I'll add myself to the list of people who are annoyed with escort missions. I played a ton of World of Warcraft, and escort missions made me want to gouge my eyes out. The person who you'd be escorting would always run away to go fight a mob who is nowhere in your line of sight, they'll always almost die, and then move along like nothing happened, to the NEXT mob... And so forth. Of course, if something goes awry, you get to do it all over again. Yum.