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* In ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'' and ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'', you are frequently tasked with doing silly side missions, oftentimes to get NPCs out of debt. If you are someone who spends a lot of time roaming the [[Wide Open Sandbox]], you can easily have enough money to settle these debts for your friend without jumping through the hoops, but this is not an option.
** Many Grand Theft Auto games are like this. In ''San Andreas'' your beloved Grove Street is overrun by drug dealers, smackheads and people who personally hate you. But hey, let's go race cars and dance!
* ''[[Nie RNieR]]'' lampshades this quite thoroughly. [[Deadpan Snarker|Weiss]] often complains about the inanity of some of the sidequests you take on, while Nier claims he's grateful for whatever work he can find. In the latter half of the game, Nier's actually become somewhat famous for this, and a few NPC questgivers will greet you with something along the lines of "Hey, you're that guy who'll do anything for money, no matter how demeaning! Find my boyfriend for me!"
* Used a lot in ''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]]'', to the point where resident team [[Jerkass]] Gig openly lampshades it. {{spoiler|Then completely and utterly subverted with [[The Reveal]] that every single one of these sidequests was set up by World Eater Raksha in order to remove any obstacles that would prevent him from taking over the world}}.
* There are several in ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'', but they tend to pay well and so usually worth doing in a game built on [[Anti-Grinding]] and [[An Entrepreneur Is You|anti-gold farming]].