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Monster Hunter Wilds Reportedly ‘Fully Open World’, Coming Q1 2025

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Monster Hunter Wilds Reportedly ‘Fully Open World’, Coming Q1 2025

With Dragon’s Dogma 2 currently enthralling players worldwide, it might seem too soon for some to contemplate another open world epic from storied developer Capcom, but here we are. Reliable leakster Dusk Golem let slip a few morsels from sources on Discord, and they seem pretty confident that this one will arrive in Q1 of 2025, writing, “I don’t think even GTA VI would make them delay it.”

Monster Hunter Wilds was revealed in December, but we still know little about it. According to Dusk Golem (thanks, Eurogamer), it will be “fully open world,” something Monster Hunter fans have been dreaming of forever, as previous games have always been segmented into smaller, separate explorable areas: “That was [Capcom’s] idea from day one. The entire game revolves around it, from story to endgame.”

According to Dusk Golem (AKA AestheticGamer), Wilds has been in development since 2019 and will feature “a lot of the scrapped ideas from World.” Wilds’ director, Yuya Tokuda, who served in the same capacity on Monster Hunter World, has been given “complete freedom [for the development of Wilds], pretty much no questions asked… by far the biggest game they ever attempted.”

Are you ready for another massive Capcom open world epic, one with even more monsters, if you could imagine? Let us know in the comments section below.

[source eurogamer.net]

Khayl is Push Square’s Australian correspondent, a reporter who regularly catches the competition napping. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

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AdamNovice
8h ago

Not surprising there going big on it. MHW is the biggest Capcom game ever.

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DennisReynolds
8h ago

Don’t know about this as this will completely change the structure and feel of MH.

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Nepp67
8h ago

@DennisReynolds I genuinely think you’ll get a slight idea how it’ll be like with Dragon’s Dogma 2 tbh besides the RPG part of the game and maybe climbing monsters.

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WanderingBullet
7h ago

So is it going to be like the Guiding Lands but bigger?

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DennisReynolds
7h ago

@Nepp67 Maybe though i get the impression The Guiding Lands from Iceborne could be used as the prototype as its the closest we get to a open world map.

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Henchdog
7h ago

Um… maybe eurogamer and push square should do a little more looking into stuff before reporting it:

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LikelySatan
6h ago

Yeah, I don’t know man I always bounce off whenever I try to get into these games. I was pretty hopeful for Rise. It wasn’t impenetrable, but definitely required more attention and learning than I was willing to give. I’ll probably try this one too.

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PsBoxSwitchOwner
5h ago

@DennisReynolds they kinda already have it in mh world, with the guiding lands, admittedly it isn’t a huge open world but monster come and go and so on, so they probably saw how many people enjoyed the endgame and are working that angle

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DennisReynolds
5h ago

@PsBoxSwitchOwner You see that’s my fear as i really didn’t like the Guiding Lands and it was my least favourite thing about World/IB. Maybe on a far larger scale with more stuff to do it could work better but as it is in IB i found it way too grindy even by MH standards and i always found it jarring how unnaturally close the various biomes were to each other.

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Cloud39472
4h ago

Following the trend of every game ever being open world eh? Hopefully it pays off.

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PsBoxSwitchOwner
4h ago

@DennisReynolds I’d like to hope this would be on a bigger scale and with more than 2/3 hunts present.

But monster hunter ice borne was my favourite game of ps4 era with over 1000hrs in it, and I still go back often. So I’ll be there day 1 regardless!

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Shadcai
4h ago

As long as it doesn’t go live service.
I fine with a base game and then a large expansion like iceborne for World.
If its fully open world, prepare to run into larger monsters without the right gear and preparation.

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CrackmanNL
3h ago

Havn’t played since the PSP days (minus checking out the demo of Rise on Switch). I’m gonna jump into this one tho!

and open world seems natural progression just hoping it won’t go the (Blizzard) MMO route cause what game not better fitted for mtx..

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Nem
3h ago

That sounds awesome. Looking forward to it.

Yes, it’s a trend. But in the case of Monster Hunter, it makes sense. It’s always been limited in map size and what could be in it and different monsters would share the same nests.
Having an open world where every monster has it’s own place and they can’t just run away from the map and despawn will make things more realistic.

Also, will be great if we can take more than one quest at a time.

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Nepp67
2h ago

@DennisReynolds Yeah that was my thought as well although it seemed like they were even testing it with World because there are some things you can do for exploration like the crafting materials, some people giving you a side quest to do, and finding campsites for fast travel locations.