I work as a teacher. My life is an escort mission for npcs with questionable AI.

For me it’s walking with an NPC while they talk to you but your characters walking speed never matches their walking speed!

0: Follow the target without being noticed and don't be far from the target.

The worst objectives are those that you NEED a friend to complete.

11. Escort this npc that is faster than your walk and slower than your run

“I got another Settlement that needs saving” -Fallout 4

I personally Really hate the "talk to everyone in the area" missions.. like especially when half of them have nothing important to say =.=

I don’t think Falcon gets enough praise for how well he edits his videos. Top Notch.

"All you had to do is follow the damn train CJ"

Late game missions that take away all the equipment and/or abilities you've earned throughout the game. So I've slogged through having no equipment and only crappy abilities, grinded, worked hard, and acquired all this stuff, and now I arrive on some magical island that just takes it all away for some reason? No no game, you had your time of hazing me at the start when I had nothing and could do very little. THAT was the point in the game where I was being tested to see if I could get by on skillful play alone without relying on in-game bonuses. That time is passed now and I already proved myself to get to this point. Don't be taking me backwards now for some arbitrary reason.

Personally I can’t stand “go explore the field, the courtyard and the inn then return to me” running around then running back to the guy just for him to send me back with some other objective.

Falcon: You can't walk to the other side of town and get what you need to get. it would take you only ten minutes. Me who uses UberEats: *looks down in shame*

Play a mission without taking any damage....I mean c'mon really fml

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag: Stealth mission though a river...with a big ol' boat. Don't get seen by the watchtowers or the boat you're tailing! Now, jump off the Jackdaw and go running around in the swamp in the middle of the night, trying to tail some douches in a canoe (Douchecanoes?) and fighting alligators.. Have fun!

The "three switches to unlock a door or to progress" haunts my dreams

Forced puzzle segments, especially in action games, where you're constantly swarmed by enemies, and then you forget what step in the puzzle you were. Sometimes you actually need to concentrate on a part of a puzzle, like pulling a lever or whatever, and suddenly a random mob attacks you and the whole thing gets interrupted and the lever goes back to its original position or whatever. This is a thing that really bugs me in games like WoW, like, don't put the monster spawn right beside a thing that I have to concentrate for 10 seconds to complete, or don't give the monsters 3000 yards detection range and telepathic melee attacks or whatever.

Any sort of "defend this person or building" objective. Grrrr. Especially Natalya from 007.

Anything that had a insta fail component is the worst. Oh you got spotted..game over etc

IMO I feel like eavesdropping/tail missions should definitely be on here. Also those missions were you loose all your stuff because the devs don't know how else to scale the difficulty, it's one of those missions where for the story it makes a lot of times but I feel like they still kinda go overboard on this.

My most frustrated objective that I had to do was the gta vice city mission where you had to plant bombs with a toy helicopter on barells of oil in a building. There were guards with melee weapons in the building constantly walking around.the controls were hard and it really frustrated me for a long time.

Forced multi-player missions. Particularly in single player games.

At this point Falcon's voice instantly spawns so much recognition/ nostalgia and love for so much of his content. It is a real moral boost. Thank you Falcon!

"Mastering only once." The most egregious example is the final mission of Saints Row 2 with the helicopter section. 99% of the game is driving and foot combat.

"Superman 64 has the worst escort mission in gaming." Goldeneye on the N64 has entered the chat.

You gave me PTSD Falcon when you said “Supply Lines”. Never. Again.

Fishing objectives in rdr2... or ROCKSTAR and their "follow close" missions. When you have to trail behind a car or person. And of course they're going really slow it takes forever but if u get too close you will alert them and have to start over. Rockstar is famous for those stupid ass type objectives

I hate when your protecting someone and if they die you lose, but at the end of the mission they die anyway

When you get caught and wake up in some sort of prison Objective: Collect your gear

I'm guessing one of them will be trying to get on the train. I'm sorry Smoke, I just can't.

The WORST is getting a timed objective and once you finish it with only a few seconds left THEN the game tells you to “go to this location” with the remaining time that you do not have.

Video: "Missions like Supply Line from GTA:SA" My Brain: *Curse you Bentley, CURSE YOOOOUUU!* Me: *Shivers is distane*

Me getting flashbacks : ALL YOU HAD TO DO IS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN CJ!!!!

