I played when it first came out and was addicted until Inazuma released and got really fatigued since I played almost every day. I play once every month or so, but I actually miss mindlessly playing this game in it's early days when I was genuinely addicted to the exploration and grinding.
I miss how everything was still new and exciting and how everyone was so unexperienced. Now there are so many characters and a lot of things just feel like a chore. I would love to forget everything and start again lol, I really miss Mondstadt
I remember the release of 1.2 so vividly. It was the first map expansion and it was insane. Also the community meltdown about how OP ganyu's charged attack was was crazy
Probably my most memorable patch in Genshin. The game is still relatively new, so a "normal" account like mine probably doesn't have well-built characters, and I can't one-shot everything... but it's a blast. It's so much fun doing co-op and dying in Festering Desire's boss event. To this day I refuse to equip FD to any other character except Traveller. Ngl I'm part of the meltdown gang. I thought she was a sign of powercreep in Genshin, and I really disliked that. Fast forward to today, it turns out she is (imo) just good, not as crazy as I thought back then. Oh yeah, one more thing. All my homies hate Reckless Pallad.
Anybody remember first lantern rite festival?! Or the first ever limited 5 star, Klee (correction: it was Venti but I forgor lol) ?? Or how we thought Stormterror's lair was where we would face the endgame boss? :D So many memories!
for that note, there were indeed some chests that respawned once because of an update, they might've been related to some minor changes mihoyo did near where they were located (i'd say they've deleted it by mistake and placed a new one at the same spot), but most of the claims were pointing to some chests that were just easy to miss out the first few times you get past near them...
As a fellow 1.0 player, getting Diluc during that time makes you the envy of everyone. And boy oh boy, I remember those events that required resin. It was just so bad, esp we only had 120 back then. Ohhh, good times 😂
@@iamjohn2573 i just bought an account for 1$ because i really wanted Diluc. Jean was nice, but not as COOL as Diluc (5mmo site btw. Also bought here R6 points for Rainbow Six Siege)
I remember my cousin and I using Kaeya to get to the island by taking turns freezing the water, thinking "wow it really let's us go this far huh" the entire way. Also my cousin wanted to explore and collect all of the anemoculus on the right side of Mondstadt before continuing the story, so he did it all without the glider and was pretty annoyed when he found out.
Started playing in late 1.0, here are some of my memories from the early game (1.0, 1.1, 1.2) -Exploring Liyue during online class (my excuse was “I can still listen to the lecture” (I did not)) -Couldn’t defeat Dvalin because I wouldn’t dodge the bubbles -Watching videos with me and my brother when dragonspine was going to release being extremely excited -After that we explored dragonspine and my brother had to tell me a million times that the lanterns don’t heat me up (After that I wouldn’t care about coldness so my characters would die of frostbite) -Pulled on Childe’s banner thinking I could get Klee since she was my favorite character at the time -Zhongli became my brother’s favorite character, and when he pulled for Zhongli he lost the 50/50 to Jean. When I pulled on Zhongli’s banner just for Xinyan I got Zhongli accidentally (I literally have C1 Zhongli because I wanted to get the 4*s in his banner) -Trying to do the delivery event but for some reason if my feet touch a puddle of water the food is somehow “inedible” wtf Paimon just let me get the primogems -Had to get my brother to fight Childe for me because at the time a sheet of toilet paper did more DMG than my characters -Pulled on Albedo’s banner and got Bennett. I put this here because guess the next time I got a Bennett. Yup it was in 3.5 in March. 2 years for one constellation of a 4 star that I was trying to get kinda crazy -Played the Albedo event that came with dragonspine but I was too lazy to complete it fully so my inventory forever has a cursed R3 Festering Desire -The first time I beat a Ruin Guard with my LVL 40 Amber I legit celebrated -Not having enough stamina to run for shit -Chests respawning -Saw the “Getting Ayaka at AR42” thing and thought “that’s kinda wack” -Watched the videos of those bugs that sent you flying in the air And now…version 3.6., my friends list is filled with “last online 31 days ago”, including my brother who got me into the game. At this point I’ve basically sworn myself to play this game until the end so I can go through the full Genshin experience
bro I relate so much to the r3 festering desire, but mine was an r3 Cinnabar Spindle. im an albedo main now and still regret it. I still wish they would give us reruns for event weapons
I couldn't get festering bc l didn't know how events worked. I kinda got to know how they worked during the first lantern rite but l was a dumbass in 1.4 and stopped at r3 windblume ode. I really don't know why
Also being like "OMFG" when they did their first ever rerun, cause at that point I was convinced that you lose a char forever if you dont pull them on release. And as a matter of fact, childe and albedo were the first limited chars I ever wanted so childe's rerun was the best thing for me back then.
Even as a late joiner I can relate to "walking into Liyue Harbour and the music suddenly changes with the city" feeling. You don't really get that feeling anymore these days. Fontine could've had one of those moments but the start of the quest is just exposition and cutscene hell.
Elemental Crucible was my first coop experience. As someone who started about a month late, it was impressive back then to see Keqings and Dilucs carrying the entire thing to finish each match quickly
Holy crap I remember so much of this...the artifacts falling on the ground was actually so satisfying. Also I remember the community speculating Ganyu was just going to be "Cryo Amber" before 1.2 and was hesitant to pull her until I tried her out during the trial.
I just pulled her and she was my main for very long time. She' was OP back in the days. DMG was huge af. Since i got hu tao and her spear on her second banner game just became so boring cuz i was literally 1 shoting whole content in the game. On the other hand with ayaka. heh. Fun times.
@@ostry635Tbh its quite funny that I pulled Ganyu but didnt have her built so her dmg wasnt that high so I returned to playing xinyan who was my main dps at this moment
This makes me feel like I'm an old man... I am walking through my memories. I see all the high and low parts of my life in Genshin.... Everything. I walk through my childhood, an enthralling adventure when I got to know this world. I see my early years fly by, then I go into Abyss. I see all my characters, wonder what they will do. I keep going, pass by some hard times. I am getting older. Eventually I make it to the present. I feel like I just summed up my entire life. I am tired. I sit down on a chair...peaceful.
Seeing Liyue for the first time after so many hours in Mondstadt.. I arrived at night like you did in the video, so I just see a beautiful port city bathed in golden lights. Truly an incredible moment for me and I just.. stood there on the hill near the city, basking in the music, wondering what sort of amazing story beats would unfold. Genshin will always hold a special place in my heart, which has only become more true with how amazing the story has gotten. P.S.: RIP Signora. A lost opportunity for a playable character that the fanbase will never recover from. They better make Arlecchino playable or I swear to g--
i never experience again the joy of exploring a new city like liyue, the stupid events that rush you into unlocking shitty locations gets into my nerves buy i can't waste primos :(
I remember all of this 😂. And honestly it was hilarious and very nostalgic. I still remember first lantern rite and the fact that you could make xiao lanterns, I made like 500+ of them back then and I’m glad I did. As you can’t make them anymore. My personal tradition is to go to random travelers worlds and release a few every lantern rite. And it’s honestly an amazing feeling when you come across a random traveler who remembers them. And the messages of sheer wonder from people who don’t. So if you are on Europe servers and you see a random trying to join around lantern rite. You never know it could be me. Sadly I only have around 200 left now. 😢 I wish that hoyo would let me replace my stock
@@maruftim yeah definitely gonna save some for that. Probably have some saved up for when I do finish the whole game. As a personal achievement for myself 🤣
@@deanscarborough8756do you have screenshots of your gameplay? I'd recommend having a lot of those so you can see back on your memories when one day you finish the game. For me after reading all the comments in this video I took a little nostalgia trip on my thousands of screenshots, and now I wish I could go back in time and experience everything again 😭
It's so sad how they changed the Rosaria animation in the Weapon section. Before Shogun Raiden was released, if you went to the Rosaria's Weapon section, you could see her kicking her polearm before posing
it’s so crazy to think myself and many many others have spent nearly 3 years playing this game. i played it 2 weeks after launch and i was 13 at the time, i’m 16 now so genshin impact is technically a childhood game for me
It's crazy how it doesn't even feel like it's been 3 years, I only realised after you mentioned your age that I was 14 when I started playing and now I'm 17 whaaat 😭
Same, I'm now AR60 with every characters build. I find it weird that I'm still playing, since every games are boring to me and I prefer well to go outside and hang out with friends to do sports.
The ending section going over the transition from Mondstat to Liyue makes me so nostalgic ughdkghkdhgkd I was i m m e r s e d idk what it was about it all,, maybe just the fact that I wasn’t powerful yet and everything including mechanics and lore felt like it was shrouded in mystery and sacred I hope they do something to recapture that feeling of staggering awe and mystery
honestly i feel like there is still a lot of mystery as long as you're not keeping up with genshin on social media. i took a break and came back and was pleasantly surprised to not even know characters' name before actually meeting them.
