Most veterans probably also didn't find World and Rise ball-bustingly hard cause they've already got 60% of the MH learning curve burnt into their cortex, still played and enjoyed them tho!
I started with World and then did GU and some stuff from 3U and 4U. Rise all the way up until the end of Sunbreak was incredibly easy. Still enjoyed it, but I definitely enjoyed it less than World or GU.
Which is a good example of the phenoneon. People quickly forget that World was considered piss easy originally, and its only at the very end that it got challenging (and a lot of the challenge was because of map and move jank, until the very end game monsters of Iceborne). But for folks who started there it was a decent challenge. For someone who started with earlier entries? It was really simple.
Base Rise was easier, by design (mostly the village quests being trivial, which they had said it would be leading to launch), the rest was pretty inline, especially if adding Sunbreak. But by then the amount of people who had Monster Hunter muscle memory was drastically higher, since World/Iceborne was so popular.
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u/fredminson Moga Village Hunter Feb 24 '25
Most veterans probably also didn't find World and Rise ball-bustingly hard cause they've already got 60% of the MH learning curve burnt into their cortex, still played and enjoyed them tho!