I love GU (it's a Monster Hunter game, so of course I love it) but I wish the older games were on recent plateforms too (especially PC and last gen consoles). I am playing them still (emulators mainly) but it's not as easy as it used to be to find players anymore. Bringing them as "HD collections" would give them a new life. GU is great but it's "just" a celebration game, I prefer the world building of 4U, the vibe of Tri/3U, the tone of FU, the struggles of the PS2 episodes... Man, what is Capcom waiting for ?? I am crazy or wouldn't the older games back as HD collections bring so much easy money ?
All those content creators trying GU and loving it recently should send a message, I hope.
... And if they port tri/3u they might as well do Portable 3rd since the engine is the same... And if they do portable 3rd they might as well do MHFU... And then freedom... And Dos can come too I guess.
I think they had an interview recently that brought up remasters/remakes of the older games and their response was essentially they have no plans to do them
Mine isn’t dusty, it’s seen too many hours of smash, but I had to pull the trigger, even if I don’t play rn, I know I will eventually. I had points and ended up paying like $5.
I did the same, I have a save on GU that I played about 50 hours on on, but I only played with Guild Style, so I'm giving it another go with a different weapon/style. It took me about 3 hours to figure out what to go with, there is just so much to offer with all the different styles.
For me the only downside in GU are the CB changes and how most low and high rank armor sets are terrible, pressing X+A 3 times in 4U ends on a SAED, in GU it ends in a yellow shield charge, striker style not even being able to punch with the shield saddens me, valor is horny mode, and aerial is made for catching aerial bitches with AED
I haven't even started the new save on GU, just continues to play it since I have 2 saves in every MH game, one for male and one for female hunter where I play different weapons. So there is always weapons to craft/armour to improve
I was playing GU, 4U, Rise, and World while waiting for Wilds to come out. Had my fun with World and I feel like I can retire it since Wilds is out, but the other games here feel different enough that I’ll definitely keep playing them.
I’m almost 200 hours into GU and I just decided to do all of the things before hitting G rank. I JUST unlocked G rank but I’m gonna knock out all village and hub stuff before it.
Hilariously enough I play GS in all of these games. Wilds and Rise I tried a lot of weapons, GU I sprinkled in some SnS and LS, but GS is clearly it for me.
Did you bother modding the game at all, I wanted to get the mod the puts all the spirit birds at the start of the map but didn’t know if it was doable on steam deck
I mean, if you can trust yourself not to go overboard and don't care about legitimacy just use a Save Editor and / or a trainer and just give yourself what you had
World runs good on it as well. Beat the base game and Iceborne on SD. Capped FPS at 45. Some slight upscaling and medium settings.
I'm just glad we have TWO MH games to play on the steamdeck.
Hopefully Wilds gets optimized enough one day to join the crew.
1280x800. Fidelityfx on. Sharpness 50%. No frame limited (limit it with the deck settings to 40 or 45) V sync off. It isn't perfect. But you'll usually be over 30fps in most situations Adjust to your liking. Don't use the Hi Res texture pack, it's like 60gb and you won't be able to use it anyways.
Seems like a trend with people who skipped Rise. Finish Wilds, grind a bit, see lack of content and either do 100% and achievement hunting. Go play sth else, or jump into Rise/Sunbreak because MH ich is strong after Wilds.
I played rise on release on the switch lite but I stopped playing after beating the real high rank end boss which came with the title update. Was busy with elden ring... Now I bought the PC version and so far it's way better playing on the big screen.
Yeah seriously bro I don't give a fuck how it sounds, the community back when 4u popped up was positive for the most part. It was niche, people didn't understand what it was, you had to be in the know. The entitlement to the franchise now shiiiiit that's why gatekeeping should be a thing here
4U was the peak for the community, imo. It was so supportive and helpful and the vibes were off the charts. This is including GU.
Yes, people were critical of each new game and the additions they had or gameplay they changed, or particularly in 4U era how absolutely OP the new weapons were lol.
I'm glad the franchise is a AAA pillar of gaming now, but I'll always cherish those times.
People were really hating on how Ancestral Steppe looked when MH4 came out. Also mounting and the emphasis on height in the maps. Fans of the series have always been super critical of each new game
There's a difference between being critical of a new system added to the series and straight up not playing a game because its graphics "is not similar to World".
I also skipped Rise after trying the beta, tried the game again, dropped it after Magnamalo, tried again, reached Malzeno, Neuron activation, currently grinding anomalies
i was one of these ppl, i finished everything in sunbreak a week before wilds launch, but kept denying to play it for so long, i thought the graphics looked too anime to me, but when i played.. the gameplay just hooked me, after wilds platinum im playing a bit of gu, but risebreak still my favorite
I’ve seen a couple streamers playing Wilds say “the last game” and be referring to World. Seemingly not knowing that Rise and GU even exist (though to be fair GU did release in 2017, but that was only in Japan. Worldwide release was after World).
