I have fond memories of getting in the teeth with a rare monster that was too powerful for me – but I came back 30 hours later and sprayed it into atoms. I found myself seriously into the side quests, where the mediocre tasks were diluted with cut scenes that many games would have reserved for the main plot.
In my favorite quest, I need to help a giant pig-like orc find the only person who was kind to him. And at some point I had to get a schnitzel so that the orc could cut down the tree, and I – to return to the main plot.
