7 Terrible Rewards for Incredibly Hard Quests 

100% knew the Skyrim gem quest would be on here. It's been 10 years and the salt is still fresh.

The Skyrim stones quest would probably be a lot better if I had ever once, in my entire thousands of hours spent in that game, had even *one time* thought to myself "Man I could use more gems."

"Why only 2 rings? I've got ten fingers, and ten toes!" That's the same thing Sauron must have thought when making his rings, of which there are 20. I love to think of an alternate ending to Lord of the Rings in which Sauron won, is sitting in his tower wearing rings on every finger and toe, just wiggling them in delight.

The Skyrim gem quest was even more infuriating for me because the one and only time I completed it I was under the impression I could wear the crown but no it just sits in the thieves guild hideout.

"Summon the pig, we're going to war" has to be the Lukes greatest line

I'm surprised they didn't mention that one of the first Skyrim mods to be released, which has since become one of the most commonly downloaded, adds map markers for all the unusual gems.

They forgot collecting the Korok Seeds in "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild." There are a total of 900 seeds in the game, but you only need 441 max out your inventory and expansions. If you collect the remaining 459 your reward is Hetsu's Gift…which is basically a golden turd.

if i remember it right the "no stone unturned" from skyrim can get even harder by accident, simply by you or the enemy or the environment knocking those gems away from their spawn location. sometimes resulting in you never finding them

"You can fine more gems now!" The Dohvakiin looking at literal bathtubs full of gems they put there because there was so damn many: "Great."

"Pestered by more animals than Snow White covered in trail mix." That is a truly standout line!

One of the best things about Hawkeye Gough taking down Kalameet, is that he 360 no-scopes him from across the map.. WHILE BLINDFOLDED. In the description on Gough's helm, it actually mentions that it was packed with wax by those that didn't like him because he was a giant. Gough just assumed he was blind and never bothered to do anything about it.

Also consider that Maria Auditore was also assaulted by the guards that broke into the Auditore home, she's not simply grieving her husband and two children. It WAS worth it for me in that she woke from her nigh catatonia.

You don't HAVE to find all the Stones of Barenziah; they are, like pretty much everything else in Skyrim, bugged. If you mash the button to take an Unusual Gem, you can pick up 4 or 5 of them at once, as they don't immediately enter your inventory. I don't feel the slightest bit bad for having done this.

Kingdom of amalur: reckoning. Long overdue is a quest where you have to find 10 books from all over the world, the last one is literally on the endgamiest island there is, you need to steal, sneak and make dungeons to find them and the reward is... 516 gold. And believe me, this is even less than it sounds.

The Prowler's Profit skill would be extremely helpful at the beginning of the game. However by the time you have achieved the quest you would have so much gold that it becomes unimportant.

This is not a sidequest, but in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, after defeating the final boss, you get ONE exp and a dried shroom. For the final boss.

Sekiro's First Boss, Genichiro Ashina: You are technically supposed to lose and you only get one shot without deleting your save and starting again, but if you are patient and careful, you can actually beat him. Too bad the only reward you get for winning this extremely difficult fight is a slightly different cutscene, which depicts Genichiro cheating and cutting off your arm anyway.

Prowler's Profit in Skyrim actually helped me do the most fun experience I had in that game as a collectible fanatic. On my longest playthrough I used it to create a DRAGON'S HOARD, a mound of gems in the basement of one of my houses where I dropped each individual gem. (Fitting, SINCE YOU HAVE THE SOUL OF A DRAGON, AMIRITE???) Due to collision mechanics, however, they'd just go flying whenever you entered the room.....

Have you forgotten the quest from Breath of the Wild where you need to take a photo of every enemy, item, and boss and all you get is a envelope with a photo you can’t look at or use in any way?

I loved the Auditore Cape. After getting 100% in the Game it kept the Gameplay interesting. It was my "Time to murder everyone" Dress

I want to clarify something: The only way to complete the Pokedex was to make several trades since 4 Pokemon could only evolve by trading which meant finding people willing to trade with you. But that's not all! You see Mew was a promo and if you didn't get it via Stadium then the only other way was to cheat.

