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Monster Hunter 4 - Logo, Releasing Spring 2013, Screenshots, [Up: Trailer]
- Thread starter Nirolak
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Sure, they could - at the expense of something else. 3DS only has so much RAM.
Definitly maybe with a grain of possibly not.
Didn't MH3 do fairly well, particularly in Germany? I'd say pretty good
I'll take that as a no, to be honest.
Think that's the safer option right now in terms of keeping any possible hype in check.
test_account
XP-39C²
I dont think that this is very hardware taxing though.
grimshawish
Banned
This is fairly true, someone else mentioned Kid Icarus so I took a look at its trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5M8WdnltnY
This misses out a lot of what looks great about the game, 3DS screen even in 2D brings most of its content to life; Kid still looks nicer than that trailer minus the character models.
Still some of those textures were pretty dreadful; hopefully Capcom fine tune these things.
The people expressing how great this looks for a 3DS game really need to pay attention though lol
4 would be a good time to relaunch it in the West. Pretend its a new game and change the name (Monster Hunter won't sell it imo, it doesn't translate well) and it could do okay.
Will they? Well, we'll see.
KillerTravis
Banned
Nah I'm sure the graphics will stay that way, it's just that they were really stretched for that trailer, it will look good on the 3DS screen.
I guess the character model is taking most of the resources.
MHTri is one of the best looking Wii games. MHP3 is one of the best looking PSP games.
MHTri is one of the best looking Wii games. MHP3 is one of the best looking PSP games.
grimshawish
Banned
Which ones have had online and hows it play? (Coop or battle?)
EDIT: Also despite the 3DS not being HD the trailer looks much better in the 1080p quality that the video also comes in. Textures especially look more 'acceptable' but those vines still look like N64 shit going on; enemy models are pretty great though again. Poorly uploaded trailer really.
redblack85
Member
I do not think so exalted ask capcom to do more, but the 3ds is not the right platform to do so.
only one i played was MHtri for Wii that had online multiplayer. It worked very smoothly. Online is only co-op
psp ones had online multi via ps3 ad hoc
They could pretend it's a Dragon's Dogma spinoff. Replace Felynes with random humans and call them pawns.
Best looking PSP/Wii games or not, they're all stuck in the PS2 generation of assets. Not exactly "impressive".
Well I find the characters to be heavy and kind of slow, the fights are not that dynamic. I liked Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, it's a great game but it can be really tedious sometimes.
MH 4 seems to be more dynamic, more Dragon's Dogma like.
Didn't MH3 do fairly well, particularly in Germany? I'd say pretty good
Ii love playing my german version of TriG.
i hope they just skipped it because of 4. *fingers crossed*Criminal Upper
Banned
Are people honestly complaining about the graphics in monster hunter games?
I thought terrible graphics were part of it's "charm"
I thought terrible graphics were part of it's "charm"
to the rescue!
KillerTravis
Banned
After playing Monster Hunter games for so many hours that trailer showed that they are trying to breath new life into the franchise, lots of new mechanics and environments based on them. It'll be awesome if you could tame a monster and be able to ride them throughout the map for a limited time. Or have some special kind of whistle that calls it whenever you want to go flying.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Chuckpebble
Member
OK, was worried by the first trailer, but jumping great sword attacks have me feelin groovy.
AgentOtaku
Member
my god, watched the trailer and I'm sooo happy. Sooo glad they went back to the look of Mohun2 IE: prehistoric, earthy atheistic
Also love that it looks like they're really put an effort in environment traversal/action. Series got pretty stale as despite the art and attention to detail in the environments, most of the time you were still just fighting in a flat arena ...obviously Tri being the exception ...but that in itself was an acquired taste
Also love that it looks like they're really put an effort in environment traversal/action. Series got pretty stale as despite the art and attention to detail in the environments, most of the time you were still just fighting in a flat arena ...obviously Tri being the exception ...but that in itself was an acquired taste
Well said. I am lost now that I am in love with this game. Capcom is toying with my feelings for them!!!
AgentOtaku
Member
Yeah, they'll be dead to me as well
Yeah but I feel like they did a great job masking that with really nice art direction (MH3 and MH3P both look outstanding IMO). Not sure I'm seeing that yet in MH4, which worries me a bit.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
As others have suggested, MH4's visual quality will be hard to judge until you see it on a 3DS. Pretty much all 3DS games have shitty textures, but on a the small screen, in 3D and with a solid framerate they can look quite nice, especially if the devs make an effort to use plenty of shaders.
Kid Icarus is a good example of pretty varied and occasionally low detail geometry and texture work that ends up looking fabulous on the small screen thanks to all the shaders and rock solid framerate.
Kid Icarus is a good example of pretty varied and occasionally low detail geometry and texture work that ends up looking fabulous on the small screen thanks to all the shaders and rock solid framerate.
