| cbarroso09 said: I did not replay to your last comment, because you had a good point, you like more Phantasy Online Star and Dragon's Dogma. And I respect that a lot. But don't say that those games are better than Monster Hunter. There is a reason why there are more people liking it, sales demonstrate that. Phantasy Star has more iterations than Monster Hunter, yet most of the Monster Hunters have better sales. Dragon's Dogma has a lot of features that help you advance in the game more easily than Monster Hunter, and Phantasy Star is closer to Xenoblade than Monster HUnter. I better say Xenoblade to Phantasy Star because the last is older than Xenoblade. But again, you can't say they are better than MOnster HUnter. You may want to open a poll to see what happens. |
Monster Hunter has been a very niche series outside of Japan which has only received more hype the more releases Capcom has put out. It's a bit unfair that we judge a game that's score is based on hype and the fact that it's one of the better games on the Wii. Why not compare Dragon's Dogma's Metacritic score to the original Monster Hunter's Metacritic score?
Monster Hunter hasn't really changed all that much. What with Capcom being the master of putting ever so minor changes in a lot of their games and releasing it as a new, full priced game. Granted the Monster Hunter games have seen more of a change than say Street Fighter, they've retained the same gameplay nuances and have mostly received slight upgrades to those gameplay nuances and additional locations. Basically. In comparison to Street Fighter 2, we'll say Super Street Fighter 2 is Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate. More characters(brand new weapons,) more backgrounds(areas,) slight changes in other characters that 99% of the audience won't pick up on(in Monster Hunter's case, more of the same weapons, new stats.)
So the original Monster Hunter on the PS2 received a 68 on Metacritic. Depending on the console, Dragon's Dogma received a 78 or 75 taking those two scores and rounding up, it's received a 77 on Metacritic. I think that's fair as you're taking both the original games, when they were both new IPs, removing all the surrounding hype that one has received receiving multiple rereleases, and they're both on consoles that have a very high amount of high rated games.
If and when there are several more Dragon's Dogma releases in the future, we'll see where the score stands then.
Phantasy Star Online on Dreamcast received 89 while Episode 1 and 2 on Gamecube received an 85. They may have had poor sales, but doesn't change the fact that those two were great games. If you've ever played the Universe or Portable games, it's quite obvious the score they'd get, if making a worse game wasn't enough, there was the awful storyline Sega shoved down everyones throats. Phantasy Star Online 2 seems like Sega's saying "I'm sorry." I'll play it when it's localized in the US. Not going to jump through hoops to play the game in Japanese when it's more than likely going to come over here eventually. Either that or it'll get an English patch. I have a large backlog so I can wait.