Maybe I skipped it but you forgot "there is a settlement that needs your help"

Just cause 4 has the best escort missions, because the escortees can shoot and don't miss a lot. Also they have a good amount of health

One that would fit, or as an honorable mention, are "Hold off waves of enemies until (insert thing here) is done," missions.

Also, escorting weak NPCs that actively engage the enemy instead of hanging back and letting you do it.

I was actually waiting for him to mention "Anthem" and when he did at the end really made me satisfied

I definitely hate escort and time missions

Thanks Falcon, for everything. There are lots of creators out there that do great research etc but you're the only one that clearly and genuinely has lived through every game you talk about, over a whole lifetime. It really makes a difference.

The worst ones are when you have to follow an npc when your walk and run speeds aren't the same as theirs. Your run speed is too fast but walk is too slow so you have to keep starting and stopping.

Honestly really surprised that number one wasn’t: “Hold the enemies off until (blank) is done.” Honestly really horrible objective quest and is super lazy. That’s what turned me off about destiny 1

I'd say one objective that drive me up the wall is missions/quests that are vague as to where and/or off what your supposed to be getting the objective from. Like when your playing a game that has an alien world setting that the NPC asks for lefe'the claws and gives you no hint as to what a lefe'the is let alone where you can find them.

Just cause 4 is literally a "destroy the generator" simulator

"You need all of these parts to build the teleporter" *Aggressively mashes tilde key*

Bro this is the most accurate countdown you guys have ever had on this channel. I got annoyed just remembering these missions. Lol So thanks.

Doing objectives "Stealthy" in a non stealth game automatically makes me drop a rating of any game

I agree that fetch missions feel lazy but they're my favorites usually xd makes it easier to explore I think!

Something something yakuza kiwami car section that doesnt give even you a checkpoint on the hardest difficultly. So you have to do the entire enemy section & boss battle before it

“Is better now but is also anthem, so whatever...”

Escort missions, enough said

I loved the fortress infiltration in Windwaker. That was my favorite part.

The box stacking mission (I believe it was the whiskey crates) into the truck was an awesome mission. You could literally drive to the warehouse, stack the crates, and get out without any shots fired if you were fast enough. Now it would be tedious if you still had to fight enemies. I wish they had put it in the remake

Two words, water levels

MMO mailman missions bring here, go there come back do again...

Missions that require you the player to not get hit once but throws 1000 enemies at you and expected you to parry, dodge and/or beat the enemies in whom take more than one hit to win.

The only escort missions I remember that I don’t mind are in just cause 2. They actually have decent health and they fight! We need more like that

I HATE timed missions in video games! Enough said!

"I got word of another settlement that needs your help. Here, I'll mark it on your map." Stupid radiant quests!

I actually like fetch quests in games like Skyrim, fallout ect. because they usually send you to random dungeons that I probably never would have explored on my own. They're a good way to see more of the game since you actually have a purpose and a reason to explore that cave now.

When it comes to the treasure hunt missions, there are games that do it really well. Like Subnautica. The last two things you have to do to finish the game are treasure hunts but there’s so many scary enemy’s and the biomes are so cool it’s just fun

Assassins creed odyssey would should have been mentioned. Its a grind feast.

Investigation missions: Missions that require you to find some miniscule detail in a big-ass cluttered room, and unless you have a guide or have played the mission before and remember where everything is, you'll spend like an hour trying to get past the mission. Even worse is when they throw a puzzle or riddle into the mix.

timed objectives "You just had to follow the damn train CJ!!!" trauma

One of the things I actually adored was a segment in Jak 2, Mars Tomb where you had a matching puzzle. Basically about 10 shrines were in a grid pattern in a room and you had to find the matching tunes to complete the puzzle. You only did it once and I loved it so much, but it was over so fast, was pretty saddening.

GTA online cargo delivery missions......when you have to transverse the map in a slow vehicle dodge enemy AI, AI cars constantly hitting, and griefers!

Kingdom hearts 2 having to do those jobs when you’re Roxas multiple times to make enough money to get train tickets and it’s stolen by Riku🙄 Yes I know you get it when you become Sora but those jobs were kind of annoying

This vid bang on! Gameranx; keep up the good work...

