Every new release

Also some hunters: Rushing to HR999 in 1 or 1.5 weeks then whining about lack of contents, not challenging and boring. Of course don’t forget to say the game is dying.

I’m torn on it.

On the one hand, I feel like the game was too short and easy. I played 1, Tri, World, and Rise, and thought all of those were epic adventures starting from so little and grinding up to gods. In this game, I felt like I was already a bad ass from the get-go but the stakes didn’t rise to meet that level, both narratively and mechanically. On top of that, it sort of pitters out at the end of High Rank with an unsatisfying end, again both narratively and mechanically. Spoiler: >!You don’t even have a chance to fight the ‘credit roll’ monster again, or anything considered an Elder Dragon yet.!<

On the other hand, I also feel like the combat is more fluid than before, with very little downtime interrupting fights. I don’t feel like I’m stuck in wars of attrition, nor, thanks to the investigation system, having to grind the same monster for a couple days just to get certain rare drops that aren’t getting in my pocket. I like that there’s a lot of supplemental aids to material gathering through trades in addition to the normal MH kit of farms(Material Gatherers) and the shipments. If it doesn’t feel like as much content because a bunch of fluff and grind was taken out, I don’t want to send a signal that says, “Yes, please waste my time more” just to *feel* like it gives more value. I like that it doesn’t feel like a slog.

I guess, at the end of the day, what I really feel is a lack of closure. I was waiting for an epic fight to really sink my teeth into and justify the work I did. Before I knew it, I was done. The progression stopped and now all that’s left to do is farm armor spheres and RNG crafting so I can more optimally kill everything I’ve already beaten. Should I be a little upset that I got 60 hours out of the base game on release? Probably not, that’s a lot of time and I enjoyed it overall (esp once in High Rank and out of the main story). It just gave me an itch but never gave me the scratch I was looking for.

For fuck’s sake. I remember very well that I finished base World 80+ hour and I didn’t catch any fish or spend a milisecond to catch endemic life. I didn’t even go expedition more than 3 or 4 times. And never killed a tempered monster.

In Wilds I spend 10+ more hours to catching fish and capturing endemic life. Slayed almost all monsters’ tempered versions and still had 50 hours. I almost even collect more golden crown than World that I played 700ish hours.

Yes.

AND

The game lacks content, has a rushed vibe, and needs some work.

Sometimes there are multiple truths.

When it comes to the duration of the game, I didn’t mind it as I’m a working dad, but I can definitely spot some the previous titles’ “time wasters” that don’t exist here (and I personally miss them, but to each their own):

– you no longer need to farm “counter” sets. Aka water armour vs fire and vice versa. This significantly reduces the amount of time you spend in low and lower high rank, as you have no incentive to stay behind.
– you essentially don’t need armour spheres either. I’m honestly not good at the game and I haven’t had a quest failed yet even after tempered Arkveld. I’m not going to complain about difficulty, but I definitely feel something was off.

I’m just gonna post this again, no elder dragons is crazy. Every MH game has harder bosses after you take down the flagship. If they had a few more fights on Arkveld and Gores level this would be the best MH of all time. Been Hunting since 3u but it’s still top 3 in the franchise (not counting expansions)

Bold to assume I got remotely close to 100 hours before feeling that way.

And can we stop pretending that this “is normal” or “has always been the case”? Because it’s not. Wilds was not a game that laid out a completely new foundation like 1st, 3rd or 5th gen and was understandably low on content because of that. This game should’ve been brimming with content in the same way 2nd and 4th gen were (even before GRank), the fact that it has less than Rise is a joke.

It’s just the game is easy, let’s be honest, barely any high tier monsters for the endgame

I’ll tell you where the contents are:

CROWNS

I was done with wilds content long before 100 hours and even after grinding to HR100 and catching all those fucking fish im still only 78 hours in.

I wish more games had no content so I could play them a whole hundred hours.

I’ve finished every piece of content and every side quest in 29 hours. I took around 60 hours to finish with World on PC after beating it originally years ago on console. I’ve got the optimal meta armor, decorations, artian weapons and now nothing to grind for in that short amount of time.

That is a record time for being entirely done with the Monster Hunter grind for me personally. I played World for 200+ hours before getting bored pre-TU’s, I played every Monster Hunter game I played previously for weeks as my only game because of the length of the grind, yet I was done and bored with MH Wilds completely in around a single week and 29.2 hours (At least two hours were AFK so it’s probably around 26-27)

The game was rushed out and lacks content, stop defending it and just accept that fact, we’re having to get a Gathering Hub as part of a TU for Christ’s sake. You’re allowed to like the game without defending a shoddy, buggy, rushed and empty product.