The most annoying one I remember from 15 was having to collect frogs with tiny hitboxes

Strange, Chocobo Hot and Cold was one of my favorite Mini Games of the Final Fantasy Franchise and I always greatly enjoyed it in every of my playthroughs. Breeding Chocobos in FF7 (excluding RNG abuse) was much more tiresome and getting the Sigil in FFX was borderline pain.

I actually enjoyed the chocobo sidequest in FF9.

Fun fact: At the end of the Return to Ivalice raid series in Final Fantasy XIV, you get an epilogue quest that rewards players with the title, Lord of the Fetch lol

Honestly I don’t think anyone could 100% FFX-2 without the strategy guide. For me that was the hardest game in history to complete!! Talk about an uphill grind while wearing a blindfold!

I had no idea there was a fishing mechanic in ffxii 🤣

To this day, I honestly dislike earning Tidus' Sun Sigil in Final Fantasy X. The rest of the side quests were not that bad they just took a long time. But the sheer randomness of the balloons and the bird placements was aggravating as you can not get hit once and you have to achieve a time of less than 0:00.0. I swear I would rather fight every super boss in Final Fantasy history with my initial equipment than to ever play that mini-game ever again. When it came to Final Fantasy XV, I did not mind the fetch quests. What I disliked was the extra dungeon you had to complete to get the Black Hood accessory for Noctis. I felt like I was in a Van Gogh painting and not in a good way. The dungeon did not logically make any sense and it took forever to complete it. Definitely in agreement over the fishing mini-game in Final Fantasy XII. While the other two badges just took a long time to acquire, this badge I got by pure luck. After a secondary playthrough, I simply decided that the Wrymhero Blade was simply not worth it. You can achieve a high combo rate with the Masamune katana and Genji Gloves alone while your health was low. While this changed in the Zodiac Age, by the time you attained the Wrymhero Blade, the only worthwhile boss you could use it against was Zodiark. The fact that it is less of a status symbol in the Zodiac Age update does not change how exasperating it is to acquire. That being said, I generally enjoy the side-quests in Final Fantasy games as they enrich the characters, lore, and the world. However, like most players, I dislike the sheer randomness of certain side-quests.

I've beaten it multiple times and I didn't know you could fish in FF12.

To not have triple triad on here is a CRIME! 😂😂

Oh, I loved chocobo hot and cold! Guess we're all masochists in one way or another 🤣 Thank goodness for 2X speed in the remaster, though!

The sidequest to get the Sylph summon from FF IV. It was a cave that had almost no useful treasure in it. Then, when you found Yang, you had to go back to the surface, get a pan from his wife (who was never even given a name.) and go all the way back down to wake him up. Once you did all that, the summon you got wasn't even terribly useful. The Hidon sidequest from FF VI. It required you to go through a cave with literally NO useable treasure and appease a bossy treasure chest. You needed 27 pieces of coral, and you needed to feed it to him in one go. It never tells you that you need 27 pieces, which is a very square number. Then, once you did all that, you face Hidon, and there isn't even a guarantee that he'll use Grand Train, the blue magic spell you came down for. Golden chocobo from FF VII. Get a blue or a green chocobo, then get the one you didn't get. Then get a black chocobo. Then level that one up to S level by winning a lot of consecutive games and hope that Mexican guy who can't be beat isn't in any of the races. After a lot of work, you MAY get a gold chocobo so you can get Knights of the Round and break the game wide open.

I love that so many of us enjoyed chocobo hot and cold😂 It was silly, but it was really fun! I liked finding the images on the map, too...it made me very aware of the world map in a way I hadn't been in other games. Though the one that was just ocean did frustrate me initially!

I LOVE the chosen picture for this thumbnail 😂

I liked Chocobo Hot and Cold, when I got to the end of that mini-game/side-quest, I was sad because it was one mechanic of FF9 I liked. However, the Zodiac coins in FF9 were a pain in the tail for me without a guide to tell me where each one was.

I did every Fetch Quest in FF15 multiple times. Why? Well I LOVED them. For me, there was nothing better then driving / flying around in the Regalia, blasting music and doing side quests or hunt monsters. Managing the day / night / weather circles and finding a clever way to combine everything in one swift go was so much fun for me :O

I think with FFXV, the fetch quests weren't as bad as the hunts were before they got a big change. You had to do the hunts one at a time, at specific times, weather, places, and had loooong dungeons you would need to repeat in order to complete them. Thank god they changed it to being able to accept 10 at a time.

I always liked the Chocobo hot and cold minigame. I always look forward to it.

Oh dude, I absolutely loved Chocobo hot/cold. Finding the air garden became much easier with a guide or checking online. Good list overall.

