Topic: Monster Hunter Rise

@VoidofLight It would be my pleasure.

@Pokester99 Is this before or after Iceborne? Since the G rank content is like an entirely new game sitting upon the original game.

@Pokester99 I get the feeling Rise will be better once the G rank stuff comes.

G Rank baby!

450 hours in the base game. This expansion will surely add another 300.

Looks like Monster Hunter is back on the menu, boys!

I like how they are announcing it will be a "massive expansion" ! This will make me get back into MH Rise. Anytime now I'll do those event quests to get Capcom skins

So pretty much nothing of merit in that MH update thing. PC version is coming out at a weird time, I thought it would be at least a year long exclusive on Switch, but I guess they were conscious of how close it could be releasing to Sunbreak if Sunbreak is simultaneous with Switch and PC.

Demo on 13 October, so will probably download it and see if it is worth playing through the whole thing on PC again or whether I should just get Sunbreak for my Switch and carry on where I am already at. So far, nothing they have shown from the PC version has been all that amazing, but maybe it'll look more significant when ran natively.

The higher framerates may be nice, especially as Rise is a faster, more movement focused entry than past titles but I'll have to see just how bad the Switch version feels after I try the demo, because I always thought the Switch was stable enough that I never really minded playing in 30 FPS.

The way the Steam trailer was done did make it seem a bit like the Switch is ancient hardware, particularly the "high framerate" and "voice chat" segments.

Here is the 4K 60 trailer for PC (as it was a 720p stream) for those interested. Keep in mind YouTube still applies a crazy amount of compression.

@Pizzamorg Switch version's framerate is EXTREMELY stable. It feels great to play.

Compare with the 3DS Monster Hunters, World on PS4/Xbone where the framerate was all over the place.

But, of course, a solid 60fps on PC will obviously feel and look even better. But I'm super impressed with how Rise turned out on Switch.

I also am not sure how I feel about the PC version of Rise in general tbh. Like those sharp, crisp, characters on those low res, mobile game looking, backgrounds just isn't very nice looking. I guess it would be disingenuous to think they'd fully rework Rise (although they did have almost an extra year) but it doesn't even look like they bothered to upres the ground textures, let alone in maybe fleshing out the textures to make things look less flat and more alive.

Rise looks really rough on the Switch, with it's odd, upscaled, low res graphics but it is clearly done to maintain that steady framerate. Even when four players are spamming particle effects on a monster writhing on the ground, there was no real noticeable chugging to me. An inconsistent framerate is worse than a steady 30 fps framerate imo.

So like, I am kinda losing interest in a double dip but I will dabble in the demo and see how it feels.

I was thinking of buying Rise while there was a ready sale. But I think it's more reasonable to wait for the pc version from now on.

I haven't had time to watch the stream yet but what was announced in the capcon stream? Any new monsters?

@Jrpglover Just watched it, was expecting a normal Sunbreak trailer, ah well. Anyways yeah, Shogun Cenataur is back.

They better bring back Shen...

I want to be able to hunt as dark knight sonic, its just to perfect.

My pc can't run it, and my friends are on switch, so I'm still going with switch.

The new trailer with PC footage looks so good! I wasn't going to double dip on this, but with Sunbreak coming out on PC the same day, I'm gonna move to PC.

@DomGC ....George?

Anyways yeah I'm just annoyed that they made Shen a cameo in the Jurassic Frontier, and instead we get freakin' Lao in the expansion instead. lol

Really I just want to see monsters we don't see often...I swear if the final title updates for Sunbreak are Fatalis and Alatreon again I'm gonna punch someone. lol

@Joeynator3000 Don't know about Alatreon, but Fatalis seems very likely. I mean that Dragon is supposed to be the ultimate Challenge right? Unless they bring White Fatalis or Crimson Fatalis instead?

I'm just sick of seeing them after them appearing constantly in 4th gen, and then again in IB. Even though I never fought them there, I mean yeah they've been changed a lot. Then again from what I've seen and heard, they kinda went overboard with them...too many giant map covering explosions and one-shots everywhere. lol

I don't know, they could find a way to make Dire Miralis work, especially with how some swimming monsters work in this generation. Bring back Yama...or Shen (not an elder but whatever, lol). One or both of the Mohrans I wouldn't mind seeing again as well.