Monster Hunter Rise vs Monster Hunter World | Direct Comparison 

mhw vs mhr the winner: capcom

that one guy who said "hey" in 12:40 made the whole difference to me. He cared, he cared alot.

Most important change: You can finally skip cutscenes

"And look like stretched out dogs." I take it you're not familiar with the dog breed "greyhound"

I can't believe that MH:W is already around 3 years ago. It's almost feels like yesterday when the first time I played that game.

Monster hunter rise just reveals that Capcom doesn't hires engineers but wizards

As we see many franchises dying by poor decisions and bad games, I'm surprised how well Capcom managed to maintain such high quality games.

RE Engine is a blessing

I'm surprised there's no mention of the load times. Rise is pretty damn quick, same for joining multiplayer.

“Highly advanced tribe of cavemen” is a pretty apt description of the people in Monster Hunter as a whole all things considered

Monster Hunter is just an all around beautiful game series.

The one thing that surprised me about the environments of Rise is not only did they have more verticality due to the wirebug but also there are many hidden nooks and crannies that aren't obvious to find unless you're purposely looking for them. I watched a video of a mining route in the Lava Caverns which eventually wounded up in a whole secret room with a bunch of ores and a rare endemic life living there. Super cool and encourages players to just explore!

Me with hundreds of hours on World and already over 90 on Rise: "Ah yes, I see, intriguing..."

The RE engine is one hell of a engine I have to say. Rise looks so incredible on switch and it plays really well too!

World was a gift from the gods

World is still my favourite monster hunter of all time. I had such a wonderful experience and finishing the game with the awesome work done on the legendary Fatalis was perfect.

im still shocked by the fact that monsters have reflections in the water. I love it so much !

Rise actually looks incredible, sound is really well done, and verticality in this game is a God send

My favorite part of MH: world is the scale of the worlds themselves, actually having to track and look for the monster in a fairly sized map made it feel like a hunt and having the endemic life there when you need them, allowing you to actively interact with them for strategic maneuvers (including the scarce wedge beetles) made you feel like an outdoors master when you pulled it off. From what I see from rise (don’t own a switch sadly so can’t play it yet) it sort of sacrificed that grand, interactive hunting feel for fly around the map, run into bugs, and slap the monster till it drops. The one thing I’ve seen that I like from rise is the dogs and more open arenas cuz world was pretty claustrophobic and lane like at times, especially the coral highlands

I remember being really wowed by monster hunter titles on the 3ds at the time of release and now I'm in awe with the switch version, it's so beautiful.

If someone complains about the graphics then they only played MH World. Let's not forget that this series dominated the PSP and 3DS handhelds and sold gangbusters!!!

Nick: feels remarkably solid Also nick: dips when rounding corners Me: Hol up

Tbh, Monster Hunter Rise is definitely more of a follow up to Generations than to World.

I’m just trying to wrap my brain around world being four years old

"Prehistoric/caveman feel" Yall ever heard of steampunk or cyberpunk? Brother, we call this CavePunk

the drop in detail but increase in art style heavily mitagates the differnce in visuals

Monster hunter rise is my first monster hunter game. I felt like the progression was a little too fast until I looked at my 60 hours of play time that I had already achieved within the first week of the game being released

Obviously World is going to win in the looks department overall, but wow, Rise seems more impressive considering what they are working with on the Switch.

Yes rise isn't the beautiful cinematic masterpiece that world was.. but then again, it was developed for hardware that's about 60% as powerful as a ps4 or Xbox one and about 40% as powerful as a pro or one x. Plus world is going to look better since you're playing it on a pc capable of 4k 60+fps. Given the limitations of the hardware.. rise is an amazing game.

I honestly prefer world's visuals, but rise's mechanics look really fun and polished

A night version of Kamura village with yukata/kimono npcs would be incredible

The gameplay feels really fluid for me. The wirebug mechanics are also amazing

Think rise knew they'd have to compete with worlds graphics so they went all out on the audio and the game mechanics and omg I love it

Advanced cavemen is a perfect description for MH aesthetic hahah

I wish every review / comparison was as detailed and simplified as this. Short but sweet with all the important gaming mechanics, visuals, gameplay and feel covered! Massive thumbs up to the comparison, it covers everything really important to know and nothing irrelevant unlike other reviews which cover minor and irrelevant points.

