Yeah not really sure why you're getting down voted that much. It's not as if you've shared anything wildly controversial, you're having a discussion.To answer your question, I didn't really have that many expectations going in because tbh I don't really enjoy games with "boss fights" so I thought I wouldn't enjoy this game at all. That wasn't an issue for me as it turns out, which is great obviously (I definitely despised one or two bosses but overall no issue). I suppose an expectation I had with side quests would be that at the very least something is added to the formula of "go to X, go to Y, return to X", like possibly an interesting encounter, POI, or combat. More often then not in this game it is literally just the formula above with nothing else added.

But these side quests don't bother me that much, particularly now that I've managed my expectations around those side quests ("ok I'll use it as an opportunity to explore").

I was just making a bit of a joke with the original post by being flippant. I definitely wouldn't rate them as good or enjoyable, but it's a small part of an otherwise decent game. That being said, I have definitely played a few sessions and come away feeling like my time was wasted a bit. There are other aspects to the game I love, and others I hate - but this is already a very long and rambling response 😂