@theJGG I'm really hoping we start getting news about the Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster Turbo Edition after Strikers is out. I'm dying to hear about it.
Currently Playing: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (NS2); Corpse Factory (PC)
@theJGG JaxonH please brainwash me into your Monster Hunter cult now
Be careful what you wish for! Once you get sucked in the Monster Hunter vortex, there's no climbing your way back out. It will make other games feel boring by comparison. You won't want to play anything else while you're in the perma-binge state. Only after completing the game will your brain start to adjust and feel pleasure from other experiences again.
Indoctrination begins now 🧚♀️
I know it's a bit of a long article, but that tends to happen with people passionate about the Monster Hunter franchise. You start with a paragraph and before you know it you've written a small pamphlet. It even happens when playing the game. Start with a 15 minute hunt, and before you know it 4 hours pass by like nothing, and you're still not tired of playing.
It's worth the read if you truly want to understand the appeal of Monster Hunter, at least... as best you can without playing it. Just know that you likely won't enjoy enjoy game until you find a weapon you like, learn it's moves and combos, and get at least a basic familiarity with what a normal hunt looks like and what you're supposed to be doing. Those who just casually dip their toes in almost invariably end up saying, "I don't like it... feels slow... it's confusing". Those who commit to learn almost invariably end up saying, "GOAT! This game is amazing!"
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
I'm interested to see about tomorrow's results like whether MK8 Deluxe is still the best selling Switch game and if Pokemon Sword/Shield has overtaken Pokemon Gold/Silver.
@JaxonH I have read the article and it makes me see the series in a whole new light. I honestly thought it was something similar to Dark Souls, with a bunch of monsters to kill. But the fact that the developers prioritise the realism of the creatures above all is really admirable. I’ll absolutely look out for it, look at sales numbers and reviews, and I might get the game after all. Not that I was ever against it if I’m being honest.
@Grumblevolcano I didn’t realise those were tomorrow! Can’t wait for those numbers! Only thing it does is prove all of us right for trusting the Switch to begin with.
@theJGG
Ya, it's nothing like Dark Souls, except inasmuch that they both have animation commitments, i-frame dodge rolling and a high barrier of entry.
But Monster Hunter is nowhere near that level of difficulty. It only seems difficult at first because you haven't developed the skills, but as you play your skills improve. Out of 600 hours playing the average MH game, I think it's safe to say I usually get carted less than a dozen times total (cart = faint from losing all HP, which sends you back to base on the "kitty cart", which is a little wagon cart with wheels the felynes use to haul your unconscious body back to base... you get 3 carts per hunt before you fail the Quest, and zenny rewards decrease with each cart, thankfully not material rewards though, so it's no big deal really).
That said, there is usually endgame content for the vets that is more difficult (so they don't lose interest from it being too easy) but it doesn't actually feel too hard either because by the time you get there, you're a master hunter.
There's usually at least one or two end game Quests though that are a legitimate hard-core challenge, and which truly test a hunter's mettle. Kinda like Champion's Road in Mario 3D World.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
@Ralizah
World had 30 in the base game, but 36 after all the DLC monsters.
The Iceborne ultimate expansion plus DLC updates took the grand total up to 71.
MHGU had 93 large monsters, by comparison. Which is a 31% larger roster than MHW:I + all it's DLC additions combined.
Compare that to MH Tri on Wii, which not only had a paltry 18 large monsters, but actually removed certain weapon types. Yikes. No wonder MH3U on Wii U was so attractive with its 12 weapon types and 51 large monsters. That's almost triple the monster count. Even MH Portable 3rd had 40, while MH4U had 75.
As for MH Rise, thus far we have 24 monsters 100% confirmed, with another half dozen that are all but confirmed due to their armor sets being shown, and about 8-9 more monsters leaked. I suspect the count will be higher than World's initial count, but only by 5, maybe 10 monsters. So 35, possibly 40. Then again, some of the leaked monsters may turn out to be DLC additions. We don't really know.
So I'd count on 35. That seems a safe bet. Which is 5 more than World got at launch. Add another 5 as DLC, that takes us to 40. Then add another 30 for the Ultimate edition, that's 70, and another 5 as Ultimate DLC, for a grand total of 75- the exact same count total as MH4U. Which seems reasonable given the new engine.
