Zero Punctuation: Monster Hunter Tri

[DerekTheMagicDragun]

Did Australia get a different game than the rest of the world? I expect Yahtzee to actually play the game before he makes his video, within the first 45 minutes you get to fight the first 'boss' monster, I've been playing since it was released and have rarely had to gather since then, they give you a farm to do all that so you can kill monsters.

I think he just played the first hour and claimed the entire game was like that just so could rip on the Wii.

 

[Raioken18]

If he fought something like Diablos or Rathalos and doesn't understand why "Monster" is in the title there's something seriously wrong with him...

Also, Psychonauts is an awesome game. I'd love a sequel but I don't think anyone could pull it off as well as the original.

 

[Limos]

If he fought something like Diablos or Rathalos and doesn't understand why "Monster" is in the title there's something seriously wrong with him...

Also, Psychonauts is an awesome game. I'd love a sequel but I don't think anyone could pull it off as well as the original.

Maybe he just has inhuman skill and thought that fighting Jhen Mohren qualified as squishing little dogbabies.

 

[Dangerious P. Cats]

I really have to wonder how an RPG type thing would hold up if the buying and upgrading bollocks were done in a single location through a few simple clicks, leaving most of the player's time to be spent doing things that are fun in real life like swordfighting and talking to women.

 

[Steppin Razor]

It's 15 minutes, at best, before you actually start fighting minion monsters, and an hour before the first big one. It's not three hours. Please, people, stop throwing around random times between two and twenty hours when it's really 15 minutes for stuff that isn't what Yahtzee complained about and one hour before the big boss fights that are advertised.

To be fair, it can take three hours if you've never played a Monster Hunter game before. Tri was my first one and you're kind of thrown into the deep end while you work everything out. I'd say about two hours or so to reach Great Jaggi for a total newb with no help from anyone, three hours if they get distracted along the way by killing the little pathetic creatures like I did.

I haven't actually played Tri yet, but I loved the PSP Monster Hunter games. The fail of the Wii control scheme is definitely valid, and is what is making me question whether I want to get it.

If you do get Tri, get a Classic Controller Pro for it. I've been playing Tri and Freedom Unite in sessions recently and I prefer the Wii control scheme. It's so much easier to turn the camera while moving with a second stick at your disposal.

 

[Raioken18]

Yeah the camera control was one thing I really disliked about the psp version...

 

[Datacide]

Yay! Nice to hear the thing is exactly as bad as I thought it would be. I can safely keep that dust farm on my Wii going...I think it is entering a pre-cambrian-type period.

 

[Limos]

I really have to wonder how an RPG type thing would hold up if the buying and upgrading bollocks were done in a single location through a few simple clicks, leaving most of the player's time to be spent doing things that are fun in real life like swordfighting and talking to women.

All the buying and upgrading bollocks as you call them ARE done in one location. There is a blacksmith. He is handles all armor and weapon forging and upgrades in the entire game. There is a woman standing right next to him who will sell you very basic equipment if you don't have the materials to make them. You will probably only use her once, to buy your very first armor set.

 

[TheKwertyeweyoppe]

This has to be the first ZP i've compeletely and utterly disagreed with, i suppose it's because he only had like a week to play it and it starts out incredibly slow

 

[GraegoriHauss]

I didn't actually play the game, but I did watch my younger brother play the online mode, and I do have to say: the game really is boring as fuck...until you get to fight a 50-meter long fucking rock lizard that swims through desert sand like it's water while sailing on that same sand a la Jack Sparrow in At World's End and shooting cannonballs at its face every time it fucking swan dives in a graceful arc over your ship.

Like all games of its kind, Monster Hunter Tri is face-meltingly boring for about the first 15 hours until you get to fight all the big stuff, at which point it upgrades from face-melting to just plain boring.

 

[Warnolo]

Sorry sir, but i disagree.

 

[TheKwertyeweyoppe]

I hate the combat. Love the idea.

You still play it?

Not really. The combat doesn't flow. It's horridly archaic with broad, slow swings and the like. But as it is...I'm stopped playing it. I'd love the game more if it didn't control like shit. I like the idea of just going around hunting monsters, but as it stands, I've not better things to play on the Wii. Like a 2nd run through Metroid Prime Trilogy!

if you don't like the broad slow swings get a sword and sheild or something

 

[Enfid]

When I saw the review title my face just became pale. I knew he's going to rip it to shreds. It's done in humor (and I respect him for that), but I KNEW people are still going to take it at face value.

The game is not for everybody, but it's really enjoyable for people who know what Monster Hunter is like. If you're going in and expecting Devil May Cry/God of War combat or Gears of War or Modern Warfare style shooting, ofcourse you're going to be disappointed.

And Japanese have been making great games half of you don't even know about, and it has nothing to do with porn. Stop being ignorant yet arrogant jackasses that think your country is the best and Japan is just for electronics and porn. I expect denizens of The Escapist forums to be smarter than this. Thanks for opening my eyes.

 

[krgskks]

I haven't actually played Tri yet, but I loved the PSP Monster Hunter games. The fail of the Wii control scheme is definitely valid, and is what is making me question whether I want to get it.

Get a CC for your Wii and you will get the best controls in any Monster Hunter ever.

 

[AlexTheBucket2112]

Wow first few comments agree with him. I just don't understand how people can hate this game so much.

 

[deckai]

That's Yahtzee. His reviews are supposed to be contoversal, that's why I watch his reviews! Althought I love MH3, I still can see his points, bad Wii-Motion control scheme and a slow start. But for me this are thinks that dosen't matter, since after that I have hours and hours of Monster fighting fun.

And the repetition thing.... to get better at something you need to repeat("practise") it... unless you are a semi-god and highly gifted..

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I hate the combat. Love the idea.

You still play it?

Not really. The combat doesn't flow. It's horridly archaic with broad, slow swings and the like. But as it is...I'm stopped playing it. I'd love the game more if it didn't control like shit. I like the idea of just going around hunting monsters, but as it stands, I've not better things to play on the Wii. Like a 2nd run through Metroid Prime Trilogy!

if you don't like the broad slow swings get a sword and sheild or something

Indeed, I tried that. That's when huge targeting issues came into play.

 

[Quicksilver1111]

I really need to throw myself back into this. I just passed Red Dead Redemption, but I still need to complete Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of The Moon.

 

[rumuwi]

How about you actually fucking play the god damn game for more then a few hours before "REVIEWING" it, the game isnt as fucking bad as your fucking putting it, you dumbass

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Wow, Yahtzee completely missed the point of the game. Me thinks he didn't play long enough to fight some of the bigger monsters.

People always say things like this, but the problem is that if it isn't good enough to keep you interested in the game, then it isn't a well developed game. It's much like Stephen King's "IT." If you're willing to read the first five hundred pages, then you might actually get to the part that most people consider good. The problem is keeping the reader engaged for the first five hundred pages of a thousand page book. In that aspect, King failed. To me, just as that book was a failure, so is any game that you put some serious play time into, but it's just after you finally give up out of sheer boredom that it's supposed to be good.

The guy is a 'reviewer', he has an obligation to at least hunt one monster, it does not matter that he got 'bored', he didn't even manage to get off the tutorial level which is 2 hours at best. So, this leaves me to believe one of two things.
1: Yahtzee isn't actually any good at playing video games.
2: He's swamped with things like his bar, ZP and other things. If he's too busy to construct a half decent review then he shouldn't do one at all, or at least lower his output to 1 review every fortnight.

I'd be enclined to believe the latter.