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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Allegedly this has three layers of DRM
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.
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.
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.
Better in terms of difficulty? no, not really.
They are but it's still annoying as fuck
Wait, the cutscenes are not skippable?
