Monster Hunter Wilds Eclipses All Expectations on Launch Day

Nice to see an unqualified success! Congratz to Capcom again!

The thing is that Asia is not doing anything new or special. They are making games similar to what we had a decade ago. The west shot itself in the foot and it resulted in a lot of layoffs due to poor sales.

I feel like that Homer at the bar meme 😅

It's not a game for me, but I love to see Capcom continue to kill it..

Very mixed reviews though due to the terrible optimisation and performance. I just saw the Digital Foundry video from a link on Reddit and they say the same.

@TruestoryYep goes to show how little most gamers care about these things.

@TruestoryYep
If already put at least 3 of 4 hours into the game and I can say that I'm totally used to both the visuals and performance. I'm playing on balanced and honestly, both look great to me...then again I'm much more focused on killing the monsters than I am on the frame rate dipping or blurriness of the screen. I will say that so far I'm agreeing that the game might be too easy though. It's still great fun actually hunting the beasts to me. I even took the opportunity to really practice and learn my secondary weapon to add a bit of challenge for myself.

I could never get into MH games, very pleased it's doing well, but does appear to be Dragon's Dogma 2 all over again, perfromance wise that is.

Waiting for my copy to come through the post any minute now ☺️

@naruball I was going to say the same thing, as much as I moan about performance in games (and this runs really badly for the visuals on show), I'll happily concede that the vast majority simply don't care

I'm not even a little surprised. I can't wait to dive in.

Monster Hunter is one of the biggest franchises in gaming now and its great a former niche series is now up there with the biggest in gaming.

Around 4 hours in now and just killed that new Spider monster. Its a really cool new monster and the animation for it is honestly incredible.

I’ll never get this series! I tried with World and absolutely hated it so I’ll never be playing Wilds. I thought it was repetitive,boring,had one note combat with damage sponge monsters that barely react to ***** with a laughable “story” and butt ugly armor designs.

@heavyartillery56 Yeah its why Kingdom Come 2 is selling millions right? Why Baldur's Gate 3 is selling well? Why Helldivers 2 sold tons and tons?

Also do you want me to list the many "Eastern" games that fail just as much? Hell Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth under-performed along with FF16. Korean has constant MMO's that bomb and Net Ease almost canned Marvel Rivals because they didn't want to pay out for Marvel.

@Mikey856 Apparently you can see if the monster is a crown when starting the hunt now. Should make those trophies much simpler to obtain.

@Oram77 Nah even now DD2 struggles with touching 60fps even on Pro. Wilds can hit 60fps often on base PS5 it just takes a big visual hit to do so

Wilds' wild player numbers are indicative of a successfully wild worldwide release

Go my copy yesterday and played a few hours before bed, really enjoying it so far and can't wait to see more of the game.

@DennisReynolds I think that you are being defensive for no reason.

Everyone has been talking about the awful state of the western gaming industry for years now. You can't point to the few successful games(that let's be honest cater to an old school audience) and pretend that everything is actually okay. The large amount of layoffs affects the industry regardless and it's especially infuriating to see big studios that should know better release games that appeal to very few gamers.

Also, I seem to recall people in this very forum point out that FF7R did well actually sales wise despite being an exclusive.

What i want to know is can you get in to an online party as easy as you can in Rise or do you have to go through all the ballache of World of having to set up oarties, make sure youve all seen the same cut scenes etc. That was a deal breaker for me. Rise was so easy to just find a party. As the the online aspect was completely stand alone from the single player story.

@heavyartillery56 "Everyone" 🙄

@TruestoryYep it’s capgod, they get a pass. Even dd2 was excused by some

@DennisReynolds Who exactly is not saying that the industry is in trouble? The shareholders of successful western studios? Now that's a minority right there.

@Kidfunkadelic83 Unfortunately, I think coop is still locked off behind cutscenes and story beats? Might be easier to jump into someone else's hunt, but not to make a kind of coop lobby and start hunts together, etc. (Haven't played it yet, just from what I've read elsewhere! Also my biggest gripe with the game...)

@heavyartillery56 The reason why less people get let go in Japan is primarily because Japanese employees in the games industry get paid much less than western devs. A new graduate employee at Capcom gets paid less than a McDonald's worker in the UK. Therefore games cost way less to make.

@ChrisDeku Didn't studios like Capcom, Fromsoft and the devs of Wukong and Eve receive bonuses recently?

