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No. 525877
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I waited to see if anyone would make a new thread and took my shot. Please don't take the title seriously as I'm being a goofball. I'm the same nonna that made #19.
No. 526524
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Sorry to all the Durin nonas but my brain absolutely cannot reconcile that that weird purple-orange pixel dragon is supposed to be the same intimidating corpse from the 1.X Dragonspine update. Genshin is utterly incapable of delivering on its own suspense building from early game.
No. 526570
>>526524I can excuse Durin because there was buildup to him being the boy he could never become. The lore portrayed him as a naive child who thought he could become friends with the population he unknowingly terrorized.
>inb4 caring about Genshin lore in 2k25This one was hidden as early as 1.x so it's ok.
No. 526627
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>>526099Wriothesley and Childe arguably got the same combo. Just be happy it's not another blue bitch
No. 526751
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Of course the Lightkeeper guy is going to be nerfed and tied to robot waifu and the ugly loli is going to be overpowered. I really wish women would leave this fucking game but no one is making anything so it's another year of Stockholm Syndrome.
No. 526798
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I don't understand why the devs are so lazy and shitty when it comes to skins
No. 526799
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I really want this to happen for albedo and please include diluc.
No. 527202
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This better not be bait. Also fuck Aino being a good character they need to nerf her ass into non-existence.
No. 527614
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>YASS HOYO NEW BEAUTIFUL KWEENBIAN DIVA WE ALL CHEERED
Fandom retardation aside, she really does look naked on the side kek.
No. 527616
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Flins' splash art. Wish he didn't have that rat tail though.
No. 527632
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>>527616Man they leaned HARD into the shadow daddy trope. I wonder what his personality will be like
No. 527638
>>527614Have you seen her animations? Her boobs are just… fuck, they jiggle even when she's standing still, and it's much worse when she's running. Fuck.
I do like Flins' design, but the long hair at the back is horrible. He'd be so cool otherwise. Now watch him be nerfed to death in beta because male characters aren't allowed to be meta.
No. 527641
>>527638Did they modify the jiggle physics?i don't even remember Beidou or Lisa being this obnoxious.
>>527632Since Genshin doesn't even try: he's gonna be very edgy with a moe gap trait, and probably irrelevant in 6.0 because we need to glaze Columbina.
No. 527644
>>527640I completely forgot about the lolishit. At least her succubus-like tail is strapped to her bag, so we haven't reached extreme levels of degen yet.
>>527642I think the true shift happened with Natlan, mostly because of Mavuika and her extra ass-jiggle physics. Varesa got a new model implementing those too. The deer bimbo also looks like she has her dress pattern placed on her belly button too kek.
No. 527691
>>527614Slutya's coming was foretold to us by the prophetic nonna 6 months in advance
>>445687>>527675Ummmmmm, excuse me
nonnie, but her design including the balloon tits is actually a traditional nordic outfit based on deep mythology lore and it's extremely misogynist, lesbophobic and xenophobic of you to call her "trashy". Maybe learn to respect my sapphic queen mommy?
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>>527619>>527616Literally Idia Shroud.
No. 527792
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So Genshin is pulling back from their husbando drought? They are still begging for women to stay? ZZZ-tier of pathetic.
No. 527798
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>ACKSHUALLY SHE'S A BIG TITTY MOMMY HOURGLASS FIGURE BECAUSE SHE'S THE GODDESS OF FERTILITY
>Her moonshots also look like a dick kinda
>Her underwear literally disappear on the side
Also wasn't Varesa based on a fertility goddess too?
No. 527805
>>527772>Even if it turns out you only need 2 NK charactersNever fucking mind. Confirmed for needing 3 for full buffs. And some people will defend this shit.