Absolutely love Rise. Honestly my only minor things I would still love to see added are: If we capture a monster, would like to be able to see it somewhere Bring back those huge culinary meals

Love your videos! Would u be able to do a MHGU vs rise as well to compare the other switch one? I know its originally a 3ds game but would still be cool to see the 2 side by side.

Nice thing about MH games, new titles don't overshadow the old ones. They offer a new flavor of the core formula. Only quality of life improves.

Loved the vid! I love these kinds of ARPG’s. Will you be doing a direct comparison of Final Fantasy VII Remake 2020 Ps4 vs. FF7R Intergrade Ps5 version that comes out summer 2021?

Missed some stuff on the mount. You can also trigger it by doing wirebug attacks, it is a stacking chance for it to proc when you do them. You can also run the monster into other monsters, or a wall, for damage and to knock down the target monster, and then press B to re-mount so long as you have wirebugs, which refresh both when you mount the monster, and when you finally dismount. Dismounting also throws you in the air, giving you a free aerial attack.

I know this is an old video but I still prefer World to Rise. World just feels more fluid and seemless. Rise feels more clunky to me. And there are a number of elements from World that I loved that are no longer present in Rise. The only thing I would miss from Rise that World doesn't have is everything surrounding the buddies (the addition of palamutes, buddy island, etc).

I really hope when rise comes out on PC they have cross save. So we can play with all the graphics on PC then keep playing on the go with switch.

Great comparison nick!! Keep up the amazing work.

Ty for making this!

welcome back everybody to another episode of direct comparison

Bro, you're one of the only youtubers who can make these comparison videos interesting, partly because you actually talk in your videos.

I’m hoping if they port this to pc and consoles we can get a revamp in graphics to be the same or better than world. Game still plays fine and is smooth just when you come off World it feels like a huge downgrade

the audio in world man, the audio quality of the hits and the power behind your weapons puts it in a league of its own, it just feels so meaty

Just the best Game series ive ever played since 2005

Waiting for the comparison to get updated when MHR gets a pc release, thank you for the video nick awesome as usual.

What I'm most interested in knowing is whether Rise is as BIG of a game. World has a decent length story and if played right can last hours and hours. It would be a dealbreaker for me if they've compromised on game length and the sheer amount of content.

World will always stay my favorite but Rise really is an amazing game and I enjoy it very much. One thing I miss from Rise is when you captured a monster in World you could see it, in Rise we don’t and it’s a small detail that was really fun to see. But i understand they needed to save on ressources so it’s okay. Excelle video, really interesting to listen to.

Monster Hunter’s franchise is on my top ten favorite gaming franchises. It’s up there with Halo, The Legend Of Zelda, God Of War, Pokémon, Mortal Kombat, between others.

I’d love to see how rise develops in the future. Something that I kept noticing in rise is the lack of dynamic texture. I understand the switch isn’t as strong but I believe they could’ve pushed a bit further with world textures

cool video, very detailed breakdown.

I'm missing the new stashes and the much better and easier way with optional quests instead of having hundreds of investigations to choose from but overall this video ramps it up pretty well. I got to tell you, the visuals arent as noticable unless you compare one on one. I miss that the stages in world were much more fantasy inspirated than in rise, and the audio can be handled as the visuals - it's much closer and basic than the older monster hunter games but i'm actually missing some of the depth from audio. Instead its more nostalgic, so its fine I guess.

World has obviously the upper hand in sharp graphics but Rise can TV and portable lag free. Also Rise has instant quest load which is great.

Still waiting for that battlefield documentary

Great video for seeing the graphical differences, and even highlights some of the artistic and design differences. Seems that purely graphically, the game will be quite lacking because of hardware limitations. But hey, maybe there's hope they'll be upgraded for the PC release, even if things like the simpler level design won't change.

Can i ask you... What is/was your pc setup for mh world? And What resolution are you playing at. And of course what are your graphical settings? ...

