7 Terrible Rewards for Incredibly Hard Quests: Commenter Edition

[@boonlincoln]

The reward for collecting Korok seeds is my toddler going excitedly "yayaya!" and "chip chip!" whenever he sees me collect one.

[@AllyDoodle]

Sounds worth it to me.

[@cutsleeve117]

That's so cute!

[@brennefleisch]

The dancing Hestu is what really sold it for my kids

[@youtube-kit9450]

If this was in-game, that I'd make a toddler get excited, there could be 3000 of those fucking things in the game and I'd still collect every single one.

[@pigpuke]

That is both wholesome and adorable.

[@fakjbf3129]

The most frustrating part about the RDR2 quest is that I swear the game actively suppresses the spawn rates of the birds you need for each section. Prior to starting the quest I had tons of feathers from all sorts of birds that I foolishly sold shortly beforehand not knowing they were necessary. But then I’d go out into the swamp and see lots of birds except for the one I need. Eventually I finish that one and start a new list, and now the birds from the old list are everywhere while the ones on the current list are now the rare ones. It was absolutely maddening, next time I play I’m going to look up how many I need and collect them all ahead of time.

[@andrewtorres9943]

It does for both this mission and the hunting request. So yeah farm before the mission to collect the required feathers/eggs before you get to those request 😂

[@Dreadjaws]

I'm pretty sure all Rockstar games do this and it drives me insane. Have to find a common car in GTA? Well, good luck finding it now. You need to kill a couple cougars, who always show up in certain areas to annoy you? They're nowhere to be seen now.

[@Sir_Jimmothy]

@@Dreadjaws Yeah, everyone knows there are no cougars in missions.

[@Sableagle]

That sounds familiar. Every time I try to return Holly Hornblower's pies or deliver the Hobbit Quickpost's satchels, meaning no fighting, mining or swimming allowed, the routes are full of copper ore and gold ore. Make the delivery, turn round and found the area's re-randomised behind you, and they're gone.

[@fakjbf3129]

@@Sableagle Lord of the Rings Online? Man does that bring back memories.

[@SonicRooncoPrime]

Just started the video and of course Ellen announces her return with Kingdoms of Amalur XD

[@typacsk]

She's been busy reenacting "The Wicker Man" with Koroks again

[@CrazeeAdam]

Okay but that missionary joke was pretty funny. Ellen on point with the puns when it comes to Kingdom

[@tyrannicpuppy]

@@CrazeeAdam Ellen is on point with the puns always.

[@DirgeTV]

Wouldn't have it any other way.

[@youtube-kit9450]

I legit laughed out loud when Ellen pulled up an example from KoA xDD

[@Pizzaetertje]

Maybe the true reward was the friends we lost along the way

[@Pizzaetertje]

Wait that doesn’t sound right

[@khrisbreezy3628]

Like all the clans, friends and raid teams from Destiny I don't have anymore 😂

[@philippeamon7271]

Maybe the true quest was getting hard along the way

[@carlosvillavicencio6710]

Maybe the true reward is the pieces of our soul we lost along the way due to all the murders we committed in game. 😂

[@Boslatine]

😂

[@Arcane_Archer]

5:40 Technically, if you leave and re-enter the house, you can keep getting rupees infinitely. But... by that point in the game there's still not much point.

[@shadowstar8619]

Not unless you're the kind of wacko who decides to fill as many bottles as you can possibly get with potions instead of fairies before you take on the final boss.

[@mazeradeville2911]

​@@shadowstar8619You can get 4 fairies by going to the temple of time and playing Zelda's Lullaby in front of the 4 gossip stones for free. The most useful application I can see is stocking up on bombchus from the carpet merchant.

[@Siferatu]

The real rewards for the skulltulas come from the kids on every 10th kill. Wallet upgrade, rumble stone, another wallet upgrade, bombchus, and a heart piece.

[@conundrum60690]

@@Siferatuand then infinite money lol

[@ryanm2]

@@shadowstar8619 I did this once, filled all four bottles with blue potions when I normally fill all bottles with fairies just because I planned on using Nayru's Love and light arrows to see how it went, and I forgot I did not have any fairies when I died against Ganon's final form. Never doing that again. Would rather have four full heals and roll between his legs with the biggoron sword or megaton hammer. Tried and true method. 😌

[@kingofthebottleshooters5805]

I realise that Skyrim's radiant randomised quests probably don't count because...random...but I still occasionally have flashbacks to the time my squishy, low level mage character was asked by the Winterhold librarian to go to a cave and retrieve some rare books. The cave in question turned out to be a sprawling affair infested with Falmer and Chaurus Hunters that made mincemeat of me for the best part of an hour. Eventually got through it and made my way back with the books...sure enough, 50 gold.

[@Alsebra]

Urag is well-known to be fairly stingy with the gold (mostly because he's a librarian, not an active adventurer)...but I'll still do his quests over other repeatable radiant quests (like the Jarl's bounties); I find it easier to sneak to the boss chest and sneak out instead of having to take out the boss of the dungeon and anyone nearby.

[@DMBLaan]

I will say, completing the Fossil Collection is a MUCH easier time than any of the other Collections, where real world time/seasons/weather can give you a situation where you have to wait as long as a real life YEAR to try again! And those also only give you a poster!

[@colynrobinson212]

Laughs in time altering switch system information.

