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Mate, been watching your content for past few years after I heavily got into FF14, seeing how happy you seem to be after all the stress and awful stuff over the past 12 months makes me genuinely chuffed for you.
Don't let people pressure you into switching voices
Glad Zepla tried the game. As both an FF14 and Genshin Player, it makes me really happy. I am currently taking a break on Genshin and will probably be back to it once we get the updates leading to Fontaine.
I have to say Genshin's story started out rocky for me similar to how ARR was kinda hard to get through at first, but as you progress, it became much better tbh particularly in Sumeru. Hope she get to play and experience the story (both character story quests, and archon quests).
The first 30-50 hours are chill and you have a lot of things to discover but at a certain point the game reminds you it's a gatcha. Building characters is very grindy and you will lack all ressources, and so you will have to think to do your dailies/use all your resin/invest only on top tier characters/farm artefact. It's at this moment I dropped it, when the game started being against me.
Genshin is an amazing and beautiful game. I love it all except for one single thing and that's the gacha. I refuse to support any gacha game, no matter how "F2P" you can play it.
Glad to see you enjoying Genshin!
Wtf she already has 2 of best character in game lol
Welcome to the slippery slope of gacha games
5 seconds in and she already has Hu Tao and Yelan.
We've lost her guys… We've lost her… that's it.
No more FFXIV content lmao
Zepla…. The newest genshin impact content creator.
There it is. xD
I always wanted to try the game, but i'd only want to do it with specific characters and the rerolling process looks super tedious.
One suggestion I would make is if you plan to have a completely f2p account then I would hide your UID from stream. People are able to see UID and gift people welkins or crystals and maybe some have good intentions with the gifts and others are trolls so something to keep in mind if that's what you decide to do.
Seeing mondstadt's story content again makes me appreciate how the later region's quality have improved especially the environmental story telling in Inazuma and Sumeru.
Still a predatory gacha game.. why do we give this game a pass
Hoyo-Mix never misses with the music. The main composer is Yu-Peng Chen, and I believe he does the music for all their games, and all their games have a different feel from what I've seen. Genshin is different from Honkai Impact 3rd is different from Honkai: Star Rail is different from Zenless Zone Zero .
If you like hyper combat, I highly recommend HI3 , which is the direct predecessor to Genshin , and the game that redefines what a Chinese mobile game can be like — that's one reason why less people know about it than they know about Genshin , the reputation of Chinese mobile games at the time. The other reason is, there is no English dub, just Japanese and Chinese. But because it's an action game, the combat and skills are significantly deeper than what Genshin has. As are the challenges.
Genshin basically has no endgame planned, apart from the story content itself, which is fine, but many people complain it's not challenging enough. HI3 has leaderboards, and endgame challenge modes to pick and choose from. Its version of the Abyss mode also has multiple ranks that get more difficult as you go up, so players can keep the challenge right at the tip of their ability level once they get there. You also mention how the characters each handle and play differently, with no two being exactly the same (Keqing and al-Haitham are very similar, but still not exactly the same).
In HI3 , the characters in the main part of the story almost all have multiple battlesuits, showing their progression and growth throughout the story, so their skills also become different. But of course their body types don't change. What's interesting is that even though the use the same weapon type throughout, they can also use a mix of weapon types as they go. The one who changes the most is the main girl, Kiana Kaslana: she starts with dual pistols while specializing in close-range blasting, sometimes has mid- and longer-range skills. Later she uses a greatsword, and her current battlesuit gives her a sword and a gun. Bronya, who has always had a vaguely threatening support mech floating behind her, doing most of the shooting, recently manifested a partisan-type polearm, and her support mech became much smaller and cuter (although Project Bunny is still large enough for her to sit on top of it).
As I know you're a music fan, if nothing else you could maybe check out the PVs and the concerts. You'll likely enjoy the Genshin concerts too. As I've said before, Hoyoverse is a music company that produces games on the side. They never miss.
wouldn't say buying welkin is too far removed from the average experience
I wonder if starting genshin now vs. when it was new is mostly a similar experience?
maybe there's more content now but less people are playing it at the same time, perhaps?
One of us. One of us. One of us.
Genshin is good in the first year that you play it, after that you will start to see how repetitive and boring that is, new events and character give a fresh air to the game, but it go away so fast, permanet content is too bad, animation, character play style and model are always the same…
She used to be so hot
I’ve been playing this game since release but am playing it on my own pace. I haven’t maxed out characters because I love completing the sidequests for the lore. There’s even parts I have to save for later because of how engaging the story is.
I've been playing genshin since v1.3 a total free to play casual player & I'm still playing it without any regrets. You need have patience & move forward in your own pace with everything. About the gacha, characters & weapons they all cycle back so you need to wait if you miss anything. Also, the game gives you lotta free stuffs too so you'll never crave for power unless your level of satisfaction is thatt high. Enjoy the music, gameplay, stories & lore. You'll love the game more I bet.
