OrbitalBeard
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I pray this isn't the business model they're going for. Please just be a complete package on day one. If they want to sell a G version as DLC or a new standalone product, fine. But not the bolded. God no.
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Capcom focused on Monster Hunter: World for West, won't commit to MH:XX localization
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I pray this isn't the business model they're going for. Please just be a complete package on day one. If they want to sell a G version as DLC or a new standalone product, fine. But not the bolded. God no.
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
I think this has the potential to sell pretty well to a certain western audience, but it sounds like it's still going to have the same basic combat, so all the people who "tried MH once, it was slow and clunky but this looks great!" are probably going to hate it, and then you have a subset of the diehard MH fans who prefer MH on a handheld who will play and enjoy this game while simultaneously cursing Capcom while Japan continues to get the handheld MH games we also want.
Me, personally, I'll buy this but I'll be massively disappointed if my dream of seamlessly switching between handheld and TV play in MH is squashed by Capcom's corporate BS.
It's mh I will give it a chance, I have followed the series everywhere NV but capcom you make it so hard to like you.
MatrixMan.EXE
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You can keep telling yourself this, but it didn't happen.
That's a shame, but that sounds like a pretty rare use-case. The concept of using commute time to play games isn't that strange, but how long is your commute that you only have that time to play, and yet actually get meaningful playtime out of it?
The leaks just said otherwise.
MatrixMan.EXE
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They're wrong.
Codeacious
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Capcom's indecision to localize MH XX baffles me to no end.
Generations is already localized, so the localization cost of XX can't be all that much.
World is coming in 2018. XX is coming in late August to Japan, and Capcom could easily get it out in the West well before the PR train for World starts to ramp up.
The Switch could definitely use some larger third-party titles, and I cannot imagine Nintendo is adverse to releasing XX in the West; I would expect the opposite, actually.
I just don't see the logic here.
Generations is already localized, so the localization cost of XX can't be all that much.
World is coming in 2018. XX is coming in late August to Japan, and Capcom could easily get it out in the West well before the PR train for World starts to ramp up.
The Switch could definitely use some larger third-party titles, and I cannot imagine Nintendo is adverse to releasing XX in the West; I would expect the opposite, actually.
I just don't see the logic here.
Is this seriously the 4chan rumour nonsense again?
Mmh can you explain us why the leak was wrong when they actually reveal all the previous things we already see to be true?
My hope now is that Nintendo will help localize this. I am excited for Monster Hunter World, but so would gladly buy both if it meant I could take one of them on the go. I know I won't put more than 50 or 60 hours into Monster Hunter World, because I can never invest much time into console games...
This is very true. But this game is already on the Switch, so I don't really understand your point.
User123456
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Dunno about him but I'm in the same boat. 2 hours commute of which 1:15-1:30 is uninterrupted train time, twice a day (total 4h commute / 3h game time).
I'll play MH World but not at launch/full price. I just wouldn't be able to get my money's worth.
Opinionatedfish
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It sounds like he doesn't want to comment because announcing the localization of Monster Hunter XX takes away thunder from the spin-off "world" title on the PS4.
I'm sorry though.. I'm at a point where.. no ability to take Monster Hunter with me everywhere.. means I don't buy that Monster Hunter.
I'm sorry though.. I'm at a point where.. no ability to take Monster Hunter with me everywhere.. means I don't buy that Monster Hunter.
OrbitalBeard
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The "leak" basically stated that Monster Hunter 5 (World) is a console game. That's about it, really. The rest of it has yet to be proven or cannot be.
Even if that person actually received legitimate info from someone at Capcom, it's pretty obvious they injected their own bias into each bullet point, which is why so much of it reads like a pile of rubbish.
the wii version was the beginning of the end. it eventually went portable, but that was after the psp was dead
a port of a game on preexisting hardware. its also on the 3ds
neurosisxeno
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It's not a spin-off. He explicitly said that, multiple times. Monster Hunter: World, for all intents and purposes is Monster Hunter 5 for Xbox One/Playstation 4/PC.
