Shocked at how bad and low budget this game is

[Doctor Gitgud]

Admittedly it's my fault for not researching, I guess. But it was pretty reasonable to assume that a new MH game, released years after the prior one, and with good reviews, would be an improvement. Nope.

Everything is just so amateur-hour and low budget compared to MHW that I can't get into it. It starts with well, the start of the game. MHW had a great looking, action packed first level. Rise? Being bossed around a dreamcast-graphics village with no gameplay. Random alarm beeping going off for no good reason (the sound design has all the quality of a dollar store oven timer). Tutorial windows popping up every three seconds.

The interface/ui has to be the ugliest I've seen in a major developer release. Everything is ugly and obtrusive and doesn't blend with the look of the game. It reminds me of say . . . playing xenoblade on a nintendo wii emulator with user-made HD menus. And actually, that extends past the text boxes and UI . . . the backgrounds, lighting, etc don't look any better than playing Xenoblade (a wii game) in 4K.

What in the world happened here? How is this game . . . so bad . . . compared to Monster Hunter World? I'd refund If I could, but I bought on a 3rd party site (of course, it never in a million years crossed my mind that I'd ever want to refund a monster hunter game because I've loved this since the PSP).

[cruste]

let me guess you want a jester?

[Greb]

Yeah but, in the Hub there's two Palicoes beating a drum. One is called Badum and the other one is called Tish.

Their animation and design alone encompasses and surpasses the entire quality of your average AAA game, lol. Kinda sad when a handheld game does that to mainline multimillion dollar budget console entries.

Thinking back to 2021 with all those high budget AAA games coming out being stripped of features from the start and promising to add basic things back months later. What a terrible year for AAA games.

It made the wait for Rise even harder than it needed to be, but glad the time has finally come. What a great way to start off 2022!

[⎛⎝Melina⎠⎞]

Everywhere I go In this forum, I keep seeing clowns.

[StarExile]

Originally posted by JINX:

Everywhere I go In this forum, I keep seeing clowns.

If you see Counter Strike\ Dota \ some battele royale game - in Favorite Game section of profile, this usually means we have a clown here :D

[ZooFrickingVu]

So you bait dudes are pretty bored tonight, huh

[Duskyer]

You say that you've been playing since PSP... But it didn't occur to you that the game made by the portable team... would be scaled down as compared to World?

[Tay]

Any femboys wanna play mh add me uwu

[Katitoff]

Happy hour is finished, we will now only call OPs like this one clowns without giving them appropriate reward.

[Duskyer]

Originally posted by Tay ♥:

Any femboys wanna play mh add me uwu

Unfortunately I don't meet such standard. I look in a mirror and all I see is a goblin.

[Loxly]

It's quite sus when you mentioned you love MH since PSP version while also ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on everything, including sound design and UI. It's literally intended to be like that because it's made by the portable MH team

[cruste]

still no jester come on give this man his reward he worked hard for it and wrote a lovely essay

[Fraktal]

Low budget might be right for a handheld. I doubt Rise had Worlds budget.

[Drago_28]

Sorry your opinion doesn't matter at all since all you do is stealing donuts from local shops.

[Vanessa]

Damn its almost like this game was made for a handheld console, surely that wouldn't have an impact on graphics or game play right? That would be silly...

[Doctor Gitgud]

Originally posted by Duskyer:

You say that you've been playing since PSP... But it didn't occur to you that the game made by the portable team... would be scaled down as compared to World?

Honestly I didn't even know they had a B-team until I tried Rise and started looking into why it's so bad. I just thought Rise was a normal sequel.

Some missing context: I had a MHW save with 120+ hours in it and was hugely looking forward to Iceborne. Iceborne comes out, I buy it day 1, install it, and when I run it for the first time, it corrupts/deletes my character save and overwrites the cloud with an empty save. Of course I had no reason to expect something like that, but apparently Iceborne had a bug that would clap your entire save if you had not played World recently and therefore were not on the latest version. Tried to play, but honestly it wasn't any fun playing someone else's character on a downloaded save, and a full restart was too much given all the grinding.

So a lot of this . . . anger . . . is that I love Monster Hunter but Capcom has done me dirty two games in a row. Iceborne ended up being wasted money, never even tried it. And I doubt I'll be able to get into Rise, for the same reasons I had eventually drifted away from the series until MHW came out.