The game divides its missions into main quests, side quests, and errands.
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Field Research quests are unlocked by going to PokéStops and players can complete multiple Field Research quests per day.
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You don't know from those quests are gonna finish, you don't know the consequences of those quests are going to be.
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You gain victory points by completing quests, and you complete quests by acquiring pools of Rogues, Warriors, Wizards, and Clerics (basically just different-colored cubes).
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Even with the small improvement of moving Bounties and Quests to different sections, the way those quests are deployed in the campaign can be initially confusing.
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In the Crossroads of the Barrens, I grabbed a couple of quests that had me hunting raptors, killing plainstriders, and locating Mankrik's wife — a classic lineup of quests.
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At times, the three-quests-per-area standard got a little repetitive, and while there were some interesting new takes on questing, some new quests are straight up horrible.
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The Coppor Coronet, one of the most famous taverns in all of gaming, is there, as well as several side quests and steps along the way of larger quests.
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More focused games hinge on main quests, with a few extras thrown in—like God of War or Marvel's Spider-Man—while others bombard you with side quests and distractions.
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As with most BioWare games, the quests and side quests, and the storytelling involved in each, and in the universe and lore in general, is what's special about this game.
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You have main quests and side quests, all of them objective-based tasks that are used to structure the play into chunks, some offering story, some amusement, some necessary in-game resources.
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Breath of the Wild squandered the potential it demonstrated in other quests and failed to represent Arabic culture, because the quests and moments that dealt with gender just ended after getting an item.
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More townsfolk means more quests, propelling the game ever onward.
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All quests are marked on the map with diamond icons.
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No one really plays Maple for its quests and content.
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You don't need to select quests to earn loot, though.
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Valar Dohaeris, another complex light ale inspired by Arya's quests.
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More completed quests means faster leveling andmore access to chests.
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Why don't you tell me about your three favorite quests?
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The Nook Miles app is essentially a collection of quests.
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Between side quests, story missions, secrets, photo albums, and leaderboards, there's plenty to keep you busy in Gravity Rush 2, but more than anything, I found myself drawn back to the game's ongoing treasure quests.
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It's not in Arya's nature to get sidetracked by other quests.
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Finding the remaining shrines, and cleaning up previously missed side-quests.
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As you complete missions and quests, new ghosts continue to appear.
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But the game doesn't constrain you into a series of quests.
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Now if you'll excuse me, I have some quests to complete.
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You can make choices and influence the outcome of the quests.
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Plus you may find chests or quests hidden around the map.
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There are new quests, some of which lead to exotic gear.
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This past winter, my friend Jan embarked on two unrelated quests.
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That's one of the rules now as well: no fetch quests.
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You fought monsters and solved puzzles as part of your quests.
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Mr. Herzog has spent his career making movies about quixotic quests.
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I don't care about quests or magic or Vulcan mind-melding.
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Pioneer presents players with quests, tasks they can complete for points.
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Ever since, I've (largely) stuck to story missions and stranger quests.
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Those quests go head-to-head Sunday as the Utes visit theBeavers.
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You've got side quests, a crafting system, character perks, upgrades, customizable teams.
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In practice, this means completing lots of smaller quests until they're satisfied.
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If you play RPGs for the side quests, you'll probably like it.
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These little constant quests for perfection start pecking away at our attention.
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To prevent this, you'll need to embark on a series of quests.
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But there were also 6 characters' quests to complete among these worlds.
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So I'm familiar with the scenery and structure, the quests and characters.
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There's nothing to shoot and no vehicular sequences, quests or mini games.
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We're seeing fewer mindless shoot-em-ups and more contemplative spirit quests.
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A chore-list populated by unfun make-work quests keeps them entertained.
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Apps like SuperBetter adopt aspects of traditional games, like powerups and quests.
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These quests are often messy, embarrassing, or even painful in some cases.
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In their quests, many hunters hire local clairvoyants to find hidden fortunes.
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Or Arya goes on quests, using her fighting skills to help others.
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Quests take the form of social gestures that raise your character stats.
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After finishing some quests and sleeping in a bed, the leg healed.
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There's an interactive element, too; they can go on quests with friends.
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CD Projekt Red says it wants missions and quests to feel organic.
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It's got more than a hint of a Minecraft vibe, and it asks you to travel around talking to people, doing quests, and building small townships where those people can live and those quests can have a major impact.
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If you undertake quests for these independent, AI-controlled entities, you'll earn favor.
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Players can earn in-app currency (called stars) by completing quests and games.
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You can upgrade your cards using the power you get completing certain quests.
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Yes. I mean, they're going off on nonsensical quests – Lindsey Graham and Jordan.
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Some quests will direct you to collect chickens, snakes, pigs, or gunpowder kegs.
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For Kendall & Kylie, Glu created several in-game quests focusing on water conservation.
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Searchers espouse theories in Fenn forums and detail their quests in YouTube testimonials.
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When players finish quests and kill monsters in MMOs, they earn experience points.
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It's a lonely wasteland, but one still populated by story, lore, and quests.
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If you do a bunch of side quests, that time's likely to double.
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Players will notice new jobs, decorations, voice overs, jewelry, and quests—with dragons!
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Outside of the ship, many of Mass Effect's quests are structured around conversation.
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The UI for quests is still confusing, to new and old players alike.
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Technological and spiritual quests vibrate throughout the state, intermingling, often creating the ethereal.
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The world's oldest cooking method has become one of its newest culinary quests.
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The single-player content is broken down into "assigned" quests that progress the story, like the unmarked "key" quests you had to complete in previous games, and there are no longer any discrete quests that require you simply to collect materials — those are now tasks that you can stack up and complete on the side while getting through the meatier content, similar to bounties or challenges in Destiny.
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There were too many quests to do, and too many large areas to explore.
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A couple of the members will offer a series of hunting-related side quests.
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In their most pressing form, these quests can go global, sometimes with heartening results.
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But we could easily see some kind of magical collection game combined with quests.
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Instead, she's sidelined with quests that don't develop her character or forward the plot.
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These Special Research quests are a clever way for Niantic to keep things interesting.
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Maybe even better than Ned, because she doesn't abandon her home for foolish quests.
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By default, the UI tells me exactly where to go to complete my quests.
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I don't feel the need to go on vision quests on a regular basis.
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A couple of quests were on the verge of being fulfilled after Friday's results.
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I remembered all the old quests by heart, hardly needing to look them up.
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These can include volunteering, part-time work, philanthropic efforts, entrepreneurial quests and artistic pastimes.
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One involves quests for players, such as solving puzzles or taking a personality test.
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In EVE Online, the quests are barebones, and there are no dungeons or raids.
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I used to play Skyrim, not to finish it, but as some kind of meditation where I just did book retrieval quests for that librarian, because he has an endless amount of book quests and they're fun to do now and then.
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Researchers on similar quests have come upon evidence in still more unlikely forms and places.
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And so the work of a scientist is more like a series of fetch-quests.
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Often, they're repetitive battles, stealth missions, or quests to find objects littered around the world.
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But the right piece of gear can prove essential in their quests for golden glory.
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Adjacent to the necklace is the Azerite gear, which is received from quests and dungeons.
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As geneticists continue their quests in the lab, paleontologists are hunting remains in the wild.
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There is no one to talk to, no quests to take, no enemies to fight.
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The course includes little quests like rounding up stray cows, or parachuting onto a target.
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Nobody was doing the quests, nobody was having the adventures, it was just pure pandemonium.
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It doesn't take place in a vast open world with quests that span multiple hours.
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You have missions and quests, plus other activities you can play alone or with friends.
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Players were also manually looking for groups for quests by typing into the chat box.
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Those quests offer experience mutipliersand stars, an in-game currency for unlocking special reward chests.
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It's just another issue in a game rife with bugs, broken quests, and server issues.
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In order to unlock new courses, you often need to complete a series of quests.
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These quests on which Art3mis and Wade (as Parzival) embark are where the film shines.
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But like most genealogical quests, mine started the old-fashioned way, through talking to relatives.
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The actual games of Giphy Arcade aren't like traditional videogames; there are no epic quests.
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During these quests, your party automatically marches forward and a meter fills in the corner.
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The third sort of mission, "High Reward" quests, sits somewhere in between those two extremes.
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Through voice chat, teams rally through quests, completing objectives, and comparing and contrasting their loot.
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Even main story quests, such as the targets you'll be taking on, can be disappointingly shallow.
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You can go on optional quests, hand in bounties, or just go freeform on an expedition.
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There's a hospital, and a morgue—both of which have a part to play in quests.
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By hour 10, you start to realize that Anthem's quests all feel kind of same-y.
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As one or both of these quests succeeded, the shortage would ease and prices would plummet.
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Quests from the Tortollans, a race of turtle people, can be mind-numbingly dumb and slow.
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It's a huge game, one that spans dozens of hours, a massive world, and countless quests.
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His quests are urgent, as they should be — he lost a friend to suicide, after all.
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What's worse, glaring problems with the way the quests are scripted make them feel even flimsier.
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In their quests for private label dominance, both Walmart and Amazon benefit from their large scale.
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I spent hours wandering between main missions in Fallout 4, finding new settlements and side quests.
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In the early days, Winter completed his quests by using phone books and speaking to baristas.
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Sometimes you get lost, sometimes you get new quests assigned, sometimes you are running around senselessly.
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For Catholic women like me, in our own messy quests for the divine, contradiction is unavoidable.
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I've got side quests to finish, pictures to take, outfits to buy, and collectibles to… collect.
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If only the game wasn't filled with so many pointless side quests where you're fetching potatoes.
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Which characters will succeed or fail in their various quests for revenge, love, freedom, and power?
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They bellow their rebellion in catchy songs; they go on childish quests to claim their maturity.
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Others have mounted similar quests around strawberry parfaits, flavored popcorn, Baumkuchen cake and grilled chicken thighs.
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Useful combat abilities are often unlocked through narrative side-quests that reward you for investigating further.
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Streamers will draw audiences, who will buy Quests to see what all the fun is about.
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Additional hints are found by talking with people, finding notes in the environment, finishing quests. etc.
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In past Far Cry games, you'd move from section to section, climbing towers to add side quests to your map, and then working away at those until you were ready to do one of the major story quests that would advance you to the next major area.
