The Best Monster Hunter Game Isn't What You Think

[@pandre5458]

The best part of GU is seeing monsters jump into the stratosphere to move to another zone.

[@dragonslayer3552]

The monkeys are very guilty of this, especially congalala seeing this fat monkey just eject into the stratosphere to move into the zone that is 10 meters away

[@camil3545]

Old World Monsters didn't skip leg day

[@Sqweeshie]

*insert flying monkey*

[@Hambs23]

Congalala can barely run and jump properly in a fight, yet he yeets himself so freaking hard while screaming whenever he changes areas.

[@heyo8435]

Rajang got the invisible flying carpet

[@mokadelic4037]

The best monster hunter game is the one you liked the most.

[@TheMetalGaia]

Facts lol

[@KoongYe]

or the first one you played

[@Croyles]

@@KoongYe The first one I played was monster hunter 1 and i can categorically say that is not my favourite, actually made me quit the series until a few years later lol

[@sidcomegys4154]

​@@Croyles same. Bought mh1 and got to the gravious. I played the PSP one that brought in nargacouga. Hated the game flow of the series til generations.

[@benj4845]

@@KoongYe FUCK NO, MHFU is nostalgic but in no way is it the best. I'm not going back to the days of plesioth hip checks

[@ZectorV1]

>Says GU is the best>Opening statement is about a 4u map>4u sweep, cant stop winning

[@tflees]

I'll never stop glazing mh4u

[@sukiyomie]

@@tflees i love the game but damn wish they had the quality of life improvements from the later games. Its so annoying when im fighting monsters and another monster enters the zone, also sucks how every thing, everything just wants to kill you even when your in the middle of a battle with the main monster lol

[@JeanKP14]

@@sukiyomie ... Do you know what a dung bomb is? Even World makes you use them to save your ass in this scenario. Rise just messed up and made two monsters on the same screen rarely a threat.

[@ShokudaikiriMitsutada]

@@JeanKP14 I always eat the food that activates the potency of the dung bomb, since some monsters just take too long to leave the map, even if I use 3 dungs on them. With the food skill, just 1 is enough for it to leave. lol Damn, I really need to play 4U again with my friend again.

[@Sin_Alder]

@@sukiyomie Don't really care about that problem, never been much of a problem for me, but would absolutely love being able to hold a button to continue gathering, being able to move in any direction (rather than clunky 8-directional movement), not needing to bring picks and bug nets with me, and all multiplayer quests being tuned to the number of players participating. I was able to complete most of the multiplayer quests solo, but holy crap, at least if you run SnS (my preferred weapon), some of the later ones are nearly impossible just because you can't get your DPS high enough to kill within the time limit, no matter how aggressive you are. Otherwise, other than wishing it was on other systems, there's not much I'd change about 4U. My all time favorite.

[@captaint.tearex9279]

That thumbnail really be like, "Here y'all go again pitting two bad bitches against each other for no reason."

[@dudesayshi2191]

Two bad bitches and a 9/10

[@arulkws]

GU is the peak of the classic, the culmination of gen 1 through gen 4, you cannot say that classic is better than the modern one and vice versa, they are just different, the classics ends with generations ultimate, and they go out with a bang, the name itself "Generations Ultimate" is pretty fitting tbh Gen 5 and onward is the new era of Monster Hunter the natural evolution of the game i always think to myself that gen 5 onward is the spiritual successor to the classic era, if there's ever gonna be another new era of monster hunter in the future, i hope that the modern games can also give us a final game like GU

[@_ryju_]

I agree, however I really wish they would give us another classic styled MH game. The more arcadey Gen 5+ and slower paced, preparation-oriented artful Gen 1-4 can run in parallel. Something like mainline Pokemon games and the new Legends series.

[@shiro3146]

so if we clump game design as 1 game called "classic", Gen 5+ is a sequel to the classic?

[@dragonslayer3552]

13:58 that moment you get hit by plesioth so hard you just teleport to camp Also you didn't cover the most goofy and fun "weapon" in the game and that is the prowler playing as the cat to support and do some weird crazy attacks especially online is so much fun, not only that but prowler has SO MUCH customization its almost as much as the weapons themselves making it a weapon on its own

[@EnergyBurst2]

I said this in my own comment, but I see Prowler as a sort of unique Weapon and unique Style both rolled into one exclusive to MHGU.

[@fredrickwheeler6852]

And this isn't even 2nd gen plesioth who can hit you from 10 feet away lmao

[@dragonslayer3552]

@@fredrickwheeler6852 i know GU actually fixed plesioth hitboxes and kept the original hitbox as a wind pressure only "well 3u did too but GU did it better"... These are the FIXED hitboxes

[@PoisonSwampRS]

If the title has a "U" in it, it's a good Monster Hunter game. See: MHFU, MH3U, MH4U, MHGU.

[@Iminsideyourwalls99]

It is litteraly Monster hUnter

[@etherealequinox6590]

Monster Hunter WildsU

[@wetnoodlex]

It's literally just the DLC... FU

[@misantrope6267]

monster hunter wurld

[@abrahamwijaya6631]

Portable 3rd?😂

[@kwagmeijer26]

One of the other great lessons Great Maccao teaches is about "danger zones" or, zones around the monster you want to avoid being in because they can attack you faster than you can react and avoid. With Maccao, it's those little tiny kicks. They won't kill you, just be annoying enough for you to realize "shoot, I should stop being right in front of this guy". Another lesson is something that leads right into Valstrax, and that is stance changing. Maccao on its tail and on its feet has access to different attacks, and you can adjust your play style based on that. Similarly, Valstrax does different attacks based on whether its engines are faced forwards or backwards, and you can similarly approach him differently based on which stance he is in.

[@hotramen5936]

Idk how to tell you this broski, but not only is that not exclusive to old MH, its also not exclusive to monster hunter in general...

[@kwagmeijer26]

@@hotramen5936 ok, so?

[@JayceCH.]

@@hotramen5936 Fiver attempting to downplay old MH monster design will never get old. Tell me how the Great Jagras does this...oh wait you cant. Its a complete meat puppet.

[@hotramen5936]

@@JayceCH. who are these so called "fivers" that downplay old gen MH, take a second to think about what youre reading. My intent was not to downplay maccao, but to bring up the fact that this is something that so many other games, even those outside of the action rpg genre, teach. Please think straight and be more welcoming to newer players regardless of what their first MH game is instead of having a schizo moment over people who dont exist. said "fivers" would find all mh games fun if given the chance to experience them. Smart talk aside. Nah, great jagras wins 🚬💀

[@wetnoodlex]

@@JayceCH. Old gen attempting to shut down new generation players by saying one word will eventually die out because dead game lmao

[@Sirtrizz21]

GU was the reason I bought a Nintendo switch and was what got me into the franchise I love GU

[@mirageowl]

same here, I was looking into emulating the psp games when I thought to myself, wait is there a more modern version of this? At the time I didn't think my pc could handle World so I wrote it off completely and got myself a Switch and fell in love with the series once again..

[@shahrulnizam3209]

same

[@locoghoul]

SAME

[@duskyer]

I think Ahtal Ka can perfectly be summed like this. Style AND Substance. It's an absolute spectacle of a battle that's actually fantastic to play through. Without Iceborne, I honestly feel Base World suffered greatly from Style over Substance. 2 of the biggest fights in the game, Zorah Magdaros and Xenojiiva are just overgrown punching bags that are nice to look at.