[@R.M.MacFru]

The art collection is much worse.

[@bloodwolfgaming9269]

@@colynrobinson212 Some people don't want to cheat by altering their system's time and want to do it legitimately.

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

I don't mind the fossil collection because the fossils are worth a good bit of money. I actually delayed really getting started in my game for over a year as I took my time just building money and Nook Miles. Also, work usually burnt me out so I don't play for long. But nearly every day, I did what I called my "chores". First, I changed clothes because a new outfit made me feel like it truly was a new day, lol. Then I'd collect all of the weeds, sticks and sea shells. Of I had new crops grow, I picked those, too.While running to each part of the island, I'd dig up the fossils, farm the rocks for bells or minerals, and dig up the daily bag of money. After checking for anything in the donation chest in the admin office and getting my daily Nook Miles for using the ABD, I have Blathers assess the fossils and I sold off everything else. I then did whatever few daily assignments I felt like doing and lastly I visited the tailor shop to treat myself to new threads. If up for it, maybe I visited an island to farm resources and maybe do a little bit of home decorating. Otherwise, that was it. I did this from May of 2022 until just here recently in October 2024. And as I write this, today I finally did enough for K.K. Slider to visit my island. Now I can finally get going with making real improvements to my island, but I still will keep up with my daily chores.

[@FonzietheCapybara]

I mean it is a long and arduous task, but the reward for Link finding all those Skulltulas isn't 200 Rupees, it's 200 Rupees every time you talk to that man, and you can talk to him whenever you want. Infinite money is not a terrible reward, even if you've nothing to spend it on.

[@shuubeans]

and i would argue that for the most part, you don't have to go out of your way to get golden skulltulas. iirc just the deku basement one is the biggest pain to return to LOL

[@Trollkiller]

Isn't this also how you get some of the upgraded wallets too? Or am I confused.

[@kyuubinaruto17]

@@shuubeansAssuming you're not just using a guide there are some really obscure ones. Like the one by Jabu Jabu's fairy fountain. You have to use the Megaton Hammer on the silver rock, then notice there's a bombable spot underneath it, and go down and around until you get to the top of the area at night. There's another one on the path Zora's fountain as an adult, where it's up so high you won't hear the distinctive scratching noises. Once you know it's there it's easy, but it's one you have to actively search for with C-up. You have to return to Zelda's castle later on with either bombs or a certain song to open a hole near the tree. Wandering around all Hyrule Field looking for the like 6 or 7 holes by random trees or under rocks

[@BobBobson]

Infinite money is a terrible reward when you have nothing to spend it on, and you can only carry so much. @Trollkiller You get the adult's wallet for 10, stone of agony for 20, giant's wallet for 30, bombchus for 40, and a piece of heart for 50. You don't get anything else until 100, making the last 50 pretty much pointless.

[@Trollkiller]

@@BobBobson Ah thanks I couldn't remember cause I only did it once the first time I played as a kid then when I got older and wanted to replay I just found and used the glitch that lets you repeat one with the boomerang backflip cause yea it's time consuming finding them all.

[@davidioanhedges]

All the things the Milliner wants in Red Dead 2 ... are endangered - mostly because of collectors like him ... and the RSPB and National Audubon Society were specifically setup to stop milliners ... and orchid hunters ... like him ...

[@lachouette_et_le_phoque]

and kinda sad to see him strip a few feathers off of the bird in the snippet they included here, and then throw the carcass away. What a waste!

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

​@@lachouette_et_le_phoque I've never played RDR2 (or the first game for that matter) and wondered if the rest of the bird could've been used or eaten.

[@thomaslane1547]

Well, he's very sneaky about it, but he almost certainly extracted the meat from that bird also, unless he was full up. (magic!)

[@MsLuckoftheDraw]

Thats the point though. Red Dead wanted to include historical stuff like that, people who mindlessly harvested and destroyed the american lands and animals for, in this case, a girl that dumps him. In most cases, they did it for an extra buck. Thats why its included in the game.

[@ebony1442]

The worst part of that RDR2 hat quest is that, during a cutscene partially through Algernon Wasp's quest, he pulls out a hat and puts it on Arthur's head, and it is, in my opinion, a better looking hat than the one you get at the end of the story.

[@JamesTM]

If you're upset that buffalos don't have wings, wait 'til you find out that (according to at least one US court) boneless wings _can_ contain bones.

[@kimkatyaharley]

the funny thing to me is that that case is actually very bad for consumer protections

[@ryangarrard3135]

Profit over safety every time smh

[@inc2000glw]

Red Bull

[@Tolly7249]

The poetry quest in FFXIV's post A Realm Reborn patches is DIABOLICAL. You follow hints in scraps of poetry all over Eorzea, most of which require a guide to solve now because of minor changes made over the years, there's no markers or hints, and for all your effort and a LOT of money spent on teleporting or a lot of time spent travelling, you get... 1. Gil. ONE. THAL'S BALLS!

[@Macrochenia]

One quest in Horizon Forbidden West that wasn't as annoying as collecting all the dog tags but was still one that didn't give a reward that really was worth it was toward the very end of the game when you had to go up a mountain and then collect all the pieces of someone's armor, then have a boss fight against a Stormbird at close range (which made it hard to aim at the thing while it was overhead. In the end, after NPCs talked up how great this armor was.. you find that it is not, as you'd expect, a Legendary armor but instead is a much more ordinary suit of armor that's almost certainly inferior to what you already have.

