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In all honesty, genshin impact is a pretty reasonable facsimile of that sort of game. It’s really grown into its own, and it’s really fun and absolutely massive

That said, I’d only advise it if you are 100% confident you won’t engage in any of the gacha systems – you can play and enjoy the game with the free characters the game gives you, but once you start engaging with the gacha that can be a really dangerous slippery slope. If that’s something that you could fall prey to, I wouldn’t recommend it. But if you think you can play it without investing any money (or, really, more money than you can afford, I don’t know your financial situation) it’s actually a really great time, and the story’s only gotten better as it’s gone on. There’s definitely some stipulations with it, but it’s worth experiencing if you feel like those are acceptable

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sleepybisexual@beehaw.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Played genshin before, its an OK game but especially as f2p it’s way to grindy,

No idea what I was expecting lol

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- pixel@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  that’s totally fair. I think you can do most of the story and exploration stuff without grinding much but if even that is too much grinding it’s probably not worth the effort. Hope you find what you’re looking for!
  
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  - sleepybisexual@beehaw.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Its more the adventure level system. Halted most of my gameplay. That and have you seen the genshin file size? No game is worth that big a file
    
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ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
+1 for Genshin. While I think your gacha warning is excellent I do want to point out that the amount of resources you get for getting characters is more than enough to clear all story content. Hell if you’re a good player you could probably clear the whole game without using a single primogem, not even the countless thousands you get along the way.

And massive is also the understatement of the year. There is voiced content here that dwarfs even whole trilogies. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are more recorded lines than all of Dragon Age and Mass Effect put together. And the story is likely not even at the halfway point yet, there’s still years to go. Closest analogy would probably be SWTOR, the MMO, but with much better combat.

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