While true, they should have taken pointers from the main MH team & learned from them.
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The lack of black hairstyles in Monster Hunter Rise is embarrassing
- Thread starter Ghost of Jhoto
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This is weird. Been a while since I played World but didn't it get more black hair? Surely they learned it is an issue?
What a weird yet frustrating decision.
What a weird yet frustrating decision.
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To me, that doesn't make any sense. It's the same company, and even if a different team worked on it, they would at least look at the previous game and bring over those options. This isn't the first time that Capcom was put on blast for the lack of black hairstyles. This is what happened with MHW and they finally put them in with Iceborne. So why do it again, unless they plan on having people pay for them again.
A friend and I had a convo about this and sadly, the result was that my ethnicity isn't Capcom's demographic for the game. Now, I hate to admit that and would hate if that was the case. I just want to think that this was a case of being lazy.
To me, that doesn't make any sense. It's the same company, and even if a different team worked on it, they would at least look at the previous game and bring over those options. This isn't the first time that Capcom was put on blast for the lack of black hairstyles. This is what happened with MHW and they finally put them in with Iceborne. So why do it again, unless they plan on having people pay for them again.
A friend and I had a convo about this and sadly, the result was that my ethnicity isn't Capcom's demographic for the game. Now, I hate to admit that and would hate if that was the case. I just want to think that this was a case of being lazy.
The problem is that this was a different team (the Portable Team). The solution should have been to reference the progress made with Iceborne & bring those options over to Rise.
Actually, the new hair options were free for everyone (I checked, they weren't locked behind the Iceborne paywall). But your other complaints are valid. They should have learned from what the main team did for Iceborne.
no please. don't remove. add more
yeah that was the dumbest fucking thing lmao wth
I know but I had an impression they were sharing assets so I assumed they would add them into it.
I hate how we can't assume they will add representation.
It's one of the main reasons I hate CaC games in general. I always end up spending a dumb amount of time and almost never get to make my character the way I want or even satisfying. Might as well just give me a character designed by them.
I don't disagree with either of you.
It just might possibly be why the disparity between the two games. Different team, different engine as well.
That doesn't make it OKAY. just elucidating the diff
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They are indeed, but they are many assets in the game, including in the character creator specifically, which are lifted directly out of World+Iceborne. To me this looks like a case of different priorities. Not that it's an excuse, as they should absolutely be there, but I can't think of any other reason why they would be missing considering other stuff from World made the cut.
They are indeed, but they are many assets in the game, including in the character creator specifically, which are lifted directly out of World+Iceborne. To me this looks like a case of different priorities. Not that it's an excuse, as they should absolutely be there, but I can't think of any other reason why they would be missing considering other stuff from World made the cut.
i also KIND of wonder if it is due to the switch japanese market taking a larger priority :x
World was notable for being a massive global success compared to past MH games, and MHR has been billed by die-hards since the beginning as a "return to form" (whatever the fuck that means)
Well, this dimmed some of my excitement of this game. I love creating characters and it's always frustrating when the option for black hairstyles and skintones are limited.
Nah I love afros. If anything I want more variety of Afros. Like to control the lift or what overall shape it's in. I want to be able to make Huey Freeman.
I guess it's a good thing babysitting my dog held me off from getting MH Rise. Now I'll likely wait until this gets addressed.
These characters don't look like Huey, and they certainly don't look like Huey's updated look in the upcoming seasons.
My assumption/hope is that all this will be addressed in the upcoming updates. All we need to do is speak up and I'm sure Capcom will rectify the omissions. We know there's quite a chunk of free stuff coming up over the upcoming months. Hopefully porting over the rest of the character creation tools/hair styles/etc. from World and Icebourne will be among the additions.
While I hope that happens, we shouldn't have to wait until updates for this to be fixed. We should have more afro-centric hair options from the get-go, especially when most of the work was already done in Iceborne & the Portable team could just ask the main team for the assets.
Ugggggh still stoked to play this w/ wifey but I'm tired of dealing w/ ish like this! Was hoping for smthn at least like world ._.
Wow, it's almost as if I said " If anything I want more variety of Afros. Like to control the lift or what overall shape it's in." I'm not saying that what is present is the only afro that should be in or that it's perfect.
The best part about afros is that they are variable can be done differently to suit the personality of the person. That's why I want MORE and not the deletion of the only afro.
I also used Huey as a quick example of a stylized afro that isnt possible in the game currently to drive that point home.
the hell? after iceborne had so many great hairstyles, I figured rise would just carry them over
You'd think that, right? Even if Rise is from a different team, they're all still within Capcom Dev 2 & the Portable team could have just asked for the assets.
Like there is so much copy and pasted shit in Rise that comes from World (not that thats a bad thing) including the character creator. How did they end up with less here? They made a conscious decision to omit that shit. They got the wrong priorities. Don't see why they can't alter shit in development to fall in line with Capcom's push for diversity. We can't have that until they make a new game??? Thats dumb as fuck.
I know you're banned but wtf. Bringing up historical setting bs when there's literal DRAGONS and other monsters in a game.
They don't even have proper short hair styles either. Most of the hair styles I consider "decent" look not much better than bed hair.
Fuck if that ain't the truth. Just a massive step down from World which only had what? 7 styles? Don't give a fuck if this game was developed with Japan in mind its still gonna sell millions in the west. Capcom should have reeled the art team in.
Lmao I literally just got done making my character and when I was looking at the hairstyles i thought the exact same
Don't forget the Jon B caesar or buzz in a pinch.
It's funny because a caesar with some waves would be the easiest of all common (modern) black hairstyles to put in a game, you could just have the bald head with a different texture. Just requires actually looking at a real black person for once and not just going off some imaginary idea of what black hair is like based on 50 year old stereotypes.
Hell, you could take that one haircut and put in a bunch of variations with lines and fades.
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Not to mention there are caucasian styles in the game too. What? Those are realistic despite being a a japanese setting but not black hair styles?
I recently played Iceborne and I was surprised to see that a lot of the new hairstyle variants seemed to be black hairstyles. It's cool that they added them eventually but it was weird to see them locked behind an expansion like that. It's a shame they didn't carry over into Rise. It seems like rise has fewer customization options in general. Hopefully they add them back in but it's gonna suck to have them all be paid DLC again (World had more than Rise by default I think but still... Iceborne added a lot).
2K has a long way to go with textures and hair quality, but at the very least, they have a basic baseline for black hairstyles and at this point, video games should have at least the basics:
(BTW I absolutely hate how the long dreads look in this game but it's the closest thing to my actual length of dreads.)
(BTW I absolutely hate how the long dreads look in this game but it's the closest thing to my actual length of dreads.)
Capcom heard our complaints.
Hopefully we'll at least see the afro-centric hair options from Iceborne carried over in a near-future update.
Hopefully we'll at least see the afro-centric hair options from Iceborne carried over in a near-future update.
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Totally garbage
That tired clown fro is so garbage it's time Japanese games stop using it.
"Thank you to our fans for their passionate feedback! We hear you loud and clear. So here's another two types of afros!"
Considering how many hair style are already from World, I'm really confused why they didn't just port them all over. They better not sell them back again at a premium. I know my hunter buddy is quite disappointed and thus opted to just use the afro despite there being other hairs he liked in Iceborne.