"To this day, I regard the Monster Hunter series as the norm when it comes to action role playing games that focus on killing massive monsters. Over the last ten years, these hunting games may have been few and far between, but I find they offer amazing experiences with their heavy emphasis on the heat of battle.
At one time, Monster Hunter was the king of its sub-genre. Any game with a similar concept was considered a clone – take Gods Eater Burst, Ragnarok Odyssey or Soul Sacrifice, for example. They’re all fun and unique, but they just don’t stand up against the Monster Hunter series.
Despite their position in my eyes as the best, I think Capcom and its Monster Hunter series could learn from other developers and maybe make the series even better."
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Jason Dietz: "We reveal the past year's best and worst video game publishers (based on their 2025 releases) in the 16th edition of our annual Game Publisher Rankings."
I was just going to say this, their biggest and top rated game here is TLOU2 for PC….it’s embarrassing.
Even Ubisoft and EA are ahead
Kind of surprised Nintendo is pretty low aswell, their biggest game is also a rerelease with the Switch 2 version of TotK.
That’s what happens when you start shutting down your own studios and forget what actually made you matter in the industry in the first place. Sony used to set the standard — now it feels like they’ve lost that identity. And if they decide to walk away from the PC market too, that’s going to be another huge mistake — that platform is only growing, and ignoring it now would just put them even further behind.
@christopher:” Take note, Sony, you're falling behind by a lot.”
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Why single out Sony? Microsoft didn’t do any better than the year before 5th same as Sony 9th and they have acquired activision and other mayor titles that have boosted their score massively from a 9th and Sony a 4th the year before the acquisitions.
Sony does need to do better without a doubt and I do hope they do take note but not the note of buying publishers is the way to succeed.
1. Microsoft didn't get worse.
2. Sony got way worse.
3. Because Sony needs the criticism the most considering their publishing output this generation has been propped up by last gen ports and third-party developers for the most part.
1Victor,
I don't wanna speak for Christopher, but like most of us we recognize that Sony's output this Gen has been way below their own standards.
Also Sony did buy a fair amount of Devs, I know you will say they were not publishers, and don't compare in size, but they had their fair share of Aquisitions, including the very well established Bungie.
The overall point is with their stellar first party track record of the past, they should not be going down, they are singled out because they are some of the best videogame devs/publisher on the planet...no matter what reasons we attribute to the situation, they are moving in the wrong direction... period.
Its widely accept that Sony this generation has been underwhelming. We've had more peripheral releases, controller variants, PS5 accessories than games it feels like. The exclusives were also PS4 and what little output they have put exclusively on PS5 is nowhere near as memorable as what came in every generation before that.
This isn't a Sony hate post but anyone who's older and has been around for a long time gaming will agree that PS5 is by far Sony's worst generation. As much as Xbox is in the gutter, I pray the do bounce back in the hope we get Sony to wake up again.
If you want to critique MS... you are doing so towards their management. The games output and their hardware have been much better than PS this gen. Sadly... people still hold a grudge against XB because of MS. Thankfully i am not that petty... I've been enjoying their games output in the drought of PS. And add in some NS1/2 games as well to balance things out. Things will change for me once Wolverine hits, and I start using my 5 more. That one I'm looking forward to. And the Marvel fighter... I'm not a GTA player so that has no bearing on my view of things.
Big part of that has been the live service push resulting in cancellation or flop after flop but when they put out the games their fans want we get amazing stuff like astro bot
Leadership really screwed the pooch trend chasing
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Well I apologize I was wrong about not doing worse but my statement of Microsoft getting a boost still stand 🤷🏿
Well OBSCURED unlike you I’m honorable enough to recognize when I’m wrong and apologize.
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@ The software you know there’s no comparison between what Microsoft acquired and what Sony acquired that’s why you tried to get ahead of the conversation, yes we all know Sony can do better than what they have done this gen but they inhaled the poison GAS they thought would bring money for years but we make sure they got the message and quite a few games got cancelled you know as well a hit like that take years to be corrected and by now they hopefully will have taken steps away from the GAS and slowed their approach to them.
You will say anything when you are in denial that your hardware is dead and nobody wants your platform. Good luck with Helix because nobody will buy it.
But... but... the garbage-mongers always tell us that Square Enix is in trouble! 😂
Square doesn't help that it fear mongers itself with ridiculous 'goals' that they can't reach and then they proclaim failure if they don't reach it. They're quite freaking profitable and people act like they're dying.
Keep in mind that these "proclamations" are usually third-hand bad translations from somedude who was at the investor conference, posted on Twitter, and picked up by press and youtubers like they were gold, and then when the official translation comes out, they're much softer statements, but at that point, the damage is done.
to be very fair
being number one on these things does not indicate how "well" their games do selling wise.
Capcom has clarified its current stance on generative AI in its videogames. The major Japanese publisher and developer behind popular series like Resident Evil, Street Fighter, and Monster Hunter has revealed that while it doesn't use gen-AI assets in their games, it is exploring ways to use generative AI to streamline the game development process.
Using Artificial Intelligence (more like Realistic Stupidity) art assets in your games is a great way to get people to boycott your product. We don't need that ugly, unsophisticated, generic, fake art in our games, good on CAPCOM for not using that garbage.
Naw you can't fool us, You work with Nvidia, that's a fact! And here you wanted to advertise but now look stupid!
I love me some MH and I'd prefer that the series stays the way it is. The one major difference between MH and its competitors is that MH includes more options, more simulation, more wheel-within-wheels mechanics, and more technical combat.
None of the MH "clones" (that's a bit unfair to name them such, but whatev) have MORE technical combat. All of them have LESS technical combat and MORE button-mashy/actiony combat. And MH isn't just about slaying monsters. That's the mistake all of the clones make. It's also about building your town, mining for ore, gathering bugs, fishing, planting crops, expanding your private mine, finding fertilizer, smacking your bug tree, sending felynes on quests, training your felines, finding the perfect kitchen recipe, crafting your weapons, crafting unique potions and traps and stat boosts, customizing your armor, etc. etc.
The clones have some of these things (like crafting and finding items in the level) but it's never as in-depth as MH. Believe me. I'm a huge MH fan (does it show?) and I've tried pretty much every MH clone out there. Currently replaying MHFU on my Vita, in fact.
Love me some monster hunter. Quite possibly the best online coop experience I've ever had
They seriously just need to make a MH for PS3/PS4/Vita. or at least bring Portable 3rd HD to the west
i played monster hunters since ps2, nevered played psp versions primary because im not big on handheld devices but i have been playing monster hunter ultimate since it came out and really love it, its a great team co-op game, you really have to pay attention or you will just fail. these are how co-op games are supposed to be, monster hunter can learn from competitors, i think competitors should learn from monster hunter in my opinion.
Everything that people complain about as being lacking in Monster Hunter would just turn the games into a mindless button mashing grind. All it needs are updated graphics and maybe a better physics engine and a super stable online infrastructure. What I'm saying is that it needs to be on Xbone and PS4 eventually. I love my portable 3ds hunts but I've always dreamt of playing a real hidef monster hunter.