[@Terminarch]

It absolutely doesn't require loading screens to get that perception of scale. Just a simple zoom-out fade-out as the character starts walking a path... then cinematically coming back in. Maybe a couple times with an intermediate zone looking down. Just like how thick vines / fast travel works in World, there's a cinematic entrance to the zone via wingdrake before you regain control. Also allows much more interesting terrain and set pieces when not everything needs to be walkable.

[@queenniamh]

What you're describing is a loading screen

[@JackDewarr]

@@queenniamh What he is describing is a loading screen disguised not to be. It is an aesthetic preference. Like the doors slowly opening in RE:1. Those are also loading screens. But they stylistically make the game way better.

[@phoenix-qr3ln]

That bit at the first part about Valstrax's nest height could be possible in rise, maybe through like a 20 second long massive great wire-bug pull, which would totally be badass.

[@Mr_Qwil]

SO glad someone finally decided to talk about how the limitations loading zones actually enhance the atmosphere of classic monhun maps. I love GU so, so much.

[@NineToFiveGamerUC0079]

One of the big reasons I'm glad that design is gone. It was terrible and immersion breaking not mention obnoxious.

[@MoXy69YT]

​@@NineToFiveGamerUC0079I remember played GU and just spend 10 minutes finding monster that keep flying through zones after painball effect is expired and that pissed me off like wtf. Also glad that is gone lol

[@UchuNoko]

@@NineToFiveGamerUC0079 You obviously didn't read the comment you replied to and didn't listen to the video....

[@jk966]

After hundred of hours in World and Rise, I have to say, I miss loading zones.

[@Pokemoki]

​@@NineToFiveGamerUC0079you are functionally illiterate

[@davidgeiger6447]

I am super happy that you mentioned how you felt about the map design and world building in the old games. I feel the same way for exactly the same reasons. It is the reason i fell I love with the monster hunter games. The world that is not fully shown but hinted at, for your to imagine.

[@lonradb]

4U is the best one imo, very cold take I know, but it’s just the most well rounded game overall. Didn’t experiment or introduce any crazy new concepts, just doubled down on what worked and greatly succeeded at it. I generally prefer GU for its combat, monster roster and map selection but it probably has the worst grind loops in the series. G-rank hypers don’t feel playtested. I feel like MHWI could have easily been the best if it had just streamlined less mechanics, avoided the live-service approach to prevent monster and weapon power creep and patch out the clutch claw/claggers entirely.

[@ushionation5127]

Strongly agree, I think 4U is the best balanced of any MH from roster, to story, to equipment, etc. The hardest content felt insanely hard (GQ 140 Shagaru Magala demolished me and my hunting buddies) but also completely doable with enough preparation and practice

[@The_Mewster69]

What do you mean it didn’t experiment or try any new concepts? 4U had a lot of new mechanics that weren’t seen in the series up until its release. Things like mounting, frenzy and apex monsters, GQ leveling system and even weapon augmentation was introduced in 4U so to say that it just stuck with what worked it doing it a disservice tbh.

[@lonradb]

@@The_Mewster69 Perhaps I should have clarified that it didn’t wholly revolutionise the real-time gameplay like previous games did. Mounting was like the biggest thing to come out of the game in that regard and I wouldn’t necessarily say that it shook up the formula as much as underwater, the slinger, or wirebugs did for their respective titles.

[@The_Mewster69]

@@lonradb Sure it didn’t revolutionize the series much in terms of combat or anything but it still introduced some major mechanics that pretty much have become staples since. The Frenzy/Apex mechanic is pretty much the reason we’ve had hypers, tempered, afflicted and whatever powered up state Wilds may introduce. This alone pretty much makes it one of the games in the franchise with a huge impact to how the rest of the series would develop and I think it’s important to keep in mind the effect of mechanisms like these and how they affect the game and not just weapon move set changes.

[@camil3545]

@@lonradb the way 4U played with elevation was pretty huge, it may not seem like a big deal for people now because of how standardized it's become, but the old Tigrex chase trailer (not the CG intro, but the old MH4 original trailer) depicted a level of player movement that seemed absurd for people only used to 3rd gen games.

[@vincentsissom4180]

I'm surprised you didn't bring up the even most unique thing about GU... You can play as your Palico, known as Prowler. I know people who would pick up MHGU just to play as a Kitty Cat. Otherwise, great video.

[@TornaitSuperBird]

The CrossCode music in the background though. I love it.

[@phatyoshi6733]

CROSSCODE FAN SPOTTED IN THE WILD! LETS GOOO!

[@meowspark9]

Fuck I couldn't recognize it, I was so distracted by the fact I couldn't recognize it that I wasn't even paying attention to the video. Can't believe I'm a fake fan

[@EnergyBurst2]

There's even a hidden "weapon+style combo rolled into one" that's only in MHGU, the playable Palico.

[@_Fizzy_1]

I gotta say, I love the theming of the first part of the video. The sense of wonder and imagination that some media evokes makes them feel so special. So many of my favorite games and books, either from my childhood or that I've experienced in recent years, activated that part of my brain and became so dear to me because of it. They're not just fun or moving but feel like they somehow transcend fiction . . . whatever that even means. and also hearing about the combat and monsters in these games makes me want to play Monster Hunter. Don't know if I ever will, but it sure seems so cool.

[@Londoniusthe3rd]

Another great thing that Great Maccao teaches new players is the value of breaking parts. If you break Great Maccao’s tail, he will fall over when he tries to balance on it later. I couldn’t agree more that it’s easily the best starting monster when it comes to teaching game mechanics.

[@Vexal50]

Another thing not mentioned that makes Maccao the best starting monster is that it teaches the player about sharpness the best. Even after an upgrade or two, you are very likely to dip into orange (or even red if you absolutely refuse to sharpen), and this even happens in the tutorial arena fights. Maccao also has parts that will bounce if you're at orange, something other starter monsters don't really do.

[@Hambs23]

I think Buldrome can make you bounce on his horns, but most of his body is belly and ass, and you're most likely NOT wanting to be in front of a Buldrome to begin with.

[@fredrickwheeler6852]

@@Hambs23 yeah, but bulldrome is also a monster that exists purely to haunt the nightmares of experienced hunters. Seriously, the thing is the definition of easy but frustrating. And they knew what they were doing on deviant quest 7 when they make you fight a bulldrome and the deviant in a small arena. Absolutely diabolical lmao. I haven't played generations in like 6 years, and somehow I still remember it was quest VII...

[@salley2559]

07:55 great maccao has better mechanics but great jaggi's aura is unmatched

[@flaviomolina7165]

im old enought o remember that people fucking hated generations on release

[@tonton.-]

And risebreak being hated on by people who started with world.. for some reason

[@thefanciesttortoise557]

With some people, it will always be that the one they started with is the best, and the newest one is the worst. And nothing can convince them of anything else

[@Adriiell]

I remember thinking it was too handholdy having the shakalaka helping you in mh tri. I had endless debates with my friends about it

[@CheeseOfMasters]

I thought it was very overloaded so I quickly returned to Iceborne but Imma give it a serious try some day.

[@TheKilaby]

One thing i really miss about GU as well is the 4 villages you visit, i really liked that i could set my home base between 4 diferent villages and that all 4 had different hunting areas and questlines asigned to them it basicly felt like 4 MH games in 1. Not to mention that the sheer number of 93 large monsters is the most we have ever seen in a monster hunter game. Sunbreak has 78 and iceborn has 71, which as a byproduct also caused a bigger variety of weaopons and designs. When i played World for the first time i of course really enjoyed it and had a lot of fun but i did miss a bit in variety of weapon designs.