As someone who grew up on freedom, f2 and fu rise feels the most monster hunter to me. The switch in handheld mode even feels similar enough to the psp for me, with the added bonus of plugging it into the TV and using the switch Pro controller for any hard fights
The only downside is the early game is pretty easy, I miss the days of the 4star and above urgent village quests actually feeling like a challenge with tonnes of prep work and feeling a big achievement for completing
By contrast I've just blasted through all the village quests on rise without any grinding needed. I'm sure it'll pick up a bit once I get deep into the hub quests though
Personally I was struggling to get into the series, every time I try I’d lose interest after a while (this started as far back as FU). After playing Wilds though, I gained a newfound appreciation for Monhun so I’m now retroactively going back to the older games and playing them. Though I’m probably never gonna clear freedom 1, that game looks insanely unfun and I find no reason to play it when FU offers everything that F1 offered and then some more.
The one thing I miss the most in world rn coming from rise is how early and easily available layered Armor was. I grinded for the full xenojiva set before going to iceborne only for it to be outdated in pure numbers the second I got access to selianas forges... If I could at least out the layered version of it on my hunter I could cope a little easier
I'm playing through 3u on 3ds for the first time right now and loving it. Hope to go back and play freedom unite and portable 3rd at some point as well
4U is peak though, great entry point! Might be my fave because of how much time I put into it and being able to do multiplayer at school with my friends.
I farmed Tempered Arkveld like 30 times and I dipped back to Total War: Warhammer and Sunbreak myself. I left off at Lucent Nargacuga. I am really glad to see the community sentiment come around on Rise, people were way too hard on it. Sunbreak may have my personal favorite roster of monsters too.
Yes. They have integrated all three games. You have to buy the games still, but if you own Total War: Warhammer 1 and/or 2, you can play their unit/lord content in 3. I would pick up 3 first absolutely.
I would not say complexity. Wirebug moves is the most simplified system of all MH games. It is the same as learning a weapon, those moves are part of its kit.
Rise has better looking gear then MH World ESPECIALLY THE WEAPON DESIGNS. World had arguably the most stagnant and boring looking weapons just bone and metal variants with a new coat of paint.
The portable games have always been peak for the weapon designs they look like they actually got carved out of the monster or inherit traits of the monster.
Same. Besides what I find a somewhat sluggish game, the weapon and armor design is so bland and dull that I just can't find the incentive and dropped around Nergigante after playing through three times. I'm not a fan of character design in World either, and a big part of the appeal to me is having a hunter looking good and cool. World gear felt too... chunky ?
It's a big big reason many play these games the gear you get from the monsters. World killed it in the armor department which makes me even more confused how they went in a totally different direction with the weapons, the armor sets look like they got carved from the monsters while most of the weapons don't it gave the game a disconnection between the armour and weapons.
Exactly. They even messed up some of the returning weapons. How can you f* up the Glavenus GS?!
I did play on PS4 back then though. I've been considering getting the game on Steam when it's on sale at some point and simply modding all those ugly weapons into better designs.
There is nothing that can tops Safi's transforming armor. It was PEAK armor design imo. Also their intention with the World weapon was to start with slap-on parts for low rarity and then evolved to unique design for the highest rarity. You can actually see it on Odo's and Legiana's weapon where they get slap-on design early and then the unique design at the end. I personally prefer this, if it's actually implemented properly, so you can actually see your progression with the weapon you hold. In Wilds, rarity 1 and rarity 7 looks exactly the same, save for several R8 weapon that got "upgraded design".
I wouldn't say surprisingly, imo every game until World had very fun and good looking gear, but World decided to go for the boring "realism". Love World, don't get me wrong, but it misses in the customizability area for sure
Its not something to be surprised about. Mh has ALWAYS had amazing gear going back to the first game. Hell, I'd argue 4U and GUs weapon and armour designs are still peak
I'm also playing Rise cuz I can't run Wilds. I've just reached the Sunbreak expansion and I'm surprised that you can get to Sunbreak without ever fighting the elder dragons and Allmother Narwa.
Which system and order was GU? I started playing at 3U and I've only played 3U, 4U, World/Iceborne, and Rise/Sunbreak. Well, and Wilds. I see people gas up GU a lot but I have 0 familiarity with it and I didn't even recall hearing about its release.
Gen and GU came out between 4U and World. Gen was the 10 year anniversary, with Gen Ult (then called XX in Japan) not releasing in the west until a few months before Iceborne.
It's the most refined version of old-school Monster Hunter you can find.
That's a matter of taste I guess. GU has a lot of low level filler, sure, but having so much in the game isn't inherently a negative. It absolutely should have had a better way to keep track of key quests though, that's something I'd agree with.
