7 Utterly Wild Side Quests that Started Out So Simple

[@outsidextra]

Hey, could you just do us a small favour that we promise wont turn into a huge out of control mess or longwinded journey? No? Okay, you can just watch this video instead.

[@parisaku813]

Alright thanks

[@DocDrowsy]

Sounds legit, I'm in

[@nilsvesterback6732]

Already done that for the government, so why not

[@photoo848]

@Outside Xtra: you brought many years of joy through the oxbox/oxtra channels. I'm up for doing you a huge favour.

[@needude7218]

Just "One Small Favour", sure.

[@ewanmulligan9465]

'Dude, where's my Jarl?' might just be my favourite Andy joke

[@gothmissstress]

I had a very weird moment just now: I was in the middle of watching the video when I was reading comments, and as soon as I read yours, I heard Andy say "where's my Jarl" It HAS to be a glitch in the Matrix

[@ewanmulligan9465]

@@gothmissstress that would explain all the identical cats I keep seeing

[@JachAnen]

@@ewanmulligan9465 An agent will be with you shortly to fix the problem

[@ewanmulligan9465]

@@JachAnen ah, beans

[@fioafionawright8604]

Should’ve been cart

[@CopperFireFox]

There's a quest in runescape literally called "one small favour" that involves the adventurer getting a piece of redwood from a forester that soon escalates to a continent spanning chain of people asking for favours before helping you.

[@dwmlue9299]

Came here specifically to recommend this one. You know a quest has gone off the rails when it becomes a running joke in multiple future quests.

[@The_Azure_]

First thing I thought of was this quest, still haunts me to this day.

[@little_valkyrie]

A lot of RuneScape's quest could probably fit here. My personal favourite is "Missing Presumed Death", which begins with a murder investigation and ends with the start of the God Wars 2.0

[@Nathan-qp9uv]

and while its technically a quest chain its hard to forget what happens after you agree to be the Cook's Assistant

[@TheAlkadeas]

One Small Favour is the epitome of "can you fetch me that thing" gone wrong. I love when the adventurer even gets mad at the lumberjack for only giving him some red logs for all that trouble and the lumberjack says "What did you expect, you only brought me my axe from Port Sarim". Plenty of quest chains in Runescape derail into full-on nonsense, like Trollheim's quest chain or the Cold War quest where you start talking to the zookeeper about penguins and ultimately find out they're building an army

[@m1tthrawnuru0d06]

I know it was a joke, but I really want that 7 Times Stupid Idiots Made Stupid Maps video. And Andy and Luke to be the ones in it.

[@LateSleeper]

IT'S A JOKE?! Awww...

[@joshuarose1381]

Yes I want that too

[@ulthorchaotic9019]

I agree, it somehow sounds quite interesting.

[@TheLegendaryHeroZero]

This video gets made or we riot lol

[@BLS31]

Number one on the list would be in Port Reaver in total war: Warhammer 2; for the crime of being nowhere near its map location.

[@JDgiggles]

Zelda: Link can you walk the dog? Nothing bad should happen Ganondorf: I'm in danger

[@AaronShenghao]

I pictured the Twilight Princess wolf link walking himself while holding a leash in his own mouth.

[@Dovah_Slayer]

​@@AaronShenghao that is adorable 😂

[@kaushtubhchauhan]

Skyrim itself is side quest gone wrong...player just wanted to cross the border and now we have to fight immortal dragons Edit-ellen imitating Arthur and andy freaking over cats,what kind of mirror dimension is this?!!

[@insaincaldo]

And also fighting immortal dragons is put on the side line of all the side questing.

[@tonyace87]

Seriously!!! Everytime I start that game I take a different route and I still get lost in side quests.

[@insaincaldo]

@@tonyace87 For some reason, almost no matter the character, my first 6-9 levels are remarkably similar.

[@MakeyJu]

@@tonyace87 lol I actually never finished the main story in skyrim - I usually start my game, do the standard first couple of hours then get too embroiled in sidequesting and exploring that eventually I just get distracted for something else and never finish it until the next time I reinstall Skyrim in several months

[@exterminatuss4380]

Her impression was great also btw!

[@saracin]

I loved "A Night to Remember" mostly because it allowed me to get Markarth as a fast travel destination without actually having to trudge over there.

[@chrisschoenthaler5184]

It also gives you a different perspective on the murder in the marketplace.

[@jacobbelter9141]

I've always just used the carriage myself

[@rickyroughton8098]

@@chrisschoenthaler5184 I remember my first playthrough, by the time I got around to going to Markarth I'd gotten a bit of a hair trigger from my glass cannon caster build so when the dude drew a knife I'd blasted him with a dual-casted thunderbolt before he even took a step. It was on my SECOND playthrough that I discovered what the guy did if I didn't immediately terminate his lease on oxygen intake.

[@mistertaz94]

@@rickyroughton8098 aye. I have to date never let the scene play out because I was paranoid of npcs in cities with knives after blood on ice.

