Monster Hunter 4 Will Allow You To Dress Up As Link Through Collaborative DLC

That's one long master sword.

Omg Luigi Felyne.

THIS BETTER COME OVER WITH THE DLC!!!

Good... it will make even more money!

Looks stunning. So it's another Zelda game basically.

Master Sword + Hylian Shield? SOLD

It's so cool!

COME TO AMERICA!!!! TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!! PLEASE TAKE IT!!!!

I want that shield they were holding.

Now if it comes to the west with DLC....

The US & EU announcements are only a matter of time now , this is going to sell like hot cakes.

That's the best thing ever! Who doesn't want a little bit of Link in their Monster Hunter!

Best Monster Hunter ever, I'm calling it.

Looks cool

So it's this the"secret project" that Nintendo is working with Capcom? If so, I'd really hoped for an exclusive game... this does look cool though.

The cats may look like Mario and Luigi but they act like the Ice Climbers Popo and Nana

Skip to 24 minutes in to see the Zelda stuff.

Haha this is awesome, If it doesn't get ported to Wii u, I will slap them though...

@dumedum The Legend of Zelda: Hyrulian Hunters

Omg. This is awesome. I love the Link outfit XD

theres a lot of new monsters,hope we get it.there making the videos available to the west wiiu owners so fingers crossed

I'm throwing money at the screen but nothing's happening!

Bring this over to the US w/ the freaking DLC Capcom! For once I really want to buy your DLC!

@dumedum Now that you mention it, both series of games are quite similar. Have you played Monster Hunter? It's somewhat different from Zelda. This outfit is only an armor and a weapon that you can get. That's the only "link" to the Zelda series there is. Both are action-adventure but Monster Hunter has you searching for monsters and slaying or capturing them in quests that you choose from a list whereas Zelda is story-driven. Both have exceptional adventuring aspects but it's difficult to describe the differences. Look up a youtube video of Monster Hunter and you'll see. However MH4 is rumoured to focus more on story and adventure sooo we'll see if you're right!

Omg this game is an overkill. And no one knows when its coming to the west.....

Yes please!!!

So in Super Mario 3D World, we have the Mario Bros dressing like cats. And in Monster Hunter 4, we have cats dressing like Mario Bros? O.O

Nintendo and Capcom sittin' in a tree, C-A-S-H-C-O-W!

Well this is gonna help it sell a few more units me thinks.

NA localization... PLEASE!

now this is good news i think monster hunter is one of the best games i have ever played id love to be link

It's a pity I think the world textures in this game just look bad. They are so low-res that they basically look N64 level (with terribly garish colors too). It puts me right off.

Also, I've never felt they've ever really nailed the controls in these games and I expect that's probably the case here too.

The game may look ugly compared to 3g but there is so much more content. I cant wait

This looks totally out of place.

@Senario

I just think the controls (and camera) are clunky (I'd say even Zelda 64 has better controls when you are in combat with an enemy and locked on etc). Can't remember off the top of my head all the things I didn't think were quite right though. I'd have to boot it up again and give it a shot...

The world textures really are basically N64 level (or not far off it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc1YZwtfpZ0

Also, the thing is, at the time those N64 graphics were actually pretty frikin amazing, mind blowing at times, whereas in this day and age I just don't find Monster Hunter 4's graphics particularly impressive or appealing. The monsters look great, the characters generally look ok and the levels generally look ok-bad. I just wish the game looked a bit better overall.

I'm not saying the game is bad. I just think this 3DS version probably has the ugliest graphics in the entire series, mainly because of those ugly, low-res, garish textures. To the point it puts me right off the game.

AAAAAAAHHHHHHH! My two favourite franchises, IN ONE!!!!!!!!!

Best Zelda game yet?

Maybe now we can control Link in a game where the controls are half decent.

@Senario

Unfortunately, graphics do in fact matter to me.

They always have and they always will.

Not the technical aspects. I don't give a crap about whether a game is using the most cutting edge graphical effects of the day, like bump-mapping, bloom lighting, specular highlights etc (unless not having them makes the visuals actually look wrong on the particular game), but I do care about them being aesthetically pleasing.

I just don't find this game's art style and visual look aesthetically pleasing. It's so blurry, low-res and garish in places that it's actually unappealing*.

