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LucasSomething said:
BIG NEWS just dropped. Without any warning at all, hoyo dropped a 31 minute gameplay trailer of their new game VARSAPURA that looks like a urban open world with super natural elements and action rpg combat.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4NccLyRQQZYIt's about the mc joining a "shadow bureau" that deals with "anomalies" and it's very obvious inspired by Control with spooky atmosphere and the facility itself being supernatural and beyond comprehension.

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There is something uncanny about hoyo using moody realistic unreal engine props and lighting with hyper anime faces like this

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It looks cool but then literal "shadow monsters" appear and the combat becomes generic standard fare where you button mash and there is a dodge, skill and burst button (how original) and you can switch to character. There is """"stealth"""" (crouch and kill a guy from behind, i expect it to be used once). You can jump and glide and do a literal genshin plunge attack. There is stamina bar. The only new thing i see is a finish enemy prompt (break?) and some kind of swap attack.

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I genuinely don't know why hoyo felt the need to create a fourth action game (i've seen people call it "swapslop" lol). Oh wait you can drive cars in this? Ah right, they want the Ananta / NTE / GTA crowd!

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But the asthetics are not even consistent. Everyone looks mundane office workers until you go late in the video and there is a hyper anime pink haired girl doing pole dance attacks with a giant hammer.

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It's still in development and they're calling people for hire to help, including live operation managers so it's going to be live service and gacha. The game might end up good but i doubt this moody atmosphere would survive and the gameplay feels so creatively bankrupt it hurts.
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Between this, Ananta, and Silver Palace, it looks like the next big wave in gacha games is going to be "GTA with cute anime girls."

And they might all come out before GTA 6.
 
Finally did that "dance" event in genshin, and with my sense of rythm (nonexistant) it felt like a slog and a half. But the rewards were too good to skip since I haven't gotten Arlecchino yet. But now I'm uncertain if I will pull more for her, or save for Durin and Jahoda. Also finished the second half of the 6.1 story and they make Dori more likeable each time she appears.
 
Guys, there's a question that comes to my mind here or there. Is Teyvat a flat Earth? I distinctly remember seeing that sakura glowing in the distance from a lot of elevated points. I went to the highest point of Sumeru and didn't see it, but that's likely because of the draw distance, not curvature. So, is there anything in the lore about this? A lot is said about the sky, but I can't remember anything about the form of the world everybody's on.
 
Noebel said:
Guys, there's a question that comes to my mind here or there. Is Teyvat a flat Earth? I distinctly remember seeing that sakura glowing in the distance from a lot of elevated points. I went to the highest point of Sumeru and didn't see it, but that's likely because of the draw distance, not curvature. So, is there anything in the lore about this? A lot is said about the sky, but I can't remember anything about the form of the world everybody's on.
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it is. i think there are even npcs that believe in a conspiracy that teyvat is round
 
Good News: Got Chisa
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Bad news: Iuno's weapon fucked the weapon pulls
 
I’m giga-behind in the Nod-Krai story quest because it apparently takes a zillion years and I have a job. I need to rush the Sumeru event, but it tells me I ought to finish Nod-Krai part 4 first- how many spoilers does it have?
 
Golfing on the Moon 1971 said:
Apparently the next HSR world is having to be redone because it was Japanese themed and that's a no-no in China now. Good look to those devs crunching in the few weeks until 4.0. Also RIP the people who were saving for Yae Sakura or samurai Blade or Himeko.
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Oh joy. No JuBlade Yagyu for me then,

That makes me super curious for what 4.X gonna be like.
 
Really hated the new archon quest, felt like we went 2 hours nonstop from talk to rerir flashback to talk to nefer flashback into rerir flashback into more talk. They turned genshin into star rail and now the pov switches to someone and i have to watch their whole life story.

I really don't care about Rerir and it sucks cause Hoyo is clearly trying it's best fix natlan criticism for having "no real antagonist" beyond a vague abyss threat (i doubt even 5% players remember the weekly boss name).

Now we got a real villain with, ya know, an actual face and a name that wasn't mentioned once in passing. He's a never before mentioned guy of this faction that has very strong people and we took too late to develop, but it doesn't matter because he has a sad backstory and says shit like "i'm only at 10% of my power" unironically (did a powerscaler write this?) so you know he is morally gray and strong.

Not a big fan of Nefer's quest being injected in between Rerir's flashbacks either, on top of more sumeru lore.

The sumeru event quest was more god lore dumps too, it's like the devs still resent players for not reading the books.
 
Golfing on the Moon 1971 said:
Apparently the next HSR world is having to be redone because it was Japanese themed and that's a no-no in China now.
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Weird since WuWa just released a Japanese-themed area and Resonator.

