Wow, it’s been one year since my last blo-holyshizagamingblog!!1 Um, yeah…
Anyways, I mentioned in a previous blog that there aren’t any original quests in any game, so I made a short list of ideas, just to prove it’s not that difficult to be a bit original.
escort: you have to walk along someone (or carry something) until they reach their destination. Should be unpredictable, things could smoothly or attackers show up like there’s no tomorrow. Much like Zodiac Online’s 
escorting questscatch a criminal: pursue someone, kick the crap out of them, get them to jail.bodyguard: self-explanatory, I hope. Should be unpredictable too.stealth: like good old Splinter Cell.point ‘n’ click: like the old graphic adventures. I think I was playing Uru when I came up with this.hold the fort: Defend a strategic point. This should massive, with dozens of enemies attacking.
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WoW has had escort and bodyguard quests since classic.
In WoTLK and Cata (maybe TBC and classic too), there’s stealth quests in that you have to use a quest item to mimic the bad guys, sneak in and assassinate mini bosses/ leaders.
Cata has point ‘n’ click. There’s one daily quest in Uldum that basically freezes your camera pointing at this instanced temple, and you have to fire a cannon and kill 100 enemies. There’s another one in Uldum where you control a pack of dogs to defend an NPC, some might say a fort. It’s another one that freezes your camera. And there have been fly about on this NPC and click stuff quests since at least WoTLK too.
Not to mention:
“PLZ GATHER ITEMS 4 ME PLZ!”
Fucking hate collecting shit as a quest, especially if it wasn’t a regular ETC drop. And Maplestory had a billion of quests like that.
The numbers were always in the hundreds too…
There’s literally two sorts of quests in MapleStory
First one is to talk to NPCs and travel across continents…
Second one is to kill monsters, gather drops, turn them in, so you can unlock higher quests, that asks you to kill higher level monsters, for higher level drops,
and the cycle continues.
🙂
Oh, and Jump Quests, but no one does those anymore.
and the cycle continues.
At least until you have an existential breakdown, anyway.