"Summon the Pig. We're going to war." brb, painting that on a banner

The delicate flower quest from hollow knight comes to mind, sure, the reward (a mask shard) isn’t quite worthless but it certainly isn’t worth the pain and suffering it took to get it

Luke smashed it this episode. "Get the pig. We're going to war." And a surprisingly cheery "the hunt is on!"

In the original Shadow of the Colossus, you could “diagonal jump” up the wall and it would only register a sliver of stamina lost. Best accomplishment of my time in that game! 🥰

One thing that I was surprised wasn't on the list was Hestu's gift in Zelda BotW, where you go across hyrule, finding 900 korok seeds, only to be rewarded with a literal terd that Hetsu just released

The last 19 floors of the Savage Labyrinth could probably be made trivial if you wait until almost the very end of the game when you get the Light Arrows before leaving Ganon's Tower, sailing back to Outset Island and going back down into the Labyrinth. They take out ANY regular enemy in one hit, even piercing the Darknuts' armor that even the Master Sword bounces off of.

In Kingdom Hearts, your reward for defeating the "Phantom" (which your Stopra spell is absolutely vital for) is having Stopra upgraded to Stopga.

The quest for the "Exotic hat" in Red Dead Redemption 2 wasn't exactly hard, but it took a damn long time for me to complete. Wading through swamps, fighting off alligators, hunting various birds, etc. - all for a hat with a couple of feathers. Did I wear the hat? Very much yes.

The fact that you actually lose the Skeleton Key after a quest is an absolute insult in Skyrim. The quest itself might not be insanely difficult, but it nears the end of the thieves guild quests, which is pain. And you lose an unlimited, unbreakable lockpick. You could have the lowest lockpick and still beat Master Level locks because it doesn't break. AND THE QUEST TAKES IT AWAY

In a way, the calamity ring, while a crap reward at best, did serve its purpose in a way. Imagine that the dragon was feeling the effects of it the whole time you were fighting it and that without it being in its guts forcing it to take double damage, your fight with it could have been so much worse and that in a way, this was secretly the kindest FromSoftware has ever ever been to anyone ever in the history of their time making games. They nerfed the boss who was still the hardest of the game arguably.

Death Loop has the mysterious triple locked door near your apartment. Unraveling the mystery will require exploring multiple regions over multiple loops and when you finally get in... there's a single crazed enemy and a generic powerup the same as you find anywhere else.

The Witcher 3, the quest where you help Hattori the swordsmith set up shop. Not a particularly difficult quest, but quite high level compared to when you're likely to start it, and the reward which is, according to Hattori himself "A sword fit for killing gods!" turns out to be a pretty useless sliiiiightly above average sword which is no doubt vastly outclassed by what you're likely already using at that point in the game. It can be argued however, that the real reward is unlocking Hattori's services as a swordsmith, but the super-overhyped sword which you'll no doubt sell right back to him really puts a sour taste in one's mouth.

Man Luke got all the best lines this vid. "I can think of one finger you're beffiting of dark souls." "Summon the pig we're going to war."

the best part about "No Stone Unturned" is that you need to buy the property in Solitude because one of the stones is in there, meaning you need already at least 25,000 gold to be able to comfortably spend.

Anyone else remember the Pink Moonflower quest from NieR? You know, when you had to spend several days in real-time trying to grow the second-rarest flower in the game in exchange for an insultingly low amount of gold at a point in the game where money is completely meaningless? Good times...

Nintendo really turned it up for Mario Odyssey. Have you collected every single moon in the game? Well done! The sail on the Odyssey is now gold. Did you unlock and beat the absolute gauntlet that is the Darker Side of the Moon, and complete the (supposedly) harder version of the final boss fight? There's a different picture waiting for you at the end of the credits that you will miss if you skip the credits like a normal person. Ah, but what about maxing out the moon count of 999 by purchasing extra balloons? Um... the castle in mushroom kingdom now has a hat. Rewards! Having said that, actually beating the Darker Side level itself gets you an Invisible Hat, so there is at least one good reward hidden in all that, at the 500 moon level, instead of the 880 / 999 moon levels. Sidenote: Nintendo is not sorry about Mario 64. If you go to the mushroom kingdom and jump up (superstar) to the castle roof, then Yoshi is waiting for you in the exact spot that his N64 counterpart is. You still can't ride him, although you can take over his body using Cappy, which is.... something too!

