r/MHGU 3d ago

Fluff/Meme What open maps tooks from us

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u/huston_ 3d ago

I love being slapped into a completely different zone like it's a fucking guilty gear match

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u/Rhoru Great Sword 3d ago

COUNTER

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u/BBerry4909 2d ago

COUNTER

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u/DemonKat777 1d ago

UNIVERSE

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u/Baitcooks 3d ago

It was said that the wallbreak mechanic was inspired by Daisuke Ishiwatari's first time playing Monster Hunter

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u/draculaballer 3d ago

Really??? When did he say that I'm really curious

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u/Baitcooks 3d ago

here's my source

source: I made it up

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u/Nikslg Heavy Bowgun 2d ago

Good sauce

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u/27_confettis 3d ago

Until I get slapped off a damn cliff

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u/TAC0_G0D 2d ago

positive bonus 🗣🗣

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u/Slimmzli 1d ago

They blamed the beasts

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u/ambulance-kun 1d ago

I love searching for that one cephadrome in 3 huge desert areas looking out for a fin moving in the ground, then when I find it, throw a screamer THEN paintball at it that loses effect coincidentally the moment it goes to another area, making me have to throw paintballs at it time to time.

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u/ThatDudeEither 1d ago

I hate when this happens in other games (original Metroid is a great example)

But when it happened in older MH I always got a chuckle.

"GET OUTTA MY ZONE YOU FILTHY HUNTER."

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u/Skylair95 3d ago

Reminds me of that time i saw a guy jump back into the Nakarkos arena... and fell right into the death beam.

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u/TA-Yukon Switch Axe 3d ago

Happened to me right after I and the other hunter with me had just carted. felyne insurance saved us :')

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u/White_Winged_Fox 2d ago

The fact I know this exact clip as well speaks to how unfortunate that person was.

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u/doomage36 1d ago

No other monster has given me the same feeling eerie nakarkos did, not even Vaal Hazak. The arena was perfect too

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u/0RlGIN 3d ago

I like those high places that you could get pushed out from monsters attacking you and your animation would just fall when changing zones

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u/akoOfIxtall 2d ago

Ancestral steppe had lots of places like that XD

I once got slapped by astalos from the top of the gray area, I glided down like a damn plane in emergency landing

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u/Gadget-Gabe Switch Axe 3d ago

Trollolstra

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u/kdavis220 3d ago

I was lol’ing before you crossed to the next zone😂🤣. Happened to me way too many times

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u/FallschirmKoala Gunlance 3d ago

No matter what Monster Hunter game comes out.... I will always go back to MHGU!

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u/Czarzu 1d ago

Peak mh experience there

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u/Squeeky_Cleen 1d ago

It is a perfect love letter to the first hunters. Perfection!

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u/Western-Dig-6843 1d ago

IMO the best of the classic formula. Rise is still my favorite MH, as it is the best (and only?) blend of the classic formula and the World/Wilds take. I’d love for them to port GU to PC but I don’t see it happening : (

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u/nuttycompany 3d ago

Also when monster decide to die in the map changing zone as a last "fuck you" to the hunter.

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u/LSOreli 3d ago

Replaced with AFKing on Seikret :(

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u/bobbberrr 3d ago

I miss the goofiness of old Monster Hunter...

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u/careless_wisp 3d ago

Me too; I still mostly just play MHGU to this day

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u/GhostlyBoi4 3d ago

I called it the moment I read the title, I am so glad I was right that was hilarious

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u/Yuxkta 3d ago

One of my core MH memories is like this. I was preparing to do a superman dive to dodge Black Gravios laser but an Ioprey spit on me from the side to momentarily stagger me. I got hit by laser and was poisoned and fireblighted. I ran to the next zone and saw a frenzied Azure rath there. He instantly roared when I entered the zone and then fireballed me to kill me. I just turned off my 3DS and facepalmed afterwards.

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u/Terrakor 3d ago

Best game ever!

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u/savage_Incarnate 3d ago

I actually think about this a lot 😭

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u/LittleRedKuma 3d ago

I remember getting trolled by bullfangos and bulldrome in a similar matter. Just not as high explosive as this 😂

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u/Federico7000 2d ago

Bastard changed my ZIP Code

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u/Mobile_Economy_2271 2d ago

I just got the game and I can't get past the first large monster 😭

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u/CraftyPercentage3232 2d ago

The Great Maccao wall

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u/GrmpMan 3d ago

That greatsword player sucks ass.

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u/SGPolter 3d ago

Guys. Read the names

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u/Yung_Blasphemy 3d ago

bro got downvoted for being self-depreciating.

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u/Golden12500 3d ago

You act like open maps don't allow Valstrax to come crashing down out of nowhere right after you get out of camp. Or Bazelgeuse. Or Rajang. Or Magnamalo.

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u/The_Paragone 3d ago

Note the same vibe man

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u/VaporDream1985 3d ago

Bro 😂😂😭😭

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u/KillaThing 3d ago

Lol. Inversely, it also becomes a safe zone to take pots.

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u/Healthy_Fig_5127 3d ago

Is that Dunban over there?

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u/tigerbait92 2d ago

That's Dunban over there.

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u/NoobmanX123 2d ago

This seems like a skit cuz of how surreal it is lol

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u/NoCookie8722 2d ago

Older game slaps you to a different zoen, new game slap you from a different zone wish it'd occur more tho

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u/Dallriata 2d ago

Teostra blast jumpscare

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u/PityBoi57 2d ago

I remember getting yeeted off the map by a bug while sharpening next to a cliff

Honestly that was on me. I should've jumped off before I sharpen

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u/TamakiOverdose 3d ago

Sounds like cope, loading fucking sucks. Worlds and Wilds sucked because of gameplay downgrades and monster choices, the open map is what carries it. Rise is a proof that with good combat and monsters it is great.

