

UNLEASHING THE MONSTER WITHIN FULL
That’s the full Monster Hunter: Rise experience! Still kinda hampered with the weird matchmaking features, it’s never easy, but hey. So yeah, I’m re-playing a game I love, with people I want to play it with.

I’m no longer isolated and reliant on random strangers (although I rarely had a bad time doing so).
UNLEASHING THE MONSTER WITHIN PC
Being able to open her up a bit and run more freely on PC is just a bonus.Īdded to that is the fact that my friend’s list on Steam is active with people playing it. Delivering a huge, in-depth experience to the Nintendo Switch owner. Monster Hunter: Rise is, to me, an exceptional game. Truth be told, I’m happy it’s not a significant change.

It’s just a prettier, quicker and more fluid version of my beloved Switch version. That’s not to say it’s not great, but it does mean that the environments are the same, the world hasn’t grown or expanded. The PC version isn’t a remake, it’s more of a port with significant operational improvements. Of course, building a game to that spec, means you’re building it to meet specific needs, from storage to processor usage. Monster Hunter: Rise on PC is a little hampered by the fact that it was built on Capcom’s new RE Engine and tailored to get the most out of the Switch hardware. No longer constrained by the CPU and GPU of the Nintendo Switch hardware, the game has been ported with uncapped frames, and higher resolution textures and you’re able to give it more RAM and VRAM than it was ever built to anticipate! Monster Hunter: Rise looks better than ever on PC. The obvious things to look at are frame rates and graphical fidelity. Where Rise, the game itself became a more well-oiled machine, the PC version lays on the extra oil really quite thick! Damn, I love how much slicker the game was compared to Monster Hunter: World. Mining, sharpening, healing……all now doable on the move with your trusty Palamute.Ĭlimbing, exploring areas, mounting and riding monsters. Monster Hunter: Rise was a game that delivered a whole host of workflow improvements. How does it differ when not constrained by the power of the Nintendo Switch, though? Quicker and Slicker Would I want to play the whole thing again? Actually……yeah, I do if I can play with my hunter pals. The drawback of Monster Hunter: Rise, though, was that it was only on Nintendo Switch, and that hampered my enjoyment a little because all of my Monster Hunter friends are on PC and Xbox.Ĭapcom announced the release of Monster Hunter: Rise on Steam, and whilst I was excited, I was a little burned-out. For good cause, because it’s a good game! In short, I love Monster Hunter, and Monster Hunter: Rise was the game I spent the most time in last year. It was even my the game of the year over at Absolutely over the moon to get on board a Monster Hunter game on release. I wrote plenty about it here, hot off my massive appreciation for Monster Hunter: World. The initial release of Monster Hunter: Rise was a big deal to me.
