Monster Hunter World announced for PS4/Xbox One/PC

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Azuren said:

sc94597 said:

I count four monsters in the trailer. Rathian, the (what I assume is) Great Jaggi, and glimpses of two others. The only thing exciting is the open-world, but I don't know how much that will enhance the monster hunter experience, rather than complement it (as a spinoff.) Not every game lends itself to open-world gameplay.  The zones are a crucial gameplay mechanic, but we'll have to see how they are accomodated for in this. 

I'll wait and see, but so far my first impressions aren't good. 

It's the first trailer of a new game. Why are you expecting them to just roll out an encyclopedia of Monsters?

 

Also, I have to say that I'm getting frustrated with the claims that this is a "spin off". This is clearly where the series is heading, as nothing so far has indicated a massive departure from how the game plays as a whole. This is no more a spin off than X, XX, or Frontier. The only thing different from what I can see is new gameplay mechanics and a better multiplayer infrastructure.

Where did I say I wanted them to "roll out an encylcopedia of Monsters"? I said the monsters don't have charm. I am talking about the quality of the monsters they have shown. I was correcting your comment about how there was only one monster shown. 

It is very obviously a spin-off. Nothing that makes the monster hunter games successful is in this. Monster Hunter is about efficient farming via local multipayer. It isn't a single-player game, and it isn't meant to be an open-world action RPG. This won't fly with the Japanese audience, and they are who dictate what the future of Monster Hunter is. 

This is like saying Pokemon Colloseum was the future of Pokemon because it looked like this when mainline Pokemon games looked like the latter.