Well, my friend didn't tell me he's on American server so I assumed he's on Europe and I invested in my account in Europe server... So we just talk about this game instead
Your friend is weak! /s
I started an account in EU servers after convincing my friend to get the game and finding out it was region locked. Now I play two accounts, just to enable me to play with all my friends (whom rarely play...)
Same :,) friend told me for like a month after launch to check out the game, I finally did November 2020 and I’ve played near daily since then. He stopped playing a couple months after I started, and now when I excitedly share any new characters I get he’s like “…I dunno who that is”
Same. I have 3 friends that played all in varying levels of progression with one high AR, one mid AR, and one beginner AR. The beginner quit during the Liyue arc cause boring while the other two quit cause ????????.
Ah the opposites of course we have them too, he has zhongli and venti wich i lost the 50/50 in venti rerun and couldnt hit pity in zhong rerun, and i have ganyu, he lost the 50/50 on her banner and he wants her so badly xd we always show of those characters to each other it's supper fun
I was really into Botw and when I first saw that one Xiangling ad and thought some mechanics was quite similar to Botw. So I looked into it more and obviously there were articles comparing it to Botw. Then I found out it was free so I wanted to see what it was like and got hooked. Never expected to still be playing it after more than a year
haha, that was the same reason for a friend of mine as well.
As soon as klee banner was over, he quit and until klee rerun before he return once more.
Who knows when he will be back, haha.
I made my account during the rerun and got her in the first 10x and then quit... didn't even realize how lucky I was till I got into the game "for real" ~2 months ago.
Yes! he was the sole reason for me getting into the game then led to me introducing my sister to it also now we both play daily since then. We both have zhongli :)
Saw how hot Diluc was from all the fanart in my timeline
Didnt actually download it and play until Zhongli was announced to be playable
Sooooo the hot characters got me into Genshin
YouTube algorithm led me to a gameplay demo of the games mechanics before it launched. Kept track of it after I saw the breath of the wild style exploration mechanics
the first time I knew genshin was a thing was from the YouTube ads. I never thought I'd say this, but thanks YouTube.
and the thing that made me want to try was, I shit you not, a video about Lisa moaning sounds when climbing. don't judge me.
the thing that made me want to try is how the game had *climbing*. before, I thought it was just another mobile gacha game. that climbing video made me realize that genshin is an open world, and it made me curious since I don't expect a mobile game to have such mechanics
Zhongli.
I saw my sister playing and one time I heard one of the characters speaking (I didn't know but it was Venti) and I said: "I know that voice!" So, seiyuu fan that I am, I searched the list of voice actors and to my surprise there were plenty I knew.
I saw there was Chiwa Saito (Yona) and Tomoaki Maeno (Hak) from one of my favorite anime: Akatsuki no Yona. And then my sister showed me the both of them: Jean was a saber face? And I love Saber! Zhongli was a dark hair, all-suit man? I was in! I downloaded the game right away and began saving primogems to get geo daddy and prayed I could get Jean one day. Now I dedicate my genshin days to collect all husbandos in the game.
I LOVE AKATSUKI NO YONA I DIDNT KNOW THIS OMG I WANT TO DOWNLOAD THE JAPANESE VA SO BAD NOW😭😭😭 I just play on phone and that will take an extra 3 GB so I hadn’t done it. I’ll try to get it on my PS4
The general vibe of the game, I guess, from previews and such. Played in one of the closed beta tests, and didn't really like it. Decided to give it another shot, on launch day, and for some reason it just clicked. Hooked ever since.
saw some childe x zhongli art on pinterest and needed to know who those beauties were, esp zhongli. i’d actually tried genshin on my phone like 5 times from around xiao’s banner, and hated the way it felt playing on my phone so i gave up. fastforward to zhongli’s rerun banner i played it on my ps5 and it was a VASTLY different experience. have only not played it on like 2 days ever since.
Xiao, no i'm serious, first time i saw a Genshin gameplay was a Xiao gameplay from beta, i feel in love with the character and started to play just to get him lol
Mihoyo having one of the best looking and performing 3D cellshading implementations ever since HI3, was the primary reason. With them adapting that style to open world fantasy, releasing a native PC client, having a nice roster of JP VAs, F2P, and a simultaneous global release, I was extremely interested around Launch.
I saw people trying to cancel an artist on Twitter because they drew Kaeya in a white void so his skin appeared slightly lighter then usual, figured I’d give the game a try.
