7 Side Quests You Should NEVER Finish

we all know how side quests work some rando asks you to go and do something for them you do it they reward you with a special hat and the length of time it takes to complete the game creeps an hour closer to something that people are happy to spend 70 on but not always occasionally leaving one of these side quests unfinished is infinitely preferable to actually finishing it on account of unavoidable deaths the loss of amazing gear or terrible lasting consequences i don't care how special the hat is see for yourself in these seven side quests you should never complete and beware side quest spoilers ahead for the following games [Music] [Applause] [Music] the key you have the skeleton key i never thought i'd see it again and mercer frey then it's over and my death wasn't in vain here's a fun fact about me i've played several hundred hours of skyrim but haven't actually finished the main story that's because in my opinion there are hundreds of other more interesting things to do with your time in skyrim than just tracking down a big dragon and hitting it until it dies things such as becoming the head of the dark brotherhood of assassins you've saved us all and for this you have my eternal thanks or becoming the arch mage of the college of winterhold you have proven yourself more than worthy to guide the college of winterhold or rising to the top of the venerable skyrim thieves guild a brilliant questline that sees you undertaking all manner of daring heists and also burning down beehives for some reason there is one quest in the thieves guild questline however which gives you one of the most incredible items in all of skyrim an unbreakable lockpick known as the skeleton key of nocturnal you loot this from the body of thieves guild traitor mercer frey after showing him what a bad idea it is to cross a thieves guild member who is also the archmage of the college of winterhold and the head of the dark brotherhood after this quest you move on to the penultimate quest in the thieves guild questline called darkness returns in which you're tasked with returning the skeleton key to hang on return the magic unbreakable lockpick what kind of rinky-dink thieves guild is this whatever damage has been caused can only be corrected by following the pilgrim's path to the ebony and replacing the key yeah no thanks there's a very simple solution to this problem and that is simply to never finish darkness returns that way you get to keep the skeleton key which will grant you guaranteed access to any locked door chest or gate in the entire game without having to worry about breaking or running out of lockpicks it is fantastically useful and while you do miss out on some perks by not finishing the thieves guild questline i think being able to go anywhere and open anything in the entire game kind of makes up for it and what are the thieves guild gonna do about it get mad at me for stealing things exactly they really should have seen this coming excuse me miss something wrong does it look like something's wrong well you look kind of upset about something perhaps you don't understand what it's like to be disgraced as a woman to have people gossip about you and turn from you in disgust day after day in rockstar's cowboy em up red dead redemption main character john marston is trying to redeem himself for the deeds of his past deeds that we later found out after playing red dead redemption 2 were mostly sitting around a campsite watching other people eat stew not exactly a welcome home party well you warned me still john is looking to get some ticks in the good side of the karma spreadsheet and as such always looking to help the helpless disadvantaged and wronged individuals that make up the side missions that can be found scattered throughout new austin one of these missions known as the wronged woman can be found at the church in blackwater but if you're really looking for redemption take our advice and never finish it it starts innocently enough with jon talking to clara a woman who used to work as a maid for the thornton family before falling for the man of the house won harold thornton clara goes on to tell you that she became pregnant and that harold's wife kicked her out as soon as she started to show leaving her destitute with no money from harold to help raise their unborn baby i would be so grateful sir i'll see what i can do i mean seems like a slam dunk right or at least it does until you head to the blackwater saloon to confront this harold who seems a bit confused by your accusations i'm not sure what you're accusing me of i'm just here to enjoy the tables and confusion quickly moves to outrage when you ask him for the money and in the old west outrage is just one short step away from openly dueling in the street and oh wait here we go so you have no choice but to gun harold down in the street at which point you can retrieve the 200 that clara needs to set up a home for her baby yourself clara is grateful but sad that harold is dead and vows to go to his funeral to pay her last respects i can make it to his funeral so regrettable but ultimately we did the right thing right are we red dead redeemed yet well hold on a second because a few days later you get a prompt to stop by the cemetery where harold is buried here you'll find his grave along with his grieving widow who lets you know that clara apparently a stranger and not someone who worked in their household was laughing at the funeral i can't understand how strangers can be so cruel and therefore it looks an awful lot like you just got tricked into robbing and murdering an innocent man i'm sorry for your loss ma'am take care or to put it another way we got red dead reduped you hate to see it what makes you think you're in trouble now the other day i received a schitalli and the note someone left