Monster Hunter is an action role-playing game released by Capcom in 04, players need to play as a hunter, explore various terrains, and hunt various monsters.

In the past life, Capcom planned to develop an online game in the late 2000s.

The idea was not only to be unique in style, but also to take into account the differences in the tastes of Eastern and Western players;

The original name of the game was "モンスターhuntる者=モンスターハンター" (monster hunter = monster hunter), and later changed to "monster hunter".

Registered trademark in the summer of 2001; Tsuyoshi Tanaka is in charge of game planning, Kitaka Funamizu is in charge of the worldview and system, Fujioka is supervising the producer, and Kento Kinoshita is planning;

It took three years to prepare, but actual development began in 2003 and was released in March '04.

However, in the final stage of development, it was added to the offline system due to the poor network function, which means that this game is a game that can take into account both the stand-alone and networked experience, and supports up to 4-player mode.

Since the original game mode was settled, the later Monster Hunter series has continued to use this mode setting.

There are a variety of weapons to choose from in the game, each with its own unique attack patterns and skills. You can choose the right weapon according to your preferences.

The main content of the game is to hunt all kinds of monsters. You'll need to find the monster's weaknesses and attack with the right weapons and skills. At the same time, you'll also have to avoid being attacked by monsters.

In the process of hunting monsters, you can collect all kinds of resources, such as monster fur, bones, etc. These resources can be used to craft equipment and items.

By hunting monsters and gathering resources, you can upgrade your equipment and increase your combat effectiveness.

Monster Hunter supports a co-op multiplayer mode, where you can hunt more powerful monsters with your friends.

There are various missions to complete in the game, and you can get great rewards for completing them.

In addition to hunting monsters, you can also freely explore the game's world and discover all kinds of secrets and surprises.

Overall, Monster Hunter is a game that requires skill and strategy, and you'll need to keep learning and practicing in order to become a good hunter.

……

Qing Zhiyuan silently folded his hands in his heart:

Capcom, I'm sorry.

It's not that I mean to get you, it's just that the game you made is so good.

Of course, Qing Zhiyuan is not going to target the Capcom family.

It's all of you.

All the game companies in the world are my wool.

Copy it again in the future, ahh

The corners of Qing Zhiyuan's mouth raised slightly, and a confident smile appeared on his face, "I want to make a game where one person fights monsters, monsters and people have powerful skills, and the movements are cool and smooth." ”

"Men and monsters?" Shinji Mikami and Lisa Asano frowned.

Sei Chi Won tells a concept, but Shinji Mikami and Risa Asano don't have enough imagination to draw the picture.

They don't, Qing Zhiyuan has this ability.

Qing Zhiyuan used a marker pen to draw ideas on the whiteboard and explained to them how to play the game.

In fact, what Qing Zhiyuan instilled in him was not the design of the original Monster Hunter, but the design of Monster Hunter: World.

This game is the latest game in 18 years of monster hunting, and it is the most mature version in various settings.

It took about 2 hours or more, and Shinji Mikami and Risa Asano probably understood.

The expression on his face went from being bewildered at first, to dissolving, to surprise, and then to excitement.

"Oh my God, you're really a genius, president!"

After listening to Qing Zhiyuan's game vision, Shinji Mikami and Lisa Asano had a very clear gameplay picture in their brains.

In fact, after Qing Zhiyuan had already paved the way for the gameplay of [Insect Master] before, it was much easier for the two of them to understand.

Monster Hunter, which looks more like a combination of Bugmaster + Princess Mononoke.

The combat is a real-time action battle, but in terms of exploration and large map gameplay and material search, it is similar to the insect master I just described.

Monster Hunter, the most important thing, is not the plot, but the ecosystem.

At the core, it's the same as the insect master.

Shinji Mikami couldn't help but stand up, his brain spinning.

"This is a world with a complete ecology, in this world, different monsters have different ways to kill, and their drops can be used as materials for players to build equipment......

Don't be too genius.

It's amazing.

President, you're amazing! ”

Shinji Mikami's words didn't mean anything about sycophants, they were all from the bottom of their hearts.

"Hmm." Qing Zhiyuan laughed embarrassedly.

The insect master can barely be regarded as a game of his own creation, but Monster Hunter is simply a copy of Capcom.

As a result, he was praised by a core employee of Capcom in his previous life.

I'm sorry.

In his previous life, Qing Zhiyuan also thought about making a completely open big world sandbox online game, a completely real fantasy world with a complete ecology, in this world, a tree, a gravel sand, any animal, plant, are useful, players can find their own survival and game methods in this big world.

It will be a process of opening up a different world in the virtual world.

Not "Don't Starve" but "New Earth Online"

It would be a lot of fun if it could be made.

However, the cost is too high, and there is too much content to produce...... In the end, it never happened.

