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No. 443829
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Nonas, I feel like I've fucked over my Genshin account by rolling for 5* women. Since HSR is only a year old, should I start a F2P HSR account and have a strict male-only rule? What do you girls think?
No. 444714
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>Be hoyoverse
>Release double banner + Hu Tao Skin for New Year
>Only manage to get 4th place on both CN and JP
>Barely surpassed DouYin while LADS managed to hit 1st place 4 times in a row
>Not even the archon shilling worked with shit like "Stand with Mavuika"
DaWei cucked by Papergames' husbandos again
No. 444759
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>>444640>>444639female harbingers aren't allowed to be interesting under new writing team management, so i wouldn't be surprised. for me, warning sirens were going off after what they did to arlecchino
which is why i really cannot bring myself to call fontaine "good writing", even 404 herself admits to it being hastily rewritten. but the many people who got dazzled by the dumb pitybait short and gladly embraced the woobifying to either a) ship hekkin wholesome yuri or b) make her a hekkin wholesome mommy didn't seem to care about how badly this boded for the future. i'm still amazed that after all this, some people think we'll be getting playable dottore and not (at best) him dead and (at worst) an utter mockery of his character. i really mourn what could have been with the harbingers. i wish we'd had more time with the old writing team so they could've been done justice.
No. 444764
More and more people (most likely women) are speaking out about how the game is moving in a different direction because of Mizuki, which is nice to see. You still got the usual moid defense retardation though.
>b-b-but you guys sexualize the male characters! you're a bunch of hypocrites!>it's not that big of a deal because we've had other waifus before!>these people would seethe at our other waifu gacha games that are borderline porn!>just a bunch of offended Christians and tourists!I swear they live in a completely different world.
>>444663I wouldn't even call them borderline-radfem, they're libfem at best. But I remember defending these characters (albeit at a much younger age than them) and I had the same issue: they probably have no reference for actual well-written female characters. If you consume nothing but anime and gachaslop, it's bound to skew your perception on them.
No. 444794
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>>444775And to think I used to hope that Skirk would be an expy of Senti from Hi3 (objectively the best, most insane woman in all of Hoyoverse, picrel) since all the signs pointed to it: Roman/Greek mythological motifs, gladiator theme, thumb-down moment, same level of battle-hungry craziness. Hell, he’s even wearing her fucking headpiece as an earring. I was so excited to see her as a dysfunctional older sister/motherly figure to him. I don’t even understand why Genshin keeps shooting itself in the foot atp, it’s would be so easy to get me to open my wallet and yet…
No. 444796
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>>444794Sorry for sperging out with a collage but here:
> Thumb down> Same facial expressions> Same gestures> Same “happy go lucky but eager to pick a fight” personality> Overall matching colour scheme to Childe> I didn’t have space for it here but her ‘artifacts’ set is a gladiator setpiece and she has major classical themes, ‘Ajax’ and ‘Teucer’ are Greek mythological heroes. She’s been perfectly situated to be his mentor and Hoyoverse is telling me this is all for nothing? Sigh.
No. 444797
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>>444796But no, this big-foreheaded, fish uggo is what we get instead. Go figure.
No. 444802
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>>444775ayrt, seeing so many people (especially other so-called "fans") fall for arlecchino's retcon hook, line, and sinker is both painful and infuriating. ever since her woobification got confirmed via those excel sheet leaks though, i've seen some of those former retcon deniers promptly move the goalposts to "w-w-well, it was a good retcon!" which somehow pisses me off even more. because we definitely needed her original character shafted in favor of…yet another kuudere. seriously. "seems intimidating on the outside but dont worry guys shes just emotionally repressed but has a heart of gold" how many female characters fit this exact mold now? for god's sake, she doesn't even do anything like
>>444786 said.
inb4 "b-but furina assassination": that was a mistranslation from the original chinese. a more accurate expression would be "near-theft of the gnosis", similarly to what signora did with venti.
>What was even the point of emphasizing how young Childe is?old lore the new writers didn't like, please understand. there's actually strong indications that a lot of lore got discarded in arlecchino's rewrites too, she has so much linking her to the narzissenkreuz but now it's all gone in favor of plothole fiesta. i know i am a certified arlecchino autist, but i still don't understand how on earth so many "fans" could just lap this up and why so few of them seem to even care about this. blackpilling tbh.
>I feel like things are going to get really bad for him when they decide to shove Honkai ass Skirk down everyones throat and makes him her little accessoryi'm no childe autist, but ngl i felt like his treatment in fontaine was questionable too. all this big hype about him and the whale, only for the connection that's been built up since 1.1 to be completely tossed aside in favor of a mostly off-screen fight and a reveal that actually, the whale? it's just someone else's random pet lol. then he gets tossed like a rag into some random portal by skirk (don't ask how she got here), only to come back in arle's SQ to serve as little more than a glorified mouthpiece for the retcon— making both himself and scara look like idiots in the process. so yeah, it unfortunately wouldn't surprise me if he got relegated to skirk accessory in the future.
No. 444810
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>>444803I’m so in love with him I would actually kill myself if they trolled us like that after 10 years of buildup, kek.
No. 444813
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Just as we predicted, the yuritards are already at it.
No. 444817
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Maybe I’m just coping hard but knowing that the only new 5* for the foreseeable future are going to be coomslop waifu garbage is kind of relaxing in the sense that I don’t have to panic about coughing up cash anymore. From now on I can save slowly and collect all the husbandos and cool pre-Natlan women at my own pace without paying a dime.
No. 444818
>>444775Childe is absolutely going to get the Ororon treatment with Skirk. Mark my words. She'll be his cool mentor who slaps Childe around humiliating him in front of the entire cast and incels will clap their greasy hands in glee.
>I was surprised by how many people fell for the Arlecchino shit, even claiming it wasn't a retcon, and I think her design was just a waste.Yeah, I felt like the only sane person in the room when people smply swallowed and internalized the retcon and claimed this is what they asked for. No bitch, Arlecchino was supposed to be this androgynous, deranged maniac who kills people who cross her so that they never live to tell it. There are literally documents proving that her voicelines were rewritten to rid them of any "problemacy". Now she's just a big booba daddymommy only existing to strap your self-insert Furina in fanfiction? Kill me. I was really interested in seeing how her character will turn out like because it's not like Genshin has an abundance of morally grey/black female characters, much less androgynous ones, and they fumbled it completely.
>>444786Exactly. She spooked her once and didn't even cause any harm to her besides making her lose sleep over nightmares. What a copout.
>>444797Every time I see this fucking model I'm haunted by the cool, creative concepts that were leaked for her and I get pissed off once again.
No. 444819
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https://x.com/IfaDose/status/1874515568172359826The way this dumb fuck ugly bird came on screen for two seconds and instantly became more of a hit with some players than 90% of the Natlan characters HYV is desperately getting us to love kekkkk
No. 444821
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Wuhluhwuhs will label you a misogynist for calling out Citlali as lazy waifubait when these are the lines HYV gave her because they were too lazy to come up with a personality to go along with their gooning.
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>>444813Kek. I honestly wouldn’t mind if they just stuck to crackshipping, but these individuals can’t stop seething over male characters and picking fights with women who pull for them. I genuinely don’t understand how they equate a male character briefly showing his chest—while otherwise being fully covered—to female characters constantly flashing their panties. The same thing happened when Itto was released. We get scraps, yet somehow we are the bad guys. They repeat the same arguments moids use, but dress them up as “woke,” and somehow think they have made a
valid point.
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>>444834The wuhluhwuhs, in the same vein. They suddenly see edits of Mizuki with her maid skirt being longer and they flip their shit about it. Totally the type of pickme going "porn is feminist and empowering".
No. 444851
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>>444849What’s the difference between these people going up to women and insulting them for disliking female characters with oversexualised and misogynistic designs, versus anti-woke gamers going up to african/hispanic players and insulting them for disliking the racist designs in Natlan? How can they not see the irony?
