Is this game open world?

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I would be really down for a game like this with Open World Free Roam and Hunting that is not necessarily bound to fixed missions.

That's what i always imagined MH would be, i've been close to pulling the trigger on buying but i just read on YT comments that this game is like area to area Story linked by long cutscenes.

Is there the open world experience i'm looking for to be found after the Story is completed or something like that?

Thanks!

[Socke]

i would never market this as open world. there are maps u can explore which have day/night/weather cicles that's it. u can also free roam yes but only in one of those maps at the time.

[Katitoff]

Its seamless world.

[Maya-Neko]

It's a segmented open world. There are loading screen inbetween the different biomes, so it's not fully seemless, but you can go where you want after unlocking the different areas through the Story.

If you see advertisements about the seemlessness, then it's about the base camps being part of the map itself instead of being seperate, also allowing MP to walk into these camps and for example crafting weapons without having to return like in previous MH games

[RedPanda (/^_^)/]

Besides hunting monsters & gathering ressources there isn't really anything to do on those open maps. Therefore i would really describe this as (a classic) 'open world' at all. However, this isn't what MH is about anyways ...

[Fluffy Monster Thing]

Originally posted by Maya-Neko:

It's a segmented open world. There are loading screen inbetween the different biomes, so it's not seemless, but you can go where you want after unlocking the different areas through the Story.

I've yet to encounter any actual loading screens when transitioning the Biomes actually. You can just walk from desert to forest to oilwell basin to iceshard cliffs to the the wyverian ruins without a single loading screen.

[Penguin]

Originally posted by Fluffy Monster Thing:

Originally posted by Maya-Neko:

It's a segmented open world. There are loading screen inbetween the different biomes, so it's not seemless, but you can go where you want after unlocking the different areas through the Story.

I've yet to encounter any actual loading screens when transitioning the Biomes actually. You can just walk from desert to forest to oilwell basin to iceshard cliffs to the the wyverian ruins without a single loading screen.

hidden loading screens in corridors

[Loup31s]

It's open world a bit the same way dark souls or sekiro are open world

[Katitoff]

Originally posted by Maya-Neko:

It's a segmented open world. There are loading screen inbetween the different biomes, so it's not seemless, but you can go where you want after unlocking the different areas through the Story.

It is seamless.
All games will have loadings if you fast travel, regardless how open they are. I'll let you figure out why yourself.

[Fluffy Monster Thing]

Originally posted by Penguin:

Originally posted by Fluffy Monster Thing:

I've yet to encounter any actual loading screens when transitioning the Biomes actually. You can just walk from desert to forest to oilwell basin to iceshard cliffs to the the wyverian ruins without a single loading screen.

hidden loading screens in corridors

Except the corridors aren't long enough to hide a loading screen. The transition from Iceshard to The ruins takes less than five seconds on a Seikret. If you encounter loading barriers at all maybe you just installed the game on an ancient 300 rpm hard drive that used to store soviet nuclear codes.

Or your running this off of like, Six hundred or so floppy disks?

[SatanicCereal]

Originally posted by Fluffy Monster Thing:

Originally posted by Maya-Neko:

I've yet to encounter any actual loading screens when transitioning the Biomes actually. You can just walk from desert to forest to oilwell basin to iceshard cliffs to the the wyverian ruins without a single loading screen.

Oilwell to Iceshard cliffs has a loading screen, but it's the only one

[lolschrauber]

Originally posted by Katitoff:

Originally posted by Maya-Neko:

It's a segmented open world. There are loading screen inbetween the different biomes, so it's not seemless, but you can go where you want after unlocking the different areas through the Story.

It is seamless.
All games will have loadings if you fast travel, regardless how open they are. I'll let you figure out why yourself.

Still not open World imho as each location must be unlocked first.

[Oku]

In the strictest sense of what open world actually means, yes, it is in fact open world. You can run from one side of the overworld map to the other, including through individual regions, without ever hitting a loading screen, they are just hidden behind loading corridors that you walk through so even though it's not a Skyrim map where you are in full control of your character to go anywhere on the over world in any direction at any time, it's still a fully seamless world map.

Think of it like Elite: Dangerous, 400 Billion to-scale star systems to visit in the game's play space, but you have to hyperspace jump in between individual systems and that hyperspace transition is a hidden loading screen. You never actually go to a fade-out/fade-in loading screen, you are always behind the controls and UI of your ship, but there is a hidden process that deloads the previous area and loads in the new one.

So yes, it's open world, but no, it is not open world like Skyrim.

[Evilgenius]

Originally posted by Fluffy Monster Thing:

Or your running this off of like, Six hundred or so floppy disks?

closer to 90000 floppy disks.

[Evilgenius]

Originally posted by lolschrauber:

Still not open World imho as each location must be unlocked first.

So GTA 3 was not an open world game?

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Evilgenius:

Originally posted by Fluffy Monster Thing:

Or your running this off of like, Six hundred or so floppy disks?

closer to 90000 floppy disks.

With HD texture pack, yes.