MatrixMan.EXE
Member
Choose to believe it if you want, but the decision to put Monster Hunter on consoles has nothing to do with money hats and everything to do with the fact that Nintendo's weird hardware release schedule kinda fucked them over. Dragon Quest XI is another example of this. You think that game was originally planned as a PS4 only game for the fun of it?
Ok thanks, i understand.
Then even if it's injected by bias is still not proven to be wrong
Well dq11 was never planned to be only ps4.
The 3ds version has been always around
clay_ghost
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Ya SE only decided to make the 3DS version when they know that it will not sell well or enough on PS4 in Japan.
DQ XI was specifically stated to be a PS4-only game at the start, with the 3DS version being added at a later point.
Where exactly did they reveal all the things that were true? In fact, they revealed a lot of infos for the game that show the rumour was nonsense.
You can see some examples here:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=240652204&postcount=459
It's not that rare in London, UK. My commute is 75 minutes each way across the city, and I'm a parent with no time to sit in front of the telly at home. I've finished dozens of RPGs over the last decade while commuting, ten hours a week soon clocks up! Monster Hunter, Etrian Odyssey, Trails, Dragon Quest and Ys have probably made up 90% of my gaming in the last decade.
You could get a Vita for Remote Play, heh.
Especially after it was already confirmed that weapon types weren't removed, which is directly contradictory to what this claims.
And if it really were the case that MHPortable is coming out on Switch next year as the 'traditional' MH, why would they go through the trouble of porting XX in August?
The rest is all internal company politicking that, unless some document or emails or what have you leaks, will never be proven or disproven.
I've got a Vita, there's just no wireless access on my train and internet access is intermittent so it wouldn't work. It just seems overkill to buy a PS4 to do that in any case.
Because MHXX is practically done, mh generations have already be translated. If the traditional mh 5 is coming next year,it will be 2 yrs before portable MH arrives
I'm not unfamiliar with the concept. I live in Japan and commute via train myself, albeit shorter than a 30-minute ride, but even if it were longer I can't see myself playing a video game that requires my attention like that over a morning commute where I'm usually pretty tired. I don't see much of it around me either.
No, I mean in the Japanese market, where MH is most relevant, and where the series being traditional or not would make the most difference.
In Japan, MHXX is coming out on the Switch in August of 2017. The post claims that a new MHP is planned for 2018. Between XX and a potential Portable entry, you think Capcom is going to put out two that close together? Maybe that was more feasible on the 3DS but developing for the Switch and 3DS aren't identical.
Well tbf I don't see capcom releasing 2 mh in one year so if mhw is out in 2018, I don't see the so called portable version being released in the same year so that I agree with you. For the western market of MHXX is to be released I think it will be after mhw.. so i guess I am just gonna make use of Amazon Japan again
Eolz
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SE isn't as stupid as Capcom yeah.
I want to buy both, Capcom. Don't fuck this up plz.
The thing I get is that since the last MHW releases early 2018 they don't want to have two MH games releasing close to each other and being in competition. Sooooo hopefully we'll get MHXX in the west in summer?
The thing I get is that since the last MHW releases early 2018 they don't want to have two MH games releasing close to each other and being in competition. Sooooo hopefully we'll get MHXX in the west in summer?
Eolz
Member
Same. Localizing XX would still have had a lot of people double dipping, and most people buying a Switch already had a ps4/x1/pc.
It's not like it was one or the other.
Always when this kind of things happen i really don't get this kind of people? Is this because of the all console warz thing?
The head of the development team wanted to make a game for the big screen. So yep. For the fun of it sounds about right.
It's certainly amusing, all this situation. I don't think they'll drop the Switch, since it's a handheld and MH dropping handhelds is as weird as Diablo not releasing on PC. We'll see.
Same shit as the cross play one. They just want to worship the company that they pay.
Saved for PSX?
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World is for the west portable would almost certainly be Japan only until 2019.
Expectations for Generations were set lower in their fiscal reports.
XX didn't hit expectations (along with every other Capcom title last year). Why? Probably because a lot of people, at least in North America were pleading for a Switch/NX version of the thing.