Lord Xanhorn wrote: »

As the central feature of almost every single DLC and now the Morrowind xpac, does anyone actually enjoy questing? I would think that most people are like me and just skip the dialogue and move to the objective that the all knowing marker tells me to go to. There's no choice, consequence, or impact to any of my actions and listening to dialogue for 5 minutes at a time seems tedious and keeps me away from what I really want to be doing which is killing things.

I couldn't disagree more. Surely there are action games more suited to your tastes than RPGs which are all about the story and lore as unfolding through quests?

Personally, I preferred the first generation MMORPGs which didn't have quest markers. You spoke to every NPC you encountered and followed their responses when working out where to go. Even earlier, with RPGs before the internet came along you took notes, made maps, read manuals, and admired the box - ah, those were the days, kids have it so easy these days !

Play something like Rift for a few hours, then come back and say questing is boring in this game. I do all the quests I come across, and unless I am trying to finish up a quest before going to bed, I do not skip the voice acting. They pay actual actors to do this game, plus some of the top.voice actors for video games, the stories are actually interesting, and nothing feels out of place with the story.

When I was actually playing through Rift's latest expansion, I was either listening to music with the game sound off because the voice acting is over the top, and sometimes unbearable, or mindlessly running to the highlighted areas to kill 10 more things, or collect 5 items by killing the same things, because the pages of nonsense they waste money on (that should go into actual game making) are less than enjoyable to read through.

You could also be stuck in the GW2 bracket, where the voice acting is okay, but what you really want to do is skip the 15 minutes of standing around talking to get to the real game, but you can't. ESO has some of the best questing IMO.

Andrewb967 wrote: »

Lord Xanhorn wrote: »

As the central feature of almost every single DLC and now the Morrowind xpac, does anyone actually enjoy questing? I would think that most people are like me and just skip the dialogue and move to the objective that the all knowing marker tells me to go to. There's no choice, consequence, or impact to any of my actions and listening to dialogue for 5 minutes at a time seems tedious and keeps me away from what I really want to be doing which is killing things.

Their quests are so much better than previous MMORPGs I have played.

Agree on that one. In other MMOs the quests truly are boring and tedious and is simply a means to level up faster, story and execution is just an afterthought, kind of tacked on.
While I don't re-read all the quests on all my characters, I do some of them as many of them really are good and interesting dialogues.
Some are just simply humourous, many quests have made me chuckle, even though I've done that quest 5 times already. That is a sign of high quality production values and voice acting, which it is for a MMO Standard. There are no other this type of Mmo that comes even close in terms of quality and execution, voice acting and dialogue choices.
Sure they may not significantly change anything, but remember - this is a MMO, even the fact we have minor choices given is a huge advantage over other MMO's who don't even have that.

I personally love questing! I've gone thru all the zones and dlc on 4 toons now and it's still fun. Looking forward to new places to quest in the future. I am very driven by completionism.

UrQuan wrote: »

You'd be wrong. There are a ton of us who are much more interested in the story and characters than in mindlessly going from one objective marker to the next.

Damn straight.

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There are comedic storylines, sad storylines, "save the kingdom" storylines, and small sideline storylines. If I didn't like storylines, I wouldn't play an RPG. I jump in a FPS if I am not in the mood for a quest.

Questing, and everything that entails, is still a huge draw for me and always will be. I always listen to the dialogue and don't skip anything. Some of the storytelling is very well done, and there is humour and sarcasm in some of the script. It helps that I choose to play the game slowly - taking my time suits me and goes a long way to enjoying what the game has to offer.

I also play with quest markers and other visual aids turned off. Speaking to others is therefore essential to know what to do, as is paying attention! I try to avoid the quest journal if I can.

I enjoy it, but then I have been playing RPG games for story all my life. For me learning new stories and quests expands my mind and helps me write for roleplay games I run.

For example right now I am playing Torment: Tide of Numenera, after 11 hours of gameplay I have read probably a few chapters worth of dialogue, levelled once and been in two fights.

Tandor wrote: »

Personally, I preferred the first generation MMORPGs which didn't have quest markers. You spoke to every NPC you encountered and followed their responses when working out where to go. Even earlier, with RPGs before the internet came along you took notes, made maps, read manuals, and admired the box - ah, those were the days, kids have it so easy these days !

Absolutely agree. Questing used to take planning, thought and preparation. I'm still clinging to that way of playing even now... or as best as I can.

All 9 of my toons have skipped 99.9% of all that boring dialog. I make up my own story as a go along by business of questing. Power to those that enjoy it but to me it is just a nuisance.

Also, I found the DLC storylines better than the vanilla game.

I do enjoy questing, just not very much in this game. That's not to say there isn't any interesting quests in this game, just they're too far and between that it's not worth sifting through the boring repetitive quests to find the occasional good one.

I love questing and I have done every single quest in the game. Some capture my attention more so than others but they are all very fun and are way more enjoyable way to level than grinding, even if it takes longer. I love the characters and I love to actually do stuff other than running around in a set rotation and killing stuff. And it makes the game seem much larger and well more epic.