The hero’s charm replacement is actually worse since in earlier versions of the game you can get it before half of the boss fights, the enemies you actually might want to see the health for. Placed at the end of the labyrinth means you need to beat everyone except Ganon before you can get it.

You forgot to talk about how if you don't do the quest right it'll lock you out from completing it entirely with the Stones of barenziah quest in Skyrim

I was expecting the golden turd from breath of the wild The Auditore Cape is something I wish I knew about because while I unlocked it, I never bothered to use it or look at it and when you beat the game, it's a royal pain in the arse to get an achievement. Mainly use a heavy weapon to knock down 3 enemies in one attack.

Kalameet being here misunderstands the conventions of darksouls. He’s a dragon, and in DS1 that means to get his specific reward, you have to sever his tail, which will give you his great sword, which is pretty powerful, and lets you use kalameets dark flames. Furthermore, after defeating kalameet, you can talk to gough to get his great bow, the most powerful bow in the game (if you’re running strength, the black bow of pharris is still my preferred choice for versatility). Basically the rings not meant to be a reward, more a trophy saying “I killed a dragon with a butter knife, and sucked out its soul”

Some tips for the Savage Labyrinth from Wind Waker: - You can actually steal items - including hearts - from enemies by using the grappling hook. Enemies in the Labyrinth do NOT drop spoils otherwise, so this was a huge help to discover when I played it. (Otherwise, you only get recovery items every 10 floors.) - You can take out ReDead (aka the screaming zombies) from a distance if you have enough bombs. Walk just close enough to them that they turn their heads toward you, but not close enough to trigger the scream. Then toss bombs at them from a safe distance til they stay dead. - In fact, bombs are just plain useful for a lot of enemies in the Labyrinth. For instance, in that room with the bazillion ChuChus, if you throw a bomb, it temporarily stuns them, allowing you to pick them off little by little. So make sure you've upgraded your Bomb Bag as much as you can before going in. - When there are only a few enemies in a room, divide and conquer works well. If you can engage an enemy out of the sight range of other enemies in the room, sometimes you can battle it out one-on-one before the others even realize you're there. - Get really good at using your L-targeting. This is non-negotiable for enemies like the Darknut knights. I found these out because I played the Labyrinth a lot. Not because I died a lot (I did occasionally, but not often), but because I actually enjoyed it. Dunno why. It was just satisfying to see all the enemy variety in one place. I would time myself to see how quickly I could get to the bottom, or how far I could get before losing any hearts. Good memories.

The sparkly jump does actually do one good thing. It makes you completely immune to fall damage. Not that being immune to fall damage on only the triple jump, AFTER you've cleared the game, is useful.

For Dark Souls, I thought they were gonna mention how if you beat Kalameet without Gough shooting him down first, the only thing you get is one extra line of dialogue from Gough after the fight.

Shoutout to the _"Hunter's Mark"_ in *Hollow Knight* To get it you have to talk a specific NPC _(The Hunter)_ and get the _"Hunter's Journal",_ a compendium of every enemy in the game. Kill an enemy once and you get the first part of its entry in the Journal. Kill it a specific number of times, depending on the individual enemy, and you get its full entry. _(So you might have to kill a common enemy 20 times to unlock their full entry in the Journal)_ You have to kill every 146 different enemies of the base game 5 to 25 times _(again, depending on the enemy)_ to get the _"Hunter's Mark"._ But some enemies only spawn in the arena-fights in the _"Colosseum of Fools"._ And *some* only spawn as the bosses of the fights, which can take up to *17 waves.* And remember, you have to kill them a bunch of times, which means you have to complete these wave-fights more than once. And after all of this you come back to the Hunter, get a very cool scene _(not gonna spoil it),_ and then... just a Journal Entry... the _"Hunter's Mark"_ is not a charm, not an item, not an ability or even a stat-buff. It's just text, it does *nothing.*

The worst one I've ever seen is finding all 900 korok seeds in Breath of the Wild. Only about the first 450 are worth expanding your inventory; after that, it's only for completion. Scavenging every nook and cranny in the huge map for endless hours just to be rewarded with an absolutely useless golden turd...the developers knew what they were doing with that one.

