Soriku said:
BaldrSkies said:
MH3G was an improvement and addition on MH3 (Tri) from Wii, which also did fairly poorly in Japan. It added new enemies and zones, and re-added the weapons that were removed and some people were very angry about (gunlance, dual sword, bow).
I'm not screaming imminent doom for the Monster Hunter series, but the reaction to MH4 info in Japan has been fairly mediocre, with criticism for downgrading graphics from the PSP games, a strange focus on customizing otomo, and addition of new "shonen manga" weapons (bug staff and transforming "chargeaxe"-shield-sword-hammer thing). The chargeaxe in particular is looking to make several weapon types obsolete as an all-in-one. |
Uh...what? This post makes no sense.
MH3G was successful for Capcom and is still selling (expected: 1.2 mil, sales: 1.5 mil+). How much did you expect it to sell? On par with MHP3 or something? And people are angry at weapons being added? lol WTF is this. And special weapons from shonen manga are somehow a negative? Again, WTF is this?
What reaction to MH4 are you talking about? The game is #1 on Famitsu Most Wanted list. Some mediocre reaction that is. The graphics are a bit disappointing but you have to be blind to think it's a downgrade from the PSP versions. And the gunlance doesn't make the lance obsolete so why would the Chargeaxe do anything different? The only real obsolete weapon is the SnS.
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You seem to have misunderstood, people were angry that it was removed from MH3. So Capcom added it back in for MH3G. And yes, selling over a million is a success, but not the resounding success of its over 4 million sales predecessors. When a game loses 2/3 of its audience that's a big deal. The thing about MHP2G and MHP3 was that it was so popular among virtually every group: middle/high schoolers, college students, and even salarymen. A friend even had a monster hunter "club" at his workplace (Japanese company employees socialize together a lot) where they would play on breaks or even off days. That club is on hiatus since nobody wants to play MH3G.
The changes that Capcom seems to be making to MH indicate more of an attempt to refocus its efforts towards a much younger audience. Capcom probably recognizes that the big monster hunter boom is over. Adding shonen manga-esque weapons is not necessarily a bad thing, but its definitely another move away from what the game used to be, and its making the veteran players move on, while failing to bring in a large wave of new players.
Oh and Famitsu's interest list is not a very good indicator. The website community has 121 users registered with interest.