[@tea.lillith]

It's a very awkward quest when you're already married to Ysolda

[@KaijinD]

"Dude, where's my jarl?" Flagon-born "Mark him as an abomination for some witchering later", and England as a Norse side quest. The writers were on fire in this video. Slow claps all around and well deserved.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Abominations and "witchering", you say?

[@drock91abr]

"Take back that da na na na" made me come up with a new laugh/snort hybrid

[@jordanmtui]

"To the vikings, England basically was a side quest" has to be the best thing i've heard today

[@sueagplant]

Would have been funnier if she got the name of the island right

[@fireblast133]

I still love that Sanguine answers your question of ‘why me’ with a still slurred ‘let’s be honest, I don’t always think things through.’

[@MySerpentine]

I mean, he is the ultimate drunkard/druggie. It's kinda to be expected.

[@CantankerousDave]

At least he’s an honest oh-god of debauchery.

[@MySerpentine]

@@CantankerousDave Is that like the oh god of hangovers?

[@dragonspar]

@@MySerpentine exactly. Only he now fills in as a substitute for other gods who want a day off

[@bolikde9389]

Why not ?

[@LordHammer33]

"Sidequests existing in the background of the mainquest", unless you're playing a Bethesda open-world game where the main quest is forgotten within five minutes in favor of the more interesting sidequests

[@hoodagooboy5981]

True, was there even a main quest to Fallout 3? Yea, my dad took off.... so what, look at all of this stuff to explore.

[@portallegend1692]

you could probably say "The Mainquest exists in the background of the sidequest"

[@QueenOfTheSea101]

or unless you're playing Zelda: BOTW..... nearly two years of owning it and i STILL haven't gone anywhere NEAR taking down ganon..

[@morgantaylor84]

This also reminds me of the Yakuza series. Not that the main stories of those games are uninteresting, but the side quests can be so off the wall they demand your undivided attention as soon as you stumble upon them.

[@ossiehalvorson7702]

@@QueenOfTheSea101 Doesn't sound like there's any benefit to doing it anyway, since it sounds like it has a really unsatisfying ending and low reward overall.

[@Shade23]

The Bouncing Boy quest actually gets even darker. You can find the robot sitting on top of one of the mountains repeating "Father..." over and over, after he kills Dragic

[@phuzz00]

I was wondering if there was any more of that story. Guess Arthur's going to be climbing some mountains then.

[@Shade23]

@@phuzz00 idr the exact location, but I know it's a snow covered mountain

[@Michael1Nightmare]

​@@Shade23 Its not too far off from where you start the game, its right outside that abandoned village

[@JaelinBezel]

Do we KNOW he killed him?

[@powermasterjazz]

@@Michael1Nightmare You can use the device that's next to Dragic's body to track the robot

[@bbd121]

Actually, "7 stupid maps" could be an interesting video. Some Dragon Age maps are down-right weird.

[@girasola1591]

I feel like most of DA2 could qualify for that

[@kitsu1379]

@@girasola1591 Yeah but that's actually quiet a boring reason. It's coz they only made like a dozen different dungeon like area so they just kept reusing the same ones they just put blocks to your path in different places, like a minecart or an unopenable door. Not saying it doesn't sometimes make it weird when the interior of a cave looks the same as a dwarven taig but for reasons it's rather run of the mill. I think the problem is as a world, Dragon Age 2 is a lot smaller since base game wise... actually even with the DLC (since they only add really 2 new locations in Chateu Haine and the Darkspawn Prison thingy) it's still really small, it's just the city and a handful of the same surrounding areas and you mostly go to the same places over and over again so I think some people on the team might have thought that meant they could get away with using the same maps over and over. Which is a shame because 2 still gets bounced back and forth with Inquisition as my favourite Bioware game. 2 of the 3 DLC have some pretty good maps though.

[@mokslobrokolis6685]

How about in The Witcher 3: TWH, when you sit in a pub to play Gwent and some side quest about finding your daughter begins?

[@joeyghostx]

You had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

[@akmal94ibrahim]

Reminds me of Fallout4. Totally forgot I was supposed to be looking for my child.

[@slingshotwaffles]

Who’s Ciri again? Anyways, how about a round a gwent, then a quick race race or two, then we can polish it off with a good ol fist fight

[@SprySpace]

Collecting Gwent cards is ridiculously addictice

[@bsharpmajorscale]

or Skyrim, where some old bearded dudes constantly interrupt my quest to own property in every city.

[@cristiancojocaru9821]

Wild at heart is probably the Witcher quest I'd recommend as a must for anyone, you get it relatively early, specifically because it starts off unassuming and by the end you've had your share of drama and tragedy, it fits the general tone of the game and doesn't go on more than it should, perfect micro-pellet of witcher goodness.

[@ossiehalvorson7702]

Which one was that? The tree demon in the swamp?

[@cristiancojocaru9821]

@@ossiehalvorson7702 Nono, the werewolf with the missing wife and thirsty sister-in-law.

[@Tinyvalkyrie410]

Ellen’s segment on Zelda was true genius. Both the writing and the editing were brilliant

[@lizardguyNA]

The crazy thing is she's not wrong.

[@HudsonHorse]

Not trying to spoil the end of BOTW2 but it seems it is going to end stabbing the greatest of evils.