I agree with most of these except for the last one. I personally really enjoyed it playing Final Fantasy XV, both the first release and the Royal edition and I never got annoyed or bored with the fetch quests, because they happened in all the different places of the world meet different parameters to get those things, whether it was fighting enemies or locating things. I guess I'm just a simple man, but I love the side quests in that game.

Just going to say, I absolutely loved Chocobo Hot & Cold! Once you understand how it works, it was really easy to get a lot of good gear (particularly phoenix pinions for me). I agree though, some of those chocographs would only ever be found by someone with lots of time on their hands...

Chocobo hot and cold was PAIN! glad the digital edition made it more bearable with the speed adapter

Not sure if it counts as a “side quest” but having to escape from 254 battles to power up the Chicken Knife was a small mission. (FFV)

I’m real happy to see everyone loving Chocobo Hot & Cold! 🥰 I really loved that game, and especially the photo hunt!

actually didnt mind the grind for capuring 10 of every species in FFX since i was doing it level up all of my characters fill out their sphere grids.

I actually didn't/don't mind the fetch quests in FFXV. As a matter of fact, i'm currently on my fourth playthrough, Second NG+ & If anything, i always looked forward to the different snapshots that Prompto gives me after resting for the day. 😅

For me, it’s gotta be the jump rope in 9, followed by thunder dodging in 10.

I had suppressed the memory of the FF12 fishing game, thanks for unearthing that trauma 🤣 The first time I beat the game, I missed it entirely. But yeah, that was frustrating.

For me, Blitzball, the forced match has actually stopped me from playing through FFX again just because I know the annoyance is coming. I hate forced minigames so much.

I didn't even know you COULD fish in FF12!! No guide I ever read has mentioned it.

In my point of view no quest is worse than collecting invisible frogs in FF15.

While in FF10, collecting 10 of each monster is cumbersome (though much better w/ the speedups in Remaster versions), the Monster Arena is a blast. You finally get to really use the entire battle mechanics. It's even more fun without a guide as it challenges your knowledge of the system and some fights become really creative (and difficult)!

I love Chocobo Hot & Cold. Find it way better than the breeding in VII. Yes, it can take time. Though seeing as it can net you some of the best gear in the game it's well worth it.

Masked Canrivale isn't that annoying in and of itself. As long as you have learned all of the spells it acts more as a puzzle type of game than anything, and most of the puzzles go by relatively quickly, which prevents them from going stale Noteworthy though is that I said "as long as you have learned all the spells". THAT is the annoying part to Blue Mage Leveling as BLU is hard and dull, forcing you to either have 3 other friends who want to level it up or having to do it while grinding overworld mobs or fates. And boy does it get pretty dull pretty fast. Not to mention a lot of spells are located in dungeons or bosses, meaning you nees 3 or 7 other people willing to help you learn that spell in the first place There is also one more thing BLU has that is even worse than the Masked Carnivale. The log It tasks you with clearing content with a full party of BLU, synched (so no level advantage) and echo off (so no power boost if you die) and it includes the hardest content in the game like savage raids That is, in my opinion, the most annoying sidequest relating to BLU.

I love that the entirety of fetch quests in XV was it's own section.

Chocobo H & C was a pretty well balanced mini game. One of the best sidequests in FF series, if not the best. Plus you really bond with your Chocobo and you have the feeling of living an adventure inside an adventure. It's easily one of the many reasons I still replay FF IX since nearly 22 years. Lots of fun!

I really hate how literally my entire quest log in FFXV is filled with worthless quests that are far below my level.

I absolutely love Chocobo Hot and Cold and discovering the Air Garden as a kid just blew me away. Bone Village was always another favorite of mine cause I loved treasure hunting. As for the Masked Carnivale, it's super painful with lag. >_>

I think it was the fact the the main story in FFXV would take you around 25 hours give or take but then all the side quests made it upwards of a 100+ that really killed the game for me, let alone that nearly every last side quest felt monotonous to some degree.

The masked carvinal doesn't exactly keep the strengths and weaknesses of the mobs themselves hidden, its all on a panel on the left before you even click commence. The fully arena in use as well as the mobs in question are shown for each act. Anything from what debuffs work and don't work, their elemental weakness if they have one, their level of health, and so on. Even every single special variation, like interupting only using certain spells and such are listed under bonus details. The only really annoying part of it, is the enfeeble me tenderer bonus. And even that you don't deal with that often, the rest you can pretty much just hit moonflute nightbloom to take half or more of their health.

The pitious ruins was simply wonderful bit of side content that needs more attention. No ps trophy. And even the accessory at the end really isn't that good. That platform/puzzle was really well designed and no one ever talks about it.

To be honest, if they want to add fetch quest, at least have some story in it

The final chocobo race in FFX, absolute goddamn nightmare 😡

Having to play the game with a guide at your side sucks the fun and spontaneity out of the game. For me, I try to just get to the end without really knowing what I SHOULD do, and using a guide when I am stuck. Collecting all 108 characters or trying for the best ending is for gluttons for punishment, or 2nd playthroughs.