In Elite: Dangerous, some interstellar delivery missions might send you to a small space station called Hutton Orbital. The quests offer juicy rewards for what seems to be a couple of hyperspace jumps, but then you reach the star system Hutton Orbital is located and realize the station is located at the very end of the solar system. At this point, you realize two things: 1.- You can only do hyperspace jumps (or Frameshift Drive jumps, as the game calls them) with stars as targets, because only those celestial bodies are big enough to lock on. 2.- You can only fly to that station with sub-light speed, which can take easily FOUR IN-GAME HOURS to do. In the meantime, you have to keep aligned with the station, hope you have enough fuel for the trip, and cross your fingers to not get jumped on by space pirates (or griefing players if you're playing online). And your reward for the trip? That juicy bounty for finishing your mission? Turns out doing several smaller missions to literally ANYWHERE ELSE in the galaxy is way more lucrative, and the only special item the station provides are coffee mugs that you can't even use. Also, if your ship is too big you can't even dock at the goddamn station!!! Don't get fooled by the community, there's no free Anaconda ship at Hutton Orbital.

That Dark Souls one had me livid lol. I was like “this has to be a troll” they had to have done that on purpose and someone on the development team was having a great laugh about it

There will never be a quest thats so obscenely tedius and difficult for such a terrible reward as the "Seeking Mr Eaten's name" questline from Fallen London. There isn't even a reward, its just straight punishment that will eventually lead to permanently destroying your character. It's so needlessly pointless that it contains multiple warnings from the Devs stating that it genuinely is not worth it, and your able to quit at any point. Even if you do give up, you'll have thrown away most of your money, possessions, health, and made the entire game from that point onwards an absolute slog. The ending of the quest is such a well kept secret, meant exclusively for people who have suffered through the insane amount of hours necessary to make an end game character only to destroy it through an obscenely bleak and time consuming quest. Spoiling it for yourself won't even do anything for you because it's completely nonsense without the context of everything surrounding it. Almost everyone who has actually managed to beat it is in agreement that not only is it not worth it, but you don't deserve to know a thing about the ending unless you've made the sacrifice yourself. I mean, there's even a specific note at the end point from the devs requesting that you keep it all a secret. The only thing you can really get out of it is the maddening pursuit of knowledge in one of the best written pieces of media ever made. I haven't done it, and I hope I never try because I know I'll go through it and hate myself for it. It's hard to even call it a quest to begin with given that it's less than a quest and more of the games insanely elaborate method of receiving the only game over

I’ve always had a problem with the Lego games Gold Bricks. You get all of them and have basically completed the game, and your reward is a fountain of Studs with which to buy… nothing because you’ve completed the game!

I feel like the stone quest would have been better if it had been used to reaffirm your role as guildmaster, where you could have vex and contacts figure out where they are, or retrieve the ones in more mundane locations, for you. I know it's not much, but just something to actually make you feel like a leader could have been fun

1:45 "24 gems taken from the crown of a long-dead queen." Fun Fact: It's entirely possible Queen Barenziah is still alive at the time of Skyrim. She was only 430 years old at the time of Morrowind, which happened a little over 200 years before Skyrim. Dunmer can live up to 1000 years and whether she's died hasn't been confirmed by Bethesda.

Legend of Zelda is wild for this trolling though. Choose from: - Hestu's Gift in Breath Of The Wild for all 900 Korok seeds, - Completing the Bombers' Notebook in Majora's Mask for no particular reward, - A picture of Marin as a seagull in Link's Awakening if you never die, - 200 rupees from the father of the House Of Skultulla in Ocarina Of Time for collecting 100 Gold Skultulla tokens, - 200 rupees from Jovani in Twilight Princess for collecting all 60 Poe Souls. Seriously Nintendo, we just want to complete the game. Stop making us look like idiots for it.

