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>>14833658

Beaten them all to death so i dont really need any items to beat the bosses anymore.

>>14833660

ebig downboat goon kun

Some canadian hipsters are making a f2p MonHun-like game, I've played a bit of it with a friend and we both liked it, but shit was pretty bare bones and the artstyle makes every human character look like utter shit. The actual fights are more akin to Dark Souls than Monhun, heavy reliance on iframes and rolling through shit, positioning somewhat less important. I think it's going into open beta one of these days too. Off the top of my head, you don't fight any dinosaurs or wyverns, and there's no small monsters. The starting couple of monsters were a beaver, an owl, a mutant tiger, a rock monster and a pig that shoots spikes at you.

there isn't enough monster hunting games. I liked the Witcher 3s system of going town to town and checking the board for contracts but I don't know any other games that have done much beyond that.

>>14833675

Dauntless. Yeah i've heard its going to be a real small affair. Plus if you want monhun clones other like god eater, soul sacrifice, freedom wars and toukiden have much bigger rosters.

Dwarf Fortress is pretty good for this. Adventure mode is 66% monster hunting, 33% murderfucking, and 1% dungeon crawling.

>>14833690

I doubt it'll survive if MHW ever fucking comes to PC. Haven't played God Eater, but everyone I talked to told me those games weren't that good.

>>14833704

god eater is flawed but fun. smallish roster but the setting makes it fun. Its set in the future of the real world so instead of caves you have the tokyo subway, instead of mountains you have a rural town and shinto temple and instead of plains you have half buried ruins of shibuya or a jsdf ship caught in the wires of a suspention bridge by the tokyo bay. Plus the monsters are a fusion of animals and man made objects or machines since they take on what they consume. Like a lion type thing with a marble statue of a woman for its face, or something blending an elephant and a tank.

Its not jaw dropping but the theme carries it a lot plus GE3 is coming this year and is a big step up tech wise.

someone tell me how good toukiden is

I'm really impressed by how beautiful the character models are, but are the games any good?

Worth pirating or buying? I have a Vita and a PC

>>14833692

This game is so shit you can literally do nothing but resurrect party members and have them kill the final boss(story).That's why I did as I had grown disgusted with game by the final fight.

>>14833729

eeeh its firmly 'okay'. it feels like a warriors asett flip in some respects and is kind of soulless. Its not bad but it is to hunting games what rift is to mmos. it tries to do its own thing but lacks a strong style and so feels like 'any term will do' fantasy madlibs and doesnt leave a strong impression.

>>14833729

Absolutely not worth playing. Combat is just mashing the same button endlessly without any need to think about what you're doing in a fight. I played the second one, and the grappling hand mechanic adds absolutely nothing to the combat, which is the main thing my friend sold me on.

>>14833675

>heavy reliance on iframes and rolling through shit

>you don't fight any dinosaurs or wyverns

>MonHun-like

You gotta explain these mental gymnastics to me

>canadian

Oh nevermind, crystal clear now.

>>14833760

>if I run and jump and roll around constantly, maybe nobody will notice that nothing is actually happening besides me spamming attack button

>>14833760

100%'ed it. You want to know the worst part? its got a great story. Told entirely in flashbacks and holograms. Your character story is "walk to 3 places then fight an ancient evil that awakened". Like ODST but worse.

>>14833647

Try Dragon's Dogma.

>>14833842

It was mostly autist completionism that kept me going rather than gameplay. But the actual project zero dawn stuff was neat even if the post apocalypse pornography vistas give way to shitty desert flatlands for over half the map.

>>14833833

I got dark airsen on ps4 in a deep sale and got to a fort and killed a hydra and just gave up. It didnt click for me.

>>14833842

I gave up after the first boss fight. The first giant walker mech boss was so fucking disappointing I didn't want to keep playing.

>>14833853

When I realize that the game is relying on skinner box shit I quickly lose interest

>>14833863

So any game?

>>14833853

DD starts picking up after you get to the large city and start getting some skills.

