As a player of Monster Hunter, mainly World, I feel it’s only appropriate for me to write the article this week on the fallout from the Monster Hunter: Wilds release.
Now, I haven’t bought this game yet, nor will I anytime soon. I have too many games already, and I have too little money to buy new ones…but I do want to get this eventually. Perhaps by the time I do, the PC version will be fixed…
If it actually needs to be fixed. That’s up for some debate…
As of this writing, the Steam release of Monster Hunter: Wilds is “Mixed”. Playstation has it rated at 4.6 out of 5. If there’s a problem, it’s clear that it’s with the PC version of the game. So, are we looking at a bad port?
The quick answer is no…the game devs should have been building it for Playstation and PC concurrently. This article, which put Laggin’ Out onto this news in the first place, reports that the game’s producer, Ryozo Tsujimoto, claimed that Wilds was “polished as much as possible” for PC players.
As tone deaf as that is, there’s another factor for consideration. The article also mentions that Steam’s own benchmark tool to help players determine if their rig can run the game seems to be giving false positives. For those who checked with the tool before purchase, it claims the specs meet or beat the game requirements, but they still reporting having issues.
Soda_Pop mentioned on the live that we don’t know the system specs of those making negative reviews on Steam. The common sense response is that these are people who expect the new game to run on their old potato system. That, however, doesn’t seem to jive with what’s been reported to be happening. Not all those having trouble can be that dumb, can they?
Alternatively, as Hiro has discussed in the past (with my support), is the question of whether there’s a conspiracy between gaming devs and tech companies. The point of said conspiracy being to force PC gamers to spend money on new tech to play the new games coming out. We’ve been seeing a rash of games that don’t seem optimized at all, and the game devs saying, “Just buy a better graphics card” (Looking at you Todd Howard).
So what’s happening with Monster Hunter: Wilds on PC does seem to be a legit problem, despite what producer Ryozo Tsujimoto says. But is it with the game, the devs, or Capcom’s attitude toward the players?
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