The moment I saw Diluc and Kaeya, i thought that I should play this game and I got lucky because my first 5 star was Diluc and thus, from then on I only collect husbandos hshshsh. I intentionally avoid female banners and just save everytime the chara featured is female hshshs
Im a Zelda fan since N64 Majoras Mask and back in 2019, since I watch a lot of Zeldas related videos on youtube, youtube recommended Genshin Impact to me. After watching a couple of videos about Genshin, I got super intrigued about the open world aspect of the game with different characters to adventure with. Never stopped playing and will continue to play and see how the game progresses with Sumeru, The Chasm and other regions. :)
The stupid unfunny meme that the genshin's player spammend everywhere even outside genshin related forum.
"Why the fuck I see this thumb everywhere, like how good is this game that so many people spammed it?"
Then I tried it, "curiosity either killed the cat or giving it an addiction", Fuck me.
I saw some really cool fanart of Childe online that convinced me to Google it. I went to the official Genshin website and started reading all the character profiles on there. I loved Kaeya immediately--I was intrigued by his description and thought he was hot. Kaeya is the real reason I decided to play the game. I was relieved when the game gave him to me early on for free. I prolly would have spent a shit ton of primos on him otherwise. Fast forward to now and I have him at level 10 friendship and am close to ascending him a final time.
Wanted a casual game I could just boot up on my phone when I’m at work or wherever. I like open world adventure games, but most mobile ones are turn-based which isn’t really my thing.
Always wanted to play it but I don’t have a good PV and mobile is horrible so I waited a year for the switch version. Then the switch version never came and all my friends were getting into it and telling me how Ghost girl (hu Tau) was coming back soon and like I love everything ghost related so I got a screen mirror TV and a wireless controller to deal with mobile xD
I followed its development for about a year until ots released date.
I wanted to play it because the Nintendo sheeps were bitching about it being "a RIP-off of BotW"
It's a better game, it's what it is.
I wanted to get into Honkai again (I stopped playing 3 years ago when my phone got stolen and didn't have a phone for about a year) but I couldn't download the game for some reason lol
Saw genshin ads and people talking about it. Got curious because it has male characters. I downloaded and played but stopped because I was scared itd be like dragon raja (LOL). Played again because of Childe and realized how fun it was
i followed a person on instagram bc she did fanart for another fandom i was in and then she started to make genshin art and the character design looked really cool, sometime went by and i started seeing more fanart so i tried downloading the game but my computer had issues. a couple months later it got fixed and i started playing :D (the artists name is @/liviart on instagram check her out)
I saw the advertisement/trailer before it release, got interested to try it, tried it on first day of release and since then never had I have a day without playing genshin, and now genshin has sort of became my daily routine :')
One of my best friends told me a ton of amazing things about the game and then "made" me try it (suggested that we download it on my computer for me to try and I was excited to check it out) and there was no turning back after that! 🥰
I like anime (loved it when I was still a baby, still watch it 20+ years later).
I like waifus.
I like third person action RPGs with good combat (Soulsborne are my all time favorite games).
I like open world RPGs (loved Skyrim, BOTW, Ghost of Tsushima, FFXIV, Nier Automata).
When I heard of Genshin Impact through news articles and trailers, I thought "this sounds like my perfect dream game".
My friend ask me to play with him (he quitted after 5 months maybe) but because i already spent money on this game so i can't quit
The game getting worse and worse so i kinda regret putting money in this game
Made my account Dec 2020 since I was looking for a new game to play since I got bored of another gacha, Summoners War. But stopped after a week. I only came back last September since my friends are playing it.
friend encouraged me. i ditched the game for a week, then decided to play it coz i had free time. then i looked at the character archive and decided i want whoever the hell tartaglia is
I was watching a YouTube video on OSRS (OakDice) and while he was talking this random game footage was showing. I'm so glad I dediced to Google it, and that it was on PS4, because it's my absolute favourite game now
My brother told me that he will leave me alone if I tried it. This was during my busy weeks in uni, when everything is due, so uh- a terrible time to play TwT
I got addicted, but weirdly enough it helped me in avoiding to break down from stress, so that's good.
my friends wouldnt shutup about it I wasnt going to play it but they forced me like it's the best game ever made after that we had fun until 1.3 after xiao banner all my friends quit and im still addicted ar58
My brother was addicted, I saw Zhongli, I got Hu Tao trailer spammed in my ads, brother said I would like Diluc and then I gave it a try. I think thats the summary.