[@ShmarveyXD]

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate is regarded to be the best 'old'-world Monster Hunter game, but Mhgu remains the more accessible one If it wasnt for the 3ds, I'd say Mh4u is way more beginner-friendly

[@MILDMONSTER1234]

3U better then both anyway lol

[@swaglink9142]

@@MILDMONSTER1234 3U better than 4U, that is always true. xd

[@blazingruin2975]

The simplicity of Tri and 3U is unmatched. They didn't need an elaborate story, nor need the biggest roster. Because Tri and 3U lack a fleshed out elaborate story, they remain more timeless than 4U as time goes on. MH is heading into a more story driven focus and as time goes on, players may want to return to a game where the story isn't "in your face"

[@swaglink9142]

@ like Generations ultimate, a lot of people is playing it now.

[@lazerrhino]

@@swaglink9142 I love 3U but i disagree. The verticality they add in 4U along with them adding insect glaive and charge blade make it better IMO.

[@Nehezir]

I took a completely new player with me along for a replay of MHGU over the last year. we've beaten the Mantis and are working on prep to take him through the fatalis trio. I bought it for him because I wanted him to experience pre-5th gen first and he's having a great time.

[@wasabilai9405]

Is it better than the newer games? Maybe not, but they are definitely comparable. GU is such a great game

[@rawdirt2022]

Yes yes it is

[@sarcirinsdaefarin3950]

Risebreak is 100/10 if GU is 10/10 Lets not talk about world.

[@wasabilai9405]

@@sarcirinsdaefarin3950 for you maybe

[@Ghostgate611]

​@@sarcirinsdaefarin3950 rise is far far too easy

[@sarcirinsdaefarin3950]

​@@Ghostgate611 Sunbreak > GU Wrong. GU is easy. Monsters are just slapped into the game without caring about clipping etc... its way too easy to just maneuver out of the way and straight up ignore attacks with Styles allowing special dodges or counters. Sunbreak is full of monsters who take a shit all over the deviants which I really love btw, they are some of my fav monsters. Hazard quests are 10,000x harder than deviants LOL and Special Investigations (anomaly) are a lot more engaging than the deviant grind. Rise even though its a base game, was more fun to grind than deviants as well, rampage weapons changed the MH base game because you could craft weapons. Deviant equipment sits in your box and never gets used. Rampage weapons get used a lot. I love the deviants, but the grind is booty. REengine, has allowed the devs to get a lot better at creating tighter hitboxes and monster skeletons, which means you the hunter, have to be a lot more precise with your timings. Even with counters etc... youre more limited than what styles allowed. Monsters AI is improved as well, GU doesnt even come close to Sunbreak, in terms of monsters reacting to you the hunter. Risebreak, was built from the ground up to improve the fluidity of combat, GU was just slapping monsters into a game to celebrate. Theres a massive difference between the two.

[@Aesieda]

At 4:55 when you said that's not why you play Monster Hunter when it comes to the unique imaginative zones, I personally would say that THAT is half the reason why I play Monster Hunter, because part of hunting is to step into the world of that monster, where it lives, so the way the maps are designed add to the personality of the monster and the surrounding habitats it inhabits. I've always loved the various set pieces that the maps of the old games provided. World and Rise have some good areas, but overall they don't come close to the classics.

[@magellan6439]

World by nature of having more detail allowed for a better immersion into a monsters habbitats. Like 4u is my favorite monster hunter game (followed by 3) but I can admit that rise and world are both just better. The hardware diff alone settles it

[@Aesieda]

@@magellan6439 World did good when it came to individual monster habitats, but because the areas you hunted in were conceptually smaller than the older ones, it felt like you were hunting the monster in a tiny part of a much bigger landscape than an actually massive hunting ground. The split areas with loading screens helped sell that idea for me in the older titles. Basically, it's impossible to replicate the feeling of climbing a giant mountain with seamless maps because everything has to be contained within walking distance.

[@joshuapaul1715]

Your discussion of the map design is something I've thought for years - and I'm thrilled to find someone who understands it the same way I do.

[@billycranston]

I NEVER had any want or interest in playing great sword until I played gu. I fell in love with aerial great sword, and have been chasing that fun factor ever since. The fast charges while in the air but also my favorite monsters' gear boosting the damage as well as every aspect of the build also helped.

[@TheMetalGaia]

YES dude Aerial GS was so damn fun!

[@reeheehee9615]

Fun is the key word. GU is just pure entertainment, it's not a bragging right challenge, it's a fun challenge. Aerial GS was so so easy and spammable, but god I miss it 😂

[@keldon_champion]

I think what makes GU so good especially if you played the older games was it is like a classic monster hunter mix tape of all the best that classic monster hunter has to offer then mix in that it had the most customizable play styles of any monster hunter game and had that elusive 15th weapon (RIP prowler) and you have a seriously great game that really is a love letter to all the OG hunters. It was the last hurrah of the classic monster hunter and it really did go out with a bang. All that said I do still love world and rise just the way they are.

[@_ryju_]

Ofcourse MHGU is peak Monster Hunter! Think about it, you need to carry hot and cold drinks with you to essentially survive the hunt. Need baits, bugnets and pickaxes, which you can also craft in the field. You can use paintballs to track the monster. Every action needs actual commitment, be it sharpening, gathering or drinking potions. The world is vibrant with a fantastic variety of monsters from the previous games. The armor and weapon designs are plentiful and distinct. This is worth owning a physical copy of so that you can play offline long after they remove it from the digital stores and even shut down the servers. This is an actual masterpiece!

[@_ryju_]

This is coming from someone who played Rise first, then Worlds and then GU, btw. I know I am fairly new to the series, but I want Capcom to understand that duming down doesn't necessarily create lasting appeal. There is merit in running the gauntlet of learning a difficult gameplay loop. And it is this rigor and difficulty that retains the audience in the first place. That and good, innovative, unique gameplay design and atmosphere.

[@danthornley2210]

​@@_ryju_respectfully disagree. The later games took out a lot of the management issues not to "dumb it down," but because the "difficulty" it adds isn't real, it's just disrespectful of people's time. It's not "difficult" to drink a hot drink. It's not "difficult" to have to carry bugnets and "limited" whetstones. It's not "difficult" to spend 10 minutes running from zone to zone looking for the monster because the paint wore off. It's not "difficult" to gear down specifically for gather missions because you don't gave inventory space if you're properly geared for an actual fight. It's not "difficult" to go into a dumb quest and end because your food skill didn't trigger. All of these things only waste your time, they do not make the core gameplay - hunting monsters - any more difficult. I like this game. Started with Tri, and played every game since. Really like this game's actual gameplay modification by Hunting styles and Arts. But I always recognized that the whole "preparedness" and simply having the right juice in your inventory aspect always was a waste of time.

[@_ryju_]

@@danthornley2210 To each their own. But, in my books every one of the things you listed counts towards difficulty. Inventory management takes thought and time, hence it adds to an extra layer. If you break actions down, then only spacing, movement and timed attacks and dodges counts as difficulty, however in my books that term encompasses a lot more than you are giving it credit for. In a game of starcraft, if you break down each of the actions, then building barracks is not difficult, neither is so-called tediously assigning workers to collect minerals and gas, however keeping all of the layers in mind and doing them in the right order and at the right moment is what makes it the hardest multiplayer game till date IMO. That is what APMs are all about. Diablo 3 simplified inventory management by having all of them take up the same space, which made it a worse game and a more arcade oriented game and is also the reason why most people agree D2 was the best Diablo. Thankfully, Path of Exile carried that torch into the future generations. A bunch of seemingly simple actions taken at the same time is the crux of a strategy game. A hunt was a strategic art, and I preferred it that way. Now, it has become an arcade boss rush unfortunately.