you a piece of wood than a letter i can see why you're frightened phidias was an ancient greek artist whose statue of zeus at olympia was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world he also appears in assassin's creed odyssey although here his role is more to repeatedly tell you how hot you are ah you are a welcome sight your beauty brings light into the darkness of what has become my life i mean i'm not complaining earlier on in odyssey you help phidius flee from athens after he is targeted by the secretive cult of cosmos this takes no small amount of effort that it would be a real kick in the teeth to waste by having phidias say die unexpectedly while you're out doing other stuff and yet that's what happens if you do the side mission known as art leading life in which phidias reveals he has received a coded message and he needs you to travel to various statues around greece to find symbols that will help him decode it once i have the clue i can decipher it with the skitaly all in all there are four statues you need to scour for code cracking symbols like a dan brown hero but even hotter than tom hanks alongside the statue of zeus there is one of aphrodite one of the adjanese and one of poseidon but once you've achieved this feat you can head back to phidias's workshop to claim your reward this won't be an easy task but whatever the messages reveal must be important the sight of him on the floor having been brutally murdered i should have never doubted that you were in danger cool glad i bothered so what's the issue have you not listened this dj travis he's terrible makes me want to go back in time and prevent radio from ever being invented for tim it's true don't listen to my brother someone needs to get rid of him we need a new dj for the radio traversing the blasted radioactive wasteland of fallout 4's commonwealth can be a lonely business thankfully there are companions who can brighten your journey with pleasant conversation someday super mutants kill everything actually i might travel alone for a while for those solo journeys there's always diamond city radio the radio station out of the settlement in the converted fenway park that plays the hottest hits of the late 40s and early 50s it's also home to the dcr disc jockey travis who is not what you would call a traditionally gifted dj uh i hope you enjoyed that last song okay this here uh well please okay it's cold porter i guess that's fun travis is a shy awkward unconfident radio personality and your mileage may vary here but i love how weird his radio broadcasts are as he struggles to find the right words coming to you from uh the jeweled green i mean the green i mean the uh the great green jewel of the commonwealth it's diamond city radio makes bad jokes here's a 16-minute man and uh i mean let's be honest here it's well he's not talking about how long his naps are and occasionally tries to drop important plot-related nuggets of info for interested players nick valentine is back in town he was gone for a while and some people who are totally not me thought that well they thought he might be dead or destroyed or whatever anyway basically travis rules and i'll fight anyone who says otherwise problem is there is a side quest in fallout 4 which if you complete it robs you of travis forever not because he dies or anything like that but because horror of horrors he becomes confident the quest aptly titled confidence man comes from one of the locals in diamond city vadim who has a plan to increase travis's confidence that starts with hiring people to start a bar fight that you convince travis to take part in and win helping him get a date with his crush scarlett go talk to him okay i will i'll go see him now thanks and then you and travis going to rescue vadim from raiders because vadim is an idiot as we established when it turned out he didn't think travis was a good radio dj i am surprised to see you here hey vadim i'm glad you're safe finish this quest and now travis will be permanently switched over to a new confident travis who has none of the weird charm of the original and instead sounds like a sleazy barfly trying to convince you to invest in his nft scam just another day in the commonwealth huh folks here's something we can all stand to think about a little more often it's happy times by bob crosby so now you're stuck forever with this rubbish travis unless you kill him at which point a small child who sells water will take over hey so uh that travis guy is dead this is shane kowalski uh seller fine water products and i guess i'll play the music from now on marginally better some of our more uncharitable viewers might say that you shouldn't finish any cyberpunk 2077 quests side or otherwise and instead spend your time doing something more fun like your taxes or undergoing elective dental surgery but no game that lets you ride a roller coaster with keanu reeves can be all bad and there's still plenty of fun to be had in night city but if you want our advice there's one cyberpunk side quest that you should never see through to its conclusion and that is the one involving skippy who's a gun new fingerprints detected skippy is no ordinary gun however skippy is a very chatty gun skippy seriously increasing volume by 66 name with no concept of irony like a more violent version of microsoft office's 1990s digital assistant clippy skippy is here to help you get the most out of your people shooting experience and no you can't change the name why not considering i'm your new owner increasing volume by 300 being a smart pistol skippy can take care of a lot of the gun aiming for you and comes pre-programmed with two settings puppy loving pacifist i will aim at the enemy's lower extremities or the much more popular stone cold killer wherein skippy aims solely for your enemies tender brain pans stone cold