Topic: Monster Hunter Rise

Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak Amiibo live on Amazon Japan. All 3 for $73 shipped.

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@Pizzamorg You need to complete the 7 star hub quest "Serpent Goddess of Thunder" for Sunbreak to become playable.

Is that the final story mission before you start getting the elder dragons?

@Grumblevolcano
Have you completed that quest and are ready for Sunbreak?

@JaxonH No, as Three Hopes releases before Sunbreak the plan is to finish the Black Eagles path of Three Houses and then prepare for Sunbreak. I plan to pick Golden Deer for Three Hopes (picked Golden Deer first for Three Houses) but with all the Three Houses paths complete there'd be no chance of Three Hopes spoiling anything.

@Grumblevolcano
So how far are you?

@JaxonH 5 star rank I think, as for Three Houses around the half way until the timeskip. 1 and a half months should easily be enough time for both.

@Grumblevolcano
If you're on it, that's enough time.

But it depends if you mean 5 star village or 5 star hub. If you mean 5 star village, you still have all of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 star hub to get through. Which is a lot. You can still get through it relatively fast though if you only focus on key Quests. I always do every quest, so it took me a lot longer.

And Three Houses post time skip is another 10-12 chapters, depending on the route. I did Black Eagles, which was 22 chapters. But the Church route is only 16 I think.

@Pizzamorg yes.

Thanks for confirming everyone. I should be good then to play via PC or Switch. Guess it'll just depend on where my friends end up playing.

@JaxonH I missed the stream, and I ended up forgetting, the monsters are hype! This year is just so good for games!

@Snatcher
Sunbreak seems to address all the major issues with Rise. Choosing whether to attack or mount a monster in a mountable state was a big complaint. That's fixed. Bleed status is in the game. Master Rank will provide the difficulty people crave. Amazing new monsters like Seregios, Astalos and Malzeno. Switch skills that were previously ignored due to a better option available can now be used via Switch Skill Swap. Rampages are nowhere to be seen (though I still appreciated them in the base game to spice things up), and some single player Quests now allow you to bring NPC followers with you.

I love the more experimental portable entries. Not everything they try works, but they're willing to take risks and do new things. Rise is all about speed, agility and vertically. This will likely be the only MH game we ever get with this type of focus.

@JaxonH The main thing is that MK8 Deluxe is a big distraction, in the 3 months since the Booster Course Pass was announced MK8 Deluxe went from like 6th most played to 1st. A similar thing happened in the Wii U era, my MK8 usage on Wii U (only Wii U, not Wii U + Switch) was like 900 hours and a large chunk of that was a result of Nintendo expanding the game further with DLC.

@JaxonH Wow? I thought I only missed monsters, but there is a whole bunch of QOL changes!

...Still hoping for another new map...I mean, Iceborne gave you two. Also hoping it's another remake because seeing the Flooded Forest and Sandy Plains like this was fun.

I wouldn't mind an HD Deserted island

I feel like the Misty Peaks would be their choice since it fits Rise's overall theme. As for me, for some odd reason I want the Tundra. xD

Also, HD? HD D. Island already exists. lol

@iLikeUrAttitude
I love Deserted Isle also. But I'd rather see that remade for MH6, where the underwater sections can properly return.

Misty Peaks would be a quality pick for Rise. Then again, pretty much any new Mao would be great.

As long as it's not a 2nd ice, desert or volcano map.

@Snatcher
Oh, ya. Tons of updates and changes. Layored armor for everything, rampage weapons can be skinned with other weapon designs, tons of other stuff I can't even remember. But it's a lot.

...Well, with the expansion nearly here, I decided to play this game again. I figured that I would try and take down the emergency apex quests (and record them of course. >.>). First of all, playing this after playing Iceborne on PS4, ugh...the "confirm" and "back" buttons are reversed, it's annoying. lol

Anyways, I managed Emergency Apex Arzuros, the first time I tried I died pretty easily and I'm like "eh, screw this" and left the game alone after that. That was last year at some point, anyways I took it down this time...Anjanath had the final hit via riding, thought that was funny.

That reminds me, if we do get more Apex monsters (so glad they're not replacing subspecies, though) I do hope we get some for monsters that didn't have a Deviant. I mean, Zinogre is very different from Thunderlord, yeah, and Mizutsune is more aggressive than Soulseer...but other than that, the others were kinda "meh". I just wanna see some that aren't based on existing Deviants, or give me Apex Shogun Cenataur, because Rustrazor was my favorite. lol

Also, if Gold and Silver return...then please...PLEASE...bring back freakin' Lucent and Molten already (and Abyssal, if Lagia returns, they can make it work, lol). I miss them...also a new rare would be nice, Zinogre is overdue for one. lol

I'd definitely be down for Lucent Nargacuga and Molten Tigrex. Though something tells me those were one and done variants, never to return again.

I'm hoping Lagi doesn't come back. It's just not very interesting without the underwater gameplay. Save that for MH6.