Absolutely, I watched the youtube video in 1080p (lol) first and eh...shock. Watching the eShop video with 3d on though, it's a night and day difference and honestly it's looking quite fine to me.
The only area that get's an 'ugh' from me there is the monkey tree thing, that looks a bit disappointing but the other stuff looks good.
Metalmurphy
Member
wow...
Game looks like it could run on PSP without any problems, what's going on with some of the textures? I swear Freedom Unite looks better then this.
How can Capcom release something like Revelations and then this? oO
Game looks like it could run on PSP without any problems, what's going on with some of the textures? I swear Freedom Unite looks better then this.
How can Capcom release something like Revelations and then this? oO
Seems easy to guess. It looks overall good and will be of course nicer on the 3ds but as it is, if some textures are not improved they won't appear much better on the screen cause contrary to kid icarus, here some of them are really rudimentary or in place more visible.
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
Monster Hunter sells better than Dragon's Dogma in the west though.
Maybe they should've retitled DD as a Monhan spinoff?
As everyone who is reasonable in the thread keeps reminding us, the game will look much better in motion when it's actually finished. Also this game needs to support coop still
MHFU doesn't look better than this, technically.
The weird mix of bump mapping, low res textures and a good looking main character hurts the game artistically, but that's only from watching the trailer and many have said that is not as noticeable on the 3DS screen.
Metalmurphy
Member
I'm seeing it in motion, granted I'm not seeing it on the 3DS screen, but even the Revelation gameplay videos on youtube look miles better then this. Hell, even freedom unite videos do.
There's some bloom and distortion effects that the PSP versions didn't have, that's true, but geometry and texture wise, it does indeed look better, and overall it just has a better look imo.
TheBaldEmperor
Member
You shut your mouth!
Hmmm.
I own MH Tri for Wii and I never could get into it, but this looks way more fun. Sorry if I hurt MonHun fans because of this. Looking at the trailer and the way how Capcom USA is yanking the fans about MonHun releases in the US, I'd say the new and different MH 4 will be the one that's getting localized. It looks different, gameplay has been tweaked and I don't know... it could attract more western players like this.
I own MH Tri for Wii and I never could get into it, but this looks way more fun. Sorry if I hurt MonHun fans because of this. Looking at the trailer and the way how Capcom USA is yanking the fans about MonHun releases in the US, I'd say the new and different MH 4 will be the one that's getting localized. It looks different, gameplay has been tweaked and I don't know... it could attract more western players like this.
effffffffff, I want to see this ._.
Yes, it's something I started thinking with all the words spent by Sven about the brand. This entry has much more open places, and provides much more possibilities to the player about how to hunt monsters. It's more actionish, dinamic. Yeah, this seems made with ALSO West in mind.
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Most trailers focus on showing the action parts and thus look more fun to people looking for more instant gratification than the methodical, slow and eventually technical gameplay of the series. The game looks like it's still MonHun so if people like playing it chances are they'd like playing Tri and other MonHuns. Sure, maybe they'd miss some new features, just as Tri had new features (and various streamlined more intuitive aspects, like not having to equip a tool for every little thing, just activate it by context) over the other MonHuns one could miss by going back to previous entries.
A lot like Tri allowed people to go underwater and follow and hunt monsters there after being unable to do so in previous games for example, now they're doing similar with making climbing more prominent, faster and useful in this manner allowing players once again to go to areas and situations that wouldn't be there if it was an earlier MonHun, where even though climbing was included as a feature it was only used in specific situations, and almost never intended for mid combat use.
I guess the jumping on monsters' backs bits look like a big deal but it's not like they're turning it into Shadow of the Colossus, it's likely going to be preset opportunity attacks, similar to the Jhen Mohran in Tri, just used more often.
If people expect this to be very different to Tri's and other entries' fundamentals they're probably going to be disappointed as the bulk of the gameplay is likely going to be intact, including the (for fans, awesome) slower parts where you're preparing for the actual hunts by farming materials and crafting tools and weapons and armors.
I seriously doubt anyone who actually disliked previous entries after giving them a fair chance would suddenly get into this even if it does include the more hopeful assumptions like seamless environments which in the end would be little more than minor presentation updates (which however require the apparent fidelity downgrades compared to Tri/G) and could even have some additional minor downsides (the loading zones in previous monhuns sometimes represented quite a bit of travel distance, having to actually travel all that distance by yourself while chasing something could be annoying at times for example, while aspects that seem cool like the destroyable parts of areas could also not be paid attention to after the first few of many times through).
KillerTravis
Banned
I mean, I know its still in development, but some of these shots are shocking. I think they are making the field a lot bigger than the previous series, but still.....some of this is just too much.
But the game still looks really fun. I hope they release the US version
Because stretching them like that sure makes the game look better.
jimmypython
Member
Just watched the pv from 3DS eshop. It is in 3D also. To be honest, it didn't grab me at all. I'll have to wait for further info and see if it gets better.