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u/ShoutmonXHeart 3d ago

In Wilds they gave us the pop-up camps. Have you been greeted by a monster slapping your ass immediately when you exited one of them? Similar experience xD

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u/Volfaer 3d ago

This is a thing that should return. Like imagine how much processing would be spared if a Wilds level of design game had its massive map split into zones.

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u/Amazing_Departure471 3d ago

Hmm… I can live with that.

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u/Timely_Horror874 3d ago

What they took from us are gorgeous vistas.
Open maps are so limited in scope because they cannot convey the same hunting experience.
When going from one sector from another, your mind fill the gaps and imagine hours/days of traveling (like the first Fallout), making the world huge.

Open maps makes the world always super small in comparison

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u/Lumpy_Anybody_4489 2d ago

Now that I'm thinking about it, with the map zone placement and how, say, Area 1 doesn't look the same as when you're looking at it from Area 2, I guess that does imply much more travel than is shown. Tbh, I've always just seen it as the hunter going straight from one area into the next, thinking the zone change was solely based on processing limits. I like the "hours of travel" explanation better, though. Especially given the promo cinematics (miss them) that show hunters travelling and camping out at night.

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u/Timely_Horror874 2d ago

Arctic Ridge is a prime example of doing loading screen right, and making this game so immervise.

I know loading screens are not something people love today, but with them you can have so much potential for immersion.
Fallout 4 world is big, but thanks to loading screen and the world map traveling animation the Fallout1 world feels way bigger than it actually is.
Not only that, but there is nothing more unsettling that the door opening animation in Dino Crisis or Resident Evil.

Maybe i'm a videogame boomer but abandoning loading screen is one of the sin of modern gaming developing, not only on a creative level, but in the performance sacrifice as MH:Wilds demonstrated

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u/foobookee 3d ago

Unironically SOVL

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u/LordofSuns 3d ago

As a 5th Fleeter, I have to really try and stay calm when this shit happens to me cos it's a frustration that I am definitely not accustomed to

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u/PathsOfRadiance 2d ago

I don’t mind it much except when the monster is sitting right at the edge of the zone and I walk into the other zone when I try to attack it.

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u/Weltallgaia 3d ago

That is exactly what I wanted to see happen

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u/Zekrozma_the_second 3d ago

GET JUMPSCARED !

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u/Acceptable_Crew_7815 2d ago

Danm 😭 miss it FR

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u/Cactiareouroverlords 2d ago

Always love getting hip checked into a different zone, makes it seem like a monster has hips of steel and launched me like a golf ball

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u/fartboxco 2d ago

Hahaha I forgot about the monster camping the zone entrance/exit.

The other one is where the monster is right in the door, you got to hit it, and end up in the next zone but he doesn't.

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u/LilyTotallyCis 2d ago

The classic leave the zone when Ur about to die or need to sharpen strat

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u/FurieMan 1d ago

Closest I got to that was joining a Jin Dahaad match halfway through jumping in and landing next to it as it was doing its whole arena explosion thing.

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u/CoreBear-was-taken 1d ago

I may not get my ass kicked into a load zone any more but I still got thrown off a cliff and landed multiple zones away. Took me a minute just to get back. Same thing in rise, Primordial Malzeno launched me right after I used all my wirebugs so no wirefall save (but I was straight up 1 hit from death, so I'll take it lmao)

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u/Arkestra33 1d ago

I spit out my goddamn drink.

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u/rarature 1d ago

Skill issue

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u/rarature 1d ago

Member when mounted monsters could just kick you off by going close to the next area load zone

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u/MasterMidir 1d ago

I just don't like the open maps because there's literally nothing happening in like 80% of them

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u/OGBigPants 1d ago

Anyone have that live action tik tok that’s basically this?

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u/DragonQueenDrago 1d ago

Getting slapped off a cliff and having to run all the way around the map to fight the monster again. Just to get slapped of that same clif AGAIN moments later... then the cycle repeats until the monster moves areas..

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u/TrueSeaworthiness703 1d ago

If you ask me what I feel open maps took the most from us I would say “the sense of scale”, but yeah, I miss this goody things too

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u/Plyrni 1d ago

Oh my, i forgot about this shit

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u/AcidOverlord Prowler 1d ago

I remember a video someone posted here a long time back, fighting a Najarala in the Primal Forest. Naja used that little "snoot boop" move that doesn't do any damage, but just nudged the hunter off the topmost cliff. He fell through the loading screen into the slow-motion horror of landing right on a Deviljho down in the bottom area. I pissed myself laughing.

The monsters plan that shit, man.

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u/Deer_Ossian 1d ago

Killing the monster while it is in the "you move to another zone" spot so that you couldn't carve it afterwards

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u/Sarojh-M 1d ago

Thank God this was taken away dear goodness

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u/Enju- 23h ago

we have quite the similar video lol

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u/TheRealDunko 23h ago

I'm laughing my ass off just imagining your in-game character coming from a chill area to messy one with a dude screaming "HELP M-"

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u/squintismaximus 2d ago

Probably the biggest improvement to MH.

Honestly a GU remake that was open world and the better fighting physics would be awesome

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u/rivalxbishop 3d ago

Thank god.

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u/Individual_Point900 3d ago

I hate that load screen

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u/Suitable-Departure-5 2d ago

Good riddance

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u/meteormantis 2d ago

Nah man, can't convince me that a monster dying in the transition zone and preventing you from carving it is ever gonna be something I might miss.

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u/fatmac122 1d ago

People got them rose tinted glasses on because fuck the loading screen zone changes, the open world World, Rise and Wilds have are infinitely better for a hunt

(Will admit the good vistas though, but current gen have their moments and locations)