What makes someone lack reading comprehension? When playing Genshin /gen

Most people lack reading comprehension, reading isnt that famous of a hobby and it is normal... even more between "gamers" and is the public that genshin brought to the gacha space that before didnt had the famous "gacha players cant read"

It's a fair shot they don't read much prose work in general. Probably manga at best.

Genshin/Hoyo writing *can* get a little complex due to the incongruities in translating from CN to ENG, as well as cultural/storytelling elements that don't necessarily have analogues with Western styles.

imo possibly a lot of the reading incomprehension (not just genshin but gacha games in general) is due to people rushing things because their priority is to get the currency for pulls. Gotta skip as fast as possible to get those pulls, I guess.

Well like I love playing for story only but you don’t have to stress youreself just because of a game

It's not really Genshin specific, it's just a major joke (kinda a joke? Kinda not?) In the fandom. Media literacy rates in general are going down, and people are very overreactive about stuff on social media even when they don't necessarily understand it (and see a person say The Misinformation and continue to repeat it themselves). The fact that Genshin is a huge game, with lots and lots of things to do and keep track of, which your either being hit with as a new player or forgetting over time after years of playing doesn't help either. So yeah people get confused and miss stuff and come up with very disprovable theories or really bad takes on characters and stuff.

That doesn't mean that stuff applies to you. It probably is your adhd, and even if it's not it's just a game. You do you. If you think you need/want to work on these struggles then go for it. If not, don't. I do recommend theory videos though, I think they're fun, I mostly watch Ashikai theory videos and she talks fast so maybe you'll like them

People don't play games to read, and Mihoyo isn't great at writing either.

Winning combination, that.

I don't have ADHD (I think) and an engineering degree. I read a shitload of books as a kiddo, so I don't think my "reading comprehension" is an issue. In general I dislike poetry and prefer mathematics, so that may factor into it.

I too struggle to follow now and then, because some of the quests are just so "yappy" and fluffed-up with useless prose that my brain demands me to skim and eventually just switches off entirely, if nothing interesting pops up. Especially when the Flying Lavender Melon goes on about foodstuffs again.

It's hilariously bad in Star Rail, less so in Genshin but quests like the Narzissenkreuz sidequest are still pretty .... ugh.

I don't think you have to stress yourself over forgetting things or getting confused from time to time. The genshin lore is huge and there are so many people, so many names, so many past events and some things are locked behind events that were only available for a short time and so on. 
I don't know when you started, but the game is out for a long time now and you said you took a break so it's okay to not know everything by heart. I often watch explanation videos about the last story part, just to make sure, I haven't misunderstood or anything.

I mostly see people saying that kinda stuff when someone posts a question about something super obvious or when people don't fully read how something works and accidentally post misinformation (this is especially common around banner info or character kits).

When it comes to story stuff, I assure you that you're probably fine. The larger story of Genshin goes VERY deep and there's fragments of information littered all over the world of Teyvat. It is very easy to get confused while trying to piece that stuff together yourself. The entire reason Nod-Krai even exists right now is to help correct that issue and give the general playerbase a better understanding of some of the game's deeper lore.

If you're still confused about the current story, there's nothing wrong with asking and I'm sure plenty of people will genuinely help you understand to the best of their ability. Like someone else suggested, you could also find story summaries and theories on Youtube as well, which help to put the larger picture together so it's easier to understand. Just be mindful of the difference between a summary and a theory though, because there's a lot of both around.

My advice is to just take your time. There's over 5 years of worldbuilding to sift through. If you want to understand the story, take it slow. Go through one part of the story at a time. If you try to understand everything all at once, you'll likely just confuse yourself even more. I hope this helps a little bit.

You’re alright gang, it’s mostly on the level of people who are weaponizingly incompetent… not bc of adhd or anything like that

It’s because people are lazy and brain dead, lacking media literacy, overall illiterate! Shallow even

I personally rely on lore yt channels a lot because, like anything well crafted, Genshin's world lore pulls heavily from real life "lore". Historical occult/alchemy/religious doctrine and if you're not familiar with the details of them all it can be hard to make sense of everything in one pass.

_Also_ keep in mind it's all translated from Chinese which is a written language perfect for wordplay, so English can lose a lot of the original nuance as well. On top of that, often when lore is being revealed to you as a player you've got your attention split between that and making gameplay related decisions.

Basically, it's ok to be confused especially after a big break and don't beat yourself up over one video game :)

It sounds to me like you're struggling with generalized anxiety more than reading skills, and I'm sorry you're having a hard time!

Having said all that, reading comprehension and media literacy IS declining in general. It's definitely a problem but it's not something exclusive to Genshin players!

Just people playing for vibes. Throw that in with basic no reading comprehension. pile that up with lack of critical thinking. double down with fear of messing up. Many people play for the gameplay and not the story so going through content for primos and pulling as they wander the world's landscape.

Even when text pop up on the screen on boss mechanics it gets ignored. Skills and abilities are jargon and the story is not only cut in pieces but the lore is all over the place and separated in long wait times.

Genshin's story has hundreds of hours of dialogue, and there's a million books and various lore tidbits you can find. The average player naturally does not care about 99% of this, only passively follows the main story at best. And since it's a free mobile game, a huge part of the audience is also children, who probably pay even less attention. This is a bit hard to understand for some people in dedicated communities like this, since they tend to assume everyone is as invested as them. It's worth mentioning that Genshin's writing is also not the clearest, it's usually 90% random bloat that doesn't add much, and 10% actual story. They often go back on themselves, and there are also tons of mistranslations that can cause confusion.

In general, genshin has a massive and varied community, so sometimes people are bound to ask silly questions. Let's say there's some random puzzle, for example. There's bound to be at least one guy out of 100 million players who makes a post about asking how to complete it, when they could just take 3 seconds to read the in-game tutorial instead.

So don't worry about it, it's just a light-hearted meme. Some people take it seriously and actually look down upon people who don't care about/don't remember every single detail of the story/lore, and can't fathom that not everyone is as hardcore of a fan as them, but they're just your average miserable redditors with nothing better to do. Play at your own pace and don't let others judge you for how you engage with a singleplayer game. You can also just watch a short recap on youtube for each quest you're interested in, it's a lot easier to understand hoyo's stories if you cut away all the hours of artificially lengthened dialogue and get to the point.

It's not reading comprehension in my case, it's retention. I forget like half the details because as much as I love the game, far more important things are constantly fighting for my attention, so I end up with things being very muddled and confused.

It's more "delay" and "scatter" than comprehension imo. Like some time, they drop a lore in artifacts that only become relevant in a side quest 4 years after. At that point, normal people already forgot about them.

Then there's the grand quests like Narzissenkreuz that if you don't dedicate your time to play it back to back, you may as well just forget about it. Like, I started it in 4.0, dropped it because I really hate underwater section, and only came around to finish it just before Nodkrai almost 2 years after. Good luck recalling your memory from that.

There's also the case of the game presenting you different sides of the same story or fiction or false information recorded/misinterpreted by the in-universe people which only add to the confusion.

Don't get me wrong, the lore and the world are rich as hell, but the way they present it is clearly meant for players to tackle it as community rather than for any single person to solo understand everything on their own.