Monday, November 19, 2007

Quests - Easy mode or just logic

I am officially pissed off at how quests are done in MMOG's these days. rarely do you see the majority of missions/quests in a game done properly. I'll start with the "waypoint" debate.

People say waypoints make quests too easy and its a game on "easy mode." Thats fucking retarded. If someone wanted you to go out and save someone for them or just gather 5 flowers, if they truly wanted it done they would give you as much information as possible. they would NOT just say "get 5 flowers" and provide no other information on how to acquire them yet give you a 2 page backstory of WHY they need them.

They would tell you where to get them, what they look like, mark that shit on your map if you had one (waypoint), tell you what exact dangers are there if any, and might even give you some tools to do it faster.

Now I have no problem with games not using waypoints, thats just fine. But they better damn well give good directions, or at least ANY directions on how or where to get what they are asking for. Again, simply asking for something with no information on how to get it is BULLSHIT. If it says South west of the tower, it better fucking be SOUTH-WEST of the tower. NOT South by south-west NOT go south then hook a quick turn west. EXACTLY SOUTH-FUCKING-WEST of the SOUTH-WEST corner of the tower.

Now admittedly there are times when even this amount of direction isnt needed. When you enter "wolf forest" go down the "wolf path" and hop skip and jump over 10 wolves to get to a person asking you to kill 10 wolves, direction really isn't needed. But if they want something specific, the information better be EQUALLY SPECIFIC. If they want a certain wolf that happens to also look like all the other wolves, and not give me a location<---THATS BULLSHIT. My first reaction would be that this fucker is lying and this thing doesn't exist, but since someone put the time to make the quest in the game yet didn't feel the need to make, I dunno, good, I can only assume this unique yet incredibly ordinary wolf exists.

In short, there isn't one fucking good reason why a quest wouldn't have some sort of lead or location for completion of said quest. Waypoint or text. Pick one and use it you lazy fucks.

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