What are some other reasons why players are coming back to Monster Hunter World? Also, thanks for watching! You are SO appreciated.

Always appreciated MHW for being so immersive even when the story itself isn't in the main spotlight. It's amazing.

The more arcadey feel of Rise is fun, but I find it more reliant on my mood to want to play it, whereas World is that more solid experience of feeling more like a hunter than an anime character.

Another small but neat detail that world added and rise removed was that cutting rathians tail would remove its poison making it a logical priority to make the fight easier while in rise she just has a slightly smaller hit box and still poisons you despite removing her poisonous spikes

The only things I like in Rise more are that gunlance can turn you into a jet and that there are more non-lizard monsters

I really like to have those small creatures in my base. They make it more alive like the environment.

Played both Rise and World. I must say I'm 100% with you on how the little things make a huge difference. For example, capturing monsters. In World, you're rewarded with having them displayed in town where everyone can study them. In Rise, you're not seeing your monster again after capturing it. And God forbid the nightmare of item box management in Rise.

It's hard to describe... But MHW just FEELS better. The combat animation feels fluid, the attacks feel weighted, the UI feels updated, graphics are superior. MHW felt like a next gen evolution for the series. Rise feels like "old MH". Like Playstation MH. Not to mention they tried to keep MHW "grounded", even with the monster designs and what old monsters they let come back. Rise feel more anime, even down to the monsters they let return.

My main reason for going back and playing world is simply the layout of the online system, let me explain. For me what make up the bulk of the longevity of a MH game is when I take my sets that I have made and go and help other hunters with their quests. In MHW and Iceborne the online quest system is so much better then in MHR and Sunbreak. In sunbreak you have to select a quest to search for and then you will be automatically added to that quest. Fundamentally they sound the same but let me phrase it this way. If I wanted to hunt a Tigerex in world I would just look at the current online quests and then choose one that is hunting a tigerex, but in sunbreak if I want to hunt a Tigerex then I'll have to search for a specific quest (out of many) that is hunting tigerex and just hope that someone out there is currently doing that quest.

For me, MHW felt more like a World (no pun intended) where the community and the base you played in felt alive. You can walk around the base, see the results of things you did. The SOS system also made it so easy to go out and help other hunters if you wanted too. Without that it felt so much harder to help other players in Rise.

The World is just so alive, fighting 3 monsters in the same area is hectic in the best way. Rise has their monsters behaving way differently. Also the hubs of 16 people really gave the game a feeling of community. People hunting different things.

What the World nailed is that it really makes you feel good through the story and interactions. Like, everybody assure you that you are a part of the expedition and everybody work together, but during gameplay everybody start acknowledging the fact that you're a good hunter. You become kind of a hero, but not overnight or because of a prophecy but through the progress and the npc's are there to let you know that. Like, we need more games with worlds and characters that acknowledge your progress in this way.

I really love the 16 player lobbies where you could do the SafiJiva and Kulve Tarroth events, look at other people's armors, and play with the other people on the server at anytime you want. You could play with the same party or trade hands. You could also posts quests for others to join you. Hell, in Iceborne you could invite people into your rooms or see others getting armor in the workshop. The whole experience in the lobby was very intimate and care-free. For these reasons, I think the matchmaking is vastly superior to Rise. The only complaint I have is forcing new players to the watch the cutscenes by themselves in the hunts.

I came back to World, restarted for the fifth time, after playing Rise. Seeing the game coming back to life after all this time brings me such joy. 10/10 video

I prefer World for the slower but more calculated combat. Also, the fact that the camera is so close to your character paired with the high detail of the game makes it very immersive.

Rise and World were apparently handled by separate teams. Monster Hunter games in the main series are made by one team and the portable/spinoff games are made by another. Rise was made by the second team and it has more in common with the portable games than World. It was actually originally supposed to be on 3DS but was eventually put on Switch instead.

