Genshin Impact is getting worse. Random pulls, team metas, Adventure Ranks, these all contribute to a bigger issue. And no amount of guides, free primogems, and ideal team comps will solve the flaws in the game.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:53 Characters
3:23 Difficulty
8:28 Artifacts
12:42 Scaling
17:06 Timed Events
19:35 small things
21:44 Wrap-up
22:27 Outro
Some footage from:
老泡来了 (Hu Tao 4mil damage: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV12q4y147cx)
SourGrips (Venti meets La Signora: https://youtu.be/iJPLaxdHbI8)
Xeno Archive (Zhongli gives his gnosis: https://youtu.be/o3igbXgst1w)
CGInferno (Yae gave up Ei’s gnosis: https://youtu.be/dZb-0KSzKbk)
akron (AR 55: https://youtu.be/7H8lcS4Orlg)
Tenha (Childe Oneshot: https://youtu.be/x4DXOVqa_lk)
LyurGG (Thoma Execution: https://youtu.be/nnezQamegYo)
Faiz Aqil (Inazuma War Cutscene: https://youtu.be/s9Pjw00zUZw)
GratisStatus (Lvl 1 Yanfei doing damage: https://youtu.be/urvzkJgBTms)
小忍小忍创可贴 (AR 60: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Bq4y1N7ko)
Ariobot Gaming (Unreconciled Stars cutscenes: https://youtu.be/XySRYqfT_cY)
ThisisHori (Albedo Event cutscenes: https://youtu.be/G5s8p_s0LrI)
noumenon (Windblume cutscenes: https://youtu.be/AvOtjeh1C0Q)
WoW Quests (Floral Courtyard gameplay: https://youtu.be/V5dik4lAIQo)
(Flameplume Starflowers gameplay: https://youtu.be/_vcnt7cqH6k)
Streetwise Rhapsody (Meeting Scaramouche in Inazuma: https://youtu.be/YfFwH6T9v-M)
Transparent Character Renders from: DEG5270 (https://www.deviantart.com/deg5270)
Music Used:
Virbank City – Pokemon Black 2 & White 2
Let’s Go Crimson Knight! – Genshin Impact
National Park – Remix by Mewmore (https://youtu.be/8Y5kaNbVgeo)
Humilau City – Pokemon Black 2 & White 2
Driftveil City – Pokemon Black & White
Accumula Town – Pokemon Black & White
Slumbering Weald – Pokemon Sword & Shield
Samurai’s Sorrow – Genshin Impact
(I like Pokemon music, what can I say?)
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"I don't have a Patreon. Or subscribers."
This actually surprised me, because the video was so good I thought surely you must be a long time content creator, and so it became the most convincing "plz sub" message ever on a video. I'm in!
Everything is mostly valid save for the 4 vs 5 star issue. I don't see the star rating as necessarily an indication of power but rather an e-peen extending banner (sic) to wave. I remember people getting salty that I managed to get Klee on my first or second roll for her Banner. Apart from the "explosion loli" novelty, I didn't regard her as more powerful or valuable than my favorite dommy mommy witch Lisa.
Really, the only reason I'd have to even go after 5-star characters is to flex on people or because I thought the particular 5-star character looked cool. Maybe if there were 1, 2 and 3-star characters that might be an issue if said characters had varying power levels but everything is just 4 and 5 stars and the power difference (if any) between them is too negligible for me to consider when putting a team together.
What killed Genshin for me was…Inuzuma….god the whole area was boring even with the Japanese themes incorporated into it. The puzzles were uninspiring, the mobs were complete ass (if you didn't have the meta chars) and overall the story was….just…lacking. then the events were just as horrible.
The constant need for stamina as we get more areas to traverse makes it all the worst. It wasn't so bad in Monstat and Lyuie but it shows its age really quick in Inuzuma.
I just want Keqing and Sayu. I've played the game since day one and still haven't gotten her.
Keep on coming and going since I can't even play who I wanna. I know it's a gacha so they gotta make money but it's so frustrating never being able to play a character you really wanna play.
for a company grossing billions over a single game, some people even thought violation of ToS would always be a bad thing, saying "if you don't like it, don't play it", which people are now doing it for real. they even took down private servers in the name of intellectual property, rather than thinking why all those would happen at all.
historically, gacha games failed for ignorance of players' opinions thus the loss of plentiful players.
to me the most annoying part of everything is the god damn artifact grind. Shit is so ridiculously crazy that each sub stats is a fucking RNG on its own.. how fucking crazy you gotta be to have all the stats that you want. You need well over 1k hours just to get a good set for maybe 1 character if you're lucky. I've played this game long enough to say that the best stat roll that I got are the flower and the feather parts.. the other 3 are so mixed it's almost impossible to get the one I want.
