Why Genshin gets Worse the more you play | Tectone Reacts 

"They say a lot, and yet, they say so little" OK, everyone stops here, he said what had to be said. The truth, the holy truth.

I REALLY wish that Aranara and Jeht questlines were voiced. How can they just decided to make a side world quest feels like it's own game and not gave voicelines to it.

its crazy how every time paimon isnt following us , the story become better.

I think the issue with genshin impact is that while the story itself is progressing, your personal growth of your account and characters has long hit a ceiling. You don't feel like you need to become stronger for the next boss fight or threat so how do you build suspense in the story? You see a powerful looking new boss and you know you'll breeze through it with your roster of 20 maxed out fully farmed characters. At the beginning it felt like you had to actually get stronger to also progress in the story. That's when I still found it fun.

When he said "show don't tell" I almost jumped out of my bed cheering cuz THANK YOU FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE GETS IT. Like honestly I personally don't mind the extended ass stories. I feel like I'm playing an anime sometimes. But what really breaks that feeling is when I have like 5-10 minutes of dialogue and then that stupid fade to black where they just HAVE A BLACK BACKGROUND WITH WHITE TEXT DESCRIBING WHAT THE CHARACTER(S) IS SEEING!! And we have examples in game where they have done Show dont Tell so so effing well. Like how you mentioned the scene after Traveller leaves the encounter with Shogun and there's the visual and gameplay effect that shows the Traveller feeling disoriented (and even Paimon's dialogue aids in this as she shows genuine concern for Traveller). There was also a few scenes in the recent Archipelago with Kazuha's story/island that I also felt really told the story thru dialogue *and* gameplay. I feel like both these approaches become so underutilized nowadays for some reason. But then in some of the Sumeru quests which to me arguably had some of the strongest actual lore backing with the whole Dharian/Khaenriah thing going on I feel like we could've had so many more Show don't Tell moments. There were so many moments where instead of it cutting to black and giving us text about the shared flashbacks of 500 yrs ago where they could've showed us in either a cutscene, some limited gameplay or even animated 2D scenes.. I feel like when they utilize Show don't Tell so so f*cking well but they just don't do it enough! And he is so right with the events being related to the lore. Not only is this is an issue with Albedo and the Dragonspine event, but anyone who wasn't around for the really early game not only missed Scaramouche's intro but also that huge lore bit within that event intro about the "stars and skies" being a lie. Only reason I know about that is because of people like Ashikaii. I also feel like people who missed out on the original archipelago (which I thankfully started playing in time to enjoy) missed out on a signature weapon for Klee but also on a part of the lore for the next year's archipelago event. And it makes me wonder if they do another one this summer if newer players will find themselves lost or confused with the return of this beloved event since they never got to experience the time-gated stories of the past 2 years.

Necrit, the most wholesome and positive guy, proves that the cycle of normal genshin players are just went from *praising the game* to *"hating" the game* , lol.

It sucks that the pacing and dialogue bloat in genshin is so extreme, I've honestly been wanting to get back into it since I have so much to do after about a year of not really playing. Did the Sumeru archon quest which took literally days for me to get through and have not wanted to touch another quest since. HSR was amazing, I couldn't stop playing and still play every single day. Genshin if you want to get through the quests it literally feels like you're clocking in to a second shift at work every day. It's painful and it's so sad that such a fun game is ruined by chore after chore after chore. Like where tf are the combat quests in this stupid game? You get one boss fight at the end of an Archon quest typically and that's like... it. Then it's back to the mines.

I quit Genshin because there are like 5 pre-requisite quests to do 1 quest only to find out each of those 5 quests have pre-requisites of their own. So annoying. Miss 3 years of content and it'll take you that long to spam through all those dialogue options just so you can ascend your Shenhe. Wtf were the devs thinking?

The Nahida loop archon quest was one of the best ones in genshin for me (and probably for many others too). It was so captivating.