[@lizardguyNA]

@@HudsonHorse It's clearly effective.

[@cold-bloodedbeats4139]

@@HudsonHorse Well technically a bow and arrow is like stabbing someone from afar, so Link already did it to Ganon in BOTW1

[@dankeykang8243]

" And it's totally unbreakable." Lol

[@josephblevins7977]

AC Odyssey: A Family’s Legacy. All you have to do is find out who your father is...and become an immortal, discover a lost civilization, and convince Pythagoras he has to die for math crimes.

[@willhuey4891]

that was an insane side quest in odyssey.

[@friendlysharkce1831]

I think the pan quest in witcher 3 also fits this. "Ah yes ill get this lady her pan back.... Wait why is there a corpse"

[@slavthesage5661]

Honestly far too many quests from Witcher 3 fit this........

[@tevildo9383]

How about when you have to refurnish a house of ill repute for Dandelion, and you eventually end up hunting down a very Puritan higher vampire who framed a priest for murder.

[@titanhades4331]

Actually no. If you pay attention to the clues, you know who the other guy was. The broken monocle should clue anyone familiar to the series. You mean a certain 'shoe fixer' later......

[@tevildo9383]

@@titanhades4331 I actually didn't realize that it was _that_ spy. I never finished Witcher 1 (I had just gone to the swamp), but I did meet him in Vizima. I fully plan on going back to finish 1 and play 2 after I complete 3 (currently level 24 doing the Skillige portion of Ciri's Footsteps). And then I'll probably replay 3 to see different quest endings and download some mods since I play on PC but decided I'd stay vanilla for my first playthrough.

[@ossiehalvorson7702]

@@tevildo9383 I really can't recommend Witcher 1 having just beat it. If you want to catch up on the story, just watch a summary video or maybe a let's play so you can skip through the god awful swamp when the time comes.

[@MysteryFedoraMan]

Ellen doing a red dead entry and Andy immediately following it with an entry about cute cats?!?!!? I think I’ve woken up in a parallel dimension again

[@bikershark9]

"Flagon-borne" deserves the highest of fives

[@xdsmile5359]

Cheers! My fine fellow!

[@shanedawndusk3290]

Oh definitely. Cheers for days.

[@jnev5572]

Dude Bro Duh

[@ChasoGod]

What made the Big Goron Sword SQ more difficult is that one part has a time limit and you can't use the teleport songs to get from place to place cause it would instantly fail it.

[@gothmissstress]

I love that Andy is helping out to make lists on Outside Xtra while Luke is busy being a wonderful dad. Andy - the real friend we all wish to have♥️

[@koencagurangan3256]

Wait wait wait, Luke's a dad??

[@Charharr]

@@koencagurangan3256 Yes, he's been on paternity leave! And Mike became a dad relatively recently too :-)

[@rickyroughton8098]

@@Charharr Mike... the guy who generally has more innocents killed than still alive at the end of his segments in Three Ways to Play... IS A DAD?! Should we be worried?! XD

[@Sophie-mq1eo]

What about the "One Really, Really Bad Day" side quest from AC: Odyssey? A simple request to take out a few pirate ships to protect a village turns into a slapstick tragicomedy where Kassandra's every attempt at helping ends with the quest-giver dying in a hilariously horrible way.

[@bored5138]

that quest was ridiculous, even more when I destroyed the pirates by herding them into each other WITH A SAILBOAT! I intended to sneak on but I was stupid PS. I went through account creation to post this because I cant access my inbox because I need an email into my inbox to access my inbox. so I had to create this throwaway account just for this comment.

[@Joe_Potts]

I loved that one! by the end Kassandra as like "Everybody I help here dies anyway!" and i start murdering everyone once they start attacking me because i screwed so much stuff up

[@Dovah_Slayer]

Alexios/kassandra, remember you can play as both (I prefer alexios because the NPCs are more courteous)

[@Joe_Potts]

you can play as both. however i think in later games (Valhalla, for example) Kassandra was shown to be the canon Eagle-bearer. plus i personally think Alexios' voice acting is a bit brutish and kinda rough, compared to Kassandra.

[@Dovah_Slayer]

@Joe_Potts I don't recall kassandra being the canonical choice in Valhalla and doubt ubisoft would do that especially considering Ubisfot decided both male and female Eivor was canon despite the fact Eivor is a feminine name if they were to go with a Canon choice it'd make more sense for alexios to be the Canon choice given how much respect a title like eagle bearer would bring (and let's face it you are not respected at all if you play kassandra) Edit: Well, I'll be damned she is the canon choice, so is killing alexios reconciling with myrinne stentor and nikolaos and aspasia living ( I don't remember who that is) is still alive? So basically none of my choices fucking mattered thanks Ubisoft

[@Ravenite456]

Can we all appreciate Ellen's Dutch van der Linde impression?

[@just1it1moko]

only if you can appreciate my Dutch Ellen Rose impression

[@shesawitch3581]

"Orthur!"

[@MrMBinder]

Only if you give me the muneh, boah!

[@brentage5000]

"It's FAHN!"

