Archon Quests are torture

For a few patches now, I can feel myself being stuck in cutscenes for hours, not being able to leave because I would only log in to be stuck in a bunch of dialogue I’ve already been through.

I don’t know if anyone else is feeling this way but this is legitimately awful.

No matter if the story is actually good or not, being stuck in dialogues for over 2 hours is just torture.

Ps: I anticipate the post will be downvoted but like guys, I really feel frustrated and exhausted. I fell asleep twice during the latest quest.

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Real-Contest49142026-01-17 03:25

If the quests are thst bad..just don't do them. You can play the game and do other stuff.

Available_Ranger50352026-01-17 03:28

The problem is there’s good moments but it’s like 80% yapping and filler BS. The problem is that it keeps you stuck. If you could leave like every 20-30 mins, it would at least be digestible. But as it’s currently, I have no idea how much I would have to replay if I leave.

Candayence2026-01-17 22:14

I just skim the wiki / reddit for the interesting bits. I'm not sitting through six hours of cutscenes written by incompetent idiots if it's not fun, and you shouldn't either.

Neracca2026-01-17 05:50

> just don't do them

Explain how to do the weekly boss without doing the quest first!

Real-Contest49142026-01-17 06:16

The game has long since added the feature to do the weekly bosses without doing quests. Since f9ntzine you could do them , except andrius.

KageYume2026-01-17 09:59

By opening the adventure handbook, trounce domain and picking the boss to start?

Real-Contest49142026-01-17 03:31

Well fried to tell you but that's the story for you.

If you think you can just rush through, you're in for a rude awakening.

This game is infamous for long and unskippable story segments. If you dislike the archon quest then just them skip them. You don't need them for doing most of the combat and stuff outside of the first two nations which aren't that long.

Available_Ranger50352026-01-17 04:01

They can fix this

torzir2026-01-17 18:12

There’s no way the average story quest over the last few years have been as long as the multi hour quests we’ve had in Nod Krai.

missy202012026-01-17 03:33

It is frustrating, but you just have to leave at a strategic time. Any time it says Saving in the bottom right, or when the POV/controlled character changes. That's a "checkpoint" of sorts :)

Available_Ranger50352026-01-17 03:35

Yeah I figured that’s the case… might have to start utilising it

Neracca2026-01-17 05:49

Why isn't it made more obvious?

missy202012026-01-17 06:09

I dunno, honestly. It would help more if they made it more obvious! But the "saving" thing is new. I wonder if that was meant to make players think they could exit. Because like, it's a cloud game, you never have to stop and save your progress haha

Neracca2026-01-17 06:15

> But the "saving" thing is new.

Tucked away in a tiny corner.

BlowITA2026-01-17 20:26

The first "saving" message was about 1h20min in. The next was about 30min later (or probably a bit more since after the first section, I started skipping more and more dialoge). Throghout the whole AQs of 6.3, there were only about 7 to 8 "saving" screens (in a 4~7h span, depending on how much dialog you skip). There were also a couple transitions without "saving" that seemed like checkpoints since they put you back into the world with control over your characters, but with no remarks on whether you could really quit there without losing progress. And just to show how stupid the "wait for the checkpoint to quit" is, when I was about 20min into the start of the new story, there was a blackout here (a sudden storm passed by and caused a few seconds of instability) and I had to spend another 5min navigating through the dungeon and skipping through dialogues I had already listened to. I played the rest of the quest worrying that another blackout would put me 20~60min back because of that. Making the checkpoints this far apart is one of the dumbest design decisions I've ever seen.

At least I was prepared (I knew beforehand it would be long, had spent all my resin and was free for the next 8h), but I can see how others would have problems with that since the message at the start doesn't tell you how long it would be.

missy202012026-01-17 21:22

I'm sorry about the blackout and that's frustrating, but that's what will happen if you get interrupted in any game...

But yes, while I don't personally have a big issue with waiting to play a new AQ until I have an hour or two of free time and waiting until the POV changes or there's an obvious loading screen to exit, I agree that Hoyo needs to mark it more obvious and/or make more opportunities to exit and not have to redo dialogue screens

BlowITA2026-01-17 23:28

> but that's what will happen if you get interrupted in any game

No. I've played games recently with autosaving after each time you open and close the menu, so a power loss would not result in losing quest progress. Also, Genshin can literally not put you inside dungeons and instead let the story happen on the open world like many other quests in the same game, where at most you'd lose the last 3 to 10 minutes of conversation (which is usually skippable in less than 3 minutes), so the solution is already there from the start. Like, what is the reason they keep moving your character and/or pov around the world when they can just let you walk/teleport there by yourself and interact to start the next section instead? Even if it is a temporary/sectioned map, they can still let you log off and log on back into that area (summer events are a proof of that), so there's really no reason not to save the progress properly every time a section of dialog (of at most 10 minutes) ends.

ahmadalhuraibi2026-01-17 03:35

Exactly. There's way too much filler in the story. Seven hours of dialogue is just exhausting; they really need to add a skip button.

