The Third Fleet Podcast #28 | Monster Hunter at E3 | MH Rise in Japan | Food | Community Topics

Welcome to Rurikhan & Gaijin Hunter's Third Fleet Podcast, today we talked about Food, what we expect and want out of E3, Japan's reaction to Monster Hunter Rise so far and a few community topics.
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[@529cmitch]

HA, thrilled that my jokey question started off the podcast - and it led to a great discussion! I've been in a food rut of sorts, so I'm happy to have some new dishes to try out.

[@mrblooper1994]

Thanks for your contribution Hunter o7

[@NCHProductions]

phft hunting horn sounds, Valstrax horn, my friend Taco first impression thought, "why the hell am I hearing "pizza time" song" when I was using my valstrax horn.... then the more I hear, the more it really sounds like Pizza time lol...

[@hihikatamari]

We love you NCH!

[@THE_Mirage]

May the pepperoni be with you

[@santanam.1477]

The man itself

[@Kimahri01]

Im waiting to you to get invite to a postcast

[@NCHProductions]

@@Kimahri01 phft, I donno, maybe rurikhan can make it a reaction video with me to watch my MH movie reanimated (if he still hasn't)

[@abear4100]

welcome back to the "two expats constantly forgetting the english words for everyday groceries" podcast

[@NippleTechnology-cc8bg]

*Yuna seeing Bishaten hurling fruit* Yuna: >:( you dun came to the wrong neighbourhood

[@justsomejojo]

Bishaten's fruit look so delicious.

[@kaninhunter50]

IT FEELS LIKE CHRISTMAS EVERYTIME THERE'S A THRID FLEET PODCAST EPISODE

[@lunar_storm]

Same!!!! I love these two so much, god. They are so wholesome I can't--

[@HCZS_MonsterHunter]

Thank you for bringing up the weapon balance topic, Rurikhan! It was very interesting to hear from both of your persectives and I really do appreciate it! I actually meant that the question was more for the general player-base (with a bit of the speedrunning community I suppose) and if the disparity of weapons really affect the player-base. For me, it does kinda suck not just as a runner but as weapon loyalist knowing that some weapons do better than CB but are also easier to use, but like Gaijin said, when is there ever a perfectly balanced game? Nothing's ever perfect and it's just too unrealistic to reach. I just hope the community learns to not compare weapons (yea unfortunately some idiots do that) and appreciate the weapons for what they are and enjoy them, but also yea buff gunlance and charge blade pls.

[@DraegoMH]

Charge Blade FOREVER!

[@HCZS_MonsterHunter]

@@DraegoMH KEKHANDS CRY

[@Duppy0906]

im a hammer main and im also kinda sad its not that great as before but its hella fun whihc is what matters

[@trombonegamer14]

Charge blade needs better phial damage at least. CSS is just fine as it is, which is why it is clearly the meta playstyle for CB.

[@shadowthethird3]

@Hunter Rayna yeah, honestly that's what It feels like when you get tossed into a hunt filled with light, or heavy bowguns. Even LS players get outshined hard by bowguns.

[@oak3684]

Came for Monster Hunter. Stayed for quick and easy recipe.😆

[@michaelmeissen844]

Ruri will say on many occasions that his native language isn’t English-but he is clearly native “dad” with how available for use that fungi pun was.

[@juantsu2000]

“You can’t hate the Fungi” has to be one of the best puns I’ve heard in a long time XD.

[@AysarAburrub]

what's the pun? Fun guy? ... i dont think he was going for a pun when he said that lol

[@juantsu2000]

@@AysarAburrub That's exactly the pun. It makes sense.

[@reiverdaemon]

@@juantsu2000 it was a pun but it was terribly used lol

[@juantsu2000]

@@reiverdaemon Why tho

[@DaRoachDoggJrr]

@@reiverdaemon nah it was pretty fitting and smooth but gaijin was still thinking about the english word

[@jakeralley9490]

Fooooood talk, my favorite!

[@greencharisard1444]

"I loove italian food" *proud italian noises*

[@propastypete1958]

once covid is over, we need a live action episode of the podcast where Gaijin and Ruri meet-up and cook food together.