The job of a gaming studio is to make money. If the budget is too high or the game doesn't appeal to gamers the opposite will happen. Either way the west is lagging behind the East. And that would have never happened if western studios didn't drop the ball hard in recent years. Now we are looking at a future where the Asian gaming industry is booming and soaking up most of the time and money of consumers while the western developers will go work and build their skills in other industries.

@heavyartillery56 That was after the payrise, and FromSoft is lower than Capcom.

Either way the west is lagging behind the East. And that would have never happened if western studios didn't drop the ball hard in recent years. Now we are looking at a future where the Asian gaming industry is booming and soaking up most of the time and money of consumers

Thats not really true, GTA VI will probably alone sell more copies than every PS5 Japanese game released this generation. Not to mention games like GoW:Ragnarok sell 15m in a year, Spider-man 2 selling 11m in 6 months etc. There's very very few Japanese games doing those numbers on PS5. The reality is that when making these big games with expensive staff(that gets expensive benefits etc.) it's riskier. Is the solution really just to dial everything back, pay staff really low wages and makes medium size games primarily? You'll find very few eastern games push the boundaries of gaming and most are just the new version of a game that already exists with only medium scope and ambition.

@ChrisDeku What was the point you attempted to make? The thousands fired western devs should all work for Rockstar? If Rockstar did that no amount of sales will save them from being risk averse. Those jobs are gone and and many studios can't get the funding to work on new games so they won't be hiring anyone. A ton have already closed their doors.

Spider-Man 2 is a bad example to make because Insomniac didn't make enough money back to warrant making DLCs despite the budget being much higher than SM1.

EDIT: I already said in the second comment that these eastern devs are not pushing the boundries. They are making more modern versions of older western games. Which is primarily why I am not excited about a future where they are the more popular source of new games.

Damn those a some Lao-Shan Lung size numbers.

Will be interesting to see how Shadows will compare, as I distinctly remember some comments on here stating that it would be far more popular than MH... I guess we'll see in 3 weeks.

HR 2. So far so good. Except well some issues with graphics(texture especially)

Im played on ps5,balanced with 120hz/HDR10 TV. Fix/optimization will come soon, i can guaranteed that. For now im enjoying it and practicing/un-rusted my skill.

@naruball but what side of the fence you sit on about it?
Do you care ? Or should we accept it and take it ?
I'm more of a middle ill settle for mid gfx good story and tip top optimization

Guessing Capcom are doing far better financially than what they were 10+ years ago and it's nice to see tbf but I'm not one on board with Capcom as much as everyone as seems to be. RE7 was very welcome return to form mainline wise and the RE2, 3 and 4 remakes are great even if 3 was on the disappointing side. Outside of that the rest of what Capcom have been doing is not for me and that's OK though as every game ain't gonna be for everyone. An actual scary RE9 thats nothing like Village and I'm back on board with the Capcom love again and also the Zero and Veronica remakes would be even better, and yh why not reboot Dino Crisis again, and while they're at it port the 90s Resident Evil classics to modern consoles instead of forever ignoring them, similar to how the classic Tomb Raiders recently have been

Edit. I keep forgetting Onimushas comeback what an idiot. Guess I am on board with Capcom afterall like nearly everyone else is. Silly me

@naruball most gamers don’t care what outlets like frames per second foundry has to say about performance. The casual gamer just wants entertainment to their liking.

@DennisReynolds I'd be curious what would happen if Square would try to make a Final Fantasy like IV-IX (not a huge fan of VIII though). I don't think VII Remake or XVI really appealed in the same way. I didn't show up for either one of them, and I even have FFVII toys and the soundtrack on my shelf

I truly didn’t know how popular these monster hunter games are. I’m slow haha!

N.i.c.e. I knew that monster hunter wilds was gonna be huge.word up son

@J2theEzzo thanks for the response. It was a pain in the arse in world. The talk of this new entry being easier and your confirmation about the multiplayer being locked out like in World has made me not want to get this at all. The way rise did it was perfect and worked like a charm.

@heavyartillery56

What was the point you attempted to make?

Let's try firstly that the vast majority of software sales are still made in the West, that's even before we talk about things like CoD, Fifa etc.

Secondly that western devs tend to be more ambitious, and they tend to pay their staff more than McDonald's employees. Both of those things are positive.

@Vaako007 yup. But people who live in a bubble can't see it.