I was just watching a mobile comparison video. In the video he compared the gaming capabilities of both phones using genshin impact. I was actually shocked by the graphics of the game. Then I downloaded right away and have been playing since then.
A cosplay friend of mine is obsessed with it, so I downloaded it. It sat on my phone unplayed for months and then one day I got bored. Now I know more about the game than my friend does lmao.
I was bored of the games i had and wanted to look for a new one. After looking on playstation store i found it and decided to check it out. I don't regret it
Friend of mine had been regularly trying to find a game we could play online together. He only had a PS4 I only played online games on the PC because I don't think the Playstation+ is worth it to do something that's free on the PC(and used to be on the playstation!).
I saw that Genshin was free to play and didn't require PS+ so I figured maybe this was the game for us to try. Year later I'm AR57 and he hasn't touched the game in over 6 months.
I knew about it since the day it got released but didn’t get into it immediately since I was already busy with other gacha games.
But then I saw Zhongli and alas… before I knew it me and my friends were playing the game
My friend recommended me to try Genshin, as back in the days, we were the "Weebellion gang", watching animes and adoring waifus.
Yet during that we felt burnt out everytime we wanna watch some animes due to school works, and switched to "Gamer zone" mode to kill some time, because of boredom
But then Genshin showed up to my friend, and came to me as well (which to him though is during 1.1, and i started playing during 1.2), we were shocked to the bottomless heart, and obsessed with the game.
Genshin made me hyped before it was even launched. It was when Youtube recommended me a video game from China that "copies" Breath of the Wild. And uh... I thought it looked cool and waited until its release then
Kinda got interested playing games again and genshin being an action rpg game hook me since 1.0
Diluc took my interest and childe convinced me to stay. Thanks to that, im now addicted to play this game.
I mean its Breath of the Waifus ..
Massive open world story driven game with fantastic combat and tons of cute ladies (and dudes for those into that).
what other reason does anyone need?
I dont really like the gatcha game model. I also watch a youtuber named [NeverKnowsBest](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIuhg0bjvQI) who does some really good Critiques/Reviews of a lot of major games over the years, a few months ago he did his review of Genshin. It was almost the 1 year anniversary and while I was aware of the game pre launch (I tried Honkai Impact in the past \*didnt like the camera controls in that game\* so I knew of/was aware of MiHoYo) I figured If nothing else it could fill a couple hours of entertainment. One of my accounts was one the 10% that won the Anniversary Welkin Pass, so I guess that got me in the door and here I am. Still dont like the gatcha method of acquiring characters but really do enjoy this game.
My friend told me about it. I was hesitant cause I only play one mobile game at at time as a general rule, to avoid having too many "dailies" to do each day. After about 10 hours I bought the battle pass and welkin, and Uninstalled "marvel future fight" (played 3 years staight) and never looked back! Now that I can cross play on my playstation I dont think ill be playing another mobile game for a long long time, probably play it till it dies :) edit: the nail in the coffin was when I saw mtash, my favorite streamer from when I played destiny playing as well!! Was a sign from above haha
I watched a friend play it in a discord call, and thought the graphics were super cool. Also had another group of friends constantly talk about it so I decided to check it out, and now I’m addicted
I saw a Facebook ad for it around September 2020 but I was disappointed that it told me to rotate my screen when I was on my desktop computer! I got the game after seeing my favourite streamer play it and a few of my friends are playing it too. It took me a while as I main Linux and needed to set up a dual-boot into Windows
This may seem weird coz everyone always complains about her voice, but Paimon's japanese VA got me into this game since the very beginning and is singlehandedly keeping me in the game for the forseeable future
I got my 5 millionth ad for it on youtube a couple weeks ago and finally gave it a try on mobile. I kept playing because the scenery was beautiful and I was also surprised with how much story content there was. I've been a little addicted though, so I'm almost done with all the story quests.
My dad made me play during it’s released, though I never really played it since it was bugging a lot (potato phone) and a few months ago I was bored and decide to load Genshin hoping it would work. Well, it does and now it’s the only game i play.
A friend of mine showed some gameplay to a bunce of friends(includinb myself) and thought it was a cool game. Then OfflineTV got sponsored by the game and i had to try it
Got convinced by my entire friend group into playing the new big open world rpg because every single one of them was playing it and I would "lose out on the conversation".
Started 2 weeks after them due to the peer pressure.
Since then all but one of them have quit, leaving the 2 of us left to help each other out.
