It's just too flashy for me. Even the numbers on the elation card was flashing rainbow, like why? I swear someone out there got seizures over time from this.
Also people learned from Aglaea/Castorice to wait out the entire team to see whether it's worth to pull or not. Aglaea being the first remembrance without actual dedicated remembrance team like Castorice, might deter people from pulling Yao/Sparxie till SW/Evanescia full team is shown.
i quit star rail and wuwa and slowly ZZZ for similar reasoning. its just too much, and its not as fun.
i had more fun with corin and anby at the start of the game than all my super powerful flashy teams. the combat is less enjoyable. i had more fun with camellya and sanhua than i do my aemeath premium team. i had more fun with early kafka and seele and blade before the cliff of jingliu.
as much as i complain about genshin, even with all the lunar charge shit im still able to go into an endgame mode with EM thoma and have a fun time and it doesnt feel as bad.
You mentioned that wuwa does the same powercreeping mihoyo does, are you sure about that? Have you taken a look at the actual numbers, or was that your subjective impression?
my point was less about power creep and more about a combination of power creep and fun factor.
heres the thing: if i ignore max rewarding endgame events, it's less money than how much I spend on coffee per day.
So what's left? fun. the direction of the games is literally less fun than when i started on some, and not on others. not just combat, exploration, presentation, events, everything.
at the end of the day, despite the genre, these are video games. if i dont have fun with the game, why the fuck would a job-like psychological treadmill retain me? so i stop playing them lol
When you say mihoyo you mean HSR right? Cuz Genshin is kindergarden and ZZZ I could still use my miyabi to get all the rewards, while my hand is getting real sore when useing cartethyia.
Yeah I actually like flashy colorful things and that initial Yao Guang trial was overwhelming. Like, holy shit. It felt like a really long battle filled with flashing lights and random loud noises.
Still weirded by the fact that they decided to show off Aha damage numbers as if it's anything amazing. This is HSR after 3.0 powercreep and CW giving players the taste of inflated damage numbers.
Is high level currency wars that bad,,, I had fun in the mid and high difficulties but since reaching wealth creator I end up with runs I already know are bricked and/or dead after the first plane
I can't even imagine how annoying wealth creator 20 is
Wealth Creator 20+ means you basically have 3-5 options for viable teams that also don't take an hour+ to do a full run, especially if you decide to run on +HP conditions.
Break + full Galaxy Ranger Boothill is the strongest team and will kill even WC 30 bosses in the blink of an eye. You put double drills on him and the speed fan and watch him go.
Aglaea double SPD boots is good as well.
SP team is pretty good, but get used to seeing Elation skills.
Wolf Hunt is pretty good if you can luck into getting the emblems needed.
Currently Skill Point and Break rules in high level CW. That's if you don't count things like Wheelchair Aggie.
Skill Point is very much boosted because Sparxie, Sparkle and Yaoguang contribute LOL. Too bad Cedrya back row AI won't target Sparxie except if Sparxie is bar none more upgraded than the others, but AHA plays most of the game for you...
WC20 is just spammy and not fun (borderline torturous imo). If I wasn’t a completionism sucker, I would never subject myself to WC7+, cause runs become a genuine chore
The vending machine shit? Its so cringe. I love OG sparkle + her animations having "mysterious chaos pixie" energy rather than Sparxie's animations having looney toons vibe.
But I did really enjoy 4.0 as a patch. Just not sure if I want elation at all. I love Yao but no idea if I want her team at all.
im not judging Elation as a whole yet, but seeing it likely transforming into Remembrance 2.0 is enough to put me off it. of course things can change with Elation MC, but still.
I sure love having a beautiful elegant character have forced loud clown sounds and animations play all the time! I swear to god did no one on the dev team think for a second how unfitting this crap would be for some of the elation characters...
Same, I like Sparkle fine and use her a lot but one run of CW showed me how insufferable playing Sparxie and an Elation team would be for any length of time so I don't want to ever pull for that. I just wish they'd made Yao Guang another more generalist Harmony instead of tied to this brainrot animation path. ☹️
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