[@Solarstormflare]

iirc the reward is what u get for killing the stormbird eg parts?

[@Macrochenia]

@@Solarstormflare If you want to farm Stormbird parts, there are much easier ways to do so.

[@CyanMentality]

".. This so-called Exotic Hat is nothing to write home about, even if you have people at home who are interested in hats". Dude your writing is so good actually hahaha

[@reywilson4337]

Honestly worse than the posters from the museum in Animal Crossing is the Cast Master achievement. The achievements all give you Nook miles, but for catching 100 fish in a row without messing up you only get 1000 miles. The same amount as tasks like 'plant 20 shrubs' and 'have 15 pieces of furniture in your house.' And if you do mess up the counter doesn't reset, so you either have to guess how close you are to completing the thing or keep track of it yourself.

[@thatcokestuff]

I got to like 94 and I messed up, immediately gave up 😄

[@reikenkayzer]

15:24 I can't stop watching this. I just love how she says "A hat...with a feather in it." Fantastic delivery.

[@payumayu]

To make things worse about the whole Skulltula ordeal is the fact that in order to get all 100 you must have visited all of the dungeons which means you are close to being done with the game and don't need Rupees anymore. But at this point you'll also have access to the Light Arrows which cause enemies to drop 50 Rupees when killed by it. So while it is true that the 200 Rupee reward can be farmed repeatedly, you already have a way of easily farming infinite Rupees at this point in the game. So it's like a double useless reward.

[@dr.bright6272]

I had a maxed out coin purse that was completely full when I completed the Skultula quest, so I technically didn't get anything for all my hard work.

[@smelterguy2]

Something not pointed out in the video, and also not made particularly clear in the game, is that if you walk out of the building and walk back it you can get the rupee again. The reward is actually *unlimited rupees*.

[@dr.bright6272]

@@smelterguy2 I had no clue. Thanks

[@DrAustinSauce]

​@@smelterguy2 And I'm supposed to spend them on...?

[@illuminations_of_sorrow2672]

On the plus side, it's a repeatable collection, so if you ever find something to use up your rupees, you can restock there.

[@kyuubinaruto17]

@@DrAustinSauce Yeah, by the time you've gotten that far you've probably forgotten that money is even a thing. About the only thing to buy at that stage is some potions, and for the most part fairies do the job just as well unless you're really bad at conserving magic.

[@Michael_Lindell]

They say the real reward is the friends we made along the way. I don't know who 'they' are but they are wrong. I'd rather have like a cool sword!

[@Galvamel]

Sorry Jane, but Spiders are objectively better than Elf on a Shelf. Spiders can save a pig's life and have a chance of giving you super powers while the only thing you get from Elves on Shelves is the unwelcome ability to always feel like you're being watched and kinda hating Christmas now.

[@topasu]

ok redditor

[@bryonyperecat5954]

Oooh, Spider on the Shelf.

[@gealachmidnight6614]

Season of giving? No, season of guilt.

[@eddzyeddzy6158]

Spiders in the Cider for Halloween.

[@Galvamel]

@@eddzyeddzy6158 "Bugs in the Glugs" it will be called.

[@samwill7259]

As far as Forbidden West goes, personally, the quests WERE the reward. The human based stealth in that game was so fun for me I did like half of them before I even got the quest.

[@Macrochenia]

Yeah, sneaking around bases and getting all stabby was quite entertaining.

[@shadowwar2580]

Yeah. The Horizon games are better stealth games than the last two Splinter Cells were (especially Conviction). Also at last in Zero Dawn every single teeny tiny side quest felt like it either worked towards the main quest or was there for the world-building. I really missed that in Forbidden West.

[@andrewowens4421]

@@shadowwar2580 Yeah, the quests seemed more like to tell you the story then to get anything out of them. But that board game you play... it can go die in a ditch. It wasn't hard, just tedious.

[@Michael_Lindell]

Ellens are back! (My working theory is that we get a new Ellen after each cutaway, prove me wrong!)

[@MetalmcBiff]

Ah! The unified ’Prestige’ theory of OxBoxtra. Well done

[@HostileTakeover2]

@@MetalmcBiff That or they're hitting us with the ol' What Happened to Monday?

[@Antivirus-uk3rx]

Yeah but i think we lost the tall version of Ellen...

[@thomaslane1547]

They say you never step in the same river twice

[@dominichoughton8119]

No, she just looks different because, during each cutaway, she goes to Ellen back.

[@dejaphoenix]

In GTA V, the reward for finishing the Epsilon cultist side quest, which involves running 5 miles in the desert in a sweatsuit, is an antique rusty tractor with no tires. But even that's a pretty good reward compared to scouring the ocean for 30 lost submarine parts. That reward: $10.

[@Johury]

I mean stealthy demolishing an bandit/rebel camp in horizon is the most fun way to do it imo.