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>>444764Someone ought to remind them GGZ had NIKKE-tier lolis before shilling Hoyo.
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>>444849Kek at her deliberately choosing some shitty amazon cosplay as evidence instead of the actual pictures that show up when you google yukata.
No. 444916
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From Mavuika's character stories, grabbed from the wiki - what is this Mary Sue shit.
No. 444922
>>444813I can already see male coomers making succubus hentais with her. She's literally designed for them.
>>444849I can't believe twitterfags are this fucking dumb. They pretend to know everything about the supreme nippon land while saying the most outlandish shit ever. No one in japan thinks that is an actual yukata and you'll only see that kind of ""yukata"" in anime cosplay or very modern stylings, ffs even in the pictures the user linked the yukatas are longer than whatever the bat girl is wearing.
No. 444934
>>444923They're fucking going at it too and in full speed. I don't know what compels pickmes to go full retard and defend this shit.
No. 444935
>>444802Seriously, the end part with the whale was by far the worst part of Fontaine. The story up until then was fantastic with the enjoyable detective quests, court scenes, and Furina’s drama. Even the teasers about Childe and the whale were extremely cool and beautiful, developing his previous lore into something even more titillating and important feeling, and then it’s just… completely cast aside so yet another Honkai spacewaifu can kawaii-femdom her way into the scene and show off how awesome she is compared to everyone else. Why would any players be happy about that? It’s so dismissive towards years of previous content, how iconic Childe’s boss fight is and so on. I’m not even a Childe fan but just a fan of the game in general and it felt stupid to pull that. I guess those moves work on getting coomers to open their wallets, but the devs should know that Genshin has been more successful because of other factors like approachable yet engaging gameplay and lore, compelling and fun characters with significant emotional motives, and so on. Well, whatever, my feeling regarding that is that the conclusion of every main story quest is a hand wave to whisk the gnosis and everybody away—it’s just weird that this time they actually did something more obviously satisfying with the dissolution of Furina’s position as archon, and then still found a way to go “uhh yeah whatever, everything you did was meaningless because more important people have bigger things going on”
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>>444916With the excessive praise in the archon quests when she's otherwise uninteresting, her unique kit with that dumbass bike, I'm starting to believe more and more that she's Da Wei's waifu because of her physical similarities to Himeko. She may not be an expy, but she's close enough.
>>444934This is exactly why I said these girls are just libfem at best. No questioning as to why it's only the female characters who get such sexualized and revealing outfits while the male characters' clothes cover up 80–100% of their body. No, it's just:
>it's not that deep, some women like it>you're just like men No. 444942
>>444936I've always been into husbandos, but Fontaine made me start pulling for waifus for the first time ever. Furina, Navia, and even Arlecchino (if I ignore her retcon) were genuinely very likable to me, both in terms of personality and design, which even surprised me lmao. I'm convinced they must've fired the team responsible for Fontaine's female characters because how else do you go from such well crafted characters, ones that even diehard husbando fans like me are drawn to, straight into whatever's happening with the women in Natlan? Also, one thing I don't understand is why Hoyoverse ignored the Korean incels complaining about Furina's designer being a feminist and even protesting against it to get her fired, only to welcome them with open arms a year later anyway. It's as if they can't decide whether to ignore them or cater to them. Maybe the previous director dismissed the incels, but Da Wei seems to welcome them no matter what.
No. 444951
>>444946Do you think that's when they started tweaking the plot a bit as mentioned by
>>444935? Skirk appears and concidentally the harbringers are an afterthought and the Abyss now becomes the focus. That might explain a lot of things, like banners getting delayed, the uncertain rarity of Sigewinne, Emilie looking nothing like her actual design (instead opting for the ugly Ganyu titsock), Natlan, Nod-Krai and so on.
No. 444953
>>444941It all makes sense now.
> Welt yang is his self-insert. > Himeko is wearing a literal wedding dress in HSR. > Make them ‘mommy and daddy’ to Astral crewFucking gross. Also I hate so much how Welt is the love of my life and has the misfortune of being based on literal human scum. He (the character) deserves better.
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I hate this shitty game
No. 444981
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Mooooom! They’re equating male Victorian ankle flashes to female characters having their whole pussies out again!
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>>444981Samefagging but what the actual hell? I can’t believe they made the texture of the thigh highs so cheap and nasty, like an e-thot streamer. If I had purchased the skin before seeing it in action I would be so fucking pissed.
No. 444991
>>444988Sorry, for some reason I thought there was more of them, retard moment
I mulled it over some more and honestly, I don't think making a male only account is worth it unless you really like the game, given the aggressive powercreep and mediocre drawn out story… It would take a lot of effort and there are better games to play imo. If you do decide to go through with it, I would suggest maiming Boothil, because his team with HMC Sunday and Gallagher would be very strong
No. 444995
>>444971Wtf, she’s obviously supposed to look and act like a kid, and it’s an absolute joke if those are supposed to be shorts and not underwear. It wouldn’t be hard to not animate her entire dress flying up, or model bloomers underneath to cover her properly. This is really disappointing because I thought the outfit looked cute before and I always enjoyed her character, her wholesome interactions with Zhongli etc.
It really is happening that Liu Wei is making Genshin as coomer as Honkai. Well, I’ll be continuing to play casually with my all-male non-meta team, though of course I can’t clear Imaginarium Theater and so on.
No. 445003
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>>444951i definitely think something happened in the months prior to fontaine's release, i and a few others i've talked to have always felt that something was off about the region, like there was some internal instability. that said, childe here is first and foremost a harbinger, and i believe the big hits to the writing team harbinger-wise came with the departure of the original head scriptwriter in late inazuma (meaning he probably still influenced early sumeru's development) and possibly the departure of the chief editor in 2022-2023 as well. both cited dissatisfaction with fat xiao (fun fact: fat xiao aka the head screenwriter as of sumeru is an arrogant nepo baby and related to one of the three big genshit shareholders, so he can do pretty much whatever he wants). picrel is one of 404's earliest leaks, basically confirming the harbinger hatred present even at the time. they wanted to kill off the original arle because heavens forbid something of the old team live on (keep in mind syp had leaked arle's playability in 2022), and when they decided against killing her off to rake in cash, they instead decided to utterly destroy her personality by making her an unrecognizable joke of a character. there is no doubt that under da wei's vision of natlan, the game has shifted to a far more incel-pandering direction, but you'd be hard pressed to convince me that he was the one responsible for capitano dying, childe getting screwed over, or arlecchino getting retconned. that is undoubtedly fat xiao.
Rough TL, keep in mind picrel is from July 2023: Arlecchino's story was changed few months ago, from certain death to whitewashed and playable. Neuvillette is a dragon and controls Fontaine stuff. Furina isn’t hiding some power or actually secretly crazy, she's just a little girl, the type that would cry, basically a mascot. Quarrel between Clorinde and Navia originated from dead father stuff, but it’s resolved in the end. Those two will be yuribait. Wrio isn’t standard banner.
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>>445003samefag. clearly the actions of a sane individual who wouldn't gladly sabotage everything the old writing team built up out of petty pride.
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I wonder if these are old files they forgot to delete or they're keeping those to bait us to stay.
No. 445051
>>445003>>445009Isn't xiaoluohao the same guy as the one who wrote his Mary Sue Baiheng into the Cloud Quintet's story in Star Rail ruining their characters and bragged about angering female fans with it?
>you'd be hard pressed to convince me that he was the one responsible for capitano dying, childe getting screwed over, or arlecchino getting retconned. that is undoubtedly fat xiao. No, I don't think Da Wei was responsible for it per se as in giving out the commands, but I would fully believe he was the one enabling it because he hates Genshin. Cai Hayou resigning in September 2023 must've been a long op and not something he did spotanenously as he was the chairman of the board at Mihoyo.