>>527798I just realized they put those patterns in her dress so it looks like her bellybutton lol
No. 527826
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>>527798I seriously thought this was HSR or something when scrolling past. I feel so sad for the golden era of genshin right now
No. 528004
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Tinfoiling but I unironically think they copypasted Neuvillette's design and rig and tweaked it to make Flins because they fired all their female designers and realized that they needed to make more male characters because too many female players were leaving. This is also why Varka looks like a Wriothesley recolor
No. 528044
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Is there a chance we'll ever see another female character that isn't treated like this?
No. 528192
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>>527614I hate the fag who first used "her body is tea" and how it's now used to excuse misogynistic fanservice. Gay men are vermin.
No. 528249
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Someone has to study the effect Genshit and gachashit has in general on zoomtards because the non-pornbrained can agree Lauma is oversexualized, even by old-Genshin's standards, and you have in this order
>A fujotif
>Himetranny
>fauxbian handmaiden
By the way, it's disgusting how they somehow manage to outclass Escoffier in terms of gooner retardation because at least Escoffier had lingerie. This bimbo is basically naked on the side.
No. 528256
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>>528249Like I said before I love Lauma’s top half except the giant boobs of course. I love she’s basically a bandruí but she’s wearing a slutty renaissance fair costume and that what kills it for me.
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>>528249This character attracts every kind of pornsick freak. Trannies, virtue-signaling handmaidens and futafags are all projecting their fetishes onto her. I do not even care about Flins. He is just another ugly burka male. But it is still a little sad that shitterfags have already turned him into a dickless cuntboy tranny before the patch is even out.
No. 528282
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>>528262The designs have already sunk to Snowbreak levels. Thanks to the swarm of mentally ill women on twitter hoyo is practically untouchable. They can keep pushing out the most porn tier, hypersexualized waifus imaginable and libfems will still bend over backwards to claim it is all accurate feminist representation of ancient pagan goddesses. And if you criticize them you will get crucified for being a male centered misogynist who hates empowered women
No. 528405
>>528282Does she even wear panties? I doubt that China would let these designs fly unless they keep the cloud censorship on it all times.
Also I just noticed Lauma had a tiny ass window on her back. It's just a hole but it can't be more retarded than her underwear not holding.
No. 528474
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Wuwa really is the best thing that ever happened to Genshin. They can make the exact same type of fanservice designs as Wuwa, do the exact same ML moments as Wuwa, and Genshin's waifus will still be seen as superior even if it's the same trash. This is also why Genshin bringing out a whopping total of three men in Nod Krai is considered generous compared to Wuwa's one. The results of a lack of real competition in action.
No. 528521
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>>528044she looks like she just escaped from the human centipede
i miss the era when characters had interesting silhouettes and unique elements in their design. yunjin and xiao are some of those who came to mind. now everyone just looks like they came out of honkshit.
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>>528521I agreed. So many are overdesigned, poorly contextualized, and visually noisy. Unique elements get buried under trend-chasing. I love both Kaeya and Ningguang's design. They're simple yet memorable.
Plus, Mainland China’s entertainment industry is leaning hard into this sanitized, fast food marketable cosplay-safe for these low dopamine chronically ill online retards to slurp up slop.
It’s about "play it safe, follow the market, no risks." Just boring and generic.
No. 528601
>>528599It's all just fake hype too. Too many supposed fans don't actually like the characters or ships they're shilling for. It’s purely performative, especially any kind of virtue signalling. How else could we have gone from #boycotgenshin because Natlan is racist to "Natlan women aren't sexualised, you misogynist" in only a few months. Same with the ships. People eat up the company-issued slop that's mostly just recolours of haikaveh now, but they don't actually care about say, Ifa/Ororon. Otherwise they wouldn't move on to Varka/Flins en masses already.
People only care about clout and being part of the popular group in fandom nowadays, there's very little sincerity and genuine love for the material left. And it's not just Genshin but fandom as a whole.
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Forever laughing at Da Wei trying to flex with Marysueika when the Genshit revenue went down this month, all while LADS is still 2nd and Phainonbuxx made HSR bank. I'm betting Columbina will make 55M at best.
