Our Favorite Games of 2018: Monster Hunter World

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🗓️ 17 December 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Nobody at Waypoint was a Monster Hunter fan before Capcom dropped Monster Hunter: World at the start of this year, but for a feverish few weeks in January, everyone was hunting Anjanaths like our lives depended on it. January was a long time ago, but it didn’t take long for Austin, Natalie, and Patrick to remember how the long-running series finally clicked for them. We remember what worked—the nightmarish sense of scale, how weapons became critical to player identity, the deep satisfaction from connecting a well-timed hit—and what left us wanting—the endless grind, the unexplained systems, the uncomfortable colonization themes—and hoping Capcom finds way to address them in the game’s inevitable sequel.

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0:00.0	What's good Internet? Welcome to Waypoints End of Year celebration for the next couple
0:29.9	of weeks we are going to be diving into some of our favorite games across
0:33.7	something like 10 different podcast episodes really quick and there's a
0:38.4	breakdown what the format's going to be and here and how it's going to work. So
0:41.8	two weeks ago we sat down and we hammered out our personal top 10 lists we
0:46.4	kind of like basically figured them out barring some late game late
0:50.1	December changes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, good video games.
0:55.4	Impossible. So things have been shaking up a little bit there but we've had
1:00.2	time to adjust and we will continue to adjust probably. We've taken a look at
1:04.6	those lists our top 10 lists and we've chosen five six games that have shown up
1:08.8	on you know three or more people's lists and what we're going to do is we're
1:12.4	going to dedicate an entire podcast to each of those games. I think it is like
1:17.4	Waypoint 101 for our favorite games of 2018 if that makes sense and so we're
1:22.4	going to dig into those in these big group podcasts but you know it's also
1:25.8	the case that I think a lot of us have games that maybe only we really
1:28.5	loved. There's a lot of games on each of our lists that only show up on our
1:32.4	list and so we wanted to make sure that those don't get overlooked or that
1:35.7	those only appear on the top 10 list on the site and so what we're also going to
1:39.4	do is a set of one-on-one interview podcasts between various members of the
1:44.0	site kind of working through the lists and talking about the games that showed
1:48.0	up on certain lists and why they showed up and why people love those games and
1:51.4	we want to make sure we have the ability to celebrate all the stuff that we
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