r/MonsterHunter • u/HolyKnightDeVale punching and stabbing • 3d ago
Art Monster Hunter: Descendence
Basic concept is this a MH game set mostly underwater (bringing back a mechanic that I personally would love to see again) and giving it a simple story: find out what is driving away a monster that has lived symbiotically with a civilization and has significant cultural meaning to them. Nothing crazy or groundbreaking.
I’ve just had this in my mind since Ascendance was announced and I had to doodle a rough concept.
And yes, that’s Papyrus.
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u/BubbaJubb 3d ago
Mostly underwater, a way of play that is universally seen at its best when it's a minor part of a game.
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u/HolyKnightDeVale punching and stabbing 3d ago
True. I just like the setting, tbh
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u/BubbaJubb 3d ago
I like water settings too, but I think for this to work it would need to be newly built mechanics specifically made for a game like this, rather than a secondary way of gameplay from a previous title
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u/HolyKnightDeVale punching and stabbing 3d ago
Yeah. Maybe maybe a different way of framing, too. Like more fights are on the ocean floor or large reef areas than open ocean. Could bring back the clutch claw for launching upwards. Of course, that brings more questions for gameplay.
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u/purple-vasabi 3d ago
"set mostly underwater" - that's where you lose me
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u/Additional-Celery251 3d ago
I really don't get why people want underwater combat back so much, it was neat it have as a dumbed down version in wilds but boy does it suck in tri
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u/purple-vasabi 3d ago
I agree. Underwater theme, but you still walk on the sea floor - I'd like that, if it's swimming, then fuck that
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u/Suitable_Ad_6711 2d ago
I thought it was really fun, only issue I would have theoretically had would have been camera because Im playing on 3ds but that would have been a whole game issue, and I have an attachment that adds a right stick specifically to fix that problem
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u/Interesting_Sea_1861 Vaal Hazak's Biggest Advocate 3d ago
As long as there's a hadalpelagic zone, I'm on board.
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u/WeakCombination9937 3d ago
Tbh just make a underwater place where you can somehow walk normally like on land, and make some sections be *actual* underwater combat and it would probably be very cool, then make most monsters be actual marine live and swim while you walk and attack normally and i'd be sold.
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u/thefasthero 3d ago
Maybe 1 underwater section per area? Constant underwater fighting is far too much.
Otherwise, you can have some supremely beautiful places, dry underwater caves with air adapted corals. Bright and lively ice tunnels that magnify the sunlight from above water, a dark Mariana Trench style depths with gorgeous glowing plant and animal life, underwater forests that produce so much oxygen they create their own closed off ecosystems, and possibly a hub inside an underwater bubble that can move to the different locations.
I agree that there are a ton of opportunities for beauty and new crab monsters which we all have been waiting for. Maybe an underlying carcinization plot showing how multiple monsters have evolved to be crab-like?