perhaps its a very different experience solo, but I’m doing it either 3 or 4 player, and it’s just total chaos. I’m pretty sure aggro doesn’t exist in the game and the monster just randomly decides to attack any one of your party. I’m using the charge blade since it seems to offer the most variety in terms of combos etc and you get a shield, but the experience is the same with any of the other weapons. you line up a nice combo on it’s head or wherever because you think it’s coming to you but then just changes it’s mind last minute and the cycle continues.
the way you play multiplayer is also extremely confusing and finicky too. you have to enter the level or whatever, watch a certain number of cut scenes, come out and then start again with your party. bizarre.
ALSO, I know it’s called Monster Hunter but something doesn’t feel right about absolutely beating the shit out of and subsequently skinning these beautiful dinosaurs that spend half the time actively trying to run away from you or just straight up not really looking for a fight. we fought a chicken yesterday that we could run around without it attacking us and only got angry if it took a massive hammer to the face.
I don’t feel good after killing them tbh.
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I don’t think there’s aggro. Charge blade is super satisfying solo because it lets you use all the different guard points to smooth everything out.
I guess in multiplayer it’s more about using short but efficient chains until you get a knockdown and then using full combos. Dunno, as I say, multiplayer MH is not my jam for similar reasons as Souls, it’s almost a different game.
Ermmmmmm… You totally can multiplayer most boss fights in both games with summoning.
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Monster Hunter is weird in that it genuinely becomes a different game the further you go. And the best bits only really start to reveal themselves after dozens of hours. They’re the videogame equivalent of, “it only really gets good in season 3.” If you’re still getting cut scenes you’re nowhere near the meat of the game. It’s a very silly way to organise things tbf
If you don’t like the combat to begin with it’s probably not going to win you over at any point but fighting against harder monsters changes things a great deal. Beating up a low level monster with 4 guys is just a free for all beatdown. The harder mosters require much more strategy. And the weapons make a huge difference - each one is almost a different game. If you go in with a longsword and a lance against an elder dragon and attack it in the same way you’ll have very different results. Having a hunting horn player on your side or a bow user with healing ammo can be the difference between success and failure. The monsters strengths and weaknesses will dictate which weapon and armour will give you the best chance of success. Being ready to heal your teammates becomes incredibly important.
The aggro system is kinda opaque but there are ways to bait them.
Killing monsters does feel a bit gross tbh, especially in World where they have such a cool ecosystem. But killing monsters to make a slightly better hat to wear while killing more monsters is all there is to it. I much prefer to have a big ol’ tussle and then put them to sleep wherever possible.
If you’ve never been a sunbro you’ve never lived mate
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Elden Ring is basically designed around it lol
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Yeah but what, it’s two players max and isn’t exactly there as a core feature of the game. Only really use it you can’t beat a boss on your own.
Monster Hunter seems to be really based upon coop.
The opposite of this tbh
A feature that, needless to say, a gamer as skilled as I, have never used.
really enjoying Sea of Stars and not usually a JRPG fan. Invested in the story and characters and the combat system is not bad.
Might have to look into the classics of the genre when I’m done who am I kidding the Elden Ring DLC is out this year
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Wtf am i doing
Spent hours yesterday evening on LA Noire on PS3. Remembered i got halfway through getting 5 stars on every case. Near the end now. Gonna try and get the platinum trophy that Jamie at Uni laughed at me for not having. Weird, weird bloke.
Anyone been playing Balatro? Won a run for the first time just now after 10 hours+ of playing. Kinda felt like cheating - got a joker that disabled all the boss abilities.
Great game.
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been playing it loads, really enjoying it.
got fairly good at winning, but can’t really crack endless mode beyond that - once it gets to Ante 11 and starts escalating big time, I fail big time. so I’m mostly focusing on unlocking new jokers and all the different decks now, so that I can try (and fail) to defeat Ante 11 some other day.
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Was going to pick it up, but they announced a phone version so going to wait for that, I think
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yeah I think it would work well on a mobile device - I toyed with getting it on Switch for that kind of reason but ended up getting it on PS5 for other reasons, but my wife’s got into it as well and wants to be able to play it when we’re on holiday next month, so might end up double dipping!
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What’s his username?
Feel a bit conflicted about Dragons Dogma 2. On the one hand, I’ve got a big holiday coming up really soon and nothing new to play. This does look like it could be right up my alley. On the other hand, the IGN review was 8/10 which is barely a shrug on their hype ratings for big games and it didn’t make me feel it would be all that essential. Can’t decide whether to sink the money in now when I’ve got time to play it or wait for a sale which which inevitably been waiting till I have no free time.
Why not buy it, play it in the Easter holiday and if you don’t like it after that just whack it on ebay whilst you can still get decent cash for it?
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Good thinking