Current Events > Did EA's Monster Hunter clone Wild Hearts not do well?

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It's selling for extremely cheap at local online stores.

I forgot about it

who needs a monster hunter clone when we already have monster hunter?

Wasn't it Koei's, not EA?

Anyway, the last game I've played from them was DW7 or one of those gundam warriors on ps3. They're not fun to me anymore.

It's an EA original

It looks so dull

Ricemills posted...

Wasn't it Koei's, not EA?

Anyway, the last game I've played from them was DW7 or one of those gundam warriors on ps3. They're not fun to me anymore.

Omega Force (a division of Koei) made it, but EA published it.

I wasn't all that interested in it personally. Didn't see any variety streamers do more than two or three of it (most did one, and I believe it was heavily sponsored). No one I know personally picked it up or had anything to really say about it.

Hunting genre is a kinda niche market, and Capcom's mostly got it on lock right now I think. Not much room for more than fringe offers there unless they really screw it up. EA might have been hoping they could pull the "Western option" for it, but then it seems weird they went for the game with a very Japanese aesthetic.

I think if they want to try and make a subniche they should go for something more sci-fi. That would at least open up unique options in aesthetic and gameplay. They'd just have to hold back their urge to make it an fps...

Koei being the ones to make it seems odd though. I guess they'd rather do that than Toukiden now.

TwoDoorPC posted...

who needs a monster hunter clone when we already have monster hunter?

I love the world of Monster Hunter and it's enemies look fantastic but I hate the weird unorthodox ways that the characters fight.

For example you'll have a big ass sword but your character will opt to shove the enemy with his shoulder instead? Wtf? Eventually the "combo" will lead into an attack that's good but all of the moves before that feel weird as hell.

I haven't played Wild Hearts.

The point of the shoulder ram is to cancel your charge slash to reach true charge slash faster. It's not for attacking.

Irony posted...

The point of the shoulder ram is to cancel your charge slash to reach true charge slash faster. It's not for attacking.

Still feels stupid. Why not have a different animation to cancel? Also, canceling feels to me more like something that should be in Devil May Cry. Not monster hunter.

Probably not. The godawful PC performance and medicore console performance hurt word of mouth and they didn't advertise enough. Not full on bomba but bad-okay performance.

They didn't call it a disapointment in fiscal reports but no milestone PR or such either.

Really fun game though. Absolutely need to do a sequel with better marketing and rock solid technical performance from day 1.

PenultmateGohan posted...

Still feels stupid. Why not have a different animation to cancel? Also, canceling feels to me more like something that should be in Devil May Cry. Not monster hunter.

The shoulder charge is also a block. The intended use is to cancel your focus slash into the shoulder to armor through a monster attacking, then go into your next charge. Canceling to get to TCS faster is people going, "But I can do the big one 2 seconds faster this way!"

Monster Hunter stuff makes sense if you know your moves and pattern. Button mashing serves pretty poorly with most weapons and will make weird, useless-seeming attacks come out, yes.

The PC version runs absolutely horribly, it's not even worth trying at all.

The console version is alright. It has good ideas and definitely room to grow, not a bad game overall.

It got good reviews. Main problem seems to have been frame rate