Hmm.. I was ready to defend Zep n be like she's a person yo. You see how you like it if your friend was like oh Imma try this new game out when you be like why? you always played this other game all your life (from what you saw or heard about from others) but then all i see are comments supporting her. Aww
Just a reality-check: this is how she decided to try FFXIV from moving on from WoW. She just decided to try it out, ya know, just for a little bit.
I got stuck on an island. That is my experience with the game. Curse my exploring BS.
For the people concerned about f2p and p2w topic, the game does not have any paywall for completing its story. You can use terrible characters and still beat everything in the world, kill bosses and complete dungeons that are story related. You are never going to be locked out of the story due to not having a paid character. The game is of 12yo difficulty and it is super easy even with common characters and unoptimized gear. Nothing is time gated (the exceptions are rare) so as long as you bring a healer (you get one for free) and you understand the basics of the game you should be good. You can take as long as you want to beat the stuff that appears in the story.
Genshin has no real endgame. It is not an MMORPG that has 5 different systems that you have to grind every day on a million of alts nor it has anything super challenging. Genshin is a casual game where you log in for about 30 minutes, do your dailies, maybe catch up for the story a little bit, maybe mess around in co-op with friends or matchmaking just for fun and then you leave and play something else. It is exactly as Zepla described: just a comfy game that you log in because it feels nice and it is fun for a bit. Shocking, right? In a era where everyone wants to have a "main game", grind all day to get a mount or whatever, do spreadsheets and all of those hardcore tryhard things, you look to the side and you see this other game getting popular without doing any of that, and without asking you to spend all your life into it.
The only feature that is actually a bit challenging in Genshin Impact is their sudo-endgame mode which is called the Spiral Abyss. It is an arena with a few floors, each with a few monsters to kill and it rewards you based on a timer of how fast you did it. You can try as many times as you want, no cost of entry, and you can only collect its rewards once for each time the arena resets (it resets on a 14 day timer). That is why I called it sudo-endgame, because you only need to do it twice a month, you don't grind that mode every day like you do in MMOs. Completing the whole thing takes maybe an evening, with a lot of retries, if you are relatively new (if you are, lets say 5-6 months in) or an hour at most if you are already a veteran with lots of strong characters leveled up (lets say you've been playing for a full year). It is one of those systems where you just need time, because it requires having a wide variety of characters and teamcomps to beat.
You might be asking "alright but what are the rewards? because if the rewards are big and people are missing out on it, then the game is pay2win".
For its rewards, you get up to 600 primogems and a few materials to level up your character. People don't really care about the materials. They are nice, but the primogems is what is important. They are the free currency used for trying to get new characters and this number that you get (600 in total) is the equivalent of 3.75 tries which is honestly nothing. For reference, and I'll be simplifying it, it takes roughly 75 tries to get a new rare character and around 10 to get a low rarity character (and many low rarity characters are good and completely meta too). Even if you can't complete all floors, you are probably still earning enough for 2 or even 3 rolls, so new player that can beat some, but not all of it, are not missing out on a lot.
A player that plays completely for free and never swipes anything should be able to completely beat all floors within a few months. If they are good at video games and they have a lot of time to catch up on quests and explore every day, they might be able to do it in 3 months at their earliest. But that is with them being tryhards and listening to guides, meta discussions, maybe having a friend to give them tips, and all of that. That number is definitely a lot higher for people that are not much into games and struggle with moving in a 3d space with wasd movement or i-frame dodging. Genshin is popular enough that there is definitely people like that playing too, so for them it definitely takes a bit longer to be able to beat it, but I don't think Zepla's audience has people that are that unfamiliar with games.
I personally haven't spend a single cent into the game but I love it and I still have dozens of high rarity characters, including all my favorites. It is a game that is completely fine as f2p. You just have to manage your free resources well and go for the characters you like while skipping the ones you dislike. If you like everything then you are in trouble because that is how they get you to swipe, but you aren't paying for power (the game doesn't require a lot to beat), you are paying because you like a character.
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Welcome to genshin impact. I hope you enjoy your stay.
Congrats on Yelan and Hu Tao!
Genshin Impact is in deed, a videogame.
She already whaled lmao
It makes me so happy to see you're enjoying the game!
Really hope you continue to have good experiences 🙂
Sometime those respectable "gamers" are wrong and make us miss a great opportunity to enjoy a new game
Welcome to Teyvat, Zepla.
By the way Zepla, let's get your reaction on the max0r video. It may be a bit dated, but it crossed over a lot of other meta and got millions of views, so you should stream your reaction to it.
Tried it, the gameplay was good enough even though i wouldn't say i enjoyed it that much but the gasha aspect of it seems like it would get me very frustrated on the long run.
I'm really tempted to test every gameplay i can in games.
I can already smell the pressure to buy. I've spent most of my life with money issues feeling like i couldn't afford anything and i'm still careful with cash so i'd play free-to-play but feel constantly frustrated to not have access to this or that.
Genshin impact is a fun game to play on your own spare time/when you’re bored. The fan base does consist of alot of cringe teenagers (as expected), but otherwise, it’s fun. I rather Genshin than candy crush when I’m bored.
Good to see you like Genshin lol