[@jamiecuthbert1269]

We've got two of these vids and no mention of 'Rite of passage' from Fallout 4?, a multi stage quest with multiple locations and a fight against a mirelurk queen... your reward?.... A chunk of meat and a hat, lovely 😂

[@danielgehring7437]

After I had played FF8, my roommate decided to start a game and immediately set about collecting all the Pet Pals magazines for that side quest in the game. Then the next Friday when we were drinkin' some beers, he went off on this rant about how gross it was to be collecting "sexy animal pictures." He was genuinely under the impression that the only kind of magazines that exist were things like Playboy, and so naturally assumed this was, well, furry pr0n. I'd always just assumed it was magazines about pet care, or whatever, but it's one of those things where once you see it, you can't unsee it. The Brother Til quest deeply reminded me of that anecdote.

[@WH40KHero]

What quest is that in FF8?

[@danielgehring7437]

@@WH40KHero There are 6 magazines you can find in the game, and each one (plus x number of steps after reading) gives Rinoa a new limit break or ability for her dog, Angelo.

[@WH40KHero]

@@danielgehring7437 Ahh

[@TheBlackSeraph]

@@danielgehring7437 Definitely worth the effort - Angelo search can be utterly game breaking when combined with the open disc tray trick.

[@pipparobinson2035]

they absolutely missed a chance for "The Thigharies"

[@JimTheFly]

Could've been "Lord of the Thighs"

[@ryann42]

thank you. it was *right there*

[@simianimp]

Also in Tears of the Kingdom, though not collectable, finding all the wells. While the snow globe you get is cute, it's as useful as Hestu's gift.

[@giornaguirne]

They should've gone with that since they already did koroks in another video.

[@JoshuaEisenbart]

What about that cutscene you get for collecting all the Bubbul gems? Even less useful, considering it doesn't even stick around in your inventory.

[@tatltails3923]

YOU GET A SNOW GLOBE?! Oh I gotta go find all the wells

[@Tengila]

@@JoshuaEisenbart You do also get a glider cloth. Which, unfortunately for me, happens to be my favourite one. Still wasn't really worth it

[@JoshuaEisenbart]

@@tatltails3923 Unfortunately, you can't display it or interact with it in any way, and the inventory icon isn't animated either.

[@TheAyaReina]

Something about Jane’s delivery of “who do you think you are? Elf on the shelf?! That’s disgusting!” made me literally laugh out loud 😭

[@TheOGSovereignDomiTheyTrix]

“Den Isle” is literally a BRILLIANT pun 😂😭😭💀

[@jmgriffee]

Den Isle inspired me to name my island Ecks Isle. Embrace the puns!

[@Leith_Crowther]

Andy’s island was called Michael Bay. Me, I just called it Dragonrest, or Dragonrest Isle in my head.

[@TwistedEyes12]

Every item in Elden Ring placed in a ledge seems to all be useless. Despite knowing I'd be trolled... I still went after them all. No matter how dangerous the jump. But boy was that "mushroom" worth it!! -cries-

[@NihilistCrab]

Next you'll be saying you don't love getting excited when you see a purple shiny, only to be met by the hollow disappointment of yet another arteria leaf.

[@homerman76]

​​@@NihilistCrab To be honest, I never paid attention to what I got, something about just picking up items was satisfying enough... I don't have a hoarding problem! You do! *Attempts to run away with pockets ready to burst*

[@aceundead4750]

​@@NihilistCrab i liked finding arteria leaves, but i crafted a lot

[@davidhollowelljr949]

​@@NihilistCrab Don't forget about the oh-so-useful nascent butterflies

[@thomaslane1547]

Just need a Westaway-esque randomizer. Then, they could be _anything_.

[@SolaScientia]

Ah, Brother Til's naughty book collection. I still do that side quest despite the crap reward at the end. Thanks to looting anything not nailed down and then selling it off, I'm usually swimming in gold by the time I hit either the Plains of Erethell or Detyr. Yeah, I was gonna say it had to be tied to it being something you start when you're likely still in the single digits of levels. Haven't played KoA in a while now, but the music still makes me smile and I do still love the game. The Chained Ogre is still why I haven't made proper progress in Sekiro despite many attempts and restarts.

[@Riseeeee7777]

Path of pain in hallowknight .. was beautiful, soothing and soul destroying.. for a 10 second cut scene 🤣🙏

[@Broken9Arrow]

Did a delivery years ago. 45 minutes waiting for the food. 30 minutes of driving. 20 minutes at security for a gated community. Did not answer door for another 20. You could opt out and leave at door after a while- pre Covid. 1 dollar tip. Super crisp. Like it was from a cache from WW2.With a smile on his face as if he was doing me a favor. Should have put it on the rare dollar market. Hind sight?

[@coyoteartist]

Now to be fair there are other rewards for the Gold Skulltulas. 10 of them gets your the Adult Wallet, 20, the Stone of Agony that alerts you when you are near a secret, 30 gives you the Giant's Wallet which carries 500 rupees instead of 200. 40 will get you 10 Bombchus and 50 a heart piece. So up to 50, it's a fine quest. it's the last 50 that are buggered and twice as rude for the unlimited reward part.

[@briansanders8122]

You forgot the 'Undying Loyalty' ability from Middle Earth Shadow of War. You get forced into an arena surrounded by orcs, all coming at you constantly, almost never having a chance to purify the totems, and what do you get? An ability that turns your favorite captains into literal mindless zombies, removing all their dialogue, and making them EXTREMELY vulnerable to fire.

[@thatsdruidic]

I disagree on the Animal Crossing one. Your reward for collecting all the fossils is a sick museum full of dinosaurs.