>>14833874

Don't spread misinformation.Game is upfront what it is about from the very fucking tutorial where you fight Chimera

>>14833870

Horizon is pretty bad for it. Rng combined with ubisoft tier 'complete the same objects 20 times each' open world busywork. pretty game with neat visuals and backstory but as usual the 'omg the feels' shit is what we call in bongland 'baftab8'. Just like the last of us and what i imagine 'dad of war' is.

Nothing says modern western AAA like playing a cucks stepchild who usurps them after they die heroically to make sure you live. Once you see it you can't unsee it.

>>14833870

No, plenty of games provide unique challenges which require your mastery of the mechanics, understanding of the systems and clever design to be enjoyable. Shit like diablo, horizon zero dawn, csgo, mmos, found a cheap way to keep people playing.

>>14833879

Yeah but it's boring until you get better skills

>>14833853

>buying a game on platform with zero mods when you can pirate the thing on PC and mash up gigabytes pf content inside

Duh.

Like other anons said though, you gave up on the game too early. The hydra is not even the end of the tutorial part with your character. You can swap classes, skills and get lots of content later. Lots of monsters have their strengths and weaknesses and some could require you to have weird skills to beat them (i.e. using melee skills that make you to attack above yourself to punish harpies).

Small characters can crawl through holes and big and heavy ones don't get blown out by strong winds so easily.

The game could be quite rewarding if you are autistic enough.

>>14833894

TBH, it's pretty mediocre until post game and NG+.

>>14833948

beaten it 100% too. challenging the first time, piss easy the second when you know the controls.

>>14833928

>hating superior western game design

>>14833853

Wait, so you gave up after like 10 minutes?

>>14833760

>That archery animation when she holds the bow horizontally.

It looks fucking terrible.

>>14834017

the whole horizontal bow meme needs to die. If anyone of you have ever done archery and even tried it you'd know how much of a disaster it is. It doesn't even look cool, it just makes the person doing it look retarded.

>>14834025

It's supposed to be "stealthy" because many bows are too long to be held upright when you are not standing fully upright. A proper war bow is designed for the archer to stand fully erect and put all of his upper body muscles into the draw. It "could" only work with low draw weight bows and then not very well.

>>14833853

>buy game

>stop playing after ~6 minutes

?????

Stalker Call of Pripyat with the misery mod

>>14834344

OP asked for a fun game, not an artificially difficult buggy meme game.

>>14833647

There's Toukiden and this one other shitty early-access clone called Dauntless.

>>14833647

Dragons dogma if you haven't tried it yet. I'd recommend toukiden or soul sacrifice but they're a bit on the meh side.

What Monster Hunter game should I start with?

>>14835694

4U on the 3ds.

>>14833647

Monster Hunter

DRAGON'S DOGMA.

>>14833971

So you didnt know the controls for the first 30+hrs?

>>14835694

If anyone tells you Freedom Unite, Filter them. Play 3u or 4u.

Shadow the Colossus

Oddworld Stranger's Wrath (sort of, goes to shit in the last quarter though)

>fable 1

My first look into what it's like to go mad with power came when I got so strong I could oneshot just about anything and be untouchable with assassin rush then started a new game and realised it had been so long since I actually needed to block I was getting destroyed.

Tremendous faglord >>14833660

>>14835694

Literally any of them but world or generations/XX.

You cannot go more wrong than those two, they basically completely butchered the franchise to the point where it probably won't recover and it'll become a "lifestyle" game

>>14836616

>hating on XX

Pleb shitter detected

>>14836109

I remember it was hard to get high combos once you were really strong, had to use a shitty weapon to get that demon door open.

>>14836933

Surely you agree it shouldn't be recommended as someone's first monhun. It's a celebration of the series and should be played after the rest.

>>14835694

>if you want to ease into the series

3U=>4U=>FU=>XX

>if you want a challenge

FU=>3U/4U=>XX

>if you want absolutely no challenge

world

Play 3 portable if you're in love with 3 and want more of the same.

