Games We Are Thankful For In 2020

As you can see, there has been a diverse line-up of video games to be thankful for this past year. Let us know one of your favorite releases of 2020 in the comments below and share how it may have impacted your life in any way!


The pity system tracks Wishes on a per-Banner basis . This means that Genshin Impact players cannot make 89 Wishes on the Standard Banner, and then receive a guaranteed 5-star item from an Event Banner by putting their 90th Wish there. Or, they cannot put 70 wishes on the Weapon Banner and have that pity count apply to the simultaneously-running Character Banner. Pity is contained within each "category" of banner. Thus, fans' pity progress will carry over to new Event Banners when they launch, as well as apply to both of the currently-active Event Banners at the same time, but cannot be used between different banner ty


Additionally, it should be noted that choosing a Chronicled Path will lock the player's five-star pulls to either weapons or characters. If a character is selected for the Chronicled Path, all five-star pulls will be five-star characters, and no weapons. If a weapon is selected for Chronicled Path, all the five-star pulls will be weapons. This doesn't apply to four-stars; four-star weapons or characters can be pulled regardless of the Chronicled Path cho


When a player "loses" the 50/50, there is a 5% chance that they will still obtain the featured event character. This is marked with a special animation. As a result, the 50/50 system should be thought of as a 55/45 system, where there is a 55% chance of obtaining the featured character, and a 45% chance of "losing." However, most players still use the term 50/50 for ease and brev


Being the main character allows the Traveler to switch between all of Teyvat’s Elements in Genshin Impact . When visiting Statues of the Seven in Genshin Impact , you have the opportunity to switch the Traveler's Elements. To do this, simply visit one of the Statues of the region featuring the Element you des


Electro Traveler is one of the best batteries in Genshin Impact , but that isn’t all that the Electro Unit can do. They can be a really good trigger for Hyperbloom teams in Genshin Impact . Since the amount of regeneration the Traveler grants scales with Energy Recharge, you should build the Electro Traveler to have as much Energy Recharge as possi


In 2024, Hoyoverse introduced the Chronicled Wish, a new type of banner that only runs periodically. This banner is special in that it features a large roster of limited five-star characters and weapons, some Standard five-stars, and a specific pool of four-star weapons and characters. Three-star weapons are also obtaina

Of the many screen captures and countless hours of recorded footage during one's playtime in Genshin Impact, it's been a difficult task finding the ideal visuals to best sum up the current racking up of 25-or-so hours. In a way that's both accurately representative, but also that which offers an insight into some of the more emergent and thus personal highlights. If you've been keeping tabs on this latest free-to-play title by China-based miHoYo, you may well have come across (or perhaps knowingly used) some of its more dismissive or undermining labels. A Breath of the Wild clone has been the more "popular" descriptor being thrown about, but even the premise of a game whose model falls more in line with the current Gacha format may already be enough to turn anyone away.


Dendro Supremacy in Genshin Impact may also be due to the fact that many of the SLG Game News’s more underrated units are Dendro. Collei is an easy pick due to her accessibility, while Tighnari is a Standard Banner unit with a nifty search function, and Nahida is among the game’s best DPS regardless if she’s primary or not. Having at least one of them fully-kitted for an Abyss team should give players additional firepower against these annoying critt


Players pursuing the Abyss in Genshin Impact know Hydro-toting Abyss Mages and Abyss Heralds are extremely time-consuming to kill due to their tough bubble shields. However, Dendro is the best Element to bring in a comp specifically for their destructive potential - simply pair a Dendro and a Pyro to trigger Burning consistently and burn through their shields in no t


If you want the Electro Traveler to play the role of a battery in Genshin Impact , all you have to do is give them 4pc of Emblem of Severed Fate and Favonius Sword . Both Emblem and Favonius are easy to get, on top of maximizing the Energy regeneration the Electro Traveler can offer for their team. However, adding some Elemental Mastery while building the Electro Traveler on 4pc of Flower of Paradise Lost will allow them to be part of Hyperbloom teams on top of greatly regenerating their team’s ene

Though the story elements won't be to everyone's taste -- and as such, the efforts the game makes to inject a sense of drama and interpretation stakes can fall flat and veer into being completely off-putting -- the sheer breadth and scale that Genshin Impact offers means that the brief lows in no way impact on the many lofty highs offered up. A free-to-play game whose content rivals the more higher-budgeted AAA releases of the past few years. Where miHoYo's inspirations and references may be a little too on-the-nose or obvious in parts, it's similarly made up for via its wealth of content and of an exploration element that is well designed, but more importantly brilliantly emergent. In one moment, it might be the intrigue of a distant landmark, or in another the wild and flashy power-trip that is its elemental-based combat. Wherever it takes you, Genshin Impact is a more-than-convincing proposition, not least for those adamant on never spending a single cent in-game. The grind to get there may not always feel wholly natural or that players are genuinely being left to wander without restraint, but Genshin Impact's meticulous approach to environment design above all pulls through in many wonderful ways. Crafting one of the year's more immersive and surprisingly rich open-world RPGs.