I think the ending of the Inazuma storyline broke my spirit and made it impossible for me to enjoy anything else in the game. Like, I was holding out hope despite how much the writing was bringing me down in every facet of the game. Then all that set up, all that potential just CRASHED AND BURNED. I was done after that. I don't know if I can ever go back either.

Doubling down on it again. Tectone's hate for paimon is extremely relateable

Genshin is going to end up the best English class tool, because when your teacher tells you to read 30 minutes a day then you can get thru Genshin from first grade to getting your PHD and longer until the game is officially over 😭

The problem of pacing is relevant for beginners, but I didn't notice it. And here's why: playing, so to speak, "ongoing" - yes, I prepared fireworks for 4 hours - but then there was nothing in this patch! The battle with Raiden appeared in the game after 40 days! So, yes, I did a filler thing, but then I was did nothing for 39 days, but wasting resin and do temporary events. Thus, the presentation of the story pacing for me is perceived radically differently than for a new player now.

Bro repeating himself while Necrit creates new point, and he still repeats his 1st point for the 3rd time. Certified reactor moment.

the only thing that will make me go back to genshin is if they add a skip dialogue button

Genshin's story would be 50% better if they killed Paimon and cut down the sidequest dialogue by 80%. The fluff is what really ruins things

The part where Tectone mashes the keyboard for the dialogue gives me relief! Just started playing the game for a month and most of the time I just skip the lines whenever it's available 😂

Sucks that the one thing stopping me from playing Genshin again is simply not really feeling up to playing it. I'm definitely the type of person who's completely fine with the amount of dialogue, and doesn't care about Paimon, but it's simply too difficult to want to go through however much gameplay I need to do to level up characters and weapons and get to the quests

Honestly, i do agree with nearly everything he said. - Black screens should be considered Crime against Story telling. - You can skip 80% of dialog and still understand everything. - Aranara quest was Hideous. Did they really hoped me to read all that Alien language? C mon - Most Main story quests suffer from pacing. - Character Stories are SUPER Boring. You have lawyer, Tax officer, Dude who talks with rocks, Alchemy, Yae started good, later you find out you got on Writing competition or whatever, Eula has tragic story, but your quest is how to learn to dance. - Story based on characters always gonna end up like this, where they HAVE to shoehorn in some 5 star characters into the story. Honkai impact did it better since it's character based on story, not story based on characters. My Personal issues: - Combat is NOT that great when you think about it. All it does, it's focusing to much on elemental reactions. Which means, as long as you have certain elements, you see big numbers. I WANT FLASHY ULTIMATES. God coming down from the sky, Raiden raiding a dragon or some sh*t. When Raiden Shogun Boss came out, i thought "YES, finally we'll get a character which ACTUALLY FEELS LIKE 5 STAR" nah, all you get is tazer on a fishing stick. Crazily enough, That would be totally in Honkai impact 3rd, and it's like 5 year old, and they have Raiden Mei which rides a Dragon. Honkai Star rail have that, Why Genshin can't? On the same note, Ults with animations sucks. It's cool first 5 times, then... That's why Rosalya is one of the best characters in the game. Nearly none of the characters FEELS like 5 star. Newest character? Awful he does absolutely nothing. - Abyss is a dogsh*t I dont see how people can have fun with that. EVERYTHING is made just to waste your time. Is it hard? NO. Is there incentive to achieve best team for that fight? NO. Since you have to go through same 2 chambers again to to get to 3rd for whatever reason. WHY? It's baffling how that never got reworked. While Honkai impact Abyss got reworked like 10 times. And it is, more fun. - Why limit Serenita pot building? WHY? Let people go crazy at it, let them build whatever they want ffs + What this game does VERY WELL is Exploration. That's the main reason i still play it. And sometimes comes out character i like design of. i have 30k gems as a f2p still waiting for next character i'll like. I just like run around, get some farming, visit a pot or something. I did delete this game like 10 times already. Still returning for whatever reason

honestly i only kept playing genshin because it was a way for me to dissociate from personal issues... everything was so bloated to the point where i could just shut my brain off completely, hence why if you ask me anything about this game i definitely do not remember at all except for a very blurry far away memory. its telling that the only way to play this game is to basically just stop functioning for as long as youre playing it. horrid.