[@_ryju_]

@@danthornley2210The hunter has to think ahead and stock up on whetstones, he has to be mindful that it has a been a while and he should probably top up the paintball. He has to carry bugnets and pickaxes to gather things and more importantly sacrifice movement and being able to defend while collecting resources. It is a conscious sacrifice/compromise which breeds a sense of commitment to the actions which adds a tactical layer. I really thought the drinks added a much-needed layer of immersion and difficulty as well! And tactical forethought is absoltely considered as difficulty in videogames!! Think of having a perfect loadout in a SWAT game, would you not count that as difficulty? Having a good loadout in an Ace Combat game, would that not count towards complexity and hence difficulty? Buying the correct items in a MOBA game? Having the correct build order in a RTS? You can argue that it is tedious, but in the same vein anything except for raw attacking can be labelled as tedious. A person who likes on-rails shooters would call Call of Duty tedious since you have to move there as well!

[@_ryju_]

@@danthornley2210 Still, I absolutely understand where you are coming from. I think they can address this by adding a "legacy" or a "realistic" difficulty option in the games, where the base form would have the more action oriented straight-to-the-point gameplay and one can opt for the slower prepared approach. I think that would be really good use of difficulty options, even though I am really against fake difficulties in other video games. Appreciate your reply!

[@StartouchArts]

Nakarkos truly is one of the most brilliant monsters ever made. It does the EXACT same thing that we hunters do. It hunts other monsters, and uses their parts to create new weapons for itself; so it can hunt ever larger and ever stronger prey to gain newer, stronger weapons. I love it so much.

[@pavro_w0t719]

Making the maps divided into loading screens creates the feeling of a much bigger world, ironically. You can let to your imagination the time it takes for the hunter to move into each area, and the distance too. The deserted island feels way smaller in Sunbreak than in the classic games, everything is so crammed.

[@sonicguy1996]

Sunbreak in general feels small. World is the only MH game where everything actually truly feels to scale. The weapons, the monsters, the local, the hub. It's genuinely perfect!!

[@magellan6439]

Loading screens also suck. Especially when your hit through one mid fight and must now go through 2 just to get back. Let alone chasing a flying monster, so many screens

[@akumunokami9]

What I enjoy the most about Hunting styles is that Adept and Valor style enable a switchaxe playstyle where I don't use sword mode, which I appreciate because Gore Magalas Switchaxe in Axe mode is objectively the best designed weapon and kinda my signature weapon.

[@saulitix]

I think that we can still recreate that feeling of distance or height in the new MHs. Take for example Elden Ring: you can technically see the Mountain Tops of the Giants from Limgrave, the very first area, but only its cliff. Then, once you are there, the change in the skybox an the sea of clouds below make it seem like you are in a higher area.

[@hive_of_bees]

Its definitely possible but not in world or rise, the advantage that elden ring has is that its an enormous open world

[@elizabethhicks4181]

@@hive_of_bees I'm interested to see if Wilds is some kind of wild (ha) hybrid fusion of World/Rise's style and the Old Style of the games. The map that we've seen so far seems more open, more vast and varied and interesting, but I'm concerned that certain landmarks that we can see (Like the funny stone circle that gets shown off a lot) won't be areas we can actually go to. The Seikret being so woven into the game as a core feature unlike the Motor Bike Doggos also seems interesting, like the vibe could be a lot more... wild (ha) west-y, and the last time we had that was Monster Hunter 4/4G, so I'm excited to see Wilds and I hope the team takes all the time they need to make it as good as they can.

[@unseenhues]

This level of glaze for MHGU is entirely deserved. 4U was my first love and i was honestly overwhelmed with the amount of stuff they shoved into GU, but you couldnt be more right with this video. Its a love letter to the first 15 years of the series. Loved the in depth analysis. Excellent video, sir.

[@mima_is_missing]

I honestly think 4U is the best, GU is great and all but i feel it's a game for veterans of the series, it has the largest number of monsters but no context for them. In 4U not only is it a great way to experience the way the old games but is has without question imo the best story telling. I also think 4U has an easy low rank but a very challenging end game which again i think is great for new comers. I do however agree GU has by far the most combat options

[@ZefoniusLinestraf]

Irónicaly 4u was my first and wowy it made me think twice on thinking i was going to get another button mashy game nah hear you think before you act and the challange was amazing but generations últimate let me enjoy old monsters i could not fight because of old hardware i couldnt get back then

[@SPKRoach]

I think World and Rise are an in-between point for the franchise. It’s the size of the old maps, without the loading zones, which make them feel smaller in a way. But I think Wilds will have big enough maps that bring back that massive scale feeling the old games give off, without having to take advantage of loading screens. They will just actually be THAT big. Between the gameplay we’ve been shown, and the addition of mounts, I think it will straight up be that big. Might just be hopium though.

[@lchn12345678]

i would play this game if it had better QoL, i love the fact that it has so many monsters in it

[@daboikeyle1093]

Generations was my introduction to the series as a whole. I will never forget my brother handing me that 3DS and that cinematic showing off the monsters that I’d soon be facing just for their armor. If only I could find that 3DS now.

[@magiv7573]

I LOVE MHGU GRAAAAHHHH 2K HOURS AND STILL GOING BABY

[@TheMetalGaia]

And hey you can still play it online! Sadly 4U is done 😢

[@tmbfreak_16]

After 600 hours in World and close to 200 in Rise, the change in speed has been extremely jarring and difficult to adjust to, but I'm into Village rank 5 and Hub rank 2 and I'm starting to get it. Adept greatsword is my crutch, but onward we go!

[@Shane-sf9pv]

I finally got into monster hunter and playing through rise right now, but I picked up GU on the switch for 10 bucks. Can't wait to try this game

[@fishbones3650]

I think it isn't just the Great Maccao that did it, Everytime Zinogre charges you can always disrupt it

[@gustavovm491]

I saw a video of someone knocking down Valstrax from a jet charge with the gunlance flare art.

[@Cumbernumb]

Dunno man sounds a lot like nostalgia. Although not to the same extend as vortex pinnacle both the ancient forest and the coral highlands have a similar journey of being able to journey from the very underbrush and lowest point in the map to the very top of the ancient forest main tree where Rathalos nest is as well as the Coral Highlands where you also ascend above the clouds to meet elder dragons such as Kirin. Although it’s not as extreme the journey is still there and I think with Wilds this’ll be even further exemplified with larger maps that can convey the type of distance travelled with the older games. U say the journey is inconvenient and may take a while but doesn’t that add to the experience of being a hunter tracking down a monster? I think it’d be way cooler if the vortex pinnacle didn’t have a loading screen and getting to the top was a challenge in itself

[@magellan6439]

THIS! Loading screens take out so much of the thunder. Getting smacked out of a zone mid fight always frustrated me. And finding the monster for the first hunt was a nightmare

[@JunkboxSP]

I stopped playing GU early into high rank back in 2018 just cause I burnt myself out. Got into World recently, and have been pressing into Freedom Unite when I can't play World... But this video reminds me that I really ought to get back onto GU. Thanks man!

