Creating a new genre despite being easily classified in another is a bit of a cop out, no?
You realize it created that genre back in the PS2 days and has since spawned tons of other games from other companies in a similar style right? It LITERALLY is itâs own genre. This isnât even up for debate. Also, what âcop out?â I donât care if you think the game is bad compared to something else, Iâm just correcting you.
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Not gonna lie when I first started MHW(my first MH), I didnât like it much either. I thought the combat controls were clunky⌠like why isnât there a proper lock-on and stuff. But once I got use to it, it makes perfect sense why it is the way it is and Iâve been loving the game since.
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What other games exist in this theoretical genre?
@Gasaraki NeverYouMind is a fucking retard. Youâre better off not wasting your time with him. He wonât get it.
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Smh, wasting time responding to this dude.
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You are such a condescending asshole. Why donât you do your own fucking research. Literally just googled âhunting action gamesâ and found this list: https://www.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunter/comments/28zhxm/what_other_hunting_action_type_games_do_you_play/
Iâd agree as far as arguing his taste, but he is literally, factually, provably incorrect about it being a hack and slash. If he still wants to pretend the genre doesnât exist then he is actually delusional.
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That link has Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep in the same list, so forgive me if I do not take this categorization seriously.
By the logic employed in that list 1998âs Cabelaâs Big Game Hunter would be the forefather of the genre.
Never played a hack and slash with so much gathering, farming, and preperation, yet still not be an rpg either.
Its a hunting game, its really its own thing with its own goals and gameplay loops.
No one gives a shit if you take a catagorization seriously, youre still wrong regardless. I hate the term Metroidvania, no one gives a single shit tho. Get over it, youre wrong as usual.
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Fine, then that person was mistaken about those ones. I didnât look super closely because my point is you can literally just google it to see more about the genre. Thereâs plenty of others like MH. Toukiden, Soul Sacrifice, Ragnarok Aces, etc. Like, seriously, just do some research.
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Holy shit we need the lol button back. Almost spit up my drink with that Big Game Hunter bit. 
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Also Respawn has officially announced a game that has kinda been rumored called Apex Legends
Titanfall 3 isnât in development, Apex Legends is Respawnâs focus
Apparently itâs in the same universe or something though, just no mechs and no cool traversal.
âŚGreat.
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FYI Shooting Game Weeklyâs episode just dropped. They usually focus just on shmups but this week they are covering a Vanquish replay on God Mode. Should be hype hype hype.
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Sou Sacrifice Delta looked really cool. I wish they would port it to PS4.
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I wish Freedom Wars had a PS4 port too.
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Speaking of genres, I was just thinking about it now but Capcom has actually had a pretty big influence on genre creation or at least proliferation now that I think about it. SF2 made 1v1 fighting games huge, DMC basically created the 3d combat action template, MH started the hunting action genre, RE made survival horror blow up(way more than clock tower or anything else AFAIK, could be wrong), and Final Fight definitely took beat em ups to a much wider level IIRC.
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