Oh man I really want to go back in time and play all the older MH games, just to see the improvements MH made over the years. Feels like I missed out on a lot of things there. I want to have a wave of nostalgia too you know.

I think you miss to talk about the soundtrack !! It's very important in a game. Musics of Monster Hunter Rise are very successful and captivating

i've been a relative new comer to the series, but really there are somethings i wish were in world, like a dynamic slinger system like wirebugs for evasive manuevers, but i also miss the full environments in rise that were packed to the brim in consumables, endemic life, and hidden movement abilities, like the half wall climb, vines, and wedge beetles.

just cucurious will you do another world comparison when rise gets a pc release?

Perhaps the biggest comparion I am waiting for is Battlefield 6 vs Battlefield V or 4 when the game is announced with a gameplay trailer

I can't await how great would be MHW 2 on the new generations. Capcom has achieved a milestone with MHW. I don't own a Switch, but I saw how greatly they integrated the Resources for Rise on this System. With that knowledge, the next coming title on the next Gen like Ps5 and XSX can only be amazing.

Pretty amazing they got the World framework working on the Switch. I cannot say I care for how muted everything looks though. I loved World and it’s environments but do miss some of the more colorful environments. Ancient Steppes and whatnot. Coral Highlands filled that niche a bit.

5:26 I think this is why I was able to get into rise so easily and had such a hard time getting into world. I loved generations ultimate, which as my proper introduction to MH, and because of how much I loved it, I decided to buy world. I've barely touched it, I'm still at the rathalos fight, I don't think I've attempted it more than 2 or 3 times. But Rise? It came out and I haven't stopped.

World still the best series in my opinion, I hope they add more content on it

I can't believe some people are skipping out on this game because of the graphics

Thank god that u pointed the diffrence between "on Pc" and "on Switch" out. So many ppl ignore this. x.x

11:17 or you can use aerial attacks and silkbind moves on the monsters to put them into a mountable state yourself

I’ll keep playing World until Rise releases for PC next year.

One thing capcom does right is, makes monster hunter look, and run good on Nintendo hardware. Rise is awesome.

One thing I noticed about the sounds in MHW, Most weapons within a single type would usually have the same sound effects regardless of design. I typically play Charge Blade and whether I am using Metal base weapon, or the Kushala Charge blade, the sound effects of transforming the weapon or even just swinging it sound the game. But in MH: Rise, I am noticing different sounds depending on the design. The Tetranadon charge blade sounds VERY different from the Magnamalo Charge blade. for example. There's something of a "spectral" sound effect when swinging the Magnamalo weapon around. So that is one area that Rise Improved over World in terms of presentation. Overall Rise looks alot better then expected. World obviously has better graphics but Rise is no slouch either.

Excelent video, Nick

Its hard to go back after Rise. It reminds me of what Doom Eternal did to Doom2016.

12:39 Idk what you did but monster hunter world actually has better sound design and quality Its dynamic audio is more accurate and it also supports surround sound 7.1,while rise does not support either of these

Just imagine world 2 with RE engine on pc with sweet 60 fps. Now i want to see some monsters with the same graphical detail like in re8 for example, its going to be looking beautiful.

The docked resolution is actually 756p, not 720. Although 36 pixels might not seem like a lot, it can go a long way in terms of sharpness and clarity. Plus the game seems to have dynamic resolution. I've played it for 25 hours now, and the resolution in handheld seems to jump above 540p on certain maps. For example, in the Lava Caverns map where you hunt Volvidon and Basarios, the graininess from the 540p average resolution almost disappears and the game looks way sharper. I'm speculating here, but I think this is because the Lava Caverns have no foliage and the CPU and GPU of the Switch can use that leftover power to make the whole picture crisper. It looked like 640-720p in handheld when I was playing it in handheld on that map.

rise has the best of the old games and the quality of life from world while adding new stuff. when it comes to load time the switch is so fast, ps4 pro took forever.

I'm curious how the graphics will enhance once it reaches on pc next year. Will you be doing a Switch vs PC version once it releases?

