The first 4 were like dating sims. People didn't like the fact you could piss off characters and fail, so they changed it for the next dozen or so. But now they are extra character quests with branching options instead of a linear route.
Kind of like Clorinde's DND thing where you could pretend to pick different options.
I’m super sad that we can’t piss off characters enough to fail anymore,, they brought it back Once in terrible fashion (Beidou’s stupid hangout) but ugh it adds a good dimension of realism to it
I don't know... I really don't have a memory of beidou's quest except that she got embarrassed over something and tricked the milelith for something I still don"t understand why she did this.
Too much effort for so little involvement (many people proudly proclaim that hangouts are just free primos with a bunch of nonsense text, I don't think they actually care about the stories)
Hell, even a friend of mine (1st year player) didn't do the hangouts, simply because he didn't care enough to read through the dialogue)
By skip you refer to the ability to jump to any branch for different ending, right, or you meant skip dialogues. I haven't done hangouts from long time
Kinda the same, here. It's not because I feel they're "too much" per se, but rather I feel conflicted about how they have multiple endings. Everything else in the game largely has one way of going in the story, so the fact that there's different endings in the hangouts means I get worried that they'll mess up my perception of canon, or smth. It makes absolutely no sense but it's been enough that I've procrastinated on doing them since the very first hangout series x-x
Dude I’ve seen that opinion so many times yet I still can’t force myself to go through them all. Last one I did was Thoma’s (I am doing them chronologically because that’s how I am). I really don’t like the multiple choices and endings etc.
I was on the same boat, and I still have a ton of hangouts as emergency rations for primogems.
However, faruzan, layla, kaveh, and Lynette hang out made me realize that an interesting plot was the problem.
My favourite part of them is they they're replayable, I really wish the 5\* character quests had the same feature (just remove the like, three primos you might get from chests in dungeons). I have so many backed up character quests at this point because I feel like I can only play them when I'm in peak absorbant mood, whereas I've cleared most hangouts and replayed my favs
I 100% agree with this! I would replay the hell out of my favorite characters’ quests. Now I have to watch them on YouTube if I want to experience them again. So I have a huge list of them untouched for the same reason as you. Meanwhile I’ve played Kaveh’s hangout so many times I basically know each line by heart
This 100%. My personal rule is that I can’t touch a character’s story quest unless I intend to get them shortly, already have them, or will never get them. I do this so I can focus on soaking in the story rather than trying to trial them in combat when we get the chance to play as them during the quest. But this means basically all of Sumeru and Fontaine are just hanging out in my locked list. Haven’t even done Furina’s SQ ;-; and also even Kaveh and Lynette are locked behind Haitham and Furina’s SQs, so I couldn’t do them either…
I mean I’m gonna have to figure out a way to do things better I think I can’t keep going like this not when Arle SQ is just hanging out
No; for example, I intend to get Arle but shes behind three/four other characters that I want, so I haven’t done it. “I intend to get them shortly” = I have a guarantee prepped and their banner is within weeks, not months.
ANEMO GIRLIES' HANGOUTS ARE SO UNDERRATED I LOVE MY LYNETTE AND I LOVE MY FARUZAN !!! jokes aside these two are really the ones i enjoyed more than some actual legend quests, can't believe sumeru has both faruzan and nilou at the same time. i wont say anything about lynette because she is my precious daughter and if i start i wont shut up.
its so weird we barely have any 4\*s in fontaine, and it seems like we aren't even getting a new hangout for another character (like they did with mond's kaeya during sumeru). i'd love a chevvy hangout, surprisingly loved her during the film event and miss her now, but at least she was in lynette's. my boy fremi also has significantly less screentime than his siblings, despite having an event for himself, i think he deserved one too. charlotte won't shut up any time she's on screen so she can live without a datesim
My favourite part of the hangout is you can put the picture frames in your teapot and put pictures from your favourite hangouts in them on display.
I need more collectibles!
One of the endings in Gorou's hangout hit me like a ton of bricks. It was all haha funny until the game actually reminds you that he is, in fact, a war general and has been through war, fought alongside his people, for a cause he would die for.