>>444971I want to die seeing this. How dare they do this to Hu Tao? Coomerifying 1.1 girls is a goddamn war crime.
No. 445130
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Does that count as "media that makes trannies seethe"? The QRTs lmfao.
https://x.com/chikudara/status/1874513649639076201 No. 445149
>>445130Why do men always act like they are opressed for liking coomer slop? literally 90% of media catters to them. Hell, even genshin threw its female playerbase under the bus for them. It pisses me off when coomer scrotes act like
victims just because some people make fun of them.
No. 445257
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>>445041KEK imagine bringing him back from the dead just to turn his kit into male Rosaria's by chucking his sword in the ground and making him an off-fielder.
>>445130The fanart is gross to look at but
> PicrelSo you agree? You agree that her pose is sexualised and uncomfortable to look at when applied to a character that
you specifically have no intentions of gooning to? By saying
> It's okay when it's a male character?You acknowledge the double standards of Hoyo treating women this way with such disrespect while keeping the men fully clothed like Victorian maidens?
>>445194I deliberately haven't started the Sumeru quests in a whole year because I
still don't know what to call him and I feel like anything I'd put down, I would insta-regret. Also the single rename right they give us still isn't enough to waste the first.
No. 445272
I quit genshin before Fontaine and watch the archon quests whenever they come out. Fontaine was truly great and Natlan…just sucks. My only source for genshin updates is this thread so I'm aware there's some bias, but about the story, I feel like nonnas here. And one (male) friend I have that we occasionally talk was like "it's been the best it has been in a while" and I'm like WHERE? As nonnas here said, Mavuika's trailers are cringe no matter how hard they try to push her. Also the fuck is this
>>444971 . Truly disgusting.
No. 445290
>>445257You can rename him 2 more times after the archon quest is over.
Theres a little scroll you get/use.
He disagrees with the names if its either other character names, fatui harbinger names or his old names (e.g. scaramouche).
He surprisingly doesn't mind being named after you.
No. 445349
>>445319I’m a lorefag
unfortunately and that’s not it… I’m 100% sure that they rewritten not only Xbalanque but Capitano also, I’m not sure if they can come back from this even if they write nod-krai and snezhnaya normally
which probably won’t happen lol No. 445351
>>445319>Devs can decide to completely change things at the snap of their fingers so whats the point in getting invested in the lore nowexactly. when this was made clear to me in fontaine, i just stopped caring about the story altogether. i personally haven't done natlan AQ at all. i'm just exploring, artifact grinding, and helping out noobs in co-op. i suspect that some people had the same blackpill realization all the way back in sumeru when the writing direction officially changed hands and probably started to meddle with established lore/characterization. however, for people to truly understand the dire consequences a retcon-happy writing team can have, things they deeply care about need to be affected— otherwise there's just a dismissive/complacent mentality around it happening instead of worrying about whether the same fate could befall something they actually like. that's why i wish xiaoluohao and his cronies got more heat. regardless of your opinion on their work in previous nations, they are ultimately the ones who have enabled changing lore on a whim and spitting on pre-established facts. it would've been much more difficult to suddenly erase xbalanque and undermine capitano if there hadn't already been several precedents set, nor would you have to fear for the future of characters like pantalone if the original vision still held true. fontaines pollution, foreshadowed social commentary, rhodeia talking about assassins from her homeland? who cares, retconned. childes whale being important? who cares, glorified pet. arlecchino? who cares, woobified. skirk? who cares, honkai waifu. apparently they can't even keep cyno's lore straight (
https://x.com/suamizin/status/1865530841524220052), i can only imagine there's more where that came from. i can understand a normal player not snapping out of it and realizing there's no point yet, but the doses of copium "lorefags" are on must be lethal.
No. 445361
>>445319>>445349>>445351Even when I started the Natlan AQ and was completely oblivious to the staff changes I immediately sensed something was wrong. As if there was an entire plotline dropped, there was way too heavy of a focus on Kachina and Mualani that didn't seem organic and felt rushed and Capitano's introduction was strangely flat despite him being the most hyped Harbinger. Xbalanque being removed and Capitano's lore being rewritten immediately made sense as to why the plot in Natlan felt so off, especially in the second part of the AQ. I really thought it was weird that he would immediately side by the Natlanese armies and fight offscreen and just fuck around doing practically nothing and the only reason he gave was because a soldier from Natlan helped him out once. And Mavuika using some loosely explained time travel method to somehow be a pyro archon twice felt like such an odd decision, her plan felt like a rehash of Focalors' scheme from the start, only more rushed and relying way too much on things just falling in place. Every character in Natlan felt like an NPC with barely any depth and the heroes' awakenings followed the shittiest form of lazy anime writing ever. Chasca's sister dying, this event somehow making her a reawakened hero in 2 seconds and her getting over it just as fast was ridiculous, Mualani just giving a generic pep talk to Kachina in the abyss impressing an ancient warrior enough to awaken her and Ororon's blink-and-you'll-miss-it possession being his… why did they want so many heroes if they weren't willing to put some meat into their writing? It stank like a quick rewrite of something that they didn't have enough time to pad and develop properly.
The constant rewrites and retcons have made Genshin's lore a mess. We still have so many unanswered questions from 1.1 that will probably never be addressed because the original team is long gone. We will never know why Childe's vision kept malfunctioning in Fontaine, nor will we ever know what was the "remnant" keeping up his obsession with the Narwhale. Arlecchino was, according to the original leaks, supposedly a test subject suffering of experiments conducted by the research institute which would tie her in to the Fontaine lore but now she just has a brooding dark edgy ancient curse. I'm almost positive that the lore of the descenders will be rewritten too causing more plot holes only to be filled with a quick "oh you know, they knew a guy from Natlan" level band-aid.
No. 445364
>>445351The Cyno stuff hurts so much. His treatment in general pisses me off. Yes, at least he's not forgotten like other characters, but being reduced to bad puns and a TCG obsession does him dirty, because even with the lore mess-up he's such an interesting character that would actually have depth unlike any of the Natlan waifus.
I'm kind of getting to a point where part of me doesn't even want Venti's second SQ anymore, because I don't trust Hoyo not to completely butcher his lore.
No. 445367
>>445364>at least he's not forgotten like other charactersbeing forgotten by fat xiao and co. is a blessing at this point, and it's what i want most for my own fav to avoid having to witness even more liveleaks-tier butchery. i just hate that it's gotten to this point. seeing our favs on-screen should feel fantastic, but now it's become something to be dreaded. i'm sorry about cyno too, it's a shame to see how much he's been flanderized.
>Venti's second SQapparently the reason we haven't gotten that yet is because the former head screenwriter's favorite character was venti, he even had a bunch of venti fans thanking him on the post announcing his departure. i've no doubt he would've done venti justice, and i'm gonna feel absolutely terrible for the guy when, on top of fucking all his original plans up, they inevitably fuck up his fav too.
No. 445380
>>444982>If I had purchased the skin before seeing it in action I would be so fucking pissed.I'm one of the retards that jumped to purchase it… I even redownloaded genshin to get it. I like her original outfit more, it's one of my favourite designs in the game, but I thought this was cute enough and it would be my last purchase for genshin even if I came back to play again when Snezhnaya drops. I don't look at the character from that angle when I glide anyway but it is seriously pissing me off to see that my money now means "goon outfit is preferred to normal og outfit" to hyv. Never spending money on any of their games again. Probably never even logging back in tbh.
>>445194I named him a male name I like from my language. It means hope. I've been called cringe for it but it fits him regardless of the meaning imo.
>>445364>being reduced to bad puns and a TCG obsessionThis is when hyv's bad character writing took a nosedive for me. They give characters a serious and a goofy side, repeatedly emphasize the retarded side like it's supposed to be funny, never explore the lore or their place in the story, then think they expanded their personality and created multifaceted characters when all they did was make them annoying and/or cringe with no redeeming qualities.