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A character formerly known only for giving quests and spouting cryptic sayings is having an existential crisis.
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Or will it continue to produce principled challenges, the quests for alternatives that keep history in motion?
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It's totally de-stressing and relaxing and enables you to go on visionary quests in your imagination.
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It presents you a massive, immersive fantasy world filled with monsters, magic, and memorable quests and characters.
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In prior quests, Roland had left the Horn of Eld with a dying compatriot after a battle.
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" Lodge 249 features quests and mysteries and a love of weirdness you might dub "David Lynch lite.
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In their quests for pancreatic cells, Dr Nakauchi and Dr Ross have encountered similar problems of rarity.
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Each player has a lantern, compass, and shovel that will come in handy during the adventure quests.
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Virginia is key to both campaigns in their quests to win the necessary 27 Electoral College votes.
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He highlights the Sisyphean nature of our quests for immaculate knowledge, ridiculing the promise of endless progress.
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For thousands of years, humans have used the stuff as medicine or to travel on spiritual quests.
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One reason is that good governance, challenging group discussions and quests to find real information, is hard.
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And the game's rich and varied quests offer plenty for fans of third-person action-adventure games.
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In the OASIS, users can go on quests that require work that are actual proof-of work.
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There are some really intriguing quests, as well as some unexpected twists and turns along the way.
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Including quests around details like this could have provided depth to the game's portrayal of Arabic culture.
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We get some more quests when we arrive at Galdin Quay, then we head to the pier.
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Optional quests, too, mix elements of the era with that distinct Yakuza brand of side-story strangeness.
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What it means: Zuckerberg is gearing up to take on big political battles for his philanthropic quests.
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All Quests are concerned with some numinous Object, the Waters of Life, the Grail, buried treasure etc.
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I would call my relationships with alcohol, drugs, sex, food, shopping, and even porn, misguided spiritual quests.
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There's 353 Ranks each season, with rank rewards that range from cosmetics to weapons to exotic quests.
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The game marked the end of the road for both teams' quests for an Olympic gold medal.
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You know: maps in the front, appendices in the back, tiny type smushed in the ten-thousand-billion-page middle, all in the service of quests within quests full of unpronounceable place-names and esoteric magicks that, unless elaborately flashcarded, have no chance of sticking in the feeble memory.
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Players can purchase new items from the town store and cash in experience for enhanced abilities between quests.
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Even mostly unloved characters, such as bounty hunter Zaeed Massani, take on new life in their companion quests.
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Larger games are increasingly loaded with side quests and busy work, stuff that threads the larger stories together.
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These monster-hunting optional quests don't carry big XP rewards, but they reward you with lots of Gil.
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Completing quests will yield valuable resources for crafting countless distinct weapons and equipment fashioned after players' defeated foes.
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Georgia, meanwhile, could be big for both Clinton and Trump in their quests for their parties' respective nominations.
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You venture from one town to the next, completing quests on a set path to saving the world.
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Outside of the main story, "Far Harbor" also has some creative new side quests and locations to explore.
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To have Destiny's daily rituals and quests remain novel and engaging, long after I'd finished the story campaign.
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It amounts to a lousy user experience, especially when quests send you on a journey between multiple planets.
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And yes, the game does suffer from some staid copy-paste mission design, particularly in its side-quests.
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But unlike MMOs, Mobius follows a particular story arc, as opposed to being a collection of simple quests.
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Needless to say, these aren't the typical quests you'd find in a role playing game like Final Fantasy.
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Participants perform "quests" together, such as taking a new employee out for drinks, and snapping a silly selfie.
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It is rare for the discussions that take place underneath online articles to resemble Socratic quests for truth.
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People like this pursue "significance quests," where they feel the value of the cause is transferred to them.
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I realized however that this could be a great community tool, helping others achieve the end game quests.
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If you'd taken too long to reach the Isle of Mists, pissed about with too many side quests.
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Last year's Trackless gave us a pilgrimage with special quests along the way that felt like something new.
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In a health care system that is already difficult to navigate, some patients describe Kafkaesque quests for tests.
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They possesses almost magical abilities—as veritable deities, it follows that the moral quests they follow are absolute.
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Dear Linda, Your taste in travel books covers a lot of terrain — from contemporary travelogues to historical quests.
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Laudine struggles with political necessity, while Yvain is diverted by side quests, with a rescued lion beside him.
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Most quests in "Cyberpunk 2077" come in the form of jobs, which can be acquired in different ways.
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A satire of quests for fame and fortune, the piece seems in this staging more modern than ever.
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In various books, Dolittle and his companions encounter adventures while abroad or are sent off on various quests.
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I moved as quickly as I could through story quests, of which there are currently uhhh...almost 900?
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In most WoW-like MMOs, you level up by doing quests, and then you hit a level cap.
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It typically involves completing the main game, all the side quests, and a laundry list of optional content.
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I loved wandering around the world doing quests to convince people to come to live in my kingdom.
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The Witcher 2 can be beaten, even with a handful of side quests, in fewer than 30 hours.
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That's the nature of such quests, of course: Enjoy the pretty sojourn, even if your quarry eludes you.
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They're story-focused, but with a story that emerges from interactions between players rather than pre-scripted quests.
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Here are a couple of things it's geared toward: Players can get updated when energy is refilled for their Boss Raid sessions; it can send messages for group power-ups when someone shares a special ability; and narrating the quests, with updates to describe the challenges and progress of those quests.
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Generally for quests, if there's somebody who's a plot-critical NPC, if you kill them, we try to have some way for you to gain whatever information or item they're supposed to give you … We try not to fail quests based on players doing the things we allow them to do.
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Coming into contact with a bunch of live humans all at once meant a pile of new fetch quests.
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Instead of immediately pivoting to a sequel, Capcom has continued to update World with new quests, gears, and monsters.
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I was too focused on hammering out all of the quests, but it seems like they go you thinking.
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Yet you are doubly advantaged because Prey and its side-quests give you a comprehensive knowledge of that space.
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Its Gilded Age- Firefly shtick wore thin through repetition, and doing quests often involved one forgettable massacre after another.
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Maureen Dowd WASHINGTON — IT'S hard to say which of the three monomaniacal, monumentally grueling quests is the most riveting.
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Subsequent updates addressed other early complaints by adding more characters and fleshing out the game's story with new quests.
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There's plenty of repetition, with occasionally excessive amounts of battles and missions that boil down to boring fetch quests.
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When they work less well is when they're forced on long side-quests that don't really result in much.
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The fight begins after you complete a long series of quests and defeat several of the Black Mage's underlings.
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They'd play Dungeons and Dragons together, and their quests were based in the dark domains of the Ravenloft universe.
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The news follows a major update for the game last week, which added new story missions and daily quests.
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Later, he tries to focus it on religious quests, and later still, he introduces the innovation of civil law.
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Mew will start appearing around the world soon, and players will begin receiving Special Research quests later this week.
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Stranded on an uncivilized planet, you must fight monsters, create resources, and fulfill quests while trying to stay alive.
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Rise of Iron will feature a new story campaign with updated quests, armor, weapons, crucible maps, and new bosses.
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Rare engravings are unlocked via quests, but some show up just as a result of leveling up and exploring.
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Everybody goes on their own quests for significance, Kruglanski argues, and that can be for better and for worse.
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Although these waiting quests tell users to take a deep breath, people can still use Zepeto while they wait.
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All quests are open to any player and only the first person that completes it will get the reward.
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In the process, you figure out the horrors that were inflicted upon them in their quests to become artists.
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We don't necessarily need to be World of Warcraft, where you need to make 100 quests as the baseline.
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It's likely that some side quests will only be available if you have a certain amount of Street Cred.
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Those films depicted ponderous soul quests, held together with clunky voiceovers; they alienated all but his most diehard fans.
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In the last decade, many other Nordic bakers, like Johan Sorberg and Camilla Plum, have taken on similar quests.
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All games have goals and quests, but most don't use theirs to tempt players into disengaging with their world.
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Quests that start off like video games can end in a slapstick fight or a bruising lesson in disappointment.
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However, there's always the option to just ignore other players and play by yourself by exploring and doing quests.
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But she added that Twitter needs to work harder to block trolls from their relentless quests of intimidation and abuse.
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Essentially, it's a boss rush where four Kirbys set out on quests to battle increasingly powerful enemies against the clock.
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The conquistadors converged with African and indigenous populations, enslaving many and, later, clashing with them in their quests for liberty.
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The most surprising is a "story creator," which essentially lets you design your own quests using a web-based tool.
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The in-game quests, meanwhile, are designed to act like short episodes of the show, three-act structure and all.
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Basically, you always know which monsters you need to hunt to move forward, because those quests have their own category.
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Solving the mystery involves taking on all kinds of quests, which often lead you to even more problems to solve.
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There are elves fighting for their existence, dangerous quests, loyalties tested and all the best of the fantasy TV bingo.
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Quests include everything from finding treasure chests or skulls on islands to collecting resources or killing an army of skeletons.
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After a few quests, you'll have crafted a new weapon and some armor, and purified a few bottles of water.
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You, as a budding hunter, head out into the wilderness to complete quests that involve capturing or killing powerful monsters.
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There are still side quests for Jin to set out on, however, like the sequence shown in the gameplay trailer.
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Even better is the Tillers' faction's Flippable Table, if you don't mind doing several days' worth of simple cooking quests.
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Where Banks lands in her quests—both personal and gravely cosmic—is better left for viewers to see for themselves.
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Quests are applied to hero portraits similarly to Secrets, except opponents can see them because the rewards are so powerful.
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LFG for Xbox will let gamers find people to complete quests, achievements, and other activities by posting on Xbox Live.
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Quests will arrive in July, as will Fallout Shelter for PC — good for those that have avoided iOS and Android.
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"We can see what's wrong with the social network, and start tailoring our quests to address those problems," Davis said.
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Alongside stories of sentient search engines, generation ships, and fantastic quests, Walton musts on the nature of writing and storytelling.
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There are goblins, gods, mysteries, quests, geese, drinking, cats, and more, and all these elements can interact in unpredictable ways.