Edit: I want to kill Chisa and Namipon. I'm literally losing my sanity having them remind me every time I lose it.
 
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Drifting Panzer said:
Finally did that "dance" event in genshin, and with my sense of rythm (nonexistant) it felt like a slog and a half. But the rewards were too good to skip since I haven't gotten Arlecchino yet. But now I'm uncertain if I will pull more for her, or save for Durin and Jahoda. Also finished the second half of the 6.1 story and they make Dori more likeable each time she appears.
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Arle's main strenght is that she's an easy button mashy pyro dps that is still somewhat viable, her weakness is no healing and not having optimal melt/vapes so low ceiling. Bond of life is a cute niche but you won't see it again until her next rerun. She'll probably age worse than Durin who is a subdps+shreder and be powercrept hard by nicole or alice but she is cool and edgy, i don't regret rolling her after mavuika.

Excellent theater unit too, doesn't need any particular support to function.

Golfing on the Moon 1971 said:
Apparently the next HSR world is having to be redone because it was Japanese themed and that's a no-no in China now. Good look to those devs crunching in the few weeks until 4.0. Also RIP the people who were saving for Yae Sakura or samurai Blade or Himeko.
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I saw this leak and i really don't believe it. We are already in the middle of 3.7 and the next livestream show 4.0, if it's not already recorded. Hoyo clearly prep stuff years advance and it's too late in development to simply redo multiple months worth of content and story.

Worst case scenario they change some japanese names and colors, no way it's rewriting the whole thing and scrapping characters.
 
LucasSomething said:
Really hated the new archon quest, felt like we went 2 hours nonstop from talk to rerir flashback to talk to nefer flashback into rerir flashback into more talk. They turned genshin into star rail and now the pov switches to someone and i have to watch their whole life story.
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It was a goddamn gauntlet. At least HSR makes you skip and move the fuck on but Genshin wants you to sit your ass down and be locked and loaded for another POV change or chess session or more flashbacks to kiddie Nefer or Rerir being a literal CIA glownigger.
LucasSomething said:
I really don't care about Rerir and it sucks cause Hoyo is clearly trying it's best fix natlan criticism for having "no real antagonist" beyond a vague abyss threat (i doubt even 5% players remember the weekly boss name).
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It's embarresing that I don't remember but Fontaine didn't have an antagonsitic force in that traditional sense either, did it?
Daddy's Little Kitten said:
Edit: I want to kill Chisa and Namipon. I'm literally losing my sanity having them remind me every time I lose it.
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Yeah it does get tiresome after a while. Especially when Chisa isn't even on the team.

Also idk about you, but the Pioneer Podcast notification is bugged, and it's triggering my OCD. It's like Mecharashi, every time you can upgrade your pilots or mechas.
 
DenseDeerFather said:
It was a goddamn gauntlet. At least HSR makes you skip and move the fuck on but Genshin wants you to sit your ass down and be locked and loaded for another POV change or chess session or more flashbacks to kiddie Nefer or Rerir being a literal CIA glownigger.
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I think it's funny how hard the game makes it clear that Rerir is killing children, but funnier how they play it as Dainslef not knowing about it when for all purposes he should and would support it since he was loyal to the king too.

DenseDeerFather said:
It's embarresing that I don't remember but Fontaine didn't have an antagonsitic force in that traditional sense either, did it?
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I don't remember either but Fontaine still had drama, mystery, twists and fake outs.

It had Liney being framed, navia's dead father, that serial killer who melted people, childe going to jail, Arlechino being SUS incarnate, the prophecy of the flood, furina being a fraud but it's sad, the "evil water" etc. A lot was pointless in hindsight but there was some interesting stuff.

Natlan on the other hand felt like everyone was telling traveler to do shit and waiting for abyss monsters to attack because that's what the abyss does. Capitano was too good and useless. Kachina dies and comes back. Mualani is on party mode all the time. Kinich was kinda there. Dead npcs regret nothing and come back as force ghosts who keep fighting. No one was retarded enough to think mavuika would die.

I feel Nodkrai is kinda juggling too much and little at once. You have all these factions but it's really only 1 person who matters. "The knights of favonius" bitch it's only Varka. You can very clearly see when the archon quest stops and the character quest starts (Lauma having a shitty traitor npc, lauma flashback within rerir's flashback).

You have to eat moon lore, sinner lore, rerir lore, faction lore, character lore, sumeru lore (i aint reading books) and it ironically feels less important than ever cause the main priority right now is stopping Rerir. I thought i was there to find my spaceship but it was all a prank so we forgot?

And since i'm here, have some codes

Mecarashi: DEANKNIGHT (2 rolls)
Genshin: P3GXX56W3VG9 (60 gems?) GS62YT82QLCE (mora?)
 
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