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Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam

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Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around?

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3w ago

Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around?

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Performance issues I understand, but wah wah I spent 100 hours and now I'm bored is kinda absurd to complain about.
- this seems to be a thing gamers complain about more and more with these games that aren't live service games but receive updates for a year or whatever. i saw it happen a lot with animal crossing new horizons, or it still happens that people are mad it doesn't get updated 5 years after its release.
  a consequence of the live service game model I guess
  
  I mean it’s more that every monster hunter has been releasing with less and less monsters to fight and areas to explore, likely because higher graphics fidelity. It’s not skewed expectations from live service mindset or whatever it’s the expectations from playing previous monster hunters.
- My friend is like this. It's like, they want everything to be a never-ending MMO. There's a whole online culture of patchnote influencers for games like this. For fighting games I could get it, but for something that's like singleplayer/online co-op like Monster Hunter is so fucking bizarre. Like an alien reading music lyrics as non-fiction writing or something.
  Edit: oh, TheSpectreOfGay already said this.
  
  The MMO open world loot box 4k hyperrealistic graphics AAA+ games are truly the bane of existence. I play a lot of older rpgs and 60-70 hours of gameplay is like the perfect amount. I lose actual interest if it goes for too long.
  With around 130h DAO ultimate was actually the longest linear game I have played and even then I was kinda glad it was over by the end.
“This ain’t my monster Hunter” - I say as I go back to claw gripping my PSP
the game doesn't even look like particularly good. i'll take the visuals of that switch monster hunter over terrible performance any day.
- graphics peaked in 2000-2010. I especially miss the more artistic/stylized approach to design. Everything needs to be "clean" and "real" these days. Like take Mass Effect 1 for example, in the remake they got rid of the filters - like completely erasing parts of the visual storytelling in the process.
  
  Gotta be at least a few chuds out there deriding this as “woke lighting”
  
  I tend to agree but the endless grey/brown sludge graphics were getting pretty relentless by the end of the decade there
- Some of the locales are nice but the ice cliffs area is soooo fucking ugly and boring compared to the one from Iceborne six years ago and while the oil basin area has a fun conceit it is way too ugly for how badly it runs
- I just want some fucking color and the ability to run the game at 60fps without a supercomputer.
- I do agree. Monster Hunter World was a neat novelty exploring what a realistic monster Hunter could look like, but please give me the bright colors and low poly cartoon monsters back.
I feel like every new monhun has two phases. Phase 1 is release where it's good but the previous entry with all the dlc and content looks better. Then around expansion time it becomes "good" again.
Happened with rise, happening with wilds
- Someone was saying this about mario kart world. You can either pay $500 to play the new version that’s not got as much content, or keep playing the game that’s been having dlc and updates for 10 years on the previous two Nintendo platforms lol.
  
  Yeah like, I got wilds at release because I trust Capcom to keep releasing content and I'll eventually go back to it.
  I think Mario kart is a similar proposition. Would it be better if all the dlc were out at once? Sure. But it also serves to keep the player pool rejuvenated when done right. Capcom may be fumbling this aspect but we'll see
I always thought the concept of the MH games sounded so fun, but never got to play one until after the multiplayer for it was effectively dead, or at least I'd be so far behind it didn't sound enjoyable. I was really excited to try this one on release, and then the reviews and benchmarks showed how it ran like dogshit on PC so I'm still living in a world without MH. Maybe next game

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