Like I said, it puts me right off the game.

Once again, I have to reiterate it's not about the graphics from a technical point of view but an artistic and aesthetic one.

I mean I still think a simple pixel art game like Donkey Kong in the arcade looks lovely for example, so it's not about tech.

Also, Super Mario World still looks great, to once again emphasize that it's really not about tech at all (as do many of the classic 2D games). Majora's Mask however does not look great because the visuals in that game were more focused on the tech of the time that pure artistry and the tech simply hasn't held up over time. This is why so many old pixel games hold up so much better than so many early 3D games.

I just need to feel like I enjoy looking at the game rather than being slightly repulsed by it.

*And think about this...If it's already fugly and dated looking now, and it's not even released yet, then just imagine how bad and outdated it's going to look in a few years time, let alone ten or twenty...

Poor framerate bothers me more than graphics.

Glitches or lags annoy me massively.

(As do bad controls - Never felt Monster Hunter 3 had bad controls though).

I wish Nintendo would do stuff with 7-11 in North America

omg! we get to fight rayquaza!

@Kirk
are you serious? you do realize this is for the 3DS right? check this video out in 720p https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccZqvTqWpDE or the ending of this nintendo direct, your telling me this isn't good graphics for the 3DS? and these video are being upscaled. it will look a lot better in it's native resolution.

@Psyclone

Yes, I am serious.

The game just looks weird on 3DS with some really low-res, blurry and garish textures in places.

I mean compare that trailer, which you're so impressed with, to a trailer for Monster Hunter on PSP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPtFhyOCePQ

If you ignore the monsters for a second, which always look good, then the world graphics in MH4 are just strange looking, like the textures are all really low-res and really stretched out and blurred or something. In some parts they look decent and in others they look truly bad.

I'm not sure if it's just the textures that make it look wrong but something just does not look right with the world in the 3DS game.

@Kirk I actually get what you're saying about the world textures looking kind of crappy in the video, but I am almost certain that this is due to zooming in and camera angles that are used in the trailer but I doubt will be used in the actual game. It simply won't be that noticeable when you play the game, that I'm certain of, because any texture will look crappy if you zoom in enough.

Hope this isn't like past MH games and Phantasy Star Zero, where crossover items were either removed or altered when brought to the west.

Most anticipated game since the beginning of time itself.

@Koto
Yea, I hope so too. At least with these they shouldn't get removed since they're Nintendo owned and well know through-out the world. Everything else comes down to who hold the rights outside Japan and popularity though.

@Kirk
This isn't a graphics heavy series though, the ground textures and stuff like that aren't the best but then even Pikmin 3 has recieved similar complaints. I wouldn't call them N64 level though, maybe late-dreamcast at the least but they're not that bad.

@Senario
Well, we received the original Monster Hunter and Monster Hunter 3, so it might be likely that'll we'll get Monster Hunter 4. But at this point, we won't know.

@Zombie_Barioth
Welll, I don't know about that. Phantasy Star Zero had weapons themed off Nintendo franchises, like the Hylian Shield, Samus's Arm Cannon, and the Warp Pipe from the Mario series (used as a cannon in PSZ), but those weapons were turned into generic weapons with the western release.
But you're right about that last bit, it depends on who owns the rights outside of Japan.

Ooookay, so those new snake dragons DO have hind legs. So now they're basically land-based, super-elongated Leviathans.

@Kirk I believe the low res textures are because it has lot of polygon render in real time at least more than most of the games right now on the handheld, personally I found this game quit interesting and good enough to get it as soon as possible.

This is really interesting, i'd check it out for sure when it comes to the States. For anybody into the Monster Hunter series, is Monster Hunter 3 a good game for a new comer? I have always wanted to check out the series, but never got around to it. I was thinking of picking up MH3 eventually (probably wouldn't be until early next year), but was curious if it's a bad place to start if it is the first entry I am trying out. Also, which version is better Wii U or 3DS?

Yeah, I watched this Nintendo Direct earlier. I wish I can understand Japanese. Maybe I'll find a subtitled version. But nonetheless, this Monster Hunter has a ton of Nintendo stuff... which seems to be cool. The armor and weapons. Loved seeing MH4 have built-in online, which appeared to work even better than MH3U on WiiU. I can tell that it's more story driven and has a ton more locations to explore and hunt. The game looks amazing and I hope it gets localized soon.

