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by mappu 696 days ago
What do you think the game's design is? Because I think it's a gorgeous open world single player ARPG. The story, character cast, literary inspiration, gameplay mechanics, and music, are all just incredible.

There are a thousand great things to say about Genshin before you even get anywhere near talking about the nonintrusive and ignorable monetization model. I think people hear "Gacha" and mentally lump it in with spammy 2d animated gif idle clicker games. But it's a better BOTW, and anything else misses the forest for the trees.
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skybrian 696 days ago
When I started playing Genshin Impact, one thing that seemed a little cheap compared to Breath of the Wild is that it has mechanics that they don't even try to justify in-world.

For example, having multiple characters that you can switch between by pressing a button, which are also somehow characters in the story. Nobody in-world ever says a thing about whichever character you're currently using. You can have characters talking to their own clone.

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sweeter 696 days ago
but in this case Genshin is heavily hindered by its gacha mechanics and its need to meter out content to keep people coming back. Some good examples of this are how the dialogue can be endless and pointless. You are often running from one place to the next to go through 20 minute un-skippable dialogues that have no real relevance to the story. On top of that, everything "fun" is time gated and restricted arbitrarily by a currency. The game is very much structured around pushing the user to log in for 15-20 minutes every day and anything more or less than that is painful
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musicale 696 days ago
> There are a thousand great things to say about Genshin before you even get anywhere near talking about the nonintrusive and ignorable monetization model

> everything "fun" is time gated and restricted arbitrarily by a currency. The game is very much structured around pushing the user to log in for 15-20 minutes every day and anything more or less than that is painful

I suppose both of those things might be true. But #2 sounds like the primary issue that always prevents me from enjoying f2p games.

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