I guess we used to have the quest boards, which were essentially the way for the Hunter’s Guild to tell us what they’d approved for us to hunt… but having Alma follow me around for the entirety of Wilds announcing that I was authorized to hunt… well, basically anything and everything I wanted, felt a little silly.
She’s literally never met a monster she didn’t want dead, which makes the whole idea of approval a little unnecessary.
Small monsters don’t matter and don’t need authorization. Big monsters are always too big to live and let live. There’s no way to kill a seikret. No way of killing the kid seems to stick. Wudwuds are immune to your weapons. Everything being left a pile of dry bones is good for bone armor.
I thought you kill a seikret by talking about it?
… I’ll see myself out.
Maybe she applies Uncle Jimbo’s hunting rules: “It’s coming right at us!!”
YES, they need to add Skuzzlebutt as a huntable monster in the game
I’m just checking in, hoping to see the DND arc finally come back around….
I currently have no plans to do that.
That’s sad! The numbered guys playing DnD is the most entertaining of the recurring arcs you do.
Okay, well I’ve grown bored of it, so until I find something interesting I want to do with it, it’s not on the horizon.
Well I’m pretty sure their opinion isn’t the majority anyways. Personally, I mainly look forward to Ethan and Lucas arcs these days.
Guess even you are following in the footsteps of 1, 2, and 4 with roleplaying fatigue… 😉
And I have to agree, stories are always better when you know where to go instead of doing it as a chore, which is why the reboot of the main universe is so great.
Understandable, oceans of sadness, but understandable.
If I force it, I won’t enjoy it and you won’t enjoy it. I’m not saying the series is over, I’m just saying right now I’m still looking to be inspired by whatever comes next. I maintain multiple series so that I don’t have to grind through burnout; I can switch my focus for a while and recharge some creative batteries.
that’s a real lost opportunity
Personally happy to hear it.
Over the years the Analog/Starcaster chronicles have grown on me and I find them to be quite a highlight. Nothing wrong with game humor and DND, but they just pale (for me personally) in comparison.
Very sad to hear, but completely understandable.
Highly disagree while I do like the DND story that pops up, the better stuff is Starcaster Chronicles and Analog & Dpad followed closely by CAD itself.
I read it all but those are my favorite.
We’re all allowed to have favorites, but I can honestly say that Tim’s site is the only one where I’ve never been bored of any strip. The guy is a great storyteller. I’ve never been relieved when he switches to a different strip, since I always want to know what happens on the next page of whatever’s his current focus.
So no domestication? Ok, if humans are authorized there is one juicy human in front that just became jobless as there are no monsters for the guild to hunt.
I get the feeling that the Hunter in Monster Hunter: Wilds is brainwashed into killing monsters when hit with the trigger word, ‘Authorized.’ Alma is quite the evil mastermind.
Would you kindly hunt that monster
Would you kindly hunt that monster?
Would you kind— aw, man…
Why am I covered in blood and surrounded by corpses of little woodland creatures? XD
I’m just confused at the inconsistency. She needs to formally authorize me to hunt a monster that’s trying to kill us and massacre an entire village, but she’s nonchalant about seeking out and killing a monster that’s done nothing wrong except mildly inconvenience a tribe of talking gerbils?
There are actually times where a hunt is not authorized when exploring the open world. She will yell at you constantly while fighting that you should disengage.
That last panel… can we get that like, I dunno, four months ago please?
shhh, Timmy is a-scared of the polly-ticks!
If you explore the desert and encounter a sand lizard (I cannot remember the name off the top of my head) before you get it’s story quest, she does in fact tell you to leave it alone. Which does, as the game goes on, feel a little odd. I think the comic is more accurate.
So when you’re ranking up in high rank Alma will stop you from hunting monsters, telling us that we aren’t authorized to hunt them till we get a quest to do it.
80 Hours, not once did she say that to me XD
She told me I wasnt authorized for a Rey Dau once in high rank, while i was new into it. Didn’t let that stop me from breaking off a piece anyways.
Had the same thing happen to me with Uth Duna before I progressed my hunting rank sufficiently. Didn’t stop me from actually killing it (on my second attempt, my poor low-rank weapon couldn’t handle the stress the first time) but I didn’t get hunt rewards for doing so, just what I could cut off the body.
You must’ve only been fighting monsters appropriate for your rank.
Which suggests it’s more “we don’t trust you to try and kill this thing yet,”
She will actually reprimand you if you hunt a monster outside your hunter rank too early. Constantly shouting “you aren’t authorized to hunt that” and some such. She doesn’t physically try to stop you though… She knows better.
Which suggests the concern is more “we don’t trust you to not get killed trying to kill that thing.”
Remind me, which monsters am I allowed to hunt again?
– “Yes!”
I find it funny how if you fight a monster before the first quest is given to kill it she will go on and on the entire hunt about how you are NOT authorized to hunt it.
Seriously, depending on how far you are into the game this can be very easy to trigger and it’s hilarious when you do ^^
The adherence to it seems WAY too fetishized…the entire unit will set out with the goal of killing something, witness it committing sadist acts of slaughter, and my hunter just bites his lip, refusing to act until Alma “authorizes” him to kill it. Oh, Japan. I mean, I get the idea of a Guild coordinator, and it adds a nice bit of lore flavoring, but the presentation is just…so…”mmm say the words, Alma. Give me PERMISSION.” But there’s DEFINITELY cases she doesn’t want you to hunt; the apex monsters in particular towards the late part of the second story. You… Read more »
You know what’s worse? At one point in time in the storyline, the Hunter **gives himself** authorization to kill a monster.
He always had the authority to choose for himself, yet he fobbed it to Alma. Must be the paperwork he don’t want to do afterwards or something.
In all fairness, not a terrible idea nowadays… Not a terrible idea.
The story of Mh wilds is so bad it’s hilarious.
/mild spoilers
“oh no, the artificial monster has broken free and gone mad, how can we help it?”
“There’s nothing more to do, I’ll slash it”
“oh noes, now an ancient monster that wiped out an entire civilization is awakening! The only possibility is the ancient artifact that will cause imbalances blah blah if we use it blah blah”
“No, I have another solution. I’ll slash it”.
Happy end
Save nature by kill all that move.
Is it still a “hunt” when you have line of sight on the target?
So THAT’S how they introduce pvp…
Humans were the real monsters all along!
monster hunter: the road