[@yozu365]

Welcome back, mhswoocer! Always loved watching your videos with a coffee and some toast and beans on a nice Saturday morning.

[@hardt_bread]

Striker Switch Axe gotta be my fav way to play any monster hunter game, mostly because of one specific monster. Thunderlord (especially the EX version) Slotting in EE lets you side step almost all of his moves and also mostly gets rid of your weak defenses and it often gives you massive punish windows. Personally I feel like it is the pinnacle of old school monster hunting.

[@dragold456]

Shout out to all my prowler mains yall a different breed of skill

[@GKnight3553]

Big shout out to frontier for serving as the mixing pot and testing ground for a lot of these incredible changes the series adopted 🫡 Still miss my Extreme style and energy blade mode for swaxe tho. Saw a little reference in Wilds, hoping to see much more in the future

[@izzydarkhart4144]

Honestly, I just love that Capcom builds so much importance in games being unique. Each game in the series has a completely unique experience and a reason to go back to it again and again. There is only one generation, 1 world, and 1 rise. Sequels are special in this series because they do not just replace what came before it, and they are one of a kinda. I can see myself going back to generations in 10 years because it is the only game that feels like generations and the same for the other titles. That is something that is rare in modern gaming

[@imhaddanitattaxx4172]

The little subscribe pop up when you said "concealing what's waiting for you" got a laugh and a subscribe from me lol

[@elijahmauer8853]

I’m very new to Monster Hunter, and everything from the combat, exploration and design, to the fan base all being so passion and inclusive has just pumped me up to play all of these games. I started with Rise, which it was on a major sale with the expansion pack, but I cant wait to play GU and World, they both look stunning

[@mhswoocer]

Every single MH game I've played has been an absolute joy to experience, so I hope you have a lot of fun with the rest!

[@ZEEMenace]

Explain to me whats the point of monster hunter because it sounds fo fuuuuun...and can you jusy fight monsters with friends after beating the campaigne?

[@mhswoocer]

I hope this explains it well enough but if not, I'll pin this comment so other people can chime in! So you can actually play with friends from the very start! It's a bit more streamlined in world and rise but you can play through the whole game solo or multiplayer if you want. As for what kind of game it is, you could think of it sort of like a boss rush? Basically you start off in the village, chose one of 14 weapons, then go out to hunt a monster in these maps that are separated into a few zones. Fighting the monsters gives you materials to upgrade your weapons and armor. The game is all about learning the monster's attack patterns and the capabilities of your weapon while gradually getting stronger and fighting bigger and stronger monsters.

[@WilczukPL]

If you never played a MH title, i'd recommend MH: World, then go for Iceborne expansion.

[@bonelessman56]

Gameplay wise is almost similar to the souls games but the bosses take a lot longer to kill and feel like actual animals (most of the times) the game atmosphere is very light-hearted but not childish, it's a very chill fun game to play with friends after school or work, you go hunt a few monsters all together for that armour or weapon you want to craft or upgrade with the"monsters parts" and it can be a fun easy experience or a challenging one depending on the monster you are hunting, real fun If you want a game with good graphics and nice fights go for monster hunter world If you like more fast paced gameplay and would like to fight a ton of monsters from the older games but reworked for the newer games get monster hunter rise One small nitpick is that both games are astronomically better with their respective DLC because they add a ton of content and harder but more enjoyable fights

[@sorinsilverheart3200]

You fight monsters and turn their entrails into funny hats. You dont need to do much to play with your friends either, usually being avaliable from the start. Its recommended you at least finish the low rank village to unlock key fetures like farms to grow more gathering material for healing and support items.

[@Nekro_Knight]

@@bonelessman56 Actually in some ways MH combat is a complete 180 to souls combat.

[@SheutDL]

Seeing someone play alchemy without any sp arts hurts my soul the stronger sp levels from alchemy are so useful

[@awakenedcrowl]

Gotta agree: Ahtal-Ka is easily one of the best, if not THE best battle in the entire series. Never thought a small gold bug could make for such an unforgettable battle.

[@benj4845]

For me, its a bit generic but fatalis from mhwi was probably my favorite. He's a generic evil black dragon, but his fight is just so iconic. When I first pulled the dragonator and heard proof of a hero, I had a full smile on my face.

[@awakenedcrowl]

@@benj4845 Iceborne Fatalis sure was a near perfect challenge. Fair, but difficult as heck

[@theunknowman12]

Yup athal ka is the best final boss on MH series. The feeling of discovering why is this tiny golden bug is called "a walking fortess" is something amazing

[@monsterhuntermario4263]

One of the most fun gaming evenings i ever had with friends was using an RNG generator to select which monster, weapon class and weapon style we choose. The pure chaos that resulted in having to adapt to new combinations you have never considered trying out was so unique. The highlights were 4 hunting horns trying to subdue an EX snowbaron lagombi or counting the laser beams of a bolt reaver while everyone was running for their life xD

[@TowerBooks3192]

My only wish for a future title is for them to release monster hunter XXX / Generation Ultimate Final Challengers Hyper Fighting where they add a rank after G-rank called H-rank and they will add weapon transmog, the missing subspecies for the monsters and also the monsters from MH frontier.

[@neodintchly]

look on rule 34, you will find monster hunter XXX and H-rank

[@mikelapine1]

I’ve been playing some GU lately while waiting for wilds and as much as I like the older generations of the games there are a ton of things that I don’t miss about them that I’m encountering a lot. Those zone lines are one of them.

[@Bob-jh6xt]

I love the MH series, but World just feels like it's on a whole other level, and my favorite part of it has got to be the environment. The older games had some cool enviromental interactions, but it wasn't anything crazy, but in World, you just stop and look around for a sec, and boom! You see that wall covered in fungi? Why don't you run up that and do an air attack! Or oh, that pile of stones on the ground? Pick em up and use the clutch claw to fire the monster into a wall! Those poisonous plants? Use them to poison the monster! Maybe try and lead two monsters together for a turf war! The list goes on! It is worth noting the only MH games I have actually played and beaten are 4U, GU and World, though I played 4U and GU when I was way younger so I might not remember just how good they could be.

[@magellan6439]

This! World has its issues but to honestly say a 3ds game is strictly better is just lying to yourself. You can like a game more but still understand that another game is an improvement

[@TaqSoto]

What makes GU my favorite monster hunter is hunting styles. I've been screaming and begging for those to come back. It made it feel like you had 84 different weapons. The variety and customization were crazy. Even if you didnt like something about a weapon, there was probably a style that fixed it and made it fun. I never liked ranged weapons, but in GU, I ended up playing valor HBG. I loved the power run, which made the weapon feel way more mobile which was my biggest problem with HBG, as well as the crouching fire. I wish they'd bring back in a new monster hunter. I need them to bring GU to pc or at least playstation and xbox so more people can get a chance to play it. I dont want this game to end up being lost to time.

[@EphemeralPseudonym]

valor hh was AWESOME, i hate modern hh so much wtf is it doing

[@GowSlay]

The goat is back 🥺

[@kqwan9971]

holy shit i knew mh was super vast but not to this extent, the vibes from the top of ruined pinnacle are pretty mindblowing and might be one of the coolest things i've seen from mh in general, and wtf ahtal-ka's segment completely blew me away LOL phase 2 of the fight being that it....digs up A MECH THAT WAS BURIED BENEATH THE SAND AND STARTS PILOTING IT?? that's just insane. really dope video full of some insightful stuff mr swoocer 😌

[@illusion3065]

clickbait, the real best monster hunter is the one with mrbeast in it

[@zerozone5848]

"mist or beast"

[@lonradb]

beastiality!

