Topic: Monster Hunter Rise

So, uh, I've just discovered this but it turns out Switch Axe is super OP in Rise. Get your weapon into its "powered up" state (which is really easy to do), and you're doing roughly double your normal DPS. I've seen it hit for nearly triple with Element Phial and an Axe of the appropriate element that the target is weak to.

Ive been out of town for two days where I went to two Walmarts and even checked on the website for Target to see if any of the closest Targets had Monster Hunter Rise in stock.

Nada. Not a damn thing. Guess Ill have to buy Monster Hunter Rise off of the Switch eshop or wait a little bit more since next week im going out of town again and check the Target store one more time and maybe see if the Best Buy store would even have the damn game or not

....I kinda want to try the online, but keep it to friends only....ugh...
I got low rank hub quests to finish up before moving on to high rank. >.<

Yeeeaaahhh. Further than to that last comment, video. Fully powered SA is busted!
https://gyazo.com/34093d63266efd07d4b447b0ab992a8e

Just beat Magnamalo. First try. Nothing has killed me in this game thus far.

He makes up for his shrimpy size with a really powerful and hyper-aggressive moveset, and is the first of the beasties to really strike some level of apprehension in me. Pretty cool, intense fight.

I actually moved over to a set of fully upgraded Basarios gear just before fighting him. I'm guessing I would have carted a few times if I'd still been wearing my Izuchi set, lol.

17 hours of play time before I hit the credits. I'm guessing I won't be getting nearly as many hours out of this game as I did with MH4U.

So far, this game is pretty easy honestly. Haven’t been carted once, and I’m starting the third rank quests.

Village is supposed to be easy, the hub is where things get a little more challenging, even more so with high rank. That Apex Arzuros was a nightmare for me.

Apex Azuros is super fun in multiplayer. Rampages in general just are.

But yeah village quests are super easy.

My experience with Hub quests with randoms so far is, we bully the monster to death, haha. With a full room monsters die faster than me hunting alone, despite scaling.

@TeeJay
Ya, low rank village is easy, as was stated by the devs. World low rank was also easy, but Rise made Low Rank village a bit easier than that. Which I’m totally OK with because look how many new people are getting into monster hunter and actually sticking with it as a result. Social media is chock full of new players. Even Arlo is now addicted.

Even in the older games, for low rank you could basically make one armor set to last you the entire way through. I used Tetsucabra all throughout MH4U low rank, for example.

It’s... low rank. It’s just what it is.

That said, I carted yesterday to a freaking Tobi Kadachi. Got stunned in a combo and that tail slam got me.

@Ralizah
No, you’re never going to get anywhere close to the amount of hours that a full fledged ultimate edition with high rank village quests and G rank hub quests, tons of event quests and DLC will offer. There was never any hope of a freshly minted base version game comparing to an ultimate version. For that we’ll have to wait for the ultimate version and all title updates. Like World when it released, Rise will not compare to full G rank releases.

But it’s comparable with World base game. In fact, it actually has a couple extra monsters than World had at launch. A lot of it is just cutting out the downtime and filler. Ever since World, MH games are more streamlined and as such, don’t take as long. Rise will go even quicker with its faster traversal on Palamutes and cutting out searching for the monster each quest. But it’s a more pure, higher quality level of fun while playing. And that’s more preferable because when the game is this fun to play, I can literally just hunt monsters over and over and over without any aim or goal and probably get more time out of it as a result. 40 hrs in the demo, largely from one single quest, speaks to how fun it is just to fight monsters and explore in this game, and means the base game has limitless potential. Unless one isn’t looking for the fun of the experience and is B-lining for the end credits. Which, I’m not sure why someone would skip all that content just to rush to the end. Even the Hub Quest tests. I took them, but I’m skipping nothing. Hub quests is where the difficulty comes from. I’m not skipping any of that.