Vivian on 22/3/2013 at 09:48
Yeah, this really seems like it should be a patch. Are they actually going to charge full price for the quote-unquote fixed game then?
Ulukai on 22/3/2013 at 10:05
Quote Posted by PigLick
Monster Hunter HD
What? This is a an actual
thing that is going to get made? :D Fatty disclaimer: Rhetorical Question
Although I do tend to dismiss most Japanese stuff out of hand with the exception of some of the Final Fantasies and a few SNES RPGs, for some reason I got into Monster Hunter Freedom 2 on PSP and it was glorious. Punishing, but maybe that was part of the appeal. Not going to buy a Wii-U just for that though.
gunsmoke on 22/3/2013 at 14:58
I had the original Monster Hunter and loved it. I believe it was PS2, but it might have been GameCube. I had all 3 systems and a PC then. They seem to be, what, Nintendo exclusive these days though? Sucks. I'd get a Wii-U for the house, but the price is still high for a glorified current gen system. Good game, but not a system seller, I'm afraid.
redrain85 on 22/3/2013 at 15:31
The new features probably won't be a Wii U exclusive for more than 6 months. Then all these additions will show up as some kind of DLC on all the other platforms. The Wii U itself has only sold something like 60,000 units a month since its introduction, last I heard. That's not enough of an audience to keep it exclusive for long.
EvaUnit02 on 22/3/2013 at 21:04
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
I had the original Monster Hunter and loved it. I believe it was PS2, but it might have been GameCube. I had all 3 systems and a PC then. They seem to be, what, Nintendo exclusive these days though? Sucks. I'd get a Wii-U for the house, but the price is still high for a glorified current gen system. Good game, but not a system seller, I'm afraid.
You aren't missing out, MH 3 Ultimate is a tarted up Wii port with a bit more content. Not worth buying that non-entity console just for that one game.
The proper MH4 will be 3DS exclusive, which makes sense since Vita has bombed everywhere and the franchise's real success was on handheld consoles in Japan.
Quote Posted by redrain85
The new features probably won't be a Wii U exclusive for more than 6 months. Then all these additions will show up as some kind of DLC on all the other platforms. The Wii U itself has only sold something like 60,000 units a month since its introduction, last I heard. That's not enough of an audience to keep it exclusive for long.
I kind of doubt that the changes would be ported over. The game is well past the standard dev cycle (for big publisher releases. It would be business as usual for say Valve and a lot of PC indie devs.). Also the changes/additions sound far too significant to work as DLC; especially considering that The Missing Link (and Tong Rescue, to a lesser extent) have been integrated into the main game. (You'd probably require a purchase of both existing DLCs expansions.)
june gloom on 22/3/2013 at 21:15
I'm finding it amusing that now that the Vita's PSN isn't a complete piece of shit, I've begun stuffing my Vita full of PSP games.
EvaUnit02 on 22/3/2013 at 21:36
I'd consider that sad more than anything else. Vita has been out for over 2 years and there's only about a half-dozen exclusives that are worth two shits?
Also PSN store was shit for all platforms. They only JUST launched a web store in Dec 2012. Meanwhile Xbox had one for YEARS. Sony and Nintendo with their online services (and software-based features of consoles in general) seem to be forever playing to Xbox and PC. PS3 is still using the cumbersome PoS that is the XMB, FFS. 360 has gone through at least 4 UI designs and each one has been snappier and more intuitive than fucking XMB ever has been.
june gloom on 22/3/2013 at 23:03
I meant that Vita's PSN was really, really lacking in a decent library. They dumped a small mountain of the really shitty PSP games on there first. It took ages for them to start putting good games in there.
icemann on 23/3/2013 at 03:42
What annoys me the most about the PSN store is the amount of games that are made available in one region (ie Japan or the US) and then never or not till much later made available everywhere else. Being a digital service you would think that it would be relatively simple to just release them worldwide digitally everywhere at once when cross language support was already in place within the games.
froghawk on 25/3/2013 at 06:16
These changes are good, but the game will still be broken in my eyes until they fix that shoddy attempt at ending sequence (and I don't just mean the button pressing, but the entire last level as a whole).