As a person who invested an insane amount of hours in MHFU doing solo hunts, MHW and Iceborn brings to me the same feeling that I had when I discovered the MH saga and played for hours to get a set or kill a monster, but with a nice community of playes, it's super nice to see that people is pretty chill and helpful in this game. Also the biomes feels alive, If you want to hunt, you can go via missions, events, SOS, etc. But if you wanna have a chill experiencie, you can go fishing, hunt pets, colect resources to your camp, do mini games like the steam one. I came back to the game after 3 years, I started a new run and I'm enjoying the fresh run so far.

what I loved about world's environments is for example when you find that little hole in the coral highlands and you start going down and suddenly it start changing into the rotten vale and then you can use the glider mantle to fly all the way back up again, things like that is what I missed about rise

Personally I love MHW because of how it feels, how it plays, and the overall world is really good. The multiple interactions between creatures and environment is amazing. The weapons all feel powerful in their own way, and the movement feels deliberate. One of the things I didn't like about rise was the recovery and movement. It became to DMC for me, almost like a tiktok video in game mode.

I can hunt a monster 5 times and it's different every time in World. In Rise it feels samey on the fourth attempt. I feel part of it is the environmental hazards (toads too) as well as how slinger ammo is dropped from monsters shifting up positioning.

I’d say it’s because World is the most polished and fleshed out game in the series, it’s streamlined enough in design to where newbies can play it easily but it’s also beautiful and detailed in ways that the other titles aren’t. It’s the Monster Hunter that finally delivered on what the intro cinematics and ecology videos of so many other Monster Hunters have been trying to get across for so long which is the feeling that you aren’t a player controlling a hunter but the Hunter themself in a living breathing world full of life that’s actually living and growing. And on top of the immersion it’s just a generally fun game to play with a fun gameplay loop and tons of stuff to do.

I'm back to World cause I didn't complete Iceborn. I spent close to 3000 hours in this game and I agree it is a simulator vs arcade compared to rise. Also I spent so much time collecting small creatures, you can put them in your room or I spent hours to fish only, around all maps with a specific set and I put the rarest on aquarium in the small room in Astera. I'm still returning to play world, it was my first experience with MH series but in my opinion is an unmatched masterpiece, I can only manage to use well 1 weapon (db). If you ask me to play 1 game only for the rest of my life, is mhw. (sry for basic english) Also I'm a completionist and there still things to do, amazing..

I joined the franchise at World and Iceborn quite late into its life cycle. I played rise and enjoyed it a bunch but world was just so alive and enveloping. The quest complete theme is like the audio equivalent of a warm blanket that smells like home. Its really just incredible that I have so much nostalgia for a game who's franchise I'm so new to considering how long its been running for. I never truly finished Iceborn but I think about going back so regularly. I might just have too, help pass the time until MH6

I’ve been trying to get into Rise/Sunbreak with a friend and this sums up how I feel about the two. Little bit conflicted because I like Rise but I miss elements of World. I won’t say one is better than the other, but they are clearly different, and I hope they keep the best of both for whatever they are working on next. Thank you for this video.

My first MH was Freedom from PSP I loved it back in those days, now without even a hint about how old were each game, I said to myself "MHW: Iceborn is the newest, I mean just look at the graphics" this feeling is something I won't regret, I bought MHW:I and I'm still enjoying it, MH Rise feels like going backwards from World, yeah sure battles are challenging and frenetical, but it lacks life I literally felt I was watching PSP MH again lol