When I actually have to look at the screen I become immersed and get to enjoy the game. I actually got LOST in the forest in the tutorial because there was no Minimap, I climbed some hill and ran into an abyss mage who I couldn't damage at all, and I didn't know what would happen if i died, and I did NOT want to find out 😂. Ran for my life. I had to look at actual landmarks to figure out where to go because kept ending up in the same tree😂. Once I found mondstat the sense of accomplishment was sublime. I could finally rest. Adventuring actually felt SCARY and unpredictable which made the safe moments in a town feel even better. My next goals were maybe find a map and learning how to better protect myself. Too bad everything went downhill from there, it was still fun and I still played, but my expectations were never met. I feel like the minimap and the unchecked quick travel/teleporting everywhere ruins alot of that immersion and unpredictability. You can still have fast travel in a game but it could be done better imo (like morrowind). Theres no planning or thinking about things for the player anymore in the actual game world. You just GOGOGO. You think more about mechanics/dmg/efficiency, things that take you OUT of the immersion.
Being AR56 rn, and having started 10 days into 1.0, this was such a blast from the past. can't believe 3 years have passed. A shame *ALL* the people that i started playing with are gone from the game. Kinda feels like zhongli reminising about that damn wine, a bit sad, a bit happy even if I stop playing, genshin will be a fond memory of a time that everything was wrong, but we hoped for better days. Such a weird takeaway from a mobile gacha game, but i guess most people that started back then would agree. Thank you for reminding me and making me reminisce so fondly about Genshin.
Same feel! I got dragged into the game by a circle of friends who were obsessed with it, and the memories of all of us playing windtrace together were priceless treasures. By the time the most recent Windtrace rerun happened, I was the ONLY person from that original group still playing the game. Very “Osmanthus wine is as good as I remember.”
Damn…be present In class man 💀 Edit: I’m not really ‘heavily obsessed’ with this game…I just play It every once in awhile…who tf Is so-called ‘heavily obsessed’ with videos games anyway 💀
@@sajohakerIsn’t it technically done but they’re making a new arc that doesn’t follow kiana as heavily or something? Kind of like how Final Fantasy 14 Endwalker was the end of this what like decade long story arc but there’s a new plot forming
Ahaha, thank you for this. Diluc being king, Venti mains being a menace. It brought back a lot of memories. I joined two weeks into 1.0, I was enticed by the open-world aspect and story of the game. One of my most memorable moments was during Xiangling's story quest. I messed up whilst trying to cook Jade Parcels, and ran out of Lotus Heads. I remember going back to the same pond but they still haven't respawn. Then after looking up where I could get them, I decided to go to Liyue. I didn't pass through Stone Gate because I was scared, I passed through the cliff mountain and into the then still-sealed Sal Terrae, I was amazed at the sights and music as I crossed the border, and then well... walked towards Liyue City to get some Lotus Heads and finish the quest. Ahaha, sorry for the stupid long story but it was a fun memory for me. Speaking of Xiangling, miHoYo never brought back her "ring-ring" bells huh. I remember a lot of people complaining about it, weird since Albedo and Sucrose had them as well, and still has them. Sad, it was really cute. Also, remember Unreconciled Stars? Meteor event, Scara's first appearance. I remember Genshin being divided about whether Fischl's chuuni talk was annoying or cute. I personally found it cute. How about Childe being able to one-shot you? They had to nerf him because of the complaints, aha. Oh, and Oceanid being the hardest (or at least most annoying) boss at the time? Ahaha, yeah...good times. Oh you're still reading? Well... thank you! I wish you luck in your banner pulls. Good day, or evening. (◠‿・)-☆
ahhh, i remember unreconciled stars so incredibly fondly. its such a shame that it never got actually added into the game, especially considering how far scara has come and how important he was to the plot leading up to this event. not to mention the fake sky thing being there for old players from the get-go. and the oceanid.... oh dear god, the oceanid...........
Oceanid is sich an annoying shit like its not hard its just exactly that annoying with it wonky attacks and ONE shotting you when you are lvl 30 amber trying to kill those stupod birds
Somewhere back in 1.0-1.2, I had a person join my world for the first time. They had Mona and I was insanely jealous of her sprint. We both just ran around and jumped to communicate because I didn't know the chat button existed and I think neither did they. Eventually they left but I made sure to friend them. A few days later, I check my friends list and theyre just... gone. I was genuinely upset about that for a while... still makes me sad to this day.
i was farming archaic petra for albedo back in 1.2 and i met a zhongli main and talked a lot about life in general, he was older than me, made sure to befriend him ingame and he was in my friends list for some time but i think during 2.x he unfriended me.. it made me so sad
u know whats funny? me stopping just before Zhongli update, and play abit for 1 day on Childe release, seeing all this is kinda weird, rather than nostalgic, i feeling like im stuck in a time capsule itself, not knowing how much have changed, i wont play it again due to personal reasons but, im actually glad someone do this kind of documentation for me to reminiscing on for abit. thank you akashoT
13:28 YOOO THATS ME RUNNING TO LIYUE THIS IS HUGE great vid btw, i think my favorite thing from 1.0 was the lisa domain skip that im pretty sure is still there today(?), speedrun strats just for rerolling was a great time to be playing
Also Diluc's chicken didn't have enemy tracking so whenever you used it on an enemy that was right in front of you, Diluc would just fire it off into either left or right randomly. Nowadays there is so much assist aim (that cannot be turned off) that when you just want to break churl towers or barriers for the balloons, your character turns even 180° just to attack the nearest enemy even if you are actively holding down a directional button to where you actually want to aim.... Days were different before :)
I'm restarting the game on another server to play with friends in that server and managed to pull diluc and it's so painful to carefully line up the enemies to mow them down with his ult only for him to fire it at some random hilichurl off to the side. Don't get me started on how he is with cicin mages lol
I remember joining when Albedo’s first banner dropped in 1.2, and it was such a wonderful time to play Genshin back then. It genuinely felt so full of joy. I’d love to do it all again.
Tbh I thought that Albedo was guarenteed, like, he MUST come home at the end of the countdown of the banner, and I was very confused when I didn't get him LMAO
Goddamn nostalgia overload in one video it was a truly amazing and fun experience I would love to play genshin againif I could re-experience it all again,Thank you man.
i started playing during 1.0 and i was 16 back then, im 20 now, and it doesnt even feel like it LOL. the magic of the game's early days when no one really knew what was happening is unmatched.. discovering everything myself for the first time by just playing the game, and not able to even imagine that we would travel through 7 nations of teyvat, but today we are at number 5. this game will always have a special place in my heart despite the bad reputation it may have, because it was the perfect escape during quarantine.
Nice trip down the memory lane. Some things you show us were only in beta, not in released game. Panda Guoba, Ayaka jumping out of the fround, Mona's outfit, Klee's walk, all these were not there on release. But yeah, physical Xiangling and Fischl, that was exactly my team by then. And it even sort of worked after I learned to drop their pets whenever possible. I still have that crescent pike too. There are still lots of people who believe chests respawn. I guess they're not much into exploration, that may explain it. 12:00 - I actually flew to that island, then I wondered why others have so much of a problem with it. Yeah I used to have Amber in my party and no idea about her passive. And Dragonspine, yeah. I actually liked that placeholder mountain a lot so before the patch I made several photos of it thinking the replacement would look worse.
Don't forget 'Dancing Amber' as one of her idles - in the Beta she actually DID the moves Baron Bunny does when taunting enemies (look for 'Amber CBT Idle Dance').
i legit didn't know about passive skill thing but i suspect amber backstory of wing glider champion could have effect on her gameplay to this day, it was one of my proudest big brain moment
I still remember the moment dragonspine released I had time to grind it out and explore it. It was the best thing ever but I’ve never experienced that again
To this day Dragonspine is still my top favorite zone on release to explore, there was so much packed into what I thought was a relatively small zone till I got into it
The gameplay back then was so different from now. It felt really like a open world game where battles took so long but yet felt so cool because you where fighting with like xiangling and your amazing 4 star weapon. It was really cool and that was the reason I fell in love with the game.
The transition from Mondstadt to Liyue will always be a core memory to me. It was raining and thundering when I approached the Statue of Seven. I remember getting killed real fast since I was underleveled. Fun times.