Play 1 (I recommend the PSP version) if you liked FU and want a real challenge. It's definitely got charm if you appreciate slow but punishing monhun.

>>14837030

>actually thinking XX is easier than FU and 3U

>actually thinking FU is harder than 3U or 4U

>>14833760

>black Gaia AI

no thanks, the thumb-stick aiming is shit to.

>>14837030

>>if you want absolutely no challenge

>world

largely true, we're all waiting for the golden pickle to come back or a g-rank expac at this point for a challenge.

>>14837089

It's a different kind of challenge really. The new ones just require faster reflexes and allow noobs to tank damage and chug potions more imo. I feel like you can be less precise with knowing monster movesets and get by easier for most monsters. XX (with guild style and no arts) isn't the easiest game, but I still wouldn't play it first. It's a spinoff and a celebration of the series. XX (exploiting styles and arts) is pretty easy and I wouldn't want new players learning with that much of a crutch.

3U is easiest because of the default +50 defense.

>>14837266

Sure sure Super Deviants or Hyper G4 monsters are easy.One mistake and you die

Thanks for the MH suggestions. I remember a long time ago I tried Tri, how much of a mistake I did?

>>14837310

Every game has end game monsters that are more difficult, and yes, these are the hardest in XX. For the majority of the game, XX is easier than previous games if you exploit styles and arts. FU, for example, is more difficult for the majority of its playtime when comparing the same rank in XX, even when not using styles/arts imo.

>>14837322

That game has the least amount of monsters out of all of the games in the entire fancshise.

Im not one to bitch and moan about difficulty, but about content instead and tri only has 17 large monsters in it.

Comparing the the more recent handheld ones they've always had around 90+ large monsters, but world has only 34 right now.

Thats not that bad considering that its the first game of 5th I think gen monster hunter.

Considering the fact of how they revamped entire parts of the gameplay including adding an even smaller kind of monster group called endemic creatures, world did a pretty good job when it comes to that.

So yeah you fucked up by getting tri.

Get 3u instead, it gives you a free 50 def in the beginning but it doesnt matter anymore once you get to High-Rank/G-rank.

Also you're english is pretty sloppy, you should try working on that more

>>14837322

Also when it comes to the anons suggesting you to play freedom unite, this is what they're trying to get you into.

The gameplay of the game aged like fucking milk and it plays in a way to be as frustrating and counter intuitive as humanely possible.

Only get that game if you're some kind of sadistic autist who doesn't like proper hitboxes, smooth gameplay, and non jankey mechanics.

Start from 3u/4u/gu and play world if you want to too, its not a bad game at all.

>>14837525

Ok, thanks, looking into it right now

will do, it doesn't help that today i've slept like shit

Honestly it sounds a lot like you're describing Ocarina of Time, but that's probably not what you want.

And Dragon's Dogma is pretty much Monster Hunter but with more focus on the fantasy RPG aspect.

>>14837525

Would you rather have overly bulky hitboxes like FU or overly small hitboxes like World? I choose FU. Makes things more dangerous and means you actually have to play defensively and aren't always on the attack like most ARPGs. World feels like you're invincible and just dancing around the monster til it dies.

That said, besides a few exceptions like still huge hitboxes on garuga, 3U, 4U, and XX have the perfect hitboxes.

>>14837833

Do you deny the hitboxes in World aren't too small? There are times where I'm sure I would have been hit but got no damage.

>>14837525

The dude in that video plays like a moron, if anything that video hurts your point.

