Romance?

[Storm]

Will the devs add romance in their next title?

[McJiggy]

The only thing you should romance is your weapon

[Susono]

Yeah, i wanna date Dodogama. Such a handsome lad.

[SteeamRentShop]

Originally posted by JamestheFreak:

The only thing you should romance is your weapon

Then I'm just a regular dude that's married to a beautiful horn but still doing naughy stuff backdoor with a lovely greatsword.

[Rally]

Lol romance in a monster hunter game. Yeah no

[Susono]

Originally posted by Jack Reaver:

I saw this, clicked on it, then had to check which forum I was on because this is such a, if I'm being honest, nonsense question for MH. It's like asking if a future Sims game will have a gun customization system.

More detailed LBG and HBG Customization sounds pretty good though.

[Dagný]

I want to romanced the admiral

[Pranci]

Originally posted by Knight of Rem:

Will the devs add romance in their next title?

What do you want next? Pronouns?

[😎Astran😾]

Romance would be too early for the target auditory: Monster Hunter series are oriented towards 10-12 years old children (look at the cartoon visuals and armor design).

[Popcorn]

Originally posted by Astran:

Romance would be too early for the target auditory: Monster Hunter series are oriented towards 10-12 years old children (look at the cartoon visuals and armor design).

Man, you cant be an adult to have fun with funny weapons.
Must be the new time and age where jokes and things always hurt someone's feeling

[ressenmacher]

Originally posted by Pranci:

What do you want next? Pronouns?

Way better and more useful feature than romance. Probably not necessary in solo because everyone already refers to you by title anyways, though. Maybe it could be a multiplayer option?

At any rate, adding a romance feature would not only suck up significant resources if it were to be a meaningful system, it's overwhelmingly likely that it would suffer from a great number of problems caused by conflicting design focuses.

In the MH series, the player has essentially always been a blank slate yes-man with no personality or even voice. They are the mechanical vessel for the player, and not really an entity all their own. The MH team is already not very good at writing stories, and this change would require them to essentially reverse their style of character writing for the Hunter that's been going for like 12 games now. I really don't think they're up for that, especially with the paper-thin excuse plots and characters carried only by quirkiness which have become a staple of the series.

Originally posted by Astran:

Romance would be too early for the target auditory: Monster Hunter series are oriented towards 10-12 years old children (look at the cartoon visuals and armor design).

This isn't the worst video game related take I've ever seen, but it's pretty close.

Monster Hunter is in no way meant for young children. It is simply too complex and too difficult of a game, especially when one considers how little handholding/explanation of mechanics is present (particularly in the early games). The very long nature of hunts and the grinding aspect also don't mesh well with short attention spans.

From personal experience, I actually tried the series (MHTri) at that age, and it was a mess. I had no idea what I was doing; Great Jaggi hunts routinely took 20+ minutes because I had no idea what the concept of hitzones even were.

[CookedMeat]

Pokemon targeted audience: Kids
Actual players: Nostalgic adults
CoD targeted audience: Mature adults
Actual players: Kids

[Soul]

romance with a mute protag that whole point is "sword to face" would need close to 0 story,hell you can invent your own with how many freaking time we have to save the Handler in the game and say how she's all over the hunter,the only romance I need is I love my hammer,it can bonk so many monster

[TVMAN]

Originally posted by The Grotesque Abomination:

*Eating a simple meal*
“Yea! I love me a lady who can down big meats! Cheers all around!”

*Going on a hunt*
“Let us skin hides together and don them at our betrothal ceremony!”

Okay this made me change my mind. I'm on board with romance in MH now.

[prpl_mage]

Originally posted by ressenmacher:

From personal experience, I actually tried the series (MHTri) at that age, and it was a mess. I had no idea what I was doing; Great Jaggi hunts routinely took 20+ minutes because I had no idea what the concept of hitzones even were.

Ah, Great Jaggi hunts for newbie players.

[Pranci]

Originally posted by ressenmacher:

Originally posted by Pranci:

What do you want next? Pronouns?

Way better and more useful feature than romance. Probably not necessary in solo because everyone already refers to you by title anyways, though. Maybe it could be a multiplayer option?

At any rate, adding a romance feature would not only suck up significant resources if it were to be a meaningful system, it's overwhelmingly likely that it would suffer from a great number of problems caused by conflicting design focuses.

In the MH series, the player has essentially always been a blank slate yes-man with no personality or even voice. They are the mechanical vessel for the player, and not really an entity all their own. The MH team is already not very good at writing stories, and this change would require them to essentially reverse their style of character writing for the Hunter that's been going for like 12 games now. I really don't think they're up for that, especially with the paper-thin excuse plots and characters carried only by quirkiness which have become a staple of the series.

Originally posted by Astran:

Romance would be too early for the target auditory: Monster Hunter series are oriented towards 10-12 years old children (look at the cartoon visuals and armor design).

This isn't the worst video game related take I've ever seen, but it's pretty close.

Monster Hunter is in no way meant for young children. It is simply too complex and too difficult of a game, especially when one considers how little handholding/explanation of mechanics is present (particularly in the early games). The very long nature of hunts and the grinding aspect also don't mesh well with short attention spans.

From personal experience, I actually tried the series (MHTri) at that age, and it was a mess. I had no idea what I was doing; Great Jaggi hunts routinely took 20+ minutes because I had no idea what the concept of hitzones even were.

Mh games have no story or love implications and they don't need it, it's simple as that