For me, it's when you've basically got a mission where you're forced into fishing! Sometimes they may be a side mission, however a notable moment was in Far Cry 6. I had to do this fishing mission for this 'mental health doctor' otherwise he wouldn't stop calling me. At first I didn't notice that he was calling me, but literally unless I did those mental health missions, he would not stop calling me whenever I got into combat, so I was pretty much forced into fishing to make him shut up. And the fishing in Far Cry 6 is tedious af. P.S - I blew him up and did not revive him after all of that crap was over.

That damn train mission from GTA San Andreas

Protection/Escort missions hands down have to be THE most annoying idea for objectives ever

The Forsaken Fortress stealth section in The Wind Waker at least makes sense storywise as Link loses his sword and is still relatively new to adventuring so its not like he can take on an entire enemy fortress run by Ganon himself so early in the game.

WoW, this channel and narating is so cool. Cant get enough of it, keep it up guys, and thanks for GOD-like channel 🤩

I can’t stand time objectives lol

Remember saints row timed escort missions?

Timed missions are a good example in general, but I found it a bit weird that the two first examples are literally cases for the opposite, where it's actually an integral and good part of the game.

I have two. Next to impossible mini-games and really hard objectives/fights in an otherwise not so difficult questline. Talking about you FFXIV's Masked Carnival! You know what you did Yoshi P.!

Timed objectives are just lazy game design.

You forgot the follow/eavesdrop missions, I remember them in old ac games, holy crap that was slow and annoying...

I do completely agree with your stance on grinding, grinding in no way helps advance your skills in the game and are purely a thoughtless way to try and expand a games length

The Yiga clan hideout stealth mission was absolute hell for me. That whistle still haunts me to this day

#1. Ratchet and clank when you had to translate the alien language.

Forgot literally every single boss and mini boss battle on gears 5 on Insane difficulty

I hate when games give you an objective to get a really powerful weapon or artifact, but you don't get to use it and have to give it up for plot reasons.

Somehow I feel your frustrations in all those games falcon. 😂 I know how frustating it can be because I've been there too, in order to advance in the game to finished it. Aaarrgghh that tutorial mission in Driver was driving me nuts...

I HATE TIMED OBJECTIVES

gameranx: "despite how cool scorpions can be" *shows Scorpion from Mortal Kombat* Scorpion: "am i a joke to you?"

I loved the Mafia (2002 edition) mission inside the port, where you have to pretend you are working there. I also discovered (not on my 1st run, in fact years later) that you could talk with some NPCs to help you stack the boxes in that warehouse. You only had to stack the boxes in the truck by yourself, which wasn't hard at all considering you actually could pull the truck in front of the boxes room.

im sure ive seen it on this channel before. but the iconic "ALL WE HAD TO DO WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN, CJ"

6:30 what game is that? looks good found it by going through Tower Defense genre in Steam, it's called: X-Morph: Defense

The one you missed would be the missions that tell you to press X Y A B when they pop up on screen.

Another settlement needs our help. I'll mark it on your map

When the npc is 10x slower than a person in a wheelchair so you have to wait every 2 minutes

honestly, if they were smart they wouldnt need an escort. just sayin

I’m glad you mentioned Ashley from RE4. My god she was a hassle

Going through the entire third dungeon of Skyward Sword, just to get around a giant locked door. Only to have Ghirahim smash though that same door as soon as you get to the other side.

What is even worse than timed objectives is timed objectives in missions with hidden stuff like treasure chests.

"Sad wyvern egg noises"

Among Us card swipe be like:

Did anyone forget these Chase Missions, if its easy to fail. Big Smoke: "All you had to do was follow the damn train CJ" Losing weapons/Forced Failure (Metroid, Saints Row IV) Instant high alert missions with escape (Stealing the supercar in Watch_Dogs and the police instantly has maximum number of stars) Missions that don't have lot of checkpoints or too far between (example Ratchet & Clank games)

One big annoyance in the LEGO games is the races. These are sometimes timed objectives that often have a very unforgiving time limit, and other times you have to win against opponents that are pre-programmed to complete the course with inhuman precision. And often you have to contend with poor vehicle controls, poor flying mechanics, or a camera that randomly shifts wildly and disorienting you. Nearly every LEGO game has that one race that's nigh-impossible, but the worst offender of all was LEGO Marvel Super Heroes.