Does this game have no real side quests ?

[Buurt]

i am playing for 18 hours now and I didn't had a single like "story" side quest like traditional side quests or how I would call it, like Odyssey and orgins had and valhalla kinda with the events.

Is it just always fetch quests 24/7 besides the story ? or are there also some normal side quests hidden between all the fetch stuff ?

I mean I really like the game but I am also a sucker for good side quests I have to say

[Raider Deci]

Thought it was obvious. The mainquest is the shinbakufu, the rest is the side

The fetch is only the crest, tea-bowls and similar

[n1claren]

90% of of this game is side quests.... besides the main bad guys EVERYTHING is side content

[Buurt]

n1claren eredeti hozzászólása:

90% of of this game is side quests.... besides the main bad guys EVERYTHING is side content

did you read what I meant ? real side quests, besides like fetch stuff where you have to kill and kill and kill.

I mean like story side quests, how side quests are in any other RPG not just kill 100 here and kill 200 there

[JKDos]

No. You get side-assassination quests, but gone are the classic side quests such as "Help me do this chore"

[Skywalker]

JKDos eredeti hozzászólása:

but gone are the classic side quests such as "Help me do this chore"

This kind of sidequests are more in mmos. Singleplayer games are more "main story driven", also AC.

[5ean5ean]

Buurt eredeti hozzászólása:

i am playing for 18 hours now and I didn't had a single like "story" side quest like traditional side quests or how I would call it, like Odyssey and orgins had and valhalla kinda with the events.

Is it just always fetch quests 24/7 besides the story ? or are there also some normal side quests hidden between all the fetch stuff ?

I mean I really like the game but I am also a sucker for good side quests I have to say

I knew this looked familiar. You said the same exact thing Word for Word in the Subreddit. Didn't like the answer you got there it seems.

[Letterit]

There are side quests not just asking kill this and telling a short story. Those of Naoe and Yasuke are part of it, but can feel like main quest stuff, still it's side content and good side quests.

There's also at least most often, quests related to followers and peoples joining, most are also true quests.

But there's clearly too many side missions that are a set of target to locate and kill, and if you add to that generic missions, and kill x amount goals, that's a lot of side stuff that aren't really quests.

[Letterit]

Skywalker eredeti hozzászólása:

JKDos eredeti hozzászólása:

but gone are the classic side quests such as "Help me do this chore"

This kind of sidequests are more in mmos. Singleplayer games are more "main story driven", also AC.

No, AC Valahalla had only mainly main quests, and a ton, but Odyssey had a ton and more of side quests.

Current tendency for RPG or almost RPG is to have less side quests but each more develop. But side quests is a paradigm of RPG not of mmo.

[Raider Deci]

Skywalker eredeti hozzászólása:

JKDos eredeti hozzászólása:

but gone are the classic side quests such as "Help me do this chore"

This kind of sidequests are more in mmos. Singleplayer games are more "main story driven", also AC.

Its all about the direction. I think these are lackluster and lacks like the whole game in the writing, but atleast you get to do ninja-stuff.

The series has often struggled with sides. I personally think Unity was the low-bar that really felt like mmo-stuff (not even proper dialoge or scene, Arno just stands there).
But people for some reason really complained in Origins/Odyssey which had long chains and felt like they has to do them (I thought it was good stuff) so they changed around again so they became non-existant in Valhalla and now we are back to minor targets

[katzenkrimis]

Buurt eredeti hozzászólása:

i am playing for 18 hours now and I didn't had a single like "story" side quest.

Like traditional side quests.

It doesn't. It's designed very differently from other games.

Side quests, as you know them traditionally, are practically non-existent in Shadows.

It's full of mini-games, loot challenges, and touching base with other characters for brief chores, dialogue, and cutscenes.

The quests that you do run into, however, tend to be very long. To the point where you lump them all into the same category. The game is essentially full of main story-related quests.

It doesn't have your typical side quests. Like help grandma build a bookshelf for her collection of haiku poetry books, which she lost somewhere in Wakasa.

0/12 found.

[joridiculous]

90% of this game is side quests, the rest is divided between the main story quests and "fetch" quests,
Help people, explore, Listen to conversations (especially with "look" prompt) and you will find even more single side quests and hidden multi side quests.

[Harris]

If we disregard the insulting quests like "kill 100 Harima ronin" and "honor 69 (nice!) Jizo shrines", and don't consider Yasuke/Naoe stories (necessary for abilities/epilogue) and ally stories (necessary for recruiting them) as side content, we have:

- two love interests, a guy for Naoe in Harima and a girl for Yasuke in Kii, 2x3 quests each = 6 quests

- checking up on Auntie Matsu in Iga, can't recall whether it's two short quests or one long one, let's make it 2

- "location" quests like "cloud gazing" and "world out there" where Yasuke and Naoe briefly reminisce before continuing with their daily chores = 2 quests

Aaaand that's all she wrote. Kind of sad, really.

[Hobo Jack]

5ean5ean eredeti hozzászólása:

Buurt eredeti hozzászólása:

i am playing for 18 hours now and I didn't had a single like "story" side quest like traditional side quests or how I would call it, like Odyssey and orgins had and valhalla kinda with the events.

Is it just always fetch quests 24/7 besides the story ? or are there also some normal side quests hidden between all the fetch stuff ?

I mean I really like the game but I am also a sucker for good side quests I have to say

I knew this looked familiar. You said the same exact thing Word for Word in the Subreddit. Didn't like the answer you got there it seems.

Subreddit is a mix of chill, India paid company ads or Ubi activist
lmao

[Letterit]

Harris eredeti hozzászólása:

and don't consider Yasuke/Naoe stories (necessary for abilities/epilogue) and ally stories (necessary for recruiting them) as side content

Sure remove all side content and complain there's none.

AC Valhalla is worse then, all quests are main quest related, with a tiny bit coming from an activity type providing a tiny quest and a few time a quest a bit longer.

[Isa]

Is the different presentation as a target focused objective board really that good at making people not notice the side quests are as present as ever?