The material grind is whatever and I can accept that but the artifact is killing me softly.
I'm already smiling on how you addresses problem in Genshin with a great humour but burst out laughing when the Sumeru map has been revealed: 20:33
bro literally the whole game is gacha I mean at least give us some good artifacts bro been doingthe same shit over and over again and getting over 100 crit goblet with def subs like bro at least give me that substats when Im farming for itto's artifacts not fuckin xiao or whoever it is that does not use def….. i mean i love genshin when my day's luck is just so good that they gave me good artifacts and also y the limit on ressins bro.. since we cant get our shit give us more resins so we can get a artifact bro…….so basically every time yall wanna do ur shit in genshin go to the narukami do draw the whatever fortune slip only u farm ur stum if not just spent ur day farming ley lines lmao i find it pretty useful… oh and err the fortune slip is also a cap lmao its just my ritual but hey it work lmao…….but plz make the game interesting for the higher ArR players… like let use farm more artifacts so we can build our new character faster and build another character like….. ist building a op character fun? minus the material farming and also the shitty artifact system bro…..
The reason why Genshins scaling difficulty is a mess because well…. From what I can tell after playing the game for veeeeeeery long time, one thing I wana say Genshin is a very tool dependent game on power increase. Either you have Godly S tier Luck or (not = throw in some money) to get better items (rng artifact stats/gacha) in order to get stronger or else get fucked up especially in spiral abyss. Sorry to say, it all relies on your tools rather than your skill as a player to make an 'impact' in the difficulty. It all really boils down to BIGE DMG PP NUMBERS
Not just gi even hi3 is now becoming stale. And the devs were openly admitting to it. I think there's a infighting going on in the company.
Mihoyo is over expanding with multiple titles and it seems like one dev from hi3 even protested about their current game not getting supported by upper management. Lets see if 6.0 patch of hi3 doesnt have a big change and with WW coming soon i think mihoyo is going to have a big problem.
Difficulty wise you just have to have the 4* units that have been here since launch, and the game is very much clearable.
I like how YT randomly recommended this video and now it has 380k more views than everything else 😀
The video itself pretty much addresses all my issues with Genshin and sadly HOYO are too incompetent to see and fix problems or just don't care at all. They'd rather spend money on 9999 promotions everywhere instead of fixing problems like some characters toolkit not making any sense(hello Xinyan), artifact RNG being waaay too much or newer people never being able to experience storylines from events. My only hope is that one day there will be a good competition stealing whales and hitting their pockets hard enough to make they do something at all.
For at least half the video you can tackle these problems by using the 4* characters and building them correctly, and they have proven that they are very strong and will remain that strong, because what’s being powercrept is not strictly the stats(C6 5*s not considered) but the strategy and style of gameplay.
Not to mention you don’t have to pull for every character, make your roster of characters stronger by concentrating more resources onto a select few (10 or so over a period of time)
This video sadly just shows a lack of game knowledge and resin management. But I do have to say new players have it rough if they pulled a character with materials that they can’t farm for.
So first things first, i REALLY liked how your video went Kazoo, it was really fun and engaging to watch through, really really nice u earned yourself a sub and a like 😀
And I think that i must agree with all of that bcs i am a new player myself and i felt how difficulty went in a way that I would just do some bosses with a friend's help and only with his help I was able to grow in strength… but I felt the issue of like, i should've been able to do it by my own since the multiplayer aspect of Genshin isnt compelling as a multiplayer is supposed to be. And it kinda sucks bcs I really wanted the story to go all the way to Snezhnaya but i feel like a lot of players will simply not play anymore bcs a new/better version of a genshin-like will pop in ~cof tower of cof fantasy cof~ and that will be it. I dunno i wish that there were something we could do to "save" genshin 😓
I am in 100% agreement with this entire video and ive been playing since the game started and still play it but now im just logging in and doing dailies and timed events cause I know ill miss out i have not even done the latest archon quest just cause i wanna have something to do later when new areas come out and i dont forget everything.
The thing people need to keep in mind is that in China, there is rarely enough time for young people to play video games. In this case, Genshin impact seems like the perfect example of a “side game” where you spend 30 minutes a day doing commissions/ resin.
Another claim with characters, it's becoming waifu bait that they turn out mediocre till you have to unlock their skills on getting dupes of them. Even they turn out well, the gameplay barely changes.
