If we're comparing then FGO doesn't even have auto battle nor does it have any base features that let you passively farm trust/money/EXP and even the gacha currency. FGO also doesn't let you recruit beyond a 3 star with its secondary recruit system and even expands that pool to equipment instead of only characters. FGO also has no spark system that guarantees you a limited character after so many rolls (will be implemented with W banner) nor does it let you buy high rarity characters from the store without having to get copies of the highest rarity (Arknights let's you get the currency to buy 6 stars from 4 star dupes).
You never need to have SSRs to win in FGO and getting one (no matter who it is) in the game is more meaningful than games which shower you with them. Sure you can buy 6* operators in the game outside of the gacha... if you get 180 dupes of 4* units. The spark system also requires 300 rolls on the banner which frankly is not too feasible for free players unless you don't spend any other banners and horde them for a long time. Would you like this game the same or less if it didn't have autobattle (and no base) in it and you had to do everything manually? Would you like FGO more if it had those features in it?
FGO's gameplay is complete shit so no I wouldn't like it better whether it had autoplay or not and I would still like Arknights cause its gameplay is actually good. Also you can farm 4 stars with the recruit system, and that's not even adding the 4-6 stars you get from the gacha banners. You can also get 5-6 stars in the recruit system, I've personally gotten 4 top operator tags so far.
The spark system is there for whales, not for F2P players in the first place. At least there's a 100% chance to get the operator you want instead of people whaling on FGO and if they're unlucky, they won't get the servant they want after spending an absurd amount of money. My FGO friend had to spend $1000 on a banner before he got the servant he wanted.
Also how in the world is having a shittier rate for high rarity characters ever a good thing?? As for whether you need SSRs, you don't need high rarity operators to complete Arknights either, they're only there for people who want to flex high risks on CC. You can clear the main story and event stories with 3 and 4 stars just fine, and there's literally someone on Youtube who shows you exactly how to do it.
I've played FGO for 2 years before and quit cause after losing the luster of getting SSRs, I realized the gameplay actually sucks ass. The only good things going for FGO are the story and the characters, everything else sucks. Even the UI looks like shit, courtesy of it being an older game. There's also the high demand of time for farming events, if you want to get everything, you're gonna need to invest a lot of time. Arknights does not force you to waste time on rock paper scissors and you can actually do other stuff while farming. It also doesn't demand that much time to complete events either. 2 weeks for each event gives you plenty of time to clear all the content you need to without actually spending a lot of hours to do stuff.
Oh yeah, even with characters, at least Arknights has unique new characters with different designs instead of a reskin of the same person over and over (and I'm saying this as a Saberface lover). Also the fact they add different classes of the same character or have a summer version of the same character. Why not just add a skin instead of making people have to roll for it? And while I'm at it, FGO has way too many gags instead of proper characterization for servants. A joke or two is fine, but when you focus on that instead of actual characterization and lore, it's like having to sit through 50 episodes of Naruto fillers.
Anyways, there are some things I wish Arknights had that FGO has, namely avatar customization and interludes. I know the Doctor is supposed to be mysterious and shit, but it'll be neat if they let you actually customize them. As for interludes, giving people an interlude similar to the Story of Afternoon vignettes after you max trust them would be nice. A smaller thing I'd like is for Arknights to have an updated sprite for E2'ed operators. Honestly dunno why they didn't do that in the first place, but I'll cut them some slack since Hypergryph is a startup company and Arknights is their first game. They're also constantly adding new stuff and improving upon stuff in the game, evident of the stuff in the CN server.
One thing you have to keep in mind is that Arknights is a really new game compared to FGO and FGO has barely improved anything in the years they've been out while Arknights has added new mechanics, new features, new game types, and new QoL fixes since it's been out a year ago.
TL;DR: Arknights >>>>>>>>>>> Great Wall of China >>>>>>>>>>>>> FGO.
last edited at Sep 23, 2020 12:34AM
