genesisblock
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Post-credits content is where the game actually starts. I got my ass kicked a few times.
Yian Kut-ku will remind you of that.
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Who else struggles to get into Monster Hunter?
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Jigsaah
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I'll take a crack at why Monster Hunter is so good. It's basically a problem solving game.
On it's surface, yes you're fighting monsters in a semi-open world environment over and over again. That's the loop, no doubt about it.
What draws me to Monster Hunter is the epic fights, the difficulty but most of all...it's the preparation. There's just something about min-maxxing a build and seeing it all come together to make what used to be really difficult hunts...well basically less difficult through the use of human engineering and cunning.
What seems to be an impossible fight eventually becomes manageable and later, maybe even trivial. Monster Hunter does a great job at making your progression obvious if you can decipher the systems within the game and conjure a solution to these fights with the plethora of tools that can be at your disposal.
As for the fights themselves, the objective is always the same, but employing your own playstyle, starting with your choice of weapon, the tools you bring to the fight to counter or mitigate the monster's offense or defense and most important of all, your ever growing experience in battling said monster makes you feel powerful. Not just because your "numbers go up", but the efficiency in which you are able solve the problem continuously improves.
It's the planning that works. Being able to use all the information available to you to plan your fights. This is especially great in Wilds. The map system is probably the best I've ever seen. The information is easy to follow. That monster's being diurnal or nocturnal gives the sense that there is a persistent living world the exists outside of your influence, but reacts directly to that same influence. To top it off, the game constantly has the next goal to achieve and it's not about just the next monster that needs to die. You gotta fish or trade for food, mine or trade for resources and help the various communities all with the end goal of preparing you for your next fight.
On it's surface, yes you're fighting monsters in a semi-open world environment over and over again. That's the loop, no doubt about it.
What draws me to Monster Hunter is the epic fights, the difficulty but most of all...it's the preparation. There's just something about min-maxxing a build and seeing it all come together to make what used to be really difficult hunts...well basically less difficult through the use of human engineering and cunning.
What seems to be an impossible fight eventually becomes manageable and later, maybe even trivial. Monster Hunter does a great job at making your progression obvious if you can decipher the systems within the game and conjure a solution to these fights with the plethora of tools that can be at your disposal.
As for the fights themselves, the objective is always the same, but employing your own playstyle, starting with your choice of weapon, the tools you bring to the fight to counter or mitigate the monster's offense or defense and most important of all, your ever growing experience in battling said monster makes you feel powerful. Not just because your "numbers go up", but the efficiency in which you are able solve the problem continuously improves.
It's the planning that works. Being able to use all the information available to you to plan your fights. This is especially great in Wilds. The map system is probably the best I've ever seen. The information is easy to follow. That monster's being diurnal or nocturnal gives the sense that there is a persistent living world the exists outside of your influence, but reacts directly to that same influence. To top it off, the game constantly has the next goal to achieve and it's not about just the next monster that needs to die. You gotta fish or trade for food, mine or trade for resources and help the various communities all with the end goal of preparing you for your next fight.
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Xane
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TerribleAtThisGame
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I never got into it before yet I'm trying to convince my MP gaming bros to get into the new one with me. I'm interested all over again, the new one looks cool and I only ever gave the older ones a shot solo.
Roman Empire
Member
Can't hear your Kut-ku struggles while perfect dodging with my dualblades and bow
Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
It's a convoluted mess. Anime BS stuff. Typical JPRG nonsense. It's also a washed out mess. I'm still playing it but it's nowhere near the masterpiece millions make it out to be.
It's overly complicated, with very little explanation about most stuff and mainly just grinding away. It's complex in the wrong way, convoluted and otherwise really shallow.
I don't get it. I guess it's that dim-witted Fortnite, COD mentality of most gamers.
GymWolf
Member
What the hell does that even mean?
Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
Braindead repetitive shit over and overWhat the hell does that even mean?
GymWolf
Member
Reizo Ryuu
Member
These games existed before any souls game and aren't similar, it's not a mix of any souls-like and whatever.
Danjin44
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Is it not? All this time i really thought so
Danjin44
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No! MH existed long before Demons Souls and more importantly they play nothing a like....I dont know where the hell people get this from or maybe because people just like to compare everything to Souls games these days.
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MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Souls is just a Zelda knockoff. Collect things to kill the big baddies by killing the other baddies. You love to see it.
are you stil fighting monsters for gear, oh you are then i guess game never relay starts new
Kurotri
Member
Yup. I tried many times, back when I was a kid and had a PSP my friends were completely crazy about it, one even raved about having invested 500 hours into it. I just didn't get it. I tried again with Worlds because that seemed to be the first time where the series opened itself up to a broader audience. I was like, well, why not? I think I gave Worlds like 3 tries or something before I decided me and MH just won't work out. I was always bored, it always played clunky and floaty, the UI was awful and I just didn't really see the point. You just hunt monsters. For a lot of people that seems to be enough but not for me. It's alright though, not every game needs to appeal to you, and that also includes popular games. I for one never understood why Skyrim caught on the way it did for instance. I'm sure there's people here that feel the same about Elden Ring or CoD and whatever.
But I do have to be honest, the sales numbers are still pretty wild to me. No pun intended. Huge success.
But I do have to be honest, the sales numbers are still pretty wild to me. No pun intended. Huge success.
Kagoshima_Luke
Gold Member
I have the opposite problem. I struggle to escape Monster Hunter.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Once you get sucked in...it's hard to stop. Just one more hunt I swear. And it's 3am....and you started playing the previous morning.
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