Monster Hunter Wilds

[Scarlett Johansson]

There's so many games plus the Mila Jovovich film and even Marvel vs Capcom including a monster hunter girl in it. Can be overwhelming. Overall, which game is the favorite? How is the switch spinoff? I saw they have a 2-in-1.

 

[Oggdo Bogdo]

There's so many games plus the Mila Jovovich film and even Marvel vs Capcom including a monster hunter girl in it. Can be overwhelming. Overall, which game is the favorite?

I think Generations Ultimate is probably my favourite in terms of older style Monster Hunters, with the newer ones, Rise + Sunbreak is one I enjoyed significantly more than World, especially once Sunbreak dropped.

How is the switch spinoff? I saw they have a 2-in-1.

Monster Hunter Stories 1 is pretty serviceable as a spinoff. Stories 2: Wings of Ruin, in my opinion, is better in almost every way, as a sequel should be.
The story is a bit childish in both games but I really enjoyed collecting and raising monsters, as well as minmaxing the shit out of them, it gave me a feeling that Pokemon used to give me before it became a zombie franchise.

 

[Premium Gonzo]

Capcom is out of their fucking MINDS if they think I'll give them $70 for anything. I wouldn't piss on a Capcom exec if he was on fire and I hadn't seen a bathroom in 16 hours.

The image speaks for itself, i wish it was $70 here...

Monster Hunter Stories 1 is pretty serviceable as a spinoff. Stories 2: Wings of Ruin, in my opinion, is better in almost every way, as a sequel should be.
The story is a bit childish in both games but I really enjoyed collecting and raising monsters, as well as minmaxing the shit out of them, it gave me a feeling that Pokemon used to give me before it became a zombie franchise.

I absolutely adore the spin off games, Wings of Ruin is still one of my favourites, i'm waiting for it to drop below $40 on steam to pick it up again. Being able to have nergi eggs was so much fun.

 

[I Know 孤独のせい]

Even though you have the TW:WH avatar I'm still surprised to see someone name that fucking company. Mostly because I never hear about them outside of purely TW related spaces.

My avatar is one of the bugs I captured during the launch of WH3. I have been playing Total War for over 20 years now, so I have been there at all the low points. I think a big reason CA doesn't get called out often is their monopolistic position, catering to a specific niche. And the fans really suffer from Stockholm syndrome.

 

[ShitLurker]

I just finished the main story and hit the credits, unlike world it seems the story ends in low rank and the game "starts" in high rank (letting you actually play without the NPCs talking shit every other quest), last boss is a xeno jiva ripoff, took me 12 hours taking it slow.

Oof, I can see a ton of normies just dropping it then and there. I tried to get a buddy into the series with Rise. He solo played on his cracked Switch, got credits and went "this is fine" and never touched it again (I did the same with DMC 5 to be honest, finsihed, went "I'm good" and I'm very aware there is a lot of game left to explore but never clicked enough with it to do it).

He never got that invested, but it's still so incredibly early in the game to just tap out and I can see a ton of people thinking "oh, I got credits, anything after this is some tryhard shit anyway, pass" which is NOTHING if it's just low rank.

I swear, the DLC sales are going to have a huge drop off.

 

[Oggdo Bogdo]

My avatar is one of the bugs I captured during the launch of WH3. I have been playing Total War for over 20 years now, so I have been there at all the low points. I think a big reason CA doesn't get called out often is their monopolistic position, catering to a specific niche. And the fans really suffer from Stockholm syndrome.

The same scenario is slowly happening here with Capcom and Monster Hunter, the amount of people defending the poor performance and excessive babying of the player is legitimate insanity.

 

[Vassal]

Fuck it, I'm gonna request a refund even though I've played nine hours. This is genuinely the worst monster hunter game I've ever played. It is insultingly easy. You don't even have to try. The new monsters are so cool looking but I don't even get to enjoy their fights because they die within minutes. It gets even worse in multiplayer too. I think they genuinely didn't scale the monster HP at all. I fought the lightning dragon with my friends online and we literally killed him in 4 minutes. He didn't even have the chance to run away. This is supposed to be a super badass apex predator too. Just pathetic.

Playing in Low/High/G rank? I hope you were playing Low Rank, even though I know it's almost guranteed that you were playing at least High Rank. I got a pretty bad taste in my mouth after Rise already, which was easy as piss, and I'm not happy to hear that the game is just leaving its niche even more and going for mass appeal. I never thought I'd miss the days of getting bodied by a fucking Blangonga threesome.

 

[Day of the Cope]

Crapcom needs to accept that their RE Engine is fucking dogshit at rendering anything larger than the inside of a Fotomat.

 

[ihaveelbows]

Oof, I can see a ton of normies just dropping it then and there. I tried to get a buddy into the series with Rise. He solo played on his cracked Switch, got credits and went "this is fine" and never touched it again (I did the same with DMC 5 to be honest, finsihed, went "I'm good" and I'm very aware there is a lot of game left to explore but never clicked enough with it to do it).

He never got that invested, but it's still so incredibly early in the game to just tap out and I can see a ton of people thinking "oh, I got credits, anything after this is some tryhard shit anyway, pass" which is NOTHING if it's just low rank.

