Is it any good?

no ragrets

>>713853020 (OP)
I really hope they make it a standalone game when they're done with it. It would literally be a crime against humanity to just delete it. Literally the highest budget most effort anime open world ARPG that will ever exist.

>>713853637
Psh, they'd rather you play their next gacha slop than spend a dime on giving you reasons not to.

>>713853637
i figure they could just axe the co-op so they can shut down servers and keep it playable since the game doesn't really have much reason to co-op, hard to say what they would do when they are done with it because as long as it brings in decent money it will just get the Impact 3rd treatment where you get act 2 and shit.

also the new endgame mode is over tuned as all hell, i just barely beat V and VI and VI+ exist, not even going to attempt anything beyond this as even this was a struggle.

also ignore the c6 Xilonen she is more of a co-op character

>>713853637
>Chinese
>Good Will business decisions

>>713854119
The fact is that it will EOS someday, people won't pay for it forever. And it costs a lot to keep everything running.

>>713854196
The game is already unprecedented in the first place.

>>713853020 (OP)
damn that brings me back, haven't played that in years

>>713853020 (OP)
bery goode

>>713853637
If you're talking about them making it a standalone game at EOS, they probably won't even go EOS, seeing as how now of their 10+ year old games that barely makes any revenue are going offline.

The best you can hope for is that they'd do what Shift Up does and use their gacha money to actually make a non-gacha game, and actually earn money through that.

But they already pull in billions a year in pure profit already without having to make a non-gacha game. One can hope, though.

>>713854341
of course but Honkai Impact 3rd makes fuckall for money and still is supported.

>>713853637
>>713854119
All they'd need to do for an offline Genshin is just make it so you unlock Characters after you do their Story Quests (Weapons can just be put into World Quests or some kind of a new shop where you can use your permanent primogems to buy them and constellations for characters)

>>713854424
i doubt it would be that level of goodwill, if i had to guess is they could just axe multiplayer servers then offload gatcha currency transactions to a storefront like steam, sure they take a cut but they wouldn't even need to maintain payment processing servers themselves and could still draw some income from the game.

>>713853020 (OP)
>American dollar sign
>European Nintendo Seal of Quality
It's the little things that you notice. I'm surprised it's actually a 'shop job and not some bastard AI picture.

>>713854547
They'd still have to rework some pretty big parts of the game like the Sims House mode into working offline since that mode uses multiplayer servers even if you play alone

>>713854876
of course or the teapot gets deleted if they feel lazy.

>>713854119
>also the new endgame mode is over tuned as all hell,
I think it's pretty much perfect.
1-3 is hard for like, brand new players, the way floors 7-9 were for us back in the day
4 is hard for casuals but doable for any account that's been playing for a while
5 is hard for old f2p accounts but most likely doable if you get really sweaty
6 is hard for dolphins or for old f2ps who had the right account setups
7 is hard(?) for whales if not leviathans

it's also a ploy to get people to roll for emilie/skirk/mavuika who JUST SO HAPPEN to be running this patch lol, those 3 make all three chambers much much easier.

>>713855809
i feel the entire difficulty needs to be downshifted 1 tier that way reroll feathers are a bit easier to obtain for people who need them. i don't really care about the skins but V as it stands now it is extremely scuffed to get anywhere close unless you have all the pieces and built.

Overseer is pure pain unless you have Escoffier, while Skirk helps you can do Ayaka + Escoffier but Skirk by herself is extremely scuffed on V

Lava Dragon is pretty much immune to damage until you use pyro or burning to break the gauge twice for at best a 15 second damage window, better be able to kill it in two cycles.

Tulpa really wants you to use Mavuika and Citlali but if you have C2 Nahida you can run hyperbloom and just barely scratch a win out.

with two entire difficulties above this with VI and VI+ this seems excessive, of course it doesn't help they specifically chose the more modern bosses that are obnoxiously restrictive on your team building where you either have fun in the exact way they tell you or you only do 1% damage.

Im downloading this game right now because i saw it on gamepass and wouldn't mind a casual easy game at the moment. Is the combat actually any fun? The past few anime games I decided to try had really shallow and unsatisfying combat.

Also how long will i get to enjoy this game for free until being confronted with feeling gimped?

>>713856263
You don't need constellations to do lvl 5 and having a goal to work towards is better than a borderline useless reroller item. It's perfect as is.

>>713857083
really just spiral abyss, imaginarium theater, and the new end game mode will make you feel gimped.

if you do quests and exploration you could probably get like ten five star characters or more, alot of four stars are pretty good, especially ones that can do sub-dps or are supports.

combat is like Breath of the Wild but instead of physicals based crap you have an elemental reaction system, for example Dendro + Hydro + bloom and if you hit the bloom with electro it shoots off a homing missile, more simple reactions like Hydro + Pyro = Vape which is a damage modifier based on your elemental mastery stat.

if you play casually and try not to rush things you could get a solid 2-4 months out of it before you get caught up with the current content.

>>713857315
constellations? not required unless your trying to do something other than the exact teams Hoyo wants you to use.

>>713857083
to simply the combat explanation: find characters with different elements and mix & match for more fun.