As someone who's been playing since 1.0 as well, this was truly nostalgic...I remember nearly all of this, except for the Elemental Crucible event because I was intimidated by co-op; having to use resin to play the events though was truly insanity lmfao
Bro 1.0 is mega nostalgic, i remember losing my shit when the abyss sibling appears in that one stormterror cutscene, also pulling for zhongli and watching his buffs go live
the walk from mondstadt to wangshu inn will be with me forever the sunset coupled with the music were the perfect first impression edit: it’s crazy how much nostalgia i can feel for something that happened only 3 years ago
There was apparently some shenanigan about people buying rolled accounts to start with, then losing them because the original owner yoinked it back. Not sure if it was the same thing or a different thing though
I use to watch a lot of genshin videos in 2020, but i didn’t have enough storage for it so I missed a lot of in game hype. I loved watching all the theory videos with klee walking around and throwing bombs, she was a really popular character for videos and I barely remember any place than Mondstadt. I’m sure Liyue was there back then but there were so little characters compared to now and it’s crazy going back to all the things i never got to experience myself.
idk why but 1.0 felt like it lasted longer than other versions. And when dragonspine came out it felt so big, i remember playing only on dragonspine doing everything for like 2 weeks. Now there is new area and i sleep.
It's crazy to think that this game is four years old now, I started playing a month after it came out, finally started playing it again after two years and damn it's insane seeing how much content has released.
I remember when Xiao just came out I spent everything (including real money) to get him. Then a few months later I moved out of my parents house and had to leave that account because it was on their PS4 and sharing accounts across platforms was not availible yet. Still to this day I don't have Xiao on my (now) main account
When Ganyu's first banner run was out, people were clowning or warning those pulling for her because "her damage seems whack" and things along those lines. I lost the 50/50 and got Diluc. Shortly after the banner run ended everyone started realizing that Ganyu is the strongest DPS yet from those who showcased Ganyu's play.
i'm remembering that wet food event; 100 REGIONAL specialty Diluc being a happy surprise Remember trying to glitch onto dragonspine's map before it release many timees After it release everyone vowing to never help Reckless Ballade and his debut as the most annoying character to the point players would forsake the mora+exp he gave as a reward. edit in memory of Scaramouche first appearance in the Unreconciled Stars for him to only dump that famous line "The stars, the sky... It's all a gigantic hoax, a lie" then see you no more
The last part pretty much perfectly describes how I felt exploring genshin for the first 4 days, when I did nothing but play it for 12 hours a day and talk to my friends how amazing that experience was. Truly a mastapiece
This is so nostalgic and I don’t know when Genshin started to change for me but it has changed and I’ll never be able to experience the game and enjoy it as much as I first did
I started playing at around 1.2 when Dragon Spine came out. The character that got me into the game was Jean, and as I learned more and more about the game I started thinking: "Yea, let's get her!". It took me until the summer of 2022... And I also have a C4 Diluc... Gosh this game brought me so many memories.
It's true though. Bennett at c0 with early game bad weapon, artifact, talent level ,etc. is legit B tier. It's the age where the most effective thing was crescent pike Xiangling after all. No one knew they scaled hard with investment
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shoutout to that ningguang player who joined my world the second i hit AR16 who saved me from getting my ass handed to me by the ruin hunter in the ruins near wuwang hill
5:41 I DIDNT EVEN UNDERSTAND THAT I COULD CO OP TO GET REWARDS BACK THEN THIS JUST GAVE ME VIETNAM FLASHBACKS 7:52 i actually went back to check i think💀 i got gaslighted into thinking that chests did respawn I still love qingce ost. I think i need to log off cause i remember everything except for the very first co op challenge cause i didnt read the instructions.
As someone who has been playing since the very beginning (Not including the Beta), it is amazing to look back when reaching AR45 was a major achievement and you had officially reached endgame, whereas now most consistent players are AR 55+ and the endgame is still the same. On another note the best addition to the game was allowing you to actually hold down the button to add weapon exp instead of spam clicking it. That was a nightmare
lmao diluc was literally THE MAN. people made videos spending literal thousands on him, he was the 5 star that people rerolled accounts for, batman, debate club, memes, and when you posted a screenshot of your diluc pull in reddit, you got a standing ovation
I still remember getting Klee as my first 5 star, when she was pretty much the strongest character of the game, the release of Dragonspine and the amazing feeling I had exploring this region, the first time I saw Ganyu in the Liyue quest and decided I wanted to get her when she had just been leaked, the first leaks with Kazuha, Rosaria, Yun Jin, Mimi (rest in peace Mimi)... I feel so old now 😅 I'm so nostalgic I kept all the lanterns I crafted during the first lantern rite... But I think Genshin has evolved pretty well despite what everyone can say, if I told myself two and a half years ago that I would still be playing this game today, I wouldn't have believed it...😊
I started playing exactly two days after release and this is absolutely spot on. I remember arguing with my friends about how there was no way that villain characters would be made playable, and then the release Childe in the next patch. Also the unveiling of Dragonspine, the magic of encountering Liyue Harbor for the first time, etc. I have to admit that I was extraordinarily pissed when Inazuma came out because I wanted to just leg it there, but it was locked behind a quest. I still don't know if Sumeru had any prerequisite quests because I did everything beforehand. Some other memories from the 1.0 patches: -The sense of community was incredibly strong. I remember people joining my world and joining other people's worlds not to get materials or participate in events/do domains, but literally just to help new people get acclimated to the game easier. Handing out advice, explaining how things like artifacts worked, etc. -Exploring every new aspect of the map was incredibly magical and I couldn't get enough of it. I feel like its lost some of that same charm (Inazuma and Sumeru just didn't invoke that sense of wonder), though, which is sad. -Another debate that was incredibly hot between my friends was whether or not Albedo's quest (which served as a lead-in to Dragonspine) actually had a proper cutscene in it, like all other story quests. -The utter hype of the first Lantern Rite. -Xiangling and Zhongli being the only polearm characters. -The.... food event.... -Xiangling being one of my favorite characters to use because of her ringing bells. -The first story event being the meteor one.... I'm sure there's nothing here I haven't said that hasn't already been pointed out, but man, the list is long. 1.0 was forever ago, and those early early patches (1.0, 1.1, 1.2) were just something else entirely. It really was incredible. Flawed, absolutely, but incredible.
I started in 1.2 Dragonspine. Very unique experience especially amidst the online class quarantine shenanigans. Some of my notable experiences are - Painfully cutting through Dragonspine to get to Liyue's Katherine because I didn't know there was a different and easier way to get there - Dying to sheer cold and freezing myself for the millionth time because Barbara's heals can get you frozen, also she's the only one that can prevent me from dying from sheer cold in the first place - Getting R1 Festering Desire, unable to get the rest of the refinements because it was just too hard at the time. Immediately regrets not getting its refinements because it worked soooo well on both anemo and geo traveler - Trying to climb to the top of Dragonspine then getting pulled back down because you weren't supposed to do that - Friend who played since launch carrying me on weekly bosses every monday, because otherwise I'll just die - The sheer pain of losing the 50/50 for the very first time (Got Mona on Ganyu's first banner) - The sheer joy of getting the 5 star I wanted (Hu Tao's first banner) - Getting my first god roll artifact after farming for weeeeeeekkkkksssss Andddd mannnnyyyyy mooooooreeeeee. Early Genshin is so nostalgic and fun, however today it just isn't the same anymore. Right now, I have far less free time as it is no longer quarantine and exploration is feeling like a chore and just isn't fun anymore. Genshin pre-Inazuma was a completely different experience and I'd do anything to go back to it :(
Maybe its because we haved sooo much free time back then, now we have college, others go to unniversity, work, etc, and we dont get the same experience because we dont have the same time we had in the pandemy time 😢
started right after 1.1 began and regretted missing all the launch patch rewards but i remember so many of the stuff you pointed out. truly one for the mmrs
When I was doing the "go to liyue kathyrne" quest, I thought I was delivering some super secret high level intelligent document😎😎. Girl wdym u made me walk 4 kilometres to give her 1 dandelion
awww this video really made me feel the same wonder i did when 1.0 came out - i think i miss when finding luxurious chests was such a big deal that everyone posted on tiktok to like the same 2 audios on how to find it LOL
I started playing Genshin in October of 2020. I played on my mobile device back then, because my of my potato pc. Unfortunately, my mobile device just couldn’t run it well, so I quit after a month, and didn’t play again until the June of 2021 when I got a better Pc. It was wild, but holy crap does the game feel so much better. It feels like breath of the wild, yet unique on its own lore. The community was the best part. Everyone feel like dumbass who’s just having fun. Very little shipping, and Aether was treated like a cinnamon roll. Love your content btw.