To be fair, Yoshi knew what you were planning, Luke, and cheesed it right out of there.

How he said “thats enough to buy a pear” has me dead

the "Summon The Pig, were going to war" killed me laughing. so deserved.

I’m not sure if this counts, but at the end of the Path of Pain in Hollow Knight, all you get is a brief cutscene that lasts for about 5 seconds.

Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy - Collecting all the power cells. Your reward for finally being able to unlock the mysterious door at the end of the game? The power cells dramatically fly into the door which bursts open with radiant light as the characters stare onwards... and that's it. Oh, I'm sorry, did you want to know what they see? Nah, that would just take away from the majesty of seeing a door opening.

The Skyrim one reminds me of Ultima 9 where you had to find giant gems for a series of lighthouses in Britannia and the reward for the quest (which also took you across the whole damn world) was 100 gold pieces. Jesus.

I loved Assassins Creed 2. Easily one of my favorite games as a teenager and one of the few that I bothered to get all the achievements for. Problem was that I couldn't remember which feathers I had gotten and which ones I hadn't so I literally started a new playthrough, printed out maps of where the feathers were and went all the way through the game just marking them off on paper just to get that stupid cape and the achievement. I'm proud of my determination but damn, that's one of the worst collectible missions in the history of gaming. Probably only surpassed by Donkey Kong Country.

I helped my brother complete the Pokedex as a kid, and I was proud of him for having the commitment and tenacity to do it. Not sure how he felt about it, though, because I'm the only one who remembers that.

The pokedex completion diploma was so you could print it out as a sticker with the gameboy printer/camera setup which had a number of pokemon related assets inside already that most have forgotten. You still completed something huge, but needing the additional printer and indeed paper for it, that makes it more a crap prize as even new, they weren't easily found, at least not in my youth and experience and certainly not now decades later.

Years after I grew up, I went to my sisters house and ran a 120 star playthrough in just under 8 hours because my sister never saw yoshi in Super Mario 64.

Those shrieks were top notch Ellen. The quirky gags continue 😂Tho the best part was Ellen giggling as Luke berated her about that being a terrible reward and being worse than the games. Oh yeah we do our jobs? Great reward."

"Summon the pig, we're going to war" is an amazing line and I need it on a t-shirt please!

As someone who is generally a completionist this video made me go- oh but the reward is knowing you've completed the hardest challenge! Then I remembered how in Final Fantasy X I never get Tidus, Kimahri, or Lulu's celestial weapons because the requirements are too annoying and difficult. You only need Yuna's celestial weapon to be totally OP in endgame anyway (0MP Holy ftw) and her quest is one of my favourite sidequests in the game

My feed hasn’t shown you guys much in the past few years, I’m glad to see all of you popping up, giving me things to watch ❤

16:35 "Sommon the pig. We're going to war." From this day forward, I will say this to my boss when I clock in at work 6 days a week.

Every hard quest rewards you with something that would have been really useful during the quest and is of no use after it

The diploma you get when you aquire all 151 Pokemon, I think, was totally worth it. I am literally a Pokemon master backed by the appropriate paperwork... that makes it official 😂

I actually liked the Auditore cape in Assassin's Creed II. It saved me the trouble of looking for guards. The combat's fun.

I will never forget Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn Limited Wish Quest. You cast one of the strongest spells in the whole game and ask for an unforgetable quest and... Well...

the cape in AC2 actually helped; you could put it on, commit a crime, take it off and be unknown. I thought Mario Sunshine was worse. when you had collected all the suns you only had one more picture in the credits.

Japanese dev: it's about symbolism. Every one else: the symbols of kicking me in the teeth maybe.

my personal example is psychonauts 2, where the 100% reward is no cooldown on all your psychic abilities, which sounds cool until you realise theres literally no more enemies to use it on, or anyway to re-fight bosses

With the dark souls Hawkeye, it’s even more impressive that he shoots down a dragon considering he’s blind

Blade From The Bits from Witcher 3 should be on here. By the time you're leveled up enough to complete the Swords and Dumplings quest to unlock Hitori's shop and earn the reward he hypes up for you, his reward Blade From The Bits sword is pretty useless, and most players immediately sell it back to him.

