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Funniest sidequests in gaming?

One of the funniest quests in the Witcher 3 is the Hearts of Stone DLC is the one where you meet the woman Adela who constantly calls Geralt,"Puss Peepers". I was laughing out loud every time he meets here and gets visibly annoyed at her calling him Puss Peepers.

Puss Peepers!
 
FFXV's cup noodles were incredible.

I'm going to repost my story from the OT.

I picked the egg in the Cup Noodles quest and went on a long, lengthy journey through the Rock of Ravatogh. It was perilous, gripping, and had me at the edge of my seat without fail. When I finally made it to the summit, got the egg, and found the hidden royal tomb, I felt an unbelievable sense of catharsis and accomplishment.

Immediately after, I begin the next Vyv quest, and he wants me to go all the way back up there again. The end of the cup noodles quest requires you to camp somewhere and I'd already left the Rock, so using the fast-travel to return to the summit's camp spot wasn't an option.

Fuck me.
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Dio said:
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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Hildibrand is required Main Quest stuff. Honestly, anyone who has played FFXIV and hasn't done the Hildy Quests, shame.
 
Lots of people naming the Roach quest in Blood and Wine, but no love for the absolutely incredible wedding side quest from Hearts of Stone?

In a game already filled to the brim with brilliant side quests, that one stands above most.
 
Was it the Witcher 3 or Skyrim where there is a long quest where you get drunk and find out you married an ugly hag the night before?
 
Radical Edward said:
What about the lady with the stray nose hair in Yakuza 5?
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chandoog said:
Yakuza 5 has some amazing moments. The taxi mission with the girl with the nose hair ..
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I've forgotten about that one. Damn, that one is also incredible lol

Lightning Count said:
Is that the revelation with the drunken pole dancing guy or the one with the lady on the scooter?

Both are hilarious.
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The lady on the scooter. The first one you mention is the Essence of Pole dancing. We can fill this thread with Yakuza side missions honestly.
 
That thieves guild quest in Skyrim where you infiltrate the Honeybrew meadery and discover some maniac living in a cave beneath the meadery who's breeding an army of skeevers and plans to invade Whiterun with them.

One of the few moments in games where I actually loughed out loud when I discovered this.
 
Mupod said:
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.
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Yeah, they continued Hildebrand in Heavensward. It was missing from 3.1 and had a weak entry in 3.2, but the 3.3 installment was definitely a return to form.
 
21x2 said:
Lots of people naming the Roach quest in Blood and Wine, but no love for the absolutely incredible wedding side quest from Hearts of Stone?

In a game already filled to the brim with brilliant side quests, that one stands above most.
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The wedding was amazing, but it was technically a main quest (for the DLC).
 
The quests in LOTRO in the Shire were mostly very funny and captured the spirit very good.
Good times back then :-)

Also, the Life Invader quest in GTA 5, the part in the office was hilarious, but I think this counts as main quest..?
 
I'm not sure if it was a sidequest, but something about driving the tiger around in Saints Row 3 was really funny.
 
Majority of the sidequests and revelations in the Yakuza series are hilarious.

Also, the man festival in Shadow Hearts Covenant... Omg
 
Witcher 2 side quest where you collect feathers.

Seemed like such a cliche game side quest until you leave and come back to see what he did with the feathers.
 
Biskie said:
This one made me laugh. Just the "description"
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I loved that entire quest line - good humor and I was surprisingly happy by the resolution to the entire thing.

WoW has some pretty funny sidequests in general - I also really like "The Day Deathwing Came", among others.
 
Definitely the bank sidequest in Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Having worked in retail before, it's hilarious to see it from the other side. I haven't laughed while playing a video game more than during that one sidequest.
 
I wish I could find it on Youtube, but Yakuza 5 had a side-quest with you playing as Saejima, and you're being asked to make a food delivery down the street which has become very icy and slippery. The game gives you instructions on how to slowly make your way over to the customer without slipping and dropping the food. All of sudden, a large amount of people come out of nowhere, slipping and sliding down the street HEADING YOUR WAY! It basically looked a like a bunch of salarymen sliding on their ass in circles trying to knock you over. It was so out of left field that I could stop laughing at what I was witnessing. I screwed up at the very end, which just made the whole quest even funnier to me.
 
xuchu said:
The taxman cometh sidequest in the witcher 3. It addresses money exploits that players have engaged in a hilarious way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIAe1MbfGk8
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What the hell, I don't think I ever ran into this. However, I started the game at the start of 2016. Maybe it has something to do with the cows in White Orchard? My friend told me about them, but didn't know they "fixed" the exploit. Almost forced me to restart the game because the NPCs would break routine in the final part of the Griffin quest.
 
"Who are you to judge?" in Red Dead Redemption.

Some guy pleads for you to rescue his kidnapped girlfriend, so you go to the place where she is and there is one girl, she insists she's not the girlfriend you're supposed to save and points out the girl you're looking for is in fact, a cow.
 
Also in Red Dead Redemption, but more on the morbid side, where the guy asks you to pick some flowers for his wife, and when you return you find his loving wife is a long dead rotted corpse on the rocking chair.
 
Opened this thread for FFXV Cup Noodles, was not disappointed.
Since I didn't know that brand (I don't think it exists in my country) I wasn't aware that it was product placement at first and I just thought that quest was hilariously surreal. After I found out the true nature of it on GAF, it has somehow made me appreciate it even more.
 
LordOfLore said:
This year for me is probably the beans sidequest in FFXV. The bros truly make fun of Noctis for hating beans.
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Came here to post this. I laughed so hard after Noctis talks about how much he hates beans and then the quest name pops up: Everyone Loves Beans!
 
Xenoblade Chronicles X had some pretty great ones, that turned out surprisingly dark and unintentionally hilarious at the same time.
The whole cursed water plant outside the city is practically a b-movie horror scenario creator come to life.

Also, an impressive amount of quests revolved around pizza.
Epic pizza quests - the game.

I don't remember much about it, but there was a quest given from one of the tiny aliens trying to create a human lingerie line, where you had to do some underwear research in the city. Nice.

This game is truely underrated in the side quest category.
 
Rodney McKay said:
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.
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The (DLC?) side quest sequence where you go into the snow globe and go back to classic Oakvale was the most memorable part of the game. And yeah, the quirky British humor is the main appeal of Fable to me, it manages to have a serious story at its hard and all this wackiness on the margins when few games can manage that tonal breadth.

Also not sure if it was Fable 2 or 3 but the RPG quest where you can see the massive faces of the role-players in the skybox was great.
 
Lord of the Rings online has a pub crawl quest chain through the Shire. It basically serves as a quick way to get you around the map, but the way it's set up by the narrative makes it the Ultimate Hobbit Experience in a game where the main draw is "Holy shit, I'm in Middle Earth!"

Maybe not the funniest, though by the end you're unable to see anything but a blur and god help you if it's after dark and you're stumbling around looking for the road to Scary. It is the Hobbit-iest thing ever, and completely nails the joy of inhabiting that world, in a game already loaded to the brim with fanboy squee! moments ("OMG, I'm at Bag End!," "OMG, there's Weathertop!," etc.).
 
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