I would say this is the case with most games. You either complete them or they start to become a bit stale. I played wow for almost my entire life, even competitively at one point. And there were very long moments when I questioned why I was even playing. My fondest moments are still from when I was new to the game.

I stopped playing since the canyon things was going to come out But I always thought that Paimon being emergency food was foreshadowing. That paimon was going to be MC's last piece of divinity and in the climactic battle the MC absorbs (eats) paimon to get a boost in power when things are going to shit.

One of the reasons I stopped playing Genshin was how they had such great build-up to the main story and then I had to stop to take a flying exam (?).

Shit pacing permeates everything in Genshin Impact, from the dialogue (Paimon), to the story (filler), to the combat (a button-mashing slog without the stats, which is not something a whale or min-max artifact grinder would notice), to the exploration (the constant loading time when switching to an element that isn't in the party, but need to use to interact with something in the world, then switch back), to the pull income (anniversary, 'nuff said).

i still remember the start of the aranara quest and those 4 kids and that rana NPC chatted for so long that my finger started hurting spamming the mouse

I literally can't see any sense in Genshin's plot cuz our mission find twin, but when we found twin, twin saying - go explore regions bruh. Hey... Wait. Why don't you just tell me what the hell wrong with this world? Why you want destroy all gods in teyvat? I'am your Bro/Sis. We travelled more than 500 years, i will be on your side. Okay bro/sis, let's go with me in this portal, i will say you everything i know, and we will do everything together. But genshin's scriptwriter says - oh, player will meet twin, but even if twin will saying "This man in front of you is my enemy" MC will continue exploring some secrets with him. This is true power of family. Bravo.

Bro I was watching Necrit several years back when I was still into league, and I'm not surprised Tectone liked necrit's content. Such an Awesome and well made video.

Aranara is the best quest of all time in Genshin story

I’ve played Genshin since Klee’s first banner and I’ve never missed a day. I stopped right before Al Haitham came out, and now I log in once every month or so to play the spiral abyss, coz that’s the only thing I find fun in the game.

The pacing is the reason I quit + paimon The people who actually enjoy the hang out quest are the ones that treat these characters as if they’re real

the unfortunate part about the text bloating in genshin is that it wouldn't even be an issue if we were able to skip it faster

I used to read EVERYTHING. It's only this year that I stopped doing that. I just lost interest in learning about the people of the world. I don't even want to think about the amount of hours I spent just *reading*. 90% of the npc's you'll never see again. A small 10% will return or play a bigger role.

I'm so tired of Inazuma story quest being praised. He only calls it cool because of how it ended, the ending was cool but before we got to the ending was so damn bad. Every genshin quest is like that, only the end is cool asf and that's all people will talk about. Not the beginning and the in between, the quest is decided if the ending is cool and I hate that shit with a passion

no bc the fact that genshin npcs have much more stories and lore than the actual main caracters is INSANE.

I agree with so much of this, but what really bothers me is the timegated and limited event content. Like, no wonder the base game doesn't reflect the amount of money that goes into it (let alone what it makes) in terms of relative quality, all those resources sunk into *disposable content* which adds nothing long term to the game and limits draw for new players, meanwhile corners still get cut all over the place in places that matter.

Why is bro talking about genshin when he doesn’t even play it anymore

I love seeing tectone's face light up every time someone is about to shit talk genshin

It seems like getting good relics/artifacts in HSR is better

Imagine when this game has 100 characters and story quests are reduced to 3 paragraphs that scroll on the screen and 1 piece of narrative artwork depicting it.

i found it hilarious how they talked about inazuma. i can find hundreds of things to critizise, but the tax quests and the first 2h of inazuma were among my fav things in the game. i love immersion and to get stuck doing stupid things, being annoyed, being sent from here to there GAVE exactly the feeling of living in a dictatorship - authoritarian regime and thats what inazuma should represent. i loved how my movement was limited and i didnt get out, having to bribe or slowly trick to get out. it rlly got me into the mood of being in a hostile / politically idiotic environment so it added a lot to immersion, which is my main focus