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If it worked, it could have been cool, but I seem to remember getting awfully bored of Skyrim's procedural quests.
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They wander the dusty streets of Sweetwater, drawing patrons into quests to hunt down villains and search for forgotten gold.
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Today, for example, drug manufacturers have to test millions of different molecular behaviors in their quests to find new treatments.
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Still, I found Pikachu made for a delightful role-playing toy for kids who want to act out Pokémon quests.
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Like other quests for the bottom, I began to fetishize how unhealthy that isolation was to the point of asceticism.
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There's certain quests that may or may not be available based on who you killed or when you kill them.
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Harry Bosch inherits one of these quests in Michael Connelly's nifty new police procedural, THE NIGHT FIRE (Little, Brown, $29).
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The married couples Talese portrays are looking for meaning through sexual freedom, wreaking havoc in the wake of their quests.
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The smaller quests and later games are memorably weird, though, and the creators have a knack for designing vivid characters.
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Players could tackle the big main plot, but were also forced – by virtue of mechanics – to take on side-quests.
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The internet plays a significant role in their quests; it becomes, in fact, a living character, embodied by cast members.
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A combination of challenges, errands, side quests and main quests, along with unlockables, makes this a very engrossing game that you can spend many days with, even leaving aside how fun it can be to just jump in and test out different hunting methods on random groups of enemies with no particular goal in mind.
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Tracklist: Remain In Silence - "Lonesome Hours"Veracom - BoyfriendFuture - "Turn on the Lights (Veracom Lights Out C&S)"The Zeros - "Don't Push Me Around"The Lurkers - "Shadow"Coldworld - "Cancer"VODUZ - "Blair Witch"Sakura & The Quests - "My Boy Lollipop"Rita Chao & The Quests - "How to Catch a Girl"Lustre - "Moonlight Meadow" Max Mertens is on Twitter.
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Role-playing games are often preoccupied by quests with material gains like weapons or gold; shooters by taking out an enemy.
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If the missions aren't fetch quests, they're battles, turning Andromeda from a role-playing experience into a drab, below-average shooter.
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If you run through the main story and ignore side quests as much as possible, you might find the game tedious.
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What a lot of people don't expect is its edge-of-your-seat noir plot, multilayered characters, and hilarious side quests.
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That's not to say the game isn't challenging, but most of the really difficult segments are relegated to optional side quests.
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You need to manage your gear, spells, and quests, and keep track of your trek through whatever fantastical location you're exploring.
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Some drivers complain these features dehumanize the experience of driving for Uber, while others tout their quests and badges with pride.
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But we have protagonists who journey and embark on quests, encountering new allies, villains, magical creatures and landscapes along the way.
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Second, some quests have their own special effects and synergies than can provides victory point bonuses if you use them together.
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The guests interact mostly with "non-player characters" in pre-written scripts who send them on side quests and other adventures.
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With rare exception, even missions from major NPCs feel like fetch quests, and the minor NPCs range from forgettable to grating.
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With dozens of side quests completed and every course unlocked, the game has given me a final task: win a tournament.
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It goes from new age breathing meditations to nostrils being gruesomely stretched to people melting into putty from psychedelic vision quests.
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Mostly, it's a series of quests designed to get you familiar with the wealth of new construction tools at your disposal.
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As much as it encourages these daily check-ins with bonuses and daily quests, it makes every check-in a chore.
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And both onscreen and off, the sense of dislocation and frustration that fuel both masterminds' respective quests are real as well.
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Early in the game, you're given two very broad quests: find and tame the four Divine Beasts, and reclaim your memories.
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There are a lot of garbage quests in Final Fantasy XV, mostly drawn from the worst that open-world games offer.
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I'm completing quests, which help level up my guns, and gaining resources that I can use for a myriad of purposes.
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During the most recent section of quests, she burned down a Night Elf holy site and their capital city of Darnassus.
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And while their mutual quests for love and approval are sometimes productive and nourishing and exciting, they can also be destructive.
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Today, you and your closest buddies can go on quests in games like World of Warcraft that can last for days.
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The robo-women Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and Maeve (Thandie Newton) are each on their own quests for truth and independence.
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If your significant other is pining for a new RPG, this title has plenty of side quests to keep them occupied.
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One of the most satisfying quests is trading items between characters with different needs, getting to know their interests and quirks.
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More cosmically, playing music and committing journalism are both collaborative endeavors, quests for the perfect phrasing and exercises in public scrutiny.
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I advanced the plot by taking on mandatory missions, but I also could complete various optional secondary quests for additional rewards.
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Assassin's Creed Odyssey is getting a story creator mode, allowing players to create their own quests and share them with other players.
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Crackdown didn't push players into a rigid set of quests to complete, instead you could complete any mission or activity to progress.
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Finally, keep an eye out as you wander the world for secondary quests (marked by an orange icon) and random tribal events.
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The studio's announcement promises both major story arcs and smaller, relationship-oriented quests, but specifics will have to wait for another day.
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Many are simple fetch quests, tasking you with going from one area to another to collect an item or push a button.
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There are a lot of easy side quests to do while you get comfortable, and there is no wrong way to play.
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He'd settle in front of the television for hours, controller in hand, lost in quests full of magical spells and powerful evils.
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Instead, your job is to keep the frog well-supplied while it goes off on quests to far-off cities and forests.
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No company has taken the age-old tools of discovery and communication—quests, voyages and messages—and made them more widely available.
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You can play just about any of the quests solo or with others, and you're now finally able to use voice chat.
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I tracked quests halfway across the sometimes-boggy, sometimes-dusty continent to try and find someone, anyone, who would let me in.
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The info dumps characterizing later story quests are complemented by mountains of audio recordings and walls of text, all of it optional.
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A gacha system that gives out random high-level items, player-versus-player styling contests, sign-in bonuses, daily quests, weekly events.
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Tonight, Bethesda announced update 1.6 for Fallout Shelter, which will include Quests (with a capital 'Q') with new characters, enemies, and locations.
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Pullman's characters consequently have to feel their way through their quests without ever knowing for certain that what they're doing is right.
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Upon waking, the player discovers they have a ship to manage and some quests to do across a very large ocean map.
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Like many games of its type, including the Fallout games it draws major influence from, quests are everything in The Outer Worlds.
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That doesn't change how I sneak, how I complete the same side quests, or how I experience the linear and samey plot.
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Nor do vision quests — a sort of trip with a purpose that is a rite of passage in some Native American cultures.
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Quests you might have been able to tackle can mysteriously disappear because your character is too high a level, instead of scaling.
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The biggest problem for this feature, like Skyrim, would be making sure the procedural quests didn't feel repetitive after the fifth one.
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Collectively, they work to form a picture of the hurdles women face in their quests to achieve, sustain, and ask for orgasms.
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I've tried most of the Final Fantasies, dipped into Persona 5, and messed around with a few Dragon Quests, but nothing takes.
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Join your friends online as you play high-octane quests, battle conniving bandits, and attempt to take down the fanatical Calypso Twins.
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But that's not the whole game, as there are also plenty of side quests that pad out the experience quite a bit.
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Of course, writers of a genuinely religious bent, as he was, are usually anything but solemn in the representation of their quests.
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We've seen countless ultra-violent revenge quests in games, films, and TV before, many of them far more gratuitous (hello Quentin Tarantino).
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From spirit quests and chanting to Del Taco and yam lube, Frankie has the appropriate coping strategy for anything that ails her.
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Lois Lane was quite competent but her quests to uncover big stories for the Daily Planet always landed her in formulaic peril.
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Then, when you do go back into the open world to do some lingering side quests, everything takes on a different tone.
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And their quests to live, survive and be remembered are as worthy of book-length treatments as those of their white counterparts.
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The serious, very hardcore Yakuza storyline mixed with silly side quests and fun mini games somehow managed to feel cohesive and smooth.
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You gain new abilities and upgrade your ship not through interesting quests or meeting interesting people, but simply by spending points and resources.
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Vampyr is, on paper, an action-RPG, with all the skill trees and side-quests and item crafting that come with that territory.
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She also dedicates her quests to "women and girls, daughters of the African soil who dare to dream", Khumalo says on her website.
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Even if they had, the System is enforced by armed guards, so users can't quietly back out of their customized quests for romance.
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Hedonistic hippies, freaks, heads, and other tourists came to Afghanistan for spiritual quests and adventure, or else to escape the humdrum of convention.
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In the 1970s comics, Ambrose is a middle-aged mustachioed bachelor who bumblingly helps Sabrina on her quests to be a good witch.
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The map is packed with quests and collectibles to hunt down, but the best parts of Horizon are the stories you make yourself.
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Beyond adding more quests and story elements, the new pregnancy feature includes multiple routes, so every pregnancy does not play out the same.
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Near the beasts, there are cities where you can solve quests to help you turn them to your side and acquire associated abilities.
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He's got quests and bounties for how you earn score in strikes or how you compete in the nightfall on a weekly basis.
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The fantasy genre offers some fertile ground for parody, given how often it relies on baroque intrigue, complicated magic systems, and epic quests.
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As the game goes on, more and more quests are required to be completed to move on and frankly, I've found it exhausting.
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One of climate science's great quests is to project how much Earth warms when carbon dioxide concentrations double — something known as climate sensitivity.
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The side quests are generic, often lacking unique NPCs, because the work required to build, animate, and implement them would be too much.
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Soon, "Destiny 2" will add its "Solstice of Heroes" event that will let players build nifty pieces of armor through activities and quests.
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They backed Republicans Marsha Blackburn and Josh Hawley in their successful quests to win the Senate races Tuesday in Tennessee and Missouri, respectively.
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With The Witcher 3, even when I was doing little sie quests, I wanted to tune the world out and really inhabit Geralt.
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But at the same time, collecting items, finishing quests, crafting gear and earning power-ups is intrinsic to the core Far Cry experience.
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It's one of the best quests in the game, not least because you've little control and have to trust Skellige's potential queen, Cerys.
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Obtaining access to underlying evidence used as a basis for FISC-approved surveillance has been one of the great quests of this decade.
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Those who have worked with Mr. Sulzberger have noted his whimsical descriptions of his quests for sustenance as a vegetarian in the Midwest.
