As a staff member's re-tweet said -- Giant Bomb has turned browsing the web into a video game. Bravo, good sirs. Bravo. I can't think of a more fitting place for such an incarnation. I must say, I am rather enjoying this questing thing. And while I do agree somewhat with the local curmudgeons in that perhaps the broken parts of the site should be fixed before new features are added, I'm totally giving a pass this time.
 
I reached level 12 once the S-Rank quests registered, although I'm not sure what accolades exactly level 12 grants me. Being a die hard RPG aficionado, I do take great pride in completing the amazingly difficult Monster Mash quest. I have to say in my own defense, that the description was rather deceptive. Cliches in RPGs would most certainly include monsters that were not on the list -- most notably, undead -- and some things on the list were not cliches in the least, at least not in the last 20 years of gaming. They may have been cliches in the pen and paper world of 2nd generation D&D, but no longer. Still, now that I have completed it, I feel I can retain my RPG credentials with some modicum of dignity.

I do have many quests yet to complete, and some of them have me absolutely baffled, even with the deluge of hints in the forums. As it turns out, it seems I'm not very good at riddles. More's the pity. I do still need some of the more mundane quests as well, like posting and blogging. Yet as much as I like seeing the little XP bar fill up and the number beside it increase, I refuse the urge to post rubbish just to do so. Those will come in good time.

In the meantime, I think I might have some ideas for future quests that I'd like to flush out, particularly in the RPG arena. I'll continue to churn on those as I quest. Given history, I fully expect Giant Bomb to open up for quest submissions in the future. I hope to make Dave proud.

Not good at riddles?  After all that RPG experience? :)  
 
I went to the forums for clues for a few of them, I have to admit, and I did wind up doing mindless hits everywhere until I found some of them.  
 
Maybe levels will allow for badges or something, at least.  Some day.  We get levels next to our name now--  I guess that shows our chops, if nothing else.
 
I heard about a college professor somewhere discussed during GDC that had changed his grading system to be XP instead of letter grades, and people got better grades on average.  Maybe it was just the novelty, but it's nice to think you're incrementally working toward something, rather than shooting for a single grade at the end.