The only reason Sumeru and Fontaine had good main stories was really because they were too far in the writing progress for the new writing team to completely fuck it up imo. Even then they couldn't keep up with it, not addressing points that were probably intended to be explored later on. Like does anyone remember how rich people in Fontaine traffic kids? And Lyney and Lynette were
victims of this? Or how people are living in the sewer under the capital. Nothing really came out of that. There were obvious intentions to explore class conflicts and the rich criminals that never get sent to the fortress because even if the courtroom is just, the outside world that decides who gets a trial isn't. Well, we'll never explore these topics now. Only goon and vroom vroom.
No. 445396
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>>445393Its already been a year with only 1 male five-star (Kinich, in case you forgot since he was a non-existent background character in the AQ). I think there was a leak saying that there are no male five stars for the rest of the 5.x patches. Its definitely believable but leakers have also been getting things wrong for a while now so idk, cope how you want.
Inazuma story was indeed garbage but at least exploration was enjoyable, and it had some good world quests/music.
No. 445399
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>>445380>They give characters a serious and a goofy side, repeatedly emphasize the retarded side like it's supposed to be funnyWrio making the 10th mention about drinking tea on his 3rd sentence
No. 445411
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>Capitano was about to be ready with the war against Heavenly Principles
>Became another Khaenrian with a death wish
That explains why the teasing we got in version 3.x and 4.x doesn't match what we got in Natlan, and why his origins felt like Nu-Arlecchino but recycled.
No. 445414
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>>445302dude i wish i could read all that, but i dont speak chinese.
No. 445423
>>445416I feel like the vast majority of the characters have job autism, I have a hard time thinking of any of the genshin characters that isn't in some level obsessed with his/her job, a short list would probably be:
>Kaeya>Fischl>Kazuha>Razor>ChildeAnd honestly that's about it, I think that's genuine bad writing, like if they can't make their characters do/talk about something that isn't a job, then maybe they should check themselves, then again, it's already too late, hell, when it comes to just the characters being basic, it was too late already in Sumeru, where they could've tried to make the characters slightly more deep by saying that Liyueans are just obsessed with working because of how the nation itself is like, and then they could've done something else with the sumerian characters, but it all circles back to being autistic about a job they have, and it wouldn't be such a pain in the ass to experience if the overall plot of the game wasn't not so slowly becoming gibberish.
No. 445431
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>>445194I liked his previous name even if it was Japanese edgelord tier so I named him Kuni, short for Kunikuzushi.
No. 445451
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>>445302>>445424unfortunately the pictures cant be translated nor the pdf files, but i screenshotted the page that can be
No. 445481
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This retard is my personal genshin lolcow. If you ever needed to dumb down your intelligence with some good old TIF retardation, just take a scroll on her account for five minutes. Mind you, she’s not even saying picrel as a hime but as a pure blooded fujoshi, kek. No attraction to women, nothing to gain: just being a self-hating, patriarchal-dick riding pick-me for the love of the game.
No. 445484
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>>445481(Picrel is under OP from last post)
> As a gay trans man> DysphoriaYou want to go shopping and braid hair with coombait? There’s nothing ‘womanly’ or ‘feminine’ to be found in a character that was shat out by a writing room full of self-professed incels, genuinely what the fuck is wrong with this woman kek
No. 445486
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>>445411according to the original leaker, this excel sheet is only a minuscule part of an allegedly 144k file leak containing a bunch of concepts, pdf files, and other excel files. every damn day i pray for the release of those other files, especially for us harbingerfags. i feel like that's going to be the only way we'll ever get a glimpse of what they were truly meant to be. though i'll probably have a conniption reading them because even with just this excel sheet, there's so much fatui shit that was scrapped when it was filled to the brim with immense potential. in fact the very same sheet here references arlecchino helping dottore track an unnamed party (realistically scara) down. remember how in inazuma, childe was doing just that? yeah, it was probably going to become a full-on manhunt at some point and move the overall plot forward a whole bunch. but no, he's just an irrelevant student now. i don't care how good people think sumeru and fontaine stories were, the fact is they probably could have been a million times better under the old helm and we're just being made to settle for crumbs.
>>445411>>445425holy fuck my thoughts exactly. khaenriah used to be exciting, now it's just been reduced to a band-aid fix for retcons complete with edgy angstfuel curses. remember when dain was actually one of a kind?
No. 445490
>>445409Xbalanque also introduced Neuvillette during his release and he got deleted off the game save for a few dialogues. Hate to be doompilling but it's just how it is.
>>445411Earlier leaks said that Capitano was one of the descenders. That would've fit in with the lore so well and explained a lot about why he was shrouded in so much mystery and the mask could've been to hide his identity, but no, it was just to hide his rotten corpse. It's like they're taunting the old writers.
>>445486>now it's just been reduced to a band-aid fix for retcons complete with edgy angstfuel curses.Exactly. Literally everything is explained away with just as
>Um… Khaenri'ah stuff!Even when it makes no sense, like Arlecchino's curse. All the excitement to learn more about them is gone.
No. 445502
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>>445481Of course she's one of these retards who draws Neuvillette like a shriveled up old scrote despite him being immortal, canonically seen as so beautiful that one woman commits crimes just to see him, and the description of his story quest literally saying "the vicissitudes of time leave no mark nor trace on his body". Sometimes I can't tell if it's just the ugly man psyop or that people like this are so illiterate that they think white hair + cane = old man and don't consider anything else. What old man even has that much hair with no signs of balding?
No. 445505
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>>445502I've seen a few artists draw him in similar ways to give him an otherworldly look/feel with the sharper features and paler skin, similar to picrel with Zhongli, but now that you mention it, I've never seen immortal female characters like Ei or Kokomi have aged features like people do for Neuvi and Zhongli…
No. 445510
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>>445502And the ugliest Wrio. I still don't get why so many western fanartists wanted him specifically to be a disgusting slob.
No. 445617
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Wake the fuck up there’s a new Venti nendoroid doll.
No. 445639
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Why are women on Twitter always so assblasted on behalf of fictional women from gacha games? I have seen so many of these unfunny "hehe gotchu" posts since Mizuki's design dropped, and even when someone spells it out to them that maybe the two male characters who show their knees are not the same as every single female character flashing their panties and pushing their ass toward the camera, they still choose to argue in bad faith.
>>445481>>445484It's genuinely funny how TIMs, TIFs, "sapphics," incels, and 20 other demographics will come crawling out of the woodwork the moment you say ONE thing that is slightly negative regarding any female character from hoyoslop.
I am so glad her ugly Capitano design got BTFO'd.>>445617He is so adorable!
No. 445649
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Mizuki's introduction event has a literal bathhouse, they really aren't being subtle about the prostitution references
No. 445655
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>>445639>>445651>>445643Same retards going "I AM SO CUNTY AND I'M SERVING TEE HEE". The jokes write themselves when you see picrel. The OP deleted the OG and it's all I could find.
No. 445661
>>445654Japan is a degenerate patriarchal country and bath house girls back then whored theirselves to encourage men to return to their establishment.
Aside from that, Mizuki's hair and clogs is reminiscent of stereotypical oiran.
Her face looks like a succubus, her weird eyes are probably a to love ru pussy eye reference. (I hate myself for knowing that)
She has so many whore references
No. 445687
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No. 445697
>>445687>Kit: Whatever Scaramouche does>male-centric puriteens could never make me hate u… my yuri queenI'm crying
nonnie jesus christ kek can't wait for Slutya's story quest in Snezhnaya where she goes on a mommydom date with male traveler
>>445694>All 2 of themAnon your optimism is showing
No. 445721
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Female character design in Genshin peaked with Yun Jin and I am so pissed we'll never see a beautiful, non-coom design like hers again. IIRC it's also been 2 years since she's appeared in an event…
No. 445723
>>445655What I don't get is why they start sperging about R1999 and PTN. And even then I don't know if they were "intended for women" but the troids definitely took after Genshin to play
victims.
