This game sucks because it's not kino. In all seriousness, this game is not a bad Monster Hunter, those exist and this game is way far above them. If we're being real and I am allowed to stash away my hate-boner for Rise for a moment, the game genuinely isn't bad. It's actually got some really great things going for it, the problem is they didn't fucking finish the game again so it sucks if you had gotten it when it came out. It's balance is better than 4U's and XX's for sure but, those are not high bars to clear. Wirebugs still suck, the progression sucks, the "difficulty" is built around AoEs and instant-kill moves to "compensate" for how busted and overtuned they made the player characters, it has too many MMO elements bc they want to replace Frontier for some reason, you know that game that failed for being fucking ass. At least it has a respectable (although far, far from perfect) monster roster and the skill meta isn't that fucked. No Fatalis armor bullshit. The charm system sucks, and the augmentation is the worst thing the franchise has done, above Hyper monsters and the Temporal Mantle. 1 in 7.6 billion odds to get what you want? Fuck you.