I’ve largely squandered my normal blogging time this morning by logging into the PS4 and getting things set up initially for Monster Hunter World. I left my system running over night hoping that everything would go ahead and patch successfully. I had heard there was a short day one patch to download and whatever the case I was in fact able to just log in and go this morning. I may or may not have spent way more time on character creation than on doing anything else so far this morning. I truly am a babe in the woods when it comes to Monster Hunter games, but I found a character design that I liked and named my Palico after my middle cat so I think I am going in the right direction at least.
Normally when I create a “Belghast” character I tend to go with black hair, but in this game… black was like absence of all light black. It just sort of looked artificial without any real highlights or reflections. Instead I opted to go with what was actually a dark dark blue grey, which I guess is fitting given that I myself am starting to turn grey. I tried going with the full bushy beard but it didn’t really fit the character in the way I would have hoped. I gotta say that Elder Scrolls Online still has the best beards and quite frankly I am happy that this has beards at all given the proclivity of Japanese and Korean games having shitty facial hair options. In truth I am not even sure how much I will be seeing my own characters face given that it should be encased in some sort of armor.
As far as weapons go… right now I am planning on starting out with the Iron Katana and see how that treats me. Always in the past I have used the equivalent of the buster sword, the super slow and hard hitting weapon and I always feel like I was not terribly agile. This time around I am going to go for what I hope is a reasonably hard hitting weapon that offers some more nimbleness. It goes against every instinct to not pick sword and shield, but I think I am going to try something else at least for awhile. I don’t have a whole hell of a lot to talk about yet because I literally just got up to the first quest this morning, but I plan on poking my head tonight and seeing just how bad I suck at this game.
I stay up last night and jumped in at midnight. By 1 am I had finally finished messing with the character creator and had to go to bed. LOL I did spawn into the world and go through the intro more-or-less-cut-scene but that was it.
I have no clue what I’m doing. I played the beta solo and killed the easiest monster and that’s pretty much the extent of my experience.