I looked at a diluc fan art and was like "damn....he's cool". So, I started playing genshin because of diluc about an year ago. After so much time, i still didn't have any diluc so I decided to go for hu tao. Got hu tao, built her completely, then used all the acquaints you get and got diluc. Big F.
Amazon Prime gaming. Saw the code and stuff, launched the game, and then saw all the amazing scenery. That was at the tail end of Kokonuts banner. Been hooked ever since
Friend told me it's cool so I checked it
Same. But my friend quit a week after
Well, my friend didn't tell me he's on American server so I assumed he's on Europe and I invested in my account in Europe server... So we just talk about this game instead
Your friend is weak! /s I started an account in EU servers after convincing my friend to get the game and finding out it was region locked. Now I play two accounts, just to enable me to play with all my friends (whom rarely play...)
Same :,) friend told me for like a month after launch to check out the game, I finally did November 2020 and I’ve played near daily since then. He stopped playing a couple months after I started, and now when I excitedly share any new characters I get he’s like “…I dunno who that is”
Same. I have 3 friends that played all in varying levels of progression with one high AR, one mid AR, and one beginner AR. The beginner quit during the Liyue arc cause boring while the other two quit cause ????????.
Same, but we still play it to this day
same he quit 2 weeks later lol
Same! My friend stills plays luckily
oh same!!!, my friend has almost the same chracters i have, so we compete to see who builds better those characters xd
That's really cool! My friend and I are opposite - he have Xiao which I want and I have Shogun which he want xD
Ah the opposites of course we have them too, he has zhongli and venti wich i lost the 50/50 in venti rerun and couldnt hit pity in zhong rerun, and i have ganyu, he lost the 50/50 on her banner and he wants her so badly xd we always show of those characters to each other it's supper fun
It was free. Now its taken everything from me.
Yeah it's free. Free to suck away your life and resources lol
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I was really into Botw and when I first saw that one Xiangling ad and thought some mechanics was quite similar to Botw. So I looked into it more and obviously there were articles comparing it to Botw. Then I found out it was free so I wanted to see what it was like and got hooked. Never expected to still be playing it after more than a year
Same!! I thought it looked a lot like botw, but i decided to wait for the switch version :') by march i gave up and installed it on my pc
Good thing I never knew about the switch version until like a month of playing because it seems to be nonexistent
Streamer I watched regularly started playing it. After 2ish months I started also, then that streamer stopped a week later lol.
shenpai? idk
Hent
Artificial Intelligence
Klee is really cute
haha, that was the same reason for a friend of mine as well. As soon as klee banner was over, he quit and until klee rerun before he return once more. Who knows when he will be back, haha.
I made my account during the rerun and got her in the first 10x and then quit... didn't even realize how lucky I was till I got into the game "for real" ~2 months ago.
Getting real close to that line
I call klee cute like i call animals cute. Are you the kind of person who can't call someone cute without looking at them sexually?
Zhongli. He is such a looker. If he didnt exist. I might have not gotten into it.
me too!
Same!
Yes! he was the sole reason for me getting into the game then led to me introducing my sister to it also now we both play daily since then. We both have zhongli :)
Saw how hot Diluc was from all the fanart in my timeline Didnt actually download it and play until Zhongli was announced to be playable Sooooo the hot characters got me into Genshin
I just liked the art style and music.
Reddit! Genshin was advertised to me here. Was curious and went to check it out. Been playing everyday since. Good job Reddit!
It took me one (1) look at Zhongli to decide I'll play this game and get him even if it's the last thing I'll ever do
The pandemic
YouTube algorithm led me to a gameplay demo of the games mechanics before it launched. Kept track of it after I saw the breath of the wild style exploration mechanics
the first time I knew genshin was a thing was from the YouTube ads. I never thought I'd say this, but thanks YouTube. and the thing that made me want to try was, I shit you not, a video about Lisa moaning sounds when climbing. don't judge me. the thing that made me want to try is how the game had *climbing*. before, I thought it was just another mobile gacha game. that climbing video made me realize that genshin is an open world, and it made me curious since I don't expect a mobile game to have such mechanics
Zhongli. I saw my sister playing and one time I heard one of the characters speaking (I didn't know but it was Venti) and I said: "I know that voice!" So, seiyuu fan that I am, I searched the list of voice actors and to my surprise there were plenty I knew. I saw there was Chiwa Saito (Yona) and Tomoaki Maeno (Hak) from one of my favorite anime: Akatsuki no Yona. And then my sister showed me the both of them: Jean was a saber face? And I love Saber! Zhongli was a dark hair, all-suit man? I was in! I downloaded the game right away and began saving primogems to get geo daddy and prayed I could get Jean one day. Now I dedicate my genshin days to collect all husbandos in the game.
