I STILL play World, I played Rise for the entirety of the main game but never bothered to get the ad ons. The dragons looked cool and everything but idk, I like my ps5.
The grind is in every game but for World the armor skills in low rank are so unfocused you can get away with running whatever you want until high rank where skills become more focused.
The big problem with MH skills post GU is that the meta aka easiest sets to build for and use to progress are Weakness Exploit/Crit Boost sets, IMO the addition of those skills has been disastrous. Every game since their inclusion has basically had an identical meta to strive for and it's kind of gay.
Weakness exploit existed before gen, it just wasnt as insane beforehand since it was just a 5% damage boost to weak spots instead of 50% affinity. As it is now it definitely feels overtuned and centralizing. Maybe it was more acceptable in GU since skill points were scarce and an endgame set would realistically only have 4-5 skills, but nowadays it really doesn't have an excuse to be as overtuned as it is.
Right but the sets for WEX are so easy to build for that it's one of those skills that you should just try to get outright. In general I'm not a fan of the way armor skills were reworked post GU with going from 1-3 skills usually in a set to upwards of sometimes 10 if you get good talismans in melds or deco gacha or whatever.
Deviation? Rise is more like classical MH than World is, despite World being mainline and Rise a spin-off, literally.
It's fun, I'd still recommend PC over console any day but if its your only option then its still good. The monster fights in Rise are leaps and bounds better than World and there's more variety as well. The tutorials are still pretty shit as per tradition though so you'll probably want to find a general weapon guide somewhere if it's your first game unless you really enjoy reading through textboxes.
Fairly fun and fairly easy. Has a couple of missed opportunities in it that while don't really detract from the game will leave you wishing something was done with them.
Not my favourite game compared the other mainline titles and the doggo movement is void once you unlock fast travel camps, but if it comes with sunbreak at a decent discount i'd say yeah it's worth it at least for a single play through.
It takes the things World did like more verticality, more open maps and does it better for the most part. You'll see some people kvetch about wirebugs which I agree with to some extent, mainly early-mid game over how they trivialize a lot of monster combos. That being said, wirebugs are incredibly fun to use regardless and the movement options they add on top of the moves are very fun. The feedback while hitting monsters is still fucked from World, if you don't have damage numbers on it's incredibly hard to tell if you're hitting weak spots or not and the VFX for crits are extremely obnoxious, much less so since Sunbreak added the option to tune it down but before it was a nightmare. Palamutes are cool addition and can get pretty busted if you kit them out right. Rampages are an odd addition but very easy to do and don't take long if you are literate.
