Um

When I inquired about Monster Hunter nobody told me there was a talking cat that does puns.
Forum you have let me down.

Liveinadive wrote:

Um

When I inquired about Monster Hunter nobody told me there was a talking cat that does puns.
Forum you have let me down.

Oh yeah Palicos are great, you can dress them up and take photos with them for your player card, also you get another one and then you can send them on silly quests and also then they can get in a tank? play a big horn?

Love it. Never timed an absolute guard like those guys but it looks amazing to watch

All over it like a virulent rash.

It's not a main game right? Wasn't sure about that trailer, felt a bit off, but still, more Monster Hunter.

It's been confirmed it's definitely got everything the regular games have, including all 14 weapons

To my knowledge it's a spin off of sorts, although a legit one and by far the most ambitious.

There was PS3/360 spin offs in the past that sort of went by unnoticed.

It might be that or the fact that for hardcore fans it appears to be a bit Westernised to widen the audience. Might upset the core players.

All of that's a bit of a guess from what I've read though.

Bit grey for a start, compared to the festival of colour that is Generations.

They've gone for a big open world instead of discrete environments you load between which makes a lot of sense and is something I've always said they should do for a proper console release.

But, they've also said that quests are going to very drop in/drop out style co-op which sounds vaguely like they're moving away from some of the commitment and determination that the series is known for.

None of those things are inherently bad, and there's a lot to like too, like a suggested increase in mobility which follows the trend from 4U and Generations, plus all 14 weapons are definitely into it is for all intents and purposes a full MH title.

It just needs to retain enough of its DNA, but I am not sure Capcom have the best track record for that. Too much compromise and it stops being Monster Hunter, which has more than just "big monsters to fight" as part of its construction. It's why when people saw Anthem footage and said it looked like there was a little MH in there, I couldn't see it, cos big scary wildlife might be the core of the MH system, but hundreds of games have big monsters and aren't Big Daddy MoHan.

So stick me as cautiously optimistic. The series could do with some changes to make it fit consoles, but hopefully they aren't compromising what makes it compelling in the first place. Hard to extrapolate too much from just a trailer, but there weren't any hunters blasting the faces off dragons with Gunlances, so there's room for improvement.

There's just to little known about it yet to be really able to say something about it. Tempy makes good points. I'm not too sure about the open world myself, but we'll see.

There's also XX coming, and that's a definite purchase from me, so this has to be something that goes along that but doesn't lose the MH charm for me to buy it. It's nice to see it on different consoles for sure, another reason to go for a Ps4 for me.

The open world all depends on how they do it. Being able to get respite from Monsters is a much needed part of the flow, hopefully the maps are still essentially the same but they just don't have the loading - tunnels and crevices and rivers and cliffs used to escape in real time as opposed to forcing a load. Will take some smart level design to make things feel as good as they do, not sure they'll be able to get away with things like the fall into the pit of the volcano in 4U for example.

Oh, and top of my Wish List That'll Never Happen™: cross-platform play. Maybe we'll see Windows and Xbox players together, but odds on there'll be a split between Sony and Microsoft camps.

Tempy wrote:

The open world all depends on how they do it. Being able to get respite from Monsters is a much needed part of the flow, hopefully the maps are still essentially the same but they just don't have the loading

Surely the open world will lend itself towards a more organic escape route. Paragliding and climbing trees spring to mind. Looking forward to seeing what Capcom do with this.

Tempy wrote:

MH Online, Frontier Online, and Frontier G were all on either 360 or PC over in Japan though, they just don't trust the West with it.

Yeah, that was always a weird decision to me. Putting a MH game on 360 in Japan is like releasing a new 32X game and wondering why it's not selling.

Ah well. Fingers crossed at least one of XX and World gets a Western release.