[@x_Xith_x]

Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate for the Switch had 1.2 million sales last time i checked

[@nessilver]

Next thing we know Yuna will have her own youtube channel doing speed runs. Giving chase to Canta as master of all weapons 🤣

[@nicholaswallace2575]

Was playing GU during the food section, the quest’s name: The Desert Gourmand. Super fitting

[@boozedessertssmokemeats7284]

As someone who has a podcast about food and other related things and a huge fan of monster hunter this might be my fav episode

[@Taxafolia]

I can listen to you guys talk about for hours

[@Gamegurlz94]

Thanks for the release rurikhan needed this for to wait for pso2

[@wetwater7683]

Honestly might be my favorite episode, and even though there's not too much news for Monster Hunter I still like that you two still do the show. Keep up the awesome work fellas

[@polo9427]

Coziest episode yet. Thanks guys 👍🏻

[@tzzz9590]

On the topic of balance being important or not in MH, I believe that it does 100%. Obviously nothing can be perfectly balanced, that's pretty much impossible, but attempting to balance as much as you can is what I think devs should always try to do. I think that knowing that you're playing one of the weaker weapons in the game actually does hinder your experience, even if you're not actively thinking about it, it's always in the back of your mind that you could be playing better with a different weapon. Knowing that you're basically handicapping yourself by playing a weapon that is known to be weaker really sucks. It's a really bad feeling imo, and I don't think saying "well this is a PVE game so who cares" is a good way to look at it at all.

[@eloiaugustin3796]

I really loved the spaced out content, I know it's not the most common point of view, but this "update per month thing" got me hours more of enjoyment, after each new update you get to play a lot more with the new content and it always feel fresh. Nobody would've farmed last boss fight this much for instance if Valstrax was already out. Same for the Apexes, when they got out of the Rampage it was so cool

[@GarliccDread]

Fave weapons by just design in Rise: GS: Frozen Speartuna LS: Squakscythe (Death Stench) SnS: Blazing Falchion (Rathalos) DB: Perfected Dango 🍡 Lance: Devta Serpentblade (Remobra) GL: Mighty Cornpopper 🌽 Hammer: Yadora Morte (Death Stench) HH: Doara's Baphophone SA: Doara's Janah CB: Etherward (Chameleos) IG: Magia Crescent 🌙 LBG: Springnight Spawn (fish) 🐠 HBG: Ladybug Cannon 🐞 Bow: Beastking Thunderbow (Rajang)

[@bradleyhutchison1547]

Dried mangos are legit, my in laws always bring some back from the Philippines for us, yum!

[@VonFalcon47]

Me at the start: No way they just talk about food for very long. Me 15 minutes in: Welp, we're still going and now I'm hungry, great...

[@Krudi89]

MH 4 Ultimate on the switch would be amazing !!! And a collection of all older games would be a dream come true ;>

[@eldorito777]

I would pay for a whole-ass anthology, just to play mh3u on the switch. Then I'd play mh2dos because the hunting survival simulator type game sounds cool.

[@spiralzero92]

one thing i hate about this podcast : it ends.. should wait for next week again

[@hunterwolf6646]

This didn't feel like a good question for this podcast, but for when you get into MHS2: Which six monsters would make up your team, why, and how would you gene splice them? (example: ice specialist seregios, dragon specialist Rathalos)

[@Kira-lw5hp]

Me (german): wtf is asparagus Also me after google: ACH SPARGEL The fuckin thing i really dont like, thats also a highlight of the year for my entire family xD

[@justsomejojo]

Spargel... the first thing I ever ate that I really truly could not get down, even cooked. For some reason I can't stand that level of bitterness.

[@Kira-lw5hp]

@@justsomejojo same I am more of a Brokkoli type of guy

[@johannesnagengast7643]

Besides raw tomatoes, of wich I start puking as soon as they enter my mouth, there is nothing i don’t eat and wouldn’t try out.

[@SheepOfChaos]

@@justsomejojo if it‘s bitter, it was bad asparagus, or old and therefore bad. Same as when it feels like you bite on wood. Good, delicious asparagus is soft and even goes into sweet a bit.

[@justsomejojo]

@@SheepOfChaos Really? Oh wow, that's a surprise. Whenever my parents would have asparagus as part of our meals, it always was bitter, so I figured that's just how it's suppoed to be. Guess I need to revisit it at some point then.

[@gusblacksmith9]

Almudron Switch Axe. That's the one Gaijin thought Ruri was gonna pick.

[@sirnoodle1144]

You guys own me another drink, the "thats golden" pun actually made me spit out my drink 🤣🤣🤣

[@kevincruz7958]

14:22 "You can't hate the fun guy!"

[@frunckler2]

Thank you for bringing up the topic of weapon balance! While I do think there are issues with balance damaging- I think there are pretty big issues from even a pve perspective especially from a multiplayer perspective. There are many weapons that really feel like many of their primary purposes have been pushed out as the games have expanded. As a hammer main I hesitate to bring the weapon to hunts anymore because a lot of fun in using the hammer at all is getting KOs and giving your team large windows. Now that lbg is the light hammer, bow being able to stun and sns having metsu- I struggle to see what the weapon even brings to the table anymore- it cant even cut tails. You want to feel useful in hunts so a lot of players will default to using what ends up doing the most damage and it ends up being the top tier weapons or weapons that can proc cc easily.

[@DavySilverwind]

So I am about 25 minutes in so far, really enjoying the podcast and I just realised you haven't talked about Monster Hunter at all... Guys I don't think you need to worry if it's a slow news week, it's pretty entertaining regardless.