[@Golden12500]

​@@zerozone5848 Try fingers, but hole

[@electronicbudder6047]

​@@Golden12500 I love this reference

[@colehamrick6252]

Mr beast is kind of an asshole from what I’ve seen of his current controversy

[@ShokudaikiriMitsutada]

Your video just got me hyped to go back to XX and 4U. I'm finally going to edit my short video of Brimstone Slash III on a flying Rathian. That was a really epic clip. haha Ty for the upload man!

[@metroidcypher]

OMFG thank you!!! Ive been saying this for years about how the maps where better when they had loading screens. Moderns maps feel small compared to older titles, like how the forest in world all takes place at the base of a giant tree. In older titles maybe 2 or 3 zones would take place right next to each other with the rest of the zones showing of more distant locations of the biome.

[@crunchysteam]

I’m not usually one for objective videos that seem drawn by bias, but this one is more of a song to an old time, it was a great presentation of something I never got to experience

[@808pitfallseed]

The biggest issue with world ai vs old ai that gets really annoying when you notice it is 5th gen monsters run away from you just to do ranged attacks which totally makes the pace annoying because you have to go run up to them instead of them just using it point blank still or only whipping it out at the correct range already. Its not like this is for realism either since any projectile would do more damage point blank or close to it then with time for energy to fall off anyway

[@JayceCH.]

Its also like that in 5th gen when you mount them. The monster fucking bolts lmao.

[@Ar0474]

As much as i really do love World and Rise, GU honestly is my favorite MH game! Its the ultimate goodbye to the old world, and has all the most nostalgic villages! I love the entire idea of the Wycademy as well, i really wish we'd get a port on all modern platforms!!

[@KyloB]

I loved GU, but honestly Rise and sunbreak felt like a sequel to Generations Ultimate, and took everything I loved from that game and improved on it.

[@Omega0101000]

I started with freedom united and something I hate to see disappear is the amount of weapons and armor as well as the high rank variants and the visual change when upgrading them. P.d: Sorry for my bad English

[@-nexusxv-8514]

NAHHHHHHH definitely RISE for me

[@nicholasjacobson3712]

Baby game for babies. Old MH is where the real fun and challenge is

[@-nexusxv-8514]

@nicholasjacobson3712 but but I like doing cool flips, counter and attacks in the new MH

[@nicholasjacobson3712]

@@-nexusxv-8514 ok I respect that. Sorry for calling you a baby who liked baby games.

[@360noscope]

I’m so glad I decided to get into MH with MH4U even when World was already around, I had so much fun, maybe I’ll just start a new character again, having a hard time trying to enjoy World doe

[@Lonelysandman]

You forgot about prowler

[@Majishin-s]

GU was my first monster hunter game and I thought it looked so cool in well, EVERYTHING. I went in blind and it took me a few years to beat the solo base game lmaoo. Now I'm a bit caught up in MH3U-Rise lol

[@TakumiJoyconBoyz]

Generations Ultimate almost made me quit the franchise after playing since Freedom Unite. I really disagree with a lot of the changes relating to weapons and the additional skills.

[@ShupMup]

Curious what you think of the new games then

[@TakumiJoyconBoyz]

@@ShupMup I still have a lot of issues with the new ones but I feel like they at least tried to balance the enemies around those changes.

[@magellan6439]

​@@TakumiJoyconBoyzthis. I keep hearing the rise is super easy because of all the movement options. But like, most of the monsters have moves that force you to use those options or get rekt.

[@gaijinkuri684]

I like all the monster hunter games. They all have a different appeal and I still go back and play the first games on my PSP as well as some of the more recent games on my 3DS.

[@Sir_Horde]

The biggest reason why world was / is the most selled mh game is "Noobfriendly changes" I played every MH game on PSP, 3DS and XBox / PC. I have easy over 20k hrs in the series. I started World 2018 and noticed something immediately... The game is easy af. I am not joking. You want combine something? Ok no fails at all. You need some ores? You have a pickaxe everytime without losing a slot. You run out of potions? I got you bro! Just return to camp! You understand what I mean? I hope. The feeling of running out of potions was insane. If u kill your arch enemy after running out was such a extremly nice feeling. I remember a lot of hunts like this. Kushala, first time, running out of potions, running around the map to get some new stuff back and then killing him. The feeling was INSANE! World never ever gife me such "release" feelings. Imagine a World / Rise player fighting the old Freedom Unite Fatalis xD They already complain about him being to strong in world. Yeah... My guy try to kill him without going back and restock your stuff! Kill him with hard limited slots! Prepare for a win or lose fight! If someone says "I am a good player! I killed Fatalis solo!" I immediately ask "In the old games?" if they say "In World / Rise (maybe Wilds later)" I start laughing. Sorry not sorry but this Fatalis is easy and not hard at all. If u have a big ego because of killing Fatalis in this games I will bring you down to reality. But if you are just a nice guy / women I will say nothing and will not laugh. I had a lot of this situations and I will never change my mind. Fatalis solo in the new games means not that you are a good player. Or in other words "Not such a good player that you can have an ego bigger than Mount Everest"

[@White_Tiger93]

Agree! I had a dream 10 years ago way back that would it be amazing to have a Monster Hunter with World graphics fidelity, more moveset for every weapons available without changing its core too much and with old gen armor skills system that was already perfect. I'm not against changes and gimmick mechanic, but when you changed it too much for example Hunting Horn in MHRise is so awful when compared to already perfected Hunting Horn in MHWorld, its just left you a bad taste for older fans like me. Now fast forward to MHWilds, having experience the beta myself, some changes I didn't like; high requirement hardware on photorealistic bullshit graphics, bowgun basic ammo being infinite (not Normal S lvl1) and bow coatings being ability cooldown like mmo.

[@FawazAnimates]

What about the low level players who kill Barroth in MH3 tri without heal potions

[@Sir_Horde]

@FawazAnimates I never meet someone flexing in a Barroth xD If you want to come this way... I killed Tigrex in Freedom 2 without potions left. I had to heal in bed. More than once. I faced a lot of hunts like this

[@esserecreativi1118]

@@Sir_HordeI remember in FU I failed monoblos hunt because my hunter was starving and I made no preparations for that.

[@esserecreativi1118]

@@White_Tiger93I don’t like the sound of what they’ve done to the bow

[@XicorVT]

i actully just started GU its so much fun compare to world and rise and even older game i love the styles you can use i hope we get Monster Hunter GU 2 for all consoles in the future

[@soratheorangejuicemascot5809]

5:30 wrong!!! The Great Jaggi is the best starting monster of all time.

[@snowcloudshinobi]

this. great maccao is an unpredictable, frustrating mess that deals way too much damage way too quickly, while great jaggi eases the player into the flow of combat.

[@rogue_0314]

​@@snowcloudshinobigreat Maccao is more predictable than great jaggi because of its extremely obvious telegraphs, and doesn't do that much more damage than great jaggi. I do prefer great jaggi, but your claims aren't objective at all. Perhaps the more erratic movement of the great Maccao makes it less predictable to you, and the "too much damage too quickly" thing is really only the case before you learn its tells, which is the same for every monster ever. But yeah great jaggi is still better, and I dont know why I think that but I like it more.

