Compared to other monster hunter games I played. This feels just bad. It feels extremely slow in the sense that your quest progression gets HALTED having to do extremely lame investigations that means you walk around, collecting random stuff slowly and then having to reload into the area to get even more. Then FINALLY get to a hunt and then after that, more lame slowness. Investigations wouldn't be so lame if you had a palamute like from Rise or some equivalent. Some of the quests are extremely boring (everything surrounding the like 15 minute Zorah Magdaros fights where you literally just wait around). The hub area is dumb. Everything is separated so you have to walk about 30 seconds or go through a small cinematic to go to an area if you don't want to walk to it. This is pretty much after every mission if you want to eat or go to the smithy. No reason for the hub area to be so spread out.

Questing with friends is also EXTREMELY stupid. I cannot quest with my friend because they haven't watched a cutscene yet in the mission? So they have to load into the quest, go and FIND the monster, watch the cutscene, then you can start the process of joining. That is IF you have done the quest already. If you are BOTH trying to quest at the same time (as in complete quests at the same time), you need to LOAD INTO THE QUEST SEPARATELY, watch the cutscenes, then ONE of you has to back out to go join your friends ongoing quest..... Why tf can I not just join my friends quest and we can watch cutscenes together??? Can't even skip cutscenes btw without a mod. Rise doesn't have this problem nor any of the other monster hunter games I have played multiplayer with.

The game looks great, the combat feels good, the monsters are sick. Its just everything else surrounding the core of the game is so lame and rips you out of the feeling you get during a sick fight. Most of these gripes are from a progression standpoint, but the point of monster hunter is to progress and get sick gear for fights, not walk around and sniff footprints, watch lame ♥♥♥♥, or some other lame ♥♥♥♥.

Compared to other monster hunter games I played. This feels just bad. It feels extremely slow in the sense that your quest progression gets HALTED having to do extremely lame investigations that means you walk around, collecting random stuff slowly and then having to reload into the area to get even more. Then FINALLY get to a hunt and then after that, more lame slowness. Investigations wouldn't be so lame if you had a palamute like from Rise or some equivalent. Some of the quests are extremely boring (everything surrounding the like 15 minute Zorah Magdaros fights where you literally just wait around). The hub area is dumb. Everything is separated so you have to walk about 30 seconds or go through a small cinematic to go to an area if you don't want to walk to it. This is pretty much after every mission if you want to eat or go to the smithy. No reason for the hub area to be so spread out. Questing with friends is also EXTREMELY stupid. I cannot quest with my friend because they haven't watched a cutscene yet in the mission? So they have to load into the quest, go and FIND the monster, watch the cutscene, then you can start the process of joining. That is IF you have done the quest already. If you are BOTH trying to quest at the same time (as in complete quests at the same time), you need to LOAD INTO THE QUEST SEPARATELY, watch the cutscenes, then ONE of you has to back out to go join your friends ongoing quest..... Why tf can I not just join my friends quest and we can watch cutscenes together??? Can't even skip cutscenes btw without a mod. Rise doesn't have this problem nor any of the other monster hunter games I have played multiplayer with. The game looks great, the combat feels good, the monsters are sick. Its just everything else surrounding the core of the game is so lame and rips you out of the feeling you get during a sick fight. Most of these gripes are from a progression standpoint, but the point of monster hunter is to progress and get sick gear for fights, not walk around and sniff footprints, watch lame shit, or some other lame shit.