Stop saying that the game is easy -- it's "SHOCKINGLY EASY"

[Shoah Kahn]

Perhaps the 'interesting' revelation in my time with Monster Hunter Wilds, and that is that the game was SHOCKING EASY [...] I'm not good at these games; I'm not talented [...] and even so, I found this game to be SHOCKINGLY STRAIGHT-FOWARD AND EASY [...]

I have played 78-ish hours of Monster Hunter Wilds: I have not failed a quest; I have not been downed or fainted three times, within a single mission; and my average completion time, with optional hunts, at High Rank, has been under 15 minutes [...] I don't know what the deal is... I just found this game to be SHOCKINGLY EASY AND STRAIGHT-FOWARD.

https://youtu.be/s5kxnAxmxMI
(@ 22:47)

On the 'plus' side, the game is filled with mawkish cut-scenes of straight-to-video, over-acted dialogue 👌😏

[Null]

None of these games have been hard since Freedom Unite. Sad but true. There's still lots of fun to be found in them anyway, at least.

[Kiririn]

You need to get to the monster? Up on the d-pad.
You get knocked over? Up on the d-pad.
You need to heal without risk? Up on the d-pad.
You need to sharpen without risk? Up on the d-pad.
You just want free invincibility? Up on the d-pad.

[Foxens]

ok

[Shoah Kahn]

Originally posted by Kiririn:

You need to get to the monster? Up on the d-pad.
You get knocked over? Up on the d-pad.
You need to heal without risk? Up on the d-pad.
You need to sharpen without risk? Up on the d-pad.
You just want free invincibility? Up on the d-pad.

You need to jump on the steed? Up on the d-pad.

[zero]

glad i dont trust the opinions of reviewers who have consistently been known for giving wildly misleading statements

and you know, trust my personal experince from the stress test most of all

[Zeev]

Good.
I will enjoy it.

[Kiririn]

"I kind of suck at these games and I'm still finding myself Waltzing through the entire game which was just surprising to me because I went back and looked at some of my footage for Monster Hunter world and I regularly was going into some of those fights at like 30 40 50 minutes right on the edge before the timer runs out trying to finish the hunt"

I guess we are cooked...

[Ladius]

most of yall can't solo nergigante and yall out here callin stuff "to easy"

[Kiririn]

People who were hitting the quest timer limit in World are calling Wilds shockingly easy and saying that all their hunts have taken 15 min or less.

[AskmeaboutJesus]

Ok.

[saber_avalon]

Originally posted by Kiririn:

"I kind of suck at these games and I'm still finding myself Waltzing through the entire game which was just surprising to me because I went back and looked at some of my footage for Monster Hunter world and I regularly was going into some of those fights at like 30 40 50 minutes right on the edge before the timer runs out trying to finish the hunt"

I guess we are cooked...

All that means is, that player got better from playing World. Of course their times would be better in the next game, after having likely at least 100s of hours in the franchise now. You don't go back to being a first time newbie at the game just because it's a new game in the franchise. The core gameplay is still the same.

[Shoah Kahn]

Originally posted by Kiririn:

I guess we are cooked...

'Til mods and/or an "MR" expansion pack drops (assuming that the latter is more dumbed-down dross), yes -- like a roast dinner.

[Kiririn]

We are going to have to cook ourselves though. They got rid of the canteen. I think one more NPC and the game's engine would burst at the seams.

[FortuneAloft]

I found it funny you can cook in the middle of a fight (hope this is a bug)

[Killance]

Originally posted by Null:

None of these games have been hard since Freedom Unite. Sad but true. There's still lots of fun to be found in them anyway, at least.

If you need clunky controls to make a game hard then your game was never hard.