[@FunkelFargas]

I just can't get over her saying "things went from yee-haw to yee-huh?" I can't believe she really said that

[@frodobaggins7710]

"Come Fly With Me" from Fallout: New Vegas begins with you going off to clear some ghouls out of an old building that used to be a site for launching rockets. However, it turns out that the ghouls plan on using some of these rockets to reach some sort of "promised land", and if you like, you can help them with this journey (and they're more likely to succeed if you have a high enough science skill)

[@esavage8855]

When I saw the title of this video that was the first quest that popped into my mind. I HATED that mission!!! It’s extremely long and tedious and it forced me to use up almost every single bit of my resources and because you have to buy that stupid fusion core it costed me so many fucking caps and all just so that guy would tell you a tiny bit of information. 🤬

[@divyanshdewan4671]

How about that quest in witcher 3 which starts with a couple of guys offering you some roasted pig and ends with you leading some villagers who've been converted to pigs to a cave, through a portal to reverse some elven curse? Fool's gold was it called?

[@SzymonNatanRajca]

Yup ;)

[@sandipan8]

I haven't played this side quest... Is this in one of the DLCs?

[@SzymonNatanRajca]

@@sandipan8 yeah - it's one of the free DLCs. This mission is in White Orchard. You can find it near that old windmill at the north of the location.

[@sandipan8]

@@SzymonNatanRajca thanks man.. am gonna replay this game soon now that I have got all the DLCs..will make sure to visit this

[@GrndAdmiralThrawn]

I’ve only played a bit of The Witcher 3, but it seems like every side quest fits this list. You start out being given some mundane task, but find out it’s a secret cult or a monster in disguise or whatever.

[@SethACampbellMusic]

Ellen's delivery on the entire Zelda quest is absolutely brilliant.

[@FreshestSoup]

No Mass Effect Andromeda? The quest where you are sent out to dig for water and end up fighting a skyscraper sized spaceworm was the definition of quick escalation.

[@jennylouisejohansson3680]

I usually never admit to playing the game that must not be mentioned but.. that fight was the reason I kept playing the game

[@soarinlightponysnow96]

Where sides quest do in mass effect and games series and final fantasy series to

[@JosieJOK]

@@jennylouisejohansson3680 I liked the game for its fun, fluid combat and the variety of different, equally fun builds you could make. It was a terrible Mass Effect game, but if it didn’t have the name (and expectations), it would have been a decent game on its own merits.

[@kitsu1379]

@Gi Gi I actually enjoyed Andromeda. I know it gets a lot of crap but its not actually a bad game, just isn't as good as the original trilogy, but hey isn't that the same schtick star wars gets? If Andromeda wasn't a Mass Effect game and just stood on it's own, I think a lot less people would have a problem with it, sure it's a little drawn out and the teammates aren't as good as the ones in the original games, but it's still fun to play, looks pretty good and has it's good moments.

[@kitsu1379]

@Gi Gi I agree, execution definitely let down the ideas and hype. But it doesn't mean the game is as bad as it's made out. In my opinion it's still enjoyable even if it is one of the weaker games BioWare has released. I'm not saying it's a masterpiece, just that it's more fun then some people give it credit for.

[@puffyhowler615]

During the Skyrim quest: a daedra's best friend, you start by looking for someone's lost dog, and end up meeting, and making a deal with Clavicus Vile, the daedric prince of trickery and wishes.

[@carlsiouxfalls]

A simple dinner invitation from your ship's pilot leads to a fight through the streets, a casino infiltration and a face-off with your face-wearing evil clone in Mass Effect 3's Citadel DLC.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

That's the entire DLC... oh, wait, that DLC is basically an entire sidequest in itself. Nevermind.

[@sabrinarosario6499]

Also the destruction of a fish tank…. )’:

[@aarlavaan]

@@sabrinarosario6499 Commander, in my cycle when we fled combat by falling through tanks containing aquatic animals, we usually... Oh. Right. We never did. [laughing] You are a trailblazer.

[@KingKinokoDayo]

I really wanted to mention Yakuza 0’s “Disciple of the New Order” where Majima goes to deliver a message to a woman’s daughter from within the Order of Munan Chohept Onast but uncovers a lot of weird things about the cult along the way.

[@mapleseerope9381]

Yakuza has so many fun side quests

[@justagiantnerd8001]

Only Goro Majima

[@jessen]

Ellen saying, "It's gonna be FINE, Arthur" is the best thing ever.

[@Viking648]

Under the heading of "Witcher contracts that spiral out of control" might I suggest the entirety of the "Hearts of Stone" DLC where-after killing a giant frog in the sewers that turned out to be a prince and subsequently being captured by his subjects-Geralt strikes a deal with the literal devil to grant the bloke who hired him three wishes which, in turn, leads to Geralt 1) attending a wedding while possessed by a ghost; 2) orchestrating an auction house heist that has (among other things) the Goblet of Fire; and 3) confronting a dead woman's deepest anxieties in her painting?