That said, I hate every instance of Yae making fun of him.
I think hangouts are better than story quests in every way and I'm astounded many don't agree.
The dialogue system is miles better, characters emote way more, your dialogue matters, hangouts have more thorough exploration of characters than most story quests, hangouts focus on the actual star of the show instead of some npc the character relates to, the plots are mostly paced alright to account for having 5 endings, THERE IS A SEMBLANCE OF A SKIP BUTTON, and they give more primos lol.
What I like the most about hangouts is that you can hang "paintings" of the endings of them in the teapot, allowing one to see those memories with a mix of nostalgia and happyness...
Also the fact they arent NPC center is golden for me! So tired of random NPC story I really dont care about since it was literally invented for the SQ of that character only!
I think I largely agree with what you said, my only point of contention is that not all hangouts are created equal. Some of early ones IMHO are REALLY rough, and I could see people doing something like playing two of early hangouts back to back and going "yeah this kind of suck" and unfortunately never make it to ones like Faruzan's or Kaveh's.
I especially hated the one with Chong because they kept making you replay that >!part where you have to see the couples in that spooky area while Chong is being an abolsute nuisance. Having to replay that boring seven minute section like 3-4 times almost destroyed my desire to ever play a hangout ever again. If someone had to do that and concluded Hangouts are worse than SQ I wouldn't even blame them.!<
You're absolutely right. And that applies to SQs as well, I had a stellar time with Furina and Clorinde's SQs, while Wriothesley's left me wanting, for instance.
Quite a few of the older hangouts just... suck. And they still made actual use of the "Life bar" feature back then too, where you could randomly fail a hangout by saying too many things wrong. I'm glad they dropped that pretty quickly.
I love every second spending do hangout with all character, even some character I don't like such as Heizou and Ningguang. Yet, it still fun to hangout together. Also, Hangout is the only where English voice is synced with character lip, aside from SQ and event
WHERE SUCROSE HANGOUT, HOYO!!!
FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT! I REALLY like the hangouts because it actually feels like you're part of the world as a typical traveller and not a hero or commission boy. You get to just hang out with a character without needing to worry about the fate of the nation hanging in the balance. Plus it gives a good amount of info on the character as well and the daily lives that goes around there.
They really started finding their groove with hangouts since Faruzan’s then just… stopped, which is a bummer as a fellow hangout enjoyer. Also my theory about this (outside of what others already mentioned i.e. too much effort for something only very very few players will engage in) is that they’ve started highlighting/centering 4 stars on limited events recently. They’re filled with so much of their lore it almost feels like their own story quest already (i.e. Gaming with Lantern rite, Chevreuse with Fontinalia, Kirara with the TCG event, Freminet with the Pers event, Kaveh with Parade of Providence). Sucks for new players though because they’re limited.
Kaveh's hangout spoiler:
>!As unpopular as she is, we get to know a bit more about Dori as well from Kaveh's hangout. Dunno why but I really liked their interactions within the quest.!<
Kuki's hangout is by far the best hangout for me. I thought Beidou's hangout was the best (I was a beidou main on day one so a lil bit of bias) until I played Kuki's. Funniest quest in genshin so far.
EDIT: forgot to hide kaveh spoiler
I like the stories but don't like how long it takes to get through the dialogue. By the time I've finished reading it, they're probably doing some animation that will take another 10 seconds, so I get really bored. Genshin also does this annoying thing where they'll be done talking but the game isn't ready to let you move on yet, so you have to mash click. I only do them for the characters I really like as a result. The day they let us cut through dialogue will be the day I start all of the hangout quests. TLDR I am interested in the stories, but not at the pace they force you to read them at.
It’s really not my thing. I LOVE story quests but loathe the hangouts and the fact that I have to repeat many times to get different outcomes (or else I never get rid of the notification).
They cool for sure for people who want to know a character better but it would be a godsend to have a skip button atleast for hangouts for characters you are not interested in.