Now, crafting the Bugmaster and Monster Hunter is just the first step towards the New Earth Online envisioned by Qing Zhiyuan.

It's just that with the current network technology, this "Monster Hunter" must only be made into a stand-alone version, and it can't be online.

……

Now, after listening to the president's explanation, Shinji Mikami and Risa Asano both have a very specific understanding of the two games to be made in the future-

The president drew the picture on the whiteboard.

Very concrete.

Qing Zhiyuan has to thank the original owner of this body for having so much talent in painting skills, otherwise he would not be able to accurately convey his thoughts through painting.

"To put it simply, it's about playing as a hunter, killing monsters, gathering materials, crafting better equipment, and continuing to kill monsters...... Such a cycle.

However, the core of them is the ecological chain in the entire Monster Hunter world.

As I said before, tigers eat deer, deer eat grass, grass grows by sucking nutrients from the soil, and monster dung and rotting carcasses add fertility to the land.

At the same time, monsters have different personalities, and they can form a competitive relationship with each other, as well as a relationship between food and predators......

These are all meant to be reflected in the game.

It's not easy to make it. ”

"Uh-huh."

The two men nodded approvingly.

In fact, there is no need for Qing Zhiyuan to say, just thinking about it, they can feel the complexity of this game design.

It is equivalent to creating a new and complete ecology.

It also involves the behavior and habits of different monsters, the corresponding way of living in groups or alone, and the relationship between monsters......

It's not so easy to make this series of things.

You also have to configure different materials, drops, and so on.

Thinking of this, the two of them admired the president even more in their hearts.

What is the president thinking about every day?

How can there be so much constant flow of inspiration?

The company's manpower is not enough for him.

Several people spent more than 1 hour discussing it, picking out and analyzing all the key and difficult points, and Qing Zhiyuan also gave answers one by one.

Shinji Mikami thought to himself:

Terrible.

The president is terrible.

Almost as long as you ask a question, Qing Zhiyuan will give an answer immediately.

In fact, he had already thought about how to play this game, and even thought about the details, whether it was the image of the monster or the material on the monster......

What systems are in the whole game are in the president's head.

All he lacked was someone to make what was in his head.

That's all.

It's scary.

If it weren't for the level of hardware and software, as well as the manpower and time, Mikami only felt that he could make something that surpassed the entire era by one or two hundred years.

After some discussion, Lisa Asano and Shinji Mikami both had a number in their hearts.

Then all that's left is development.

"As for the producer," Qing Zhiyuan thought about it carefully, and already had a suitable candidate in his heart.

"Let Hideki Kamiya do it."

This guy developed Devil May Cry in his previous life, and there are certain similarities with Monster Hunter in terms of action elements and expressiveness.

And Kamiya was also involved in the development of "Princess Mononoke", and he is also one of the leaders in the core battles, so it should be appropriate for Kamiya to be the producer of "Monster Hunter".

"Mikami, you continue to serve as an overseer, and then Asano, you find a few people who are more familiar with the Pokémon system to help Kamiya develop."

"Okay president." The two men nodded.

Although I feel a little uneasy about Hideki Kamiya.

The main reason is that this guy Kamiya is always engaged in some moths, which is too whimsical and may not be able to contain it.

It always gives people a feeling that they are not very reliable.

However, since the president is so optimistic about him, Shinji Mikami said that he will keep an eye on him with all his strength and do a good job in the game "Monster Hunter".

……

After "Insect Master" and "Monster Hunter" were decided, Qing Zhiyuan disbanded the meeting.

Just do it, after going back, Mikami and Asano immediately set up these two project teams, the project of "Insect Master" was personally led by the president, everyone wrote the basic documents first, and then handed them over to Qing Zhiyuan for review, trying not to occupy or occupy less of his time.

There's a reason I didn't do Monster Hunter right away.

It turned out that the strength was not enough, not that the strength of Qingzhiyuan was not enough, but that the hardware and software level could not keep up, and now with the development of the times, technology continues to improve.

After the release of the PS, it already has the hardware capabilities of the first generation.

After the production of "Princess Mononoke", the software strength has almost a solid foundation.

Now the time is almost ripe for the game to be included in the development project.

In some ways, Monster Hunter is the Pokémon and Princess Mononoke port.

At the combat level, Princess Mononoke's real-time 3D action combat has laid a solid enough foundation.

The wild monster farming, ecological chain, environmental elements, etc. in Pokémon actually laid the foundation for the development of "Monster Hunter" on the basic system.

After that, all you need to do is expand Monster Hunter's own unique features.

For example, after the monster dies, it is skinned, plants are picked, processed and crafted, weapons are crafted, and so on.

Complete Monster Hunter's own unique eco-chain......

Then, why did you put "Monster Hunter" and "Bug Master" together for development, in fact, it is also for this consideration.

