#retplays

Someone else pointed it out via a tumblr post because I "saw" but didn't absorb the detail, but like, we're not even "heroes" as far as our ship is concerned lmao

Each super destroyer has hundreds of disposable brain washed "super patriots" ready for the slaughter- we see this IN THE TUTORIAL INTRO, and we see it EVERY TIME WE LOAD INTO OUR SHIP- those rotating pods are what shmucks like us are stored in- and the thing is, we "know" that, but we divorce ourselves from that reality because everyone says to- we're commanding the ship! Yippee!

But we not!

We're not doing shit!

We defrost, go to a pre-determined list of missions, point at it while everyone claps their hands and says how good we're doing, then get shot through space to die and what happens directly after we do that?

ANOTHER SHMUCK DEFROSTS AND DOES THE SAME THING.

AND NOW IT'S "HIS" SHIP, JUST AS MUCH AS IT WAS "OURS" BECAUSE IT'S NEITHER! WE'RE JUST LARPING WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING IT!!!

THESE AREN'T EVEN *OUR* SUPER DESTROYERS LMAOOOOOO

like from day 1 it's been "if you can hit the monster and not die, you're doing enough" but in world, in part because of the rapid community expansion, in part because they put fucking damage numbers in the game (shoulda just been more defined hit sparks to say if it's a weakspot or armored spot, numbers were a mistake), in part because modern online discussion, in part because more skill details were put in game instead of needing things like kiranico to know what a skill actually does- but the general community became MUCH more desperate to be decked in that max/min setup, regardless of actually learning the gameplay part or fun, they just NEEDED the build.

No longer did you hear general discussion be "I want to make a really insane water build! I want to wear full x monster! I want to make an evasion build!" it's all "Biggest number for my weapon pls :)"

and now in wilds I'm hearing people go "You're really not bringing a secondary weapon to instant break x part of y monster so you can swap back to your primary and end the hunt in 3 minutes instead of 3:30?" and like, dude.

what's your deal?

I suppose this is primarily an issue with where I'll hear discussion, can't divorce my part in the exposure. This isn't a universal monhun thing because tons of people are still having fun instead of joining... idk, youtuber/reddit 'The Correct Way To Play' circles?

So my exposure is my problem. And in part because *I* like making my builds cohesively strong so fair point fair point.

it's just weird to me that I've been interested in things like hame sets for years and years and now the discussions I see in more mainline monhun circles seem to be "You NEED a speedrun best numbers biggest numbers best boom set so the hunt ends instantly or else you're failing at the game" and I'm like "Hunts are still like 50 minute timers, 35 if it's feisty, the way you are discussing the game is not accurate to how the game is."

I like making a big number build, I have some I really miss and cherish from some of the older games, but like.

there's more to do and that's a weird tone to carry lmao.

eh old man yells at clouds and wants cake and to eat it too since I like making "good" builds but am complaining about all the people talking about good builds (it's HOW it's spoken of, not THAT it's spoken of).

But in all my years of playing I've had like less than ten instances of a novice Limbo making things slow or annoying. That's such a small amount that it's remained Funny rather than Annoying.

So it's always been amusing to me that he's like Mega Ultra Hated for his trolling potential (intentional or unintentional by way of the player) because 99/100 times I've run into a limbo in the wild (as rare as that already is) they are like, clearly nervous to press any of their buttons.

And if they do just sit on an objective with their big cata bubble and stasis it's honestly just funny.