Saaame, I love games with a ton of dialogue, hell one of my favourite games ever is Disco Elysium. And it’s not even that Genshin’s story is that bad, but it is told and localised very badly. It’s basically the trope of r/Im14andthisisdeep - an overall pretty shallow and meandering story (probably due to its gacha nature), often told using such an extremely dry and ornate language (probably due to direct translation from Chinese) with tons of characters and concepts thrown in in the attempt to pretend it’s something epic and profound, that the end result feels really disjointed. Also Paimon’s constant inane intrusions and hogging of the Traveler’s role is just actively bad storytelling.
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hitagi@ani.social 1 week agoGenshin Impact does storytelling really bad but I don’t know how to explain why. I’m not aversed to games with lengthy dialogue (I love the Persona games for example), but Genshin Impact feels like a slog to sit through 95% of the time.
kazerniel@lemmy.world 1 week ago
mrvictory1@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Does it get better as it progresses? I dropped the game in Inazuma iirc part 3, might play until end of sumeru or fontaine (whichever is later) in a distant future just for finishing up what I started almost 2 yrs ago. Or wait till the story concludes then play the whole thing, if it ever actually concludes.
hitagi@ani.social 3 days ago
I don’t think it will ever conclude. It does get better but not consistently. Most times I’d still get fatigued from all the dialogue but there are very rewarding moments at the end of some quests that make it feel worth it.
The quests that have been consistently good in my opinion are the “intermission quests” - the last major quest of each region before the next. The last quest of Sumeru is the most memorable one for me.