No. 528663
>>528638I absolutely hate that no other male character in Genshin or HSR will ever get the Phainon treatment. He is the only one who got so much promo and was allowed to be the MC for five patches straight just because he happens to be the beloved HI3 expy. Genshin had so many interesting male characters who could easily boost revenue if given proper spotlight for five to six months. But nah the arrogant devs would rather shoot themselves in the foot than stop shilling waifus or shoving HI3 trash in everybody's face.
>>528643I already hated the Phainon shilling and I cannot even begin to imagine how much more aggresive Elysia’s is going to be considering she is Hoyo's favorite waifu. Phainon’s whole plot of "ohh I have suffered so much for 100 borillion cycles and now I need to pass the torch to Trailblazer-sama who is the true hero" was cringe enough. I wonder how they are going to make her the queen of eternal suffering who has somehow suffered even more than Phainon because so far she just comes across as an asshole who dies early every cycle while Phainon is forced to kill his friends again and again for literal millions of cycles, all because of his promise to Cyrene.
No. 528676
>>528663>Genshin had so many interesting male characters who could easily boost revenue if given proper spotlight for five to six monthsThey could've easily used Childe as a "main character" considering lorefags and early Genshitters love him. Even his Fontaine cameos were enough to bring back interest. But no, they have to lower themselves to WuWa levels, kill Capitano and turn Conumbina in traveler's new love interest.
Remember how Albedo's quest brought a glimmer of interest back in a patch where the featured character was the apron whore? And Albedo was put in the fridge for 3 years.
No. 528727
>>528601Genshin even commodified fujoshi culture now. It's no longer "ship what you like based on story and voicelines and have fun" like early fandom did. Now it's "gov assigned" ships and if you ship anything else you get mobbed and harassed out of the fandom. I hate the way Genshin commodified fujo culture worst of all. Not only encouraging fujos to fight for what ship needs to dominate and be considered the one true canon, but also for using fujo's passion for their marketing and brand. I don't want a company giving me vague tropes and telling me what to ship. That defeats the purpose of fandom. People think these "gov assigned" BL or GL is Hoyo repping the gays or trying to tell some epic when it's just another cog in their machine of slop.
>How else could we have gone from #boycotgenshin because Natlan is racist to "Natlan women aren't sexualised, you misogynist" in only a few months.I'm saying, the nature of Hoyo is to build a cult. No critical movement can ever be sustained for long because people invested their well being in needing Genshin to be something they can stan. The way I saw people go from "Ororon's design is racist but those dumb fujos will still like him for the yaoi" to "Ifaron not being as popular is because of racism".
>>528676Childe getting hyped for nothing in Fontaine was so embarrassing. I can't believe people actually think this is Hoyo making him the real main character. They can keep it if this is how they write. The only male characters who will ever get the good treatment are Honkai expies (Kevin, Welt) and expies based on a Honkai waifu who gets troon shit in the fandom (Venti, Scara).
No. 528860
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>>528282I will always say this: early Genshin destroys the new era. Early Genshin will always be better,
always. Unrelated but Natlan looks like an incohesive sloppy mess because it was made by a boardroom of racist Chinese people afraid to touch on North and South American history for some odd reason for its own lore and super afraid to include more characters who are darker than a cotton ball that actually makes sense to the area of the world. It looks like a dumped Splatoon stage arena, not something that belongs in the game. All of the women are boring one-dimensional whores with their panties out for the moids using their moid privilege buxx for being born with a Y chromosome (higher income) to gamble for their favorite whore of the banner season, hot male characters are sparse (I thought Neuvillet was the Hydro archon and yeah I’m still working my way through Fontaine’s lore kek) but no they just had to add a fucking retarded and handicapped waifu into it because god forbid a female character is refined, intelligent, and doesn’t fall into boring stereotypes
god I fucking miss you Raiden Shogun even though they put her in a ridiculous sexualized kimono with her panties showing. I’ve yet to see any character with the amount of personality a character like Fischl has, like what the fuck happened?