[@tswizzle2020]

good point, well made

[@theoriginaltoast420]

Animal Crossing is the embodiment of "it is its own reward"

[@Ospyro3em]

The real reward was the bones we found along the way

[@fungi5350]

That’s a fair point, but also a cool fossil themed recipe that uses extra fossils would’ve been awesome and appropriate

[@bryonyperecat5954]

@@fungi5350 Well, there is the fossil doorplate recipe.... but they can't be identified. :( Octavian liked the doorplate, at least. Meanwhile, I have a bunch of fossils on my beach for people to come over and pick up what they need - and a bunch of put-together ones for Halloween decor.

[@khrisbreezy3628]

17:02 not one commenter on the planet is ever gonna read or remember all the comments on any video series. Sadly only the OX employees charged with reading our comments will bear that curse...forever 😅and you have my deepest sympathies

[@galaxy-eyesgarchomp9478]

In Bayonetta 3, you can take on the Witch Trials. The third witch trial can be really tough, especially on the second to last verse. Your reward for completing it is a Switch logo shirt for Viola. No weapon, no special outfit for bayonetta, and no special item. Kind of anticlimactic

[@judahbarracuda_]

That is fucking sad lmao

[@galaxy-eyesgarchomp9478]

@@judahbarracuda_ The third witch trial itself is a fun challenge, but I think Nintendo and Platinum Games could have cooked more with the reward.

[@sourwitch2340]

​@@galaxy-eyesgarchomp9478 wdym your own merch isn't the gift people want for an excellent achievement?

[@galaxy-eyesgarchomp9478]

@@sourwitch2340 Is that sarcasm?

[@firehedgehog1446]

Honestly Bayonetta 3 IMO dropped the ball hard with unlockables, there are so few unlockable weapons & outfits compared to Bayo 1 & 2, and with like one exception, all of Bayonetta's unlockable outfits & weapons are literally just the ones used by her interdimensional counterparts. Now the weapons I get, because they would have had to design a Demon Slave demon along with a Demon Masquerade form for each weapon (Though for the demons, they could have just used a few extra Bayo 1 & 2 demons), but they wouldn't have had to do that for the outfits. I mean my favorite costume from Bayo 1 & 2 is the Galactic Bounty Hunter costume (You know, the Samus armor), and it would have been awesome to see that in Bayo 3, but no, we sadly didn't get anything like that

[@Amaritudine]

I don't mind the occasional lacklustre reward in Horizon: Zero Dawn or Forbidden West. Just _being_ in that world, exploring and interacting with it, is rewarding enough. Though I still haven't got around to completing Forbidden West's machine races. Turns out my patience is finite, even when it comes to one of my favourite franchises.

[@maxgrieve]

Don't want to spoil it if you're not already aware, but the 'reward' for completing the machine races in HFW is pretty great if you enjoyed certain side activities in HZD...

[@Amaritudine]

@@maxgrieve Thank you! I'd heard about the character who turns up after winning the races, but I still haven't seen those events for myself yet, so I'm grateful for your commitment to avoiding spoilers.

[@thurkelofwarwick926]

Sees Kingdom of Amalur in the list "Ah great Ellen is back"

[@Leith_Crowther]

It’s an Xtra video, who else is gonna be guaranteed to be in it?

[@SnakeintheGarden]

Ghostwire Tokyo should be on this list, you have a main quest to rescue the souls of people trapped in the city to stop a ritual from using said souls- but even if you 100% save everyone you don't get anything - not even a better, different ending.

[@SolaScientia]

Wait? Really? Damn. I've been slowly playing the game (I do really like the atmosphere and the story and all), and the last time I was in the game I just barely missed saving some spirits that were locked up because I didn't take out all the enemies in time. Now I guess I needn't have been too upset about not being able to save them.

[@Apathy293]

Do you get anything for finding all the raccoon spirits? There's no way I'm going through all that trouble, and I would imagine anyone who does would want a pretty damn good reward.

[@SnakeintheGarden]

@@Apathy293 No spoilers, but yeah! You do, it's really cute.

[@tealmandala632]

Clearing all the outposts in HZD also unlocks a new late-game quest

[@MrMBinder]

15:52 - Oh, I know that guy! 👀

[@ledumpsterfire6474]

Honestly the large rupee award is hilarious because it's realistic. I knew someone who started a lawn company, and he said the better off the owners were financially, the less the owners wanted to pay, and the more he'd have them trying to contest his rate. The richest guy he worked for decided he was paying 33% rate because he was "paying for bulk." Wound up with something basically like a contractor's lien on his fancy multi-million dollar house over it. 😂

[@davidjsaul]

I've never played Kingdoms of Amalur but this video makes me want to seek it out on the PS Store...

[@davidioanhedges]

It's worth playing ... which is all Ellen ever claimed ... The original is no longer available - of which the top comment was simply - "Ellen was right" But the Re-Reckoning is as good ...

[@azyrael96]

Play, it's like skyrim, but quite different.

[@EmporerDragon]

It's a decent enough game, plays like a single player MMO. One fun thing is how badly you can break the game investing into crafting skills. When I played it on the 360, I had managed to attach so much health regen on my armor that I could take the final boss's ultimate attack on hard and recovered the health by the time the cutscene finished. And on the offensive side, I had made a bow that did massive Fire and Poison damage with additional DoT stacks that would also infect nearby enemies as well as making any enemy that died while burning or poisoned explode for even more damage on anything nearby. Named that weapon "Taco Night".

