Topic: Monster Hunter Rise

I just found out that followers can run off for a bit and then return riding a monster, lmao! It just happened to me in a follower quest.

https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/nintendo-switch-pro-c...

Pro Controller seems to be up at Nintendo Store

check out the review of Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak

I finally started digging in. And it's so freaking good!!!

Crafted Velociprey armor, then used it to farm Daimyo Hermitaur and crafted that armor. The fashion in this expansion is insane.

In Rise, I'd made a mixed set with specific skills and just used layered armor the rest of the game, and it kinda took away the addictive nature of farming new armor sets.

I feel like I did back in MH3U, making a new armor set for virtually every single new monster I fight. Obviously I'll tone that down and try to just make a new one every 5 monsters or so, but still. I'm loving it. Once I get to G3/4 where the new monsters are, I'm gonna make every single set. Every last one of them.

There's so many Quests, too. I'm definitely not charging through to get to the end. I'm gonna do every single quest in the game. In order. I'm still working on MR1 Quests. Got about half of them done so far. Only need to finish 2 more key Quests to unlock the next urgent (I did an urgent before but it just unlocked mote MR1 Quests). But ya. No rush. Every quest gets a checkmark.

This is a game you savor. And with proper afflicted monsters for endgame, and lots of title updates, I might be playing this all the way up to Persona 5.

FYI

I have two digital download codes for Sunbreak. One is standard edition, one is digital deluxe. I'm selling for $10 under MSRP, figured I'd give NintendoLife members first dibs before they go on eBay for $5 under MSRP.

...Ugh, dammit, I have to take a picture of that stupid monksnail thing AGAIN?! I bet it's not going to show up much anymore because of this...why can't it just use my original picture? >.<

@Joeynator3000 I literally thought the same thing, I was very unpleasantly surprised to find that I couldn't just use the picture I had already taken ages ago.

I read some reviews which said the transition into Master Rank was really steep, so yesterday I just focused on clearing every MR1 quest I had access to, to make as much new gear as I could. I intend to take on that new Deviant today and move up into MR2 and see what happens.

I actually thought save for the odd monster that hits surprisingly hard, it really hasn't been that difficult so far. Like deffo way, way, easier than I think reviews set my expectations for. I guess a lot of the reviewers hadn't really engaged in the end game, so they were going straight from HR to MR? I guess that could be rough?

For me, I had been doing Sunbreak prep for weeks. Building sets to take on those Emergency Apex one shot machines. I am then taking that true end game gear and now I am adding like a bonus 200 more amour with the MR pieces, losing pretty much no skills (and if anything, gaining new skills, as this new gear is way more generous when it comes to deco slots), and also wielding Doots that can hit twice as hard as anything I have used before it. This meant MR1 to me seemed easier than stuff I had been facing for the last couple of weeks.

I spent way too much time on that stupid 3 pictures of cohoots thing. I eventually found the last one, geez. lol

Ok, got the 2nd page of MR1 Quests all completed, and the ones from the 1st page that aren't current key Quests. Only a couple more to go before all MR1 Quests are complete (for now anyways, I'm sure more will unlock).

There's just so much content. And I fully intend to take my time with it. Skipping over early MR quests and leaving them for later sucks. They always feel like a chore when you have to come back to them later after you're way more powerful. I'd rather do them as I go.

Jungle map is so good, btw. It's not too big, like Ancient Forest was, but it's just the right size to feel expansive without overdoing it. It's big enough to be kinda confusing and get semi-lost in when exploring, but not so big you can't easily get to where you need to go at any point in time. This feels like what I wanted Ancient Forest to be.

Elgado is kind of a boring hub compared to Kamura.

Kinda fun to have monsters actually take some effort to defeat again, though. The Yian-Kut-Ku I just fought took a real beating. Granted, I'm sure that will be less the case once I craft MR gear.

@JaxonH Same thing I'm doing, only slower. Just gonna play a little every day. That way, I won't finish before the content updates like last time and drop the game for months.

Besides, this'll be the last MR game on a Nintendo handheld for a good, long time, since the next 3 - 4 years will probably be a next-gen entry.

@Ralizah
Very true.

Though there is something I've been thinking about. With NateTheHate recently insisting his info on the more powerful Switch (presumably with DLSS) is good info, and that it will come eventually, I started thinking about how different that system will be with 3rd party support out the gate.

With how well Switch has done and how well 3rd party games are selling, and how much more support we're now getting, I suspect the next Switch (be it a Pro or successor) will have insane 3rd party support out the gate. All the games still MIA on Switch will likely show up on the next system, and I imagine, assuming Nintendo doubles down with the concept and doesn't go off in some strange direction, it'll close the gap with PC/Xbox/PS enouh that it feels like there's just 4 equal platforms every big multiplat releases on. Finally achieving near equality in that regard.

And if that happens, we'd likely see RE2 remake, RE3 remake, RE4 remake, RE7, RE Village, etc since that would be the remaining ports Switch couldn't handle. And future multiplatform games might just start coming to Switch. Not necessarily day and date because it would still be ARM based, but come nonetheless.