[@Konpekikaminari]

"Hearts of Stone" is the absolute pinnacle of "that escalated quickly"

[@ossiehalvorson7702]

HoS and BaW are the two highest examples of what DLC in games should be. Absolute masterpieces.

[@koencagurangan3256]

Fallout 4, The Secret Of Cabot House, starts off as a couple of fetch quests, ends up becoming a choice between a madman with the power to destroy the world, AND make you immortal, or his Son who wants to stop him and maybe become immortal along the way at his dad's expense

[@thomasallen9974]

Oh that was a fun one for sure.

[@tevildo9383]

The quest for the robot pirates where you can crash a flying boat into a skyscraper was pretty fun too.

[@dragon22214]

@@tevildo9383 they weren't pirates they were British military bots hence why they wanted to go to the open sea they were going to china

[@asteriondeltoro124]

What about that sidequest in Fallout 2 that starts with you being asked to find a lost watch and ends up with you bombing the local outhouse and covering the entire town in poo?

[@tom_k_cook]

Shit hit the mini-nuke with that one.

[@pronemanatee6861]

Or fallout 3’s blood ties quest which starts with you delivering a letter from a girl in megaton and escalates to you finding and helping or killing vampires in subway station or delivering blood packs and getting a recipe for a flaming sword

[@travisbishop782]

Wth?

[@thomasallen9974]

@@pronemanatee6861 I remember that one, I went with the route that saw the town and vamps become friends and I also become a vampire (blood packs gives more health perk)

[@brucewolf3050]

Surprised We didn’t see Cyberpunks mission where you drive someone to a murder only for you to end up nailing the guy who was gonna get murdered to a cross

[@Ceece20]

Emil’s quest line in Nier Automata: You start by finding some flowers around the world Then you find a new area with the flowers and he gets back some of his memories Some (other) stuff occurs Now you are fighting giant heads of him in the desert that threaten to nuke the whole place and you are the only one who can stop them. Also Emil’s song is playing during the boss fight, cause fuck your delicate emotional state at this point. Feels train knows no breaks.

[@dickysatria7268]

Everythings a sale~~~

[@Konpekikaminari]

also that resistance Android who wants to help her boyfriend turns out she's re-programming his personality on a whim every time

[@tjsullivan714]

The biggest omission in this is from Octopath Traveler, where an unassuming sidequest quite literally ends in the true final boss battle.

[@mrdewarion]

Interesting, I was in a middle of watching a really long video, when I got the notification that this was up, so I decided that I could slip this short little video in between and keep watching the long thing later. I demand some experience and a disappointing reward now though.

[@outsidextra]

Here is a medal that you can't equip and just fills up a slot in your inventory 🏅

[@mrdewarion]

@@outsidextra That sucks so much. So thank you.

[@djjazzyjeff1232]

It doesn't really count as a "Side" quest but the whole premise of the "One Small Favour" quest in RuneScape was sort of a poke at the absurdity of both quests in games, and also favors in real life, and how one "small" thing can turn into a massive chain of BS to get you to the end point that should've been so simple lol.

[@majdramadan8404]

Oh God, I hope the Red Dead Redemption 2 side quest isn’t some sort of foreshadowing for the Wonderful Mechanical Man...

[@austinparker5053]

Soon as they return from the Dimmer Sosters heist, they return to find the Wonderful Mechanical Man has taken over Eleanor's Largely Legal Antiques, and they must retake it from the rogue Automechanical

[@likealightning4139]

Or the Wonderful Mechanical Man murders Edvard in secret, replacing him in the group and it takes everyone a while to notice, Andy and Luke the only ones being in the know... P.S.: that’s what one of the players in my DnD group once did. With me as a GM. It was hilarious seeing him try to drop bigger and bigger sinister hints that he was replaced by a demon he summoned to bind to his service which obviously went horribly wrong.

[@stewartglencrose9023]

@@likealightning4139 I’d like to think the WMM would be nice enough to trap Edward in the attic and feed him a bucket of fish heads once a week

[@marhawkman303]

@@likealightning4139 Ah but is the demon a useful party member? :D

[@hadorstapa]

Looks a bit Mondasian to me...

[@crabulonbestgirl9130]

In OMORI, after defeating the boss Sweetheart, If you choose to return on the next day to where you fought the boss, you will find a guy named Pessi, The self proclaimed "Number 1 Sweetheart fan". If you talk to him, he realises his "Thing" has gone missing and he wants you to find it. Sounds simple enough, right? To find it, you must get information from "Shady Mole", but he wont give it to you unless you get him "The B.E.D." Simple enough, right? Well the person who owns said B.E.D. is asleep. So you have to get a "SUPER Airhorn" by giving tofu to a sprout mole playing basketball. You use the SUPER Airhorn on the sleeping sprout mole and he ends up giving you the B.E.D. Finally you can give it to Shady mole, but you arent even close to done. Shady mole tells you that "Rosa", the OTHER self-proclaimed #1 Sweetheart fan, has taken it. If you try to confront her about the stolen goods, she wont give them. So you end up getting BLACKMAIL on Rosa from Shady Mole, and that FINALLY gets you Pessi's "Thing". If you happen to inspect the item before giving it to Pessi, the "Thing" is... Sweetheart in a bikini. Great.