I think both games are amazing. What people have to take into consideration, especially when it comes to Rise, is that Rise was built from the ground up to run on the Switch. Meaning it wasn't going to look as good graphically or have many detailed environments/ecology like with World. If it did, the console would become a pipebomb. Both games would focus on different aspects in their names with World being an immersive experience and Rise being more action focused with freedom of mobility. World was made for longer playtimes while Rise was more of an "on the go" type of hunting experience. To address why users are playing World:IB is for 2 reasons. 1. After a game is completed, players usually go back to older titles and wait until the next game comes out so they don't get burnt out over the recent title. 2. Because the portable game designed with shorter playtimes was ported to systems that encourage longer play sessions. There's also the case of Rise not being crossplay/Crossave. Most who started on switch and wanted to shift to PC couldn't without leaving their progress behind. There's also the fact that the game is region locked on PC so finding players to play with must be abysmal compared to that of the Switch lobbies. It's like night and day. Finally, players need to understand that Rise was never supposed to be an upgrade/sequel to World. Rise, just like its predecessors, was its own thing and decided to experiment with fast mobility and implementation of the hunter arts from GU. Regardless on if one game is better or not is irrelevant. They should take the best aspects of both titles and implement them forward. Thank you for listening to my Ted talk.

I think the right word to say was “ scale”. MHW has a feeling of scale that MHR does not. You feel small in comparison to the monsters you face. And that insignificance in comparison to the beasts gives you a massive amount of immersion and replay ability

I started with Monster Hunter on the PSP. I always loved the previous games but I never knew how to play and couldn't stick it out. I gave Monster Hunter World a shot and loved the quality of life improvements. After learning how to play from World, I went back and played a lot of the older games and love them. Rise was a fun time with friends but it's too arcadey. I love the feel that World gives and that the older games give.

Mhw is my first game into this franchise. I have never fell in love with a game so much. The music, the hunt and the gameplay was so perfect. After returning from rise, my only complaint is not having palamutes to travel around faster.

As someone who started with MHW back when it came out and then tried MHR I can say that, at least for me, MHR feels two generations behind MHW, and I’m aware it’s due to switch technical limitations but it doesn’t change the fact that World feels like…world, not a map if that makes sense.

I feel like World is more popular because it's almost like an MMO, it feels more mutliplayer-focused. Especially when looking at Sieges, they are not intended to be beaten alone but with a group of people like a raid in an MMO. That and the amount of content - and the way you interact with that content - makes the game last longer. Rise not having sieges isn't a bad thing, it has it's own endgame, it's just that the design philosophy is different. When I replayed Rise a second time with friends one of them said that the game feels more "arcade-y" which is a fitting way to describe it. It's a lot more streamlined in many ways, more "convenient" with a bunch of QoL changes which in turn hurts the longevity I believe.

I actually like the biomes/ecosystem of world and how the monsters interact with the world but like the combat of rise.

Just came back to world after a couple years off. Loving it. Love the immersion it has with the small creatures and stuff

I started with world and one of the things that i absolutely love about it is the intractability with things around you as you fight. depending in where you are in a given region and your game knowledge you can deal tons of damage to a monster in bursts. it rewards the player for thinking about their environment and observing the tools at their disposal. you could fight Rathalos on top of the ancient forest tree for like 10 minutes then it moves you chase it down and repeat, or you could use various different methods of causing the waterfall giving you a huge opportunity for damage and moving the monster to a different place which can be advantageous. Rise just felt like there wasnt anything to do except hit the monster. Hitting the monster is still the core gameplay in world but i had options i had the ability to take a risk on a trap or something to give me the upper hand against a truly intimidating monster. and once i learned a monsters attacks and behaviors like an actual researcher i didnt need those traps because i could now dance with the monster and hunt it faster and faster each time. You are given the stepping stones to becoming a better hunter and left to your own devices to see if you can walk along them. this was super long winded but that is one of the biggest things i noticed between the 2 games :3

I love them both but yeah, the immersion in World was a lot deeper. Also, World's combat was a lot more tactical whereas Rise relies much more on builds only.

As someone who has almost exclusively played MHW since launch night on the xbox, I can say with certainty I have seen the player base become almost as large as it was when Iceborne released. It is incredible how much this masterpiece of a game has stayed alive and I really appreciate how this video highlights all the things that make it so beautiful. Thank you GIddyFoxGaming this is a really beautiful little love letter to both of these games and I really appreciate the timne and energy you put into this video It really makes me appreciate the series more!