After the aranara quest i pretty much stopped doing quests unless i was forced to for an event/boss. That stuff is so bad its not even worth staying on for

I feel like more than the main archon quests, the quest with Dainslef was the best. Good back story, tasks actually have to do with combat at every stage and has a satisfying big boss at the end. But if u level ur characters and artifacts too much, its not so satisfying anymore cos the abyss heralds and lectors can be thanos snapped.

paimon is super easy to improve. instead of having her explain everything on the spot there could be an option in the paimon menu to talk to paimon (like one might do in the tea pot) and in the dialog options you could have options to ask questions about what was just discuss. frankly I've sat through professor paimon's lectures and not remembered what i was supposed to do 5 min later. it would also help with quests in general. there could be an 'ask paimon' button on quest items that explained the objective better because some of these objectives are just like "got there (500m)" and i get there and it's like, find it and im like "what's it??"

its sad that from this point on the game just gets worse endgame speaking when u can full clear abyss, well the abyss isnt fun anymore for the difficulty, u just want to test ur chars.... sad such potential wasted in this game. when he said he had a blast playing the abyss i tought to myself how i used too had it in the early days... now its just kinda fun sometimes, and i still do it every single rotation.

They just said the things I want to say about Genshin. From the start, I hate the pacing of the story and too much exposition. I like the gameplay but the lack of end-game content is just frustrating. Also, Hu-Tao with no C1 unlocked is indeed a pain-in-the-ass.

nah to be fair to the chat who fishes unless they know they gotta do it for the weapon and it seemed like he had no idea about it😂

Genshin devs loves One Piece so much they brought the Toei moments over to their own quests.

Even though I am also a F2P player waifu over meta player, I really hate when people shames Whales and meta players just because they are one, you don't need to prove you can clear spiral with shitty characters, you play for fun because you like this play style, meta players play meta because that's where they are having fun same as whales spending for their fav waifu tldr; let people have fun Not a whale but I beat spiral in (7 stars) 1-2 months since game's launch with limited characters kekw, chat is overreacting also I love necrit but L take for Hu. Charge cancelling isn't her play style but it's what players do for min-maxing. That's not the intended play style.

Its crazy, its almost like when a game has a limited amount of story but people feel the need to blitz through all the content week in a week or two, hell let's be generous and say a month, they hit a damn wall. Then its like well wtf do I do? What Genshin, probably safe to say Honkai Star Rail too, and other similar games seem to lack is GOOD REPEATABLE CONTENT. Spiral Abyss is shit. Things like Simulated Universe, basically another Spiral Abyss. I'd love it if they readded some of the old simpler events and added weekly challenges for them to get idk, primos(or equivalent), mats, etc.

There have been an upsettingly frequent number of quests which remind me of the quest in The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine DLC where you try to get your money out of a bank and they send you back and forth for forms that you need to get other forms to still not get your money

The hold-to-skip button should be in every story interaction(voiced or not). I dont even know why they give you dialogue prompts, your choices do not affect the story exposition.

Tectone: “ Yea Mtashed” on 21:47 Has to be the best part of the video

That is just why i love old mmo games. Nothing is voice acted. You can BLITZ through content if you want to get somewhere. Quests can be nuanced IF you want to know the story. You can skip EVERYTHING by the click of a button. I play games to PLAY it. Not to sit there watch something insignificant for 4 hours.

2:50 me when watching a tectone vid that's more than twice the length of the vid he is reacting to

They should have put all the side characters and gave them their own story quest away from the main quest. It would add more character development and more game play and give people the option to do these or not.

3:40 Tectone even better idea, let’s time gate it so you have to wait about a week to complete that full story of someone who will no longer be relevant

Y'know I remember a turn based gacha game named Another Eden,and to progress character story is to grind materials....GRIND MATERIALS. That's the worst gacha experience I've ever had. Thank god genshin doesn't have it as worst as that game.