[@ixelhaine]

"but it's broken so take back that duh-na-na-na!"

[@LordBloodySoul]

One quest in Skyrim that I remember escalating so far down the line was the whole Dragonborn thing. Attacked by a cult. Cool, deal with that. Travel to another Landmass to find its inhabitants brainwashed, then help some guard, find the Skaal, meet Neloth, read black books and meet the FIRST Dragonborn who's been trapped inside a Daedric Realm and thinks he can outsmart the Daedric Lord of Knowledge and Plots. Yeah, I didn't see that coming when I grabbed that DLC XD

[@Kensie2559]

Emil's quest line in NieR: Automata Ever think a simple flower fetch quest would turn into one of the most emotional and difficult boss quests in the game?

[@Ceece20]

Oh god yes 👏

[@tom_k_cook]

Not to mention the missable ending I found out about after completing it- Welp, I got 3 save files to work with at least.

[@TheWindii]

I definitely need more Arthur impressions by Ellen in my life.

[@odysyr]

The cartography beef at 12:45 feels related to Jane's recent reveal as official oxventure cartographer on the podcast. I've got to say I'd love to see Jane cutting a promo on Ptolemy or ripping into the Mercator projection!

[@TheFirstAifos]

The sidequest that comes to mind for me is “Vi’s Request” from Bug Fables. At first, it seems like a pretty standard trading sequence; trade a fancy toy for a souvenir, trade that souvenir for some fabric, trade that fabric for some dye, and then trade that die for some paint to give to Vi’s sister, so they stop fighting. The only issue is, that fancy toy is found at Metal Island. If you wait until the end of the game, you do get free passage there eventually, but if you get Vi’s Request done immediately it’s a little more complicated. See, getting to Metal Island by normal means is super expensive, too expensive to realistically afford without hours of needless grinding. You can make the trip cheaper, though, by being qualified for the trading card game tournament, and in order to do that you must travel around the world, finding 4 secret “Card Masters”; people who say they’re amazing at this card game, but really, really aren’t. Not too bad so far, you may be thinking, until you also realize in order to start searching for the Card Masters in the first place, you have to get access to a secret underground tavern, and the only way to do that is by fighting an actual vampire. So, what started off as a fairly simple “get Vi’s sister some paint so they can make up” turns into “journey to every corner of the world for a complex trade sequence, learn how to play a trading card game in a secret undeground tavern, journey around the world a second time to get qualified for a card game tournament, and fight a vampire to do it”.

[@JT_Lich]

You have to make that map video now. I'm telling you this before the Internet floods your DMs with torches and pitchforks asking where it is 2 years later.

[@Zentz29]

The Anju and Kafei quest in Zelda: Majora's mask. That was insane!

[@jamesbrice3267]

Getting to see the wedding was worth it.

[@Hisha1303]

The Teeth of Naros quest in KOA's DLC started with a straightforward scouting/exploration mission and ended with saving a entire civilisation of giant people

[@anthonyeaves4145]

Skyrim: getting the hipbown of a dead king, that one quest in wolf skull cave you accidentally unleash an undead necromancer queen, the quest you get from a talking dog… that game has a ton of side quests that go completely insane at the end

[@ironicdutchmoonshade]

Andy's map-hating was over the map of Kingdoms of Amalur. I guess Ellen didn't edit this one. That game has a great map. ps. we really need that map video

[@marhawkman303]

Well, the local map is a good representation of terrain. The WORLD map however... barely even resembles a real map.

[@randomq1982]

KZbin channels like Outside Xtra/Xbox are among the rare wonderful cats found inside a midsize Japanese shopping. Thanks for always keeping it fresh and entertaining!

[@randomq1982]

Looking forward to "7 times stupid map idiots made stupid maps"

[@john_tgb4457]

Ok, but what about one of the few side quests in Hollow Knight? All you have to do is deliver a flower, right?

[@tom_k_cook]

Trivial, just don't trip on the quintillion bugs swarming your personal space.

[@stv0036]

Don't hit a spike......in a room full of spikes. Although that seems like most of Hollow Knight.

[@danielmiller3596]

That’s just evil

[@deathbykonami5487]

For the Witcher 3 quest, you know leaving the traitorous shrew to her fate of being torn apart by a angry, bereaved werewolf is the right choice when 99.9% of all players (even the perma-paragon ones) all chose that outcome. She killed her own sister so she could steal her husband, she had it coming.

[@adeadphish7931]

I feel like we need a list of 7 most insane drunken benders in games

[@ddjsoyenby]

yes.

[@josh043p6]

LENNY!!!!!!!

[@QueenOfTheSea101]

i'm not sure, but i think that it's happened by now.

[@alexushitz6114]

Number one is that mission inRD2 where Arthur and Lenny get drunk

[@mrsnatural2368]

- Gret - LNNY

[@kenichiyamamoto69]

Speaking of The Witcher, the whole Hearts of Stone main quest line starts as a simple monster contract.

[@ceenoweevil860]

"Dude, where's my Jarl?" 😂

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Dude! Sweet!