Ravemst2026-01-17 03:37

No they're not and they even warn you that it will take a long time to do them. Not only that they've added save spots so when you see now saving you can stop and pick up right there when you play again.

Available_Ranger50352026-01-17 03:43

Ya every 2 hours or so

issm2026-01-17 03:46

When you come to play an open world RPG but get a visual novel instead.

A substandard visual novel lacking basic features like text speed options at that. At least there's finally text history. After like, 5 years.

Available_Ranger50352026-01-17 04:01

Yeeep

lgn5i20602026-01-17 03:54

You probably didn't attempt to leave midway in the previous AQ to find out save points exists.

torzir2026-01-17 18:08

In the previous quest which showed Nefer’s backstory there was no indication of save points, even if they did exist. That’s something they only added recently.

viccarabyss2026-01-17 04:17

I agree. It's ridiculous. I've come back after 2 patches and every quest is just "here's a conversation that doesn't need to be as long as it is while characters ramble over shit they've already discussed"

Barely any gameplay either

I just. I just want to be able to know when I can back tf out. I have reached the newest patch and I think I'm halfway through but there is SO. MUCH. YAPPING

LEGITIMATELY about six hours of cutscenes LET ME OUT OF HERE PLEASE

KageYume2026-01-17 09:59

If you think the AQ is just yapping, you can just… stop playing, you know. The door is always open on the left.

Also, you can exit after almost every loading screen. There will be a point on the map to continue the story.

Available_Ranger50352026-01-17 13:52

You’re gonna tell me that any cutscene with Jahoda or Dori in it isn’t just yapping?

KageYume2026-01-17 14:07

>Jahoda

Read the reaction of the community regarding those "yapping".

>Dori

Surely all Dori scenes in 6.1 is just yapping including ones she showed Nefer what she brought from Sumeru and her motivation.

But the point aren't the two above cherry picked characters. Read the post I replied to again. "EVERY quest is just...".

But anyway, you can always quit if you think all of those are yapping. Come on, free yourself, why torture yourself with those mindless yapping amirite? The door out is always open.

Available_Ranger50352026-01-17 16:32

I’m actually interested in the story but I do not need all of the fluff. We can’t be sitting through 6 hours of dialogue for one quest and pretending it’s good quality writing. You could read actual masterpieces or watch iconic movies during that time. This is disrespectful to people’s time and intellect.

The. Writing. Is. Not. That. Good.

viccarabyss2026-01-17 17:27

Based

viccarabyss2026-01-17 17:25

Lmao I cannot believe someone wrote that

kakostruy2026-01-17 05:01

i mean, i understand you but not really since i happen to have a lot of free time rn so it's fine if i sit on the quest for 8 hours straight

Available_Ranger50352026-01-17 13:57

I have two jobs, a project I’m working on, and physiological needs. Being stuck in dialogue for this long is disruptive to my life in a negative way.

PSIGifts2026-01-17 05:18

I agree. So much of the dialogue is unnecessary and the story would feel more enjoyable if it was shorter, regardless of whether you can "quit and come back later" or not. I don't know why this isn't a widely accepted opinion.

Luzis2026-01-17 06:25

I just don't understand why it's necessary to do this from a game design perspective. Someone enlighten me please to calm my brain.

Like, the AQ comes to a point where sme says let's chill a bit and then regroup. Ok, sounds go-oh we just go on I see and I still can't control my character.

Just why? If even the charas get a break, why can't I? Also, the closure of the first chapter amd then we JUST CONTINUE??? What was that closing screen even about? It would have been the PURFECT moment to let that end sink in a bit and simmer in it but no, it just goes on.

There are like the lore fanatics who turn every stone and will mindlessly defend bc "it's a story based game", then there are the skippers who would sacrifice their best dps for a skip button but the vast majority to which I belong are in the middle of these 2 extremes, really enjoying the AQ and want to enjoy it like an anime-episode of sorts. Why would hoyo make it so damn unenjoyable for the majoruty of players, sitting through and just waiting for a moment to leave towards end of energy instead of letting us fully enjoying it?

I hate this.

torzir2026-01-17 18:14

I think you’re being downvoted by the lore fanatics.

Candayence2026-01-17 22:15

In the good old days, lore was in books and weapon/artefact descriptions, not six hours cutscenes that were primarily conversations about food and random npc backstories on repeat.

-Naver-2026-01-17 06:43

Feel you. I often play after work, so when there's finally the climax of the quest I'm half asleep because I've spent the last 2 hours listening to them yapping. Really messed up the Rerir quest for me.

Available_Ranger50352026-01-17 13:50

Exactly

NinjaSYXX2026-01-19 18:34

ZZZ and HSR has cutscene skipping… it’s overdue for Genshin to have a cutscene skip because these are metal gear solid levels of long ass cutscenes