If you left the AI/FrameGen feature enabled, that's probably what you're seeing. I hate the way it looks; it's like localized motion blur but somehow even uglier. I'm planning to skip Wilds because my 3070Ti 8gb just doesn't have the horsepower to brute force acceptable performance out of badly made games, and I don't have confidence that Wilds can be optimized enough to close that gap.
I don't pay attention to the community anymore but I'm not surprised in the slightest.
I don’t mind the realism style because that’s kinda what the series originally was supposed to be. I remember getting Freedom Unite and the back of the box said “Explore nature’s beauty while hunting monsters”- the exploring nature’s beauty part was first and foremost. The series started to go downhill once they started needing a big bad villain, a story where you’re the big hero and everyone loves you and is constantly amazed by you constantly saving them at the last minute.
I know, hence why it's nuts that people still go "Woo, bird-with-egg!" after 10 games and not "So uh, how about 30 brand new ones instead?", especially when a lot of new ones are just recolors. I was baffled by going from World to MHGU, seeing how many monsters and environments and systems were in place. Yes I know it was that end-of-game re-release with all the content and stuff brought over, but still. I remember all the title updates to World and it was like 2 old monsters brought back and 3 recolors. Wowee!
Same. World was fun when it was new but the systems and graphics and visual density was so offputting. Every hunt was a fucking 30 fps slog (it felt as such cause of how much was on screen at all times). Rise was back to the arcade'esque in/out hunting boss rush genre that imo defined MH. At least the desert in Wilds doesn't look AS bad as the first area in World, but I fear the portable campsite and herds all add together to this big 'realism at expense of gameplay'. How many times do you think it'll be fun to pull an alpha away from a herd? Or will it be the one core mechanic to 2-3 monsters? I fucking hate council fights in WoW, I don't want to always end up 1v3 against some monsters.
World fanboys from my experience are borderline single digit iq, a mate of mine vehemently defends the Clutch Claw but never actually hit G-Rank Iceborne where it actively ruins the game (Monster health pools get insanely bloated (3.2x health roughly) in G-Rank to compensate since it adds such a massive force multiplier to your damage) until recently, where he proceeded to complain that monsters take too long to kill. (He still thinks the Clutch Claw is fine and not a total design mistake by the way).
Oh, no it was much worse with the AI FrameGen. I was getting graphics smearing so I turned it off. But I still couldn't get rid of this odd mix of blurry and pixel.
It's not letting me hit the quote button for this, but yeah. I really hate all these new additions that are supposed to ~improve the game~ but it just makes it look like shit for the gamers who don't run Nvidia's overpriced BS.
The AAA gaming industry is so inbred that you can reasonably expect the industry "standard" to drop to 15 FPS (without the AI bullshit of course) within the next few years, so enjoy consoles while you can before they're tainted with the vaseline smears too.
I was talking just this with my BF the other week. It's not like a good story cannot be told, and still retain the insular tribal themes of the older games. This grander scope, big adventure stuff is fine once in a while, but it's every game now. 4U was a good balance, still probably the best "story" in the series. But, playing 3U again really brought back that appreciation for just being a nobody, but your just helping to bring balance to a environment around some random small fishing village. I can even imagine a story of a lone nobody hunter that's trying to survive, and chart out a foreign land, a wild west feel. I wish they'd capture that again, but I doubt that Capcom would ever do that when the "wider audience" of Western MH fans are who they're catering to.
The target audience of nu-monhun is unironically people who have difficulties counting to 10, hence the butchery of the armor skill system.
I think the Clutch Claw was kinda mixed bag. Stuff like tenderizing and wall bangs were just shit. But on the other hand stuff like the claw counter for the Lance was fun as hell.
I won't lie, I kind of enjoy wall bangs. Cheap? Sure. But it was kind of satisfying to slam a monster that's been a pain into the wall. I'll miss them a little bit in Wilds.
This will probably be the fate of every future MH, honestly. They've only gotten more streamlined with each new release. There may be an outlier here and there though.
I mean, is that really a surprise? I haven't even played the dem-oh excuse me, beta yet but I can already tell it's made for niggercattle. As if the previous MH games never existed so they have to make every new game feel like an "entry."
I however did not know it was that bad.
It’s the way the series has been heading since they started chasing American audiences. Just making the player feel like a marvel superhero at all times instead of just giving you all the tools you need to hunt monsters and leaving you to your own devices.
Not just MH, but all of Capcom's IPs. Hell I dare say most mainstream Japanese (gaming) companies.
And it’s all for nothing, because it’s too bloated with systems at this point and the casualniggers will abandon it for the next lean, sexy action rpg that comes along and doesn’t have a goddamn novels worth of tutorials for mechanics in a game that’s been niggerized enough now that it doesn’t even pay off to fine tune your character.
It's geniunely depressing to see these Japanese companies try and phase out what made people love their games in the first place in favor of being digestible by players who probably can't even tie their own shoes.