A refreshingly innovative mechanic, indeed each playthrough articulates the game with a completely different set of notorious bad guys. Upon its release, Shadow of Mordor was lauded by critics for its Nemesis combat system (known in-game as Sauron’s Army), which randomly generates unique enemies. Quest lists have been pulled from various guides, walkthroughs and wikis, loaded into excel and counted.
For example, not all 120 shrines in Breath of the Wild count as quests, but the 42 “shrine quests” noted in the adventure log certainly do. We are not counting MMORPGs and have only included one entry per franchise.įurthermore, several games mentioned here feature lengthy objectives that, while they are a significant time investment and do represent tasks that often comprise traditional quests, are not recorded in this fashion and are therefore not included. Editor’s note: For this article, a “quest” is defined as a mission listed in a quest log.