Wyvern Riding was the mechanic that really made me dread playing Rise. Having every monster become a lobotomite the second another one enters the area and being given a free Wyvern Ride and unearned damage really didnt sit well with me. Also i personally think it inspired some really obnoxious playstyles from other people where they'll either not engage the target and instead run off to grab another monster or they'll hop on the one you're fighting and start running to a different area entirely. Also spiribirds are a terribly thought-out mechanic that makes some of your items useless unless you've taken time to go and gather the max number of birds, i really don't know what the thought process with them was.

I was talking about this with my dad just yesterday (He's been playing MH for years and he introduced it to me when I was 9/10, and im 14 right now which means MHW was my first MH game) and he said almost the exact same things you said. even tho he plays MHR still and I recently came back to MHW, he still absolutely adores MHW

I liked the setup for World. Not only is the player new to the lands they're visiting but their own character is too. You are part of the world as you go and explore it rather than just placed in Main Character style. You are part of a fleet with characters you meet and who return later on, and the game lobby itself is bustling with movement and energy

Loved every MH game but world is a master piece. It took the genre to a new hight. MHR is amazing and lots of good features but the immersion isn't the same. Like you said the feel is so much better in MHW and it's a combination of the environment, the graphics, the soundtrack, the animations. It makes you feel like you are in the world hunting. I felt like a hunter. MHR is like a arena. I can jump in and hunt a monster and put down the controller. MHW I am hunting taking my time, luring the monster to a better area. It difficult to explain fully but what they accomplished was spectacular.

Just the fact that you can get Fulgur Bugs from Zinogre when you use the capture net while the monster is on the ground shows so much detail in the enviroment in MHW! And because all the optional things are really things you don´t need to do but you are willing to do at some point make it an amazing game.

Both games are excellent for different reasons. World felt more grounded and visually stunning, and more like an RPG-hunting simulation. Rise is more fast paced and action packed, and builds are more fun to play around with and feel more accessible with less grind.

I AGREE 100% I think another great small detail is, if you didnt know, in seliana in your home you can display some of the critters you capture with your net so if you just want to relax and kick back from the all time hunting and action you can actually go to a place (your home) to relax and see all of the trophies you are proud of that you can display on your walls and i think the home system is great too cause no home is the same theres different lights, decor,styles, aquariums for fish YOU CATCH its just great and some critters are hard to catch and it feel like and a small acheviment when you get them like for example the wigglers in the coral highlands you cant just run up and get them you need to sneak and get them in a special way. its just cool.

Man you nailed it so hard . As someone who has 1000+ hours in MHW and 500+ in MHR . Rise really suffered by being made on the switch first . There are tons of holes in the world and the game overall . Rise just feels like a monster hunter lite in the end . They had some good ideas but there just wasn't enough monster hunter in rise .

My guess on why, is the mounting system. In Rise there's no real mounting and you technically have to fight the monster, (or secondary monster) to ride it, unless the hunters want to bypass all the tedious work and find the endemic life which kind of stops the flow of combat, much like in 4U. Meanwhile in World, there's this sense of superiority when we mount the monsters and many "saved your life bro" moments. 😋

the thing that first put me off of rise is that it lacked the oomph that weapons had in world, it was just way too fast for my taste whereas in world, you felt the impact on the monster

Huge World fan - I'm currently on my 3rd playthrough and it's funny that this vid came out right as I was feeling that itch to return to World. I played Rise as well and can say that you nailed a lot of why I missed World, but there's one other thing for me: the style of the armor/weapons. This comes down to preference, but basically NONE of the armor or weapon aesthetics excited me in Rise. Sure, I would do the work to get upgrade and build sets, but at the end of the day there was like... One? Maybe two outfits I enjoyed looking at? Compare that to World, which had gear that always impressed me and inspired me to grind for it! I have dozens of layered armor sets saved in that game. I think a lot of hunters will agree that the true end game is style.