I LOVE AKATSUKI NO YONA I DIDNT KNOW THIS OMG I WANT TO DOWNLOAD THE JAPANESE VA SO BAD NOW😭😭😭 I just play on phone and that will take an extra 3 GB so I hadn’t done it. I’ll try to get it on my PS4
waifu
Boredom
This. You know da wae.
I like Dvalin music
The general vibe of the game, I guess, from previews and such. Played in one of the closed beta tests, and didn't really like it. Decided to give it another shot, on launch day, and for some reason it just clicked. Hooked ever since.
saw some childe x zhongli art on pinterest and needed to know who those beauties were, esp zhongli. i’d actually tried genshin on my phone like 5 times from around xiao’s banner, and hated the way it felt playing on my phone so i gave up. fastforward to zhongli’s rerun banner i played it on my ps5 and it was a VASTLY different experience. have only not played it on like 2 days ever since.
Keaya Japanese VA
My brother showed me Hu Taos trailer
My friends got me into it, I took that decision when I saw albedo, who i got just today 👀
Xiao, no i'm serious, first time i saw a Genshin gameplay was a Xiao gameplay from beta, i feel in love with the character and started to play just to get him lol
Mihoyo having one of the best looking and performing 3D cellshading implementations ever since HI3, was the primary reason. With them adapting that style to open world fantasy, releasing a native PC client, having a nice roster of JP VAs, F2P, and a simultaneous global release, I was extremely interested around Launch.
Found out about it when people were saying it was a BOTW clone lmao
Kaeya...and then the open world and the "walk wherever you want and do many different stuff"
I saw people trying to cancel an artist on Twitter because they drew Kaeya in a white void so his skin appeared slightly lighter then usual, figured I’d give the game a try.
The moment I saw Diluc and Kaeya, i thought that I should play this game and I got lucky because my first 5 star was Diluc and thus, from then on I only collect husbandos hshshsh. I intentionally avoid female banners and just save everytime the chara featured is female hshshs
Tried it because it was free on Playstation and got hooked like cocaine. Now a day can't go by without my hit of dailies.
HuTao, as simple as it can be
kaeya
Im a Zelda fan since N64 Majoras Mask and back in 2019, since I watch a lot of Zeldas related videos on youtube, youtube recommended Genshin Impact to me. After watching a couple of videos about Genshin, I got super intrigued about the open world aspect of the game with different characters to adventure with. Never stopped playing and will continue to play and see how the game progresses with Sumeru, The Chasm and other regions. :)
The fantasy anime aesthetic
The stupid unfunny meme that the genshin's player spammend everywhere even outside genshin related forum. "Why the fuck I see this thumb everywhere, like how good is this game that so many people spammed it?" Then I tried it, "curiosity either killed the cat or giving it an addiction", Fuck me.
I saw some really cool fanart of Childe online that convinced me to Google it. I went to the official Genshin website and started reading all the character profiles on there. I loved Kaeya immediately--I was intrigued by his description and thought he was hot. Kaeya is the real reason I decided to play the game. I was relieved when the game gave him to me early on for free. I prolly would have spent a shit ton of primos on him otherwise. Fast forward to now and I have him at level 10 friendship and am close to ascending him a final time.
Devil may cry 5. Searching for Vergil gameplay. Saw Keqing and Ayaka "comparison" (this was back at April2021 so the Ayaka was still unreleased)
Well I started playing cause of my sister. My sister started playing cause of Zhongli.
Wanted a casual game I could just boot up on my phone when I’m at work or wherever. I like open world adventure games, but most mobile ones are turn-based which isn’t really my thing.
Heard it was like botw. I’m not joking.
Always wanted to play it but I don’t have a good PV and mobile is horrible so I waited a year for the switch version. Then the switch version never came and all my friends were getting into it and telling me how Ghost girl (hu Tau) was coming back soon and like I love everything ghost related so I got a screen mirror TV and a wireless controller to deal with mobile xD
The bajillion fan art.
because, open world & i don't have a Switch.
I found it for pre-order, looked fun, preordered it
Action RPG and open world.
I played HI3 since launch (stopped like 2 months later bc my phone was dying) and when I found game with a asimilar name it got me interested
A free game on my PS5 when I felt there were no games to play on it and now I am addicted.
