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IGN just gave Genshin Impact a 9/10
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It seems like the game is fun with a lot going for it, but when you blatantly steal somebody elses art direction (for whatever reason, some are even legitimate) it should impact your review score in a more significant manner
Man, virtually all games are derivative. Nobody cares. If anything, it's taken way too long for someone to blatantly rip off BotW.
It didn't though. It took graphical cues, some light gameplay cues, and that is about it, it is a completely different game with different aims. They're not comparable as a result.
If you go into this hoping for a BOTW experience, then you would be sorely disappointed. I just decided to go off the beaten path on the game and got a Paimon "how about we explore other areas later?". That, is not what a BOTW player wants, unless freedom is deemed something that sucks now, which I doubt it.
To be fair that paimon stuff only happens when you literally step out of the playable area. It's not like hyrule goes on endlessly
The moment people stop comparing it to BotW will be the moment the game will get its deserved recognition.
Let's be honest, BotW is one of the game that defines this generation and possibly one of the best ever made, it's not something easily achievable, especially for a team that sees in Genshin Impact its first try at a console game.
GI is very cool and its own thing, and I think 9/10 is a fair vote all in all, especially since it's free, you know
Let's be honest, BotW is one of the game that defines this generation and possibly one of the best ever made, it's not something easily achievable, especially for a team that sees in Genshin Impact its first try at a console game.
GI is very cool and its own thing, and I think 9/10 is a fair vote all in all, especially since it's free, you know
I wonder if its; something that will be rock solid on PS5.
I went into it for what I was told
"It's like BOTW but the graphics are nice and your weapons don't break"
That's what I got, plus the climbing feels better in this imo.
This. It sets a dangerous precedent. It is one thing to be inspired by another game, this happens in any creative field and is perfectly acceptable. It's a completely different thing to blatantly copy the design and art direction of another game and get high praise from the critics despite it.
Perhaps I'm slightly more sensitive to these kind of things due to working in the creative sector. I find it very hard to enjoy a game that doesn't have any respect to these aspects of game design.
What is impressive to me is that a Chinese game is so successful, keeping in mind how restricted content in that country is.
I wonder what the future holds for Chinese games and if Chinese devs will become a big player in game development. With all the big investment companies over there that have tons of money, I think it's only a matter of time until they will buy or create more studios and delevop stuff themselves instead of just investing in companies outside of China.
To be honest I have worries about the impact that could haveon gaming because of their restrictions and censorship, and we can already see some of those effects even today, but let's see where this goes.
I wonder what the future holds for Chinese games and if Chinese devs will become a big player in game development. With all the big investment companies over there that have tons of money, I think it's only a matter of time until they will buy or create more studios and delevop stuff themselves instead of just investing in companies outside of China.
To be honest I have worries about the impact that could haveon gaming because of their restrictions and censorship, and we can already see some of those effects even today, but let's see where this goes.
Yeah if anything this game was the early Fall addition to a very good gaming year.
Definitely not a 9 to me, personally, but I can see why people are very excited about it. I was excited before release as well (and even playing betas), after playing the release version though I kinda got bored with the story, characters and samey dungeons. Still a fun game overall, just expected more density in the world design and variation in character design I guess. I have a feeling that these things are gonna be worked on after the financial success the game has seen, I might get back to it in a few years.
This comment is so thinly veiled the blind could see through it
I love how he tells at the beginning that tihs isn't just a copycat botw and then he is continuing, trying to describe elements that makes it different, but basically he still talking about botw-like features like creating an updraft to get to higher places with your glider or walk on water by freezing it.
It's strange to me that this game gets people complaining that there's not a lot to do after 60 hours of great content when the same could be said of BotW and most other games ever.
If you took out the gacha system, gave each playable character their own side quest that unlocks them for use with further side quests that progressed their constellations and sold it as a full priced game, I think people would've loved it.
And the crazy think is, we don't even have 30% of the content the game will have once it's finished. The final product will likely be four times the size of what we have now.
The game is amazing to play, the world is gorgeous, i don't spend money on this game. You should really try it.
From an overall perspective, for a F2P game it's hard to argue against it and I don't have any major complaints about the game.
It's the little details that keep me from
absolutely loving it though.
It's the little details that keep me from
absolutely loving it though.
You tried to walk outside of the map, thats not you being hemmed in. BOTW also has an edge of the map. The maps are huge and you can absolutely explore at will, find secrets, chests, lots of hidden things, its good fun but yeah, you tried to walk off the map. I'm sure more areas will be added later.
One of those animations is a basic dash, one of them isn't even the same, and the other is just an overhead swing.
It won't be too unbearable if the only version you play is the PS4. I'm playing on my Pro now and I think it's serviceable.
Its everything I expected BOTW to be but far, far better. Deserved. Not a fan of the gacha shit but everything else has been fantastic.
Damn. That's really surprising considering it runs at like 40-50fps mostly on my iPhone XS Max.
To be honest, I hate it when review threads have the Meta's listed in the title. Some people don't want to know. Thanks for your consideration originally.
Really? I was walking towards a village looking place and there were monsters there. Ok yes, I just had a look at the map and there is definitely a big red area where I'm at. These all look like places I should be able to go to, so I'm assuming that I have to pass a story mark to be able to do this.
I find the world design is still pretty "flat" comparing to XC2, or even Botw, lots of mountains to climb but there is clearly lack of caves/multi-layers platforms
It's an actual amazing game that came out of nowhere. The gacha stuff is very VERY YMMV, but lets sketch out an ideal scenario:
- You ignore gacha
- The devs continue to update with new regions, dungeons, quests, and mechanics
- Players, over a multi-year span, get access to challenge dungeons that give access to multiple characters similar to fire spear girl right now
You still have one of the best live service games on the market and a few years ago, this would have cost $60, but it didn't because the developer really wanted a foothold in a large total addressable market.