I remember spending all day trying to fish for a rare platinum fish. It's soo stupid but also really fun. It's like you can just chill and do stuff like that whenever you have no mood to hunt monsters. In rise you only fight monsters over and over. The endgame is just trying to get better quest clearing time just for personal satisfaction. And the lack of siege monsters really sucks. Every one of my fondest MH memories involve siege monsters. Lao shan lung in freedom unite, Dire Miralis in 3 ultimate, Gogmazios and Dalamadur ni 4U. And World have the best siege monsters ever. Fatalis, Kulve, Alatreon, Behemoth, and my personal favourite, Safiijiva.

I wholeheartedly agree with everything you just said mate! Especially the part about the feeling of the game. It's just so immersive and grounded for a fictional world that you feel like you're really doing all the hunting, researching and stuff. I started playing this game on the first lockdown was instantly hooked. Ended up sinking so many hours everyday wishing it was my real job 🤣

i do really like MHW because the feel of hunting is so precise to the core. Whenever you hit or miss with your attack you can feel how much the impact for the hunting progress especially when you are doing full 4 hunters. the community are awesome as well, where ever you are they always people who considerate and help you regardless how bad you are in the game. many people help you defeating Fatalis, Alatreon and whenever you fail those hunt they always encourage you to keep trying !

Rise just doesn't scratch that itch for me. World is just so much more fleshed out, and you can feel the passion that was put into making it. If Wilds was just more World I would 100% be fine with that. I hope they improve on it, but if the whole gameplay loop is the same, I would be ok with it.

For me, the World map just felt waaay better than rise, not the graphic of the map, but just how spacious it is, Rise map FOR ME, felt very narrow, very limited, while in MH World, it felt huge, there's tons of room to maneuver

Just started a fresh playthrough few days ago and man did I miss this game. Apart from just looking stunning the game really captures the hunting part of MH, and you really gotta work for every kill. Also the only time I felt threatened in Rise was the last bonus update boss, in World theres just more intensity maybe due to limited mobility without the wirebugs and palamutes. Matchmaking is also completely dead for me in Rise for some reason, theres like never anyone joining my hunt and in World when you shoot up a SOS flare it doesnt matter what rank youre in theres instantly someone joining up. And as you mentioned I also missed these epic siege fights againt the toughest bosses designed to play in a group.

World is more down to earth which I went back to it. Rise is really fun with the wirebugs and silkbinds, but after awhile I just rather a classic wrestling match between me and monster.

As much as I love the changes in Rise, World will always be my favorite will always be World simply because it felt like you were tracking a monster in such huge map which most times never felt like a map, it felt like true wilderness. I remember when I first played World, I went hunting an Anjanath with a friend and I had no clue where to go in the forest because the scenery and map building was so complex to me at the time. I’ve gone all the way to Iceborne on ps4 and since I swapped to pc, it’s such a breeze knowing the maps and tbh I made my friends walk away from the game cuz they couldn’t catch up with me cuz it was their first time in the waters that is Monster Hunter. Ive been trying to convince them to play which I got them on Rise so hopefully I can get them to play World again cuz I love it so much.

World is such a good game. I absolutely hate it, it makes me angry all the time because I suck, but I still managed to put 35 hours into it. Also, yeah capturing critters and having them in your house running around and in the pond is a huge part of why I enjoyed it so much. I just got to high rank and I don't know if I'll keep playing, but I had a good time with it. Btw, the Insect Glaive is awesome.

I agree. I think with the next entry they could take the best of bpth games and build something that can be expandable and more MMOish, or somthing. I like the idea of big 4 team hunts against massive elder dragons and stuff. Raids, or sieges as you said. Would be insane to see some evolution of them.

Something that I think adds a lot to world is the fact that you can learn the areas to the point where it's your territory now, you can control the plants and natural traps to your advantage and when your plans work it just feels right

I’m returning because I never did finish everything I wanted to and missed out on some key features, so I’m starting fresh to re explore everything and learn more. It also helps that the grind for anomoly 300 is getting very difficult for me as a solo SA main.