[@Kicia84]

I can also recommend the Chakram weapons. While they're rather weak (mage weapons), they're good against wolves. Chakrams are mid range weapons and you can hit wolves before they have a chance to get close to you. Plus, they are basically required for the Juggling achievement I hate KoA wolves.

[@ConformistOwl]

It's not just another korok poop! It has another layer; Hestu is so proud of you, he knew you deserved more so he really dug in the second time around.

[@marenrisu9711]

What I have easily in mind is not a quest in specific but a completion: In Disneys Magical world for the DS you need to collect 100 Stickers. You get these Stickers by completing all sets of furniture(some are only available in specific seasons) running your cafe good, harvest every possible plant even the rare ones with hard conditions to grow, beat every fighting level etc. Only to get in the end.... a wizard hat and a robe.... thank you Yen Sid, thank you....

[@PoorlyPlannedHijinks]

This video reminded me of the One Small Favors Quest in Runescape back in the day. If I recall correctly, you had to do a chain of maybe 20 item trades from person to person spread out over a large area, and also occasionally harvesting some resources on the way, and the final reward was... a keyring that you could put keys from other quests onto to save a few inventory slots.

[@karabearcomics]

I know this is a commenter's edition, so there's unlikely to be another video on the topic, but I wanted to mention a couple. One is "Kochal" from Mortal Kombat Deception. In Konquest mode, you are told of a demon god named Kochal and you have a quest to awaken him, needing to defeat Black Dragon members Kabal, Kobra, and Kira. People assumed that this meant doing this would cause you to unlock a super secret character, but defeating all three doesn't give you any Kochal at all (not unlocked, as a fight, or even a cameo appearance), but instead some koins. Maybe it isn't the most accurate to the list, since 1000 onyx koins is a good reward, but it's not what one would expect. But as it is, people have since speculated that "Kochal" is an abbreviation for "KOin CHALlenge". The other is from my favorite game, which seems to get no acknowledgement out there: Nomad (1993, for DOS, by GameTek). I can't remember the full method to do it, but you have an alien race in the game called the Shaasa, the only ones who your ship can't translate the dialogue of. So, you can go about various missions and can eventually get yourself the Proto Uni Translator, which can finally translate their speech. Well, kind of. It only makes it a little easier to communicate with them, but not really much at all, and by that point you will have progressed to the point where trading with them is a bit pointless. The Shaasa trade in primarily gas and ore, they don't make weapons or equipment to modify your ship, or anything of the sort. Their gas and ore are really only useful to you early, to trade for the better items with others. However, by this point, you are likely to have your own complement of bots to send onto planets, including the Gas-Bot and Ore-Bot, both of which give you all those items you need. Not to mention, you likely have the Arch-Bot and Spy-Bot, which are going to pick up the truly valuable items from planets.

[@LordNifty]

About the Golden Skulltulas: There are more rewards than just the rupees, such as some pretty useful items, and they definitely make the questing worth it.

[@AlexCunradi]

While I love Horizon Forbidden West, I think a more egregious example is with the survey drones. Though they're more tedious than they are difficult, when you gather all 10 of them, what's your reward? Nothing! No loot, not so much as a thank you from GAIA, not even an achievement!

[@Apathy293]

Technically, each drone unlocks a different background in Gaia's room at the base, and I think some dialogue with her regarding each one. It's not much, but I'm not really trying to defend Forbidden West anyways. The whole game was a huge downgrade from Zero Dawn.

[@AlexCunradi]

@@Apathy293 That barely constitutes as a reward, the background disappears as soon as you leave the room anyways.

[@Apathy293]

@@AlexCunradi true

[@aksen303]

@@AlexCunradi it's even worse than that - it disappears as soon as you interact with gaia! when i first unlocked it, i thought "oh cool, can have a nice background when talking to gaia" and was instantly disapointed the second i tried to talk. totally pointless...and yet i still did all 10 of them.

[@KimiTheV]

​@@Apathy293. MY GOD.I 100% agree with you on the downgrade of HFW vs HZD. I like HZD so much more.

[@sethneville]

You're telling me Andy didn't spend an hour trying to put together an outfit to go with Arthur's new hat? I don't see him on this video saying it was a bad reward. He's probably doing it right now.

[@Bronzescorpion]

It goes great with Legend of the East outfit, so I wouldn't call it pointless. In fact besides a cool weapon, which we also get, new drip is the only true reward. Cash and other items means little.

[@OneWingedRose]

Baldur's Gate 3 ~ Finding all the Clown parts. Long, irritatingly vague, a reward that you can pickpocket off the quest giver anyway, and what's more, when s/he beckons you over to give you the quest, they've moved from their well populated and tricky spot to pickpocket in... over to what must be the only empty/secluded spot in the whole circus! It's like the game's begging you to pickpocket them!

[@mattball8622]

I might be the only person who likes clearing outposts in HFW... But that's because I don't play Ubisoft games, so I haven't been burned out on them yet 😅

[@inarar5334]

If you're gobsmacked by buffalo wings, lemme tell ya about rocky mountain oysters...

