Monster Hunter: World - Coral Highlands Gameplay
 

The action RPG Monster Hunter: World will be released for the PC later this year:

More information.

We sure it ain't MMO?

SP and Coop

Don't know about the game, but love the coral forest landscape. Great idea.

Where is RPG there? Its coop action game.

Anyone with experience with Monster Hunter? I'm considering getting in for my XB1X - though it looks a little too consoley for my tastes.

It looks like a Japanese version of Kingdoms of Amular with horrible voice acting. :)

Someone still plays japanese games not ported by Xseeb but by someone else - with dubs? My condolences.

Anyway, till I hear the game is not a slave to some multiplayer rubbish, no buy. If sidekick AI is horrible, so one is forced to coop it, I might buy it on a whim just to thumb the idiocy down on Steam.

@joxer Monster Hunter is made by Capcom, their Dragon's Dogma PC port was good.

Dragon's Dogma? One of the worst games I've ever played in my whole pathetic life. Games? Hell, it's not a game, it's a job.
If Destiny didn't exist, Dragon's Dogma would be the most overrated garbage I've ever seen.

If MonsterHunter is same shit new wrapping… Just gimme even more reasons not to buy it.

I've never played a Monster Hunter game before, but Monster Hunter: World is going to get me into the series. I like my single player games, but I also enjoy a good cooperative experience once in a while too. However, I'm strictly waiting for the PC port (even though that is still a ways out). :)

I think they are overcompensating something with those weapons.

While I'm still waiting for a proper confirmation there is no MMO garbage in this title that'd annoy singleplayer games fans…
Eurogamer, a site that hates PC, says in their review Monster Hunter World is a musthave masterpiece:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20…r-world-review

Is it early review granted by publisher? All early reviews are untrustworthy "by design".

I'm not convinced. It looks a little grindy and overly focused on being challenging rather than compelling to me.

That asian thing where hard work is life. That's about as not-me as you can get :)

I have similar feeling. I would say it looks much more grindy than really challenging for the player (his tactics, quick thinking, better use of skills, overal setup..).

To me, grinding is a real challenge ;)

But my experience with (many) asian games is that "hard work" is an intentional part of the design. I guess it's a cultural thing.

But I have a very different mindset. There's only one thing that makes me want to invest and "work hard" - and that would be rewards that match or exceed my investment. Be it new and unique bespoke content, an extremely compelling narrative - or things of that nature.

It's absolutely NOT enough to give me more things to grind for.

I almost never find appropriate rewards in games with asian designers behind them.

The Monster Hunter games traditionally have a high degree of player skill involved, not necessarily in terms of quick reflexes (though they help) but in terms of learning the moves and best ways to fight your enemies, how to best use your gear, etc. But there can be a lot of grinding too, depending on how you play.

If the end boss for a chapter is a giant lightning lizard, you could beat it through practice and slowly learning his moves and what his tells are when he's about to do a lightning blast, and what types of things disrupt his attacks . Or you could beat him through grinding lesser bosses with lightning resistant hides and crafting a full suit of armor to beat that boss. Usually I end up doing some combination of the two. I found the reward, access to a new area, to be fairly worth it. Each area is pretty beautiful and epic, and the bosses you fight are generally epic enough that it can be somewhat rewarding just to finally take one down. Sometimes you might unlock new game mechanics too.

My big issue with the monster hunter series is that each one copies most of the exact same monsters, items, and equipment as the previous ones. They will always be some new ones, but it can still feel pretty repetitive to start out fighting the exact same dinosaur monsters that you started out fighting in the previous 5 games. I haven't looked at this new one that closely, but I know there is reference to some kind of new continent, so if that means completely new monsters with no repeats, that would be a big draw for me.

Yeah, that sounds exactly like what I feared it would be. Dark Souls was bad enough, really.

Do you have any decent recommendation? GoG is currently running a JRPG sale - which do you recommend (I prefer ones with a serious tone, no school kids, party based, similar do DA:O where possible):

https://www.gog.com/promo/20180124_jrpg_sale

- Grandia 2 for the music (unless you can find it's soundtrack separately)
- All Legend of Heroes games (DO NOT buy DLC) for the story and characters, don't buy Tits2 (aka SC: it's lazyarsed job with same mobs and same world map)
- Cosmic Star Heroine if nostalgia kicked you and you need something of old style yet good
- Regalia because it's not classic grind2win, it's a challenging gem of a game

Others… I have to suggest skip 'em. Especially the one I backed on KS, Earthlock. It's boring mushroombased checkpointrubbish grinder.

No. It is a MH game, it renews gameplay with various elements (like verticality) and stuff. It remains MH though, classical monsters, classical weapons.

This one is oriented toward the western market.

For what difference it makes, the fights are much less punishing then in Dark Souls. In Dark Souls boss fights one little mistake could kill you. Here they are 10 minute long battles of endurance where you don't die to one failed move but to the combined total of several mistakes slowly draining your resources.

I might check it out. I'm sort of looking for a reason I bought my Xbox One X - and I haven't really found it yet :)

I made the mistake of searching one anime jrpg in steam 2 years ago. They assumed that forevermore I want HunnieBuns and visual novels in my recommended section….