I’m hyped, man. I’m playing through World now after dumping ~800 hours into MH RiseBreak across Switch and PS5. Loving it despite the difficulty spikes (Raging Brachyidos sends his regards). Hopefully Wilds smoothes out these spikes and also makes the campaign more easily played through with other people. World still has people playing years after release (only thing I can’t find parties for are the sieges). I gotta sink time into MHGU, though…so many monsters, so little time.

I chose Scorned Magnamalo. I love that murder kitty.

You’ll pry my Great Sword from my cold dead hands. No matter the meta it’s always at least decent, and dead simple to be effective with. Difficult against mons with quick attacks that have a wide range, though (e.g. Gore Magala).

Yeah, that’s what I’m reading. Won’t go too far down the rabbit hole with the US version then.

Pink Rathian already out there, so at least they’re doing variations.

Yeah, but the pool of monsters is much smaller. Even with variations, there aren’t nearly as many monsters as there are Pokémon.

I’m assuming you mean playing with others via Join Request if need be.

I’ve played a bit. I have yet to see the long-term hook, though. With Pokemon Go they have the obvious hook of completing your Pokedex, but MH doesn’t have that as a main activity (at least to the degree of Pokemon).

I’m not getting deep into it because I don’t think it’ll be around very long.

I play way more retro games due to packages like EmuDeck being so slick.

I’m too mesmerized by his undulating veiny neck to notice!

No idea why anybody would want that Khezu. I can’t stand that monster, lol.

Oh right, I forgot the inevitable gacha.

Rise is indeed a different beast entirely. It plays much faster, especially with the addition of Wirebugs for whipping around the environments through the air. Palamute riding is also a game-changer. I tell people that Rise is much more “playable” than past installments.

Gotta wonder if that 10k Zenny is meaningful, or if a single potion costs 5k Zenny. 😂

Ugh, I may have to track these down. You know, it’s funny, I started playing Wild Hearts last night. The monsters just don’t have that iconic feel of MH. Capcom really nails their monster designs.

Love that chonky armor

Way back in the day I had heard that Monster Hunter was the new hot game in Japan, and they had just released Monster Hunter Freedom Unite on PSP. At the time I couldn’t make heads or tails of it, but I beat my head against it for a while. For some reason I stuck with the series almost out of sheer refusal to accept that I didn’t grok it, but then Monster Hunter Rise came along. 700 hours later across two platforms and I’m more of a Monster Hunter fiend than I ever was.