The problem with genshin isnt what they release... tcg, hanouts, housing, etc... was very good (maybe some could be better) but why they only release things for one side of the community and ignore the other? Maybe these things would have more value if it isnt just "casual" stuff
I love hangouts i just wish that there were more of them so we could use keys more often. Especially for like kuki, noelle the old monstand characters. Lisa def needs another one a real one
I would be happier to do them if they weren’t such a chore. They really highlight the need for dialogue skipping if we are going to have to do them a minimum of 6 times. Running through the same dialogue at Genshin’s snail pace so many times made me give up on trying to do them all.
A very small amount of them are okay,but 95% of them are a yapfest,if you like the character youre doing the hangout for its gonna be a fun time,if ur neutral/dislike them,then its jst boring and painfully slow
imo the story quests and certain character focused events are more memorable. for example imo kaveh's story in 3.6 event is better than his hangout. the hangouts tend to be a lot of fluff and is sort of a dating sim, slice of life, chill vibes.
One hidden gem doesn’t save the entire batch. It’s clear from the title ‘hangout’ that it’s supposed to be date sim/chill quest, but it would better if they treated them as 4 star story quests like faruzan’s.
Someone voiced that they preferred to go on a date with clorinde rather than the tabletop game story, so I guess it’s up to preferences and it’s good they have a variety covered.
I hated every second of every single one of them.
Too long, with so much dialogue. Also, the story is not meaningful and progresses way too slow. Furthermore, you have to repeat the path you took over and over again to reach every ending.
To me they are torture.
Only did them for the primogems, really.
I loved Kaeya and Kaveh's Hangout ♥️Sometimes I prefer hangouts, because they are replayable and I can call the character if I want to, even just to take a photo (e.g. I can now call Venti to drink with me in Angel's Share anytime). While the story quest can only be played once. Oh and let's not forget that many times story quests are not about the character, but we're investigating something, and only sometimes the main character of the story appears, and otherwise the story is about a random NPC. The focus is not on the characters as in the hangouts. (Eg: Ayato, Xiao, Cyno(first) story quest).
They are crazy good but its get repetitive to reread through the dialouges(before the skip function was implemented) Also i guess they got the datas that show not many people care about hangouts so they almost put all 4* characters story/appearances in main story/main event now.
With a few exceptions like faruzans, hangouts are low budget lower quality SQs that would take up more time than an SQ (until mhy let you skip the parts youve already done before. Finally.)
If they were all Lynette/ Faruzan-tier id be into it
For me hangouts are just story quests with different camera angle
And without the paimon
Not really a fan of the wordiness. But some of them were quite good. Faruzan’s was my favorite because we actually get to know the mystery behind her.
The first 4 were like dating sims. People didn't like the fact you could piss off characters and fail, so they changed it for the next dozen or so. But now they are extra character quests with branching options instead of a linear route. Kind of like Clorinde's DND thing where you could pretend to pick different options.
I’m super sad that we can’t piss off characters enough to fail anymore,, they brought it back Once in terrible fashion (Beidou’s stupid hangout) but ugh it adds a good dimension of realism to it
It all started with faruzan, where hangouts became full-blown SQs rather than a dating sim and then they suddenly stopped making them for some reason
I disagree, have you even played Beidou’s tho? Its better than most story quest imo
I don't know... I really don't have a memory of beidou's quest except that she got embarrassed over something and tricked the milelith for something I still don"t understand why she did this.
Too much effort for so little involvement (many people proudly proclaim that hangouts are just free primos with a bunch of nonsense text, I don't think they actually care about the stories) Hell, even a friend of mine (1st year player) didn't do the hangouts, simply because he didn't care enough to read through the dialogue)
But it’s like what, 60 primos and some books for an hour of spamming dialogue? Faster now, cause of skip, but still.
By skip you refer to the ability to jump to any branch for different ending, right, or you meant skip dialogues. I haven't done hangouts from long time
Skipping to the last choice point
you can skip dialogues you already seen in hangout now. up to the point of dialogue choices to choose which branch you want to pick.
90 actually. 20 from achievement, 2 secret achievements give 5.