[@NEETKitten]

Where's your Jarl, dude?

[@SpiralKnight90]

I remember playing Runescape years ago and doing a quest called One Small Favour. It starts off with a simple request of getting some rare Mahogany to make some polish and turns into a trek across half the world doing favors for everyone and their grandmothers to get items you need for other people. When you finally repair something for the last guy it begins a giant chain of back tracking to give each prior person the item they asked for until you make it all the way back to the first guy who then just says "Thanks" and complains about how long it took. Oh and you had to fight a giant rock monster on the return trip.

[@chestercharlie6750]

Fallout: New Vegas; Hard Luck Blues where you are just gonna solve a simple water problem

[@youngkim5909]

hahaha "To the vikings, england was basically a side quest" Oh my sides! Comedy gold right there.

[@jordanleighton6893]

The Divinity Original sin area’s “flush” isn’t just deathfog, in case you try to get smart and bring all undead inside, it’s *also* lava!

[@warador972]

There is also a switch that allows you to move at normal speed

[@marhawkman303]

@@warador972 what's the loot for beating the weird puzzle dungeon?

[@realism_logic]

You know, I don't think I've ever beaten those puzzles fair and square. A bit of healing, teleportation and undeath have always helped with speedrunning areas. Or, if all else fails, just use a trusty wooden box to clip through any and all walls.

[@JaelinBezel]

@@realism_logic I remember that ruby but I couldn't do anything with it.

[@SandraStar66]

@@JaelinBezel you need to select use on it from your inventory. There’s some dialogue, possibly a speech check but I don’t remember exactly

[@TorQueMoD]

My favorite drinking side quest in any RPG (and possibly my favorite side quest ever) is the one in Kingdom Come Deliverance (Mysterious ways) where you go drinking with a priest (Father Godwin) and end up having a night of debauchery!

[@tevildo9383]

And then you can lambast him in front of his whole congregation in the morning!

[@zigazav1]

What about the infamous Kafei sidequest in Zelda Majora's Mask? That sidequest starts with you just needing to locate Anju's lover, but after a long series of sidequest chains, you end up trying to take back a wedding mask from a thief under a time limit!

[@scarfbit7354]

I genshin's new sumeru region you explore a vast forest region overlooking a desert, when exploring for the first time you might come across a girl named Rana fighting some sentient mushrooms, help her out and it quickly spirals into you making friends with small round plant people, helping them run errands before a festival, and saving the forest from the manifestation of literal death blight.

[@voltzoen6262]

That Divinity quest was so much fun, was playing with friends and we just couldnt stop laughing every time we died.

[@marhawkman303]

so what's the reward if you figure out how to beat it?

[@voltzoen6262]

@@marhawkman303 Some nice legendary items, I chose boots plus some additional stuff and a boatload of xp.

[@rickyroughton8098]

I could only ever play Divinity as undead bc my characters had downright suicidal pathing. If there was deathfog present, they would figure out a way to path through it whatever I told them to do. Eventually I ended up just giving up on playing living characters.

[@Dietrich_Kaufmann]

To the left of the entrance if you kept the gloves of teleportation or at least 2 people with teleport spells You could bypass the entire thing and deactivate the booby trap death fog dispenser alarm without needing to run the entire way

[@wh0sc4nd1ce]

there was a side quest that turns into a 9 part saga for an ending to the level "Fort Tundra" in escapists 2

[@VonBlade]

I'm going to need a whole video of Ellen reading Dutch's lines. Also, no way that's Andy's capture for the boating bit. His Arthur wouldn't be seen dead in that jacket. Though clearly it's Andy doing the boy.

[@jacklawrence3971]

The impish pocket dimension has my favorite music in the whole game. I really do love hanging out and listening to the music

[@Dietrich_Kaufmann]

both the fast and slow versions 😊 *Laughs in Solo Undead Human* take that, death-fog! Owie, a healing spell 🤕

[@lizardguyNA]

Control has a couple of wacky ones, and while it's easy see any side quest in that game becoming wild (especially after the Fridge Incident) pretty sure clearing out the pipes below is a tad more wild. So you help Ahti clean up pipes, sounds easy, right? Not when you see "The Clog". Let's just say "Be glad this one doesn't sing" and leave it there.

[@samthompson1804]

My mind immediately went to the quest Jesse Faden starring in 'Swift Platform' from Control. You start off chasing down a possessed movie camera (ok, but that's a standard day in the office in the FBC) and end up... Well... Well...

[@MrDarthT]

In "Cyberpunk 2077", there's a side quest where you start off helping a guy assassinate someone who killed his wife, and wind up having to decide if you're going to help crucify said killer.

[@insaincaldo]

You make it sound so simple and reasonable.

[@brandonp7503]

I feel like the jump from assassination to turn-of-the-common-era execution is a jump from a 9 to an 10, on a scale of 1-10. And while the 10 is at the top of the scale, it's just a jump of one point.

[@Zoso14892]

Cyberpunk had some amazing side quests, probably the strongest part of a game I enjoyed quite a lot.

[@ddjsoyenby]

things got crazy fast!