I thoroughly enjoyed Chocobo Hot & Cold. I've done it on every FFIX playthrough.

I can't believe you'd pick FFXII fishing over FFXI. You can't call yourself a Final Fantasy fan until you've caught 10,000 moat carp!

I don't know, the whole fishing questline to get the "of dragons deep" title in XIV is really bad with how RNG fishing is in XIV. It's a lvl 50 quest and even with lvl 80 gear it sill takes a lot of patience and luck.

Interesting to see a clip from HCBailly featured in this episode. Glad to see more people appreciating his work!

Chocobo Hot N Cold was my childhood, it was one of my favorite mini games in the series

I didn't mind the fetch quests in XV so much. Finishing them usually involved playing the game the way I was inclined to already, and the rewards were worthwhile. It was only when I started trying to track down all the rescue missions that I felt I'd fallen too far down the sidequest hole.

WHAT? how can you call chocobo hot and cold annoying? that side quest was fun as hell At least it provided you with countless treasures during the side quest, as opposed to others on this list where you spent forever in a sidequest just to get 1 item

I... Gotta disagree with Masked Carnivale on this list. The strengths and weaknesses are literally the FIRST thing you see before you even start the quest. And the amount of strategy that goes into each fight is no different from Extreme/Savage/Ultimate trials in the game. Guides make it easier of course, but by no means are they required.

lol that FFX platinum.

People forget the queen of cards side quest in FF8.

Annoying is such a subjective term. I find escort quests much more annoying than fetch quests. Specially the ones where you have to lead instead of actually escort.

FF 12 had fishing? LOlz, I totally missed that. After what I heard here, not ready to look it up. XD Good video, thx guys.

The worst side quest would easily have to be Queen of Cards in FF8.

Loved the clip of Dust: an Elysian Tale at the start! I enjoyed Chocobo Hot and Cold as a mini game, but the full sidequest is annoying.

Isn’t it crazy how the challenge of so many mini games is their absolutely terrible controls? Looking at you FFX chocoho racing

Honestly don't know why masked carnival is even on there, it was genuinely fun and you get literally all the information you need up front except for the enemy attack patterns, which, outside of some unique bosses, share attacks and patterns with various monsters from previous dungeons and overworld areas.

I think the "collect" quests were even worse than the fetch quests in FFXV. You had to look in specific areas for the tiniest items on the ground that barely had any visual indicator they were there. I remember spending at least 20 minutes scrounging around the same patch of forest because some hunter asked me to disarm traps he set up or something. These traps were hidden in tall grass, behind rocks, even in the open, but without any visual indicator in game to look for, you're literally just walking around until you stumble into a trap and get the prompt to disable it. Additionally, 20 minutes in real time equate to multiple night cycles in game, meaning reduced visibility (flashlight) and fending off trash mob spawns until daybreak. I loved FFXV, but some of those side quests? Hooo boy...

Surprised that Totomostro, from XV didn't get a mention! I spent a LONG 3 months, yes, MONTHS. Trying to win everything from the arena.. 😘

In a game called pso you have a quest counter where you take certain quests from. Once you complete a quest you can't do it again until you complete every single quest. Well in some of those quests there are some certain people that if you say certain things to there is a secret quest in-between these quests that can help you unlock a very important feature of the game. The only issue is the game came out on dreamcast in early 2000 when the internet wasnt as big as it is today so little people knew about this. The only way I did figure it out was by reading one of those very old cheat code books you used to find in public libraries or school libraries.

You are the authority on all things final fantasy in my mind, keep it up!

Dodging 200 lightning bolts in a row or that one Chocobo rage designed by Satan himself? Which one is the most obnoxious ever?

0:24 - A most gentlemanly opening

I played through Final Fantasy 12 three different times and each time I played through I don't remember ever once coming across a fishing place... I need to go back and play this game a fourth time now just so I can see this fishing hole I had no idea that fishing was in the game

I FOUND THE OCEAN CHOCOGRAPH WITHOUT A GUIDE!!! I'm proud of myself.

I never thought that chocobo hot and cold to be annoying. Finding the treasures was easy too. The one that shows ocean only is a bit tricky, but i remember I solved it as a kid just by going around the world map and think for a second. Was so satisfying when i finished all without a quest. What a good ol day

I did not expect to see one of my runs pop up when watching this video xD

FFX, Dodge 200 lightening strikes. I can barely dodge a single strike, let a lone 200 of them

should have included the FFXIV optional fishing quest for the 7 legendary fish, actually painful to finish with some windows to catch them appearing once in a REAL WEEK

Monster Capture from FFX was a fun minigame, because I just LOVED the CTB battle system. Couple that with effects like Stone/Death-strike, and you could get 10 of practically all fiends in Spira in a day. Personally Stonestrike was better, since Deathstrike still needed luck, and more enemies were weak to Petrify.