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I'm going through the motions, clicking on quests, killing monsters, and often watching a documentary or listening to a podcast while I play.
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Neither scientist could figure out exactly what was prompting the quests or how the cats knew their destination — often dozens of miles away.
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Recently, she settled into a full-time position at a job center in Bari, helping unemployed people with their quests for a paycheck.
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So they traded in the quests and violence for antiquities and history lessons, and created a mode with a series of Discovery Tours.
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On the left is a series of "quests" the player can complete to earn points; on the right, a scoreboard showing their rank.
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But we get to attend their process and even, in a way, to collaborate in it, joining quests for meanings that never arrive.
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Here's the short version: Companions were turning up mysteriously "dead" in the game in a way that made some quests impossible to complete.
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But Game of Thrones, even in its horrendous last season, always told stories with greater meaning and ramifications than simplistic character-based quests.
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They are skeptical of humanitarian interventions and wars to topple dictators, because those are idealistic quests removed from the interests of everyday Americans.
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Players could easily hop on, complete a few quests without looking for a group of other players, and feel like they accomplished something.
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The religion's traditions include "drum ceremonies, vision quests, and a fundamental belief in the connection between man and nature," according to Willamette Week.
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The mode uses a web-based tool to create narrative-driven quests, according to a Ubisoft blog posted ahead of the company's E3 presentation.
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New quests are included in the DLC, as well as new item and building options so you can make your own funland horror show.
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It's a very satisfying feedback loop, further enhanced by "live game" elements that introduce special, time-limited quests with unique rewards of their own.
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Typically, you'll be able to get through one or two quests in an evening, depending on your group's proficiency and comfort with the rules.
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The sparse world, the copious fetch quests, and the lacking save features feel archaic, and undermine the otherwise excellent action sequences and tight combat.
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The Elfdalian village of Älvdalen in Minecraft is complete with quests designed to help players learn about the culture as well as the language.
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Young's audio quests have been called quixotic, lonely, or worse, but he is hardly a solitary figure in his pursuit of high-definition audio.
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A guide for a VR tourism company in Sedona, Arizona, he leads "vision quests" in a digital guise taken straight from Little Big Man.
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One line of quests tasks you with uncovering shrines (more on those later) using only lines from a poem or a riddle as guidance.
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Developed by a "dream team" at Square, Chrono Trigger introduced many RPG tropes that became common place, such as multiple endings and side-quests.
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Ostensibly, it's a way for you and your DA:I-loving peers to get some sweet camaraderie in after you've finished the single-player quests.
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It's different in many ways, obviously, but both games are focused on open-world multiplayer gaming along with public events, quests, reputation, and customization.
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The sale incorporates a quirky community-driven component called "Steam Grand Prix" that's full of quests you can complete by playing games on Steam.
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I had little trouble with any of the quests I encountered in my first 20 hours, even though I mostly was playing by myself.
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On top of all that, international espionage was kicking into higher gear, sometimes with allies in the criminal world aiding officials in their quests.
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Much of it is set in this kind of landscape, and Odin in particular seems enamored of going off on quests over snowy mountains.
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Lastly, there is one of the old-school Western explorers' oldest quests: to find people who have never made contact with other human beings.
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Mankind Divided is full of intriguing side quests, including cracking the mystery of how Adam suddenly manifested a whole new set of experimental superpowers.
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One is to simply take Valygar's hesitation to encounter his deadly ancestor and walk away, going about your life and doing some other quests.
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Though Gravity Rush 2 doesn't feature true "multiplayer," it's possible to interact with other players through these treasure quests, and it's so delightfully clever.
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This paid tier gives users access to quests and other features like the ability to use a zip line to get across the island.
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With a game world this big, I'm wondering about the possibilities for extra quests DLC, more content to further Link's adventures in this space.
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The characters are embarking on some side-quests to help characters who drop in pretty much for a single episode, then leave the narrative.
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The show follows five ignorant, arrogant bar owners in South Philadelphia in their Sisyphean quests for wealth, fame, sex, bragging rights and mere literacy.
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From there, the gameplay samples several video game formats, segueing from a Dance Dance Revolution–style ballroom sequence to more role-play-style quests.
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Another, Infamous Quests' Stranger Things, is a point-and-click, one-room adventure game created as a labor of love tribute to the series.
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In front of the players sits an island made of tiles that can be explored to create events, quests, and sites that augment gameplay.
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Civilization 22017 does much of what's great about the series so well, with some great additions like research quests and building directly on the map.
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The game's main currency of Gem Apples, however, is not only used to buy armor, weapons and support items, but also to unlock further quests.
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By removing the planetary exploration in the Mako vehicle and cutting out needless side quests, designers could focus on building scenarios around squad-based combat.
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You earn XP for completing quests and felling beasts, but that accumulated XP isn't applied to your crew until you get a good night's sleep.
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Sonic Mania has no fetch quests to complete, no tree of abilities to unlock, no mech suits or fishing levels or werehogs or vehicle segments.
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There are some side quests that let you spend additional time with some of the characters, and having more of these would have been nice.
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Even the quests will become richer, and players at a lower level will be able to reap the rewards by playing with more experienced pirates.
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It also comes with some new quests, which is not something typically included in Workshop-style add-ons for the game that focus on crafting.
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There's no need to run a bunch of fetch quests, Nintendo's deals are laid bare for any and all customers—if you have the coin.
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Pokémon Go is giving players new incentives to keep coming back to the already addictive app: a storyline, daily quests, and an elusive legendary Pokémon.
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Natalie and Harris broke up shortly after he made the mod—unrelatedly—which thwarted his plan to update it with new quests and voice acting.
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We met 10 years ago, during one of those drunken dance floor quests for company (not on Valentine's Day — this isn't a Nicholas Sparks novel).
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A daily checklist gives you some basic goals to achieve, like cleaning up your house, while quests offer harder challenges, like advancing in your career.
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Dissimilar in background and temperament but yoked together in friendship, they cannot talk of much beyond their quests for a lover, husband, or baby-maker.
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Other search trends show that bitcoin holds a solid lead in Google quests for digital currencies, even though it has a growing list of competitors.
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With hubs for the solo quests,character selection, splitscreen, multiplayer and more, there'splenty to explore and play in the main areas for the zombies andplants.
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Anthem appears to be the kind of game in which in can party up with your buddies and complete interesting science fiction dungeons and quests.
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I only wish it'd been easier to know which one of those would meaningfully pan out; half the side quests are little more than filler.
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You go to different kingdoms and do little sub-quests that kick the can that is the big quest down the road a little bit.
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In Glitch, the familiar was a pet rock, who'd tell you what quests were coming up next and how to interact with the game's environment.
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But in their quests to land Amazon's new headquarters, local governments didn't just make cringeworthy films; they also put together real bids with big incentives.
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He's on a mission to find his mother (longish story), a journey that — as sometimes happens in male quests — leads him to a surrogate father.
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The lyrics addressed spiritual and romantic quests along with political and economic predicaments, connecting them with language that drew on the Bible and Beat poetry.
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She's doing this while also trying to deal with her mommy dearest Carol (January Jones) and her younger sister Serena's (Willow Shields) quests for gold.
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In this new framework, addictions to certain types of modern experiences — spinning virtual slot machines or completing quests in a mythical realm — are entirely possible.
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It doesn't help that the Pursuits tab organizes quests not just by newest picked up, but also the most recent you've made and progress on.
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Flashpoint's titular side quests are micro-campaigns, each of which feels like a military sci-fi short story featuring your merc commander and their squad.
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It's hard to pin it on just a few elements, but the game's engrossing side quests and its consequential, player-driven storyline choices are standouts.
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It frequently sends the adult cast on individual quests or splits them into smaller groups, even though they're just not that interesting on their own.
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I admit I was a bit taken aback by Shermer's cavalier dismissal of one of the most long-lasting quests for immortality of them all.
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You're not just removing a random respawn from the world, but someone you spend time talking with, getting to know, and likely completing quests for.
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There are the vision quests, your flying robot partner named Jib, and a deep sense of mystery and alienness that calls to mind a Moebius painting.
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On the air, in print and in personal appearances, they combined amiable banter and gentle ribbing with earnest explorations of shared beliefs and quests for comity.
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Much like Grand Theft Auto, Mafia III has endless missions and side-quests and the decisions you make affect the plot and ending of the game.
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But because of the lack of enemy variety and interesting scenarios, I won't remember most of Horizon side quests as anything other than like dull chores.
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Such quests for meaning are typical of the modern novel, in which a protagonist tries to reconcile themselves with a world that does not make sense.
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That said, side quests offer substantial XP rewards, provide backstory that gives some weight to the final act, and sometimes unlock the best weapons and armor.
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There are also some new missions and quests added to the game with the April update, but make no mistake: Prison of Elders is the star.
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Both then went on "quests" — Sam to the Wall, and Ned to the side of Robert Baratheon, for whom he served as general during Robert's Rebellion.
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Leveling through Zuldazar, Voldun, and Nazmir in Zandalar was a lot of fun, with twists and turns and genuinely entertaining quests popping up along the way.
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Most big-budget video games are structured like epic quests, but Mario's new globe-trotting adventure, Super Mario Odyssey, feels a lot more like a vacation.
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Quests said it was working with AMCA and Optum360, as well as outside security experts to investigate the incident and its potential impact on its patients.
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One of the first quests sends you after a "psychoscope," a techno-magic helmet that lets you scan the aliens, acquiring their powers in the process.
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His search for meaning in humanity was intertwined with his search for how he wanted to play music, two fanatical quests that never ended for him.
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Most quests here follow the same pattern: speak to person, go where person tells you to go, shoot some aliens, scan some objects, return to person.
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The Secret World also has some nifty quests that require real investigation, both in-game and — thanks to a built-in web browser — on the internet.
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"Quests will give you access to some of the most powerful cards Hearthstone has ever seen — if you can complete them," Chayes said in the announcement.
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Among the many new features promised in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey is the ability to make dialogue choices that affect the outcome of quests in the game.
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In Happify, you get silver or gold medals for successfully completing steps, while in SuperBetter you can do power-ups, battle bad guys, and complete quests.
