For people who are more casual observers and fans, the shift in MonHun is like being a fan of Animal Crossing for a long time and then being disappointed in New Horizons for shifting to more of a fleshed out cute town diorama game with less dialogue vs a slow paced slice of life vibey thing. - ThreadSky

baftcomorant.bsky.social • 20 hours ago

For people who are more casual observers and fans, the shift in MonHun is like being a fan of Animal Crossing for a long time and then being disappointed in New Horizons for shifting to more of a fleshed out cute town diorama game with less dialogue vs a slow paced slice of life vibey thing.

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Monster Hunter Wilds is so streamlined, it may have lost its soul

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riggerjohn.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Ahhhh, I know that feeling.

baftcomorant.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Yeah. I'm glad I have more people to talk about the series with as a bit of a oldhead, feels like being the older guy in the group of a fantasy series who drops the lore, but you miss it. I think good re-releases would really help tbh.

baftcomorant.bsky.social•20 hours ago

This is not a "If you like what it is now, you're bad" as much as a "Yeah this isn't what I fell in love with initially anymore tbh"

subid99.bsky.social•6 hours ago

📌

geekkun.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I was going to make a comment about how this is similar to what happened to Fire Emblem, but Engage was a major return to form in terms of gameplay and level design, so... idk lol

nightparadox.bsky.social•19 hours ago

i think the only things i rly dont like about modern monhun are that there's just smaller monster rosters in general + i really am not huge on the super realistic style, i really love that colorful and cozy mh4u vibe

as long as the franchise continues and is successful then i don't rly care tho

baftcomorant.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I think I'm a little more open to the series shifting around stylistically across generations so long as the identity feels distinct. Tri's atmospheric but grounded look is surreal beautiful and 4 is so vibrant yet feels like home. Wilds could've used a similar big mixup from World imo.

darshiro.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I liken it more to FFXI vs. FFXIV. People have big nostalgia about FFXI and loved it back in the day, but won't dare go back while lamenting that FFXIV is easier (which is a complaint in every MH since Tri), more streamlined, better for 95% of people, but exponentially more popular.

thetrin.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I don't agree with this comparison, because 1) I don't think FFXIV is a simpler FFXI, just a differently designed one, and 2) I could totally go back to MH3U and be very happy with it. There are core systems that made MH stand out that fans are sad have been removed.

darshiro.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I think it's apt. Earlier MH are completely different style to newer ones and that is just undeniable (like FFXIV is to FFXI). They were products of their time. Sure, you have the same weapons, and fight monsters, but its quite different starting in simply the amount of control of your character.

baftcomorant.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Ah you were there for that then, the ruthless cycle. I still think part of it is the first MonHun you play is just always going to feel hard and then the next game starts you at the bottom where you don't see many instakills or fast scary endgame things. But yeah that's a very good comparison.

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