It's so fun to see people's memories from release bc I first discovered it early on and knew only the name and a piece of landscape in mondstadt (still trying to find that exact spot) then rediscovered it during 1.4 thanks to a warrior cats rp and a friend of mine and then dowloaded it in 1.5
I started right after the 1 anniversary of the game. I remember I had no idea how to get to Liyue so I ended up running through Dragonspine trying to avoid enemies because I was only like level 20. Then later I realized the actual path to Liyue was by the Dawn Winery 😂
I started playing this year but have known about the game for a while so it's interesting for me to hear about what happened in the earlier versions, not even the content but also the stuff going on in the community. I kinda sped through the early game and don't remember much of it but my favorite part was gliding into Qingce village for the first time. Just the change of atmosphere from the dark and spooky Wuwang hill and seeing it clear up to see a beautiful, colorful valley gets me everytime.
I just recently played genshin again after quitting for a long time (I still haven't even gotten to half of Sumeru Archon Quest as of making this comment) This video is just so full of nostalgia it made me actually feel emotional about the game again. 10/10 video
Btw, on elemental crucible, you'd lose your cubes if you got affected by an element that could react with the cubes, meaning you had to be very careful with using Barbara's healing
man old genshin was such a blast to play, was actually thinking about the old days when me and my friends always argued about different builds and theories just earlier, and this video just made every one of those memories hit me all at once, I genuinely wish I could go experience the past again
i actually enjoyed the elemental crucible gameplay alot. feels like hoyo has stepped away from such events for a while now, hope they bring it back sometime
i took a break for a couple years around inazuma release and after coming back for fontaine i was SHOCKED to figure out expeditions were safe to send my good characters on
One thing that I think Genshin does still really well to this day is the exploration aspect. Exploring the new regions is always fun. Though I dislike that for a while they always seem to add some kind of gimmick to the regions that stop you from feely exploring them (like items you need to get or even level up). Don't get me wrong, I like the sidequests even though I find it sad they aren't voiced, but sometimes I am just not in the mood for sidequests and just want to explore the new region and getting blocked so often is a bit annoying imo. But in general the exploration stayed fun since 1.0 and is definitely the thing that I always look forward to the most when a new version comes out. However, one thing that won't come back for me is obviously the fact that there will never be a place that feels to hard to get through. Wherever I go I can beat the enemies. So that sense of danger that you still had in 1.0 is sadly gone.
@@hey_aurie Do you mean Inazuma was boring or the nations after Inazuma were boring? I found Inazuma kinda... meh, but Fontaine and the super recent Chenyu Vale have been a blast personally. I think they've gotten a lot better, but of course the new nations might miss that spark that comes with a new game.
I've also been playing the game since version 1.1 (I started just before 1.1 released) and it's crazy to see how far this game has come. I witnessed many crazy things with the fandom and the game itself, and it was crazy to see Scaramouche become playable as a person who played the Unreconciled Stars event, when I grinded that event HARD just to get Fischl and I started maining her. I've had a lot of fun with it, and playing the Mondstadt and Liyue archon quests was an experience, it made my 2020 just a bit more fun! Can you believe Fontaine is almost here? Its nuts.
I knew about this game before it came out. Was very excited to finally play it because it looked like Breath of the wild but possibly an mmo. My expectations werent entirely met but it was still pretty good. I eventually got burned out from all the dialogue explaining everything and the thousands of chests we had to collect. It just became a waiting game for next character, max them out, then log out because i already did all content.
My very precious advice to you is two things: dont learn the hard way(just playing mindlessly), please watch educational videos first because you will suffer in games like genshin due to resources waste The second thing is to know genshin patterns in exploration, walk through main roads, and divert to left or right but always stay on main road, this is how you explore efficiently, i learnt this the hard way, i have 100% regions in fontaine and sumeru but 80% in liyue 😂
Wow I remember playing Genshin at launch. This video really captures the feeling of Genshin 1.0. I never really made it past 1.0 since it was too involved of a game for me to play on mobile, but it left enough of an impression for me to start playing Honkai Star Rail at launch.
I started playing during albedo’s first banner. I remember getting Jean at 5 pity and not knowing how lucky that was. I remember getting a guaranteed Xiao and shitting myself out of excitement (not literally). It was magical.
About the pillars in liyue, early game there was a bug when you couldn't collect all 9 of the balls, and only had 8 until they fixed it. I remember waiting months to finally go inside
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I played when it first came out and was addicted until Inazuma released and got really fatigued since I played almost every day. I play once every month or so, but I actually miss mindlessly playing this game in it's early days when I was genuinely addicted to the exploration and grinding.
yeah, fontaine's coming out soon and i havent even started exploring the desert
I miss how everything was still new and exciting and how everyone was so unexperienced. Now there are so many characters and a lot of things just feel like a chore. I would love to forget everything and start again lol, I really miss Mondstadt
shotoooooo
so it's not just me???? I want to play this game so bad but I just _can't_
Yeah, relatable
I remember the release of 1.2 so vividly. It was the first map expansion and it was insane. Also the community meltdown about how OP ganyu's charged attack was was crazy
"She's a 5 star Diona but without healing and shield, you better save your primos"
@@paul4653 ppl only said that because their kits were similar afaik ( taunt E skill, Q creates a field that deals dmg over time)
Probably my most memorable patch in Genshin. The game is still relatively new, so a "normal" account like mine probably doesn't have well-built characters, and I can't one-shot everything... but it's a blast. It's so much fun doing co-op and dying in Festering Desire's boss event. To this day I refuse to equip FD to any other character except Traveller.
Ngl I'm part of the meltdown gang. I thought she was a sign of powercreep in Genshin, and I really disliked that. Fast forward to today, it turns out she is (imo) just good, not as crazy as I thought back then.
Oh yeah, one more thing. All my homies hate Reckless Pallad.
1.2 was my fav memory bc i pulled an allnighter and explored dragonspine for over 20 hours
Anybody remember first lantern rite festival?! Or the first ever limited 5 star, Klee (correction: it was Venti but I forgor lol) ?? Or how we thought Stormterror's lair was where we would face the endgame boss? :D
So many memories!
Oh god, the chest respawn lies. That was such a crazy time.
Fr bro
for that note, there were indeed some chests that respawned once because of an update, they might've been related to some minor changes mihoyo did near where they were located (i'd say they've deleted it by mistake and placed a new one at the same spot), but most of the claims were pointing to some chests that were just easy to miss out the first few times you get past near them...
Still waiting
Lies lies and even more lies
As a fellow 1.0 player, getting Diluc during that time makes you the envy of everyone. And boy oh boy, I remember those events that required resin. It was just so bad, esp we only had 120 back then. Ohhh, good times 😂
@@abba5122 the current resin cap is at 160
food delivery event😂, still Traumatized by that event
As a 1.0 player, i lament at my lack of a diluc
Exactly who is not a 1.0 player here. No need to wear a sign on your forehead I can imagine what it was like.
@@iamjohn2573 i just bought an account for 1$ because i really wanted Diluc. Jean was nice, but not as COOL as Diluc (5mmo site btw. Also bought here R6 points for Rainbow Six Siege)
the chest respawning, I really believed in that shit back in the day
lol, I did as well.
Samee
fucking same, I even back to the bank every fking week lol
yeah me too lol
I believed that shit too
I remember doing the whole Dragonspine quest and exploring like 80% of it all during Christmas eve. Feels like yesterday
Yea it was awesome 😊
I totally remember this...damn. It was truly a great Christmas-had to stay inside anyway, pull up some good food and drinks and boot up Genshin!
i miss it fr, i spent 50$ on it for the first time n got albedo and qiqi 12 pulls apart i thought i was the luckiest player ever
omg same i loved it so much, all of my friends were on discord exploring the update during christmas eve :D
Fr and the Dragonspine music is so nostalgic to me now. Those were the days man
Even as a non 1.0 player. This feels honestly way too damm nostalgic
Hehe 69th like🎉
Fr I join in 3.6 and I feel like I have time traveled
@@Primoslady bro what u join after inazuma release
@@itzolivery2762 so?
@@ItsYOgirl803they are not an og how tf can they relate to this vid
I remember my cousin and I using Kaeya to get to the island by taking turns freezing the water, thinking "wow it really let's us go this far huh" the entire way. Also my cousin wanted to explore and collect all of the anemoculus on the right side of Mondstadt before continuing the story, so he did it all without the glider and was pretty annoyed when he found out.