No. 445752
>>445639Feel more like people don't want to admit that the games they play are meant to cater to a largely male demographic, and that any woman who plays and enjoy the game is just bonus revenue for them.
But the issue is a lot of large gaming companies as a whole that are ran by men, and thus they pander also to men. Even the ones that do have a large female cast or fmcs.
I remember reading an article about Remember Me, and how publishers the fmc a male love interest because it to them the player having to kiss a dude would be too weird.
Still I don't get how people look at a game where you can shove the camera up a character skirt, have their boobs jiggle at the slightest breeze or see them stuffed into tit-socks like ganyu and think, "Oh, this one must be fore the girlies~" Mihoyo also acts like putting male characters in their game is similar to pulling teeth at times.
No. 445779
Reminder that Mihoyo hired a genuine pedophile to design Zenless Zone Zero's characters
>>>/ot/2070482Anyone who plays or advertises Mihoyoshit is culpable for the growth of pedo ideology. Cease if you can.
No. 445812
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>>445731She has actual, connected sleeves with no armpit exposure! The bit of exposed skin is from the neckline of her dress. Now that I think about it, Ayaka's skin is pretty similar but unfortunately they wasted it on a character with the personality of drywall.
No. 445842
>>445812It’s funny how all the short girls I like are the ones most properly dressed (ignoring shoulders, shorts and okay-length dresses)
> Hu Tao OG skin> Chevreuse> Chiori> Faruzan> Furina> Klee> Layla> Noelle> Yun JinAnd even then, I’m being pretty generous to some.
No. 445907
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No corrections, no nothing. Just fish farting all over my timeline with that management approved open-air pussy. Words cannot describe how much her design enrages me.
No. 445916
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Why is everyone losing their marbles over this?
I thought we all stopped playing when Raiden's tit sword animation burst was leaked.
No. 445925
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>>445916Sorry nona but I’m fujotrash and I haven’t been able to get Zhongli and Childe on the same account despite starting at 1.1… after 5.4 I will finally be free, my mission will be over at last.
No. 445926
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Kek at how beautifully this image lays out the degradation of Genshin designs post-5.0. Shatsca and Mishitzi look like they come from completely unrelated franchises (and not even the same one as each other)
No. 445929
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Would.
No. 445937
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This is the most sensible non-LC take on Mizuki I’ve seen so far. I’m guessing everyone else keeps getting shouted down by incels and pick-mes.
No. 446016
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kek
No. 446019
>>446011Genshin's only saving grace is that it's single player and you're not forced to interact with the rabid players.
>>446016Don't forget that she's madly in love with Aether and entire patch is based around her.
No. 446020
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>>445907I love how hoyo male poses are always just some dude standing there that they probably came up with in 2 seconds while the waifus get in these retarded poses to alert coomers fried brains
No. 446043
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>>446020>>446022I try not to think a lot about this but the bar is in literal hell for male characters. They are not allowed to have sexy poses, vibrant palettes, or big eyelashes, and to top it all off, they wear Hoyo's equivalent of a burka. Meanwhile, so many female characters, on top of wearing borderline fetishwear, are also posed like sexy Victoria's Secret models in their splash art. It is genuinely so unfair.
No. 446091
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>>446020It does so many of the designs a disservice, as well…
No. 446103
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>>446020I hate how since Neuvillette doesn't really have any dynamic animations it actually works for him but the effect is watered down by 80% of the other male characters having the exact same pose.
No. 446168
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>>446166>BlacksmithYou can just do whatever the fuck nonsense and as long as there's tits and ass, moids and pickmes will eat it up huh? I wonder what the twitter copes for this being a totally great blacksmith design are
No. 446226
>>446117They had to do soft re-launch for ZZZ to get rid off their shit TV mode and give free 5* husbando (not before nerfing him to hell ofc). Seems like worked for them since ZZZ ended up #2 after LADS in revenue. Only time will tell if it worked tho, their next patch is two coomer bait waifus (they're making ZZZ copy of HSR's Robin).
>>446168I bet same person who made this bitch was the one who made the onsen prostitute.
No. 446259
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Did they… Did they do like in ZZZ and add fucking ass jiggle physics to Mavuika? Please tell me her banner tanked…
No. 446264
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>>446259Coomers seem to love the jiggle so wouldn't doubt if they add it to every single game they have.
No. 446268
>>446263>>445926>>446227It's insane how the new characters are ignored even by coomers themselves, whenever I want to watch porn of my genshin husbandos
I know, porn bad I can't help but check how the other characters are doing and I can easily say that the new girls aren't popular, like at all, even with the fucking coomers. Everyone rightfully clings to the characters that aren't obvious coombaits because even coomers want a shred of decency at first before going full retard.
The female characters that are popular with coomers are:
>Keqing>Lumine>Barbara >Amber>Ice Claymore Mondstadt girl (because incest)>Hu taoLike, if it wasn't for this thread I wouldn't know about most of the new characters even by looking for anime porn because they're forgettable as fuck.
So my hypothesis is that they're only liked because they're shiny and new, and gacha addicts will always br gacha addicts.
No. 446277
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>>446268Here's popularity ratings.
No. 446297
>>446267>they gave her a BBL so the coomers can still glance at her ass when running aroundgod don't remind me, i fucking hate that they did that to arle. cover her up but give her big boobas, BBL, and forcibly insert some "step on me" cringe in her trailer because god forbid the poor coomers not be catered to at literally all times. it's like they tried to "compensate" for the sin of covering her up instead of committing to the bit just this one (1) damn time. we really can't have shit. it's a shame too, because the trope of the token handsome woman is obviously very well-loved by female playerbases in asia (see rika) so this was a big missed opportunity
but thats nothing new for her character i suppose.
>>446264wow, they really just transferred the boob jiggle physics engine to the ass and called it a day kek.
No. 446309
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>>446277As lolcow's designated Sethos' coomer the long, looong scroll only to find my no.1 husbando at the very bottom of the list was an incredible comedic build-up. At least I can say that simping for the least popular Genshin character frees me from the retarded infighting that comes with more famous husbandos/waifus.
No. 446311
>>446289Ayaitto shippers were seething over it but as one myself I actually thought the voiceline was fucking hilarious and added some sauce to their dynamic that could be worked out in fanfics.
>>446293Tfw Xilonen's characterisation is so inconsistent she doesn't even feel like the same woman who was yawning in a tree in that first Natlan trailer.
>>446297I didn't even know she had a BBL and mine is nearly friendship 10. Oh god…
No. 446315
>>446226>First Dr. Ratio>Then that guy from Wuwa with the robot arm>Now free HarumasaThese games are so obvious in handing out free male 5 stars. They know their garbage games cant survive without female players who also draw fanart and roll for the shitty waifus alongside their husbandos. Anyone who falls for this shit is dumb I'm sorry.
>>446313Men without laws and societal shame are 100% all faggots and pedos
No. 446316
>>446293>so that Kinich is not the only five starDont be mistaken nona, Kinich only exists as a shield for hoyo so that no one can
technically say "why are there no male five stars". If they could get away with it, he either wouldnt exist or would just be a four star. Its to shut us up, similar with Ororon who is the only playable male with story relevance, but to balance that out they made him Citlali's tard child and a 4 star.
No. 446318
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When did Hoyo start pandering to scrotes so hard? Not denying they were pandering to them from the beginning, but recently they've gone full incel with Natlan. Personally I think it was in mid-Fontaine, after Lyney and Wriothesley banner
No. 446324
>>446318Probably Sumeru when incels complained that there were too many male 5
characters being released, even if the ratio between female and male 5 were almost equal 4 males to 3 females(although when you consider Dehya the controversy around her and her kit and being on standard banner maybe it's more like 4 to 2). Still Sumeru had an overall larger female cast when you added in the other 4* characters.
