Poll: Are You Playing Monster Hunter Wilds?

No I made the joke earlier that I feel like that meme of Homer at the bar 😅. Just never got into Monster Hunter

I'll probably get it later. But today I'm participating in the economy blackout and I encourage everyone to do the same.

Monster hunter world was the best game last generation. Hopefully this game gives me the same vibe.

@Enuo what's that and why is that?

There's always more no than yes in every poll, makes me wonder what all you guys actually play. 😂

I wasn't a big Monster Hunter fan until this game. (Played Rise and World, kinda like them but didn't finish any)

Man, they really created a smooth, lively, vibrant and believable world of wildlife and the multiplayer mode is so smart and fun.

I feel bad killing monsters. I’d rather be friends with them.

@ATaco Well I just finished playing Parappa The Rapper and now i'm playing Onimusha at the moment 🤷

I love monster hunter. But too many amazing games to play right now to sink time into playing a game in 720p at 20fps

I'm straddling the line between "Nah, but I am tempted" and "No, Monster Hunter Wilds just isn't for me". On paper, Monster Hunter should be a Mark-ass game, but I tried Rise and got 4 hours in before becoming completely overwhelmed by all the mechanics and information it was giving me. I know Wilds is supposedly the most approachable Monster Hunter game yet, but I'm sure people said that about Rise.

Ps5 base user here and imo the performance isn't that bad,I think the game needs tightening up in certain areas but it's been a pretty good experience so far and much better than I was expecting.

I got around 8 hours in. Loving every second of it. The story is better than World (although it's not the main reason you play this franchise.)

I can see myself pouring hundreds of hours into this game.

I had time to play for an hour or so and I'm having a fun time. PC performance for me isn't terrible or anything.

Having started with Rise, I figured sure. Saw the performance, decided it was time to go all in on PC because what happened there.

I’m still waiting to get home from work. It’s about 1:00 PM and I have 4 hours left before I get to leave.

Fortunately it’s pre-installed on my PS5 Pro, so I’m ready to play.

@Deadlyblack Performance has been great for me so far on console. Having a great time fighting Lala Barina

Nah, won’t be this weekend that I play it unfortunately. But I will get around to it eventually.

@Enuo I didn't know this was a thing - thanks for the heads up

@Enuo and the rest of us will just continue to live life normally, as not spending money for 24 hours is perfectly normal, and so it's highly unlikely to impact any companies or organizations in any tangible way. That stuff aside...

I fully intent to play Wilds later on today when work slows down, and then throw in a few hours later tonight!

I've tried to get into this series on three separate occasions including playing World but yeah its just not for me.

I appreciate how important it is for Capcom though and helps fund other Capcom titles I am more interested in so go get 'em Monster Hunter! I'm playing Splitgate 2 mostly this weekend instead for my multiplayer needs.

My feelings don't really have an option. Played Worlds when it came out, it was cool, I finished it and had some fun, don't really feel the need to play another one.
The story/characters/world weren't that interesting imo. The gameplay loop hooks you though.

Is the difference between adore and a huge fan cosplaying and having posters of the handler? Becaus I’m definitely the latter if that’s case , I’ve played every release since World but adore is a pretty odd word to use.

@Deadlyblack from what I’ve seen of performance on PC it looks fine. I think a lot of people just try to max settings and refuse to lower it then write angry reviews. I have my ps5 pro specifically for Japanese games as they’re notoriously shoddy on PC, but I can run DD2 on PC at 1440p, max settings with ray tracing at 70-90 fps using a 4060. So I don’t know what to tell people.

That being said, Fromsoft can kick rocks with how they blamed mouse software for microstutters on PC. Absurd.

Not even for free, honestly.

it seems the performance on console is similar to Dragons Dogma 2, which is still not great after a longer time. I guess I will get it on Steam in spring, when I plan to upgrade my rig.

@Coffeeglitch The game is running fine on my 4070 ti super. It has some light microstutters once in a while but it's nothing terrible. I'm running the game on ultra with ray tracing and it's running at a good 60 fps.

I'm hoping to. It is crashing quite a bit.

I have tried Monster Hunter games in the past and they never really clicked.

Even if I was into the franchise all I am seeing online are complaints about performance on pretty much every platform (but especially pc ) so I would have held off on this one anyway.

Most anticipated game of the year. I've played every console and handheld MH entry and so far I'm not disappointed at all. Hoping my fellow hunters are also having a blast 🍖😼

Massive fan of the series and had the Premium Deluxe version pre-ordered for a while. Plays and looks pretty well on the Pro and so far the game has been great if a little too easy.

