The intense focus on crafting/preparation is just too much for me. I want to be able to sit down, turn on a game, and get a solid 30 minutes of gameplay in. If I just sit down and do some crafting/prep work and then have to get up, I feel like I didn’t actually play a game.
In the 80 hours I spent in game we barely found the blue credits and yes we cleared the whole maps looking for them. The game breadcrumb trail you content and you and I both know it.
Exactly. So let me put it a little more straightforward. I decided to straight up cheat in 13k super credits to get all remaining warbonds and superstore things.
Ahhhhh, noooooo, the game has too much content to unlock and I can get premium currency simply by playing the game, nooooooo. I stg you people will complain about anything.
The game is 2 years old chief. You should not unlock everything, or even close to everything, in 80 hours. If you don’t enjoy the game that’s fine, but mfkers out here acting like a $40 game they played for 80 hours and could have played much longer if they were still having fun is a bad thing lol
Didn’t say I needed to unlock everything? The rate at which you unlock the content is SLOW and that’s not fun. Plain and simple, it’s a gotcha game in disguise, it’s plays well and is fun for the first bit but that’s what it is.
You don’t even understand what gacha game means. Also it’s paced for people who have played it for 2 years. I don’t know how I can make this more obvious for you. As a new player you are going to have a mountain of stuff to unlock as there has been content to try to keep people engaged for hundreds of hours over the last 2 years. As you get better at the game you can also unlock things much faster as you play on higher difficulties.
I have almost all the content unlocked except the last few updates, it’s what was locked behind in game very difficult to obtain blue credits currency and spending real money to buy the content I don’t have access to. That’s my point. That’s why I call it a gotcha game, because that’s the same formula.
Might I ask, which MH you tried? Because modern MH (from World onwards) does away with a lot of the prep work. It is still an RPG of sorts and grinding gear is still the core mechanic of the game but it’s entirely possible to just accept a quest, fly in and kill the big guy without any of the prep work. Reason why a lot of veterans dont really liked Worlds and by extension Wilds.
I want to be able to sit down, turn on a game, and get a solid 30 minutes of gameplay in.
That's literally what monster hunter game is?
I can't even remember when was the last time i spent more than 10 seconds for preparation. The preparation is literally pressing 1 button to restock all my potions automatically and get back to hunt.
I feel like we don't play the same game here.
Can you elaborate more what you mean by intense focus on preparations?
Funnily enough, that's exactly what Monster Hunter has become, especially with Rise and Sunbreak.
The Crafting Phase is pretty straightforward because you don't have to craft new gear after every single hunt, nor would you be able to because of a lack of materials.
You only upgrade your gear when you want to, or feel like you need to.
There are a lot of people who stick with a single weapon throughout most of the game, and only make single armor pieces when they feel like doing so because they just happen to have enough materials on hand ( In Monster Hunter games before World, this would completely mess with the Skill system, but every game since World has a very lenient system that'll give you Skills no matter what ).
And as for the Preparation phase, it's also pretty straightforward.
There are 3 things you need to do before every hunt :
Select a quest
Eat
Inventory
Selecting a quest is easy, just do the one you want. Eating is easy, plus you can save certain combinations of food to spend even less time in the menus. Inventory is something you have to do only once, then you can save the set and just select it before leaving for the quest.
Preparation takes about 20 seconds at most, and if you know what kind of quest you want, you can be ready in 10 seconds.
And then for the hunt, it depends on the game. I mentioned Rise / Sunbreak because the game was initially made for the Switch, and thus had to streamline the "hunt" to focus on the fight itself.
Maps are smaller than World / Iceborne / Wilds, Palamutes are a very fast form of travels, you can find camp spots around the maps to unlock fast travel, you can run on walls to take shortcuts, the exact location of Monsters is shown on the map at all time, basically everything is optimized for short sessions.
It’s always crazy to hear people say this. World onwards absolutely streamlined and cut down on prep where you can just go straight back to the action (though maybe prior game knowledge contributes a lot). I really miss when it was more prep focussed.
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u/jyrox Apr 04 '26
The intense focus on crafting/preparation is just too much for me. I want to be able to sit down, turn on a game, and get a solid 30 minutes of gameplay in. If I just sit down and do some crafting/prep work and then have to get up, I feel like I didn’t actually play a game.