Is it truly 'open-world' ?

[Lord Haart]

...or a world with walls everywhere.



How large is it if so ?


Thx

[Rathex 🐆]

Older monster hunter games had loading between zones, now there is no more loading times, same map sizes, but they are connected

[Faust Wither]

no, it has their own wall in each area.

[pRaX]

nope

[Lord Haart]

This sounds badly. They should not be allowed to put open world if it isn't.

[Kawalorn]

It's not "Open World". It's 7 large map for you to wander in. You also can't do things like climb over hills and such, unless devs decided to let you in that spot.

Originally posted by Lord Haart:

This sounds badly. They should not be allowed to put open world if it isn't.

Yeah, unfortunately user tags can be whatever they decide to meme that day.

[GladiatorDragon]

It's not an open world game like BOTW or the much newer Genshin Impact, where there is a single map that you explore and you do side quests.

This game is a "boss hunter," where you run through an area trying to locate and destroy bosses. It's also a looter game, where you complete tasks to get better gear, and then use that better gear to complete harder tasks. Most of your time will be spent doing quests, where you hunt down a specific monster.

There are five areas in the base game, and two are added in the Iceborne expansion. They are fairly organic-looking areas, but you can't really explore to your hearts content like in a true open-world.

In all honesty, it's just called Monster Hunter World for a few reasons:
1. It is actually the fifth game of the main series of Monster Hunter, but numbers will scare off new players, as they would have seen the 5 and been worried that they have to play 4 other games. Removing the number seems to have worked, as Monster Hunter World is the most popular game that the franchise has ever seen.

2. This game takes place in an area of the Monster Hunter world known as the "New World," which is representative of this being the first Monster Hunter to use a new engine.

[Tregrenos]

Originally posted by Lord Haart:

This sounds badly. They should not be allowed to put open world if it isn't.

Feel free to voice a complaint, but be sure to step out of line when you do so you don't hold up the next 5 people wanting to play the game. Capcom might definitely maybe respond eventually. While you're waiting for said response feel free to Google videos to see map sizes and why it's labeled as Open World. In fact, here's one for you to look over while you wait for that possibly considered potential response.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6LIxeWJku0

[Lord Haart]

As I thought, a world of walls !

[Polaris]

I will say, even though there are "walls" it doesn't really feel confined, it's not open world, but don't let that hold you back, it's still a great game :D

[Juliane_L]

Originally posted by Lord Haart:

They should not be allowed to put open world if it isn't.

where do you even see "open world" ?

[Tregrenos]

Originally posted by Lord Haart:

As I thought, a world of walls !

Thank you for considering Monster Hunter World. While the company prides itself on a formula that's worked for over a decade and a half and has not only shown signs of improvement over the lifespan of MHW but that they also listen to their player base the lack of your patronage won't be noticed. We, at Capcom, have actually already forgotten who we are currently talking to.

NEXT!

(Lemmie know if this sarcasm is sinking in whoever I was just talking to.)

[Magma Dragoon]

Imagine how frustrating a truly open world Monster Hunter game would be. After an exchange in the Ancient Forest the Rathian flies away to the Coral Highlands. By the time you get there she's started flying to Wildspire Waste, etc... After the hunt you need to wait 10 minutes for the ferry to Seliana to arrive in Astera.

[Greb]

It's the ideal kind of open world - sandbox.

Small, detailed areas all distinct to one another (in most cases, I guess) making up a large map. It's not a crappy open world game like MGSV or Ghost Recon Wildlands with basically nothing in it between a few detailed locations and copy pasted outposts, it's more contained, smaller and focused. A sandbox, or maybe very loosely could be considered an "interconnected, hub based open world game" or whatever.

You can't walk from one map to the next, although you can just take a wingdrake if you're not in a quest and locked to a region. Loading screens ahoy, of course.

You could also consider it to be a game that takes place across six large maps. They're big enough that you can take the time to explore them, small enough that travelling from one side to the next isn't a pain in theass and detailed enough that each small section of a particular map is distinct from the next, to a point.

There's also a bunch of HQ areas to hang out in between missions, for what it's worth. It's not an MMO, but it does contain certain similarities in that regard, but on a much smaller scale (sessions are only 16 players big, but hunting parties can only be 4 players big)

[Shichiya]

Originally posted by Lord Haart:

As I thought, a world of walls !

Judging by this reply, I don't think OP is being serious.

[Lord Haart]

Originally posted by Juliane_L:

Originally posted by Lord Haart:

They should not be allowed to put open world if it isn't.

where do you even see "open world" ?

I meant the Steam tag/flag things.