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Funniest sidequests in gaming?

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Time for some humour recently I feel like we have not much good news this years, so in this thread share your favourite funny sidequests.

Yakuza 3 - Michiru

In Kamurocho Kiryu comes across a woman being harassed by a group of men, it turns nasty fast. Kiryu steps in to sort things out in his usual fashion by beating the crap out of them.

He then turns his attention to the victim who is a big burly crossdesser named Michiru, who is immediately smitten by Kiryu and makes sexual advances towards him. Kiryu is stunned as he did not previously get a look at the victim, he tries to be polite and leave but Michiru is having none of that and demands a kiss. At this point Kiryu decides to haul ass out of there and takes off running with Michiru in hot pursuit.

Michiru then starts popping up at random afterwards showing no sign of giving up. Finally Kiryu is confronted by not but several identical looking members of Michiru's family.
 
The Hildibrand sidequest chain in FFXIV surprised me with being one of the funniest things I've witnessed in a game.

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Does the "Click On Door 430 Five Times" Achievment from Stanley Parable count? That's a sidequest right? Kinda?
The joke is that the Narrator of the game get's annoyed how stupid and easy the achievment is and makes you do a bunch of other random stupid stuff, like clicking on other things and I think sitting on a desk for a couple of seconds
 
Bethesda games have some hilarious sidequests

In Skyrim there's one where you get drugged or drunk and wake up in a random building with no clothes or items and the stuff that follows is pretty good

The Silver Shroud quest in Fallout 4 was also great. You can run around roleplaying a fictional superhero, but it can also get a little too real. I don't wanna spoil either of these really, though.
 
Silver Shroud quest was the only thing that had something that resembled a soul in Fallout 4. Such a ridiculous quest, very Fallout-esque. Laughed out loud at the absurdity of it.
 
"A Night To Remember" from Skyrim.

It's not in-your-face funny but the task of learning the stuff that went down and the randomness of it puts it up there, series-wise, lol.
 
The Princess In Distress quest from The Witcher 3 stands out.

"Run you stupid piece of shit" - Geralt's totally deadpan line delivery is brilliant.
 
Landford said:
Silver Shroud quest was the only thing that had something that resembled a soul in Fallout 4. Such a ridiculous quest, very Fallout-esque. Laughed out loud at the absurdity of it.
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I really liked The Last Voyage of the USS Constitution in Fallout 4 (along with Silver Shroud).
 
Fable 2 has surprisingly hilarious sidequests. I seem to remember them being some of the best content in the game, and I didn't even find most of them in my first playthrough.

I remember one that was about a magic talking box or something like that that made me laugh.
 
The Witcher 3 - The sidequest where
you must answer to to the oppressed
. I would have just posted the name of the sidequest, but it escapes me.
 
batman2million said:
Those Strangers and Freaks missions in GTA 5. The one's Trevor would get were the best.
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I loved the instances you could pick up people and choose to drop 'em off at the Altruist Cult or their place, the whole concept is twisted but a lotta the scenarios made me laugh.
 
The sidequest where you date a zombie hostess in Yakuza: Dead Souls.
Actually, while the game wasn't very good, most of the quests were funny and well-written, especially Majima's.
 
Do all the Yakuza games have a subquest making fun of gay people or crossdressers? I remember seeing one in an LP of Kenzan as well.
 
The Nether Scrolls questline in Baldur's Gate 2.

It's mostly related to the character Edwin, who is the series' power-hungry evil mage character. He's an overconfident asshole and the game loves messing with him, especially in this sidequest.

It's been a while, but from what I remember, he sends you after the Scrolls thinking they contained the secret to lichdom.
But instead of being turned into a lich, he ends up getting turned into a woman. They recorded all-new voice lines for him and of course the entire party gets their shots in.
He does get turned back eventually, but his ending in Throne of Bhaal has a great callback to it.

Dio said:
The Hildebrand sidequest chain in FFXIV surprised me with being one of the funniest things I've witnessed in a game.
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Probably my favorite MMO questline. Are they still continuing it? If I ever come back to the game it'll be mostly to play through more of that.
 
There's a sidequest in Watch Dogs 2 where you get to stick it to a pharmaceutical CEO who certainly isn't a thinly veiled parody of Martin Shkreli.

YO BITCH IT'S BOBO DAKES
 
The Wolf Bout in Shadow Hearts Covenant. Your party member Blanca, who is a wolf, seeks out other wolves at various locations to challenge them to duels to learn and refine his special techniques. Blanca normally doesn't speak, but during the Wolf Bout he has fighting game-esque conversations with his opponents complete with a crusty veteran voice.

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The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine – Equine Phantoms
starring Roach

One of my favorite quests in the series is a Level 44 Witcher Contract in the second expansion to the game.
 
Out of the blue, but that Mercenaries 2 Quest where you have to drive
a pink scooter
called devastator. I legit laughed at that quest. Such an underrated game.
 
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