Monster Hunter and Insect Master both focus on an environmental ecology, which means that almost everything in nature can be researched and developed, but the main gameplay of Monster Hunt is combat and upgrade.

And the main gameplay of the insect master is to explore and solve puzzles.

From the perspective of overall development, the transition is natural, and the development cost has been reduced to the greatest extent.

If you're going to be a monster hunter right away, the apes are going crazy.

……

A week later.

"Crazy, huh?"

After seeing the plans for the two new projects offered by Mikami and Kamiya, the apes said that one head and two big.

All of them had expressions of doubt on their faces.

"The insect master is a little better, just do it on the basis of Princess Mononoke, it's just to add some more judgment and prop use functions."

Akanishi looked at the two business plans and carefully analyzed them with his core program apes.

I think the feasibility of "Insect Master" is quite high, and the complexity of development may lie in the big map.

"But, this Monster Hunter!"

"Is this something that people can do?"

"It's !!" Koike also followed.

Koike is a program ape promoted by Ken Akanishi, and he was mainly responsible for the development of game tools, which is what Qing Zhiyuan called game engines.

These things, in the end, must all belong to their engine group.

Koike has a headache when he thinks about the workload and difficulty in the future.

Ken Akanishi thought to himself-

President: This is another problem for us.

Shinji Mikami and Hideki Kamiya were in a dilemma next to them.

"What do you mean by something that people can do?"

Kamiya shot the case, and Qingjin was furious, "We all want to do a good job in the game, how can you pour cold water on everyone at the first time?" ”

Ken Akanishi and Koike were stunned for a moment, and the apes present were stunned.

Kamiya, isn't this guy a little inflated?

Seeing that Kamiya's violent temper was about to output to the program apes, Mikami hurriedly grabbed him.

"Kamiya is this character, he speaks more straightforwardly, don't go to your heart, he just has a tendon, and he wants to do a good job in the game."

"Yes, we want to do a good job of the game too," Ken Akanishi relented a little, and as the veteran of the company, he was definitely still relatively more composed.

"This plan was actually drafted by the president, but we just let us carry it out." Shinji Mikami said, "If there is any problem, we can communicate and solve it together." ”

"President's ......"

When I think of the president, Ken Akanishi has a big head.

Every now and then, I'll find something for everyone.

Always get some puzzles out.

The point is, let's take a breather.

"Okay, okay, let's bring the president together to discuss it." Ken Akanishi said.

So a group of people went to the president's office to find the president's theory.

On the way, Ken Akanishi grabbed Shinji Mikami and persuaded him bitterly:

"Mikami, can you be more proactive next time before the president proposes a new project, don't let him pull us away from behind.

If this continues, you can bear it, and we can't stand it. ”

There's a reason why Ken Akanishi would rather make a new game that Mikami thinks of himself than take on the new game that the president has in mind.

Xuyuan Xuan and Ma Zhizhun, no matter how whimsical they are, they are still tossing on the plot.

But as soon as the president tosses, it hurts his muscles and bones, or he opens a new game field, and all the underlying logic of the game must start from 0.

Either that, or a bunch of new features, the kind of difficulty that can't be predicted.

Only after you have talked to the president and accepted the baptism of Qing Zhiyuan's mind will you know what to do.

It's too bitter.

Mikami flattened his mouth, saying that I was also very aggrieved, do you think we don't want to go ahead of the president?

We don't have the power!

"Okay, okay, Akanishi-san, we will work hard, and next time, no matter how busy the project is, we will prepare a new plan for it in advance, and wait for the president's approval one by one."

"Huh?"

Akanishi Ken was stunned for a moment, quickly grabbed Mikami's hand, and laughed.

"You don't need to be so much, you guys, just take a step or two faster than him, don't always be driven by the president like a cow in the back."

……

The program apes, plus the core planning of the project, and the main Misakata Taiji and Makoto Shintsu, the team drove to the president's office.

Since the place was too small, Qing Zhiyuan proposed to move to another place.

Changed to the conference room, Akanishi Ken and they complained:

"It's not easy to load a large map."

Ken Akanishi wore glasses and carefully read the contents of the project, "The island is divided into nine large map blocks, each with its own characteristics, including desert, snow, and jungle......

Then the basic requirement for each map tile is 1000*1000 size. ”

When Akasai Ken said this, he couldn't help but sigh, "We can't support such a large map now, 1000*1000, it will take several minutes just to load, not to mention that there are all kinds of monsters on it, jungles, mountains and rocks, plants......

You have to fight, and you have to make the monsters act according to their own special logic.

It's simply an impossible task. ”

It's too hard.

Ken Akanishi said that when the program ape is difficult.

When pokeni's program apes are harder.

It is even more difficult to be the president of the program ape director.

In short, the current Akasai Ken, his whole face is twisted like a twist.

……

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There is another chapter in the afternoon

(End of chapter)