No. 446327
>>446324Tighnari was also put on standard banner, although his kit wasn't dogshit like Dehya's. Which bothers me tbh because Dehya is one of my favourite female characters in the game yet massively underappreciated.
>>446318After Da Wei took over and all the original writers and producer left. I'd say the damage was already being done during Fontaine's release and by Arlecchino's revised story quest dropping Genshin was officially dead.
No. 446328
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Kek at the App Store censoring her coom design
No. 446399
>>446357Arknights. Despite being primarily a waifu game with a rather
toxic incel fanbase, I do appreciate the male characters, they’re very well written. However, the way the game handles its male operators is frustrating, much like Genshin, but I’ll ignore it for my own sanity kek. Around last January, the Korean Arknights account disqualified a female artist from an artwork competition and deleted her entry from YouTube, all because incels found out she had posted a mild comment celebrating international women’s day back in 2018. Honestly, I don’t know why I keep playing gacha games like this and Genshin. It’s self harm at this point.
No. 446408
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>>446399Tbh, I get you, the setting of arknights is honestly interesting and the male operators are pretty cute.
>tfw no crossover with Genshin so my husbandos can be in arknights too and so I don't even consider going back to genshin for them.I'm mad because I even gave them crowns and everything, all that grinding for a game that shat itself on the foot and then shoot itself a million times.
No. 446418
It’s crazy that in Mauvika’s quest she “defeats” xbalanque and like captiano praised her for doing so. Mauvika doesn’t seem to have flaws and is super amazing at everything apparently.
>>446376Seconding Infinity Nikki.
No. 446437
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I recently saw a twitter post that said:
> I don't love Genshin Impact, I love Teyvat
To encompass their emotions about the game post-Natlan. It made me realise that I feel the exact same way. The open-world and lore from 1.1 was setting itself up for an incredible pay-off someday. You would hear people recommending Genshin by saying 'the characters are meh but TRUST me the lore is amazing' to get people to play. Now it doesn't have even a scrap of that heightened anticipation anymore, of wondering where all these detailed threads were leading. If Fontaine left them loose, Natlan cut them right off. It's no wonder I spend all my time logged in these days strolling Liyue aimlessly, trying to soak up that nostalgic joy of 4 years ago when lockdown was at it's peak and the game's possibilities felt endless. I know a lot of people are dancing on Genshin's grave at the moment but for what it's worth: I really am going to miss Teyvat in the eyes of Cai's old creative team. Farewell, old friend.
No. 446446
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>>446437For me the game ended unfinished in early Sumeru. I still love some characters, some are peak husbando material but they're currently in a perpetual scrote torturing hell there's no escape from. I still think of them, but I don't take into account anything post 3.1 or 3.2 at most.
No. 446477
>>446446Same, that's honestly the end to me, which is funny because my laptop refused to load anything after the first part of Sumeru kek, it's ominous even.
I still love the beginning of the Lore and my husbandos because they have interesting stories after all.
Anyways, what is even going in right now? I refuse to play at this point, I need to know how is this shit going to end because I'm morbidly curious.
No. 446489
>>446357LADS, Infinity Nikki, Destiny & Warframe.
I guess if you like the Genshin anime style with action combat but without all the waifu pandering you're SoL though. Maybe emulate older Tales games?
No. 446801
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>>446531I give them some props for finally learning how to design good husbandos at least. I thought all of their previous male character designs were ugly as sin but this one's actually a lot better than what's been in Genshin recently. Still not gonna play it though.
No. 446891
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>>446801I don't like his 3D model. I don't know why, but I think there's something off in regards to his face to me
No. 446897
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Preemptively mourning for Dahlia when they'll reveal him as a filler garbage 4*
No. 446906
>>446904You just
know they re-used the bike thing from ZZZ. It's too blatant, too close together not to notice. They just released bike gang in ZZZ full of waifus, then Mavuika suddenly has one too?
No. 446933
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>>446897I'm trying so hard not to think about it. I love his design so much and I love Mondstadt boys in general, I just hope he can work with my other boys somehow. He doesnt need to be Faruzan tier but I'll take a useful 4 star pleaaassee no useless DPS brick
No. 447308
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I had a dream that the incels had a meltdown about Sigewinne, calling her a femcel character because her dad (who mogs them) can send pedophiles to prison to be beaten to death by Wriothesley (who also mogs them) so they deleted her from the game and combined her kit and design with Mualani. Then they had another meltdown about censoring Mualani so they reverted the changes and made all the male characters bald
No. 447319
>>447308You had a vision of the future,
nonnie, when slutya gets released they will make all of the male characters bald.
No. 447376
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From a purely narrative perspective, do you guys think Inazuma or Natlan was worse? Just off the AQ alone, put aside everything else. You can also mention another region, its just that I usually hear Inazuma is the worst AQ and recently everyone is shitting on Natlan's 5.3 story.
No. 447385
>>447376I think Inazuma's main story was worse because it had so many problems but Natlan repeated a lot of those same problems unnecessarily. Natlan is not far behind Inazuma in terms of shit quality.
In terms of shit character designs Inazuma at least had Itto and Gorou and now Chiori so I think the characters are worse in Natlan. Only character I really like the design of is Kachina (and Capitano, but what they did is such an insult I find it hard to count him).
No. 447403
>>447376Natlan is completely irredeemable, I'm sorry. The characters aside from Mualani, Kinich and Kachina are complete garbage. Granted, Inazuma's Ayaka, Yae and now Mizuki aren't much better, but at least their designs have some sort of cohesion or theme. Natlan's just are a clusterfuck from start to finish.
As much as I loathe Raiden, her capacity to keep a modicum of decorum during her booba sword animation places her leagues above Mavuika and her stupid bike.
For the harbingers, at least Signora had the dignity to perish and not being dangled over players as bait like Capitano. That and I really liked Scaramouche, at least before his engoodening.
Overall they're both horrible but somehow Inazuma manages to fumble less things than Natlan.
No. 447448
>>447376In Inazuma, even with Raiden's poorly written story, we still got to see some great moments for the male characters. Kazuha had amazing development, Thoma was adorable (and we even saved him from Raiden!) and Gorou got some decent screen time. The scene where Tomo's vision awakened and helped Kazuha parry Raiden's killing blow aimed at the Traveler was very nice. In hindsight Natlan was absolutely terrible. Kinich barely got any screen time, and Ororon's writing was just awful. They hyped up this whole plot about there being a traitor working with the Fatui, even having Ororon ask the Traveler to keep it a secret, only for the Traveler to run off and snitch everything to Mavuika. She didn't even do anything about it either, simply forgave Ororon and that's it. One thing that still annoys me is how Kinich offered to show the Traveler around, but we just brushed him off to keep hanging out with Mualani and her stupid tribe instead.
Putting male character screen time aside, I find the way the tribes and cultures were written incredibly disrespectful imo. As a brown woman I wasn't happy with how Sumeru was handled, they just lumped every slightly brown/MENA culture into one region and called it a day. But at least Sumeru had something going for it though, you can tell what vibes they were going for. Natlan, on the other hand, barely has anything cultural aside from food recipes and lore carved into stone tablets that most players probably don't even bother reading. The characters don't make any sense either. I'm not a fan of Nilou or Dori, but at least they somewhat tied into common MENA stereotypes, like belly dancing or a jinn. Natlan is all over the place with their characters. We've got a rollerskating DJ blacksmith wearing hooker clothes, a genki surfer girl who was supposed to be the Neuvillette replacement for incels, a coomer Mary Sue motorbiker singer supposed to be a god, a stoic pixel art gamer nobody really cares about, a cowboy with a shiny ass and comically giant gun, a drunk lolibaba crushing on Traveler and a Nosferatu looking emo bat guy farmer. Given Genshin's track record of terrible writing and their focus on accurately portraying only Chinese/Japanese cultures, I at least expected them to throw in a stereotypical sombrero character or something, but no, the whole region just feels like a mess with no clear direction. If they just called Natlan a region of unfinished concepts or dev WIPs, it would honestly make more sense lmao.