No. 528976
>>528956>The only region that had decent writing was SumeruI don't get why or how most people like Sumeru so much and act like it's the best part of the game, the part I played felt even shittier than other regions. Having to go back and forth and back and forth a gazillion times
in the time loop was obnoxious game design,
the bazaar being the very last place they even think of investigating despite them immedeatly deducing that
the Academia was involved BECAUSE they sent those guys to cancel the festivities at the bazaar was frustratingly stupid and made the whole "
OMG we need to be QUICK or else this NPC will DIE!!!" thing look goofy, and the fight scene where
Catherine gets stabbed was bullshit (we've been fighting huge colossuses the whole game and we JUST fought a horde of thieves earlier in the forest region without breaking a sweat, why are half a dozen small fries suddenly a problem???).
After all of that I basically rage quit the game due to realizing the writing was never gonna "get good" (I always tought the writing was mid to bad) and didn't finish the desert segment. Is the second part of Sumeru really good enough to make up for that for Genshin fans?
No. 528982
>>528956They were a mess, I think it was just easier to fool people when it's early as opposed to now, and Genshin is being more blatant with the ML pandering. Keep in mind that movement didn't fully explode until after Scaramouche became playable so that's Sumeru had a notable shift.
I think Fontaine suffered the most from rewrites. A lot of the lore makes Focalors and the place sound really fucked up, but they ignore it so they can wank off how tortured Furina is. It's the same premise as Raiden where they don't want to commit to a female playable archon being actually a bad leader, so they just kill off one half of that and then make Furina a regular human again, which also pissed off archonfags. Childe is wasted in Fontaine, he's only brought in for aura and hype moments and his fans don't even question how he's used as a carrot on a string to keep them from leaving no matter how badly they treat him in game. Skirk also only shows up to generate aura and then her story quest even contradicts something they set up in Fontaine. And Arlecchino, don't get me started. She did absolutely nothing and had no antagonizing presence unlike harbingers in other regions and everyone who said they wanted her to be crazy instantly folded and loved the "She loves her kids so much!" retconned personality.
What people call "Friendship is Magic" is really the main problem of Genshin and the inability to maintain conflict with playable characters because Hoyo themselves set up this stan culture around them and it can impact sales. This is why there's no resolution for Raiden and Scaramouche. Everyone has to forget him so there can be no conflict and he can integrate into Sumeru. They quickly move over Navia and Clorinde's killing of Navia's dad. The entire Fontaine court system is fucked up and it's just as bad as Inazuma in terms of waving it off and ignoring it to make the playables shine, it's just more people liked Furina's pitybait over Raiden's. This is why it's hard to have hype for future stories or for me to even care about ships. I was interested in Navia and Clorinde because early leaks said they disliked each other and there looked like there was tension. Then in the game any source of conflict is too quickly resolved so they can be D&D nerds together. What was I doing expecting actually messy f/f in a game like this? Both this ship and Arlefuri became neutered. It's hard to give a single fuck about any conflict or future events because this game hates to actually have conflict between playables, so then when they set it up and just ignore it it leaves a feeling of unsatisfaction that I now wonder if is intentional just to keep people playing. Maybe this is the audience: the people who like nothing really happening and no stakes and they're primed to accept Columbina being a traveler waifu who doesn't really want to be in the fatui. How can I care about any hyped moments or characters when I already know what the end result will be?
No. 529536
>>529530Never. You have to strap yourself until Genshin 2 before they drop the ball for good on their brand new shiny game that will probably have a Childe expy.
>>529522I'd argue the better region for story quest and exploration was Fontaine, despite the pointless retcons. Swimming in the water and using sea creatures' abilities was surprisingly fluid. Sprawling out like a dolphin with Fontaine characters was also really fun. The scenario coupled fatui and Abyss shit at the same time, and used Navia instead of random NPC girl n°4754. Compared to Natlan that was a total recton and Marysue glazing, the final acts were a ball.