Thanks for this

High affinity in world fixes the "no impact" issue

Wait is it just me or did Nick930 change the thumbnail to felyne

Next time Mafia 2 vs L.A noire

Something i noticed in World is that monsters tend to run as soon as you find them, and i'm glad Rise doesn't seem to have this problem yet

I bought a switch just for this and pokemon shield. Also purchased balan wonderworld. Not disappointed in any of the purchases I made. Love monster hunter rise so far.

Liking that the areas are more open.

Hey Nick, just a quick grammar note (sorry to be *that guy*) at 7:58 you mention rise's disadvantage being "exasperated", but I think you meant "exacerbated". The first means annoyed or fed up with something, while the second means to be made worse or deteriorated to a greater extent by it.

isn't rise also coming to pc in the near future? i think i saw some article that said so but i'm not sure

There are two main thing that I wish Rise had that World did have are the sound design and the hit feedback. In World, when you hit something, both the sound and feedback are present (i.e. doing a True Charge Slash or a Super Elemental Amped Discharge), you get that big meaty and WEIGHTY feeling as well as your weapon pausing as it hits the monster truly makes you feel the power. In MH: Rise, it feels like it just goes through like butter with seemingly no weight and not much hit feedback. It felt weightless and floaty. Sure, MHW didn't have the bloodsplatter, but they did have that bass-rich hit effects and screenshake when you hit a monster at the right spot with a devastating blow, it was just much more satisfying than the bloodspatter for me.

Monster hunter rise is such an amazing game that even if is a portable game, you can actually compare it with the non portable consoles and is not bad at all. I mean, wow!

When MH Ryse hits PC, I'll be looking forward to a mod that lowers or removes most of the particle effects. Those exaggerated effects burn my eyes the same way Genshin Impact did, or Nioh and Nioh 2. I love the particle effects when done right, like the moonlight greatsword in Bloodborne for example, but having exaggerated amounts is painful to watch, I can't bear that.

From what i see both games are good. Also in iceborn they also added the riders, so I would have like to at lease see that added not as a comparison, although they do have differences. I personally like the light bugs you can swing from in world, but i also like how they use it in rise, however in doing so feels to much like spiderman. Still, both games are grate regardless. I just personally think World will stick around longer then they think. Although mobile gaming is something a lot of gamers want, I still see VR as a higher demand, and thought they could use the time that world has new players all the time, they could work on a VR version of a game. But that's just me, after all I own world for 3 consoles due to not having cross platforming

I’m not far in Rise but so far I like World more. I don’t know why but fights feel much more chaotic so I really have a hard time figuring out what’s going on. I attempted fights with and without the buddies and found fights took WAY longer without them, too, which I wasn’t a big fan of. That might just be a skill issue though.

Thanks for mentioning the weight of the hits. I hated how worlds impact was so soft. I missed the feeling of landing a heavy hit on a monsters face

I've been too busy playing Rise! Rise seems like an improvement overall on MHW. It feels like Iceborne had its own expansion getting rid of the slinger/clutch claw and replacing it with the wirebug. No more tenderizing? Wedge beetles on command? Wyvern Riding? HECK YEAH! Many weapons also received so much love with an expanded moveset that you didn't have much time to go through. And so while visuals and audio seem to have had a reduction in quality the design seems much better. People deliver better lines and I can hear things around me, even if they're a bit exaggerated. So the only criticisms I have so far are graphics and we'll see what the endgame looks like. I cannot wait for this to come out to PC where hopefully they'll give the visuals a meaty upgrade.

I love both games. With world I really love the sound and animations and general movement of everything. Just a gorgeous game and a joy to play but the online aspects, joining games, not being able to see other players in the hub areas are not very good. With that and the added movement mechanisms of Rise and the fact that online has been implemented so well and it looks and runs great even on a large tv. Capcoms engine scales really well to the switch The monster are fun to fight and there’s a really good number of them I think which makes the game a little more focused, however, I absolutely cannot wait until the Sunbreak DLC which is sure to add many more and new monsters and areas.

Can really see the difference in texture quality between the two. Lack of AA. The DoF looks pretty aggressive too.