I've found myself talking friends into returning into MHW that didn't beat Iceborne while I accompany them on a new character rather than power grind them up on my main and So far we are enjoying it. I'm hoping to get them to endgame to experience Aletreon and Fatalis as these fights are incredible and no fan should miss out on.

you have managed to put into words whats i've always felt, worldborne just feels... alive it's so beautiful and cozy

Both games suit different play styles. If anything, I feel like Rise's pick up and go style of play works wonderfully in tandem with World's more long session orientated play. If you want to have some games that'll keep you plenty busy, there you go.

When I played Rise one thing that I really didn’t like was how much of a separation between playing with friends and by yourself was. To this day me and my friends had a lot of issues with the this, because how easy it was to get into a match with friends.

My friends and I picked up World after three years because another friend decided to try the game out. Finally getting to take on the Iceborne post game was so much fun, along with learning CB. I equally enjoy World/Iceborne and Rise/Sunbreak.

I feel like one big thing missed in the video is SoS flares In Rise it feels like a chore to go out of your way to find sessions or groups to play with, while in World you just hit the SoS flare menu, pick a hunt and get straight into it Today I saw 2 pages of Appointed quests in the master rank SoS flare menu at different hours of the day, that really shows how active the game is right now

It sucks because I really enjoy Rise and the variety of the monsters they have added compared to World ( Where are my GIANT SPIDERS AND CRABS, CAPCOM???? ), but World has an infinitely more immersive feel to it. It's fun to go in and "search" for monsters, it's fun to capture little creatures and decorate my room with it. It also feels more... I don't know how to explain it. Rise tried to make it feel 'immersive' by adding in those little birds that boost your stats, but let's be rael, after a certain point, it becomes more of a chore and a waste of time to run around an area for those birds instead of just going to the monster immediately. I will say, one of my misgivings about going back to World from Rise is that I can't stand the tenderize mechanic ( because I'm a filthy rotten bow main AND I tend to play strictly solo 90% of the time so tenderizing is even MORE of a chore ). Rise doesn't have that, so it just feels much better to me and infinitely less tedious. All in all, I hope the next game takes the immersion and alive feeling of its world from MHW ( please god the level design of the maps were top tier and felt so big ) and the quality of life changes and monster roster from Rise. I have my fingers crossed... And don't fucking bring back tenderizing, Capcom.

MHW got great elements, it's crazy to me that even after completing the research levels in Rise, people would go back to playing a game they completed progression on Fatalis and AT monsters

World also brings the feeling of some of the older games that really hits the nostalgia.

I love that in world there is a more in depth experience because you feel like your in the game and environment also love the content, livestream was epic keep up the good work

Been on and off playing world for the past year or so now. I’ll have like 3 weeks where I’ll grind the game-then get busy and kind of forget. It keeps it refreshing though. I was just preparing to fight fatalis, but now I struggle with alatreon and have re-learn everything.

Just a thing, the net can also be used in combat against zinogre, when hes down you throw the net at his back to take out his energy bugs this way he becomes weak again.

I think a huge reason for this is also the fact Monster Hunter: World is playable on steam deck now. A huge majority of people LOVE having portable games on handheld devices, so it changes a lot.

For me it burned me out how weak the base charge blade felt in rise, having played world at release as the first Monster Hunter. Even returning to world to rush through the base game on pc to get to iceborne, the weapon just felt better, the small stops when doing big hits to emphasise the impact of a discharge attack. I do miss the weapon styles a bit, which were a nice return to the series (hearsay, and I genuinely liked them).

