4.0 will start off with Lyney as the new 5-star. The rest will be reruns.
Damn, not even one design looks cool. That's a big...
I think the release dates are false but these are the characters.
How dare they use one of the good Captain R designs in this sheet.
I think the release dates are false but these are the characters.
Finished it in one try, definitely a lot easier than the previous ones.
Haven't done much yet but it's fun once the dialogues end, as usual.
I liked the islands more.
It's an event that triggers when you haven't logged into the game for several weeks.
The overall theme feels very juvenile. I know they've shifted more towards mainstream audiences a lot over the past year, but this is the first time I felt like I was playing a game for literal children. Between the stupid "I honestly can't even be bothered to give a single shit about this" NPC storylines, to the ultra-simplistic puzzles and gameplay, this was probably my least favorite main event yet. Primos and prizes were good and plentiful this time, and the treasure compass was great for making sure you got everything since it will be a limited-time area. The roller coaster shooter games were the one thing I enjoyed, but even then it was so damn easy, there was never any real excitement. The area was just Sumeru with cat ear boxes and candy canes littered about, which is intrinsically less interesting than a tropical island theme, to me at least. The costumes were actually a step up from the usual shlock they give us, but they're both for characters I don't play and don't give a crap about.
Nah, Star Rail started off pretty good but it's had a 2 patch content drought now and has been bleeding players. They haven't released a single bit of story since the game launched in April, just filler events and "double leyline" type crap. Frankly with as much money as the game made, I have no idea how the fuck they haven't done anything with it. It's so much more simple in design than Genshin.
That's a good word to describe it. The story feels very disjointed and aimless. When Klee got sad looking at the three brothers argue, I thought it was gonna address how she might feel sad and lonely being away from her mom constantly, and how those three should be grateful they at least have each other, but it was just a random scene without purpose.. There's no reason for most of these characters to be here and they hardly do anything. There's no overarching theme to tie things together.
I also liked how the islands introduced the next region as a sort of preview. The first Golden Apple Archipelago had a bunch of references to Inazuma and you could even fight Maguu Kenki early. The second one introduced Sumeru's archon quite well. I didn't see much of a connection with Fontaine for this one.
Yea, the NPCs just being single-aspect hydro eidolon copies of the actual people probably didn't help. But there was no tie-in, no moral of the story etc. That whole play about the bandit was stupid too, what was the message supposed to be with that? Just uninspired. Another case of us wasting a ton of time helping NPCs out, but this time they weren't even real NPCs with any real problems.
I think they still did this to some degree. I am willing to bet the railways will make a comeback, and I've personally been guessing for some time now that the Sorush gameplay is likely for some kind of Fontaine vehicle, whether underwater or in the sky, like in this event with the ring race. But yea, nothing so obvious as the islands.
2 patch content drought? Isn't the second patch (1.2) releasing tomorrow, and contains more story? Or am I confused
Huh, I guess you're right. It has just felt like a long ass time since there was any meaningful content released.
GAF is mostly against gacha games, so you'll find very few people here that want to talk about it. Even this thread for the most popular and profitable game of the past 3~ years only has ~10 frequent posters. We just kinda use this thread for discussing various even loosely related games, like Honkai Star Rail, Honkai Impact 3, and even games from a similar genre like Tower of Fantasy and Wuthering Waves. Feel free to discuss whatever.
That’s so funny to me, for a site filled with “gamers” to blindly hate on a game is hilarious.
I'm sure
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will chime in, but I dropped ToF after a few months with it. Just so greedy. Unlike MHY games, every ounce of content in that game felt like it was made to try to drain money from you. Plus all the bugs, poor performance, lag, awful modes and bosses, and the absolute shitshows for events. I liked the character designs quite a bit, but the game really puts the screws to you if you're F2P or even just a light spender. They don't just want some money, they want ALL of the money.
There are a lot of bad gacha games out there for sure just designed to take all your money. But typically they aren't very successful or don't last very long. The good games make a lot of money, because people actually enjoy playing them. A lot of people are missing out on some great games because they refuse to play gacha games. Some of my favourite games over the past few years have been gacha games, and I spend barely any money on them.
Will read through it later but just skimming it seems like those scarlet rocks from Dragonspine Mt, only lasts for a single hit? Hopefully they are plentiful then .
Yea that's another "good" part - I guess, at least all characters can use the mechanic by picking up the buffs. It doesn't mention needing the Fontaine weapons or not for it to work. I wonder.
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This is a spoiler for you so don't click if you care about the main story bosses, but this mechanic sounds like using the fire butterflies to break Signora's ice shield section of her boss fight.
That's exactly what it is. There's nothing about it that sounds like fun for the player experience. Then again, Abyss itself is mostly just a sales tool to get people to pull whoever that patch's Abyss has been designed around anyways.
Just the writers making sure she's the most tonally inconsistent character in the game, no worries.So, uh, I just started this summer's event and... Why does Kokomi act like she has amnesia in the first place?
Or is it some mambo jambo plot related?
Don't worry she smortSo, uh, I just started this summer's event and... Why does Kokomi act like she has amnesia in the first place?
Or is it some mambo jambo plot related?
Bruh that's just vampire Zhongli from some bad R18 fanfic. That's enough to impress you?
I think it's his overall characterization that's pretty cool. He has some mysterious saying, he's a brooding edgelord. You don't see many male characters in Genshin that appeal to that demographic.
An edgelord emo vampire is mature?
the character designs in honkai star rail are light years away from genshin.Well, Zhongli is my favourite Genshin character so, anything that resembles him I'll take the bite I guess.
But likePejo said, this one has a awesome characterization behind him too.
Wish Genshin had more mature and adult characters like what they're doing on Star Rail.
Even though I know it's not the case because I've watched the developer diary videos, it feels like ALL of MHY game's characters are being designed BY women FOR women these days.
the last collaboration of honkai impact was laughable, it's about promare, a yaoi movie.
Yep, I almost quit when I saw it was announced. I get that they like high paced mecha stuff, but damn there's a lot of IPs that they could have gone with other than fucking Promare.
I have nothing against the IP, the animation was great, but it's a super gay anime with no notable female characters that's collaborating with a game that has no male playable characters where lesbian "shippers" ruin almost any and all discourse. So now I know I get to sit there and hear "yaaaass" in the chat for the next 6 months or until whenever the collab is over. Whatever, it's already set that they're going to do it, so no sense in me whining about it.I liked Promare…
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- See this banner below? Do NOT roll this banner. It's one of the worst weapon banners we've had in a while, and that's saying something with as bad as they've been.
