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Monster Hunter Stories announced for 3DS (RPG - 2016)
- Thread starter Takao
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Odd since the only thing that's cuter than regular MH in that video is humans being anime-d up. The feline looks like butt and the monsters look completely identical except for a different rendering style. They didn't cute up the pethalos at all
Capcom has been trying a bit too hard to attract those Level 5 crowd IMHO. I hope it works this time.
Femmeworth
Banned
That is so not running on a 3DS. Yet it doesn't look that good for something prerendered. Coming to a console eventually?
Edit: Silly me, mobile would make more sense.
Edit: Silly me, mobile would make more sense.
Bringer Of Bacon
Member
dear. god.
IdreamofHIME
Member
When was the last time Capcom made a good RPG?
BOFV?
BOFV?
sixteen-bit
Member
NX launch title?
If there's G version, that mean we'll get it in 2018 D:
I'm sure it's just a target render.
yeah I know, but changing the felyne design is totally unnecessary.
GhostTrick
Banned
Of course it's not ! It's rendered on higher resolution. That is the magic with cell shading: The higher resolution, the better it looks. A lot more than games that use realistic graphics.
Nothing in this trailer looks impossible on 3DS.
Dragon Dogma, main Monster Hunter itself?
Traditional wise through it probably been a while, but there was Last Ranker back in 2010 sorta (Capcom co-develop with Imageepoch).ShockingAlberto
Member
Thinking about it, this feels to me like Capcom's jealous of Yokai Watch money and is trying to leverage a series that is already popular into something for younger kids (and is more merchandisable).
GodlyTwins
Member
Gahhhh looks really good! But I cried a little because I thought it was a new Monster Rancher game for the 3DS D:
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
RecursiveFault
Banned
Not too big on how it looks, I don't think the saturated colors nail cel-shaded, but that's all I got from this.
Riding a MH Monster is adorable though, and this looks aimed towards a younger audience, so that's smart.
Riding a MH Monster is adorable though, and this looks aimed towards a younger audience, so that's smart.
Well, the fact that it's not number means it's a side-series for the MonHun series. I bet an inevitable MonHun 5 (probably on a new generation) will be in the same art style we're used to.
I wonder if Stories will be easier, or maybe even turn-based in some fashion? If they are aiming for kids, I doubt they'd keep the same tough-to-master game mechanics from the mainline series.
Cute culture isn't something new to MH but I guess Youkai Watch really push Capcom into it.
Probably will be also coming to the 3DS successor if it a late 2016 release. Same for Snack World... But they can't announce these versions yet obviously.
Well technically MH series CERO C-rated (you must be 15 or older to buy them) so they couldn't openly push it to elementary kids (not that some parents were buying kids some copies anyway though).
Let's see how this attracts younger audience..
Wow, not interested in mainline MonHun, but an RPG is more up my alley. I also dig that artstyle.
Obviously a good looking overworld was not on the concept poster they scribbled up, duh.
Obviously a good looking overworld was not on the concept poster they scribbled up, duh.
Well that, and the fact that they haven't had a money maker of that sort for themselves since the Megaman BattleNetwork/Rockman.EXE well went dry back in late 00's.
But after the likes of blunders such as Gaist Crusher, they may actually have something on their hands with this game.
Siliconera has a few more details. It's not a lot but it's all we seem to have for now.
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/04/11/monster-hunter-stories-announced-nintendo-3ds/
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/04/11/monster-hunter-stories-announced-nintendo-3ds/
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Yep sounding like my kinda game. All I need is combat info. Sure its gonna depart from regular monhun but thats not a problem for me as this is OBVIOUSLY a different kind of game.
StormBrute
Member
I like the artstyle a lot, though I hope you can customize the protagonist. This seems like a pretty bare-bones announcement though; not really anything to go on for the gameplay yet. Interested to see what it's like.
nephilimdj
Member
The brief ingame footage looks really good
TheBaldEmperor
Member
I'm going to need this in America.
Night Angel
Member
Great, a trailer that tells us absolutely nothing about the type of RPG this is. And no guarantee this even makes it west. Not gonna get hyped until I see gameplay and have a firm confirmation on western release.
Natureboy99
Banned
Agreed. MH games look like crap.
Honestly it seems like at least the main series is going to be home on nintendo platforms for a while at least. Hasn't Nintendo pretty much help with the oversea releases of this series greatly nowadays?
Nintendo has been doing heavy promotion for them in the west, yes.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Which does look pretty abysmal. Esp the cat. Dear god what the fuck did they do to it.
Its kinda bad that even the "萌えハンター" free to play browser game looks better art wise... The whole kid as a main character has got to be one of the biggest WAT type of situation. Talk about not knowing what the target audience is.
Lets just hope that the gameplay will make up for the odd main character decision.
GasProblem
Member
Need to see more before I get excited, but Monster Hunter with a little Fantasy Life sprinkled on top of it sounds like my type of game.
I hate egg carry quests though *shudder*. Bad memories.
I hate egg carry quests though *shudder*. Bad memories.
Troubled Bat
Member
INTO MY VEINS
fredrancour
Member
With this art style, coming in the aftermath of yokai watch, I'm assuming the target audience is slightly different from the regular monster hunter games. If they wanted to make a full-blown jrpg to get more money out of a subset of their core fans with a spinoff, they would have just run with a less altered art style.