I paid $39.99 for a strategy guide from Prima and there are a lot of quests that say go here and talk to such and such. Well when I do, nothing happens. The guide says "unmarked quest" should start with such and such asking you to do something and that never happens. The PC just goes...Hey. Hey. Hey anytime you try and talk to them. And they simply walk off.

Now this was at Thicket Excavations. and getting irritated I went up to Tenpine Bluffs to do that quest for "The First Step". It says "Talk to the Settlers." Tried that and absolutely nothing happened. I mean it was like I was talking to a wall. Getting sorely frustrated with some of these quests simply not working and yes I thought maybe I was overlooking one, so I literally traveled all over that area and only saw 2 Settlers and nothing else, save some rabid dogs.

Are most of the side quests like this?

Well, first off, Prima has been known to get things wrong especially with unmarked quests. The basic problems is that they have to start writing their guides while the game is still being developed in order for them to publish in time for release.

As for the marked quests, do you have the prerequisites for them? Question, were you told in game to go to Tenpines Bluff or did you just go on your own?

I was told to go there and "talk to the settlers" and all they do is "hey" "hey" "hows it going" and then they reply something about farming but no quests at all.