Of the literal hundreds of hours that I put into Skyrim, I alway refused to find those damn gems and I have never felt more validated in a decision in my life than I do right now

Love the video, very cathartic, save on one point. The Secret Garden fruit *did* have the "benefit" of reducing the amount of damage you do to the colossi, since that itself was also governed by your maximum stamina. So honestly, by the time you can get to the fruit, you're probably killing the colossi ridiculously quickly, kind of defeating their majesty--which can be amusing in itself, but at least to me took the fun out of things fast. Only the Time Attack fights--which set your max health and stamina at the point you'd be at then *without* any fruits or lizard tails--would retain any challenge, but you also can't use the items you get from those on the Time Attacks either. So the idea is that you beat the game on a difficulty once, maybe getting as many white-tailed lizards as you can before Numbuh 16, get to the second run and unlocking Time Attack, beat the Time Attacks for the rewards (which by this point is likely more challenging/"fun" than the main game), do another sweep for lizard tails before the final fight, and then on the third cycle ~hopefully~ you have enough stamina by this point (plus or minus another white tail lizard hunt) to climb up to the Secret Garden before you fight any colossi, eat the fruit, *carefully* make your way back down and finally you can play as New Game-statted Wander, plus your Time Attack toys, for that cycle. (And maybe once that's all said and done, never overwrite that save as you play through so you don't have to do that shit ever again until hard mode. :V) Also, I don't know if this is still a thing circa PS4 remake. I'd like to hope Bluepoint fixed the stamina bar size = stab damage issue, since otherwise the hell is the point of those stupid masks of strength/power, which are honestly in themselves kind of an example of terrible rewards for ball-busters. (The Queen's Sword almost gets a pass from me due to it being ~lore~, but I'd also kind of count it myself due to that whole "instant/fast kills lose their novelty really quickly in a game like this" argumentum.) So unlike that stupid diploma, they're at least useful for something in an ostensibly positive sense. Albeit also in a really annoying pain-in-the-arse, this-shouldn't-have-been-needed-in-the-first-godsdamn-place sense. Sorry if someone else mentioned this before. That's what I get for being a scrub at home internet-having. :V

"Summon the pig. We're going to war." Should be on a shirt. One of my favorite quotes of all time.

"Summon the pig, we're going to war" is my new favorite sentence.

I mean to be fair in later Pokémon games you get a shiny charm. Which gives you another goal of catching shiny Pokémon. And in that quest the reward is the shiny Pokémon.

No Stone Unturned is in fact a quest that gives you one of the most game braking rewards in story of quests: you literally get the ability to find rare gems in almost every container in the game, in a quantity that you will have difficulty to sell everything you got before emptying the pockets of all shops in all cities in the game. You complete that quest, you get rich in no time, simple as that.

No matter how many times I replay Skyrim, I still collect those gems and face disappointment every time. Why do I keep doing this to myself?

I remember watching Ellen beat Kalameet; she was so euphoric upon defeating that bastard after countless attempts (and I do mean countless; no one other than her really knows how many tries it took) that she didn't even care about the loot.

Man Outside extra really has a vendetta against Assassins Creed 2 and the auditore cape. Well I do too, same with the stones of barenziah quest. I had to install a mod just so I could find the buggers. Furthermore, if you go to Vex with them, and begin the quest. The weight of the stones is actually increased. So you have to carry these heavy gemstones that you can’t store in a chest for later all across Skyrim as you look for more

The Stones of Barenziah side-quest used to be so much worse somehow, for 2 reasons: 1- It used to count as "stealing" when you grabbed it, even though it didn't say "Steal". So you had to be 100% stealthy doing it 2- If you didn't pay attention in the Thalmor Embassy in the main quest, you could lock yourself out of even completing the side-quest And what sucks even more about having that as a reward is how it's practically the closest thing Skyrim has to a "Completion" reward, since you have to explore the whole world, do multiple dungeon side quests, join (or at least start the quests of) every faction, progress relatively far into the main story and purchase the most expensive house. And the only thing you get is a stupid passive that you more than likely have no use for unless you're still poor at that point, or for whatever reason only now felt like leveling up your blacksmithing by making tons of jewelry Sure, you also get the crown tbf... Except you can't even wear it and it just stands as decoration in the Cistern along with other treasures you've grabbed