[@snowcloudshinobi]

@@rogue_0314 blatant lies but ok buddy

[@Adriiell]

@@snowcloudshinobiyou are both wrong it’s velocidrome git gud

[@ChompDude]

I hope one day they either remake or port MH4U to the Switch/PC. I want to replay it again but I remember not loving having to play it on the DS. With the footage side by side, I feel more confident in saying I prefer the lighting and color of the older games. Monsters are more vibrant and pop out more, things are a bit crispier. I hate the blurry dirt brown filter that World introduced. Worse yet alot of the footage of Wilds seemingly has the same issue.

[@orochi_08]

as a 4U player, my main issue with modern gen is how much different *all* of the design style is. since they can make high poly, ultra detailed monsters, all of world had really overdesigned monsters compared to traditional designs. But the charm of MH for me was that they were built cartoony and rugged. the more HD they become the more fragile and dainty as well, which really takes away from the vibe like the generic orchestral music and uncompressed sound design. clunky combat, and systems of inconvenience like manual crafting, finite whetstones, hot and cold drinks, etc are some more reason why i prefer old rather than new, it forces you to pay attention, develop more skills, make sacrifices. The old games were about being a hunter, where modern gen MH is like being a soldier, which is not what i had hoped for. it looks like the classic design style is gone forever which is really saddening because its like my favorite franchise suddenly turned into something completely different. and there is no hope for anything to change due to how popular convenience and realistic graphics has gotten MH. its really hard for me to understand why people prefer the realistic graphics for MH when the lowres textures looked perfect and fit the rugged vibe like the tribal style UI or people speaking in grunts like cavemen instead of the unimaginative coherent speech in modern gen. the low poly models made for solid and compact designs that didnt have small but overdetailed features like anjanath's nose thing or tobi's bland body frame contrasted by its overdetailed quills and fur. modern gen to this day is still unrecognizable to me, its hard (for me) to see the new games as anything more than your average action game with MH combat and occasional monsters from MH thrown in. its like if Angkor Wat was demolished and renovated with different materials and less decorative architecture. yes its more advanced, but besides technology, its only an upgrade if you didnt care for what was. yes i will compare MH4U to a UNESCO world heritage site

[@lucianoballista7412]

Agree, and i think it all started going downhill with MHG hunter arts.

[@achatmaster95]

Never wanted to try out a monster hunter game more than after having watched this video - feels good to be able to enjoy a new video you dropped with a coffee and some toast and beans on a nice Saturday morning again!

[@JeanKP14]

I definitely would not suggest GenU as a first, World or Rise would be better

[@Silver-tb7hf]

Ok I haven't watched the vid yet but MH4U is the best monster hunter game, and nothing can change my mind.

[@thefraser5131]

Honestly starting from World and experiencing the series for the first time all the way back to FU was such a trip, 4U has to be my favorite. I wish these older titles would be remastered, as I felt a sense of nostalgia for these games that I never played. I love wilds and was taken away by it, I had a great time with the demo, but it still doesnt quite scratch that "itch" that I have for the older style of games. Hopefully, fan servers will be up sometime for the 3ds titles, I'll finally bother to mod my 3ds when that happens for sure.

[@Clever_Calcifer]

ayo I had to stop the vid 5:30 min in cuz I HAD TO GIVE A SUB TO A FELLOW GREAT MACCAO ENJOYER! dude from its theme, design, move set and lastly its armor and weapons, I can not stress this enough but there will never be a starter monster as perfect as THE GREAT MACCAO! here you'd earned a sub and a like and so I wish you a prosperous life my fellow brethren.

[@xardnaslp3171]

Giving access to 3 hunter arts and faster charging isn't the only thing striker style does, it also makes the moveset A LOT simpler, though on some weapons that change is barely there while others feel like you crippled them

[@sleepymilk4599]

Immagine a modern, divided by zones with the quickest load screens, with rise fluid control responses, with mhgu level arstyle designs (when those flamingos flew in front of my screen i gasped) mh game.Literally a dream.

[@snowcloudshinobi]

primal forest is actually from mh4

[@magellan6439]

I actually don't want zones to come back. Their awful. And definitely make the games easier. Like zone hopping to heal and re-apply buffs is so much more lame than riding the dog in rise.

[@BeansEnjoyer911]

The fact that Generations can compete with Rise/World (albeit for different reasons) is just a total win. I really feel like every game since Tri has been extremely playable/enjoyable. (Not saying the first two games in the series aren’t good.. just that they are really hard to play/enjoy.)

[@mhswoocer]

I say this all the time but I really think all of these games are great. My personal favorite is Rise right now, but if somebody made a list of their top 5 and rise was at the bottom, I couldn't even be mad since they're all just so good LMAO

[@KarennaJP]

Babe wake up mhswoocer just dropped a video Joke aside, welcome back sir!

[@Majishin-s]

Between the styles Adapt is sooo fun. On some hunts you are just repeatedly making god tier dodges and making beautiful counters. It's definitely the cool kid in the friend group lol

[@quinnhurst3472]

Real talk? I think Dos is the best game in terms of immerson, FU in terms of difficulty and git goodness, GU for contents, World for attention to detail, and Rise for combat. The only bad monster hunter game is a cancelled monster hunter game. MH1 is good but its more of an all around in stead of a specific strength

[@765craven4]

As someone who started the series with Tri I agree that individual entries have their strengths, but I genuinely don't find MH1 playable. Between the uncomfortable controls and the frankly frustrating aspects of old school design I can't do MH1. Freedom 1, to me, feels like a complete version of MH1 where it's more approachable. Better controls, a balanced farm that cuts down on some of the insane resource grind MH1 and G are notorious for without being broken like the modern farm, and more. SnS is kinda broken in Freedom 1 though. Generations Ultimate imo just has way too much content. It almost feels like Frontier in that way, where there is so much stuff that it can be overwhelming. Freedom Unite, at least in my opinion, strikes a good balance. There is a lot of content but it's more gradually introduced so you don't feel overwhelmed. And I personally don't find Freedom Unite to be particularly challenging until G Rank, but I also played solo Bowgun which tbf kind of trivializes most of the Elder quests, and until late in High Rank in Guild. 9 Flame shots to kill a Low Rank Gypceros with Low Rank gear lmao.

[@JeanKP14]

@@765craven4 As someone who adjusted to the controls in Dos, you get used to them. It honestly feels weirdly satisfying for attacks to be on the stick, you can see their vision. I haven't played 1 yet but 2 is incredibly immsersive in the town building and SUPER difficult, way harder feeling than FU even in Low Rank but it makes triumph feel all the better. The portable games are totally different games from the games they are drawn from and you miss out on certain aspects.

[@JeanKP14]

Honestly, as much as I enjoy FU, a lot of the difficulty IS artificial. There is no "get good" ness about how ridiculous chip damage from tails is, etc. But it's still a great game. I do agree about Dos, and I honestly feel like it's a better game than FU after playing through village.

[@765craven4]

@@JeanKP14 A big part of old school MH was more about learning to position so you're never in the path of an attack, or to block it, rather than dodge through them. I think Khezu is a great example of that, and tries to teach that lesson since melee players literally just can't stay near it for very long due to the tail spin and lightning. Tigrex is a much harder version of Khezu in that way, where weapons without a shield can't challenge a lot of his moves, making positioning super important against him.