End result:
We have a stellar game with an additional layer of exploitative innovation in terms of content distribution. A high quality game with exploitative gambling characteristics, if you will.
- You ignore gacha
- The devs continue to update with new regions, dungeons, quests, and mechanics
- Players, over a multi-year span, get access to challenge dungeons that give access to multiple characters similar to fire spear girl right now
You still have one of the best live service games on the market and a few years ago, this would have cost $60, but it didn't because the developer really wanted a foothold in a large total addressable market.
End result:
We have a stellar game with an additional layer of exploitative innovation in terms of content distribution. A high quality game with exploitative gambling characteristics, if you will.
I'm guessing you're still early in the game. Yes, some of the characters you find in the first region will be blonde, as it's based on a medieval German as the lore of the setting. The second region is based on China so you'll see more dark haired characters later. That said, I do agree that there are too many teenagers so far (and a few kids too on top of that), with only a few adult looking ones.
Regarding characterizations, each of them will have their own side story which is a series of side quests, and they're pretty good. Even random NPCs have some backstory attached to them, and some of them are kind of dark. Here's my post from the OT, for example.
Agreed, I would have been in to it either way. Great game so far.
if I'm not mistaken the developers themselves said that character and her animations are inspired by 2b from Neir.
to clarify I have no problem at all with borrowing from other games we should be honest though they are taking things from other games people are not just seeing things.
To me its a 9 game. I must have 150 hours + on it already (Adventure Rank 37)
Still got 30 Resin refill, spent 5$ for the daily Primogene. I've got a decent team. Now i just need to farm all the 1000 chest in the world to 40, while spending Resin on mostly Talent books, Ascension Mats and weapon mats, going casually. Then once I hit AR40, i'll pop those Resin refills and farm for 5Star Artifact. Slowly work on my 2nd Abyss team to clear higher Abyss floors.
Still got 30 Resin refill, spent 5$ for the daily Primogene. I've got a decent team. Now i just need to farm all the 1000 chest in the world to 40, while spending Resin on mostly Talent books, Ascension Mats and weapon mats, going casually. Then once I hit AR40, i'll pop those Resin refills and farm for 5Star Artifact. Slowly work on my 2nd Abyss team to clear higher Abyss floors.
It's like a 7ish for me. Music is A+, graphics/art are an A, and misc stuff like crossplay and multi VO language and such are great.
However, the rest of the game itself is eh, unless you are a hardcore collectathon lover of the same 10ish collection puzzles repeated. The coop is a huge letdown (just let us open our own chests in other players worlds and do our own quests, come on...) and the gameplay loop is very shallow and pretty narrow in scope. The story to me is very basic and not very interesting, I didn't find it engaging, so there wasnt much to strive for other than bigger numbers. The game has huge balancing issues because of the gacha including op chars and all the healers hidden behind it, so if you miss out on free Barbera I pity you, you're going to have a bad time. She makes the later game trivial in most context besides dps checks.
It's one of those games I struggled to find a point to play, especially when I got to AR 25. It's a gacha without some form of leaderboards or pvp, so getting stronger is mostly just a personal point of pride and makes the game easier for you, you don't actually get anything other than more gacha resources for doing well and essentially character skins.
That said, it was free for me and I don't regret my time with it so can't beat that value. Also, the combat was decently fun, but shines so much better in coop, too bad you can only coop for like 15 min a day since you run out of stamina so fast.
However, the rest of the game itself is eh, unless you are a hardcore collectathon lover of the same 10ish collection puzzles repeated. The coop is a huge letdown (just let us open our own chests in other players worlds and do our own quests, come on...) and the gameplay loop is very shallow and pretty narrow in scope. The story to me is very basic and not very interesting, I didn't find it engaging, so there wasnt much to strive for other than bigger numbers. The game has huge balancing issues because of the gacha including op chars and all the healers hidden behind it, so if you miss out on free Barbera I pity you, you're going to have a bad time. She makes the later game trivial in most context besides dps checks.
It's one of those games I struggled to find a point to play, especially when I got to AR 25. It's a gacha without some form of leaderboards or pvp, so getting stronger is mostly just a personal point of pride and makes the game easier for you, you don't actually get anything other than more gacha resources for doing well and essentially character skins.
That said, it was free for me and I don't regret my time with it so can't beat that value. Also, the combat was decently fun, but shines so much better in coop, too bad you can only coop for like 15 min a day since you run out of stamina so fast.
You can coop as much as you want, you simply can't get the rewards that require resin. That said, I do agree that they need to expand the coop with more activities. It has a good foundation already, so I guess they're coming later.
Also, here's a Reddit post from someone who never pull anyone and clear high-level endgame content. Barbara is indeed essential, though. But I can't imagine Mihoyo not giving her away or any other healer again later, as a healer is necessary for endgame content. They do giveaway characters for every element in the first place, because they're essential for story progression.
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Shouldn't be a problem on the ps5. I expect a easy 60fps there.
Was playing on my pro and i felt like the game could perform better there but hey.
It certainly should perform better. It plays like an unoptimized game which I hope could be improved by patches.
Aside from the fact that you're locked into that platform. I switched to PC so I could pick it up on mobile from time to time.
Like most gacha, you level your characters with exp items. Those "scrolls" they give you will evaporate the higher level you need to level your units. You'd be wishing you'd have some more down the line. Level 50 to 60 consumes large amount of exp scrolls/books.