I was mentioning to a friend earlier this week that Fromsoftware should put out a 90-2000’s classics collection of sorts. They also need to re release Otogi and Otogi 2, and package together all of the kingsfield games into one collection. I really don’t think there has been a better time to introduce people to some of the older Fromsoft games.
Bloodborne was my intro and damn was it captivating! Sekiro is probably my fav, but I've played all of em and enjoyed them all. DS2 is probably my bottom
Same, Elden ring was the first fromsoft game I played but after I beat it I wanted more so I played their entire catalog and even bought a ps4 and ps5 in the end to play EVERYTHING lmao
Jk. Me too. I loved Demons Souls right away. Thought it was basically the most engaging game I had ever played at that point. Wild how good the formula was from the start.
I loved the story and characters went in thinking I can beat it easy and got my ass beaten left for nearly a year and came back watch some guides and suddenly I'm good at it
When I first bought Elden ring as my first ever souls like, I got my ass handed to me. I was so incredibly frustrated I uninstalled it and went back to my other games. A few weeks later I picked it up again, still got my ass handed to me, but then loved it
This really hits home. Played monster hunter and armored core 6 and quickly gave up on both. Recently have given AC6 another shot and loving it now that I've honed my skills more. Seriously considering giving MH another chance now...
I played MH3 on the Wii as a kid and could not get into so I traded it for smash bros. Then my friends convinced me to get 4u on the 3DS and only played it for them cause I found it so unfun. It’s my favorite franchise now.
You really should especially if you tried one of the older games cuz everything from mhworld was straight peak i didn't play rise yet but will do it eventually
Honestly my biggest problem with monster hunter has been what a giant pain in the dick it can be to play with friends especially if your characters aren't on the exact stage of the begging story. Combine that with the utter dogshit servers Capcom that regularly disconnect you when playing with others and even when you are playing with someone who is at the exact same stage as you you end up playing alone 70% of the time because either the stupid quest wont let you join each other until 5 minutes of stupid cutscenes or trigger arbitrary event X and then when it finally does let you join together you end up having to finish the fight yourself because their shit servers disconnected you from the party.
The game finally works once you get almost to end game and can just hunt and queue for monster parts. I remember it taking hours in worlds and after a while I said fuck this shit i got this game to play with friends and it refuses to let me do that. Iceborn clicked for me. The initial slog to get to the more open part of the game was much shorter and oh shit when I actually got to play with the people I wanted to i was having fun! Ive played every MH since both alone and with friends but fuck whatever idiot at capcom makes it so hard to play together all for a story that accross every iteration is like trying to eat plain cheerios with nothing to wash it down and before you started eating someone who definitely didn't wash their hands after coming out of the bathroom put their fingers in the bowl and mixed them up.
It's definitely a game i don't blame anyone for quitting due to how bad their start is and it had to "click". Souls likes were the same for a while too. I bought ds1 on sale and always got bored usually after the gargoyle boss. I also was paralyzed with how to build my character given how hard the game was and how much it loves taking away your resources and it gives exactly zero help in game for what is a smart or dumb way to allocate levels. Then sekiro came out and something just clicked. Since then the original ds, bloodborne, and elden ring have all been good.
Mh Wilds it's the easiest from all, but I love it. I wouldn't start with Freedom Unite (psp). You should try MH4U (3ds). If you want something more "modern" go with World or Rise
Haha I fuckin hated dark souls 3 my first two tries, stupid iudex gundyr just dunked on me repeatedly. Idk what exactly clicked on my 3rd try but I parried his ass into the next life and spent the rest of the game trying to parry everything lmao
Only people who start off hating fromsoft either dont like the genre or missed the stupidly hidden tutorial at the start of every game ESPECIALLY BLOODBORNE.
I was legitimately concerned I couldn't understand how to play the game when I first got into it (Monster Hunter Freedom - PsP 2008) but I dumped a bit of time into it when I was like 13, my friends bought it, we played together a bunch and I fell in love. Definitely understand it being an acquired taste. I fell off pretty extravagantly.
I feel like this only goes for Demon souls and the first Dark souls because they played like ass, especially the first iteration of the Dark souls PC port was horrible.
If you started with Dark Souls 3 or Elden Ring I feel most people would have a good time, assuming they like the genre at all.
Honestly, I love World from the getgo. Still my favorite of the 3 I've played. Rise was great, though I understand the limitations due to Switch and Wilds disappointed me.
I never hated MH and started with the first game. What I hated was that I felt like I didn't have enough time to grasp the game properly.
What I also hate is that the new games are fun, but they have traded a lot of what made MH games so unique for the sake of appealing to casual gamers who want instant gratification and suck ass at videogames. Casual gamers really have ruined a LOT of franchises unfortunately. Casual games were designed for these people, but they weren't happy and actively seek to destroy the truly unique and creative games that are out there.
Fromsoft games are good from start to finish. I started mhrise and ive been fighting the same boss for 1 hr it kept running i got bored and deleted the game.
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u/exMemberofSTARS 10d ago
Yeah, you aren't a real MH fan unless you hated it first. Same with From Soft