One of my favourites (ironically stated...) was in Final Fantasy 8, defeating the hardest enemy in the game, Omega Weapon. It was a gruelling fight that I recall took me several attempts and several hours worth of play, even using the "Invincibility" technique...which itself required an equally gruelling slog through the Triple Triad card mini game which required working your way through the 'Card Club' card players which were very tough opponents, itself a good few hours of repetitive gameplay, to gain a particular card which could be refined into 10 "Holy Wars" items that granted invincibility. So for you toddle to the dungeon where the beast in question is, you fight it, have to time and sequence all you buffs and attacks just so, as the monster basically can destroy your entire party in just a couple of turns if you're not quick enough with the healing/not invulnerable from aforementioned Holy War items. And your reward for destroying the beast? Intriguingly you receive a surprisingly powerful item...AFTER defeating the penultimate "boss", and also an item you can obtain from the much less daunting Ultima Weapon far earlier in the game (not unlike the Gem finding buff from the Skyrim quest you guys showed... would've been handy BEFORE the big boss fight🫣) and finally...a small certificate (plus associated Achievements on various platforms) akin to the Pokedex completion non-event. A grade desk flipping material right there. Games can be ever so cruel sometimes can't they...

The reward for completing the 'Watch This Video' quest was obviously getting to enjoy more of Ellen's laughter, which is always a good thing for brightening a day :)

what was worse about the pokemon one, back in the day, was the rumour that, if you caught all 150, the guy in celedon would give you a mew! so you did it all, found that one friend with a trading cable, went to the guy and got the certificate and left standing there like 'wtf...no mew?! WHY?!'

I remember Kalameet took me ages when I played DS. Not because of his own difficulty - but because like many tailed enemies in DS, he had a tail weapon, and despite being able to do the fight, being able to do it *and* obtain the tail weapon was another beast entirely.

Of course Yoshi booked it out of there! He just gave away the immunity to falling damage that saved him from all of those pits! That is what the sparkly jump does, after all.

Man, I remember the first time I saw Yoshi after collecting all 120 stars in Mario 64 and when I got the reward I thought to myself, "Sick, I get all these lives to putz around with AND ride Yoshi!?" Nope only one, and like everyone else I was sad. That is untill I realized that the new triple jump, lovingly called "sparkly jump" in this video, is completely invincible and you could do some pretty silly stuff with it as a result including not take damage from gravity and bounce (once) on lava just to name a few of the new perks. So that was pretty cool to me at least.

This is quickly becoming my #1 favorite game channel. Love it!

I only managed to complete "No Stone Unturned" with the help of a mod that showed the quest markers. Even then, by the time i had them all, I was so rich that the reward was next to useless. Fun fact, though: these stones are never marked as owned by anyone, and so you can always "take" rather than "steal" them. It means you can safely take them right in front of people without any repercussions.

Congratulations brave hero! You have triumphed in this quest where many have failed (or rage quit), your reward is the tremendous honour of…Continuing the game! Go forth!

Gotta love Ellen's transition from professional announcer voice to tired-of-your-sh*t Londoner in the intro

there's sort of a secret quest in Skyrim that doesn't even appear on your Quest Journal: Find eight dragon masks. you start this by picking up and putting on a "wooden mask" item, which allows access to a secret room with a device that can be opened by attaching all 8 masks to it. the wooden mask is found in a small building near the entrance to the "Labrinthian" dungeon. note that one of the masks belongs to the Boss of Labrinthian, and you can only ENTER it with a unique item you get from the Wizard's guild questline! several of the other masks are equally hard to find, others can be found by locating a dragon shrine, and killing the "dragon priest" owner. and your reward? a ninth mask, which, in my opinion, is not as good as the others! i did this once, and i needed a guide to find most of them.

“Summon the pig, we’re going to war.”😂

At least you find the gems naturally while following quests. The crimson nirnroot on the other hand... and all that gets you is sometimes you make 2 potions.