I think there's a lot of World/IB players who doesn't really realise how deep the attention to details is crazy in this game. After a THOUSAND hours playing with my beloved character, i discovered that if you get your friendship to max level with the cat buddies that you can find in every maps, you can go to there camps and trade with them so they give you access to secrets treasures hidden in every map except guiding lands. The treasures are not really important, nothing that can help you in your gameplay but the fact that it is a thing made me think that the developpers really put a ton of attention in this game to really feel like it's alive, that everything was living long before you arrived. PS: the endgame in rise is long for nothing and a little pain to farm the materials to upgrade your stuff. But it would be less boring if you could just go hunt with a full bar of health and stamina.... this idea is trash as hell and it make me waste a ton of time when i want to fight against monster that can one shot my half bar of health.... plus the fact that, learning the patterns of the monsters i already fought ten times to upgrade the quest, i just obliterate them in the end... I beg you Capcom, stop this

I miss how interactive the environments were in World, and by extension, the slinger. It was such a simple device and yet it was so effective for the hunt

i remember falling asleep to the astera music many many nights with the in game sunset on my tv it was pretty bliss.

I have 1,000 hours in Rise on the Switch, so I love the game to bits and still play it often, but even I find myself going back to World often or recommending it to new players more than I do with Rise. Playing Rise is SO fun, and there’s a lot of really good additions and QoL added to the series with Rise. But it’s all the fun without the same satisfaction and adrenaline of World, not to mention how much more immersive World is.

I think you nailed it when talking about the "feeling" of it. I really liked Rise, but I don't love it like I love Worlds because the feeling just isn't there. Rise is a lot of fun, but lacks the immersion and satisfaction of World, not from any one major flaw but just from a lot of small things. For me at least, it was mainly the feel of the monsters and the environment. While I think many of Rise's new monsters are cool/fun none of them did it for me in the same way my favorites from World did in a way that is difficult to really put my finger on. The fact it is so difficult to put my finger on why lends credence to the idea that it's just a lot of little things that add up. I'm glad you mentioned the hardware issue, though, since I get the feeling that designing for the Switch first and foremost limited what they could do. Given that, I think making Rise fast paced and light, more focused on action than immersion, might have been the best way to handle it, even if it lacks the impact that World had. After all, World still exists, and I had a lot of fun with Rise just taking it to a friend's house for a hang out and some hunts, which is something the handheld excels at

I have hundreds of hours on World and have only played the demo of Rise, and I still find myself loading up World to jump back in for another hunt it's actually so good

Just jumped back into world myself these thoughts expressed here are exactly what's on my mind brilliantly done😊

Your point on the difference of the weight of the weapons is really the biggest thing for me. I started playing world with light weapons, but after 700 hours, I've fallen in love with the heavy weapons as well. Every weapon has a different weight and feel to it, and it feels great to master each one. This isn't an attempt to bash mhr. It's a great game, and I see that clearly. It just doesn't feel as good in my personal opinion I've tried rise on multiple occasions, but the lack of "oomph" really ruins it for me. I'm heavily considering giving rise another try and just playing dual blades to see if a light weapon fits the movement better.

for me its the immersion. I missed hunting down a monster, like finding the footprints. sometimes just getting out in my favorite area and exploring was fun. there's gossip about World 2 coming out and that capcom will announce it during the game awards in Dec. we will see.... I hope so!

Played Rise a few weeks ago, something felt off that I couldn't put my finger on it; you sir quite nailed it. Rise is still a fun game at the end of the day but World just speaks to me more and hey Rise finally made me get Iceborne and I've been enjoying that very very much.

I'm not a rise player moving back to world. but I will say one reason I would use if I were to start up monster hunter and why I would choose to play World. my first monster hunter of all was monster hunter World. the first one that hit on steam /pc. moving away from that first full experience, I just compare everything back to that experience and it's tough to beat the slow immersive tense game that playing world as a first game gave me that rise didn't manage for me. also it took so long for me to get through rise content that I wasn't enjoying myself, especially knowing that something entirely game changing, the jet gun lance thing, is content I get later and don't have now and I just wanted to play that thing and I'm not allowed.. turned the journey towards it into a slog and grind and unfun. I don't think I even made it to the jet thing before quitting..

