangents and Tedium: The Faults of Sidequests

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Tangents and Tedium: The Faults of Sidequests

Added: 22.06.2015 3:15 | 15 views | 0 comments

"While once a tradition found almost exclusively in RPGs, sidequests are now found in most games with an open-world, or semi-open-world format, such as Assassins Creed, Grand Theft Auto, and the Batman: Arkham series. In most instances, these ancillary tasks are designed with the strengths of the genre and game in mind, but they still often feel hollow and valueless because they provide little more than a brief distraction from the events and themes of the main plot. Developers seem to see only one way to remedy this fundamental fault in sidequeststhe attempt to dress them up through lore or some kind of attempt at emotional connectivitybut fixing the perception of such tasks requires far more effort than that."