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So hyped for this game ! I'm actually happy Pelico's are back and can go hunting with you .

Now this is something Tecmo Koei and Omega Force needs to take notes from if they are thinking on making another Toukiden game.

The only I had with the gameplay video is that the person playing the game was too boring to sit through (20 minutes on trying to kill a monster). If I was playing the game, I could have thought the tactics my own way, not to see some guy running around, sometimes fail to hit the monster, and such. I know this is just a demonstration but the video shows me that this is one of those games where it is only fun when you play it.

Day freaking one. Monster Hunter Tri is one of my favorite games of all time. I'm so happy MH is coming back to PS.

That looks pretty awesome.

"seamless open world"

The map shows this a seamless continuous world, not an "open world". You can only follow a path, not go wherever.

I think it's fine the way it is, not everything needs to be open world, but I can't look at that path dominated map and honestly call it open world. I haven't played Horizon Zero Dawn yet, but XCX, Zelda U, even FFXV is "open" world. If this is "open world" than FF13, not FFXV, was also open world. On the planet, not the moon, the moon was actually open world compared to this. Heck the original Ratchet & Clank had that same map, did anybody refer to R&C as "open world"? Maybe they did, ti's been awhile.

OK, enough of that. This looks really good, and I'd like to play it, but the 20 minutes per kill is still off-putting. I'll play Horizon when this comes out instead.

This game is going to be great. I love Monster Hunter. When this comes out I don't think anything will unglue me from the PS4.

Isn't this the same gameplay footage they showed before during Special Live Broadcast?

@SoulsBourne128 toukiden is way better than monter hunter.

Geralt of Rivia would do a much better job than that and he wouldn't need a ridiculous weeb sword.

@kyleforrester87 Yeah, it was awkward. It was just a thing from the books, though.

That Stegosaurus thing just got ate!
Damn nature, you scary!

I can't wait for this! I put in about 200 hours on MH Tri on Wii back in the day.
I have MH3 Ultimate on Wii U still sealed because I didn't know if I wanted to put in the time to do everything all over again. I will start playing it in preparation to this though.
The hype is real!!

@get2sammyb I think it will play out the same way, and rightly so, thats' what Monster Hunter is. I have no problem w/ this game being the way it is, only w/ people calling it open world.

You're right though, probably everybody will wind up calling this "open world" MH except for a few nut jobs like me. Can't be helped.

I do like my adjectives those, to me Uncharted 4 "seemed like open world', it was "open world like" in some area, but it was probably just as confined as this is, if nto more, you just coudlnt' tell b/c no world map.

If it weren't' for that full page map at the 40 second mark and the ongoing map, and knowing how MH plays, I'd probably think this WAS open world just by watching it, they did a really good job of making the areas seem naturally bounded w/ walls and canyons, no "curbs" like in the old FF games. Climb giant walls no problem, can't step up a curb. They should blind test this w/o the map, see how people act. Not MH players, they'll expect it, non-MH players. Personally I like my maps, STILL mad about Zelda U, but I think it could work for MH. If it's going to take 20 minutes to kill 1 boss anyway, might as well make it 30 minutes by getting lost a few times.

@playstation1995 In terms of story, yes.

But honestly, atleast MH world will offer much more interactions in its enviroments, such as destructable hazards, and atleast enemies can attack other enemies, which is something lacking in almost every MH clones (minus Soul Sacrifice). Also, while the open world addtion in Toukiden 2 was nice, there was just nothing new to do other than killing enemies and gathering items (basically just like Dragon's Dogma).
Another thing is that the online isn't very active or big when compared to the MH online playerbase, and the combat is only fun for like, 5 minutes. When the mission starts to drag on, it will start to feel very repetitive. Other issues I have is that the Oni hand is more OP than FW's sinner thorn, and the designs for the monsters weren't very unique and a lot of them looked the same. I still like Toukiden 2, but I still always prefer MH, even if it can feel clunky or slow at times, but hey, there's always MH XX...that is if Capcom decides to localize it.

Why are you calling this an "open world?" It's just a traditional MH map without segmented areas, right? As it should be: the last thing MH needs is to be is an open world game.

@rjejr Well, I'd call Ocarina of Time an open world too (just not a seamless open world), and the map is the same. Big areas with narrow corridors. But that's just what the map looks like. You'll find that even in the most open world-y open world games, you can't go literally anywhere. And the geology will always guide you to a degree. The difference is that you can't see that on the map. They could have also chosen to depict this map more like something in TW3 or BOTW, a true representation of the actual world, then nobody would complain about the use of open world.

