[PA Comic] Monday, April 1, 2013 - How To Turn Time Into Bones
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FIRE IN THE HOLE!!!
*Dives behind cover as the rest of the gaming world shows up*
-edit-
also, his loincloth thing vanished between panels.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Today is the perfect day to express your sincere opinion on something like that. I think they absolutely found it dull.
I'll take it!
Damn. I pulled up a trailer, and you're not kidding. I'm not that uppity about graphics, but that's the definition of "phoning it in".
Fine, his Merkin is missing.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
So I feel there's been deceit
I helped sell a ton of copies
Yet all I'm known for is a RECEIPT
Which forumer am I?
Uh, Tri was a whole new engine, with all new monsters. They rebuilt weapon/monster collision from the ground up. So I don't know what you're talking about, except that the core gameplay is the same. Except that they also added underwater fights to Tri, and MH4 has vertical surfaces and monster climbing.
So... yeah, what you said isn't actually true! I guess you still use big weapons to fight monsters. It is a Monster Hunter game.
though I'm in a PAIR
My GAMES bring many happiness
though I am known for my DESPAIR
Which forumer am I?
Chelicerae another one
To him CHITIN is a fashion
Why should chordates have all the fun?
Which forumer am I?
kingworkscreative.com
kingworkscreative.blogspot.com
An act both nice and kind
But I had to go for I could not bear
That brat STEPSON of mine
Which forumer am I?
Probably changed his mind? It happens! Also, I thought the check was more along the lines, we are playing these games not like YOU SHOULD BUY THESE GAMES.
So much as the fact that I think they forgot to write a joke.
It's true; MH is kinda its own thing, and really doesn't spend a lot of time making accommodations. If you're in to what it has to give, it's great. If you're not, it's not.
Not to be "That guy" but Monster Hunter only truly becomes fun when you start fighting monsters the size of ATV troop land carriers and 747's
I'd argue the game doesn't really become "Fun" until you start fighting Royal Lundroth and Barroth's, the first large monsters in the game where you need to know actual situational awareness and just can't ROLL ROLL ROLL when they start to barely turn towards you.
Only then do all the games true mechanics come out, which is why Barroth is considered the "Wall" in new monster hunter games, because the game stops being a cakewalk at that point
EDIT: Yes, I am aware this only really occurs by hour 6+ in the game, but like I said, this is the game becomes incredibly fun and not just fighting oversized bears and ostriches
Explain the popularity of EVE online
Also those six hours of "Not fun" it teaching you all the basics of the game, which is incredibly complex deep down, and you literally have to master what one of 5+ openers you will move, which of the 5+ combo's you will execute, and judging on how a monster flinches which of up to 7+ evade maneuvers you should be pulling off, all of this for the games 10+ weapons
Again, Barroth is a wall cause you just can't run up and smack him, you actually need to use the incredibly deep combat system
Surprised he loved Ni no Kuni then.
But there is a lot of stuff it has to teach you, and I can't really think of a "better" way to handle the early game learning phase.
I definitely wouldn't say it's 6+ hours though, I'd say 2-3 maybe? And even that may seem like a lot of immediate downtime once you start the game, but you only ever really have to do it once, and then once you're past that the game has hundreds of hours of stuff to offer. Or if you're insane like me, thousands.
EDIT: But yeah, again, MH isn't for everybody and I absolutely acknowledge that. I can easily look from outside and see loads of stuff that would probably bug different people about the game, despite my absolute love of it.
The situation actually reminds me of another PA comic:
You start small because for the uninitiated and unprepared, Monster Hunter devours your dreams.
It's perfectly okay to have tried it and simply not to be able to get into it too, though. It tends to click or it doesn't.
Another thing I like about monster hunter is how the mechanics reenforce the struggle necessary in taking down a large animal. I like playing with the great sword (which can take 1.5 seconds to swing), and trying to get one step ahead of the monster in order to get a hit. A good hunt will actually tire me out, because I tense up when my character is swinging or trying to dodge.
Monster Hunter does a huge number of things wrong though, and I while I understand that MH is a game series that doesn't care if you like it, I wish they would at least try to address these issues...
- I wish you could kill a cool monster in the solo campaign within 1 hour out of the gate
- Harvesting and combining is cool, but don't force me to spend 10 years listening to everyone in town (i.e. the dialog is overly verbose)
- Underwater battles lack a sense of depth, so it's very hard to tell when something is in range
- The dialog box in the Wii U version is stupid small
I still absolutely love the game though. Nothing beats fighting a Barroth for 20 minutes and then cutting off its stupid club tail.