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As you complete daily habits or check off items on your to-do list, Habitica levels up your avatar and unlocks armor, pets, skills and quests.
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While Guzman failed to wrest the city from the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas, he succeeded in his later quests to conquer border plazas further west.
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And for the other top teams in the world, it is a mastery they will have to overcome in their own quests for a gold medal.
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The good news is that with this model, you can level upquickly by choosing the quests that match the characters and gamemodes you enjoy the most.
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Skyrim's quests intersect at points where the player is forced to make a decision between two warring camps, or whether or not to kill major characters.
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Players can choose locations from a world map, each with their own climates, people, and quests, and there's an incredible number of places to travel to.
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Dana Ben-Ari delved into the world of lactation consultants when working on her recently-released documentary, Breastmilk, which focuses on new moms' quests to breastfeed.
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Over the next few hours, Zogue drove me across the Eastern Kingdoms, aiding my quests in areas where I surely would have died on my own.
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Shopping for the "right" bathing suit (the one you feel comfortable in and could basically live in all season long) is not the quickest of quests.
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In cities that have experienced serious outbreaks — Seattle; Boston; New Rochelle, N.Y. — patients who fear they have coronavirus describe Kafkaesque quests to find out their status.
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In addition, players can now pursue or leave quests whenever they like, instead of having to finish off a quest to return to the main world.
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But Rin looks exactly like his sister, and a "True Grit" connection develops that will send them on one of the bloodiest quests in samurai history.
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Unlike other open world games, Yakuza 0 doesn't instantly mark everything of interest on the map Instead, players are tasked with organically stumbling into side quests.
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Its villain-driven side quests feel like comic book arcs that require all of Batman's (and by default, the player's) detective skills and lightning-fast reflexes.
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And you can get up to do normal quests, you could continue the storyline, or you can do some stuff that Kim wouldn't be cool with.
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Bernard Sanders, one of the founders of the Liberty Union Party, and a consistent loser in previous quests for elective office, was now the big winner.
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But there is no map to follow in A Short Hike, and the game does not keep track of the various quests you can participate in.
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I knew that the massive amount of quests and blinking map icons would draw me into the same old completionist pattern I felt with Fallout 3.
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The game, called Glitch, was a "massively multiplayer online" game where, instead of killing enemies, players went on quests and learned skills like baking or meditation.
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The quests that are created can be "shared and played on any platform, even if the creator and player are using different systems," according to the blog.
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You can reasonably spend over 100 hours doing everything in the game — and you might want to, since the extra quests somehow avoid feeling like a grind.
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People love getting points, going on quests, and leveling up, and these strategies have been applied to everything from wellness and weight loss to recruiting and training.
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The twins also have fusion side quests for you to do that are worth completing if you want to unlock every mystery the room has to offer.
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Some spoilers from this point forward To be frank, I do think Prey's last act only really works if you've explored and completed side-quests pretty extensively.
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The fact that they're weekly quests not only works within Destiny's weekly reset schedule, but also motions towards the fact that facing trauma and grief takes time.
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Each year's Battle Pass gives contributors unique cosmetics, in-game items, quests, and access to a new game mode this year: a co-op campaign called Siltbreaker.
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When you open up your map there are glowing yellow points that represent story missions, as well as various "strangers" that you can pick up quests from.
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Catching Mythical Pokémon in GO thus far has involved "Special Research" quests — a series of tasks that take a few days or weeks of play to complete.
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But while white-guy hero's quests are still the norm, the Academy usually has more good options centering on women and people of color than it realizes.
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This world map will also help your team complete voyages (the in-game term for quests), and these provide you with rewards to progress and level-up.
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That structure has been reorganized so there's no separation between single-player and multiplayer quests, and it's always clear what you need to do next to progress.
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Buying it requires "Exalted" status with Mists of Pandaria's Tillers faction, which means you'll need to spend of couple of weeks toiling through Farmville-style farming quests.
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I can take out loans to inject cash into my building, pursue city contracts that act as quests, and renovate to improve existing portions of my tower.
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Nah. The quests themselves aren't "bad," really, but there's too many of each, and it becomes a slog to start filling out everything there is to do.
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It's also the story of a compelling leader, who both hoodwinked investors and was enabled by them, in their quests to drive returns on their investments higher.
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A world-spanning story; playable characters that are distinct in abilities, personalities, and motivations; secrets and side quests galore; pixel art that still amazes with its expressiveness.
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I accepted some quests just for the sake of hearing one of Jeffrey Combs' lovingly-acted monologues, and during my entire trip, I never saw another player.
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In true "crypto" fashion, some of these artworks inspired by magic internet money double as a puzzle and have resulted in years-long quests to solve them.
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Harris is playing the kind of guy who camps his max level World of Warcraft character where other players turn in quests, and waits to gank them.
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Unfortunately, such quests, while noble in their intentions, are accompanied by the probable outcome that their findings will be at best misleading and at worst entirely wrong.
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In his works — almost all for piano — he dispensed with the programmatic titles that many 19th-century composers used to evoke fairy-tale landscapes and picaresque quests.
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Tom's employer sends him to Japan; Ally works in insane asylum in Cornwall; and the novel juxtaposes their individual quests and the effect on their nascent relationship.
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"The movie will show her rise from spy to the superhero "Black Widow" and her quests between the movies, "Captain America: Civil War" and "Avengers: Infinity War.
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Warren Harding, who led the first team to accomplish the feat two years earlier, later became a Yosemite rival of Robbins's, in both climbing quests and philosophy.
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What unspools after that is a series of quests and fake-outs leading up to one epic battle, just like every Star Wars movie that came before.
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It all pretty much comes down to materials or cosmetic items, so outside of crafting or retrieving specific items for quests there's very little reason to engage.
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Meanwhile, I've also been preparing myself for the impending eighth season of Fornite, wrapping up a final few quests and tracking the earthquake-induced cracks in the landscape.
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Wanting to take advantage of its referral bonus, the son introduces his father to the game, helping him create a character and eventually joining in on quests together.
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Even the side missions, filed under "side quests," typically a chore in open-world games, are interesting and varied, both in terms of what you're doing and why.
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These included successful quests to return "We Shall Overcome," the civil rights anthem associated with the folk singer Pete Seeger, and "Happy Birthday to You" to the public.
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A long list of side quests can send you all over Talos-1, for important tasks like following a killer and minor ones like growing a super-tomato.
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Sometimes you don't even have to really do anything: one line of quests lets you test an orc's mettle in a fighting pit, where you're simply a spectator.
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The story centers on a series of daunting quests and forbidden love, extracted from a longer novel that Tolkien revised and developed several times, according to HarperCollins Publishing.
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Treat morning exercise routines as quests and healthy meals as a chance to level-up—sticking to the habits you've set up earns you rewards and random prizes.
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Uber is testing out several new features for drivers, including a scrolling feed of promotions and gamified "quests" that are viewable before drivers sign on to start driving.
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And that's going to be able to get that as a product of some of these different bounties and quests that are unlocked in the Dawning record book.
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The EU's overseas missions remain inferior to its major national embassies and Ms Mogherini's monthly meetings with EU foreign ministers are quests to find the lowest common denominator.
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And so I buried myself in the sands of time on this corner on Orchard Street and let the waves of party-people's pizza quests wash over me.
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A series of quests provide some direction in guiding you through the story, but there's nothing to step you from simply wandering off and forging your own path.
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For every thrilling adventure, there are multiple tedious fetch quests that simply have you running from one place to another in order to collect and deliver an item.
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Unfortunately, it still tends to sell for around 40,000 gold, which remains an intimidating sum even after a decade of inflation and ever-increasing gold rewards from quests.
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It has everything you'd want — from inventive new quests to an engaging story to horrifying new monstrosities to fight — but fits it all into a much tighter package.
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Before mating season begins in March, toothy lotharios embark on amorous quests to get acquainted with the females in their territory, said Penn State biology professor Stam Zervanos.
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A Tribe Called Quests final album We Got It From Here…Thank You 4 Your Service was released last week and has expectedly been received with much praise.
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How these quests are obtained is still up in the air, but we also saw a change in how Link speaks to the people that share his world.
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Through its structure and form, the endless lists and quests that took forever to actually complete, it provided a sense of purpose, even if it all proved pointless.
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I like all of these movies, and they're all at least somewhat suspicious of their heroes' quests to disrupt the system in the name of being manly men.
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This sense of therapeutic mission might be unpalatably gooey were it not for the show's command of tone: its skill at combining earnest quests with wild-goose chases.
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One of The Witcher 3's smaller touches was telling you which side quests to care about, allowing you to prioritize how you spend time with the game.
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Today, the most famed pursuits of ancient alchemy are seen as mythological quests, and it's easy to forget that "black magic" once paved the way for modern science.
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As fraught as knowledge can be — and both of Jan's quests resulted in vertiginous knowledge — she feels empowered by them to shape the future outcomes of her findings.
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In April, he approached former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, a bipartisan request to the men who defeated him in his quests for the White House.
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Her upbeat tone is well-suited to the book's jaunty style and amusing quests — such as the search for a magic lip balm needed for proper amphibian kissing.
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While the storytelling and characters are dry and uninspired (especially in contrast to last year's eminently flavorful BattleTech), these main story quests remain Mercenaries is at its best.
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Discovery Mode lets players ride around Egypt and Greece on a camel or a pegasus, learning about the art, architecture, and history of the cultures depicted in quests.
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They must do favors for people in town to advance certain quests, one of which will supposedly grant access to a portal which could send the keeper home.
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Black Leopard Red Wolf is a lush epic fantasy set in an enchanted and mythical Africa, filled with quests and magical beasts and vicious battles to the death.
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The main story and its immediate side quests are fine — I'm perhaps 25 hours in and I'm interested to see where it's going, even if it's not particularly surprising.
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While rumors continue to swirl around Kendall Jenner and Harry Styles spending quality time together over the holiday, the two were joined by a couple surprising quests on Friday.
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The quests are positioned as these necessary actions, whether it be story-based stuff where you're being attacked or requests are being made by people for you to do.
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Quests often boil down to simply going from one play to another to deliver a message or pick up an item, while you fight a few robots in between.