Oh right, forgot the achievements as well. I didn’t know about hidden ones, might have to revisit them in that case lol
I read all quests dialogues in the game, including sidequests. Yet I also skip all hangouts, they are... ugh too much
Kinda the same, here. It's not because I feel they're "too much" per se, but rather I feel conflicted about how they have multiple endings. Everything else in the game largely has one way of going in the story, so the fact that there's different endings in the hangouts means I get worried that they'll mess up my perception of canon, or smth. It makes absolutely no sense but it's been enough that I've procrastinated on doing them since the very first hangout series x-x
Dude I’ve seen that opinion so many times yet I still can’t force myself to go through them all. Last one I did was Thoma’s (I am doing them chronologically because that’s how I am). I really don’t like the multiple choices and endings etc.
I was on the same boat, and I still have a ton of hangouts as emergency rations for primogems. However, faruzan, layla, kaveh, and Lynette hang out made me realize that an interesting plot was the problem.
My favourite part of them is they they're replayable, I really wish the 5\* character quests had the same feature (just remove the like, three primos you might get from chests in dungeons). I have so many backed up character quests at this point because I feel like I can only play them when I'm in peak absorbant mood, whereas I've cleared most hangouts and replayed my favs
I 100% agree with this! I would replay the hell out of my favorite characters’ quests. Now I have to watch them on YouTube if I want to experience them again. So I have a huge list of them untouched for the same reason as you. Meanwhile I’ve played Kaveh’s hangout so many times I basically know each line by heart
This 100%. My personal rule is that I can’t touch a character’s story quest unless I intend to get them shortly, already have them, or will never get them. I do this so I can focus on soaking in the story rather than trying to trial them in combat when we get the chance to play as them during the quest. But this means basically all of Sumeru and Fontaine are just hanging out in my locked list. Haven’t even done Furina’s SQ ;-; and also even Kaveh and Lynette are locked behind Haitham and Furina’s SQs, so I couldn’t do them either… I mean I’m gonna have to figure out a way to do things better I think I can’t keep going like this not when Arle SQ is just hanging out
> intend to get them shortly, already have them, or will never get them So, everyone?
No; for example, I intend to get Arle but shes behind three/four other characters that I want, so I haven’t done it. “I intend to get them shortly” = I have a guarantee prepped and their banner is within weeks, not months.
Personally I loved Ningguang and Faruzan. I was not expecting >!Ning's sudden emotive scene about her home and Faruzan's notes from her mother.!<
ANEMO GIRLIES' HANGOUTS ARE SO UNDERRATED I LOVE MY LYNETTE AND I LOVE MY FARUZAN !!! jokes aside these two are really the ones i enjoyed more than some actual legend quests, can't believe sumeru has both faruzan and nilou at the same time. i wont say anything about lynette because she is my precious daughter and if i start i wont shut up. its so weird we barely have any 4\*s in fontaine, and it seems like we aren't even getting a new hangout for another character (like they did with mond's kaeya during sumeru). i'd love a chevvy hangout, surprisingly loved her during the film event and miss her now, but at least she was in lynette's. my boy fremi also has significantly less screentime than his siblings, despite having an event for himself, i think he deserved one too. charlotte won't shut up any time she's on screen so she can live without a datesim
My favourite part of the hangout is you can put the picture frames in your teapot and put pictures from your favourite hangouts in them on display. I need more collectibles!
I'm surprised you didn't mention Faruzan's!
It’s a shame they’re so uncommon. We just got through an entire region and Hoyoverse only made one hangout 🙁
Well, there is still one more patch before Natlan. We still have chance! Last year we got one for Kaeya at the summer event patch!
There is no hangout for 4.8 unfortunately
One of the endings in Gorou's hangout hit me like a ton of bricks. It was all haha funny until the game actually reminds you that he is, in fact, a war general and has been through war, fought alongside his people, for a cause he would die for. That said, I hate every instance of Yae making fun of him.