1.0 Genshin was peak Genshin, back when the game actually felt like an open world and not your average gacha game
When we all went crazy to summon for Venti because we thought he'd be gone forever 😂
And he kind of has been gone a while
@@co7769 He will come back in 5.1, probably then. This was a trend since 2.1, then he got his rerun in 3.1 and in the Fontaine arc in 4.1 sooo
@@ItsYOgirl803WOOOOOOHHH
tbf he was gone for 6-7 months on his first rerun some people left before he even got a rerun hahaha
@@ItsYOgirl803appearently this year they are planing to switch it up a bit, not 100% sure but ice heard of it
Started playing in late 1.0, here are some of my memories from the early game (1.0, 1.1, 1.2)
-Exploring Liyue during online class (my excuse was “I can still listen to the lecture” (I did not))
-Couldn’t defeat Dvalin because I wouldn’t dodge the bubbles
-Watching videos with me and my brother when dragonspine was going to release being extremely excited
-After that we explored dragonspine and my brother had to tell me a million times that the lanterns don’t heat me up (After that I wouldn’t care about coldness so my characters would die of frostbite)
-Pulled on Childe’s banner thinking I could get Klee since she was my favorite character at the time
-Zhongli became my brother’s favorite character, and when he pulled for Zhongli he lost the 50/50 to Jean. When I pulled on Zhongli’s banner just for Xinyan I got Zhongli accidentally (I literally have C1 Zhongli because I wanted to get the 4*s in his banner)
-Trying to do the delivery event but for some reason if my feet touch a puddle of water the food is somehow “inedible” wtf Paimon just let me get the primogems
-Had to get my brother to fight Childe for me because at the time a sheet of toilet paper did more DMG than my characters
-Pulled on Albedo’s banner and got Bennett. I put this here because guess the next time I got a Bennett. Yup it was in 3.5 in March. 2 years for one constellation of a 4 star that I was trying to get kinda crazy
-Played the Albedo event that came with dragonspine but I was too lazy to complete it fully so my inventory forever has a cursed R3 Festering Desire
-The first time I beat a Ruin Guard with my LVL 40 Amber I legit celebrated
-Not having enough stamina to run for shit
-Chests respawning
-Saw the “Getting Ayaka at AR42” thing and thought “that’s kinda wack”
-Watched the videos of those bugs that sent you flying in the air
And now…version 3.6., my friends list is filled with “last online 31 days ago”, including my brother who got me into the game. At this point I’ve basically sworn myself to play this game until the end so I can go through the full Genshin experience
bro I relate so much to the r3 festering desire, but mine was an r3 Cinnabar Spindle. im an albedo main now and still regret it. I still wish they would give us reruns for event weapons
I relate bc i have r3 fish claymore
I couldn't get festering bc l didn't know how events worked. I kinda got to know how they worked during the first lantern rite but l was a dumbass in 1.4 and stopped at r3 windblume ode. I really don't know why
bro just worte a whole entire fvcking essay on their genshin life-
Really relate me so much. Playing since 1.0 too!
I remember some of these. Fuck man 1.0-1.6 genshin was enjoyable as hell.
The first Golden Achipelago, forever in our hearts.
TRUE AFTER 2.0 EVERYTHING FEEL DEAD
Tbh, i still enjoy it until now. Can't wait for Fontaine
Also being like "OMFG" when they did their first ever rerun, cause at that point I was convinced that you lose a char forever if you dont pull them on release. And as a matter of fact, childe and albedo were the first limited chars I ever wanted so childe's rerun was the best thing for me back then.
@@kangketokmagic ong bro after 3.0 i dont feel like playing the game anymore
Even as a late joiner I can relate to "walking into Liyue Harbour and the music suddenly changes with the city" feeling.
You don't really get that feeling anymore these days. Fontine could've had one of those moments but the start of the quest is just exposition and cutscene hell.
You can enter Fontaine without the cutscene starting though
@@Idkwgo1 I entered Fontaine for the first time after Rose's and Muskets event.
Elemental Crucible was my first coop experience. As someone who started about a month late, it was impressive back then to see Keqings and Dilucs carrying the entire thing to finish each match quickly
i still hate them they always got the mvp spot even tho my venti quite decent back then
I was the fucking healer bruh...
Holy crap I remember so much of this...the artifacts falling on the ground was actually so satisfying. Also I remember the community speculating Ganyu was just going to be "Cryo Amber" before 1.2 and was hesitant to pull her until I tried her out during the trial.
I just pulled her and she was my main for very long time. She' was OP back in the days. DMG was huge af. Since i got hu tao and her spear on her second banner game just became so boring cuz i was literally 1 shoting whole content in the game. On the other hand with ayaka. heh. Fun times.
@@ostry635Tbh its quite funny that I pulled Ganyu but didnt have her built so her dmg wasnt that high so I returned to playing xinyan who was my main dps at this moment
Ganyu is amber but better in everything.
This makes me feel like I'm an old man... I am walking through my memories. I see all the high and low parts of my life in Genshin.... Everything. I walk through my childhood, an enthralling adventure when I got to know this world. I see my early years fly by, then I go into Abyss. I see all my characters, wonder what they will do. I keep going, pass by some hard times. I am getting older. Eventually I make it to the present. I feel like I just summed up my entire life. I am tired. I sit down on a chair...peaceful.
this is a 2 year old game dramatic ass
is this your first game? this happens with every updated game lol
@@kisaragi3154 guoba!
You talk like zhongli you talk like old man zhongli
Seeing Liyue for the first time after so many hours in Mondstadt.. I arrived at night like you did in the video, so I just see a beautiful port city bathed in golden lights.
Truly an incredible moment for me and I just.. stood there on the hill near the city, basking in the music, wondering what sort of amazing story beats would unfold.
Genshin will always hold a special place in my heart, which has only become more true with how amazing the story has gotten.
P.S.: RIP Signora. A lost opportunity for a playable character that the fanbase will never recover from. They better make Arlecchino playable or I swear to g--
They said they will
i never experience again the joy of exploring a new city like liyue, the stupid events that rush you into unlocking shitty locations gets into my nerves buy i can't waste primos :(
Arlecchino in 4.6(or 4.7 i forgor) is confirmed
@@TheRealFurinaDeFontaine 4.6!
This comment single handedly scared mihoyo to release Arle
I remember all of this 😂. And honestly it was hilarious and very nostalgic. I still remember first lantern rite and the fact that you could make xiao lanterns, I made like 500+ of them back then and I’m glad I did. As you can’t make them anymore. My personal tradition is to go to random travelers worlds and release a few every lantern rite. And it’s honestly an amazing feeling when you come across a random traveler who remembers them. And the messages of sheer wonder from people who don’t. So if you are on Europe servers and you see a random trying to join around lantern rite. You never know it could be me.
Sadly I only have around 200 left now. 😢 I wish that hoyo would let me replace my stock
that's honestly pretty cool, I can't imagine how nostalgic that would be when the last region comes out
@@maruftim yeah definitely gonna save some for that. Probably have some saved up for when I do finish the whole game. As a personal achievement for myself 🤣
@@deanscarborough8756do you have screenshots of your gameplay? I'd recommend having a lot of those so you can see back on your memories when one day you finish the game.
For me after reading all the comments in this video I took a little nostalgia trip on my thousands of screenshots, and now I wish I could go back in time and experience everything again 😭
i had around 500 lanterns too but i liked spamming them so now im left with 5 !!!! 😭😭😭
@@casstrophobia same I remember doing that too. Luckily I restrained myself 🤣
It's so sad how they changed the Rosaria animation in the Weapon section. Before Shogun Raiden was released, if you went to the Rosaria's Weapon section, you could see her kicking her polearm before posing
it’s so crazy to think myself and many many others have spent nearly 3 years playing this game. i played it 2 weeks after launch and i was 13 at the time, i’m 16 now so genshin impact is technically a childhood game for me
Now I’m 13 and started playing
It's crazy how it doesn't even feel like it's been 3 years, I only realised after you mentioned your age that I was 14 when I started playing and now I'm 17 whaaat 😭
Same, I'm now AR60 with every characters build. I find it weird that I'm still playing, since every games are boring to me and I prefer well to go outside and hang out with friends to do sports.
A moment of silence to contemplate that our childhood game was a gacha game full of anime tiddies.
I'm was either 14 or 15 and I'm 18 now 😭😭
The ending section going over the transition from Mondstat to Liyue makes me so nostalgic ughdkghkdhgkd I was i m m e r s e d idk what it was about it all,, maybe just the fact that I wasn’t powerful yet and everything including mechanics and lore felt like it was shrouded in mystery and sacred
I hope they do something to recapture that feeling of staggering awe and mystery
honestly i feel like there is still a lot of mystery as long as you're not keeping up with genshin on social media. i took a break and came back and was pleasantly surprised to not even know characters' name before actually meeting them.
@@hamtaru I'm still semi active on socials but even just starting to avoid leaks helped my enjoyment of the game so much
avoiding trailers gave me that sense of wonder back honestly. watching trailers right after doing them is miles better.
going to liyue for the first time feels like fieldtrip
When I actually have to look at the screen I become immersed and get to enjoy the game. I actually got LOST in the forest in the tutorial because there was no Minimap, I climbed some hill and ran into an abyss mage who I couldn't damage at all, and I didn't know what would happen if i died, and I did NOT want to find out 😂. Ran for my life.