In which case, the next MH game could very well just be multiplat across all systems, and Rise is the last exclusive of the series. Then their "portable team" just starts making more graphically capable entries that are also multiplat across all systems, and we just get MH twice as frequently. But still with the alternating slower/methodical and faster/action styles.

I think things are going to radically change once Nintendo releases a new Switch that can handle scaled versions of all current games like SteamDeck can. Unlike with Switch, where the failure of Wii U led to slowly earning support for half a decade, the next will be full tilt out the gate. If dev kits truly exist there's probably all sorts of crazy games being worked on for it we're not even aware of.

It's something to think about, at least.

Is that a tease for ARMS 2 🤔 WHAT DO YOU KNOW THAT WE DON'T!!!!

....Well I didn't expect Garangolm to do a giant explosion attack, geez. Almost failed that quest at the end, too.

@JaxonH There's still a pretty big gap between Switch and even the last gen power consoles, let alone the far more capable ones games are currently being designed for. Even if a game could technically be scaled down to run on the next-gen Nintendo hybrid, a lot of companies just won't do that, for whatever reason. So I don't expect Nintendo's weak AAA support to change all that much in the near future.

Besides, I think Capcom likes having alternating lines of games that release on Nintendo consoles vs power consoles. Why else wasn't Rise announced for Xbone/PS4 to coincide with the PC release?

Don't get me wrong: I fully expect the next Nintendo hybrid will launch with a much healthier level of third-party support. I just don't really foresee the types of games it'll get changing all that much.

My big hope, with all these games with uncapped framerates and adaptive resolutions releasing, is that the next console will be fully BC with this generation of games and run them better out of the gate. If that does happen, SMT V will be first on my list of games to try out.

I'll confess, though, I'll be a little disappointed if the next console doesn't ship with an OLED display.

Yup, Shogun is also a pain, these crabs got a nice upgrade this generation. Now if only Shen would return.

I find the crabs actually somewhat less annoying to deal with this gen. I've always disliked fighting them but in Sunbreak we're so mobile now that dealing with their garbage isn't too bad.

Though Shogun did almost cart me once by inflicting bleed on me and then chasing me relentlessly when I tried to crouch to heal, which was pretty intense, haha.

I only found Shogun to be somewhat annoying back then, the only other times the crabs were an actual threat were the deviants. So yeah, for me they're a challenge. Probably not as much as the deviants though, lol

Weirdly I did Shogun with a friend and didn't cart - even when laughter gripped me in place after I saw what was under the shell - but I did the MR3 follower version, carted once and came close to carting again a few more times. The Followers don't seem to draw any agro at all, so when he made me bleed and I tried to get away, I was avoiding his attacks but building the bleed meter and then eventually one landed and killed me.

Honestly, the shift into MR3 is seeing the difficulty really starting to spike for me. We went from clearing three monster quests in under 15 minutes, to taking almost 20 minutes to take down a single Barrioth. I didn't cart at all when clearing all the MR1/2 quests, but Garangolm hit me with like a four hit combo that also paralysed me or stunned me (can't remember which) and that was my first cart in Sunbreak. I think now I know that move is in their bag, I can have a wire bug ready and not fall for that combo again, but I just couldn't get away here.

Then my second cart was against the Somnacanth Deviant or Quirio or whatever they are calling it now. I feel like I have less of a clear learn from this cart, it basically just spammed a bunch of multi hit attacks back to back, I guess I was too greedy and caught too many and died. Overall though, since this one can't put you to sleep or stun you or any of the other stuff, I think this is easier than the regular MR Somnacanth overall. I thought the same with the new Bishaten, since it can't poison or paralyse you or whatever else, I'd say it was easier than the regular MR Bishaten.

@Ralizah
While I don't think the next Switch will get every game, I do think it'll get far more than Switch has, and Switch is getting quite a bit at the moment.

I expect the next Switch to be roughly on par with the Deck. Seems about right for a generational leap. The thing is, we keep approaching diminishing returns. So every gen it gets easier for a handheld to run every console game. It's why Deck can handheld virtually every game on Steam. The gap in power isn't the defining characteristic by itself, but rather the gap in power and the ever decreasing power needed to run a game. Switch 2 could have the same power gap behind PS5 as Switch has behind PS4, and yet could run twice as many games, thanks to diminishing returns.

While there will always be some games devs feel just don't have a market on Switch, if you look at the games Switch has gotten or is getting, cloud included, and then add in all the other, newer titles that would clearly come to the system if they could run... and then on top of it add in the additional support that simply comples from success and more time passing... I believe that will result in the next Switch being fairly equal in terms of multiplat releases. Confidence 3rd party games will sell is the biggest driver. Having a system that can handle them is the only barrier.

I do think Capcom likes the current model, but I also think it's a model born from necessity. If Switch 2 could run the next Monster Hunter, then they could capitalize by selling it on an additional system. And that would mean the next portable MH wouldn't seem "scaled down" by comparison, which would mean being able to sell it on other consoles.

Who knows. Maybe things will stay as they are indefinitely. But I do think it's a possibility.