@Trapdoor yea, that's the reason...

@Uromastryx I don't care that much, myself. If a game doesn't have any technical issues, it's ideal. If it does and they're game breaking, they need to be fixed asap.

But most of the time, people obsess over silly things, imo, while the rest of the world enjoys themselves in their ignorance. I'll take ignorance over overly critical people anytime. Same with movies and everything else. When I watch a movie with friends who do video editing and they point out all that's wrong with the movie, their comments ruin the fun of it. I'd rather watch something with someone who is easily impressed instead.

@heavyartillery56 the success comes from finally bringing this franchise back to a proper home console. On top of that, creating an actually fun game. The game has a ton of microtransactions, but it's all cosmetic and completely optional.

Love to see it. Brings a tear to me eye 🥲

Also impressive: there are currently more people playing Wilds right now this second on Steam than DOTA 2 and PUBG put together.

@ATaco Here's the thing about people who notice the framerate dipping - they're focused on the game too, but cannot help but notice the performance issues. We don't look for these issues, rather they're as obvious as can be, distractingly so.

For me it'd be like listening to a record and someone comes along and keeps turning the volume up and down.

I haven't gotten past what the beta presented yet but I'm excited to continue playing.

Not for me can't stand it but happy for those that do 😁

@Perturbator Wilds is gonna be the bigger game. But will say as long as Shadows reviews well. (8 or higher) it’s gonna sell well. And it probably will review well, most of the mainline games have been bare minimum solid.

@Beerheadgamer82 mean yea that’s pretty clear lol. Hell, last year they had Dragons Dogma 2 be one of the best selling games.

Hit 1.3m concurrent players on Steam already. Holy *****...

I love the game and yet, I was only expecting it to be like 500k concurrent players.

@naruball yeah people need to relax themselves abit, if they really want to be sure on which games they buy don't go day 1 just wait abit and see what the public says no just website reviews
And yeah damn those people " well actually" pretty much ruin everything 🙄

I'm still neck deep in KCD 2 and have Avowed and Indiana Jones queued up after that. I will get around to this game eventually though. I'm a big fan of Dragon's Dogma 2 and enjoyed what I played of Monster Hunter World so looks like another winner to me. Good to see a game selling well after all the bad news in the industry lately.

@Kidfunkadelic83 Yeah, World was full of things to do, content-wise, but the fact you still can't just have a coop campaign with friends, and all share progress seems a bit... wild.

@Fishmasterflex96 yh I've come to realise this now, especially now they're doing Onimusha again, one of my fav series from the 00s. My brain forgot it and had a brain fart today. And just because MH or DD2 ain't my cup of tea doesn't mean Capcom aren't doing good things, they clearly are. Being a passionate RE fan I'm just disappointed to many times with the RE mainline, 5 , 6 and 8 truly underwhelmed me

The game looks bad even in fidelity mode on ps5 with lots of warped and low res textures.
Main characters and cut-scenes look fine but it's like playing it with a graphics card 2 gens old.
This is not a hardware issue. It's a rushed game. I hope they work to fix those textures and the performance.

@Nem I'm amazed that people can count the pixel resolution of textures while hunting monsters in that game. It's like people complaining about 2D trees in Gran Turismo or WRC Rally when you are supposed to focus on the next turn of the road at 200mph

@B0udoir Not during hunting. In town is when it's worse. I noticed the ground after i ended the hunt and when farming for materials.
I don't even mention overall resolution, just the textures. It's the mode that is called that. Though performance mode is clearly blurrier.

No it's not the same. You have cut-scenes with these characters and the camera zooms in on them and it's impossible not to see it. For example, the merchant that sells you items (you will interact with him often) has one texture resolution and he has a sort of half kilt on his waist that is low res. It's impossible not to see the contrast.
Even in cutscenes they put a rug which is a triangular mess with low res texture in front of the screen. It's all over the place and it's definitely very noticeable. It's messy.

You are very mistaken if you think i am nit-picking. This stuff is literally front and center.

Did you think i was zooming in on the book? Literally have to talk to the guy and the camera zooms on him.
Stop assuming we are all trolls around here. This game has issues and you should not wave them off based on what are nit-pickers, which btw i dislike as well. You will never seem me picking on something such as trees on gran turismo unless the game was zooming in on them and that is even not the biggest issue. It's the contrast of high res textures next to low res textures.