The true end game of genshin is quiting genshin hit hard on my soul

Bro how do you still not understand? They don't give a shit about genshin QoL changes because they have 0 competition for such a game, whereas for Honkai Star Rail, there are hundreads of other turn based gachas, they need to tryhard to please the players. It's as simple as that. Unless a serios competitor to Genshin appears, they don't give a shit about making player's life easier

I can sum up Genshin's narrative progression in 1 word: Tedium. There is more than enough in Genshin to satisfy those of us who love to grind, what we don't want/need is gated content, pointless padding and unnecessary tedium beyond the tedium we choose to indulge. Give us an unlocked teleport to Inazuma from the start, some of us don't have any desire to clear the story for the 100th time on a baby account just so we can get mats for character ascension.

13:36 you guys are reading dialogues? Hell nahhhh!!

Gotta disagree with tectone there about them not shoving 4 stars into quests and only 5stars. Inazuma was flooded with 4 stars in the main quest, thoma sayu electro bird bitch Garou and kinda beidou.

This is probably going to be unpopular take here, but I actually love when they give the NPC's stories lol it makes the world of the game actually feel lived in. I hate it in games built on story and worldbuilding when only the "special" looking characters who are clearlyt he "main" ones are the only ones who have anything important to say or do in the world ever. It makes the world the story takes place in feel empty and lacking. But that's just me personally.

I feel so good when someone say his option on genshin but keeping it realistic saying the ups and downs

The thing annoys me the most is how little the Fatui matters, the very first thing that happened is Signora takes by force the Anemo Gnosis, and then the invasion of Liyue, and on top of all that AWESOME trailer they gave us of them like they were a dangerous group (Akatsuki vibes imp) and then what happened? NOTHING. I want to see that psychopath side of Dottore, i want to be afraid of Arlechinno and her Mangekyo Sharingan but then we know she's no threat at all, Scaramouche ended being good just because he got beat, and still be an asshole.

maybe im the only one but i actually enjoyed the times when screen went black with text appearing cause it reminded me of the forest of myth and when they told kaine's and emil's stories in nier replicant

Please explain, dude I love reading, even in game books I read that, I am wrong for doing that?

I'm so used to the 3 hour long genshin quests that hsr quests seem rushed to me😭😭

ive said it a hundred times... genshin is 10% combat, 70% endless clicking through dialog, 10% mind numbing puzzle quests, 10% running to fetch the thing

i also heard this for star rail, that i rushed thru the multitude of content that the game has to offer too fast, while all i wanted was to continue the good story

The hilarious thing to me is that I'm a new Genshin player and I just did that Yoimiya quest yesterday. I want to like her character, but damn is that quest so ******* annoying! Edit: just want to add that this video was HIGHLY hilarious!

5:30 agree with this 100% -- the payoff was good but the entire quest was a chore because 80% of it was tedious trash

raiden shogun & yae mikos story line should of been in the archon quest, i did it in a strange order and was just a mess even though i could piece it together after

I did not accept that taxes quest for three hours and that was the straw that broke the camels back for me lmao.

The biggest issue with the story is that you can't skip the chat. It drags on and it's not engaging enough. The game is trying to sell you parasocial relationships like having you follow Ayaka around and tell her she means something in a forest, walking around following her for 9 years... People are like "well the story is the game", but it's not, it's the antithesis of the game. The "story" is often a painful drag, the real game is the fun and engaging combat and exploring the world, not teleporting , listening, teleporting, listening, teleporting, listening... There is SO much locked behind such monotone story, to get pieces I need to upgrade my characters or weapons I have to do 9 million archon quests. Trying to unlock the deeper chasm is awful. Let people skip story. Let people PLAY.

Bro I thought we all agree Sumeru's story >> Inazuma's..?

14:13 They SAY a picture is worth a thousand words, so why does Hoyo think I want to read 1000 words for everything?

