Monster Hunter World is that New Lifestyle Game You Need In Your Library

Social media has changed the way we look at basic communication and human interaction. Couple that with the fact that, generationally speaking, gamers devour content unfathomably fast, it was really only a matter of time before it altered our outlook on gaming as well as how gamers respond to this outlook, development-wise. “Lifestyle gaming” is becoming a term to describe games that sort of hardwire themselves into your routine. You play them regularly to keep up with the Joneses, you look for mythology surrounding the game, watch gameplay posts about it on YouTube and often form a community with other people who play the game. Destiny, for better or worse, has tried desperately to maintain its status as a lifestyle games despite a laundry list of problems and controversy. Honestly, Destiny is the way I bonded with a number of my fellow BNP writers. And now with Monster Hunter World, Capcom has taken its steampunk fantasy franchise to its next logical step for current gen consoles to create a uniquely insane experience that both fans of previous incarnations and newcomers looking for a lifestyle experience. The story is…well, there is a story somewhere in here. You’re a fledgling member of the “Commission”, an organization that hunts monsters great and small with large unwieldy weapons all while dressed vaguely like some cross between a Once Upon a Time cosplayer and any given member of GWAR. You are sent to join the Commission on a new continent where the ecosystem has be…