trying to find the nicest possible way to tell the genshin and star rail writing teams that they could take some hints from zzz team about writing shorter, punchier cutscenes that aren't constantly looping reaffirmations of previously stated points
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Just being skippable would be enough to get me to play those games again. Tried catching up in Genshin the other but I'm in 3.X and the cutscenes just never end and can't be skipped 😔
yeah, i wrote that too cutscene skip and summarize-on-skip would solve a ton of problems (cutscene replay and event theater mode would solve the other ton)
I honestly probably would've quit ZZZ the first day if I couldn't skip. I just wasn't interested at the time. I've since gone back and replayed the early missions because I started caring later. Having the option is so nice.
It’s especially a problem during intentional lulls in narrative arcs. We’ve solved all the problems in Star Rail, we’re just doing character quests at this point. We’re after fixing Penacony but before the next big adventure
Yeahhh. How much of a time-sink it'll be to enjoy Genshin's cutscenes and story in full to catch up with the latest stuff we've missed while on a break feels intimidating to me and Kit because of that repetitiveness.
ZZZ does feel much punchier because of their brevity.
It's frustrating they use very common "visual novel" gacha writing techniques without giving players the ability to fast forward/skip if we can read with any sense of speed.
HSR showed me they know how to do better, then ZZZ comes and respects the hell out of my time tripley-so.
writing into the survey box "i clicked 'didn't pay attention' in a lot of the survey categories because i am falling asleep while the cutscene slowly autos through each line"
I get where you’re coming from, but I guess I don’t really feel this too bad in genshin because I’ve been up to date per update since fontaine. but also that I only play genshin and don’t try to juggle it with zzz/star rail. I imagine when they’re all competing for your time it’s more glaring lol
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ZZZ does feel much punchier because of their brevity.
HSR showed me they know how to do better, then ZZZ comes and respects the hell out of my time tripley-so.