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@somnambulance There is no comparison between a DD game and a MH game when it comes to gameplay depth. DD is a relatively simple hack and slash game with most of the dev emphasis put on graphical fidelity. Meanwhile all of MH's weapons have the move variety of a hardcore fighting game character. MH games have orders of magnitudes more enemies and each enemy has many more moves than anything in DD. MH has hundreds/thousands of items for crafting or deploying in battle. I could go on — point is you don't seem familiar with this series (and that's OK).

@DennisReynolds Every MH game feels dumbed down compared to the last one; welcome to the circle of MH life. Your comments are identical to what Tri/4U fans said about World.

Rey Dau is a solid fight and focus mode seems better than the clutch claw. I'm confident they will deliver monsters that are very tough (even before MR).

@somnambulance DD2 has a fraction of the interactivity and depth of an MH game so your expectations do not make any sense to me. I think Wilds will look very good on PS5 Pro, but I'm worried about base PS5 after playing both versions.

@somnambulance It looks very good on a solid PC. I think you're being too hard on it but it's true the visuals are smeary on PS5

Had a great time killing a pile of Rey Dau. I'm not worried about the look, but only because I don't plan to play on a base PS5.

Hoping they put some hitstop back in + figure out something coherent for how Focus Strike animations resolve

With the exception of the floatiness, the demo was excellent to play on my PC (5800x3d+3080ti). I'm bummed I can't keep playing it today!

Agreed that the combat is too floaty and the visuals looked not great on PS5 once you see it on a good PC.

Another problem they have to solve is the f'd up animation interactions when you destroy a wound with a focus strike combo. On SA your hunter does this long combo, but the monster keeps moving, so you smack the air while damage numbers rack up. Looks dumb.

Still very excited and expect this to be GOTY '25.

Game looks way better on PC unfortunately. Hmm.

Hmm. This is not a good article. The correct settings are Resolution mode with 120 hz ON regardless of your display. I don't know why this is the case, but the game looks fine with these settings and these settings only. Rey Dau and his lightning attacks show off what the engine can do very nicely.

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.

Switch Axe is a little floaty so far and the PS5 performance is not good. Feeling more "meh" than expected. Looking forward to seeing how it does on my 5800X3D+3080ti (which feels fairly PS5 Pro equiv.)

I would buy this in a second 😭

Wow, I did not think it would be so soon. Time to get insanely frustrated trying to beat Rey Dau with demo gear.

Deserved to win the Emmy as much as Todd Howard deserves to be deposed from BGS

I really wondered if they'd consider going AI (with big money going to his family) since he's so inimical. Glad they have a decision made; RIP to the unforgettable Lance Reddick.

Hopefully these tweaks help optimize MH Wilds so we don't get a bunch of unhinged whining about performance

@Frmknst I do! This game is going to make SO much money.

Does that count the PS Plus Collection (RIP)?

Terrible title, could doom a good-looking game

Looks awesome, excited to see how Mazin fixes the game's tedious and monotonous storyline. Here's hoping Neil brings him in to help with Part 3

I'm excited to play it, maybe this time I'll avoid bows in favor of other stuff

Looks very good 👍

It looks good to me for the price of a sandwich; HZD is a 10/10 game with an incredible narrative. For the 3rd game, I hope Guerrilla goes back to the style of the original; FW got pretty silly at the end.

@MidnightDragonDX The Wilds release date had me cheering loudly. Best news of the show, albeit not Sony news.

It was exactly what I expected, a bad state of play with a teaser for GoT2 tacked on. Monster Hunter looks great and I'll probably play Horizon Remastered. That said, I don't see a reason to upgrade to Pro.

I'm expecting a crappy SoP that ends with a Twoshima teaser

Giving players a small single-player or co-op campaign a la CoD would build so much goodwill...

The disc drive thing is a big greedy mistake.

Play this fantastic game. GOTY for me.

@UltimateOtaku91 I just beat Splashing but only because of a tip from when I looked up reddit posts from others mad about it

For my money, Pacific Drive is GOTY

8/10 for me. Too many of the challenge levels create "difficulty" by making the next obstacle impossible to see. Splashing Sprint is genuinely awful.

It's very good but it ain't Mario.

I'm one of the very few gamers who's interested in PS5 Pro at that price but I probably won't bother due to mismanagement of PS Studios

I'm glad they finally added some friend activity back in the app but would prefer to see trophies there instead playtime stuff

Glad I dropped Extra/Premium. Along with Game Pass, they're becoming shovelware delivery systems that trick subscribers on behalf of investors

Are people aware that the social features have been thoroughly busted for months? Cross-play friend requests don't work for large swaths of the playerbase. It's a scandal they continue to tinker with balancing rather than fix the basics

How about a lil' boost for Bloodborne? 😏

@Can-You-Believe-Sith Smart thinking.

@Jayslow 1000% agree there should be a PSVR2 apology bonus 😂

@RiceC03 See, I'm tempted to sell my PC and my fat PS5 and just go Pro. Dealing with crashes, random bluetooth failures, and the genuinely unpleasant experience of Windows on a TV isn't worth it vs. a 3090-equiv. PlayStation

They sold me on it. I'm disappointed in myself, lol. Just seems like an indispensible GTA6 upgrade

They have no games in the oven I guess 😭

@NEStalgia I'm perfectly happy to pay $70-80 + DLC cost for the 250+ hours I got from HFW. I don't feel ripped off in the slightest. I'll get even more bang for the buck from Monster Hunter Wilds.

Your contention seems to be that AAA gaming needs to die and that the industry needs to make everything cheap, stupid, and loaded with live service gimmickry because today's kids are used to awful iPhone games marketed to them by Instagram ads.

My question is this: Are you Jim Ryan? If so, please tell us what Bluepoint is working on.

@NEStalgia The last thing I'd want to see is fewer ambitious, beautiful games like HFW. This is why I'm willing to pay more. Just speaking for myself, I'm willing to believe that price would drag down demand too much overall.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner 8-bit games were made with teams of 4-5 people, plus some testers. Horizon Forbidden West had 300 full-time employees working on it. C'mon man

A $50 NES game in 1990 would cost $120 in today's dollars. With that in mind, I am personally okay with paying $80 for something like GTA 6.

Haven't even finished Jedi Survivor tbh

Helldivers is genuinely funny and its story fits well with live service game design.

Concord has GotG-derivative characters fighting against clones of each other because... Overwatch was popular several years ago?

Bluepoint sequel plz 🙏

I couldn't be more excited; open world MH w/ HZD-tier graphics is my personal gaming holy grail

No Showcase this year is an absolute disaster, press S to spit on Jim Ryan's grave

@jrt87 Just cash them in at 1250 each there's no advantage in waiting