[@riveramnell143]

NOOOOOOOO! A repressed memory has surfaced 🤢🤢🤢

[@hollylucianta6711]

Lamb fries...they're not chips! They are not chips!

[@kingzant99]

ok but as a paleontology nerd, that poster is more than enough reason for me to complete the fossil exhibit (though tbh completing the fossil exhibit would be enough reason for me)

[@westrim]

I got every gold skulltula except for 1, despite using a paper checklist along the way, and I triple checked every. single. spot. I can only presume one I killed didn't register.

[@alexanderhansen659]

17:56 I had an identical reaction 😂

[@gamesmasterz]

Clearing outposts in Horizon..............Literally my favorite part.

[@Trollkiller]

Lets talk about dragons dogma one where the end rewards for the hard dlc dungeon you have to go through repeatedly are essentially just a bad gacha. Good luck getting a full set of anything.

[@gezblair]

One hour of work equals three hours of Netflix? A fellow freelancer.

[@gezblair]

We can starve together.

[@dschnaible]

Now I don’t feel bad for never finishing that quest on my many playthroughs. 2:11

[@joestacey6185]

But I love doing the outposts in Horizon Forbidden West. I don't need anything in return. They are their own reward! (or something...)

[@toocoolforcuddles]

Watching this makes me want to replay Amalur

[@deaconpeck881]

1:49 ah yes, definitely the correct choice. I recently played through, albeit on the remastered version. Made by the developers of another favorite franchise of mine, THQ Nordic. That being Darksiders, I love them all and same with Kingdoms of Amalur!

[@deaconpeck881]

I did almost EVERY quest in the game, and I'm not ashamed. I enjoyed it basically all throughout! The lorestones though... Some hilarious, some deep, some dark. So very, very dark lmao.

[@knellycornnan5132]

Hey. I just wanted to say I love your videos(Everyone on the team). For years now this has been one of my top favorite gaming channels. The hosts are very likeable, the topics are a lot of fun and interesting. Keep up the good work!

[@Storm0483]

8:42 Damn, I thought only Luke believed that Buffalos had wings, but Jane too?

[@jonahfalcon1970]

State of Decay 2. Since an update a few years ago, the HAVEN device is now f'ing useless. You had to do a bunch of difficult missions, then have a assault when you first turned it on, but then you got the ultimate defense for your base, killing every zombie that got near. But now... it's a wet fart. It kills every zombie... for a minute, then turns off for 15 minutes before it can be used again. And you have to expend resources to get it to operate properly!

[@Ashtarte3D]

Many of these are just there for the challenge of doing it, like Sekiro, or the journey itself, like Horizon.

[@99toon99]

The biggest Pup in pop? Don’t let Luke hear you say that!

[@christopherg2347]

Scraplands Crazy Gambler quests give you - stronger enemies. They do give you the promised new weapon - but they also unlock them for the AI. So hace fun being on the receiving end of your new toys!

[@ralphbutcher7294]

Happy to help with Janes spiders, I might just want to try the long range blow torch

[@vikiai4241]

The museum only having funding to give you a free poster as a reward sounds on-point for how we fund such institutes in the real world :-/

[@CeliriaRose]

You should make a video on the reverse. Amazing rewards that feel almost too easy to get.

[@fredclasson7865]

I remember a lot of games in the early PS3 era that had quests and challenges and such. And most of them were tied to an achievement, but nothing at all in-game. So you put in that work, heard the unlock jingle and maybe got some currency or experience that you could've gotten elsewhere.

[@Andravia]

Long Overdue also takes up valuable inventory space and you can't get rid of the books until you get all of them.

[@springer1786]

*Ellen looks at Kingdoms of Amalur* "It's ok, I still love you, and I'll add you into 17 more lists to make up for this transgression"

[@annasahlstrom6109]

I loved the rebel outposts side mission because I was performing a service for the Tenakth and freeing areas from terror like the bandit outposts in the previous game.

[@4plus20isHappy]

When I saw ‘Ocarina of Time’, I thought the side quest would be the Gerudo Training Ground. Very difficult, and your reward is the Ice Arrows.

[@13vatra]

Another Legend of Zelda one can be found in Minish Cap. In that one you have to collect 130 figurines. Which you do by spending blue shells at what is essentially a random drop vending machine. You can pay extra shells to increase your chances of a unique figurine, but shells are a somewhat rare resource. You spend hours doing this beyond what you need to to complete the whole rest of the game. And once you finish your reward is a heart piece (the last one for most players, finally allowing you to make your last heart) and the ability to play the game's music on a record player in Link's inventory.

[@Rognik]

2 hours of laundry is pretty taxing, but to then have to ensure 6 hours of Love Island? Ouch. (Or was it Love Is Blind? Either way, about the same level.)

[@KeepingupintheDark]

The prompt for this video reminds me of those challenges on dreamlight valleys challenges on social media during the amusement park event this year. Those who participated were so upset with the paltry rewards. Those challenges were so hard. They really deserved better

[@stardustpie1992]

Oh yeah, I never participated myself, but I heard about it.

[@ISpecZxPainZz]

Is it destiny? Just started playing Kingdoms of Armalur (again) and then you guys upload this video xD

[@STRAKAZulu]

Ellen knows when someone plays KoA:R.

