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If being given the choice to waste your money is a roadblock to enjoying an otherwise free game, that seems like a you problem.
There's no good reason to spend money on Genshin Impact. Really, none whatsoever. The best thing about it is the open world content, and that's all free, and you get more than enough characters and weapons to enjoy said open world content with the currency you get by playing it.
You are then given the option to spend money for additional pulls at the slot machine for more characters and weapons. Just don't? Some of the characters are more interesting than others, but after after you level them and farm some decent artifacts, most things in the open world will die so fast that your teams will mostly feel interchangeable.
They might as well be cosmetics. And, again, you get plenty of pulls for free just by playing the game.
Actually worse than cosmetics in a lot of cases. 5-star weapons and constellation abilities (for additional copies of the same character) will make an already too easy game even easier. You're literally paying to make the game worse.
The closest thing the game has to end-game content that might incentivize spending money is Spiral Abyss, and this is so lazy and unfun that you're better off not thinking about it at all. The devs sure didn't.
There's no good reason to spend money on Genshin Impact. Really, none whatsoever. The best thing about it is the open world content, and that's all free, and you get more than enough characters and weapons to enjoy said open world content with the currency you get by playing it.
You are then given the option to spend money for additional pulls at the slot machine for more characters and weapons. Just don't? Some of the characters are more interesting than others, but after after you level them and farm some decent artifacts, most things in the open world will die so fast that your teams will mostly feel interchangeable.
They might as well be cosmetics. And, again, you get plenty of pulls for free just by playing the game.
Actually worse than cosmetics in a lot of cases. 5-star weapons and constellation abilities (for additional copies of the same character) will make an already too easy game even easier. You're literally paying to make the game worse.
The closest thing the game has to end-game content that might incentivize spending money is Spiral Abyss, and this is so lazy and unfun that you're better off not thinking about it at all. The devs sure didn't.
Delilah is a pretty interesting character.
The most banal criticism of games of this type is that they're more movies than games. But even granting that (which I don't), is it a good movie or a bad movie?
"TV series" is more apt now, with the ongoing HBO adaptation. 2 very faithful episodes in, we now have a pretty good indication of how well The Last of Us works as a piece of cinema separate from its gameplay. And the answer is very well.
As I said, I don't buy the premise. TLOU's gameplay draws you into its world in a way that a non-interactive medium can't replicate. Still, it can't be dismissed as "just a movie" even if you were so inclined. It's a damn good movie.
"TV series" is more apt now, with the ongoing HBO adaptation. 2 very faithful episodes in, we now have a pretty good indication of how well The Last of Us works as a piece of cinema separate from its gameplay. And the answer is very well.
As I said, I don't buy the premise. TLOU's gameplay draws you into its world in a way that a non-interactive medium can't replicate. Still, it can't be dismissed as "just a movie" even if you were so inclined. It's a damn good movie.