I miss when we had free will in archon quests

Kinda complaint, I miss how in Mondstat and Liyue if a location was mentioned, we'd actually go there, not just cut to black and new scene. Same with talking to someone. The archon quests are starting to feel very elongated when it just feels like im watching a 6 hour+ movie where I have to click my mouse every time

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Teftell2026-01-18 09:38

I miss gameplay in my Archon quests or even in general. Shame that both map complaint threads were deleted.

LackingSimplicity2026-01-18 09:43

I absolutely do not miss the old

* Conversation
* Walk 5m
* Conversation
* Walk 8m
* Conversation
* Walk 6m
* Repeat

Ikcatcher2026-01-18 09:49

Don't forget the random fight with mooks that add no relevance to the plot

CoconutxKitten2026-01-18 11:28

“Here. Fight these 15 treasure hoarders picking a fight with you for no reason”

rekage992026-01-18 10:10

I would rather do that than be locked into a 40+min conversation one after another

Specsaman2026-01-18 11:56

Soo, you want the +40 min conversation to be +60 minutes just with walking in between ?

Arnimon2026-01-18 09:59

I can understand their approach, and I think Nod-Krai’s AQ is the best in the game thus far. Hands down.

That said, I do agree there should be more gameplay elements during these quests—because, as you said, it is a game, not a movie or a visual novel.

On the other hand, tit can disrupt the pacing of the story being told. I also tend to dislike quests that boil down to: go to A, talk; go to B, fight three mobs, talk; go to C, talk. In that sense, I’ll take the more “cinematic” approach over that any day.

Still, I do wish there were a bit more gameplay during these AQs. One of my pet peeves is that when we’re supposedly facing an army or a massive horde of enemies, it ends up being five mobs here and five mobs there, which is most a missed opprtunity of more gameplay and undercuts t0he scale of the situation. I think they could do *so* much more with these scenarios.

La-Roca992026-01-18 11:59

> One of my pet peeves is that when we’re supposedly facing an army or a massive horde of enemies, it ends up being five mobs here and five mobs there, which is most a missed opprtunity of more gameplay and undercuts t0he scale of the situation. I think they could do so much more with these scenarios.

Ah yes, lets exclude about 95% of the playerbase from been able to play

Density, be it NPCs, enemies or map size are reduced specifically to make the game more runnable

A clear example is the latest AQ at the end when there is a "crowd" around the playable characters. In low graphics, the crowd is simply gone and only playable characters are present, which ackwardly has Illuga on the side alone

Not even triple AAA games bother with overpopulating their games if it means just making it impossible to market the game for the most players possible

Arnimon2026-01-18 13:57

Oh yeah. I didn't really see it from that perspective—and you are right! Maybe not too much density, but rather more waves, then. At least something that would add more gameplay. At least, it is what I'd personally want more of, if I had to nitpick anything.