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It seems different than the EU version. It has a sunset background like the Deluxe version boxart, while the EU version has a daytime sky background like the base version boxart.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
@Grumblevolcano im curious to know if Animal Crossing New Horizons is now the best selling Switch game and Switch is close to 80/90 milions consoles sold, @JaxonH so we can expect around 40/45 monsters and 5/6 areas in Monster Hunter Rise?(this include final boss arena).
@Giancarlothomaz
I said I'd expect 35, with another 5 added as DLC over the course of the following year leading up to Rise Ultimate.
As for areas, we know of 4 confirmed areas already, with 1 leaked area.
Shrine Ruins
Flooded Forest
Frost Islands
[unnamed volcanic region shown in trailer] Sandy Plans (leaked)
Whether we get anything else beyond that, I'm not sure. I suspect those will be the 5 we get in the base game though. And perhaps a special area for a boss at the end.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
It will make other games feel boring by comparison. You won't want to play anything else while you're in the perma-binge state. Only after completing the game will your brain start to adjust and feel pleasure from other experiences again.
Forgot to mention this last night but I felt this way with Fire Emblem: 3H and Persona 5 (and even Persona 4). Both have crazy amounts of dialogue, and numerous relationships possible. Persona had much more depth than I could have imaged on that front, so revisiting FE will be a bit strange.
MH Rise demo is over in 15 minutes based on the original announcement back in January. Don't delete the demo though as you can still access local play and judging by the MH World demo any future demos would likely be updates to this one rather than a separate download.
Take-Two's support of the Switch has been alright. L.A. Noir was fine. But they've also brought Civilization VI, Borderlands Collection, BioShock Collection, XCOM Collection, and the Outer Worlds. Although games like WWE 2k Battlegrounds, WWE 2k18, and Carnival Games are complete garbage.
Why they haven't released a triple pack of GTA III, VC, and SA on Switch yet baffles me.
Third party support has been pretty good from my perspective. The publishers that haven't been giving much support are mostly ones that publish games that I'm not interested in in the first place.
I have a question for anyone that crunches nintendo's sales charts. Does the switch have a case for higher attachment rate of first party titles compared to past consoles?
In other words, how much first party sales have been helped by the console, beyond some of them being unmissable masterpieces? Quality aside.
In the past year we've seen pikmin 3 becoming the best in the series sales wise, and paper mario becoming the fastest selling in the series, and i'm wondering if we have some sort of multiplier by now. has a correlation being established?
@teo_o Switch have a attrach rate for softwares far more impressive compared to previous Nintendo consoles( all Nintendo first party and most third party/indies have sold more on Switch then if was sold on a Wii/DS for example), look at Animal Crossing New Horizons impressive sales results and compare it to Animal Crossing New Leaf, it managed to sell 31 milions units just in one year when Animal Crossing New Leaf took 5 years to sell 12.04 milions units sold.
@Giancarlothomaz of course focusing on one platform has to make some impact.
Take AC Wild World (2005 DS, 11.7 millions) and AC City Folk (2008 Wii, 4.3 millions), they sold combined 16 million and some, and you were able to transfer your character, but the social features were somewhat weak compared to nowadays (one could argue new horizons is also pretty weak...)
Then we got new leaf on 3DS but no WiiU title, so it managed to sale "just" 12.8 million copies. Of course COVID played a part on New Horizons, so speaking aside the pandemic I was wondering if we can determine the "switch factor" that could influence Nintendo on resurrecting or porting certain franchises
I hate the way Nintendo revamped preorders on the eshop. I used to be able to preorder and preload big upcoming games. The money would go out of my account right away, and the game would be on my system. Problem solved. Now preorders are pretty much reserved until a seven-day period before the game comes out, which is annoying. Combine that with the eshop's $200 limit, and it gets particularly annoying. I've been sitting on a $70 eshop code for the better part of a month now because I hit that limit and Nintendo won't let me prepay for games I know I'm going to want ahead of time.
Also don't like discounts that expire on launch day. I was thinking about getting Cyber Shadow, but wanted to wait for sufficient footage and impressions from reviewers/players before buying in. Well, by the time I thought "I can get into this!", the discount had expired. I'm certainly not going to pay $5 extra because I waited a day too late, so now I've been waiting for the game to go on sale. But even if it goes on sale, as a matter of principle, I'm going to wait for a steeper discount, because I'm not going to wait months to pay the same price for a game as I could have bought it for before launch. So now they've lost me until the game gets a 50% discount, and at that point, I'll likely be playing other games anyway.
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