@Nepp67 Yeah she's a great new monster and the her movement animation is incredible.

@Deadlyblack I watched a streamer yesterday who got a promo copy & he spent the first 1 hour 30 minutes essentially trouble shooting so the game didn't stutter. I mean even the menu was lagging when he was moving between settings

Different folks, different set-ups and different experience.

@RiverGenie Yeah, I feel the pc performance is hit or miss for a lot of people. There's even people that are getting worse performance out of cpus and gpus that are above what my PC has.

Hopefully Capcom can release some patches to iron out some issues cause I remember the pc port of World being rough on release, but it's in a really good state now.

Played a few hours on base PS5.
Not enough to get a feel of the game, but I can at least confirm that the performance mode runs a lot better than the terrible beta performance.

Not great by a long shot, but does a passable job of staying at mostly 60fps and image quality not high, but bearable.

@Enuo good for u.
The sooner this embarrassing attempt at a resurgence of toxicity and regression is consigned to the the history books, the better.

I'd kinda want to get back into Monster Hunter at some point. But for now it's just too big of a time sink.

Got a physical that came with the steel book case. Just waiting for all the downloads to get done then I'll start playing it.

Never played one, no idea what it is. Is it like Horizon Zero Dawn or more like Elden Ring? I don’t have the skills or patience for a Soulslike.

The one I played was just too much of a grind. It took forever to kill a monster. Maybe I didn’t know what I was doing.

Took the day off for this game. I've been playing all day, and LOVE it

I played Worlds and got hopelessly addicted. Sleep, then work and relationships suffered. So I’m staying away from Wilds for my own good… but that siren’s song is calling…

I have zero experience with the series however I was considering giving it a go but certainly not with the performance on console. Especially after playing on release, the visual quality to performance ratio of Dragons Dogma 2, which really has only seen minor patched improvements to this day.

Id rather play it in it a better form or on heavy discount considering those factors. Their RE engine isn't capable of adequate performance in open world ish titles. Yet it's pretty hard to give a massive outfit like Capcom a pass when they absolutely have the resources to change or upgrade it and put out polished titles at this price point at release.

@Skippermonkey It's really its own thing. You could say the enemy design is like Horizon (though, really vice versa) and the action design is alike Souls-likes (stiff and deliberate). In design philosophy, I would say Monster Hunter and FromSoft have quite a lot on common. But the experiences are completely different.

@SquawkingTurtle I don't really take this boycott seriously and know it will affect absolutely nothing.

But still, actively buying more out of spite for protesters is completely asinine. The only solace is that you're probably talking out your a$$ to sound cool on the Internet.

So far it's just too easy I'm afraid. Wound popping is OP, my main's new move is also OP. They need to buff monsters and nerf hunters with a balancing patch. I genuinely don't know what they were thinking giving Large Monsters hp pools that last 3-4 minutes if you're moderately familiar with your moveset

I've played lots of the previous games, but I'm feeling burnt out from the series. Plus, I'm still on PS4, and it won't run on my PC, so I'd need to upgrade something before I could play it.

I'll see how things are once the inevitable Iceborne/Sunbreak style expansion releases. Perhaps I'll come around to the game by then.

Charging money to change your character is the beginning of Capcom losing all the good will it has created over the last decade. Very disappointing

Absolutely not. Cannot reward a company releasing a game with such compromised performance metrics with my cash.

Last answer to both

Tried previous entries on the psp, Wii and ps4. none of them clicked, might check out wilds in a few years when it’s cheap but never understood the appeal from what I’ve played.

I tried MH1 on PS2, MH4U on 3DS, and World on PS4 and i can't click with the gameplay. So no, MH isn't for me and i'm not gonna play Wild.

I still haven't even played world 🤠

@DennisReynolds I know it's low rank but I defeated her very quickly. I hope there's a harder version in high rank

How does this compare to Dragon's Dogma 2 in terms of combat?

I will probably not play Wilds at all.
Game just looks meh to me.
Kinda wish we had gotten a sequel to Rise instead because that one was amazing on Switch.

Never played the series but my best friend wanted me to check out World. No idea if it’s my kind of game or not, but maybe someday I’ll look into it.

Too scared to start. I know this game will gobble up all my time xD

I’m intrigued, but I am every time… and I always end up finding myself bored. It’s still just a grind, right?