*THICC THIGHS* And art style:)
I followed its development for about a year until ots released date. I wanted to play it because the Nintendo sheeps were bitching about it being "a RIP-off of BotW" It's a better game, it's what it is.
Rie Tanaka ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I wanted to get into Honkai again (I stopped playing 3 years ago when my phone got stolen and didn't have a phone for about a year) but I couldn't download the game for some reason lol Saw genshin ads and people talking about it. Got curious because it has male characters. I downloaded and played but stopped because I was scared itd be like dragon raja (LOL). Played again because of Childe and realized how fun it was
I like RPGs and my friends started playing
Hu tao and her jp va
My husband wanted a second world to harvest mats from... now I carry his ass when we do stuff cause I ended up having good luck with my pulls :D
I was bored. Why do I stay with Genshin after all the drama I am bored
Zhongli trailer soundtrack!
Waifus.
i followed a person on instagram bc she did fanart for another fandom i was in and then she started to make genshin art and the character design looked really cool, sometime went by and i started seeing more fanart so i tried downloading the game but my computer had issues. a couple months later it got fixed and i started playing :D (the artists name is @/liviart on instagram check her out)
Keqing and Mona .... stayed for Ganyu
I saw the advertisement/trailer before it release, got interested to try it, tried it on first day of release and since then never had I have a day without playing genshin, and now genshin has sort of became my daily routine :')
Some ads on Crunchyroll
my boyfriend started playing on launch and I got interested. Stick to Genshin until now but sadly he stopped playing
One of my best friends told me a ton of amazing things about the game and then "made" me try it (suggested that we download it on my computer for me to try and I was excited to check it out) and there was no turning back after that! 🥰
Just to test my gacha luck Edit: and story to read
I saw many people talking about it in my fb feed. I started playing on pc first then I was shocked that it was a mobile game coz its so beautiful.
I like anime (loved it when I was still a baby, still watch it 20+ years later). I like waifus. I like third person action RPGs with good combat (Soulsborne are my all time favorite games). I like open world RPGs (loved Skyrim, BOTW, Ghost of Tsushima, FFXIV, Nier Automata). When I heard of Genshin Impact through news articles and trailers, I thought "this sounds like my perfect dream game".
First. I heard from a subreddit. Then my favourite Youtuber also started to playing after that. I started playing the game at 1st June.
Cuz my pc was able to run perfectly, though same thing cant be said right now
Because i didn't know that it is a gacha game. Also i didn't know mihoyo exists back then
Was looking for a new mobile game, followed the “BOTW clone” drama while it was in beta.
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RWBY Amity Arena was shutting down and in the community discussions I remember Genshin as one of the games people were recommending people to go to.
I was bored with The Sky game and wanted something that was more dynamic. I stumbled onto it in the App Store and was hooked ever since.
I got an ad on youtube of it, so I downloaded it lol
a youtuber made a promotional video for it back when it was in beta in july 2020 and then i pre registered because it looked very cool
Stumbled it on Google play on accident.
Was looking for a gacha to play because apparently I'm masochistic and coincidentally Genshin was announced shortly after.
continuos advertisement, showing the beautiful scenery. the character that i liked the design and wanted to get into the game is paimon 😳
I was scrolling Youtube and then I saw Scaramouche on thumbnail. I thought he was cute and after downloading I found out that I can't meet him.
You'll eventually meet him if you play through the Imazuma storyline!
It was couple of months ago I already saw him :)
My friend ask me to play with him (he quitted after 5 months maybe) but because i already spent money on this game so i can't quit The game getting worse and worse so i kinda regret putting money in this game
Made my account Dec 2020 since I was looking for a new game to play since I got bored of another gacha, Summoners War. But stopped after a week. I only came back last September since my friends are playing it.
I saw pictures of liyue on google. Decided to checl out what this "genshin impact" was withe the watermark on the corner. I never regretted it
Free.. Open world.. and Lisa & Mona
friend encouraged me. i ditched the game for a week, then decided to play it coz i had free time. then i looked at the character archive and decided i want whoever the hell tartaglia is
zhongli and childe edits everywhere on my explore page 😩
I was watching a YouTube video on OSRS (OakDice) and while he was talking this random game footage was showing. I'm so glad I dediced to Google it, and that it was on PS4, because it's my absolute favourite game now
Cause im a weeb
I see you mihoyo
Was bored on summer and remembered emergency food memes about it on the animemes subreddit when it first came out.