As a Hunting Horn main, I enjoyed the novelty of rise's horn, but man did I start missing the playstyle of world's horn. They're both fun but they are not the same at all. World's horn is so much slower and meatier, and its song system is three times as deep and versatile.

I played both games all the way through, but there is a reason i have over 2000 hours in world and maybe 200 in rise. Rise was SO fun, but for me it was just fun. World has this connection of love that i cant explain, but its the most charming, beautiful, addictive game ive ever played

Im currently playing Rise, and i miss having 10-16 players to hunt with, anytime i send a help request i dont get anyone, but when i do it makes it more fun. Also the impact from weapons feels better in World

10:05 Not sure if you knew but those critters you capture can be put in your room and you have vivariums etc or just leave them roaming around your home

Rise isn’t a bad game, but I really didn’t like how nimble you are, especially for the Great Sword. The added mobility and recovery options made the Great Sword FEEL like a different weapon and much easier to handle. In World, the sound and more tanky controls really give each swing more weight to them and FEELS more impactful. Side note: In Rise, I really hated the added voiceover for the Hunter and quickly disabled it for that classic silent protagonist FEELING. It sounds like you didn’t know this was a thing.

Rise has a special place in my heart as well, but you're right. With the wirebugs and such, it's super mobile. At first I didn't think I'd like it but I came around and really enjoyed it but thinking I'll start a new campaign in world seeing as MH6 is on the horizon.

Ever since I started gaming I’d been looking for a game like mhw and every other game felt like a grind. Mhw is what really got me into gaming and I feel like you described the feel of mhw perfectly

I've only played World and Rise, so if older games do this, I have no idea. One of the big things I didn't enjoy in Rise, is the running around to collect all the little stat bugs to have sizeable health/Stam, SEPARATE from crafting Ancient potions and the like. When I want to farm mats for crafting items, I'll do that, but when I'm in fight mode, I dont want to run around like a chicken with it's head cut off, wasting 5-8min I could be using to fight the thing I'm going for.

For me you hit the nail on the head! In world it felt like a world😂 I always got so immersed in the environment and I loved the tracking monster mechanic. But in rise you instantly know where the monster is, the maps are smaller and you’ve got a palamute and the wire bugs to get around the map quicker. 9 times out of ten I went straight to the monster and just beat the quest.

I like World's SOS system a lot more. It makes it much easier to just queue up and play with other people. On Rise PC, there's also this weird 6-7 second delay when you exit a menu and try to enter another one (i.e. exiting your chest menu and trying to talk to an NPC). In contrast, World doesn't have this issue, you can enter and exit any menu freely and instantly.

One big thing that keeps me with world is the armor my favorite being red xeno love how the armor changes when your unsheathing your weapon.

I have a secret reason I'd prefer World to Rise, and that is my horrible sense of direction. I get lost a bit too easily in Rise but in World, the Scoutflies help me go around as well as our living taxis known as the Tailraiders. Also, the FLOOFS (Boaboas actually)!!! I love the floofs so much I would go looking for them first if one can be found in the map. Not being able to find the floofs in Rise upset me a bit. As I had played and enjoyed God Eater, I get the sense that Rise is somehow based on them.

Monster Hunter World made me feel like a hunter. It did that perfectly. I remember it taking me 10 minutes just to find the monster at times, and that never bothered me. In Rise I always knew exactly where I was heading to fight the monster. It felt like every mission was the arena mission from World, and that got boring really quick. MHW is a genuine experience. I hope they can recapture that in another.

I straight up agree with all of the things you sad in this video! MHWI is just… good. The tiny animals and insekts just make it feel so alive!

Monster Hunter Now also raises publicity for MH series, and people loving the entry, easy, instant version (MH Now) would be drawn to the complete version as well, a fraction of them - our community are pretty vocal in voicing the game's quality as well, good combination.

So im new to "hunting games" and was debating between world and rise, which would you or anyone reading this recommend? Idk if means much but im also a heavy warframe player and played the hell of wild hearts before that sadly got abandoned