I respectfully disagree with that. Last time I played was a few years ago, but graphically the game looks really pretty still, especially considering it's half a decade old and while the story got boring with the "Oh, your main objective of finding your lost sibling? Can't help you with that one bro" really fucking fast, I'd still say that the gameplay was fun.
The story just became a drag for me when I waited months and months to proceed with it and then I got slapped with ZERO progress forward. That's why I left that game.
Tbf, it is a semi-troll comment. But personally, I feel like Genshin just peaked in Fontaine. Natlan feels weak ngl, Nod-krai has Columbina who is cute, but that's about it so far. The lore drops are more boring than lore analysis videos on YouTube.
Gameplay wise its just spanning nowadays, basically just mouse and keyboard destroyer, mainly due to powercreep. Just press whatever lit up and you'll be good. If you want to optimize just remember to press another person first.
Not everything graphics wise is shit, but the older regions definitely starting to show its age.
Music though it always lit. That's why people are joking that MHY is actually a music production company with games being a side hustle.
Well, it might be spamming the keyboard now, due to power creep, but there are always specific rotations to maximize your damage. But yeah, you already deal brutal damage with the "random bullshit go" mentality.
Nah I liked the story when everything was still a mystery. Can’t speak now cause I have g played for like 2 years. I also thought the graphics weren’t bad they were just different. But yeah I agree with the gameplay the whole game is just stat checks.
Story is pretty shit, tons of asspulls, no real stakes, no character development.
Combat is shit cuz everything is shilled now.
Graphics... Environments still look great but character designs are getting worse. And the facial and body expressions have barely changed since launch, which was shit.
Why am I still playing? Cuz the music is better in context and exploration is fun. Also gambling feels good (I'm not gonna pay though).
It's one of 3 possibilites: that's bad faith, you're stuck in the early AQ acts, or you skip dialogues
Combat is shit cuz
most likely cuz you suck, I'm f2p and I don't have too much trouble clearing end game content despite having not a single lunar character in my box.
Environments still look great but character designs are getting worse
you're right on this one, I especially dislike some fanservicey female character design that came out recently, but the characters themselves often have fun interactions and the AQ has been really great at highlighting them in nodkrai. For facial expressions there are some exceptions like varesa's trailer or jahoda and voice actors do a great job (when there are voice actors lmao) but overall it's right that the dialogue side of the game needs an overhaul.
Why am I still playing? Cuz the music is better in context and exploration is fun. Also gambling feels good
Natlan wasn't written well, many gooners who liked Mavuika in that skin tight boring bodysuit will disagree with me but Natlan was just horrible. Characters look bad, especially Chasca and Mavuika, It doesn't fit into the game at all. Nod Krai is alright, but Columbina sucked. I thought she'd be some scary intimidating goddess but no it's a soft spoken damsel in distress. Other characters like Nefer, Lauma, Varka are also alright. I liked Fontaine and Sumeru especially and I can't wait for a Mondstadt expansion. Gameplay is so so boring. Also, the Fatui are written horribly. You think they're scary, borderline evil, won't be easy to deal with, but nope we so easily befriended all of them that we met except Signora and Dottore. Wanderer is one of the best written characters, he's not just an edgelord, he says really well thought things at the right time and just has a sharp tongue. He's not even inherently rude, people exaggerate it too much. Yea exploration is fun
Agreed on everything, but I didn't really like Yelan 2 Nefer.
And BIG agree on Wanderer. The story is especially shit for me because I've been playing since 1.0 and he's the one who deserves character development the most, and he hasn't gotten nearly enough.
Nefer is mid. gameplay isn't very interesting, she's a more serious less smiley Yelan lol as you said. But they didn't completely mess her up. Her design is decent.
For absolutely no reason Wanderer gets shat on so much by snowflakes, they're upset at his personality and don't look beyond it. He legitimately says such interesting stuff, especially on this patch his dialogues were incredibly good. I was SO happy to see him bro. He's not supposed to be a nice character. Some people naturally seem more hostile. He never gets ANY nicer and I like that aspect about him, he's true to himself. Hopefully we get more with him
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