[@chrisoliver3642]

That quest is called "Sinnerman" and it certainly stands out as the most extreme example of what goes down in Night City. Of course, the guy you end up nailing to said cross totally forgets to shout "Father, why have thou forsaken me?" so, points lost for authenticity.

[@waelhedekaila]

I remember that time in skyrim 3 where you drink 200 bottles of skooma and run from one end of the continent to another. Running so fast that the landscape would have a hard time catching up. Good times.

[@cheeseanpickle9832]

I have to say this is some of your best written work and delivery to boot. 💜💜💜 Had me literally laughing out loud 😆

[@alexpage4355]

16:39 There's nothing wrong with talking to an elk! It's when the elk starts talking back that you need to worry!

[@johns1307]

Really, One Small Favour from OSRS deserves to be on here if you count Dragon Slayer 1 and 2 as the main quests. But even more than that, there's a quest line that goes from helping the castle cook make a cake to interdimensional time travel and quite literally everything in between.

[@ericb3157]

oh, i remember that one...i had to look it up: "recipe for disaster".

[@megaman3001]

ah yes those 3 words bring an anger so severe that even hulk would be telling me to calm down

[@clemandrieu6764]

Oh, that quest in the Witcher's dlc "blood and wine", where you just have to retrieve some gold from a bank account. Just some paperwork

[@theyawningari]

Start of ACII: it’s just some stupid feathers After the start of ACII: if I want my ancestor’s mother to talk to him again I need to collect all the feathers

[@Cohult]

I like that Ellen and Andy seemed to switch scripts, with Ellen talking about RDR2 and Andy gushing over cats. :D

[@tach-uq5tw]

3:38 as someone whose brother studied at Warwick university I absolutely understand that joke

[@creativedesignation7880]

What about the quest in AC Odyssey that starts with delivering a care package to some lady's husband and ends with you having to save his life from a surprisingly large group of soldiers, because you possibly helped him and his men steal a really suspicious, large wooden horse, while you were all completely hammered? It's both a side quest that was not as straightforward as one would assume and a quest derailed by alcohol, so I'm almost disappointed that you did not mention it.

[@essidus]

"Dude, where's my Jarl." That is just beautiful writing.

[@notyouraveragetoasterstrudel]

No Kingdom Come Deliverance? I’ve never had so much fun talking to a priest, getting drunk with a priest, bonking a ton of people with a priest, and then taking over his sermon because he’s too hungover and accidentally starting the Protestant Reformation.

[@no_genius]

No Luke because he’s busy with his own sidequest that got really out of hand

[@dymodzhambazov9344]

Andy killing it with the puns ! Love it

[@nathan.w4981]

9:26 legend of Zelda breath of the wild, link finally ends a spa break and defeats the ultimate evil.

[@r.j.penfold]

Or, in my save file, Link ends his spa trip and immediately dies to fall damage

[@mattkennedy9308]

The Hobbes quest in Fable 2? Can't remember if a side quest or part of the main quest but where the hero tries to rescue a child only to find out it's too late and the kid got turned into a Hob was definitely not where I though it was going.

[@mylesmedynski7340]

How did Ellen get the Red Dead Redemption one and Andy get the Cat one?

[@Singeferno]

Conflict of interest. They'd get distracted.

[@timelord6616]

What about Gran side quest line from Dragon Dogma ? He asks you to retrieve a book/tome for him that he lost .Then later you and him end up in a epic battle with a monstrous gryphon .

[@ricoaioa]

Lately it feel like my life is a side quest. I just want to go back to the main path.

[@impofstpete727]

Oblivion: The "Roots" series of quests given by Sinderion. You collect nirnroot for a guy who can't seem to get out to it himself. Thing is you have to go over the whole damn map to find them.

[@dungeonpastor8295]

Ellen’s Dutch voice is spot on

[@TheBurkissWay]

The Warwick University Rugby Society: students so lads that we ragged them twice.

[@honestmonk2564]

I know Skyrim has SO many, but how about that one where the blacksmith in Falkreath asks you to find his dog, and ends with you deciding whether or not you wanna sacrifice this dog with a shiny axe to appease the Daedric lord of wishes?

[@michaelmorton5698]

1. I don't murder dogs, even to please a Daedric prince. 2. I don't run two-handed warriors very often and even then, I don't need a battle axe that badly.

[@JaelinBezel]

@@michaelmorton5698 3. The Masque of Clavicus Vile looks stupid anyway.

[@michaelmorton5698]

@@JaelinBezel I agree. I do the quest but I don't use the helm even if I'm running a character with heavy armor.

[@Kiwicrack]

"I want those feathers!' I literally went UGHHHHH

[@lexisdone]

Can't believe the crucifixion side quest from cyberpunk wasn't on this.

[@belphy205]

A night to remember was one of my favourite skyrim quests. I loved using the staff to summon a daedra to fight for you. And now I'm remembering a fanfic. Thanks outside xtra

[@error9033]

5:47 Oh look, it's Edvard's Wonderful Mechanical Man

[@SirFlopsy]

* Looks at clock and sees its actually 3 am.* Well... darn it.