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Prepare yourself: If you're not obsessed yourself, you'll be spending at least the next few months hearing friends complain about failed captures and never-ending quests for Pokémon medals.
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And a lot of the old quests from the post-Forsaken expansions are still available and much easier to tackle now that you're not struggling against the power cap.
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The novels follows Roland Deschain (aka the Gunslinger), through a fantastic feudal society, as he quests to discover the Dark Tower, which is said to connect various universes together.
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So, I'm sweeping up the side quests I have left—the optional extras that I've activated over the past 80-plus hours but haven't totally ticked off just yet.
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It's a cute 3D city-building simulation where you walk around your town talking to minions and so on, sending warriors out on quests to come back with materials.
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They're all open world games that emphasize exploration, but you're constantly under the pressure of a ticking clock that compels you to tackle story-related quests at specific times.
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Monster Hunter Generations was considered something of a greatest hits collection, and Ultimate expands upon the original with more difficult "G-rank" quests and a wider variety of monsters.
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Characters treated gravity as more of a suggestion than a law, and I had to abandon or restart quests because objects had disappeared or important characters had stopped reacting.
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Because the characters' quests are so seemingly minor, these women go about their business with a minimum of fuss, which allows us only a brief glimpse into their lives.
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Wildlife has become increasingly common in Rockstar games, particularly in the rural areas of Grand Theft Auto 5 and the hunting side-quests of the original Red Dead Redemption.
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The time between these interesting quests, though, is filled with things I have grown tired of as someone who has been playing games like this for nearly 20 years.
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It's an impressively-sized overworld, with varied terrain types: a gorgeous seashore, an other-wordly desert, a weird blue forest, etc, with secret items and characters and little quests.
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I barely recall Liam Neeson's quest for water in Fallout 3 or Fallout 4's intrigue around synthetic humans, and—god help me—the Minutemen's obnoxious and cloying quests.
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"Lodge 49" has a radiant internal decency, one that respects its characters' sometimes silly quests because it's a series that knows trying new things is hard but worth it.
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And it's this individualism of form and function that I think comprises the most pertinent character of the game, early doors anyway, beyond its cast and their various quests.
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Likewise, too often Control pads out its length with scavenger-hunt quests through previously explored areas of the Oldest House, and conventional "aim for the weak point" boss battles.
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Their heroes were not kings or demigods, but maidservants and mariners, who instead of going on magical quests faced the inward challenges that readers knew from their own lives.
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When she expanded the story into a dark novel about Snake's continuing quests, "Dreamsnake"(1978), she won another Nebula and a Hugo Award from the World Science Fiction Society.
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Brooker loves thought experiments that explore what makes us human, usually in the context of simulated life forms, quests to fully digitalize the human consciousness, and sophisticated artificial intelligence.
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When it isn't scripting quests, it is making poses to try and describe my character's stories around the game world—even if my game doesn't look all that good.
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But the hundreds of quests you'll see on quest boards or appearing randomly in the wild are like this, and rarely give more than a spritz of XP and gold.
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Games like The Witcher 3 have spoiled us on the quality of the writing and quests, but that should be a new bar to meet, not a high-water point.
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Separated from the rest of Persona's contemporary setting, Mementos is a surreal vault full of enemies to beat, minor quests, to conclude, and, with its final floor, mysteries to solve.
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During the main storyline and in side quests, players will be able to make decisions about how to tackle certain predicaments and who they form positive and negative relationships with.
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Those Democratic powerhouses lost their respective battles Tuesday night, but a new, wildly diverse, and largely female group clinched major wins in their quests to join the House of Representatives.
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It certainly has its flaws, like a script full of clunky exposition, stretched out by fetch quests that were transparently designed to keep our heroes occupied until the grand finale.
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When I wrap up my crew's personal quests, will they go become silent stat sheets, like so many party members of RPGs past, or continue to feel vibrant and fresh?
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With all the goodies and side quests and contracts that exist within the game, there's more than enough to keep you busy until it's time binge watch the Netflix show.
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Sure, these companies largely design go from point A to point B missions, but the puzzles and sub-quests are carefully framed so that they fit believably in the world.
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I truly enjoyed the 23-plus hours I spent with The Witcher 3, but sometimes, it felt like I was plucking through mediocre quests to find the really good ones.
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As I near the final quests in Blood and Wine, I find myself seeking out the "meaningless" filler, hoping it will put off my desire to finish off the expansion.
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When L'Etoile left, Dollarhyde was handed a "very long concept doc" for Parvati, and a bunch of dialogue that spanned the game's first area, the player's ship, and various quests.
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We have enough history to determine that regional centers generally do not work, and few complete the projects as glowingly as predicted in their quests for approval, if at all.
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After ten hours I'm still adventuring in my own neighborhood, doing fetch-quests for strangers and trying to find crew for the longship that's under construction in my home village.
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The things that motivate many of the quests, and that drive the morale of your party, are less about material outcomes than what they say about your style of leadership.
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Then, towards the end of 2017, comes what I'm looking forward to already: new story content, brand-new quests for Link, and a new dungeon to poke around inside of.
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When I asked the computer what it wanted, it sent me on quests with the aim of getting the town ready for a tourist season that would never come again.
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He wants to go catch up with our feckless hunter pal Dave, however, for the first in a series of quests that I ditched pretty quickly in my own playthrough.
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By the time I reach a certain point in these games, I'm saddled with so many potential tasks and quests that even the main plot threads have lost their appeal.
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Instead, nearly all of your stats all come from your crafted gear, and the crafting components available to you is gated by—you guessed it—which major quests you've completed.
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Its newest game is set across large, open areas, rich with murderous opportunities, side-missions, collection-quests and challenges to tick off on the way to 100%-ing each level.
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Zawinski's wrestling with the details of his rendering, his obsessive analysis of the wording of Borges's description, recalls the library inhabitants' futile quests to decipher the mysteries of the library.
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In the runup to the release of the game's upcoming seventh expansion Battle for Azeroth, players are participating in quests that tell the story about how the newest war starts.
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But his work — mostly action thrillers of the James Bond-Indiana Jones kind, plus nonfiction accounts of his marine quests and a few children's books — made him a global celebrity.
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The Pax 22000 was the first device I ever put live resin in, and the one to which I find myself returning after going out on quests to try alternatives.
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The sisters' quests to discover their family roots, for instance, mirror the efforts made by so many of the orphans in 19th-century literature, like Dickens's Pip and Oliver Twist.
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You don't want to be playing something that takes 20 hours to really get going, before effectively wrapping up another 10 hours later, save for a handful of side-quests.
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With money, we develop this insanely weird notion that we deserve to make a decent living pursuing coming-of-age quests to discover our true identity in our true calling.
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And as a final nod to Apple's continuous quests towards simplicity, the company has streamlined the Pencil 2's design by removing the thin strip of metal found on previous models.
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There aren't many boring fetch quests to be found here — they're dubbed "errands," they're optional, and they're tucked into their own corner of the menu, should you prefer skipping them altogether.
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Visual controls provide viewers the ability to help players pick quests, and you can even assign challenges that alter the gameplay considerably from what you'd get via a typical play through.
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DLC Pack 1 is due out this summer, but if you want more quests and more story, you'll have to wait until DLC Pack 2, set for release some time later.
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While the original game gave players a wide range of quests and leveling systems to make their experience richer, this mobile take is more about refining the adventure into something easier.
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"We realized that a lot of drivers don't even realize that they're on these [quests] and then they get a bonus later," says Yuhki Yamashita, Uber's product manager for driver experiences.
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But instead, for about $12 you could buy an item that would allow you to skip through dozens of quests on this new world that you've already endured on others anyway.
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I spoke to Jamie about cross-cultural curried tacos, why Uzbek dishes are underrated, and embarking on epic food quests from the far reaches of the globe to your own hometown.
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It's a fantastic affirmation for girls who grow up reading stories where the boys are the ones on hero's quests and the girls are there to fall in love with them.
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Power, on the other hand, is a late-game measurement — the number dictates which specific challenges (such as the Nightfall, the raid, or certain types of quests) you're ready to tackle.
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Part of the idea behind World's Fair was to embrace the same sort of umbrella setup as the Wu-Tang Clan, with individual members free to pursue their own musical quests.
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She is one of many global kitchen nomads who have passed through Copenhagen's dining scene in recent years on their quests as stagaires and interns, but Lisa didn't just pass through.
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As Noctis, though , I'm happy to tune out for a couple of hours and complete quests while listening to podcasts or watching something else out of the corner of my eye.
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The goal's always the same, even when diversified with quests in the form of calls from parents: grind down students' humanity to nothing and turn them all into test-taking pineapples.
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This is backed up by all sorts of little touches, too, like an optional side quests where you can participate (for a surprisingly long time!) in a game of Dungeons & Dragons.
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To understand that the world will go on without you, and that some of the quests you may have set in motion in this life will continue, even after you're gone.
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A giant of Chinese cinema, King Hu (1932-1997) is best known for his wuxia films ("A Touch of Zen"), martial arts stories involving heroic deeds, quests, swordplay and the supernatural.
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The possible food quests are endless, something I've learned over the course of repeat reporting trips to the country, and I visited Delhi in October with an agenda of my own.
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Andrew Cuomo's hands are a good start on two of New York's eternal quests: finding ways to subsidize New York mass transit and ease the suffocating traffic on Manhattan's busiest streets.
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But mostly we see personal quests for grace and meaning, evident in scenes of a solitary Buddhist monk at Mount Hiei in Japan, completing circuits around the mountain to attain enlightenment.
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The free-to-play game replaces the story-driven campaign that launched in 2017 with a simple set of quests designed to put newcomers through the full spectrum of Destiny experiences.
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They drop loot for crafting, but halfway through the game, you can buy what you need, meaning players spend a lot of time running past enemies while trying to complete quests.
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There's no massive world to explore, no mountains to climb (or even go to), no long side quests that really fill out the world in ways that the main quest can't do.
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Quests, talked up ahead of release as being fully voiced and emergent, as though you're receiving a request for help from a needy merchant or the like, are nothing of the sort.
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While most of those Democratic powerhouses lost their respective battles Tuesday night, a new, wildly diverse, and largely female group clinched major wins in their quests to join the House of Representatives.