[@JeanKP14]

@@765craven4 Oh yeah, I know. I started with Tri, then went back to FU and learned that the very hard way. And now I've played Dos' village, and believe me the small monsters in FU are nothing compared to LOW RANK in Dos. There are so many. The PSP can't handle that many. They are like G rank aggressive in LR. It's insane LOL. But it teaches you to clear the screen out of small monsters before you even think of trying to hit the large monster that's going to two-hit KO you. Tigrex I actually learned to love with GS. I don't feel comfortable with really any other weapon with him in any game. He enjoys turning into triple charges like an idiot and getting staggered. It's risky and scary, but hilariously not actually dangerous with practice unlike a lot of other weapons where you will just get hit for daring to attack him

[@mentlegen3887]

My absolute FAVORITE thing about this games aesthetic is the fantastical and almost otherworldly presentation of normal environments! 8:16 showcases this but i think its wonderful that instead of simply creating a typical and believable set of environmental backgrounds they chose to make incredibly imposing and painting like environments for the player to gaze into, supporting this feeling that whilst the hunters and villages have learned to live in this world and even command some of the elements of it, at the end of the day, the natural environment they live in is still utterly frightening, awe-inspiring and indifferent to those that do not command its respect (lest we get more unusually malicious monsters like fatalis and Amatsu spawning every century). Following that is the way it feels to deal with these monsters. World to some extent manages to achieve this quite well (and unfortunately its lost completely in rise) but GU's monster encounters feel exciting and tense because of the balance of the items, weapon arts and styles. Granted the game starts to be a kind of silly with the late game monsters, some of the Hyper fights and the deviants (i WILL ERADICATE EVERY SILVERWIND NARGACUGA EVEN IF THE GUILD TRIES TO STOP ME), but i like it more when the fight feels in the monsters favor - when the impression of being on their home turf is supported - that my survival is incredibly dependent on my experience and understanding of its biology, environment and my ability to adapt to whatever comes my way. RAAAAGH ONE MORE THING! The sound design is IMMACULATE and is a slightly underrated aspect of world and th 4th generation games. Hitting a monster with a giant hunk of metal has never felt so good.

[@BlaizeTheDragon]

The push for "realistic" sounds effects always annoyed me. The quiet "tink" sound when mining doesn't feel as satisfying as the metallic bang in the older games.

[@mentlegen3887]

@@BlaizeTheDragon theres a reason why the base experience of playing a lot of indie games can feel so special, the sounds prioritise emotion and immediate association over realism! This is in part due to the lower budgets and time available to smaller game dev companies but it works in their favour! Ah theres a really good video about this topic I will link it when I find it again.

[@CalamityCallie]

It always makes me a little sad to have to place GU as my least favorite monster hunter game but while I could list off all sorts of minor reasons for that (deviant system, hypers, my personal dislike for styles) what it really comes down to is its the first old style game I played, and god damn is it a terrible introduction to that. I wasn't really able to appreciate it until playing 3u and 4u and revisiting it. I do find it fun to play now but once I get to and beat ahtal-ka I dont know that I'll ever open it up again

[@mhswoocer]

I'm a pretty strong supporter of the idea that games are extremely subjective and that it's totally fine if two people have entirely different views on the same game. I think because games are inherently supposed to be fun, you should just play the ones you like! (that said, I don't blame you, I've got my fair share of issues with GU too lol)

[@duncanrogers1169]

Babe wake up, new mhswoocer vid dropped

[@sc4334]

Realism in gaming always makes it worse imo. There’s a reason we love video games.. it’s because they’re NOT real life. This video explains why that makes video games like GU more inherently interesting to our brains over something like World once it really sets in.

[@magellan6439]

Meh. I'm personally more partial to the more grounded monsters. The really out of this world mystical ones always stood out really hard. Love gu but 4u was definitely better to me

[@BlaizeTheDragon]

We will never see monsters like ahtlal Ka or dalamadur anymore and that upsets me

[@maxwellboop]

Well, most OG monster hunter fans have the same answer of why generation ultimate is their favorite, cuz it's basically all of there series up to this one last show with everything it showed for all these years, showing how much the game changed each time you a new version comes out, a new hunter comes out, and now it's the last hunter to come out in the old generation, as all the monsters are on there last show pulling there all to make one last impression before being all shelved unit they get there new models, also the last boss ahtal ka, there's not going to be a boss like it, as it's basically you, the parts it builds it's mech dragon robot? That's the parts it got from destroying the castle or stronghold and it carving it's parts and making weapons and armor, it's basically shows you another you, and also the last phase with the wheel, it looks like the symbol for reincarnation in Buddhism, basically like that's one hell of a final game for the old generation, all the maps, all the monsters, all the years, all the hunts end in that one game, basically there isn't anything game that even close with what generations ultimate did, not resident evil and it hurts me to say this but not even halo 3.. even tho halo 3 was basically the best send off for the new dev team to replace them... 343 just suck and killed it after halo 4, basically this is the best way to end a generation of games to move to a new one/why the next game was called world and also called the new world

[@sarcirinsdaefarin3950]

I love GU but GU was just slapping monsters into a game without really caring about the important details. This isnt a bad thing, its not a mainline title, but right from the get go, its nothing like rise, which is a game built from the ground up to be an experience that expands what monster hunter is, because G/GU existed in the past. Risebreak exists to cater to those who love a different taste of monster hunter, like GU and frontier, because World was just an abomination when it came to equipment, set/skill diversity, endgame systems, and "the grind". I love world, flaws and all so its okay, the new armour system just needed more skills, rather than boosted skills to really make it pop. They are 100% going to bring Deviants into mainline monster hunter. Rises apexs are freshly wounded by storms, they may not be deviants, but they definitely are in the middle ground between a normal monster, and a monster who has survived way too much bullsh- if you know what I mean. Apexs are more fun, and the rise grind for rampage weapons was a lot more fun than having an equipment box full of gear that never gets used. I love deviants, I love the fights, but the grind is just blah, and frankly not worth it. Deviants are going to be like the Hazard quests in the endgame of Sunbreak when they return. Apexs and Risens are just the beginning, Deviants will be a 1000x better. Rampage weapons, completely changed how we interact with a base game, and making hundreds of them, was a crazy amount of fun times. Playing all 14 weapons, is a nice change of pace, when I usually play a couple. I make hundreds of different sets, rather than a handful. World leaned into raw damage too much, so its nice to see them expand how much fun you can have with status/elem builds by creating an entire system for us to play with. Ramp up skills also turned low tier weapons into the meta rather than elder dragon weapons, so the apex monsters gave us new ways to play monster hunter, which was a nice touch. Wirebug skills are a lot more engaging, than what was in GU, but thats not to say GU was bad. GU was trying a whole plethora of new ideas, but in terms of combat fluidity, it was a miss. Rise, takes what GU was doing, and focuses on specific things, and enhance them by making the combat more fluid. Rather than styles or skills taking away from your moveset, they expand your movesets, they put more control in your hands. GUs combat is mouth wateringly good, so the fact that Rise leaned that much into skills, is really special to me! Leaning into frontier and deviant-esque ideas with the monsters fights, like with Primordial Malzeno, Lucent, Violet, and Espinas hazard quests makes me want them to lean into skills even more in brand new ways. Its not about one being better over the other, GU and frontier walked, so that Risebreak could run.

[@firstamerican7450]

Holy commas batman

[@lurakin88]

2:00 I think this illusion that the old game provide kinda falls apart if you didn't play them back when they came out. I've gone back to GU and 4U and while I appreciate the pretty skyboxes of the zones, my modern gamer brain did identify them as skyboxes, seeing through the illusion that is meant to immerse the player. That being said, I fully agree that this let them create these magical larger than life environments that aren't exactly possible with current tech, and especially with the seamless locales that Wilds is doing