>>14835694

Stories

>>14840789

any group that swears its old and janky nuanced game is the most superior over success iterations are the meleefags in their comunity

>>14835694

Do you know Japanese? If yes, 3G; if not, 3U. 3U is the localized 3G but it's a bit easier than 3G was because the player was given extra defense; it doesn't matter much at endgame, but the first ~1/2 of the game is a lot easier because of it. 3G/3U has a lot of content, a great roster of monsters, better weapon balance than 4U, some small quality of life improvements over Freedom Unite and mostly fixed hitboxes (FU is notorious for its broken hitboxes), much better maps than 4U, and lacks some of the terrible features 4U added like mounting and randomly generated relic weapons. Its main downsides are that underwater combat is generally seen as poorly balanced, lacking in content, and has bad controls (though some people still liked it despite all of that), no online multiplayer on the 3DS version, a long and pointless tutorial at the start of the game that teaches you about a fairly minor "free hunt" system you'll probably forget exists, and it's lacking two fun but poorly balanced weapon types from 4U.

4U has a lot of content and some fun monsters too but a lot of its roster is old gen 1 and gen 2 monsters that aren't very fun to fight and were pretty poorly designed. The 3rd gen games scrapped almost all of the gen 1/2 monsters and made spiritual successors to them that more or less filled the same role, but were better designed and more fun to fight; some autistic otaku longtime fans disliked that, so 4th gen got rid of them and brought back the garbage they replaced. Honestly, I thought 4U was a pretty terrible MH game overall, and prefer 3U in almost every way.

>>14837497

>90+ large monsters

4U had the most large monsters of any game in the main series, 75. The second highest is FU with 57, and 3U is just a bit behind it with 52.

>world has only 34 right now.

Actually, it has 32; 31 if you don't count Kulve Taroth, because it's only available during limited time events.

>>14840928

>opinions

>opinions

>opinions

>>14837525

so this how worldbabbies played mh before world.

it doesn't matter if you spent hundred of hours in older mh games when you're still so shit at it that you can't one room monsters

>>14833647

Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter

>>14833647

>>14833675

>>14833690

Nice "subtle" PR you fuckers, but did you really think there wouldn't be anyone on 8chan who would know what the fuck you're up to?

Everyone in this thread is posting in a blatant Dauntless shill thread. They want you to start looking into the game and individually finding out "oh hey this game's open beta starts today", then talking about how interesting it looks. Well allow me to describe it for you: Dauntless is dog shit. It leans on a Monster Hunter identity when really it's just a casual Souls game with MonHun weapon/armor crafting. It is a game made for normalfag shitters, not us. I've been playing Dauntless on-and-off since alpha waiting for the game to develop some depth, only to realize that the alpha gameplay is all there was ever going to be.

This game is totally forgettable and will never be relevant. Eat shit shills. And for anyone looking to advertise your game here in the future, be honest about it: we respect that much more than whatever the fuck this was supposed to be.

>>14840928

3u had the most OP weapon element in the entire series. Slime weapons outclassed everything else by a factor of 10. Slime Dual Blades were 100% broken.

Every game has janky shit like this but I would take. 2 slightly overpowered new weapons over that. 4u is the most balanced. The only weapon that is insufferable is Hunting Horn.

Evolve

:^)

>>14841216

The OP didn't mention or reference Dauntless at all. The second post shits on the game and doesn't mention its name. The third post is the only one of the three that names it, but then he lists a bunch of games he thinks are better alternatives than Dauntless. How is that shilling?

>hey goys, look at my game, the art is shit and it's boring and has no content, here are some similar, better games that you should play instead

A truly revolutionary marketing strategy.

>>14833760

yeah, but I have to be a PS4

>>14837525

The guy in that vid is just bad. There are problems with mhfu, but most of this video is him being a noob. Like at :40 he stands there and waits to get hit.

The bigest problem is minion monsters. They infinitely respawn and are always agressive towards you. This can be somewhat solved by doing arena quests, but they shouldn't exist in the first place.

The hitboxes, though they don't line up with animations in a lot of cases, can be gotten used to. Plesioth's hip check has a huge evade window when you learn the timing. The actual problem with plesioth is having to wait for it to leave the water.

Each game released after FU became less about timing and percision, less about learning patterns, and more about just mashing buttons until the monster dies. So even though there is annoying shit in FU, it's still the best and most rewarding MH game.