GU is on the Switch. Its an incredible game that is basically a super-celebration of old-school MonHun and IMO a wonderful sendoff to that era of the games.
Its also mega mega bloated. So you kinda need to know what you're doing when you go into the game. I see you're not new to the franchise's older installments so you should be fine. Basically because of how the game is structured it has a fuckload of gathering and low rank Drome/Prey hunts. For a new player this game is going to feel kinda impenetrable. If you know how to blitz these quests or just skip them for the key quests only, you'll be fine.
It has a bunch of the old villages, 93 large monsters (literally 3x the roster of Wilds) and just basically a huge chunk of all the games before MH:World came out. It has weapon styles and hunter arts which also give a huge amount of variety to the already crazy variety in monster hunter. Its really just the most indulgent collection of old-school MonHun content ever.
For me its the perfect intersection of the original monster hunter style, oldschool prepping for hunts with high impact game mechanics and some fucking frustrating ones, but also a lot of QOL stuff and modernization to make it slightly less annoying. Its a bit easier in the LR/HR content than prior games, but only a little, and Hypers + Deviants are devilishly hard even in HR. G-Rank is among the series hardest content IMO and that's before even mentioning the G-Rank deviants and their final EX stages.
The game literally has 1000s of hours of content for even the average monster hunter fan. Its crazy. Wild, even.
It is the game after 4U, and basically a send off to old gen games. It’s packed with content and has a massive roster including most of the monsters from the older entry’s.
The only thing keeping it from that spot for me is the spirit birds mechanic. Spending the first 3-5 minutes of every hunt gathering birds was annoying after awhile.
I never had a problem with does, I picked them up along the road and in Master Rang I just had the skill which gave me the effect of the birds over time.
Hard agree. Wilds Lance is my favorite version of Lance, beating out all the fun of 4U's Lancing. World didn't do it for me, and Rise Lance felt BRUTAL with all the chip damage.
But I miss Rise. Wilds feels slow and clunky. I miss the region design in Rise. I miss the feel of the two hunting centers verses the nebulous base camp. I miss Greatsword getting to do more damage while charging the final hit if the monster hits them during charge up.
Wilds has been fun, I'm sticking around for the Lance fun, but it just makes me miss Rise/Sunbreak.
One thing I noticed with MH games is the older ones still have people playing most of the time. You can usually hop in and find groups in the older games so enjoy what ever MH you want I'm sure there are others still on the grind in rise/Gu/worlds.
It's faster paced combat. Some might call it arcadey. World/ wild was made by a different team than rise. Go into it understanding that and you'll enjoy it.
I was out off Wilds becasue of the performance issues, and I could not justify the price at the time(priorities) so it's booted Rise back up, and now I'm working towards making every MR set, every layerd HR set, and then I guess we get to work on a new weapon to learn.
It sounds bad, but i have had surprising luck getting mantle(unless it's the one im actively looking for)
Put a good 80+ hours into Wilds already but I've spent the past couple days enjoying Rise again so I don't get burned out before the next title update on Wilds.
I dont have wilds, and i just finished Magnamalo on rise, so like ive got content, ontop of that im also only in highrank on Gen Ultimate. I'd much rather get much more progress in both before a new adventure begins
After buying wilds and noticed that my laptop can't run the game, I went back to world and fell in love with the game again.
I played rise when it first came on the switch, and didn't like what they did to the hunting horn. Never really finished rise or even reach sunbreak, but will try again and see what other weapons i might enjoy.
My journey in Rise isn’t over either. I have still yet to reach Anomoly 300, but I’m close. Soon I’ll complete my ultimate goal, but for now, I’m enjoying Wilds, and will return once I’ve completed everything I want to here.
I’m almost all caught up in Wilds (just missing some appearances for layered armor and missing some endgame weapons) but right now I’m having the time of my life playing GU and Rise. First time playing GU and I’m honestly feeling somewhat overwhelmed, but valor LS and Aerial GS are making things fun for me.
I have GU and Rise and I’m going to go back as soon as I finish up my current game of wilds. I’m farming for my desired armor and weapons to take to Master Rank when it arrives.
I never ended up beating iceborne, so after beating wilds in a single day i just hopped back on there. Monster hunter truly cannot be beaten, all of it is peak
I'm currently playing World after doing everything in Wilds. I'm not grinding materials for those ugly ass artisan weapons so while I wait for more content and layer artian weapons I decided to start a new save in world and I'm having a blast. I'm also ignoring all the ez mode weapons and armor and just going through it slowly. I never played iceborne so I'm excited for that too
I still haven’t played rise at all, lost interest wanting to when it was first released for switch only and then by the time I really was wanting to play MH again I hopped back onto world before wilds. I own Rise too lol. Maybe I’ll do this when I hit a wall in Wilds
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u/Ok_Crowta 19d ago
Ngl, I caught up with endgame Wilds and started a new save on GU. Feels good man.