I swear, the DLC sales are going to have a huge drop off.

This has happened since World. The majority of the people who buy the game 'beat' it but aren't really that interested in the longer form game. You can see this on Steam with World with player count increases on the DLC full release and not the content updates.

 

[Jace on ice]

Crapcom needs to accept that their RE Engine is fucking dogshit at rendering anything larger than the inside of a Fotomat.

Allegedly this has three layers of DRM

Denuvo, Enigma, and a third one encrypting the DLC files, so RE Engine alone might not be to blame.

 

[Endless Torment]

Crapcom needs to accept that their RE Engine is fucking dogshit at rendering anything larger than the inside of a Fotomat.

RE Engine is going away as they have an upgraded version in the works, but who knows if they actually fixed any of the issues it has with open world games.

 

[Markorian]

 

[Haramburger]

Just got done doing the Rompomplo

Turns out there are climate effects, and hot/cold drinks return. No strong feelings about it either way. Oil basin is kind of cool as an environment.

 

[Thiletonomics]

My avatar is one of the bugs I captured during the launch of WH3. I have been playing Total War for over 20 years now, so I have been there at all the low points. I think a big reason CA doesn't get called out often is their monopolistic position, catering to a specific niche. And the fans really suffer from Stockholm syndrome.

The same scenario is slowly happening here with Capcom and Monster Hunter, the amount of people defending the poor performance and excessive babying of the player is legitimate insanity.

And it's both sad and enraging to see another franchise completely shitting the bed, and very few people call the company out on it. It's the exact same thing that's happening to the Pokémon and The Sims franchises, with Dexit and Scarlet and Violet's terrible performance for the former, and The Sims 4 removing MANY features from past games and EA is still milking it over a decade later for the latter. And yet people still go full-on "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY" mode.

 

[ihaveelbows]

Turns out there are climate effects, and hot/cold drinks return. No strong feelings about it either way. Oil basin is kind of cool as an environment.

I think those are one of the things that add to the 'kit' element of preparing for Hunts that's enjoyable. I'm also way into the paintball infinite ammo QOL thing.

This game's small details of interaction are really good. Picking up a bitter bug and sort of sprinkling it's dust or whatever into your stuff vs collecting carcasses of bugs is cool.

 

[fentanyl tester]

Does the game get better at all once you reach High Rank? I'm aware that's when the story ends, but does the difficulty ramp up? Or is it still babby-mode?

 

[Baron Reginald]

Playing in Low/High/G rank? I hope you were playing Low Rank, even though I know it's almost guranteed that you were playing at least High Rank. I got a pretty bad taste in my mouth after Rise already, which was easy as piss, and I'm not happy to hear that the game is just leaving its niche even more and going for mass appeal. I never thought I'd miss the days of getting bodied by a fucking Blangonga threesome.

It's Low Rank/Villiage quests, as is the 'story' in every MH game. A lot of the people complaining about how easy it is clearly never went back in world or something in beginner gear and seen the massive difference player experience makes in how fast things die. A lot of skill can be transfered over from World to Wilds so the starting progression is going to be blitzed through by a lot of people. You can't touch higher difficulty stuff until you beat the story which is about 10-12 hours if you rush through and just stick with a cozy set and upgrade it with spheres, although if he was only at Rey Dau after 9 hours he was clearly taking his time since that's not even past Act 1.

Edit:
As a semi-serious suggestion for people who find it too easy, just get a low teir set and dont armour sphere it. Most enemies When you get past the Oil basin-ish roughly in the story will start nearly 1 shotting you if you need the thrill of instant deletion. Been doing that with a Quematrice set on a new save for funzies with a friend.

 

[The Wokest]

Does the game get better at all once you reach High Rank? I'm aware that's when the story ends, but does the difficulty ramp up? Or is it still babby-mode?

Better in terms of difficulty? no, not really.
Tempered monsters are arguably EASIER than regular monsters despite the inflated damage because they have tempered wounds (they glow blue) and if you pop them they are guaranteed topples.
Generally wound pops on the back legs (rarely other parts for specific monsters) are already guaranteed topples, meaning tempered monsters get stunlocked to shit and back.
The game is build around focus mode, there's topples for exposed zones after big attacks too.

In terms of being able to actually play the game without having to watch a 15 min cutscene about a jeet kid after every hunt and the game actually feeling like Monster Hunter, well yeah, YES. in that sense HR is way better.

>SAAR PLS WHY DO I LOOK LIKE THIS? SAAAAR PLS REDEEM A BETTER GPU!

Wait, the cutscenes are not skippable?

They are but it's still annoying as fuck

Spoiler: saar pls

I'm getting more artifacting and weird graphical bugs, the benchmark and more importantly the cracked version of the beta don't have it, the beta during the open time didn't had it either, it has to be the DRM.

 

[TrinityReformed]

without having to watch a 15 min cutscene about a jeet kid after every hunt

Wait, the cutscenes are not skippable?

 

[Endless Torment]

Guess fixes aren't coming anytime soon if they are blaming the customer.