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The show features Mercer ( "Overwatch") as the dungeon master, the organizer of the game who sets quests for players to complete and describes what the players hear and see on their journeys.
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Bungie's upcoming Destiny 2 is going to be more than just a fresh start when it comes to the game's quests, multiplayer structure, and expansive list of guns, armor, and other collectibles.
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If you've only played WoW in the last couple years, it will be surprising how much you will need to rely on your friends to get through some of those difficult quests.
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But the path it's traveling to get there increasingly looks a little too winding, in similar fashion to how the books themselves have gotten trapped in an endless string of side quests.
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Meanwhile in the game, K.O. obtains quests from different characters that play out like episodes of a TV show — with entire three-act structures — to progress and improve relationships with other superheroes.
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Eliminating a character also eliminates all of their quests, and depending on their social connections (which you track in the game's menu) it can also have an adverse impact on the community.
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Rather than toying with the conventions of television, it will be a game focused on environmental storytelling, and the missions that players embark on will be more than just linear fetch quests.
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Underworld Ascendant will give players "Memora" (basically, currency) when they complete quests, but their reward also depends on how much they've combined different gameplay elements, or used systems they haven't tried before.
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When you go out on side quests to help people in the world with various problems, they'll repay you by coming to live in the burgeoning kingdom, further expanding your budding empire.
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Sora, the protagonist, could take selfies to complete various quests in the Disney worlds, and the game's loading screens featured shots of in-game Disney characters in an Instagram-like photo app.
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This includes Veracom's excellent chopped and screwed edit of Future's "Turn off the Lights," a double shot of 60s Singapore pop band the Quests, and plenty of goth rock and black metal.
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Men and women have lost their lives on senseless quests into the unknown—frozen to death on the steps of Mount Everest, or drowned by a storm in the ancient Indian Ocean.
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Alexios whips that sucker out for combos, yeets it directly into the skulls of unsuspecting bandits, and spends one of the game's longest and more interesting quests trying to unlock its mysteries.
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The new version also adds things like quests and the ability to design your own clothing – things that have been common in MMORPGs for a while, but notably absent from Club Penguin.
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You need to look at what you're going to use it for, what kinds of quests you'll tackle, and try and match their capabilities to your needs—without emptying your coin purse.
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We long to embark on heroic quests in which the very qualities society deems "wrong" about us -- a love of math and science for example -- become tools for positive transformation and change.
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In it, you can roam the open country, completing quests like helping brightly colored cows find their way back to their corral, or reuniting a lost baby Loch Ness monster with its mother.
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In a racing game like Mario Kart 64, I could be awed by a sense of scale and place without finding out that half the world was boring, or filled with fetch-quests.
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One of the many great things about the series—aside from its peyote-trip inventiveness and smoldering co-lead chemistry—is the places Mulder and Scully visit on their weekly quests for truth.
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And that means picking up side missions, indicated by blue diamonds, and more personal quests, where Aloy will carry out a task just for one person, something without connotations for the main narrative.
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I was going to work on my settlements, building them up into places people would actually want to live, while wandering the Commonwealth wrapping up all of the quests I had left unfinished.
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Also new for both factions is a lengthy string of solo play-friendly quests that earn you XP and Coins early on, while also teaching the fundamentals of the sequel's added soldier classes.
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And the side quests in no way feel rote or paint-by-numbers — each is unique, and you can tell attention has been paid to the writing and dialogue in each case, too.
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One of the more haunting side quests in Nier is called "The Wise Machines," where you track down a series of robots spouting vague lines about the meaning of life and contemplating birth.
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There will also be new profession quests, a new PvP season with new gear, heroic warfronts for greater challenges and rewards, new battle pets, new enemies to fight, a new arena, and more.
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In one instance, I unknowingly did a set of quests for the aforementioned Principi and received, to my surprise, a flag that would allow me to bluff my way into a pirate fort.
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As detailed in this player review, many 276-ers have eagerly hunted down challenges and storylines within the massively multiplayer setting only to find themselves on lonely, purposeless quests with no end game.
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There are literally dozens and dozens of side quests to find, though, so you're almost never going to spend more than a few minutes zipping through streets and alleys before something weird happens.
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As the dungeon master leads them on quests to kill mythical monsters, concrete and iron bars give way to a haunted forest, a dragon's lair, or a castle's keep—dungeons of another kind.
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While the rest of the cast members have shared stories about hanging out with the global pop star and have reconstructed their quests to become her friend, she's somehow escaped the interview slog.
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McMann Was Kind Of Born Into The YA Genre Kennedy McMann's mother is Lisa McMann, author of a number of suspenseful paranormal and fantasy YA novels (Dead to You, Cryer's Cross, Unwanteds Quests).
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But like many other games, beating GR2 only left me with a save that brought me just before the final mission, allowing me to pursue incomplete side quests and challenges I'd left undone.
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Taken together, this month's "all-you-can-reveal" buffet of JonBenét content—advertised as various quests for truth—may have a placebo effect, but in large part, it's a master class in manipulative editing.
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Canny authors enlist ancient fables of gods and heroes, of rival clans, gigantic battles, perilous quests and fearsome ordeals as a way of unlocking the crowd-pleasing genres of mystery, fantasy and historical romance.
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In New New York, players will focus on rescuing characters, collecting special items and materials, expanding their characters' capabilities by leveling them up and crafting ability-defining character outfits, and tackling story-driven quests.
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It still feels like a Zelda game — swords, goblins, treasure chests, and quests — but it modernizes the adventure, and cuts out most of the tedious hand-holding that dragged down more recent Zelda adventures.
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I only played up to the four star-ranked quests, but the progression was smoother and more satisfying for solo play than any Monster Hunter yet, even with what felt like slightly reduced difficulty.
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More standard "fetch/find/kill this thing" quests are broken up around much more elaborate tower defense-style encounters where you set up defenses around a base as you fend off hordes of mutants.
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From what I played, the quests felt varied; in particular, the ones with treasure chests have challenging riddles to solve and "x marks the spot" maps to figure out before you can get loot.
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What made those quests work in past games was how they were tied to the narrative; you were doing repetitive things, but at least you felt like you were doing them for a reason.
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Fetch quests actually feel like a productive use of your time, and the game has a very welcome fast-travel system that lets you skip ahead to the more interesting parts of the game.
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For the mini-quests, consider Airstream's new 16-foot Basecamp, a $40,000 trailer large enough to play host to your night's sleep, but small enough to slide into a New York City parking spot.
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Aside from the ongoing battle to live with less stuff, we also struggle in our quests for compact furniture and decor solutions that are effortlessly size-conscious and stylish at the same damn time.
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It almost reaches a point of information overload as you work through the final main quests — many of which devote large chunks of time to exposition — but sharp writing keeps you on the hook.
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Done right, by injecting surprise, deep character motivation, and a level of complexity that defies basic quest formulas, these quests can feel like an entirely organic outgrowth of your character's existence in the world.
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The sheer size of the map and the hundreds of quests add to making the world of the game feel big, but what truly blows up the experience of playing is the story itself.
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This eclipse is likely to remove some opportunities you may have believed were absolutely crucial; however, in their place, you'll find new quests that are better aligned with the lessons you need to learn.
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"In my initial planning, we had stuff from [ Fallout and Fallout 2], but in the end, all of our quests come on cards and we only have so much room for that," Fischer said.
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It became a small scale version of the sorts of epics behind powerful weapons—we were going out on quests in order to build the one weapon that could bring down this unbeatable monster.
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But then you get the repetition of the fetch quests and cutscenes that put all four playable characters into the conversation, as it desperately reminds you that this should be a co-op experience.
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One of Arbus's lifetime quests was to expose what she called the "flaw," a telltale detail that reveals the crack between the way people wish to present themselves and how they actually are seen.
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To be clear, I don't think that these little mini-quests (the man with the snakebite, the wagon with the broken wheel, the woman whose horse died miles from home) offer any interesting choices.
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Unlike Kanye West's The Life of Pablo, which located the artist's humanity in his dueling quests for salvation and the pleasures of the flesh, This Unruly Mess struggles to make its cross purposes pop.
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For most of the show, the human characters have only inched slowly forward in their conspiracies or quests, while the life-altering experiences have happened to robots who simply get rebooted in the morning.
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All of the ghosts still clinging to this world have stories: and you can hunt down the clues and truths about their deaths in some of the most memorable side quests I've ever played.
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Tom's experiences in an alien culture and Ally's travails in England are juxtaposed, allowing the reader to join them on their separate quests even as their nascent marriage is shaped by their separate concerns.
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They stand in place or roam about very slightly (the world's animals actually seem to have more complex routines than its citizens), with the scattered few offering trades or quests or crafting guild memberships.
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While players do accrue some experience points by fighting random enemies and completing quests, they're pennies compared to the amount of experience gained by killing the many NPCs you'll spend dozens of hours with.
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Tutuola's novels are all relatively short, but they contain the kinds of subplots, side quests, and digressions typical of epics such as The Odyssey, or Arthurian legends, or, yes, A Song of Ice and Fire.
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You'll get an orb when you complete a story mission for the first time, for instance, as well as when you finish certain meta-quests, like beating the same level three times in a row.
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Leon is the role model you'll both be chasing after as you set off to collect gym badges, and he acts much like a guiding light in your quests to become the region's best trainers.
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I would take on uninteresting side quests, which typically revolve around venturing to somewhere dangerous to collect or kill something, because I knew it would help me learn more about the fascinating residents of Whitechapel.
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In order to see Dragon Quest XI through until the end, you'll need to play for around 70 hours, and that doesn't include optional side quests or the stuff that happens after the credits roll.
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And while the game isn't set in an open world by any stretch, it's still fairly large and offers up opportunities for exploration, whether it's seeking out hidden treasure or taking on some side quests.
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We enter stunningly-detailed fantasy worlds filled with quests and adventure—only to attempt to kill the ruler of said realm to see if we can get away with it (some of us even succeed).
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This decision solves one of the big narrative problems with open-world games, where you're on a quest to save the world yet can take time to complete inconsequential side-quests or just aimlessly explore.
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The quests are described vaguely by Niantic as "a wide range of Pokémon-related activities," which is kind of a no-brainer, but likely will be challenges like catching specific Pokémon or completing an event.