The thing is npc is everywhere in events main story character story quest hangouts like whyyy if they in events only or lil bit in story quest I understand but its archon quest “Archon not npc that look alike”

What Necrit did in Abyss is basically why I think meta is completely irrelevant in Genshin/HSR. You can clear the hardest content with pretty much any team. Only meta that should matter is how much you enjoy playing the team/characters.

lmao 5v5 faction war.... and people actually say "mobile isnt holding the game back it makes it better cos more people can play" this is why you spend $200 on a phone and $1600 on a pc, not $1800 on a phone thats literally the same as a $400 phone lmao

Difference between Mtashed and Necrit is that Necrit plays casually and until content is done while Mtashed plays for the grind but gets warned that itll end quickly. If Mtashed wants to enjoy it longer than yes, rushing would ruin it. If you just want to enjoy it for what is has to offer then however long it takes to consume it doesnt matter.

700 hours is a lot of time.... then there were my over 15K hours in BF4

the dialog bloat is okay if you mash your buttons to skip it all.

"The endgame of genshin impact is quitting the game"

I remember i used to actually read all side quest dialogue cause i didnt want to miss anything but no matter what i always forgot about it cause its soo fuckkin 💤

I play Hu Tao without animation cancelling and she’s fun just zig zag your way through things

I honestly stop doing the quest because it just hurts my brain with all those information, glad to see it is not just me who think this way, people always telling the story is great and I haven't enjoy any of them because of my low attention span and how long that dialogue are this this comment, if you read this whole comment you are a true genshin fan because to be honest I wouldn't have read this whole comment, take care tecky love your content and yess star rail is better.

It felt like Paimon is a main character lmao

Not me doing Fountaine World Quests and just spamming space when he said what he is doing during the side quests🤣🤣

My favorite thing about watching tectone videos on genshin is he was literally one of the main people when people would complain about things and genshin would clown or insult now months/years later he's on the wave of yea man theirs so many problems and I've said this forever 😂🤣😂😂. Fucking hilarious

The community commented on him experiencing the game wrong and wonders why most people enjoyed WuWa when it come out is wild

0:45 I literally didn't find the currency buying tab untill around AR 20

yeah the eula, albedo, amber, and bennett event was soo good but if I ever make another account, I will have never gone on that quest on that account. it's sad.

How is this person still sane ?

16:45 I specifically creasted a macro on my Keyboard that clicks once every 20ms just so i can skip dialog and not have to spam

I take the game at a pretty slow pace but it does get really repetetive at times. The further you are in the game, the more you have to grind before a cool character you just got becomes viable, so you spend a few weeks farming ascencion stuff and another few weeks just getting artifacts and more artifacts to level those artifacts

That video was both beautiful and relatable. I think its safe to say that the real Genshin killer is the community (Not all) and Hoyoverse themselves.

Inazuma mains quest is 1st place, sumeru last place (it's feel like a bad B class film), other region didn't leave an incredible impact to rank them between themself. But globaly they fucking speak all the time to repeat themself all the time to tell something that nobody care about, they could put it in a book somewhere in the world for those story and background lover. When the awfull time of doing main quest, i have a macro to speed dialogue and autoclic a choice seens choice don't have impact, and i watch Tectone on the other screen :)

16:25 - 17:06 The reading doesn't bother me. Not only have i found several tidbits that help me peace things together about characters, ( and this is kinda brought up, right after, with the whole important story behind event thing, 18:07 - 20:00 ) that i like and may have missed, but also i find funny moments. But then agin im used to it to. You dont even have to go back THAT far. Lets go back to the golden age of the game cube. (2004,2005) With a little game called "thousand year door" name one voiced line in that masterpiece. If you are a streamer, i get it. There's 1m other things you need to focus on, like, the content itself, pacing, time restraints/scheduling etc. And while i still disagree, i get it. BUT to all the NON streamers ( and kids) making that same argument "not voice acted, 1 star", i say, shut up spoiled brats😂. ( damn i just aged myself 😅)

hear me out. the inazuma pacing of the archon quests not including ayaka's and yoimiya's quests felt well paced. i felt like sumeru fucking sucked ass with the pacing. liyue, fuck perfume love everything else, and then monstadt. not bad