>>713857481
even then

>>713857659
still going to shit on it in the survey.

>>713857732
It was impeccably balanced, they will not listen to whiners.

They can just keep changing the game, then sell you the classic version after they start losing players. Same as WOW.

>>713853637
That's just as unlikely to happen as the anime coming out.

How mad would whales get if they made it standalone? I imagine a lot would get mad after spending who knows how much money on characters and weapons.

>>713860465
I hope they never make the anime it'll probably just be another nier automata that just retells the same thing

>>713853637
It's not anime, it's a Chink ripoff of what they think anime is.

>>713860929
true its too quality to be anime, all jp anime games are PS2 era lookin licensed bargin bins

>>713860928
I hope they do make the anime. I hope it gets many seasons and the events are OVAs.

>>713857083
It's a 50-500 hour long game you can play for absolutely free. The only time you can be "gimped" is if you want to be competitive in the completely optional combat modes that account for 5% of the game.

>>713860928
>>713861243
Ideally the anime would be about Abyss Princess exploring Teyvat

>>713853637
I'm expecting them to offer an account migration when EoS happens within a six month period where you can transfer your save data to a paid offline version. The offline version would have all the events as toggles (As in, when you "Log in" to the game you get to choose the version for that version's event state) and then do what The Battle Cats does which is have every single banner available to pull on and it's simply gated by progression while giving you huge amounts of paid currency daily so that you can pull dozens of times per day.

>>713861829
I hope this does happen.

>>713853637
fun fact there is already private servers you can play the entire game on and fuck about

>>713864586
>the entire game on
Name 'em, cause last I checked, Pservers can't do any quests, events and such, just combat and cheating in Cons/weapons/resin/etc.

>>713853637
Has there been any example of online games being remade into offline games with more or less the same content?
Like, is there a single player World of Warcraft?

>>713865141
Megaman X Dive Offline is the best example we got at this point in time

>>713857083
son loaf????

>>713853020 (OP)
Every remid copy is personalized

>>713865141
Animal Crossing Pocket Camp. Shut the game off, offered a $20 offline version with zero microtransactions and all previous "Gacha" furniture full obtainable still. An out of character badass move from Nintendo.

Hoyo will NEVER do this with Genshin. but they absolutely should in like another 10 years.

>>713868902
and that's what makes you based

>>713853637
yeah, i want to play this modded
the character designs are overdesigned slop, and the dailies + grind + fomo is just not for me

>>713857083
95% of the game is made for toddlers. Combat + puzzles. Especially later puzzles, because you have 80 IQ mentally deficient retards calling early puzzles hard so they have to dumb it down even further.

The other 5% of combat might require some money or time in grinding gear. But they are not mandatory and don't give you anything outside a challenge.

It's an extremely casual game. It's more story + exploration oriented rather than combat, but it does have a "complicated" combat system for those who do it.

>>713860840
People come into gacha games knowing it'll reach the end sooner or later. It's just that people don't expect to spend a lot of money and they have the game end in 1 week like TRIBE NINE did.

Thing is with Mihoyo games is that you can expect it to last a MINIMUM of 10+ years. Most people would be happy for games to have support for that long.

>>713853637
Did WoW shut down?

How would you handle the leveling system if the game was standalone? Would have the current system toned down or have a normal leveling system by killing enemies and doing quest? And would you have to level up each character individually or have everyone level up even when they aren't in the party?

>>713869025
High chance that some giga leviathan would fund a private Genshin server by himself after Mihoyo decides to prioritize their newer games.

>>713853637

I had asked why no one has created a pirated version of Genshin Impact and someone answered that they were working on a pirated version, but won't release it since Genshin Impact is free to play. They may release it after the game shuts down. Don't know if he was joking and full of it or if he was telling the truth.

>>713854354

You can just play Zelda: Breath of the Wild since Genshin Impact just copied it.

>>713870559
Genshin was a better game in 2021 even, it's no comparison now.

>>713870559
BoTW doesn't have Eula

>>713860840

They could try having two versions.

> A smaller, streamlined version that is complete with the main cast of characters and the story and gameplay fully intact that you pay $80 for just like a traditional console game.

> The free to play version that has all the stuff of the standard $80 version but you get more characters or at least more character and weapon skins that you pay for in microtransactions and gambling and can only play the game while connected to the internet.

I'm only suggesting this because a bunch of YouTubers complained about the action adventure game of Game of Thrones: Kingsroad. Apparently they didn't like that the free to play game has microtransactions. So a version of GoT: Kingsroad with just the gameplay and story for $80 just for Western gamers should be available. But the free to play version with all the character and weapon skins and more customization that you have to purchase through microtransactions would also be available.

Fuck the Tulpa, fuck the Stygian Onslaught, and fuck whale players who thinks this is easy!

>>713870665

I don't even know who Eula is. I've only played Wuthering Waves and eventually left that game. Never played Genshin Impact.

>>713870992
Come on bro you can do it, you didn't roll all those meta units for nothing

>>713853020 (OP)
>never make improvements
>ruin pivotal story beats teased years prior
>bloated boring mess
really dumb waste of time only for hoyo to turn around and make worse games with a fraction of the scope

When do you think Genshin will shut down?