
Eager Monster Hunter fans excited to jump into Capcom's latest effort, the expansive Monster Hunter Wilds, were made temporarily uncomfortable by the game's talking Palicoes, a series first, upon booting up the PS5 beta. Thankfully, they can be made to speak their traditional Felyne, and outside of that oddity, first impressions of the game seem strong.
As PC Gamer has noted, hearing Palicoes speak in a language other than their own is a little offputting for series stalwarts, and we were unaware their feline vocal cords could even form human speech. By default, these cat-like creatures speak in this particular game. Still, if you find the idea slightly unsettling, you can toggle off the Felyne Language option in the Palico creation screen, not the audio settings, as you might expect.
What do you think of the Monster Hunter series' Palico companions finally getting a say? What's next? Will newly en-franchised Palamutes be given the vote? In the comments section below, let us know what you think of this slippery slope.
[source pcgamer.com]
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Talking Kitties is Pawesome! 😻
I could do without them
And here we go. Let's turn every dumb take online into an article.
I am pretty happy with Wilds now — earlier I turned off 120 Hz mode and it looked bad, you gotta keep that on. DO NOT switch to performance mode, it looks awful.
Soloing Rey Dau is fun & a bit like the early game Anjanath fight in World; you gotta be on your toes. The mounting is good and the sneak attacks you do when monsters brawl each other are fun.
The new wounding system and counters are going to take awhile to get the hang of. Focus mode is a big departure from past MH but I will try to figure out how to get good at it.
I will cancel my consideration of maybe making a preorder
MH is a fun game but its an entirely different beast when you get play online with 3 other random players or 3 friends. Thats the game at its absolute best imo. Does anyone know if the invite system is like World or like rise? Hopefully like rise as world was an absolute pain in the bum to get in to a lobby. Rise just made it pure easy.
First thing i turned off...
I wanted to turn it off but your Palico says important things to you and I don't want to take my eyes off the fight to read that it's bringing over a heal or cleanse or that it's getting ready to attack.
Yeah I changed that palico talking real quick, especially when the voice acting in this game just gives off such crappy voice acting anyways.
@Dom_31 I mean honestly we should be talking about the arachnophobia mode and how it turns bugs into a sllime monster
@VaultGuy415 i prefer performance mode.
@Kidfunkadelic83 i found getting a game in world better than rise. To answer, I dunno. Fire sos people join. But I've only got ai companions to join so far.
I didn't know that I can turn it off. I mean I'm fine with talking animals but it just feels weird since I've played previous MH titles.
The game itself is great so far but I hope it looks better on the release especially on Performance mode.
It’s a good thing that persona 5 don’t have a talking cat 🐈⬛ 🙃
@VaultGuy415 and those people that don't have the 120hz option won't be missing out anyway..
Fair enough. I usually select the gibberish Monster Hunter Language when playing this series, so I'd be uncomfortable if the humans started using human speech.
Overall the voice acting is pretty bad, it was the same story with Dragon's Dogma 2.
I have barely played it because I'm already sold. I can't wait for the full game.
The lil friendo is too useful to be silenced! All hail Talking Cat!
Seriously though, I could've sworn the Palicos had been able to speak normally in some of the older games.
Seriously, does anyone care about this?? What's going on with this current generation of gamers? I'm from the 80s and I can't get used to this nonsense.
I have mine set to the feline language so its not weird.
Unnecessary lore expansion. Get back in the meow box.
It looked and ran like crap, I finished the first quest and deleted it. I’ll consider checking it out in the future. Talking cats 🐱 are awesome by the way.
@Dom_31 this may be a crazy concept but hear me out You don't have to read the article if you don't want to
I think it's an improvement. We already had talking palicos in MH stories and the option to go back to the meows is there. So, less QQ, please.
Does Palico say it’s TAIL time! now? If not, then it was a waste making it talk…
@WiiWareWave damn right! 🐾
@Nem agreed there is an option. No need to be a baby about it
Removed - unconstructive
Removed - disrespecting others
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