What's the difference between world and MH4/Generations?

[Leravi The Hyena:33]

I'd love to know so I'm prepared :3

[Hash Slinger]

im not answering your question just because you typed ":3"

[McFuzz]

NOW LOADING

[Goddess Greya]

World is a far superior game (IMO) because of the quality of life changes, mechanical flow of combat feeling far more natural, etc. People love to scream World is so easy, etc etc. Sure, it's been streamlined, but most of that is QoL ♥♥♥♥ that was Capcom cutting the fat so we could get directly to the meat. World feels like what MH was always supposed to be. This is obviously my opinion, but I know I'm not the only one who thinks this.

I played MH:G and MH:XX (imported MH:GU) a lot, it's.. eh. This feels very like like an 'end of era' game, a sendoff if you will. It has 'styles', which are broken and OP. With aerial style you can spam the dodge button near a monster, do flips off of it, do aerial attacks.. and doing this can net 4-6+ mounts in a single hunt. Adept style gave you stupid i-frames on your dodges, meaning you could dodge right through monster attacks taking no damage, then it rewarded you with a turbocharged follow up attack. I could go on.

Regardless of where your preferences lie in MH, MH:G/MH:GU is still a fantastic experience and I do recommend it, but I simply think it pales in comparison to World, but there is no question about it having more content on release, at least right now. So if you get a bit burnt out on World and want to tide yourself over until G-Rank hits or something, MH:GU is the best option I see. MH:G/MH:GU is still MH, and that's enough. I don't recommend 4U unless you're fine soloing, everything, which is iffy as a lot of the endgame ♥♥♥♥ in 4U is VERY HARD to solo, but a few people do still play. Even I hop on from time to time.

But, to be more specific:

MH:GU is going to have a lot more content than World, at least right now. It is the full Generations, every MH game has gotten an expansion since the PSP days bringing G-Rank as well as some other things. MH:GU is MH:G expanded, World hasn't got there, yet. If/when World gets G-Rank, MH:GU will be dead in the water to me and many others.

Areas are far smaller and the game has way more loading screens going from place to place. There are more areas in general, but the areas are more simple and much smaller. It's almost all horizontal space, too, there's very little depth going on to the areas vertically in most cases. There's also multiple hubs, or villages, unlike World's sprawling uberhub. Quests aren't just handed to you like in World either, a lot of them have to be picked up from Elder's or NPC's on your own time without the game shooing you toward them.

A lot of the fights in Gen feel like copy pastes of old monsters that have no business being in the game due to the ability to cheese them with the OP styles. I loved having my nostalgia tickled, but they wore thin fast. It also has the typical 'PS2' level MH graphics, though the Switch is improving that slightly and making it 60FPS I believe. The movesets for weapons is far more limited, there's just less you can do, especially with the way styles work. SnS is better in Gen because of oils, I miss those. Gen is not harder than World, styles/arts make sure of this. Now, G-Rank is harder than anything in World, sure, but that's any MH title. G-Rank is the difficulty turned up to 11 and it will bust your balls to pieces the first time through.

In short, MH:GU is going to have a ♥♥♥♥ ton of content compared to World, ON RELEASE, but once World gets more, it'll just be 'the last gen' of MH like 4U was with Gen, and it's playerbase will die out slowly. I don't see MH:GU pulling a lot of players outside of the hardcore fans right now anyway due to World just launching on the PC. I'll be buying MH:GU, it's still MH and it's a damned good game, but unless you just prefer the older MH where items root you in place because you just HAVE to flex after and you have to bring pickaxes and nets to gather.. you'll probably just want to play World when going through it.

MH4U is Generations Ultimate but without the OP styles and a few other things, I liked 4U far more than I liked Generations but the game is basically dead multiplayer wise at this point. MH4U had a very difficult G-Rank, it's the game that made a lot of people fall in love with the series. It's the second best game behind World IMO. Overall though, 4U is far more similar to Gen than Gen is to World.

It's still a 9.2/10 game for me, but if World gets G-Rank and is optimized/fix, World is a 9.8-10/10 for me.


If you love this series, I recommend every game, except the stories game or whatever it was called, that truly isn't MH. There's also a Chinese MH MMO called Monster Hunter Online if that interests you and Mandarin isn't a problem, it may be able to be modded over to English or etc however. Not sure.

The best games in the series to me, are World (1st), 4U (2nd) and Freedom Unite (3rd). Freedom Unite is very hard to play these days for me because the hitboxes are atrocious, but I can never forget that game. It's the game that made MH 'click' for me, it's where I fell in love.

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^ the guy asked for some differences not for you to become roger ebert

[Goddess Greya]

Originally posted by 󠀡:

^ the guy asked for some differences not for you to become roger ebert

I don't see the word 'some' anywhere in the post, he flat out asked the differences, so I spent five minutes typing that out to explain them. If big words and long paragraphs bother you, don't read it and move on. Not everything is a TL;DR and you aren't even the OP.

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you put alot of personal opinion in there and your own plans like what you would buy as if people cared

[Goddess Greya]

Originally posted by 󠀡:

you put alot of personal opinion in there and your own plans like what you would buy as if people cared

Personal opinion? What other kinds of opinions could I give? Do you know what an opinion is? Lmfao.

Also, a good bit is objective facts, like weapons having far simpler movesets, items rooting you and place, etc.

You really aren't bright, are you? You clearly care, as you keep responding and you aren't the OP, so there's no point besides your own personal drive motivating replies. AKA, you care.

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you could just list the differences out in a neutral way and not put yourself on a soapbox for a start

[Goddess Greya]

Boohoo. You done?

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Originally posted by DoctorVonBuzzkill:

Boohoo. You done?

yes. hav e a nice night

[Goddess Greya]

Clearly not done.

[Your Shifu]

Veteran say they never regret buy it because it fun, even though it easier than previous games.
Yes its for newbies. I still get ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up by Puke-pukei though

[Goddess Greya]

I really wish people would stop spamming 'lel 2 ez' when 99% of them haven't even broke out of Low Rank yet, even more didn't play Gen (Gen is the easiest MH by a wide margin, this is far from an unpopular opinion) and practically none of you state real reasons why. Scout flies and autocrafting doesn't make the game easier.

All I'm saying is, state why you think it's easier, stop just spamming that it is because it's the popular copypasta right now.

[Samurai]

Originally posted by 󠀡:

^ the guy asked for some differences not for you to become roger ebert

i can tell your fun at parties lol

[Saiha]

Originally posted by Legendary KungFu Master:

Veteran say they never regret buy it because it fun, even though it easier than previous games.
Yes its for newbies. I still get ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up by Puke-pukei though

i'm not even a veteran and i can progress smoothly up to diablos where i got carted for the first time
this game is at least easier than MH3
or maybe i feel that way because playing on PSP's smaller screen is a factor