They called it a fes (festival) release because it was. Like Tekken Tag, EO Nexus, etc.
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It's also because Wikipedia editors arbitrarily reclassed it as a spinoff because it didn't have a number in the title. And hilariously only did this after World was announced, hmm...
That logic doesn't track as Rise is a double-digit multi-million seller itself, and whatever sequel it gets on Nintendo hardware surely won't be called Rise 2. Folks care far more about the Monster Hunter part than they do the subtitle that follows it.
This article is so bad. It's missing so many more games and they spell Iceborne as Iceborn.Rise is a sequel to World but it's still a 5th Gen game in case you need more reference on the Generations of this series here you go:
All Monster Hunter Games In Order Of Release Date
Capcom has published six main Monster Hunter Games plus five significant international spin-offs. Here's the list of all monster hunter games in order of release date.www.technewstoday.com
It's so meaningless, even Capcom can't be assed to decide which is which:They called it a fes (festival) release because it was. Like Tekken Tag, EO Nexus, etc.
They also confirmed it's mainline though. Literally a "main game" alongside 1-4 and World.
vol.01 Ryozo Tsujimoto |Developer Interviews 2019 | CAPCOM
Capcom IR website: Developer Interviews 2019 -Monster Hunter World: Iceborne
Let's not forget while it was short lived MH Online was a thing too even if not many people outside of it's intended domestic market didn't get to play it.
MHO is more clear cut as Capcom didn't work on it in any major capacity. They effectively loaned the IP out to Tencent, who did their own thing with it. I do think that as a result of that, we're not likely to see any of those monsters in the series as there's a non-zero chance that Tencent owns the original monsters like Caeserber and Tartaronis.
Yeah the game was basically alive for about 1.5 years before contractual disagreements with Capcom started killing the game and the Chinese Goverment dealing a deathblow to the franchise in China which basically killed any interest Tecent had left in MHO and the IP itself overall.
You're not gonna see MH6/Paradise announced until after Rise Sunbreak is done with its updates.
Generations was basically Portable 4th, a quota filled for Gen 5 by Rise.
It's pretty crazy how quickly Capcom shifted gears regarding how to support Monster Hunter over a long period of time with both Frontier and MHO being closed at the same time after how successful World was. I do suppose things where heading that way when MHF2 was cancelled rather quietly and Capcom shuttered the South Korea team that was working on it, but killing two birds with a boulder is pretty unprecedented.
I do think there's a place for a F2P Online Monster Hunter game but Capcom has to be willing to play ball and not take their toys home with them whenever they feel like it the product has to be supported for the long term.
NS G probably stands for Sunbreak since all the old expansion titles had G appended to its name in Japan.
IIRC, the quarter in question puts it at late summer/early fall of 2023. Whether it sticks to that remains to be seen, as it is a bit uncharacteristic for them to have a big release in the second half of the year as they've been sticking to H1 releases rather consistently for several years now. Iceborne is really the only major title that's been like that, though its an outlier as an expansion in the first place.
You could be right, do we know when they end? World reveal was a month before GU came out in west right? And wasn't Rise reveal about 18 months after Iceborne? Either way 2023 reveal for early ish 2024 is my dream
The main 3 title updates end this winter 2022, and there's more in 2023 but those are probably just events which aren't really massive enough to be relevant for a next game announcement. MHXX released in March 2017, was announced for switch a few weeks before World was revealed & released before World, then released in the west as MHGU in august 2018. Basically half a year give and take after World for the western version.
Yeah you're right, the 'NS G' threw me off but maybe that is some complete edition of Rise+Sunbreak. Or perhaps Paradise is some sort of port of that for the other consoles 🤔