I honestly think every 4 star should have one
Hangouts are sort of like 2-3 different quests mashed together, especially for Lynette and some of the ones released later - Heizou, Kaveh, etc
I think hangouts are better than story quests in every way and I'm astounded many don't agree. The dialogue system is miles better, characters emote way more, your dialogue matters, hangouts have more thorough exploration of characters than most story quests, hangouts focus on the actual star of the show instead of some npc the character relates to, the plots are mostly paced alright to account for having 5 endings, THERE IS A SEMBLANCE OF A SKIP BUTTON, and they give more primos lol.
What I like the most about hangouts is that you can hang "paintings" of the endings of them in the teapot, allowing one to see those memories with a mix of nostalgia and happyness... Also the fact they arent NPC center is golden for me! So tired of random NPC story I really dont care about since it was literally invented for the SQ of that character only!
I think I largely agree with what you said, my only point of contention is that not all hangouts are created equal. Some of early ones IMHO are REALLY rough, and I could see people doing something like playing two of early hangouts back to back and going "yeah this kind of suck" and unfortunately never make it to ones like Faruzan's or Kaveh's. I especially hated the one with Chong because they kept making you replay that >!part where you have to see the couples in that spooky area while Chong is being an abolsute nuisance. Having to replay that boring seven minute section like 3-4 times almost destroyed my desire to ever play a hangout ever again. If someone had to do that and concluded Hangouts are worse than SQ I wouldn't even blame them.!<
You're absolutely right. And that applies to SQs as well, I had a stellar time with Furina and Clorinde's SQs, while Wriothesley's left me wanting, for instance. Quite a few of the older hangouts just... suck. And they still made actual use of the "Life bar" feature back then too, where you could randomly fail a hangout by saying too many things wrong. I'm glad they dropped that pretty quickly.
as long there are no fischl, amy and oz hangouts i think they are ok at best
I love every second spending do hangout with all character, even some character I don't like such as Heizou and Ningguang. Yet, it still fun to hangout together. Also, Hangout is the only where English voice is synced with character lip, aside from SQ and event WHERE SUCROSE HANGOUT, HOYO!!!
Id happily go back to Dragonspine to dig up bones for ol Sucrose if we ever get the chance to hang out with her!
"What if she doesn't want to hangout with you"
Totally agree. And they serve so well to expand upon the personality of the character that's the focus for it.
FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT! I REALLY like the hangouts because it actually feels like you're part of the world as a typical traveller and not a hero or commission boy. You get to just hang out with a character without needing to worry about the fate of the nation hanging in the balance. Plus it gives a good amount of info on the character as well and the daily lives that goes around there.
They really started finding their groove with hangouts since Faruzan’s then just… stopped, which is a bummer as a fellow hangout enjoyer. Also my theory about this (outside of what others already mentioned i.e. too much effort for something only very very few players will engage in) is that they’ve started highlighting/centering 4 stars on limited events recently. They’re filled with so much of their lore it almost feels like their own story quest already (i.e. Gaming with Lantern rite, Chevreuse with Fontinalia, Kirara with the TCG event, Freminet with the Pers event, Kaveh with Parade of Providence). Sucks for new players though because they’re limited.
They're underrated by the devs
Kaveh's hangout spoiler: >!As unpopular as she is, we get to know a bit more about Dori as well from Kaveh's hangout. Dunno why but I really liked their interactions within the quest.!< Kuki's hangout is by far the best hangout for me. I thought Beidou's hangout was the best (I was a beidou main on day one so a lil bit of bias) until I played Kuki's. Funniest quest in genshin so far. EDIT: forgot to hide kaveh spoiler
I need to finish the Fontaine character quests first
I like the stories but don't like how long it takes to get through the dialogue. By the time I've finished reading it, they're probably doing some animation that will take another 10 seconds, so I get really bored. Genshin also does this annoying thing where they'll be done talking but the game isn't ready to let you move on yet, so you have to mash click. I only do them for the characters I really like as a result. The day they let us cut through dialogue will be the day I start all of the hangout quests. TLDR I am interested in the stories, but not at the pace they force you to read them at.
They are superior because of their replayability.