I feel that, "Every sidequest in FFXI" would have been a very accurate alternate answer.

I didn't even know there was a fishing minigame in FF12.

Am I the only one that noticed the huge Legend of Zelda Easter egg in Final Fantasy 12 with the fishing game? The handle of the sword that you receive really awkwardly resembles The Loft Wing design from The Legend of Zelda.... part of getting this sword requires you to do fishing something that has been very prevalent in the Zelda series which in turn you need to collect five empty bottles... and also in The Legend of Zelda one of the bottles you were able to obtain came from a fisherman.... I can't be the only one that has thought this or at least even noticed it

Most of the side quests felt more exhausting rather than annoying. What's irritating while doing side quests are the inconveniences such as monster encounters impeding your task completion and travelling, then remembering you forgot something and have to back track to retrieve it.

Personally, the fitch quests in FFXV wasn't annoying to me. Yeah, it was getting a bit repetitive and tiring lol but I was never annoyed by them. Idk, I think it has something to do with me enjoying FFXV's open world and the BG music. I was so embraced by it, I kinda got detracted lol I don't know if this counts as a "side quest," but those damn fishing mini games were annoying, I can tell ya that much. Also, I've said this before, but as much as I love Final Fantasy X, I didn't enjoy ANY of the side quests! Not a SINGLE one! I got my ass kicked on every single one and I wasn't having fun. Although at the same time, I would rather suffer through Final Fantasy X's side quests than a single one from FFX-2. I hated EVERYTHING about that game lol and the side quests were no exception. Great video you guys! GOOD JOB! 😁👍

Traversal in XV was sooo TEDIOUS. Omg the loading took forever ok fast travel and even then you’d need to use your car to get to other areas which took forever and it wasn’t clear where anything is. Huge example of a game being big for the sake of being big without worthwhile content to flesh it out

Blue Mages in FF14? Compared to literally any other side quest in FF14? Have you even done any of the side quests in Stormblood? Blue Mage is one of the most fun things in FF14, putting it on the list is definitely a smooth brain take.

Anything related to Clasko in X-2 is a nightmare

the best memories of my childhood are playing Chocobo Hot and Cold. I loved to hang out on the map and search for the places

Didnt even know you could dig up bahumet zero I just always got all the huge materia

I just did the ff12 fishing quest two weeks ago and I didn't think it was bad. It was obscure though and would be really difficult without a guide!

I would rather do fetch quests than be at the mercy of Randomness.

I’ve never heard of someone having a problem with Chocobo hot and cold.

I always hated those side quests in 15 where you had to find the frogs. Talk about needles in a haystack

Chocobo Hot and Cold is one of the best minigames in gaming.

Chocobo Hot and Cold was my favorite thing about FF9.

I didnt mind the fetch quest from 15, maybe because they were spread out between chapters

the wyrmhero sword thanks to the matamune fishing sidequest is the only item in all final fantasy games that ive played, that i was never able to get, because the time to enter all the codes before they left the screen was simply too fast and too short. my eye-hand coordination at this point was not on par anymore with the speed the game wanted me to handle. and that comes from someone who did the 1000 jumps in ff9 3 times while being drunk to blink less and get tunnel gaze. i am SO MAD about that they chose code entering as a minigame with that speed for one of the rarest weapons in 12 which is my second favorite ff title game.

It’s scandalous the Queen of Cards quest from FF8 is not on this list. By far the most frustrating side quest of any FF!

6 & 7 - How is that any different than the EXP / Item Grind you normally have to do in RPGs.

I actually completed all of ffxv's side quest, it took me 100+ of hours.

You mention publicity quest in X-2 and you don't mention Shinra side quest? Forget Shinra. Unlocking Major Numerus is bigger pain in the ass than unlocking Nemesis.

For me one of the most annoying things I tried to do in ff15 was trying to catch all the fish in the Saxham Reservoir. I still get triggered thinking about that lol and I loved the fishing in ff15 and still hated that place. When I finally left I wanted nothing more than to drop a meteor on top of that lake.

I beat FFXII and am just now learning that it had a fishing minigame in it. Lol.

The most annoying sidequest for me on ffxv will be always pitioss ruins, i've finished almost the entire game content, except this one, it have an amazing design, but is truly nightmare

God, I hated the fetch quests so much in FFXV, but the ones I hated were the ones from Dino. Idk, maybe it was the constant driving back in worth, the constant jumping every time I tried to pick up the items, or maybe it was Dino's horrible "bada bing, bada boom!" stere*type dialect. The quests were just horrible.

Gonna be honest, I never had an issue with the Bone village quest, I never found it took long either.

If we're talking X-2, nothing is more annoying than the comm sphere quest