Gotta say, I agree with the events bit. As someone that took a break during 1.1-1.3, I’ve never experienced meeting big hat mofo til I went to Inazuma or obtained Festering Desire. A friend of mine had to tell me we met him sooner in an earlier event and I’m just like HUH?? And Festering Desire … Granted I prolly wouldn’t use it now, but it’s like not having Dodoco Tales or the Sea Lord and it peeves me that I missed out on that weapon.
K done, have a nice day~.
20:12 "not enough hot men"
…I've never cheered so much from a sentence in a YouTube video before. I'll back this line up with everything I have
And my brother only started playing Genshin a few days ago so he have Shinobu but he cant level her past 40 because of the Naku weed being in Inazuma, and if he wants Yoimiya or Kazuha in the upcoming banner he also cant level them up unless he speedrun the main story which defeats the purpose of enjoying the game at your own pace.
But I mainly stay for the men, if this game doesn't have all these beautiful male characters I'd have quite long ago
I kinda think that more complex 4 piece bonusses (?) are ok since they only come up once you have quite a bit of playtime and your committed enough that you are willing to spend your time trying to understand them
I've capped myself at level 45 so that I can just have fun playing the damn game.
Artifacts farm the worst gearing from other games that i know thw subs and the RNG hell
ok,but.. someone appreciate the beautiful graphics and storyline and how much effort they put into this game. like, the characters, the plot, even freaking artifacts and bosses have a backstory- and weapons! the worldbuilding is amazing! so let’s just appreciate for now that we played genshin impact because it was fun. maybe it’s not anymore for some people, but they started because it was fun.
To keep people on they just need to add to the core gameplay loop rather than make the world bigger
I think the little issue about genshin is: that it's an RPG game, if we try to mod it like Minecraft there gonna be a lot of problems, and I know, the game was created 2 years ago and we got only 3 regions but maybe we have to wait until the other areas are available but, Hoyoverse/Mihoyo use a lot of events(good or bad) for let us play in every version of the game. I love genshin, it's a very good game.
Man addressed all issues and made an entertaining video. 🤯
I have to admit, as a new player of a few weeks now, the idea that there are extremely significant story bits that I'll ostensibly never get to experience because they were part of a timed event makes me want to quit
Uninstalled at AR59 before the chasm even came out.
best decision of my fucking life, they STILL have not added any repeatable endgame content with meaningful rewards.
Game is resin choked and shits on new AND old players.
All they want is to sell you 5* characters with 0 effort put into the endgame OR early game.
Fuck em, fuck mihoyo not enough assassination attempts yet.
Yeah I can't even understand artifacts so I have my friend pick and choose them for me while I farm. Also I was sooo confused when scaramouche showed up in inazuma because I had no idea who he was I thought he was a brand new villain. I hope mihoyo will start listening to their players eventually because genshin is starting to feel a little bit like a chore even with the new archon quests since you have to finish them before you're able to unlock timed events.
I can forgive every single shitty aspect of the game. From the annoying enemies like the lectors who put a shield before they die forcing you to use only elemental damage, to the thunder lawachurls that jump 50 miles away and everything else you mentioned if IT DIDN’T TAKE LITERAL MONTHS TO GET GOOD ARTIFACTS FOR YOUR CHARACTERS! I got Hu Tao back on her rerun and I still haven’t found good enough artifacts along with Ganyu too. It’s bullshit. I don’t even want to wish for new characters because I won’t be able to use them until months later. Heck I still haven’t been able to get a decent VV set for Venti and Lumine. So even though I want Kazuha, the fact I’ll have to grind again for that stupid set that gives me tons of flowers and feathers and nothing else scares me.
This video was a complete roller coaster, terrible takes that lead to amazing takes that lead to bad takes and then good takes again 😅
This is how i feel about Warframe
One reason why the story part of time limited events aren't made permanent could be the file size which they are struggling with as is
Can't you go through the game without spending any $$? Otherwise I will just read the lore on the wiki
Another problem to me is the characters rarity it miss the 3 star character you can get , for exemple amber or sayu could be 3 star you can get easily but for that system it require a lot of new character. And so 3 star character could replace weapon on the event banner bc it is annoying to have 10 weapon and no character at all on the character banner.
My issue is that it’s pretty difficult to get primogems, and the only fast way to obtain them is by buying them, and you don’t even get that many even from buying. You get 60 primogems for a 2 hour long archon quest. Like come on. At least bring it up to 100 at least.
If you really had a hard time in Inazuma on low AR the only thing I can say is GIT GUD
I think is a good idea to take a break, even if we miss important events (I hate lost the price but i'ts okay) there will be always someone who will upload a full video of the event with or without commentary, it's not the same like playing by yourself in blind but hey! if we don't want miss content I think is a good idea. Or you can just try to not think about geshin by trying to not interact so much with the fandom.