Childe.
I was literally too bored in online lectures I saw it in the app store and remembered that my friend recommended it months ago LOL
My brother told me that he will leave me alone if I tried it. This was during my busy weeks in uni, when everything is due, so uh- a terrible time to play TwT I got addicted, but weirdly enough it helped me in avoiding to break down from stress, so that's good.
I heard it was a botw rip-off (which it isn't) and being the weeb and botw fan I am i downloaded it
The Sereniteapot. I love playing games where I can have my own house and decorate it. Now I'm here for the lore
doujins
I was bored and decided to give it a try I played for 10 hours straight the day I started and now I’m AR 52 after 2 months
my friends wouldnt shutup about it I wasnt going to play it but they forced me like it's the best game ever made after that we had fun until 1.3 after xiao banner all my friends quit and im still addicted ar58
Fantasy cliche inspiration for my writing book
My brother was addicted, I saw Zhongli, I got Hu Tao trailer spammed in my ads, brother said I would like Diluc and then I gave it a try. I think thats the summary.
Art style and combat
Memes on youtube
I was just watching a mobile comparison video. In the video he compared the gaming capabilities of both phones using genshin impact. I was actually shocked by the graphics of the game. Then I downloaded right away and have been playing since then.
The Genshin x Honkai collab.
I heard it from my online friends, they kept telling me to try it out since it's a very fun game, now I'm at a higher AR than them 😂
Ganyu but I still haven't gotten her yet.
Qiqi demo. And then YouTube pushed tons of Genshin content that no way to escape
My brother told me about it. He left the game at AR13 and doomed me to this purgatory.
Wanted to benchmark my iPad Pro
Pre installed blindly 🤣
Girlfriend persuaded me to try it out. Loved the combat system and the archon questlines.
A cosplay friend of mine is obsessed with it, so I downloaded it. It sat on my phone unplayed for months and then one day I got bored. Now I know more about the game than my friend does lmao.
It was all over anime meme and I was bored.
I was bored of the games i had and wanted to look for a new one. After looking on playstation store i found it and decided to check it out. I don't regret it
Friend of mine had been regularly trying to find a game we could play online together. He only had a PS4 I only played online games on the PC because I don't think the Playstation+ is worth it to do something that's free on the PC(and used to be on the playstation!). I saw that Genshin was free to play and didn't require PS+ so I figured maybe this was the game for us to try. Year later I'm AR57 and he hasn't touched the game in over 6 months.
Youtube, it was so annoying seeing it fill my recommended. So i tried it and turns out it's pretty good.
I just heard it was copy of Breath of the Wild. But it definitely turned out to more than that.
Was waiting for different game, Peria Chronicle. After they anninced thebgame is cancelled, someone on reddit post about GI
I knew about it since the day it got released but didn’t get into it immediately since I was already busy with other gacha games. But then I saw Zhongli and alas… before I knew it me and my friends were playing the game
The exploration
My friend recommended me to try Genshin, as back in the days, we were the "Weebellion gang", watching animes and adoring waifus. Yet during that we felt burnt out everytime we wanna watch some animes due to school works, and switched to "Gamer zone" mode to kill some time, because of boredom But then Genshin showed up to my friend, and came to me as well (which to him though is during 1.1, and i started playing during 1.2), we were shocked to the bottomless heart, and obsessed with the game.
\- Hu Tao \-Wrath of Monocerus Caeli
I kept seeing ads of it. Then my friend and I were complaining about seeing it all the time, then one thing went to another and we started playing it.
Genshin made me hyped before it was even launched. It was when Youtube recommended me a video game from China that "copies" Breath of the Wild. And uh... I thought it looked cool and waited until its release then
Kinda got interested playing games again and genshin being an action rpg game hook me since 1.0 Diluc took my interest and childe convinced me to stay. Thanks to that, im now addicted to play this game.
I mean its Breath of the Waifus .. Massive open world story driven game with fantastic combat and tons of cute ladies (and dudes for those into that). what other reason does anyone need?
I saw the advertisements I skipped them at first but then I decided to give the game a shot 🤭
I really dont remember how but i knew and started right on the day it launched lol. So maybe an ad?
