Genshin Impact

[AnimeFangirl]

The guys are too soft and androgynous. They need more manly men.

[mickbis]

Originally Posted by AnimeFangirl

The guys are too soft and androgynous. They need more manly men.

Grand Master Varga sound like a manly old man type

but the leaked didn't have info about him so far....

and Inazuma seem to do not have buff man either

so all our hope will be place in other regions

someone that hit like a truck like that electro fatui agent would be nice

[Diluc]

I think Bennett is the most manly looking guy so far.

In a way, Kaeya also has quite manly stature.

[Diluc]

Haha i love how everyone got confused to my girl Fischl, she exactly live to image.

This the first time Fatui harbringer got introduced outside of Archon quest, i wonder what direction Mihoyo aim here.

[GDB]

There's 11 Harbringers and only 7 Archon, so they were going to have to double up or introduce them outside of Archon quests at some point.

[AnimeFangirl]

The game just gave me free items called "Acquaint Fate." What's the best use of it?

[Skulkraken]

The only thing they're used for is drawing from the gacha.

[GDB]

Yeah, they're for the standard banner. Just use them as you get them, there's no reason to hoard them.

Intertwined Fate, however, is worth hoarding as its used in event banners and weapon banners.

[AnimeFangirl]

Understood. But I don't remember how I got them in first place? Is there a special way to earn fates?

[GDB]

You get some from the battle pass (free version) and some from level up rewards.

[AnimeFangirl]

Aha. Thanks a lot.

[Sheba]

You can tell all the love Mihoyo, a Chinese company, have poured into building up Liyue. As if they wanted to show the world how to make a distinctly Chinese fantasy with their own flair. Far from the cliche of jRPGs or the theme parks Chinas in Western RPGs.

[AnimeFangirl]

Haven't reached Liyue yet, but that's nice to know. Mondstadt is pretty boring.

[GDB]

Originally Posted by Sheba

You can tell all the love Mihoyo, a Chinese company, have poured into building up Liyue. As if they wanted to show the world how to make a distinctly Chinese fantasy with their own flair. Far from the cliche of jRPGs or the theme parks Chinas in Western RPGs.

And then they made its God a jumbled mess that doesn't know what it wants to be, gameplay-wise, with a kit that somewhat actively works against every other aspect of his kit.

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by GDB

And then they made its God a jumbled mess that doesn't know what it wants to be, gameplay-wise, with a kit that somewhat actively works against every other aspect of his kit.

Here I am just hoping that the complains get loud enough to get MHY to tweak him.

[AnimeFangirl]

Here I am not worrying about it because I can't even pull him.

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by AnimeFangirl

Here I am not worrying about it because I can't even pull him.

Try make do with what you already have.

[Klashikari]

Originally Posted by Sheba

You can tell all the love Mihoyo, a Chinese company, have poured into building up Liyue. As if they wanted to show the world how to make a distinctly Chinese fantasy with their own flair. Far from the cliche of jRPGs or the theme parks Chinas in Western RPGs.

I'd argue that's only good when it comes to the landscape and the side quests. The caveat is that the main narrative and the characters took a major hit compared to Mondstad.

Spoiler:

Liyue arc is a mess doubled by a snail pace defined an absurdely long series of fetch quests that looked like they came from old fashioned MMO, then rushed to hell with its conclusion in 1.1. And let's not forget some asinine elements such as the protagonist suddenly feeling threatened after the earth god got "slain" and "had" to run away just "because".

Mondstad arc wasn't particularly unique or incredible, but it was serviceable with appropriate stakes and proper character introduction and interactions. At least, it gave me reason to somewhat care about them whereas I couldn't give a rat ass about 99% of the named characters in Liyue arc because they were mostly irrelevant.

As for Zhongli, I'm starting to believe Miyoho realized they went a bit too crazy with Venti and Klee and tried to not go overboard, even tho Tartaglia and Zhongli weren't particularly impressive during their respective beta. While Tartaglia wasn't nerfed that badly, Zhongli went from subpar to barely 5* tier, which is kind of funny with all things considered.

[erneiz_hyde]

The Liyue part is full of classic wuxia trope, though my favorite is being chased by the overzealous city guards who will stab you en masse if you look at them even slightly wrong, of course complete with the Traveller singlehandedly handing their collective asses to them. You can picture the wuxia style scene unfolding right before your eyes.

[shmaster]

Everybody is complaining about sensei getting nerfed, and then this person shows up and say Sensei is actually best for dirty tactics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u76tR0Cj1M

Barrier charge! Pillar cheese!
And I laughed.