Oh and handheld wise, MH3U on the 3DS is the best looking Monster Hunter. It looks a lot better on WiiU obviously, but the game looks great on 3DS for what it is. You have to take into account the size of the game. It's not a side scroller and it does not have small maps. It's a massive, massive game.

@suburban_sensei Sorry NintendoLife for the frequent posts. Senario said it amazing, but I wanted to throw my hat into the ring also.

If you want to start with Monster Hunter, I would definitely start with Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate if you have a 3DS or WiiU. As far as which (I bought both) — it's up to you. WiiU version has built-in online, better graphics, etc. 3DS version is portable. Besides this, they're both essentially the same. The great thing about having both, is there's a utility where you can transfer your save file back and forth between the two.

Hmm, but where does this fit into the timeline?!?!

And no-one mentions the frog suit for the piggy

As if I needed more reasons to want MH4!

zelda u should be like this

@Senario

That footage of Monster Hunter on PSP does not look worse to me. In fact, in pretty much every way I can see the PSP version just reads better visually.

I think the reality is that the 3DS version might have less memory for the textures or something and so what you have is basically the same level of 3D geometry detail but far less textures at lower resolutions being spread over much larger areas*.

If I'm right then it's a matter of fact that the PSP version does in fact look better in terms of the textures and not just my opinion.

That however would require someone to do a bit more research on each of the games graphics and I can't be bothered.

Suffice to say that's exactly what it looks like is going on to me.

*Also, the textures in the 3DS version are DEFINITELY more garish in many places than I can see in the PSP game. The entire trailer showing off the Mario and Luigi cats is blatantly totally fugly because of the garish low-res textures, and surely no one with eyes could seriously dispute that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiRJE1Q_gN8

@Kirk
I don't understand why you keep ignoring the fact that these videos are being upscaled.... if you look at this trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0O9KwMZ7_8 (which is the resolution you will be playing it on the 3DS) you will see the difference when it isn't being upscaled or zoomed in.

Dude, it's nothing to do with the up-scaling.

The textures are very low-res, blatantly, and they are garish.

The world just looks very fugly in places.

@Kirk
I have Monster Hunter Freedom Unite & Portable 3rd on PSP, Great titles & I still play them. Do you own any of the titles? If you do the just take your PSP and 3DS side by side and you will notice it instantly. Monster Hunter Ultimate 3 on 3DS way way better in basically everything!!!!!.

OMG ALL OF MY YESS!!!!

@PokeTune AHURHURHURHUR HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH LEAVE.

I really think the inclusion of Nintendo themed costumes in any and all hardcore games on 3DS and Wii U is getting overboard.

Of course I can see why it's great incentive for Nitendo fans, and I can of course just NOT use them if I think it's out of place, but it really isn't doing Nintendo's image any favors with the uninitiated.

@uximal Agree. I have compared the two side by side - mainly because a friend of mine plays MH on PSP a ton, while I play on 3DS. We've compared visuals. You can get into the whole technical aspect of it, with lightning, textures, etc but to sum it all up — the 3DS version just looks better overall.

I think it's funny also, that I've always been a sword-and-shield guy but all the people I play with bash that. Now they want to use it, due to master sword+hyrule shield. Haha. But who can blame them. And it's not like we're getting it anytime soon.

Really? Like the game wasn't great enough already...

@uximal

Yeah, the problem however is that all versions of Monster Hunter 3 seem to look better than Monster Hunter 4.

God knows how but the graphics do look to have gone backwards slightly, well the textures, based on all the footage I've seen.

@Senario oh yeah I see their reason also. I love using it and do well with it. Never tried bow but looks awesome

I do have a question: since this is the Master Sword, It can't loose sharpness right?

awesome...

That looks pretty cool. I would love to dress up like Link while playing monster hunter (^_^)

Too many Links around here.. better evil forces just gave up already.

I wonder how much they will charge us to download the mario, link, Master Sword quest through DLC? I bet that's where this headed

I do wonder what weaknesses, resistances, and skills we'll see on that armour set. I am a little bugged that I would have to make a male character to use the Link set, since I don't think it'd suit Eurydice well at all. I'd still use that Sword and Shield - Master Sword or not, it's my favourite weapon type.