No. 447548
>>447376I'd say Inazuma was worse mostly because of the inconclusive buildup, but to be frank, Natlan isn't that far. The only thing I'd give credit for Natlan is that they stuck up to their shitty Avengers-tier, run out of the mill shonen plot (with a highly likely probability that the lore behind it was being retconned). Despite that I was still in a hurry to finish the last act to get my bonus primos due to how utterly predictable and dragged out the whole plot is.
It doesn't help that the cast of characters is rather bland:
>Mualani is Yoimiya 2.0>Xilonen is lazy but also a genius and also a party girl in a slutty outfit and also telling us how non-impactful it is to carve our ancient name>Citlali is lolibaba who stole Mona's traits and has a crush on the traveler, also she really loves booze>Kinich is irrelevant and only called in for his antics with Ajaw>Ororon had an interesting arc but was just brushed Like That>Chasca had a sister who died and also she's fucking ugly and boring>Mavuika-sue is always rightWhat's up with terminal incel devs and their obsession with making the female characters as slutty as possible with overdosing on tit jiggle, adding ass jiggle, retarded holes in clothing, and 1 or 2 personality traits on top of them being nearly flawless?
Capitano died in the most retraded possible way too and HYV is still teasing about him with another short video. Capitanomains are still on copium jfc.
No. 447551
>>447548"how am i supposed to work if pp not hard? >:(" - hoyo employees
i'm sure they use their IPs just to make their made-up waifus "come to life"
No. 447575
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Okay fuck it sure whatever I guess
No. 447581
>>447579It's gonna be the same with this Mizuki succubus-hoe: psychologist but also addicted to farts. Expect more archetypes like her or Slutya
>>445687 and her yuribait gf Whoreka for the next months.
No. 447635
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Seems they’re starting to catch up.
No. 447636
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>>447635> Internal politicsHow interesting, you don’t say…
No. 447650
>>447635>>447636Let's see
>Delayed drip marketing>Deplayed expansions>Characters that don't make any sense>Retarded planning and sudden retconsSeems like the resource hoarding is holding water. Da Wei just doesn't want Honkek to fail.
No. 447692
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>>447658Who do they all sound like the woke version of pic related
No. 447825
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It's a crime that Hoyo deprived us of him in favour of those random, non-plot relevant whores. Instead they brought him back just to glaze Marysuika. Fuck them so much.
No. 447861
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>>447825I hate how they chose to pander to scrotes
and pedo anons on here by making him this ugly little child. We could have had hot tan adult warrior Xbalanque, and instead got that retarded pasty shonen MC twerp. Also I went on Xitter and searched for "Xbalanque" to find picrel, and now I'm pretty sure I have been put on a watchlist because of all the degen shota porn that was just shoved down my throat
No. 447873
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>>447870Kek
triggered shotafag. Keep flicking your bean to this rancid faggot then
(infighting) No. 447874
>>447869>now all we're left with is an ugly unserious shota whose sole purpose seems to be glazing MavuikaAnd didn't he even choose to possess that stupid little retard of a kid? Why the fuck would he do that instead of picking a grown male body that looks more similar to his real form? Obviously we know why from a meta standpoint, but narratively it makes absolutely 0 sense.
>>447870>Keep seething because your delusional believe in hoyoverse design team left you dryThe last time I opened the game was to pull for Wriothesley in October 2023 kek, my hope for any good male designs has died a long time ago. I'm just mourning what could have been if HYV wasn't a piece of shit gooner company.
No. 448254
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>>444946We essentially sacrificed a retarded coomer for another retarded coomer. Can't there be any decent CEO that doesn't think with his microdick?
No. 448278
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>>448254I wonder how the normal Hoyoverse employees feel about all of this. It's clearly not Da Wei or Cai who came up with the early-game lore, respectable designs and fun character personalities since they were too busy cooming to Hi3 and Eula/Shenhe/Raiden to give a fuck. I'm aware they're getting laid off rn but if I were one of them I'd be sooo pissed seeing my hard work go to waste under a billion-dollar incel tug-of-war.
No. 448409
>>448386A few of the male characters are, in my opinion. Dainsleif, of course, Zhongli, Childe (even though he keeps getting butchered further and further, starting with that worthless Inazuman event he was in with Xinyan), Albedo, Xiao, and Kaeya, even female characters like Ningguang, Cloud Retainer, Chiori (I always love bitchy female characters), and I always found Rosaria intriguing. There's a few characters before they were retconned like Baizhu, Cyno, and Arlecchino that had good intrigue. Ayato as well had some intriguing characterization that was wasted (him being one of the first human characters to acknowledge he knows the twins aren't from Teyvat was interesting), but I suppose I'm being very generous.
No. 448419
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Mavuika is such a failure of an archon
No. 448540
>>448402You just said he didn't go through an obvious change, I wanted to know if you thought there was a small one.
>>448420>fic authorsThere you go kek if you already like a design or concept you'll be able to just imagine a better version while hoyo can sit on their asses as they reduce him to guy that likes to fight people.
No. 448807
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They linger on this bitch’s armpit for a full second in this new ZZZ ultimate shot, there’s no way retards can look at Mizuki’s ass flash and picrel side by side and think HYV has anything but vile intentions
No. 449120
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Saw this comment on Reddit and it made me realize how every gacha game is like this now.
No. 449367
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>>449192>>449199It's a Kinich check. If you have Kinich, you'll wipe the floor with the second half (the much harder half). If not, you're in for a bad time. The team I used was Zhongli (so I can brain off spin2win), Kinich, Xiangling, Bennett.
No. 449532
>>449432>When my Welkin runs out, I'm not going to renew it. I'm not even a husbandofag, but Hoyo's blatant disrespect for female player combined with their lazy, whorish character design in Natlan made me not want to give them another cent.Same here. The only characters I've wanted to roll in recent lines have all been reruns (Lyney and Zhongli cons) and were the only reason for me to welkin.
Another reason I don't wanna give them money anymore is their continous attempts to neuter all male characters for their incel audiences (just think about Kinich's 10 minutes in the AQ, Capitano and Xbalanque not being playable yet perpetually fellating Mavuika whenever she's on screen, Ororon calling himself our grandson to fuel incel Citlali delusions and Wanderer's fujobaiting with Sethos to name a few). I'm digusted, I don't want to spend a single dime on this game anymore.
No. 449571
>>449532If even lorefags are done with Natlan, Hoyo really fumbled the ball. Interestingly enough, he points out the intense waifu glazing by pitting 3 male characters against Da Wei's waifu expy
>Capitano who dies in 23 lines of dialogue just for Mavuika to avoid accountability>Xbalanque who was only used to shill Mav>Kinich who won the tournament but still got his only moment stolen by MavKek this game
No. 449579
>>449570Again, I did Zhongli, Kinich, Bennett, and Xiangling. I don't know what characters you have but you really want a pyro unit to deal with the cryo bitch and to damage the shields on the other two faster (burning deals extra damage to them since every tick of burning counts towards breaking the shield). I like a shielder because that dumb plant at the end really hurts if he combos you but you could probably substitute more damage if you're a greasy gamer who's good at dodging.
Side 1 I cleared with both a Wriothesley comp and an Arlecchino comp with Layla as the shielder to freeze the Suanni. Wriothesley was kind of slow because I put Bennett and Xiangling on side 2 but it was doable. Arle was a lot faster because she doesn't care about teammates.