I had to look at actual landmarks to figure out where to go because kept ending up in the same tree😂. Once I found mondstat the sense of accomplishment was sublime. I could finally rest. Adventuring actually felt SCARY and unpredictable which made the safe moments in a town feel even better. My next goals were maybe find a map and learning how to better protect myself. Too bad everything went downhill from there, it was still fun and I still played, but my expectations were never met.
I feel like the minimap and the unchecked quick travel/teleporting everywhere ruins alot of that immersion and unpredictability. You can still have fast travel in a game but it could be done better imo (like morrowind). Theres no planning or thinking about things for the player anymore in the actual game world. You just GOGOGO. You think more about mechanics/dmg/efficiency, things that take you OUT of the immersion.
Being AR56 rn, and having started 10 days into 1.0, this was such a blast from the past.
can't believe 3 years have passed.
A shame *ALL* the people that i started playing with are gone from the game. Kinda feels like zhongli reminising about that damn wine, a bit sad, a bit happy
even if I stop playing, genshin will be a fond memory of a time that everything was wrong, but we hoped for better days.
Such a weird takeaway from a mobile gacha game, but i guess most people that started back then would agree. Thank you for reminding me and making me reminisce so fondly about Genshin.
dang im coming up on a year of genshin august 11th and im AR57 and halfway through that to 58
you have played for 3 years and are only ar 56?
@@calypselle2254 Well they probably play it casually
Same feel! I got dragged into the game by a circle of friends who were obsessed with it, and the memories of all of us playing windtrace together were priceless treasures.
By the time the most recent Windtrace rerun happened, I was the ONLY person from that original group still playing the game.
Very “Osmanthus wine is as good as I remember.”
@@calypselle2254 started in april this year and currently more than half through ar 55 with 11 5 stars, 3 of which c1
damn its been 3 years already.. i remember being heavily obsessed with this game that i almost fail my online classes lol
Damn…be present In class man 💀
Edit: I’m not really ‘heavily obsessed’ with this game…I just play It every once in awhile…who tf Is so-called ‘heavily obsessed’ with videos games anyway 💀
lowkey just wanna know if you passed your classes now LOL
i already failed all my online classes because of playing genshin all day in the lockdown lol
@@extrem2497 💀
Edit: Why? Are people saying this as a joke or are they for real…If so, that’s fucked up 💀
@@shuubeans They didn’t 💀
When u were reminiscing the early Monstadt stuff, n proceed to liyue, i feel at awe. Like memories flooding back in. It was such a long journey huhhh
Imagine the Nostalgia in 5 years once the main story line is done and we probably already pretty late into the after story
I super doubt they won't have more ideas. They have an entire brand new IP they will milk the absolute shit out of
@@villaniousmustache4898 bro honkai impact 3rd the game before genshin isnt even done yet
@@sajohakerIsn’t it technically done but they’re making a new arc that doesn’t follow kiana as heavily or something? Kind of like how Final Fantasy 14 Endwalker was the end of this what like decade long story arc but there’s a new plot forming
Ahaha, thank you for this. Diluc being king, Venti mains being a menace. It brought back a lot of memories.
I joined two weeks into 1.0, I was enticed by the open-world aspect and story of the game.
One of my most memorable moments was during Xiangling's story quest. I messed up whilst trying to cook Jade Parcels, and ran out of Lotus Heads. I remember going back to the same pond but they still haven't respawn. Then after looking up where I could get them, I decided to go to Liyue. I didn't pass through Stone Gate because I was scared, I passed through the cliff mountain and into the then still-sealed Sal Terrae, I was amazed at the sights and music as I crossed the border, and then well... walked towards Liyue City to get some Lotus Heads and finish the quest.
Ahaha, sorry for the stupid long story but it was a fun memory for me.
Speaking of Xiangling, miHoYo never brought back her "ring-ring" bells huh. I remember a lot of people complaining about it, weird since Albedo and Sucrose had them as well, and still has them.
Sad, it was really cute.
Also, remember Unreconciled Stars? Meteor event, Scara's first appearance.
I remember Genshin being divided about whether Fischl's chuuni talk was annoying or cute. I personally found it cute.
How about Childe being able to one-shot you? They had to nerf him because of the complaints, aha.
Oh, and Oceanid being the hardest (or at least most annoying) boss at the time? Ahaha, yeah...good times.
Oh you're still reading? Well... thank you! I wish you luck in your banner pulls.
Good day, or evening. (◠‿・)-☆
I'm one of those rare good natured venti players. And my friends won't let me use other character than venti because i'm the only one that have him.
ahhh, i remember unreconciled stars so incredibly fondly. its such a shame that it never got actually added into the game, especially considering how far scara has come and how important he was to the plot leading up to this event. not to mention the fake sky thing being there for old players from the get-go. and the oceanid.... oh dear god, the oceanid...........
« Diluc being king »
Did you just drop a GI vs ToF joke? 😂
Oceanid is sich an annoying shit like its not hard its just exactly that annoying with it wonky attacks and ONE shotting you when you are lvl 30 amber trying to kill those stupod birds
Somewhere back in 1.0-1.2, I had a person join my world for the first time. They had Mona and I was insanely jealous of her sprint. We both just ran around and jumped to communicate because I didn't know the chat button existed and I think neither did they. Eventually they left but I made sure to friend them. A few days later, I check my friends list and theyre just... gone. I was genuinely upset about that for a while... still makes me sad to this day.
Lol. (Me when wiping all my 60 friends so I can make new ones)
i was farming archaic petra for albedo back in 1.2 and i met a zhongli main and talked a lot about life in general, he was older than me, made sure to befriend him ingame and he was in my friends list for some time but i think during 2.x he unfriended me.. it made me so sad
u know whats funny? me stopping just before Zhongli update, and play abit for 1 day on Childe release, seeing all this is kinda weird, rather than nostalgic, i feeling like im stuck in a time capsule itself, not knowing how much have changed, i wont play it again due to personal reasons but, im actually glad someone do this kind of documentation for me to reminiscing on for abit. thank you akashoT
13:28 YOOO THATS ME RUNNING TO LIYUE THIS IS HUGE
great vid btw, i think my favorite thing from 1.0 was the lisa domain skip that im pretty sure is still there today(?), speedrun strats just for rerolling was a great time to be playing
Also Diluc's chicken didn't have enemy tracking so whenever you used it on an enemy that was right in front of you, Diluc would just fire it off into either left or right randomly. Nowadays there is so much assist aim (that cannot be turned off) that when you just want to break churl towers or barriers for the balloons, your character turns even 180° just to attack the nearest enemy even if you are actively holding down a directional button to where you actually want to aim.... Days were different before :)
as a diluc main I agree
@@ryukihagane7211Relatable as a Diluc main
Omg, YES, I hate that so much
I'm restarting the game on another server to play with friends in that server and managed to pull diluc and it's so painful to carefully line up the enemies to mow them down with his ult only for him to fire it at some random hilichurl off to the side. Don't get me started on how he is with cicin mages lol
Electro Fly targeting! Gaaaahhh
I remember joining when Albedo’s first banner dropped in 1.2, and it was such a wonderful time to play Genshin back then. It genuinely felt so full of joy. I’d love to do it all again.
I wholeheartedly agree.
Ye
Tbh I thought that Albedo was guarenteed, like, he MUST come home at the end of the countdown of the banner, and I was very confused when I didn't get him LMAO
ayeee bro i also joined during Albedos Banner, good times. He was my first ever Pull and 5*
@@moralgraveyard6679same [he’s my first 5 star aswell and now I main him as a dedication]
Respect to all my fellow Barbaras who healed during Elemental Crucible
Goddamn nostalgia overload in one video it was a truly amazing and fun experience I would love to play genshin againif I could re-experience it all again,Thank you man.
i started playing during 1.0 and i was 16 back then, im 20 now, and it doesnt even feel like it LOL. the magic of the game's early days when no one really knew what was happening is unmatched.. discovering everything myself for the first time by just playing the game, and not able to even imagine that we would travel through 7 nations of teyvat, but today we are at number 5. this game will always have a special place in my heart despite the bad reputation it may have, because it was the perfect escape during quarantine.
Nice trip down the memory lane.
Some things you show us were only in beta, not in released game. Panda Guoba, Ayaka jumping out of the fround, Mona's outfit, Klee's walk, all these were not there on release.
But yeah, physical Xiangling and Fischl, that was exactly my team by then. And it even sort of worked after I learned to drop their pets whenever possible. I still have that crescent pike too.
