Thread by @j_bertolotti

#PersonalOpinionOnOldishGame
You can't really finish #MonsterHunterWorld, but I have played as much as I am going to (100+ hours), so here are a few thoughts about it.
TL;DR: it is a good game with some incomprehensible flaws.
1/

Monster Hunter: World is the Nth (with N being a large integer) game in the the Monster Hunter series, but it was the first one I ever played (the new one, Monster Hunter: Rise is only on Nintendo Switch).
2/

The story is non-existent, so let's ignore it. It is just a poor excuse for you to run around some well designed maps hunting and killing dinosaur-like monsters.
There are only 5 maps in the base game, but they are large enough not to be too repetitive.
3/

The main strength of the game are the battles against huge monsters. The monsters are well designed, well animated, and act in a way that you get the feeling they exist on their own, and not just as opponents to the player.
4/

The monsters will feed, tussle with each other for territory, poo, lay eggs, steal eggs, get angry if you steal their eggs etc.
They are by far the strongest point of the game.
5/

The combat system is good and centered around the idea that you have the choice between a number of different weapons, each playing very different, to choose from. The huge choice is a confusing at the beginning, but chances are you will have fun with at least a few of them.
6/

Weapons range from "sword and shield", to submachine guns, to weird contraptions that change shape while you fight. It makes no sense, but the result is fun, so 🤷🏻‍♂️
7/

The main problem of the game is that the menus are the worst menus ever designed by a human mind. And in a game where browsing through the menus is ~20% of your time, this is a big problem.
8/

It genuinely feel like they had a bad menu in the '90s and instead of making it better, they just added layers of nonsense to it through the years.
Eventually you get used to it. But it is objectively bad.
9/

The other problem is that the game is designed to encourage mindless grinding. Do you want to forge this weapon? You will need an ingredient that has a 1% chance to drop from this big monster! So you are expected to just keep hunting the same monster over and over.
10/

I had fun with it (honestly, the fight are not very difficult even for my ageing reflexes. So it was a relaxing activity), but it feels it really needs to be streamlined and cleaned up of a ton of legacy mechanics.
11/11