I absolutely love this expansion and considering that Monster Hunter World is one of my favorite games of this generation, it’s been great to have this excuse to revisit it. I look forward to playing more and more, and I’m excited to see what type of content updates Capcom rolls out in the future.
Monster Hunter World: Iceborne offers a new adventure with more monsters to hunt, new regions to explore, more movements and combat mechanics, a new difficulty rank, and ultimately, a whole mountain of contents to enjoy. A must-have expansion for any Monster Hunter World player.
Iceborne completes the path that Capcom started a year ago, but improving the overall quality through quality of life details, brand new monsters and the impressive comeback of some of the historical names that everybody wanted to face here. Excellent is the best word to define this expansion.
Iceborne takes what’s already fantastic and nearly doubles the original game in size. If you haven't played Monster Hunter yet, now is the time to start.
Iceborne is as much a roaring success as Monster Hunter World was, and it can receive no higher praise than that. It successfully adds in new layers, monsters, and a beautiful new area, all of which will have players flocking back to the game to experience it all. It’s fun, it’s hard as nails, and it makes my PS4 sound like a jet engine. It’s a truly brilliant expansion to an excellent game.
Just awful. Monsters have way too much HP and it’s after the main story. It takes 40 minutes to kill one. You could get better armor and weapons to kill them faster, but guess what - they are locked behind even more pointless grinding. And it’s not resource grinding, it’s master rank grinding. You need to reach a specific MR to unlock specific monsters for further upgrade. And it’s all wrapped it the worst character control that I’ve seen in AAA game ever.
The monster hunter is a fun game at it's core, but there are just so many bad features that just add up to me being more frustrated with the game rather than enjoying it. I'm afraid there is no going back for me after games like dark souls, sekiro, bloodborne. The hitboxes in Monster Hunter are a last century, who hasn't been hit by Diablo's or Nergigante's shoulder slam while standing on the other side of the monster? Or by random charge attack while standing behind one? Or have their charge blade clip right through the monster's tail without doing any damage at all?
The typical fight is supposed to follow a routine more or less, where you fight the monster normally, monster eventually enrages, monster eventually tires out allowing you to deal a fair bit of damage. What really happens more often than not is monster just flees to another area right after the enrage is over, making you chase it through the map. Or some other monster drops in for a turf war making youi watch from sidelines, fun the first time, annoying when it happens for a 100th time. These are not the only examples of this, but basically the feeling that I generally get is that of being cheated.
I've played through vanilla MH, it was OK. But I've made a mistake of buying the icebourne, you know how all the people rave about G-rank this G-rank that, and how the master rank (HM equivalent of G-Rank) is where the game is going to be at. Well it is not, it's just more of the same crap, except now it takes 3 times as long to kill everything.
The expansion is overpriced, at 40€ it adds just a single new biome for a total of 6 (and a 2nd one, which is kind of a mix out of all existing biomes) and a couple of new monsters + reskins of the previous ones. Is it harder than the original, well technically no, but simply by virtue of taking three times as long people are bound to make a couple more mistakes during the fight.
SummaryMonster Hunter World: Iceborne is the highly anticipated massive expansion to Monster Hunter: World, the best-selling Capcom title of all time with more than 12 million units shipped worldwide adding to the series total of more than 53 million units to date. This gargantuan follow-up rivals the gameplay volume from the original release a...