My last monster hunt was on psp in like 2009

@Deadlyblack the remarkable thing is people claim to have that same card and are seeing constant freezing and crashing, which is why I feel like most of these issues are due to user error. I’ll be the first person to call out devs for horrific optimization but it’s also very common for windows to be so bloated and infested with garbage that people don’t realize all of their windowed programs and 8000 tabs slow it down.

Again, I’m sure there are plenty of people struggling with genuine issues but I was shocked that for all its widespread “issues” DD2 ran flawlessly on a gpu that is claimed to be rubbish. Strange days.

@cburg I feel it's sort of similar in premise but you're not climbing monsters. Positioning is important and damaging any wounds that you see with focus mode will get you good amount of staggers and damage.

The game itself is good, but the performance and graphics are lacking. Lot's of bad textures. Warped and stretched textures and triangles just popping up in places. Ground textures can be appalling too.

This quite frankly is a game in beta still. Capcom does deserve flak for it. They rushed it out for their fiscal numbers and it's not in a good state.

But, if they fix it, it will be great.

@Fishysensei That's the next one bud. Super hyped for it, i love rise sunbreak. I like Wilds but the combat does feel dumbed down.

i played monster hunter all the way from the pubic beta on ps2 to now , excited to play this.

So far I really enjoy MM Wild. Yes technically it's not perfect, it could have been better. But I find that the technical disappointment is compensated by the art direction and the "epicness" of the title. MM World was a simulator, a bit too "clinical". In Wild I find they really nailed the feeling of an epic adventure. But overall it's Monster Hunter, connoisseur will feel at home, newcomers will love it or hate it.

@Enuo No thanks

The combat is just off I really really tried to get into it but the floaty imprecise combat put me off

@RoomWithaMoose Okay, thanks. Don't really think it's my kind of game, although this version seems easier to beat than previous entries. There are other games I'll play first.

Unlike most people I thought MH World ruined the franchise, but Rise restored my hope for the series so yeah, I'm playing.

I’m a few hunts in. So far I’ve been enjoying the game. It does seem quite a bit easier to play than when I first played World, but maybe that’s because I know a bit more about how it works.

As for performance on PS5 Pro, it looks pretty good on my 4K OLED in frame rate mode. The only setting I toggled was turning motion blur off.

This game appears to be constantly streaming textures in, so I wonder if slower memory and SSDs are causing the most amount of problems on PC? I have seen people with 4080 cards complaining, so I don’t think it’s entirely related to brute processing power issues.

I tried one of the PSP games and bounced off so hard I have never had any interest in coming back, even though the new games seem barely even related gameplay wise. But it also seems like a game that would be infinitely more fun if I had friends, which I don't.

@8bit4Life same thing, I have turned off motion blur, it was making the game looks jellyfish

@Cutmastavictory some crap they're doing in America not spending money for 24hrs , in the hope that it will bother trump and musk,just more nonsense, to add to the already mountain of nonsense ,that seems to be going on at the moment.

Only MH games ive enjoyed are the stories games. Ive tried several others, but the combat is too clunky for me.

I bought it, installed, played it for a few hours.

Then I put it on hold.

Sure, it's not as disastrous as the beta, but graphically wise, It really lets some room to improve.

So, as always nowadays, my advice would be to wait for a few patches, before starting.

@Bobobiwan they have released a patch last night. I think it looks a bit better and corrects some stuttering and texture streaming issues, especially in the cut scenes. At least Capcom is working on it from day 1 after the release. Yes it's not perfect but we can see some progress. It's not like Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 that is unplayable on PS5 with a sound stuttering bug that is still not fixed 1 month after release.

I'm about 12 hours in and I'm getting extremely annoyed and upset at this heavy hand-holding campaign. I don't mind the occasional cutscene of dialogue and story progression but this is a LOT of dialogue and hand holding. The wound system is great, the combat is great, the environments and enemies are fantastic. But wtaf is with this campaign?!? This is like playing Metal Gear Solid 4 with the amount of cuts scenes I'm sitting through. I'm also divided on the Sekreit. I like them as a mount, but the auto-pilot irks me, and them standing around while I fight is weird. The talking Palico annoyed me till I found the option to disable that. I miss my dog from Rise.

No the one I played made me feel bad.
"We've crashed landed on this island and set up camp" ok, cool.
"A 'monster' is invading the camp, drive it out" oh, ok yeah that sounds bad! Ok so it's limped away, job done.
"Follow it"....sure. Oh it's a nest it's full of babies!
"Kill them all".....but why??????

Why there's no option "I've never played any of MH games, but they are on my backlog"?