There are still lots of people who believe chests respawn. I guess they're not much into exploration, that may explain it.
12:00 - I actually flew to that island, then I wondered why others have so much of a problem with it. Yeah I used to have Amber in my party and no idea about her passive.
And Dragonspine, yeah. I actually liked that placeholder mountain a lot so before the patch I made several photos of it thinking the replacement would look worse.
Don't forget 'Dancing Amber' as one of her idles - in the Beta she actually DID the moves Baron Bunny does when taunting enemies (look for 'Amber CBT Idle Dance').
i legit didn't know about passive skill thing but i suspect amber backstory of wing glider champion could have effect on her gameplay
to this day, it was one of my proudest big brain moment
I also have photos of dragonspine pre 1.2 cause it looked cool and mysterious
I still remember the moment dragonspine released I had time to grind it out and explore it. It was the best thing ever but I’ve never experienced that again
To this day Dragonspine is still my top favorite zone on release to explore, there was so much packed into what I thought was a relatively small zone till I got into it
I 100% cleared it under 20 hours when it was released.
@@AYSplayer shit was top tier exploration done right. Hoorah
I spent hours trying to clear that challenge at the bottom and then the Yeti after because all I had was a scuffed Diluc, ahh good times
The gameplay back then was so different from now. It felt really like a open world game where battles took so long but yet felt so cool because you where fighting with like xiangling and your amazing 4 star weapon. It was really cool and that was the reason I fell in love with the game.
Early gameplay was a lot funnier than late game optimized boom artifact hell combo.
The transition from Mondstadt to Liyue will always be a core memory to me. It was raining and thundering when I approached the Statue of Seven. I remember getting killed real fast since I was underleveled. Fun times.
Coming back here, i really laugh at genshin glazers these days, because they say genshin 1.0 was better than wuwa 1.0, and as a 1.0 player, hell nah
0:19 The Zyoxxx Impression was on point 😂
As someone who's been playing since 1.0 as well, this was truly nostalgic...I remember nearly all of this, except for the Elemental Crucible event because I was intimidated by co-op; having to use resin to play the events though was truly insanity lmfao
14:53 after 3 years and i still have goosebumps watching this
Bro 1.0 is mega nostalgic, i remember losing my shit when the abyss sibling appears in that one stormterror cutscene, also pulling for zhongli and watching his buffs go live
the walk from mondstadt to wangshu inn will be with me forever the sunset coupled with the music were the perfect first impression
edit: it’s crazy how much nostalgia i can feel for something that happened only 3 years ago
Bruh do y’all remember when 15:15 genshin had 0 two factor authentification so people were getting their accounts hacked and sold left and right💀
There was apparently some shenanigan about people buying rolled accounts to start with, then losing them because the original owner yoinked it back. Not sure if it was the same thing or a different thing though
I use to watch a lot of genshin videos in 2020, but i didn’t have enough storage for it so I missed a lot of in game hype. I loved watching all the theory videos with klee walking around and throwing bombs, she was a really popular character for videos and I barely remember any place than Mondstadt. I’m sure Liyue was there back then but there were so little characters compared to now and it’s crazy going back to all the things i never got to experience myself.
idk why but 1.0 felt like it lasted longer than other versions. And when dragonspine came out it felt so big, i remember playing only on dragonspine doing everything for like 2 weeks. Now there is new area and i sleep.
It's crazy to think that this game is four years old now, I started playing a month after it came out, finally started playing it again after two years and damn it's insane seeing how much content has released.
I remember when Xiao just came out I spent everything (including real money) to get him. Then a few months later I moved out of my parents house and had to leave that account because it was on their PS4 and sharing accounts across platforms was not availible yet. Still to this day I don't have Xiao on my (now) main account
Rerolled 7 times for Diluc, then weeks later watching a C6 Noelle destroyed coop was heart breaking and inspirational at the same time.
When Ganyu's first banner run was out, people were clowning or warning those pulling for her because "her damage seems whack" and things along those lines.
I lost the 50/50 and got Diluc. Shortly after the banner run ended everyone started realizing that Ganyu is the strongest DPS yet from those who showcased Ganyu's play.
i'm remembering that wet food event;
100 REGIONAL specialty
Diluc being a happy surprise
Remember trying to glitch onto dragonspine's map before it release many timees
After it release everyone vowing to never help Reckless Ballade and his debut as the most annoying character to the point players would forsake the mora+exp he gave as a reward.
edit in memory of Scaramouche first appearance in the Unreconciled Stars for him to only dump that famous line "The stars, the sky... It's all a gigantic hoax, a lie" then see you no more
started playing in feb 2024; i did animal crossing and the magnus archives (horror podcast) for my quarantine depression damn
The last part pretty much perfectly describes how I felt exploring genshin for the first 4 days, when I did nothing but play it for 12 hours a day and talk to my friends how amazing that experience was.
Truly a mastapiece
This is so nostalgic and I don’t know when Genshin started to change for me but it has changed and I’ll never be able to experience the game and enjoy it as much as I first did
man this was lowkey nostalgic, as someone who started in late 1.0, i can relate to almost everything you said
I started playing at around 1.2 when Dragon Spine came out. The character that got me into the game was Jean, and as I learned more and more about the game I started thinking: "Yea, let's get her!". It took me until the summer of 2022... And I also have a C4 Diluc... Gosh this game brought me so many memories.
4:20 BENNETT IN B TIER I CANT
It's true though. Bennett at c0 with early game bad weapon, artifact, talent level ,etc. is legit B tier.
It's the age where the most effective thing was crescent pike Xiangling after all.
No one knew they scaled hard with investment
Geez. For me, I first arrived at Liyue using Kaeya's ice bridge before eventually swimming the remaining distance.
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at 13:40 the music just hits so hard with nostalgia, I can feel it physically
6:54 the hu tao rap was the peak of genshins life no cap
shoutout to that ningguang player who joined my world the second i hit AR16 who saved me from getting my ass handed to me by the ruin hunter in the ruins near wuwang hill
I didnt see anyone bring this up, but remember when mona can actually surf on water? Fun times back then
5:41 I DIDNT EVEN UNDERSTAND THAT I COULD CO OP TO GET REWARDS BACK THEN THIS JUST GAVE ME VIETNAM FLASHBACKS
7:52 i actually went back to check i think💀 i got gaslighted into thinking that chests did respawn
I still love qingce ost. I think i need to log off cause i remember everything except for the very first co op challenge cause i didnt read the instructions.
As someone who has been playing since the very beginning (Not including the Beta), it is amazing to look back when reaching AR45 was a major achievement and you had officially reached endgame, whereas now most consistent players are AR 55+ and the endgame is still the same.
On another note the best addition to the game was allowing you to actually hold down the button to add weapon exp instead of spam clicking it. That was a nightmare
They still didn't change anything to the endgame which is sad.
I still remember the childe fight being the hardest fight in the entire game
lmao diluc was literally THE MAN. people made videos spending literal thousands on him, he was the 5 star that people rerolled accounts for, batman, debate club, memes, and when you posted a screenshot of your diluc pull in reddit, you got a standing ovation
Barbara's old voice... I still miss it everyday
I still remember getting Klee as my first 5 star, when she was pretty much the strongest character of the game, the release of Dragonspine and the amazing feeling I had exploring this region, the first time I saw Ganyu in the Liyue quest and decided I wanted to get her when she had just been leaked, the first leaks with Kazuha, Rosaria, Yun Jin, Mimi (rest in peace Mimi)... I feel so old now 😅
I'm so nostalgic I kept all the lanterns I crafted during the first lantern rite... But I think Genshin has evolved pretty well despite what everyone can say, if I told myself two and a half years ago that I would still be playing this game today, I wouldn't have believed it...😊
Who is Mimi again?
@@dominickroberts4653 mimi was the leaked version of kokomi.
i got klee as my first 5 star back in 1.6 and she is still my main unit now 😭
I started playing exactly two days after release and this is absolutely spot on. I remember arguing with my friends about how there was no way that villain characters would be made playable, and then the release Childe in the next patch. Also the unveiling of Dragonspine, the magic of encountering Liyue Harbor for the first time, etc. I have to admit that I was extraordinarily pissed when Inazuma came out because I wanted to just leg it there, but it was locked behind a quest. I still don't know if Sumeru had any prerequisite quests because I did everything beforehand.
Some other memories from the 1.0 patches:
-The sense of community was incredibly strong. I remember people joining my world and joining other people's worlds not to get materials or participate in events/do domains, but literally just to help new people get acclimated to the game easier. Handing out advice, explaining how things like artifacts worked, etc.