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By that I mean: there's a big map with lots of activities, a long and melodramatic story, the ability to equip and upgrade your character and his motorcycle, and a laundry list of side quests.
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Bungie releases major updates to the game about once every three months or so, but the game gets constant updates through secret quests and time-gated events that seem to appear every couple of weeks.
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Side quests provide as well, but finding them can be tricky due to near-invisible iconography — quest-givers are marked with a red exclamation point, but it's tiny, and only visible when you get close.
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So these quests aren't actually "Digital Wellbeing" features that encourage users to go offline; in fact, it's just the opposite, as the 15 minutes passes more quickly if the user just stays inside the app.
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I encountered this myself; after eventually getting loaded and logged in, I managed to get into the starting town area where you will, in the full game, upgrade your gear, accept quests and so on.
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Chauvinistic politicians might loudly trumpet India's role (as they have, more controversially, in the case of the Pythagorean theorem), but the history of zero remains unsettled enough to still be the subject of continuing quests.
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In the game you're basically a refugee trying to work with the resources you have at your disposal, and with the new Royalty expansion pack you can create weird hierarchies and go on side quests.
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The game functions both as a pointed commentary on contemporary culture and a critique of how many of the traditional tropes of dating sims erase the agency of others in their protagonists' quests for love.
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"I'd heard about [Stranger Things] pretty early on from one of my team members," said Alexander, who is the co-founder and CEO of Infamous Quests and the designer behind the company's Stranger Things game.
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Sure, you could log-in to play games, go on quests for faeries, or see how long it takes for your Cybunny to starve, or you could learn how to code and navigate the stock market.
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We've seen games with smaller-scale choices, like The Witcher 3, or Dragon Age—games that gave players opportunities to make decisions, played out through side-quests, that'd impact how those specific stories and relationships unfolded.
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I never thought I'd see "quests," the Atkins diet, and a picture of a sloth billed next to each other as general interests, but then I had also never seen Skrillex' early days MySpace page before.
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Well, apparently you'd get quests that task you with landing no-scope kills and the music would be a souped-up version of the Legend of Zelda soundtrack, according to CS:GO player and YouTuber Clicky Crisp.
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Minit is mostly composed of clever and quirky fetch quests, the kind you might find in old-school RPGs and early internet Flash games, and puzzle-solving, all of it compounded by the imposed time limit.
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Sure, Deacon will walk over and tell an NPC who's beating one of the workers to "stop it," but you can't make an active choice to intervene, and the assigned quests for the camp keep coming.
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So, by defeating a lot of gruesome enemies, solving side quests and exploring the world, you will gather enough resources to increase your exo power level, and also you will acquire new gear, weapons, and implants.
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The company provides $1.6 million of its own money each year to get the ball rolling, which it then augments with sales of in-game perks, quests, and cosmetics to fans and players of the game.
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So for one of my first quests in The Outer Worlds, I help locals figure out how best to leverage their resources to pay what they owe, lest they end up dead and out of luck.
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In each scenario they can complete a series of unique quests and choose to side with one of two warring factions such as the Church of the Children of Atom and the residents of Far Harbor.
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I finished my first run (there's a New Game+ mode) in a bit under two hours, but there was definitely a lot of stuff I didn't find and side quests I didn't pursue to their ends.
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You need to recreate guilds spending days running the same dungeons and quests over and over for faction reputation, and you need to recreate the frantic races to be the first to tag a world boss.
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At the end of the day, they're just high schoolers on their own quests to find themselves and discover how their evolving friendships fit into each other's lives, all while getting into some standard teenage shenanigans.
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But it doesn't feel like a fetch quest: searching for each wizard takes you through multiple other quests, from a murder mystery in a brothel to a vegetable hunt given to you by a talking painting.
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CD Projekt Red brags that Cyberpunk 2077 will be "more ambitious" than its previous game, The Witcher 3, which has hundreds of possible quests and can take up to 200 hours to complete in its entirety.
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It's a chance to check-in on how different characters are feeling about the decisions you've made, what they hope to get out of upcoming quests, and decide what direction you want to build these relationships.
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The app opens with a prompt to identify the main challenge you want to work on, such as anxiety, and then presents a curated series of "quests" and "power-ups," such as deep breathing or exercising.
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The descendants of the N7 forces now have a new frontier to explore, the Andromeda galaxy, full of quests, danger and, if you're at all like my social media circles, new alien species to imagine kissing.
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The work thus has certain calming physiological side-effects that feel similar to guided meditations or ASMR videos, but instead of dolphin vision-quests or "caring friend" roleplay, the libretto of Private Parts eludes easy description.
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Fortnite is what's known as a "sandbox" game because it's a nonlinear story and the emphasis for the player is on roaming around, exploring, and building the world while completing quests in your own good time.
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Meanwhile, Westerners rewrote the history of Japanese warring culture, overlooking the heroic quests of the onna-bugeisha and elevating, instead, exaggerated representations of swaggering male Samurai and subservient Japanese women, clad in kimono and tightly-bound obi.
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As with Gears of War, Spectral revolves around a series of travel and battle quests — get this technology to this location, find this missing soldier, get this piece of information, use it to activate the next step.
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Around 2015, the studio picked the idea up once more and found that configuring Fallout to support multiplayer was a painstaking process, turning even simple elements like "how do quests work" into puzzles for the development team.
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Some legislators have taken to insults and offensive language — one lawmaker in South Dakota recently called transgender people "twisted" — in their quests to pass flawed and dangerous laws that help no one and hurt a great many. .
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In an effort to 100% one of the game's regions, I took to exploring some of the hills that none of the quests had taken me to hoping to find the one last mission I'd somehow missed.
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With the update you'll be able to browse mods from within the game, while the new "creation kit" will let you create everything from new quests to new weapons using a new in-game suite of tools.
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Whether you're tracking quests across the untamed lands of the iconic looter-shooter Borderlands 2, or breaking a sweat with the intense, precise rhythms of Beat Saber, you're going to be having the time of your life.
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It has the typical trademark BioWare tendency to lead you off onto side quests that crop up just when you think you're going to focus on the main plot, which is a big part of its appeal.
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Brienne is also self-defined (though not nearly as literally as Arya) as a woman on a textbook knight's mission, complete with rare items (Oathkeeper), side quests (delivering a hostage), and squire (the best in the game).
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There are many players who first stepped into the world of Azeroth in the 2000s and can reminisce about countless hours spent grinding, finding groups for quests and raids, and just walking around, taking in the sights.
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Through the full set of low rank quests, Monster Hunter: World embodies exactly this colonialist fantasy: the pillaging of natural resources, the violence against native people, and the rhetorical establishment of the colonizer as civilized and rational.
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Once I learned the ins-and-outs of all four areas (at least, all four that are in the low rank quests), Monster Hunter: World showed its hand and began to drag, at least in single player.
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Stardew Valley's smaller quests and daily tasks—like the simple errands that can be run for neighbours—give players something to keep busy even as they work towards larger goals, like restoring the Community Center, for instance.
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The least possible amount of character development happens (except in one oddly shallow case), mostly because the movie — which clocks in at about two hours and 20 minutes — is designed as a chain of successfully completed quests.
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These individual stories feel like side quests in a video game, and while Geralt is unequivocally the star and focus of the show, almost all of his scenes are detached from the bigger picture of the show.
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The least possible amount of character development happens (except in one oddly shallow case), mostly because the movie — which clocks in at about 2 hours and 20 minutes — is designed as a chain of successfully completed quests.
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They can enable quests to start, add locations to your map, or increase your skills, but often they're just full of the history, tales, and information about the world and its people — always good for mindful perspective.
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"Uber and Lyft have built their business model off the sweat of drivers, paying the vast majority of New York City drivers less than minimum wage in their quests to go public," Desai said in a statement.
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I haven't finished the game, let alone all the side quests, but although I expect to encounter more good things as I go, the bad things were apparent pretty much from the first few minutes and haven't abated.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads When digitally editing an image, quests for improvement can cause more damage than good, whether saving a JPG so much that it distorts through compression or sharpening the photo until it pixelates.
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The same flashback sequence again questions the nature of fantasy's emphasis on heroic quests, as Viren and Harrow agree to lead an expedition into Xadia to slay a magma titan whose heart can be used to prevent famine.
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And while Apple's removal of Infowars from its Podcasts and iTunes platforms encouraged other tech companies to do the same, it also energized Infowars viewers in their quests to find other ways to obtain the conspiracy site's content.
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While his novels often vividly depicted ancient Chinese swordsmen and their heroic quests, Cha was equally lauded by his fans and literary experts for his ability to encapsulate human nature, Chinese culture and political allegories in his writing.
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And thus Blizzard literally destroyed much of the old world's design with 2010's Cataclysm expansion, chucking much of the old world's quests in favor of a single-player focused story that made you the world's greatest hero.
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Returning from what were presumably the culinary version of vision quests, rap jester Action Bronson has given us a yet another slice of dusted samples and outlandish verses with which we can laugh and gape in awe at.
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The update follows a steady year of improvements for the game, which started with the addition of co-op raids last summer and was followed by features like dynamic real-time weather and story missions and daily quests.
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Hex: Shards of Fate labels itself as a massively multiplayer online trading card game (MMOTCG), creating a digital space for players to battle while also building a rich world full of characters to meet and quests to complete.
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But most Monster Hunter games have been repackaged and re-released at full price in Japan with extra monsters and harder quests soon after their initial launch, which I don't think will fly with Capcom's intended global audience.
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Now, a startup that's built a search engine tailored to the needs of enterprises and their own quests for information has raised a round of funding to see if it can do the same for the B2B world.
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Specifically, we wanted to compare how quickly men and women leveled up in Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games, which are online worlds where thousands of players develop characters, make friends, join groups, complete quests and slay dragons together.
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Even the series standard outposts have been spruced up, as each one now has a unique, combat-puzzle enabling identity—like a repair garage or an observatory—and becomes a real hub for quests after you complete it.
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From its briny beginnings on a frigid seafloor to its snow-capped climax atop a Skellige mountain crest, "The Last Wish" is among my favorite quests of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: so good, I've played it twice.
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