No. 449772
>>449199I had to actually dust my Childe of for this one, also the stupid nightsoul shield thing gets very easily destroyed by dendro reactions like spread especially if you use Fischl and Alhaitham. My team was vid related and i got 35 star first try. I missed one star for the the second floor first chamber and instead swapped childe with Wrio, because the boss is very easy to kill with cryo reactions. So i mangaged getting all stars that way. They are trying to bait you into pulling Natlan characters but do not lose hope. Also i cant believe that Childe can still cary in the abyss since 1.1 kek, i feel sorry that i have been lately replacing him with Neuvi. Childe is still the OG.
>>449735Problem is that you need pyro on the first chambers.
>>449367Maybe i will try to get him on my rerun because i dont think we will get any other 5 star male natlan characters. But its just that my dislike of natlan characters is so strong, i think his design is okay, but i really dislike the 2d pixel art attack animation. I did enjoy his gameplay in the trial, do you need to use XL and Bennett with him or are there other options? Asking because so many other characters also need those.
No. 449790
>>449772I use thoma and xingqiu with him, but bennet needs to be there too
I have tried pyro traveler but if they’re holding scroll, they might be a decent XL alternative
No. 449802
>>449793I also just log in for enjoyable events like Lantern Rite, which I always have a lovely time with. Idk who has time to play through all the content in the entire game all the time anyway. If the next nation is good, I’ll play more again when I can.
Doing entire patches with all the quests and exploration is unrealistic for me so I usually prefer events anyway. The Inazuma spring festival that had Kazuha backstory content was one I really adored.
No. 449840
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I don't have interest in this videogame but…
Poor Venti.. him has becomed in the "fetish toy" for the degenerated and coomer moids.
No. 449870
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>>449862Just imagine if actually Venti were a bishie.
No. 449886
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>>449850>>449862Especially his outfit in the manga. It's disgusting.
No. 449901
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>The Lan Yan collab with Xiao shut down after CN yumes stormed it
Based. When will S*thos get the same treatment?
No. 449985
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>>449901Fuck out of here with your Sethos slander, I hope Wanderer dies in the main story because his fans are so loud and annoying x
No. 450016
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What did Sethos do besides exist? I swear the husbando drought is rotting anons' brains.
No. 450020
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>>450016His appearance in Cyno's second story quest retconned Cyno's deal with Hermanubis.
No. 450021
>>450016Mihoyo is apparently forcing Sethos and Scara to interact all the time and making Sethos obsessed with Scara to please the incels, who hate how close Scara is with their lolishit Nahida. I also heard he's a semi Haikaveh shipper in the story.
I personally don't care about Sethos but I think he's very pretty, so his existence is whatever to me.
No. 450104
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>>450016Hello, Sethos-anon here! I started maining him on release and fell in love with when I heard his voicelines for the first time. He has a naturally raspy and flirty voice which I found extremely charming. His design is sleek and nice to look at from behind, with a sexy low back window and a nice shoulder-to-waist ratio, especially with the scarf. He has the black sleeves and underarm gap which moids found sexy on Raiden (and which I finally understand the appeal of now). His hair looks soft and bounces cutely when he walks. I love bows and had always been waiting for a charged-aim dps like him to come along, and the fact he’s hybrid makes him even more versatile and fun to play. I also like the challenge posed by his fast-paced style, since it requires good timing, efficient particle management and a modicum of aiming skill. As for his personality, he echoes the dissonant charm of Childe being a cute and sociable boyfriend-type while also being a freakish outcast with his own weird and kind of fucked-up perspective on life. I don’t care much for his dynamics with the rest of the cast (and especially Scaramouche). I think he is an absolute delight in his own right and I wish Hoyoverse hadn’t done him dirty by using him as fodder in their incel wars. I don’t expect anyone else to like him as much as I do (or even like him at all) but I am just tired of hearing nothing but Scara fans bitching and whining about Sethos’ existence 24/7. That’s the short version!
No. 450132
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>>450104Sorry anon, my question wasn't meaning to denigrate Sethos. I agree with you, actually. I meant the opposite, that I don't understand where the hate suddenly came from. It seemed like bait.
>>450020Dumb but not the character's fault imo.
>>450021Wait, wasn't the last time Scara had a major role in the last summer event? Not gonna lie I get annoyed when Tighnari and Cyno are stapled together nearly 24/7 but that doesn't make me hate Tighnari. Men are terminally retarded.
>>450028This is a tough one. Probably Sumeru in terms of how many in the region I like (and for Cyno), though Inazuma and Fontaine are really close behind. Mondstadt ain't bad but I don't understand the Diluc love.
No. 450137
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Apparently, Cai Haoyu's LinkedIn states he's been producer of Genshin only until 2020. Who the fuck has been managing this game this whole time then?
No. 450165
>>450016People's hatred of Sethos is insane. He hasn't done anything wrong and he's also not obsessed with Scara as some other nonna here claimed. He's just extremely social, outgoing and curious, so he's tried to befriend Scara. But he's also been hanging out with Cyno outside the latter's second SQ, and has even had a scene with Nilou during Nahida's birthday event. It's clear that Hoyo has been trying to integrate him with the rest of the Sumeru crowd, but some insane Scara simps apparently take it to mean he's stealing their husbando. We make fun of delusional waifu moids here and then some nonnas here behave exactly the same. It's sad.
Sethos is far from my favourite character and as a Cyno simp I really don't like his lore being retconned, but that's solely Hoyo's fault. Scara mains really need to take a chill pill, their seething is ridiculous.
No. 450253
>>450243>KavehGood taste
nonnie, I like him too
No. 450349
>>450137while looking up hoyoverse lay offs, I found this
>Recently, miHoYo founder Cai Haoyu’s AI company, Anuttacon, which was founded in 2023, has launched large-scale global recruitment efforts. The recruitment spans several cutting-edge technical fields, including:
>Large-scale language models and generative models
>Personalized video generation technology
>Video data processing and generation systems
>Multimodal technology
>Reinforcement learning and feedback systems
>Intelligent agents and virtual characters
>Data processing and evaluation
>Distributed systems and GPU optimizationI am starting to think recent genshin lore is written by AI…
No. 450488
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>>450349>>450137This explains why some shit makes no sense lore-wise, I can imagine the angry moids typing
>make a genshin impact story with NO BOYS and all of the girls love the MALE traveler. No. 450530
They wanted to make Natlan about the power of unity and friendship or whatever, but like what friendship…? Kinich, Mualani and Kachina hang out with each other I guess… oh wait, Kachina isn’t even one of the six heroes, Xilonen is. So okay, Kinich and Mualani maybe have the power of friendship or whatever though I don’t see them caring about each other that much. Xilonen and Chasca are “cool girls” mostly keeping to themselves, Ororon’s whole deal is that he’s a weirdo and his only friend seems to be Ifa or at least Ifa tolerates him. Iansan isn’t even some loner type, but she’s just… there. Mavuika is a perfect Mary Sue goddess, they were going with the true leader among her people not above them archetype, but in the last part of the AQ everyone is afraid to invite her to a fucking party. I know that relationships between characters in gachaslop shouldn’t be too deep, especially with waifushit direction, but it’s not like anybody made Hoyo make a story about this or Natlan as a whole, they announced the region years ago, but weren’t ready to commit neither with the culture predetermined for region even before the game itself nor with the theme of the AQ that was determined later, what a bunch of clowns.
No. 450684
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>>450488By ChatGPT. Accurate enough.
>>450530The cast feels blander than other regions. They really recycled and whitewashed their own archetypes and called it a day. If even lorefags want to gtfo, they've shot themselves in the foot big time.
No. 450896
>>450892Good riddance. This game is not worth your time, at all.
>I still feel empty.Get your mind occupied, play/watch literally anything else that might catch your interest.