Monster Hunter Rise is a mainline game

[smashcore]

I have no idea why people keep saying it isn't. It has it's own plotline, gameplay mechanics, and unique monsters. Monster Hunter Tri and 4 are also mainline games and was released on the 3DS so the "it's made for portable" argument doesn't really stand. I guess because it's a port of the Switch console that somehow makes it a lesser game? As far as I can tell, this game has just as much to offer as World, if not more.

The game's producer, Ryozo Tsujimoto (who is also a senior producer on World), said that with both World and Rise, they wanted to move away from the use of traditional numbering for the main titles in the Monster Hunter series and instead name them based on a central concept that the game was built around; "Rise" was chosen reflect the verticality of the game's levels and gameplay elements.

For all intents and purposes, this is Monster Hunter 6.

https://www.ign.com/articles/numbered-monster-hunter-games-are-no-longer-the-norm

[TrevMizer]

No

[Yew Nough]

Rise is a follow-up to Tri.

It uses the same maps, remnants of monsters from Tri can be found all over the map (like Jhen Mohran with the dragonator stuck in his head...next to a broken dragonship), and some of the items from Tri have found it's way into Rise (like Loc Lac Ore among a few others).

It's definitely not a spinoff.

World felt more like a spinoff/reboot compared to Rise.

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Correct. world was the algorithm game and was very successful.

[JPM岩]

Rise is a Portable title, it is part of the portable series, made by the portable team. It's also, not a spinoff. It's just not mainline series.

[Metaspark]

I just call them “monster hunter games”. The need to distinguish “mainline” and “portable” games is for people who can’t fathom the idea that, just because one game was developed for weaker hardware doesn’t mean it can’t have just as much content as the other

[SKUNK]

Portable series team made rise, therefore it's a portable series game. It's not a spinoff but it's a portable. It's not MH 6, that will be on home consoles and pc around the 20th anniversary imo. MH 6 would imply the sixth generation of Monster Hunter was beginning, and in my opinion while Rise is a fantastic game it isn't deserving of the title of the start of a new generation of Monster Hunter. Its experimental nature, casual difficulty and lesser grind mean that it is just not a core MH game.

[Obsid1anWolf]

Originally posted by JPM岩:

Rise is a Portable title, it is part of the portable series, made by the portable team. It's also, not a spinoff. It's just not mainline series.

MH4 / MH4U are both only portable, does that exclude them from being considered mainline?

[Garlboh]

World may as well have been called 5 at some point in production, considering the importance of the fifth fleet.

You're right about some things, Capcom doesn't care about whether or not it's on a portable, or even if the graphics aren't high stakes, the past has proven that. That being said Capcom makes it very obvious when a new Monster Hunter is a new generation or a spin off. Generations had massive changes to the gameplay as well, confirmed spin off. It's got nothing to do with story, or gameplay, or content.

Don't take spin off so negatively though, Capcom also considers Iceborne and other G rank expansions to be spin offs.

Edit: Plus this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpZfBvboBL0

[Obsid1anWolf]

Originally posted by Garbo:

Don't take spin off so negatively though, Capcom also considers Iceborne and other G rank expansions to be spin offs.

That is odd. I am confident most people do not feel a Monster Hunter game is complete without those.

[NVLVS999]

As an OG player of MH since MHF2, I think World was the first game that felt like such a departure from all the previous ones that I had trouble believing it wasn't a spin off.

[JamesFace]

I mean... who cares? :S why is this even important?

[Vespertellino]

Originally posted by Metaspark:

I just call them “monster hunter games”. The need to distinguish “mainline” and “portable” games is for people who can’t fathom the idea that, just because one game was developed for weaker hardware doesn’t mean it can’t have just as much content as the other

ikr haha

[Obsid1anWolf]

Originally posted by JamesFace:

I mean... who cares? :S why is this even important?

This is a big deal. We need to get to the bottom of it.

[Yew Nough]

Originally posted by Metaspark:

I just call them “monster hunter games”. The need to distinguish “mainline” and “portable” games is for people who can’t fathom the idea that, just because one game was developed for weaker hardware doesn’t mean it can’t have just as much content as the other

Thinking about it, it really doesn't matter anymore.

Earlier in the series, you had main console releases and stripped down handheld releases based on the console game (with eventual expansion versions)

With MH4 and beyond, there is no more separate console/stripped-down handheld releases.

By this logic: Calling Rise a "portable game" is invalid when there's no console game it was ported from. It's not the 'stripped down' version of anything.

[Mercurial Obscurial]

Originally posted by JamesFace:

I mean... who cares? :S why is this even important?

It's the internet. People are bored, want attention, want to be "right", want to prove someone else "wrong", etc. etc. and so forth.