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'''RGN''': Look, I hate to disappoint you all, but I don't actually have any form of legal training.|RGN is [[Genre Blind]] after being asked to be a defense lawyer in ''[http://hawk.kotorfanmedia.com/node/1771 Yet Another KotOR Parody]''.}}
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Everyone, but everyone, whom you meet in the game has some kind of task they want you to perform. Very often this has nothing to do with your official job; you may have gained fame as a slayer of monsters and bandits, yet people will be asking you to sort out their marital disputes or fix machinery. It's not quite the same thing as [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]], as they may well have a healthy respect for you - in fact, that's often why they've sought you out in the first place. If you're lucky you'll receive a rare item or a monetary reward, but sometimes all you get is a warm fuzzy feeling and [[Karma Meter|karma points]].
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*** The gene therapy couple get a [[Take That Us]] in the sequel in incidental dialogue. She's still worried.
{{quote|'''Man:''' Maybe we should ask random people on the street what they think?}}
*** The sequel has probably the most irrelevant irrelevant sidequest ever: finding out if there are fish in the Presidium lake. That's it. True, nobody actually ''asks'' Shepard to do this, but they still seem to find settling what amounts to two tourists arguing to be a worthy use of their "preparing to save humanity" time anyway.<ref>Note that, while this quest seems completely irrelevant, if you do it right, it's less a sidequest and more "While I was there, I happened to find out X". Shepard is, in fact, going all over the Zakera Wards, trying to prepare for his/her mission, and while in a bar on an unrelated side-trip, s/he runs into the person that happens to know the answer.</ref>
* Have you ever wanted to find a banana, cure recurring nightmares, take a picture of snow, or give unsolicited weight loss advice? Well, then ''[[Mega Man Star Force]] 2'' is the game for you!
** ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]]'' was only slightly better because it had a valid reason for them to be given to the PC (he accepted them via a job board)
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* Taken to ridiculous extents in ''Sacred'' and ''Sacred 2''. One moment you're crawling through fetid sewers, fighting off thieves, cultists, undead, dragons and gods know what else, another you're approached by a tearful girl asking you to help find her pet bunny.
* ''<nowiki>[[Star Ocean: Till the End of Time]]</nowiki>'' is notable in that the entire middle half of the game is one of these.
* Mostly averted in ''[[The Witcher]]''. Geralt is a professional monster-slayer and he can take out lots of contracts in each chapter of the game, though ultimately these amount to [[Fetch Quest
* The main character of the ''[[Ryu ga Gotoku|Yakuza]]'' games is extremely community minded, which seems to be a open invitation to provide him with ridiculous requests for help. "Please, you have to stop my corrupt boss by becoming a male escort!", "Please, you must run my Hostess Bar while I go to see my sick mother!".
* Justified in the ''[[Ultima]]'' games, from IV onward, where your character is explicitly a role-model for the population and helping people out boosts the [[Karma Meter]]. In VII, Lord British encourages you to mingle with the citizens and solve their sidequests.
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