-Exploring every new aspect of the map was incredibly magical and I couldn't get enough of it. I feel like its lost some of that same charm (Inazuma and Sumeru just didn't invoke that sense of wonder), though, which is sad.
-Another debate that was incredibly hot between my friends was whether or not Albedo's quest (which served as a lead-in to Dragonspine) actually had a proper cutscene in it, like all other story quests.
-The utter hype of the first Lantern Rite.
-Xiangling and Zhongli being the only polearm characters.
-The.... food event....
-Xiangling being one of my favorite characters to use because of her ringing bells.
-The first story event being the meteor one....
I'm sure there's nothing here I haven't said that hasn't already been pointed out, but man, the list is long. 1.0 was forever ago, and those early early patches (1.0, 1.1, 1.2) were just something else entirely. It really was incredible. Flawed, absolutely, but incredible.
5:24 "He throws out a fuckin' chicken" Had me rolling for a solid three minutes. I will now forever live my life by these words of wisdom
GRAHHH the respawn chest thing still haunts me to this day... spent a week waiting for them to respawn
The way I never made my way to liyue till we had dragonspine and tried going through it to get there, I cried many times that day
I started in 1.2 Dragonspine. Very unique experience especially amidst the online class quarantine shenanigans. Some of my notable experiences are
- Painfully cutting through Dragonspine to get to Liyue's Katherine because I didn't know there was a different and easier way to get there
- Dying to sheer cold and freezing myself for the millionth time because Barbara's heals can get you frozen, also she's the only one that can prevent me from dying from sheer cold in the first place
- Getting R1 Festering Desire, unable to get the rest of the refinements because it was just too hard at the time. Immediately regrets not getting its refinements because it worked soooo well on both anemo and geo traveler
- Trying to climb to the top of Dragonspine then getting pulled back down because you weren't supposed to do that
- Friend who played since launch carrying me on weekly bosses every monday, because otherwise I'll just die
- The sheer pain of losing the 50/50 for the very first time (Got Mona on Ganyu's first banner)
- The sheer joy of getting the 5 star I wanted (Hu Tao's first banner)
- Getting my first god roll artifact after farming for weeeeeeekkkkksssss
Andddd mannnnyyyyy mooooooreeeeee. Early Genshin is so nostalgic and fun, however today it just isn't the same anymore. Right now, I have far less free time as it is no longer quarantine and exploration is feeling like a chore and just isn't fun anymore. Genshin pre-Inazuma was a completely different experience and I'd do anything to go back to it :(
Maybe its because we haved sooo much free time back then, now we have college, others go to unniversity, work, etc, and we dont get the same experience because we dont have the same time we had in the pandemy time 😢
started right after 1.1 began and regretted missing all the launch patch rewards but i remember so many of the stuff you pointed out. truly one for the mmrs
When I was doing the "go to liyue kathyrne" quest, I thought I was delivering some super secret high level intelligent document😎😎. Girl wdym u made me walk 4 kilometres to give her 1 dandelion
awww this video really made me feel the same wonder i did when 1.0 came out - i think i miss when finding luxurious chests was such a big deal that everyone posted on tiktok to like the same 2 audios on how to find it LOL
I started playing Genshin in October of 2020. I played on my mobile device back then, because my of my potato pc. Unfortunately, my mobile device just couldn’t run it well, so I quit after a month, and didn’t play again until the June of 2021 when I got a better Pc.
It was wild, but holy crap does the game feel so much better. It feels like breath of the wild, yet unique on its own lore.
The community was the best part. Everyone feel like dumbass who’s just having fun. Very little shipping, and Aether was treated like a cinnamon roll. Love your content btw.
miss when i didnt feel embarrassed for being weaker than the other ppl my level 😭
It's so fun to see people's memories from release bc I first discovered it early on and knew only the name and a piece of landscape in mondstadt (still trying to find that exact spot) then rediscovered it during 1.4 thanks to a warrior cats rp and a friend of mine and then dowloaded it in 1.5
I started right after the 1 anniversary of the game. I remember I had no idea how to get to Liyue so I ended up running through Dragonspine trying to avoid enemies because I was only like level 20. Then later I realized the actual path to Liyue was by the Dawn Winery 😂
I started playing this year but have known about the game for a while so it's interesting for me to hear about what happened in the earlier versions, not even the content but also the stuff going on in the community.
I kinda sped through the early game and don't remember much of it but my favorite part was gliding into Qingce village for the first time. Just the change of atmosphere from the dark and spooky Wuwang hill and seeing it clear up to see a beautiful, colorful valley gets me everytime.
Not a 1.0 player but been playing since 1.5 and thanks to this video I finally realized there is a chest in the bank
I just recently played genshin again after quitting for a long time (I still haven't even gotten to half of Sumeru Archon Quest as of making this comment)
This video is just so full of nostalgia it made me actually feel emotional about the game again. 10/10 video
Btw, on elemental crucible, you'd lose your cubes if you got affected by an element that could react with the cubes, meaning you had to be very careful with using Barbara's healing
man old genshin was such a blast to play, was actually thinking about the old days when me and my friends always argued about different builds and theories just earlier, and this video just made every one of those memories hit me all at once, I genuinely wish I could go experience the past again
i actually enjoyed the elemental crucible gameplay alot. feels like hoyo has stepped away from such events for a while now, hope they bring it back sometime
i took a break for a couple years around inazuma release and after coming back for fontaine i was SHOCKED to figure out expeditions were safe to send my good characters on
One thing that I think Genshin does still really well to this day is the exploration aspect. Exploring the new regions is always fun. Though I dislike that for a while they always seem to add some kind of gimmick to the regions that stop you from feely exploring them (like items you need to get or even level up). Don't get me wrong, I like the sidequests even though I find it sad they aren't voiced, but sometimes I am just not in the mood for sidequests and just want to explore the new region and getting blocked so often is a bit annoying imo. But in general the exploration stayed fun since 1.0 and is definitely the thing that I always look forward to the most when a new version comes out. However, one thing that won't come back for me is obviously the fact that there will never be a place that feels to hard to get through. Wherever I go I can beat the enemies. So that sense of danger that you still had in 1.0 is sadly gone.
Me with my mid build team when an elite lvl92 enemy appears: 😭
idk ever since inazuma the new nations don't seem as fun to explore like before for me
@@hey_aurie Do you mean Inazuma was boring or the nations after Inazuma were boring? I found Inazuma kinda... meh, but Fontaine and the super recent Chenyu Vale have been a blast personally. I think they've gotten a lot better, but of course the new nations might miss that spark that comes with a new game.
I honestly miss the first time exploration aspect. It doesn’t hit the same anymore.
The MapleStory dungeon theme jumpscare at 9:17 gave me nostalgia whiplash lmao 😭
I've also been playing the game since version 1.1 (I started just before 1.1 released) and it's crazy to see how far this game has come. I witnessed many crazy things with the fandom and the game itself, and it was crazy to see Scaramouche become playable as a person who played the Unreconciled Stars event, when I grinded that event HARD just to get Fischl and I started maining her.
I've had a lot of fun with it, and playing the Mondstadt and Liyue archon quests was an experience, it made my 2020 just a bit more fun! Can you believe Fontaine is almost here? Its nuts.
I knew about this game before it came out. Was very excited to finally play it because it looked like Breath of the wild but possibly an mmo. My expectations werent entirely met but it was still pretty good. I eventually got burned out from all the dialogue explaining everything and the thousands of chests we had to collect. It just became a waiting game for next character, max them out, then log out because i already did all content.
Im new to genshin. And i am looking forward to the suffering and experience i will face in my journey.
Wish me luck on my journey *Travellers*
My very precious advice to you is two things: dont learn the hard way(just playing mindlessly), please watch educational videos first because you will suffer in games like genshin due to resources waste
The second thing is to know genshin patterns in exploration, walk through main roads, and divert to left or right but always stay on main road, this is how you explore efficiently, i learnt this the hard way, i have 100% regions in fontaine and sumeru but 80% in liyue 😂
I checked that 200k mora chest in liyue bank for a whole year hoping it'd respawn 😭
Wow I remember playing Genshin at launch. This video really captures the feeling of Genshin 1.0. I never really made it past 1.0 since it was too involved of a game for me to play on mobile, but it left enough of an impression for me to start playing Honkai Star Rail at launch.
I started playing during albedo’s first banner. I remember getting Jean at 5 pity and not knowing how lucky that was. I remember getting a guaranteed Xiao and shitting myself out of excitement (not literally). It was magical.
About the pillars in liyue, early game there was a bug when you couldn't collect all 9 of the balls, and only had 8 until they fixed it. I remember waiting months to finally go inside
Why have I only found this video now?
I thought I was the only one who remembers everything ❤😭😭
do you guys remember when akashot used to upload?
He did?