Monster hunter world collab

[RiyahArp]

Eh. The Monster Hunter games have virtually no story and no real appealing characters beyond your kitty minions. It's just going to be us beating up slightly different looking monsters in FATES again, for particularly large and ugly weapons.

I never really get the love for that series. It's the poster child for "over complicated gameplay", even MHW and its attempts to simplify it.

[Penthea]

Eh. The Monster Hunter games have virtually no story and no real appealing characters beyond your kitty minions. It's just going to be us beating up slightly different looking monsters in FATES again, for particularly large and ugly weapons.

I'm actually okay with this. But I can see why others would not be.

[SolidN7]

Eh. The Monster Hunter games have virtually no story and no real appealing characters beyond your kitty minions. It's just going to be us beating up slightly different looking monsters in FATES again, for particularly large and ugly weapons.

[Duskane]

Eh. The Monster Hunter games have virtually no story and no real appealing characters beyond your kitty minions. It's just going to be us beating up slightly different looking monsters in FATES again, for particularly large and ugly weapons.

I never really get the love for that series. It's the poster child for "over complicated gameplay", even MHW and its attempts to simplify it.

"over complicated gameplay" the same ol song and dance i here from people who cant get into monster hunter.
that's fine its all a personal preference but you cant say they have no story or appealing characters unless you haven't played a game since the PSP version and MH main focus is game play and on that alone it became a popular series plus nice monster and armor design, MH world didnt simplify the gameplay it just added some QoL touches the series did(and didn't) need.

[Miyha]

Palico confirmed next new race.

/thread

[Yasuhiro]

Eh. The Monster Hunter games have virtually no story and no real appealing characters

No one plays Monster Hunter for that or was it ever about that. The type of game it is in the title you hunt monsters.
You beat up giant monsters and get badass armor from beating giant monsters to show off.

[RiyahArp]

The type of game it is in the title you hunt monsters.
You beat up giant monsters and get badass armor from beating giant monsters to show off.

The beating up is dull, and the armor is ugly. MH started out as a PS2 game over fifteen years ago, and its mechanics only now are starting to escape that. I recommend playing horizon zero dawn sometime, which also has the "kill big critters" theme but it much more story driven with a better world.

[Ilenya]

The beating up is dull, and the armor is ugly. MH started out as a PS2 game over fifteen years ago, and its mechanics only now are starting to escape that. I recommend playing horizon zero dawn sometime, which also has the "kill big critters" theme but it much more story driven with a better world.

Having watched someone playing Horizon:Zero Dawn and dabbled in MHW...No...They are not alike.

[RiyahArp]

Having watched someone playing Horizon:Zero Dawn and dabbled in MHW...No...They are not alike.

Yeah HZD doesn't focus solely on episodes with one monster that takes 45 minutes to kill, and it has much better combat because it's less about using a very ungainly weapon and more about traps or tactical use of mobs and elemental weakness. But it takes a lot from MH and improves it; the triplines and rope caster are far more useful and strategic than any tools in MH, and its able to do a lot more with its world. Why cart when you can program a ride?

This is subjective and varies from person-to-person. Though if you are playing MH for the story yeah I will agree that it is lack luster, but thankfully it is not a game that is based around story. Also Zero Dawn is a far cry from MH.

I'm not a fan of the gameplay either. That particular genre always seems to try to do too much, and ends up making the game too complicated to get into a flow state for most people. God Eater and Freedom Wars suffer from the same issues too. The JP focus so much on packing the game with a bunch of different systems that they don't nail the core gameplay nearly as well as they think they do. It's kind of why they never really designed a decent FPS till Splatoon, for example. There's always stuff like sharpening weapons, or meta gear solid's stupidly complex QTE flow system.

And honestly, can we all assume people are being subjective when they talk about stuff like this?

[Ameela]

It's kind of why they never really designed a decent FPS till Splatoon, for example

Implying Vanquish isn't the best (and arguably only good) third person shooter out there.