@Bread_or_Decide said:
@DJ-Lafleur said:
Good news for Monster Hunter fans with a Switch.
I remember trying out Monster Hunter Tri on the Wii and just couldn't get into it.
Same. I can sort of appreciate how you're really hunting monsters and grinding items for better gear and weapons. But I just wish the overall package was more cohesive. I want a real open world, not sections that have to load. A little more clarity on items, and how to capture certain monsters. I wouldn't mind if they made it a more casual experience but I know that's heresy to hardcore fans.
It would be a bit of heresy to make it more casual. And honestly I don't think the depth or the difficulty is what makes people turn away. If anything I hope they make hunting deeper and more involved in the future. The depth in a Monhun game can totally be learned piece by piece while playing the game.
But I'm all for clarity. There are totally things in the series that are not made clear that can turn anyone away from the franchise because it throws up barriers of frustration and grinding that don't need to be there. Clear communication of important information would not ruin the game for any of the fans.
A good example is how you get lists of quests to do. And the way the game displays them it makes it seem like you have to do all the quests to progress to the next list of quests/story. But there are only a few key quests that you have to do to progress. The game never tells you which quests those are, so you'd have to look it up online. Some of those unnecessary but seemingly necessary quests can be very annoying to do early on before you get the hang of creating armor configurations for specific purposes (egg carrying quests come to mind). They are much better saved for 100 hours after you get them. At that point you will have made gear specifically for egg fetching quests that make them way easier to do/less frustrating. It wouldn't harm anyone if they made it clear in-game which quests are required to move on.
And the same goes for finding certain crafting materials for crafting armor and weapons. It's a shame that they don't allow you as a player to build or unlock an ingame easy to navigate monpedia that lists what monsters drop what materials when you deal with them in what ways. Again there are fantastic online apps that do exactly those things but I think most people who stop playing Monhun do so before they look up anything online. Some materials won't drop from monsters unless you capture them. Or unless you cut the tail. Or break the horns. I don't think that information is anywhere in the game itself and this can lead to players killing a monster the wrong way 20 times and not finding the thing they were looking for.
To anyone who dares to get into Monhun (it's pretty great) the most important advice I guess would be: Look up information/tutorials online or you'll end up frustrated.
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