I think that as long as the game is not linear, and you are free to to wherever you want, and if the game gives you the choice of approaching certain quests, objectives or whatever in any order, I'm fine with the term open world.

Looks incredible

@Octane "and if the game gives you the choice of approaching certain quests, objectives or whatever in any order, I'm fine with the term open world."

Yeah, that would work. That map really does look overly restrictive though. Maybe they could make it look less outlined. After playing XCX, which I thought was very open world, even moreso once you got the flying skell, that FFXV was really not open world at all, you'd get stopped at every shrubbery, and the entire left 3rd of the map is cut off by that rift, and that big rock area west of the chocobo village was extremely annoying to navigate. But it looked like 1 world on the map. The MH map looks like rooms and tunnels. It's how the game works, but it distracts from the feeling of open world. Uncharted 4 had a similar layout on some of the islands but no map made it feel more open, even though I know it was much smaller areas than this.

@rjejr I get your point, I just think that by your definition very few games are truly open world. Before Zelda and XCX, we also called every other Zelda game open world, so yeah, I'm a bit more forgiving with the terms. People always argue back and forth what a game should be labeled as, but I don't think it really matters in the end. At least I won't get upset if they call this an open world, I can see why.

About the map. Yeah, it's just how they choose to display the map. It makes it look more restrictive, but it's also a more accurate representation of the actual game world. And this is similar to how the map looked in the previous games, and we don't want to upset the fanbase too much, there's enough salt flying around as it is

@WanderingBullet Yes the footage is from around E3.

This looks incredible! Can't wait to team up with strangers and take them big boys down.

Will pass. Still too tedious for my taste.

It looks great! The voice acting sounds really fake, but the environments and gameplay look spot on. Hopefully we still get Monster Hunter XX localized for the Switch, though!

@banacheck Ah, ok guess they just added new commentary on it then.

Edit: Just noticed the Palico right at the start, and they also showed Anjanath's amor set. Both weren't featured during the live stream.

@sinalefa I agree about the tedious factor since there's a lot of preparation required prior to going out on a hunt but it feels very rewarding once you get the loot (ie. armors and weapons).

Toukiden has a more casual gameplay but the gears look unimpressive.

Also, apparently they'll being doing tie-in quest like the handheld games did. Like the Zelda armors for example.

@Octane "and we don't want to upset the fanbase too much, there's enough salt flying around as it is"

Switch fans won't be calling this "open world" after they get done playing Zelda. And isn't 90% of the fanbase on 3DS, can't get them much more upset than they already are.

I will say that times do change, so I do think Zelda and XCX do change what qualifies as "open world". I still haven't played Skyrim - own it on PS3 - nor Horizon, but I think there will be a never ending discussion over whether this qualifies if they stick to the narrow corridors on that map. Who knows, it's possible this is a beginning area and the world opens up after that, like FFXII when they changed planets, but I do think i twill ever be settled.

@rjejr Nah, this is typical Monster Hunter stuff. I'm sure the entire game will be like this.

Horizon is like any open world, but you can't climb trees or sheer cliffs. The only game you can do that in is Zelda. Skyrim is similar. I mean, if Zelda is the ''new standard'' for open worlds (and I don't hope it is), then no game qualifies as open world anymore. Zelda is just an exception.

Looks interesting. Are there any Monster Hunter 3DS games people would possibly recommend for someone that knows nowt about MH?

@Octane I'm honestly a little worried about playing Zelda before Horizon, but I think they're different enough, and I like the Horizon graphics a lot, not a big fan of whatever Zelda is, not quite cartoon, not quite cell-shaded, not quite really there. And I've never liked the Zelda stories, Horizon, open or not, seems more story driven.

And I see Zelda as an evolution of Skyrim, but MH is a step back from Skyrim, and that's 6 or 7 years old. Maybe I'll play it w/ the map off.

@rjejr I only thing I tried was climbing stuff in Horizon that you can't climb, but after an hour or so you'll know what the limitions are. It was ultimately the better game IMO. Zelda was a bit too empty and repetitive for me. I loved the first twenty hours or so, but after that, I had seen it all. New areas were just more reskins of old enemies etc.

@Octane "Zelda was a bit too empty and repetitive for me. I loved the first twenty hours or so, but after that, I had seen it all. New areas were just more reskins of old enemies etc."

I'm pretty sure I'll be writing that same sentiment of Zelda when I'm done. Of course I need to start first, I'm having a summer of Xbox 1 before trading it in for a Switch when Mario releases. It doesn't have much, but Rare Replay has 30 games I've never played.

@rjejr Well, make sure to let me know!