I doubt it’s even that, the game is just blatantly unfinished. No way they purposefully cut a 90% complete Lagiacrus to “drip feed” content when HR Zoa Shia wasn’t even finished for the base game.
Capcom pushed this game out the door to meet the fiscal year deadline when it obviously needed more time.
Crazy I thought this game shoulda have came out last year for the anniversary. Seems like its harder and harder to get games out on time. What went wrong?
I don’t think anything went wrong per se, it’s just that making games takes longer and longer these days. Especially when devs keep scaling up game worlds and graphical/animation fidelity.
This game was obviously a massive undertaking just at a fundamental level with the new super complex maps and all the new systems, and they decided to barely pull assets from the only other MH in this engine (Rise) which means most of the roster had to be made from scratch on top of all that. February was probably a pretty generous internal estimate to hit the end of the fiscal year but they really should have shot for June or something to give them some breathing room. Or just sucked it up and delayed the game.
Edit: also it goes without saying that hindsight is 20/20, maybe they were legitimately on track for a feature complete release in February but then Jin Dihaad’s tech issues fucked them over. Still should have just delayed it in that case so we could have a release with a complete roster of 31 monsters, an actual HR final boss, and a hub. With Mizu and whatever else coming as TUs anyway.
I honestly wouldn't mind if we had the new combat style and the new world with the old graphics, pretty monsters are cool, but give no tactical advantage whatsoever
I'd actually love a reskin that made wilds look like tri
I think Monster Hunter fans are kind of used to not having the best 4k graphics, but i know lots of people who say that graphics are an important factor when rating a game. (Ik, i dont even know 0,00001% of people who actually play games, but i hope yk what i mean)
They however probably wanted to appeal to that demographic as well with the mainline titles like World and Wilds, since Rise looks a bit more 'cartoonish'(?) Just what i think the reason for those beautiful graphics is
EDIT: And yess, pleaaassee, tri style graphics, I'd die for them tbh (i am super biased as a third fleeter)
Oh absolutely, they're beautiful, the monsters look incredible and the detail is insane, but I'm not gonna notice the big lizard's second eyelid while I'm in the process of bonking it with a slab of iron
Yea. If there was a toggle between "old world" and "new world" style graphics, idk if id switch it that often, because like, "old world" looks scenic as well at times (im probably rambling so hard rn)
I agree. Many of us grew up with N64 graphics being peak, I personally am fine with not having the absolute best graphics for everything. Then again, I play on console and didnt spent $800 for a graphics card.
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u/PicossauroRex 13d ago
According to the datamines, he was also supposed to be in the base game, but got delayed for unknown reasons