killer being the obvious choice smart players will pick puppy loving pacifist because after 50 kills with this weapon skippy will switch over to the opposite choice and then stay locked there for the rest of the game for players who picked puppy-loving pacifists first this leaves you with a permanent smart gun that auto targets enemy heads for massive amounts of damage making this an unbelievably useful weapon that can easily carry you through the rest of the game the trouble is that after using skippy for a while players will be given another quest to return skippy to its original owner on regina jones user please return me to my real owner finish this quest and you'll lose skippy forever and in return get a laughable amount of eddies also skippy gets factory reset which is like death for smart guns probably return to factory settings please set pistol name obviously the far superior choice is to not do the quest and keep skippy forever this does lead to skippy calling you a bad user though but don't worry there's a solution to that too say you'll do the quest then just don't fun fact there is a 92 probability regina jones will reward you so smart i knew it was worth investing all those upgrade points in intelligence jensen the world health organization is advising all augmented patients to check in with lim there's a problem with biochip technology the glitches i've been experiencing we've all had them so far i can't determine why you heading to a clinic i'm running a few more tests but since i can't exactly run them on you and we don't know when you'll be back you might not want to wait up to you adam jensen from deus ex human revolution may not have asked to be augmented but given that if he hadn't he wouldn't have knife arms the ability to see through walls a spine that launches grenades and built-in cool sunglasses he's probably glad that he was also he'd be dead [Music] but as anyone who's ever owned an iphone can tell you cutting edge technology only stays cutting edge for so long and pretty soon you'll have to upgrade it if you don't want people laughing at your last gen cyber legs that's exactly what happens during deus ex when adam's augmentations presumably go out of warranty and he starts immediately experiencing glitching malfunctions and random shutdowns [Music] the problem you're told is a shonky biochip at which point you're given a side mission to go to one of the game's limb clinics to get it upgraded on the plus side completing this side quest stops the random visual glitches you've been getting and nets you a free biochip upgrade what a savings yeah name's jensen i will tell surgery you buy something else on the negative side you do leave yourself open to having all your orgs deactivated at once by the evil puppet master controlling everything from behind the scenes tell me have you been to a limb clinic lately this would be inconvenient at the best of times let alone when you're about to have a fight with a living breathing body worlds exhibit which is wouldn't you know it exactly when it happens dispose of him name here and this time do it right so finish that side mission and you'll be tackling this confrontation without any of your fancy augmentations or indeed any kind of reliable heads-up display at all due to your robot eyes constantly rebooting themselves like they think turning themselves off and on again is gonna fix things this leaves you with basically no idea what your health is how much ammo you've got or what equipment you're using and the constant visual glitching and freezing makes it super hard to see your opponent who we remind you is a moving plastinated corpse in an art gallery full of moving plastinated corpses there's a lesson in this never upgrade software [Music] star ocean the second story is a late 90s playstation rpg that included a mechanic called private actions which sounds rude but is not honestly private actions are actually best described as the rpg equivalent of shore leave they are little optional character-based side quests in which your party visits a town gets some r r and chats to each other influencing their relationships to give you positive bonuses in battle however do these side quests for one particular character and the consequences rather different making the final boss of the game an absolute nightmare that character is philia who it turns out is the daughter of the final boss gabriel but that's not her only role unbeknownst to you she also acts as a limiter on gabriel's power in the final battle it turns out triggering both of philia's private actions leads to gabriel killing her and removing the limiter on his powers meaning that in the final boss fight gabriel now known as indelacio has 1.5 million hit points which is three times as many hit points as he has if you just ignore philia's relationship building side quests he also has double the usual amount of magic points and you would assume is in a pretty bad mood having just killed his own daughter [Music] anyway look forward to getting owned in this boss fight which is now approximately three times harder all thanks to the fact that you spent some time being sociable [Music] good message star ocean i'll be sure to remember that one hey thanks so much for watching this video about the side quests you should never complete but i've got a side quest for you and you should complete it i'll give you a special hat or something uh your side quest is to watch one or both of these videos up here is one from us it is a dangerous quest that you must undertake down here is a video from outside extra uh you sh beware of the cave trolls you will encounter along the way so good luck come on back and get your hat when you're done

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Length: 19min 0sec (1140 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 27 2022