never played a monster hunters game what is it that gets people so addicted? do you capture monsters or do you just hunt them...is it like a open sandbox game where you just happen to walk into something massive?
I remember Dragon dogma i felt a sense of wonder when i seen a dragon in a forest or a griffin just swooping into scene suddenly
You kill monsters or capture monsters depending on missions or preference. You also get other missions, like slaughtering minor creatures or finding stuff.
It's not sandbox-y in that way. You get 'worlds': Like a forest, jungle, desert, mountains. You walk through areas of these worlds seperated by 2 seconds of loading - the transition is not fluid. Like so:
(One world with several areas)
Within these areas anything may happen, depending on mission. If you're just gathering resources monsters, small and big, may appear anywhere, swoop in as you say and ambush you. If you're on a hunt the same sorta goes, you may have one big or several big monsters moving around the world from area to area. You usually know where it's hanging out so you find it and then start hunting it across the map, and these fights may take a few or up to 50 minutes, as mentioned.
An ecosystem of sorts makes the worlds feel more alive - they're richly populated by dangerouns and non-dangerous creatures, insects, plants.
The appeal lies in the dynamic way these fights develop, the myriad of ways to kill a monster, the strategy as you learn how a monster behaves and you can dodge around it while delivering blows with various weapons. Also in the planning of a fight, the choice and creation of weapons and armour, and the enormous satisfaction in taking down a bloody big one after a close fight.