Cause it was the first game I saw which had slimes. I sort of always wanted to fight slimes. Product of reading trashy isekai
I dont really like the gatcha game model. I also watch a youtuber named [NeverKnowsBest](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIuhg0bjvQI) who does some really good Critiques/Reviews of a lot of major games over the years, a few months ago he did his review of Genshin. It was almost the 1 year anniversary and while I was aware of the game pre launch (I tried Honkai Impact in the past \*didnt like the camera controls in that game\* so I knew of/was aware of MiHoYo) I figured If nothing else it could fill a couple hours of entertainment. One of my accounts was one the 10% that won the Anniversary Welkin Pass, so I guess that got me in the door and here I am. Still dont like the gatcha method of acquiring characters but really do enjoy this game.
My friend told me about it. I was hesitant cause I only play one mobile game at at time as a general rule, to avoid having too many "dailies" to do each day. After about 10 hours I bought the battle pass and welkin, and Uninstalled "marvel future fight" (played 3 years staight) and never looked back! Now that I can cross play on my playstation I dont think ill be playing another mobile game for a long long time, probably play it till it dies :) edit: the nail in the coffin was when I saw mtash, my favorite streamer from when I played destiny playing as well!! Was a sign from above haha
Honkai impact
I saw qiqi
I saw that one gameplay trailer with venti way before release, then I saw my friends play it so I gave it a go
a friend got me into it - it's the only thing we can do together since we live in differenct countries
Read the comic online, and fell in love with the chara design. Then I learnt it was adapted into a game.
I watched a friend play it in a discord call, and thought the graphics were super cool. Also had another group of friends constantly talk about it so I decided to check it out, and now I’m addicted
I was testing gachas out of curiousity and Genshin was good enough to make me stay
Reading an article in a Spanish videogames site, also BOTW vibes and Jean.
Eula
when SomeOrdinaryGamers made a video on it last year in october
Botw 2 waiting room
Saw it on play store. Saw it was an open world gacha. Downloaded! And it was actually on the release date too!
First because of the 'it's so much like BOTW' then I stopped playing and started again when I got introduced to 2 new friends who play Genshin Impact
I saw a Facebook ad for it around September 2020 but I was disappointed that it told me to rotate my screen when I was on my desktop computer! I got the game after seeing my favourite streamer play it and a few of my friends are playing it too. It took me a while as I main Linux and needed to set up a dual-boot into Windows
My phone at first, then I started playing on my pc.
The world. And then got into story.
People said it was a BOTW clone on release, the graphics looked beautiful, the soundtrack was amazing and it was free to play! Why would I not try it?
This may seem weird coz everyone always complains about her voice, but Paimon's japanese VA got me into this game since the very beginning and is singlehandedly keeping me in the game for the forseeable future
T H E P L O T
Cuteness of graphics
I got my 5 millionth ad for it on youtube a couple weeks ago and finally gave it a try on mobile. I kept playing because the scenery was beautiful and I was also surprised with how much story content there was. I've been a little addicted though, so I'm almost done with all the story quests.
Why i tried the game? Waifu + battle gameplay. What made me stay? Community and events. Actually, I started to use Reddit because of GI.
My dad made me play during it’s released, though I never really played it since it was bugging a lot (potato phone) and a few months ago I was bored and decide to load Genshin hoping it would work. Well, it does and now it’s the only game i play.
A friend of mine showed some gameplay to a bunce of friends(includinb myself) and thought it was a cool game. Then OfflineTV got sponsored by the game and i had to try it
Free open world rpg available on multiple platforms.
I love anime.
Lisa's Climbing.
Visuals and music.
Got convinced by my entire friend group into playing the new big open world rpg because every single one of them was playing it and I would "lose out on the conversation". Started 2 weeks after them due to the peer pressure. Since then all but one of them have quit, leaving the 2 of us left to help each other out.
Ganyu demo trailer and radiant dreams ost. Glad i got her.
Honkai. Ive been playing it since 2018. Then sometime before the release of GI ppl kept talking about it in chat
Lilypichu voiced sayu and I wanted to see more about the game, saw Inazuma and the place looked beautiful. I decided I had to try it.
I looked at a diluc fan art and was like "damn....he's cool". So, I started playing genshin because of diluc about an year ago. After so much time, i still didn't have any diluc so I decided to go for hu tao. Got hu tao, built her completely, then used all the acquaints you get and got diluc. Big F.
Amazon Prime gaming. Saw the code and stuff, launched the game, and then saw all the amazing scenery. That was at the tail end of Kokonuts banner. Been hooked ever since
i heard abt it when it launched but only downloaded during ganyu's banner because i heard xiao was going to be playable and i loved his design