[@ISpecZxPainZz]

@@STRAKAZulu it's her sixth sense xD

[@finchhawthorne1302]

I actually love obscure difficult things having more minor rewards. I don’t feel like I have to do the quest I might not want to do for some massive crucial reward, instead if I want the feeling of completion I can do it, but if I give up I’m not loosing out.

[@jockpackage1770]

The skulltulas have one purpose... or 2 but only in a randomizer. 1 each "skulltula token" can be replaced with something else and 2 the rewards you get for every batch of them can also be random. Be sure to get the correct randomizer though, if you don't you can get many broken saved because it doesn't account for the possibility of success. The good one makes it so you can't be locked out by say needing an item to reach the spot where you get it so progression is impossible, killing your run. A version of this accounted for those things so victory is always possible if you know where everything can drop.

[@nathaniellevesque2782]

The orchid quest in RDR2 is still better than the quest where you have to mail in various bird corpses. At least plants don't move and I swear the birds I'm looking for never spawn when I'm looking for them.

[@turtleplop4901]

Currently trying a true 100% completion on a new save, i forgot how painful that quest was.. Trying to get the gang item requests to activate is nearly as bad..

[@Macrochenia]

@@turtleplop4901 I went the entire game without seeing some of those gang items ever spawn.

[@turtleplop4901]

@@Macrochenia yeah I've got something like 30 hours in Chapter 4, only need to trigger Tillys (she should ask during a domino game), can't risk moving the story forward until she does..

[@tonesdad0408]

The Large Cavern from Order of Ecclesia comes to mind. Best you might get is a body armor. It completes an npc quest too, wow.

[@Pallysilverstar]

In the Skull tula tokens defense: 1. You get multiple rewards up to the 100 token point. 2. It's actually infinite money as if you leave and come back he will give you another big rupee. 3. There is nothing they could give you at that point that would actually be useful. Note that these also apply to Hestu's Gift.

[@joeldfisher]

did all the artefact puzzles in Horizon Forbidden West and all I got were fireworks

[@rjai5003]

The “Free the Artist” quest in Baldur’s Gate 3. In act 1, you can save a painter from some slavers. Then the quest doesn’t progress until all the way in act 3, where you find out he’s been possessed by a ghost and you need to fight your way through his haunted mansion to find out what happened, then you need to leave the mansion and find a special lantern, which involves completing a completely DIFFERENT side quest, then you go back to the mansion and deal with the ghost, then you have to convince his wife not to leave him for putting her through this mess. And what do you get for all your effort? He paints a portrait for you.

[@TheeGoatPig]

Stealthily clearing out rebel outposts was actually one of my favorite parts of the game. I wish there were more than 17 of them.

[@xamislimelight8965]

I still get the rage shakes when I think about the "here's the ability to buy a house" shit from Skyrim. Sorry, but sometimes that long string of nonsense that's sometimes level locked JUST to purchase a place? Sounds like a scam to me, man. "Oh cool, I love almost dying, getting lost, and almost dying just to earn the ability to spend money!"

[@stardustpie1992]

A few months ago, Dreamlight Valley had an Inside Out 2 themed event to promote the movie’s release where you had to look around six base game locations looking for hockey trophies, hockey gear, and birthday cakes to unlock memory fragments that would reward you with animal companions based on the new emotions (Anxiety squirrel, Envy rabbit, Embarrassment turtle, and Ennui raven) upon fully completing each memory, along with a fifth reward for finding a hundred memory fragments (any fragments you already got would become coins instead). By the time I completed the fifth task, I had already completed the other four, and I was fully expecting the fifth reward to be an animal companion based on Nostalgia, since there were technically five new emotions in the movie. Instead, the fifth reward was a statue of Lance Slashblade, which I found hilarious, but still wasn’t what I was expecting.

[@HelpTheWretched]

Often-overlooked Zelda game Tri Force Heroes has another lovely cash reward that doesn't quite pay off. Just beat each of the 32 levels, then beat the three harder Bonus Challenge versions of every level (after getting randomly matched with expert players, of course, or otherwise by controlling all three Links solo) to earn the kingly sum of 300 Rupees. For reference, you can get 500+ Rupees in one minute just by donning the Rupee Regalia and cutting up all the tufts of grass around town. Which can all be regrown by entering a house and exiting right away.

[@lazyperfectionist3978]

Minish cap is also among the zelda games guilty of this, you get a Tingle Trophy if you fuse all 100 kinstones, some of them are randomised and others may become inaccessible as you progress the story. It was the second most disappointing discovery at the end game alongside finding out the mirror shield could only be obtained after defeating the final boss even when you've already completed the Goron Quest

[@anthonyeaves4145]

The stones of barenzia have already been done but Skyrim also has a really long quest for aetherial equipment. Choose wrong and you get an ok shield that can make enemies temporarily invincible

[@thajocoth]

The reward for 100 Skulltullas in OoT isn't 200 rupees. It's an infinite quantity of rupees in 200 rupee increments. Just walk back in and talk to the guy again for more...

[@ChristophBrinkmann]

Yes, and what is there to spend it all on? Nothing.

[@yuedarkangel1]

TBF about the Gold Skulltulas in Ocarina of Time, the 200 rupees are unlimited (if I recall), and you also get other rewards for collecting them, including the adult's wallet, the giant's wallet, and a heart piece.

[@thekeelo_g]

The delivery of "a hat... with a feather in it," is absolutely killing me.