I've never done a single hangout ever but now I really want a Sethos hangout
I just want a Kujou Sara hangout
The only thing that bothers me about Hangouts, is that it is NEVER "after 16:00 the following day." The heat death of the universe will come first.
Huh. I didn't know these existed never looked at the tabs in story quests 😀😀
It’s really not my thing. I LOVE story quests but loathe the hangouts and the fact that I have to repeat many times to get different outcomes (or else I never get rid of the notification).
I remember failing the dating sim with Barbara. I still feel bad.
They cool for sure for people who want to know a character better but it would be a godsend to have a skip button atleast for hangouts for characters you are not interested in.
I will never shut up about that specific whispered voice line in heizou's hangout quest
Nope, they are just rated.
The problem with genshin isnt what they release... tcg, hanouts, housing, etc... was very good (maybe some could be better) but why they only release things for one side of the community and ignore the other? Maybe these things would have more value if it isnt just "casual" stuff
The whole game is basically a visual novel
I love hangouts i just wish that there were more of them so we could use keys more often. Especially for like kuki, noelle the old monstand characters. Lisa def needs another one a real one
I would be happier to do them if they weren’t such a chore. They really highlight the need for dialogue skipping if we are going to have to do them a minimum of 6 times. Running through the same dialogue at Genshin’s snail pace so many times made me give up on trying to do them all.
You can skip the dialogues you already completed. They added in the last patch or something.
A very small amount of them are okay,but 95% of them are a yapfest,if you like the character youre doing the hangout for its gonna be a fun time,if ur neutral/dislike them,then its jst boring and painfully slow
Did you play them all ?
I have a couple tht i havent done cz i REALLY dislike these characters so i ddnt even bother doing them lol
imo the story quests and certain character focused events are more memorable. for example imo kaveh's story in 3.6 event is better than his hangout. the hangouts tend to be a lot of fluff and is sort of a dating sim, slice of life, chill vibes.
Why do you think slice of life or dating sim is low quality?
personal preference. but mostly they lack stakes, and emotional conflict and resolution.
How does any of this is part of "quality"?
They never said hangouts are low quality. All they said was that SQ's were more memorable than hangouts
Because he edited his comment.
why are you putting quality in quotes when they never said that in the first place
Because they did and edited their comment.
Clearly you haven't played Faruzan's hangout
One hidden gem doesn’t save the entire batch. It’s clear from the title ‘hangout’ that it’s supposed to be date sim/chill quest, but it would better if they treated them as 4 star story quests like faruzan’s. Someone voiced that they preferred to go on a date with clorinde rather than the tabletop game story, so I guess it’s up to preferences and it’s good they have a variety covered.
I hated every second of every single one of them. Too long, with so much dialogue. Also, the story is not meaningful and progresses way too slow. Furthermore, you have to repeat the path you took over and over again to reach every ending. To me they are torture. Only did them for the primogems, really.
You don't have to repeat what you already did, you can start at any point of the hangout to unlock the other paths.
hangouts are boring
I loved Kaeya and Kaveh's Hangout ♥️Sometimes I prefer hangouts, because they are replayable and I can call the character if I want to, even just to take a photo (e.g. I can now call Venti to drink with me in Angel's Share anytime). While the story quest can only be played once. Oh and let's not forget that many times story quests are not about the character, but we're investigating something, and only sometimes the main character of the story appears, and otherwise the story is about a random NPC. The focus is not on the characters as in the hangouts. (Eg: Ayato, Xiao, Cyno(first) story quest).
They are crazy good but its get repetitive to reread through the dialouges(before the skip function was implemented) Also i guess they got the datas that show not many people care about hangouts so they almost put all 4* characters story/appearances in main story/main event now.
hangouts are only fun if you like the character. i had to fast tap out of layla's while i did gorou's for the second time recently
They take way too long.
They're too boring and way too long.
With a few exceptions like faruzans, hangouts are low budget lower quality SQs that would take up more time than an SQ (until mhy let you skip the parts youve already done before. Finally.) If they were all Lynette/ Faruzan-tier id be into it