Tag Quests
Game Design: Gathering Quests Sucks
Why we keep punishing players with horrible chores?
Some years ago I was playing one of those big AAA games, an epic RPG saga, a staple of single player games. While I was leading my army against the forces of evil, in one of the first outposts I meet a guy with a quest. What an epic quest it will ever be? What dangerous task requires the intervention of an epic hero?
“Collect 10 herbs.”