Iceborne features a number of new beasts, including a gigantic horned creature called Banbaro, and a snake-like monstrosity called Beotodus, which tunnels underneath the snow for surprise attacks. “We make a world, and then we put monsters in there, and we design them to be convincing in terms of the ecology.” “We don’t design a world for them,” Fujioka explains. Once the decision was made, the rest of the expansion grew organically, in particular the monsters. Fujioka had also always wanted to put areas with really deep snow into a Monster Hunter game - he says he loves the atmosphere this creates - but technology hadn’t really allowed it before. For one, it was vastly different from any of the biomes in World, making it look immediately distinct for returning players, and the frigid nature of the region made it a good fit for more challenging gameplay. When it came time to plan out the expansion, an arctic region made sense for a few reasons. We make a world, and then we put monsters in there.” The original World introduced a number of changes to make the experience more approachable - namely offering a huge world to explore and launching on consoles and PC instead of handhelds - and Iceborne looks to build on that template. As the name implies, Iceborne introduces a new arctic region, which developers say will be the largest locale in the game so far. In September, Capcom will launch Monster Hunter World: Iceborne, the first major expansion for the game. His next task is to make that experience even bigger. “The fact that, all these years later, I’ve made this game that goes beyond all of those, at some level it feels unreal to me.” “To be honest, it still doesn’t feel like it’s real,” Fujioka told The Verge last week at E3 in Los Angeles. But that all changed with last year’s Monster Hunter: World, which to date has sold more than 12 million copies, making it Capcom’s best-selling game of all time. He got his wish a few years after SFII launched, and during his early years at the company he witnessed yet another breakout hit with the original Resident Evil, which went on to spawn a massive entertainment franchise.įujioka eventually shifted his focus to the Monster Hunter franchise, which historically had been one of Japan’s biggest game series, but also one that failed to garner much global attention. It was this overwhelming success and cultural impact that made Kaname Fujioka want to work at Capcom. It dominated arcades and became a best-seller on home consoles like the Super Nintendo. In the early ‘90s, Street Fighter II was everywhere.
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