[@tonytrident8874]

OMG! Mom's lasagna! This is off to a great start guy's!

[@optimusck1826]

On the topic of Rise being at E3, I expect them to do it for publicity since the PC port its expected to come out near the end of the year, they're probably just gonna remind people of that plus the colab event quests, as much as I would love them to drop a bombshell of content announcements I don't see them doing it.

[@allanredhill8682]

this has to be the most wholesome podcast on the internet :)

[@FakeHeroFang]

I'm gonna slap down my 'there can only be one' weapon choices just for fun. GS: Rathian LS: Zinogre just for the fulgurbugs and the lightning effects SnS: Rathalos, good ol' red hot blade. DB: Wroggi sucks booty, but how can you beat dual revolvers? Lance: Babel spear GL: Royal Ludroth, just a giant harpoon gun Hammer: Gun hammer, no contest HH: Zinogre SWaxe: Chameleos CB: Die Walküre IG: Rathian LBG: Tiggy Tank HBG: Magnamalo Bow: Mizu Thank you for coming to my stinky opinion corner. :^)

[@hadoo1973]

I got really into those food delivery services like Blue Apron. It really helped during lock down. It was all fresh ingredients in perfect portion, so no waste. It exposed me to new foods I never made or had before that I really enjoyed. I highly recommend it to those looking to shake up what they eat.

[@GeorgeK340]

When Gaijin said that Yuna are super aggro even with no armor and he can't keep up with her. My first thought was..... "Yuna would be good at TDS."

[@justsomejojo]

Okay, I'm gonna gross out all of you. I'm Austrian. Here, we have something called "Beuschel". Looked it up and the translations seem to be "lights, innards, innwards". It's what it sounds like. But it's so SO tasty. My grandma used to make it on special occasions because I love it so much. I don't eat it very often though. Haven't had it in years. I also love sea food a lot. My lazy dish is just seasoned fish filets. I also looooooove cheese. In Iceborne, that cheese pie (? not sure what it is called) looks so absolutely delicious. On the weapons: I love GL and SA the most. You know what weapon I get my best times with? Dual Blades - like, I can kill Rathian in 6 minutes, my best times with GL and SA are 10. I don't know why, but I do. I have since stopped trying to compare weapons because in the end, my affinity towards weapons varies so wildly, apparently. What I do not ever want to see again, though, is Capcoms absolutely garbage marketing of prowlers. I stopped playing multiplayer with randoms starting Generations because I was getting kicked out of lobbies instantly so much, even with fully kitted out prowlers. NEVER EVER say in the marketing that a weapon type deals less damage again. Please, Capcom.

[@Runaetus]

All according to keikaku (keikaku means plan) is an oldanime meme from fan dub times where translator wrote that exact phrase

[@KitsuLeif]

I kinda expect (hope) that the Capcom Collab 1 will be available right after the E3 presentation. And they'll probably talk about 3.1 at the end of June as well. But I also hope that they might have saved some content for the presentation and that they'll reveal 4.0 for September, maybe?

[@stevehkng6560]

My SNL brain perked up when I heard pizza and lasagna in close proximity to each other. Pizzuh ZUH, lasagna, sagna, sagna, SA

[@mononokemar]

I’d have to say for underrated Yama Tsukami and Hypnocatrice. Those guys were so fun and Yama Tsukami had interesting mechanics

[@Spinexus]

Finally Ruri also hates weeks old fruits in the fridge! My girlfriend kills me for not wanting to eat those blackhole colored bananas! xD

[@paulwaterman1322]

Dude lives in one of the most unique culinary cultures on the planet and he makes stew while dreaming of little Caesars. Morimoto's book on Japanese home cooking changed my life. Oyakodon, karei raisu, salt-grilled fish, I cooked food from that book for a week straight and was astounded that everything tasted awesome and didn't use a microgram of butter. All cuisine has its place. All food has merit. And we all have our hang-ups. Ha!

[@iamrathercool12121]

Sesame oil is the one. Game changer in food prep

[@biggums5]

I couldn't agree more with how beautiful iceborne runs on the series x on a 4k monitor. That has been my life for the last couple weeks and I still can'tget over how pretty it is, with rise for tv viewing in the evenings! I also enjoy simply hunting for fun!

[@VonFalcon47]

1:57:30 GS: Goss Harag LS: Chameleos S&S: Mizu Lance: Zinogre GL: Kushala HH: Nargacuga Hammer: Valstrax CB: Volvidon SW: Czar Switch Axe

[@juantsu2000]

I completely agree with Gaijin that the core Monster Hunter endgame is and should be just hunting for fun. We don’t reaaaally need an endgame loop in the vein of The Guiding Lands or Relic weapons. I do find them nice, but they’re not necessary. With that being said, I still don’t get WHY he doesn’t pay much attention to investigations or liked them in the first place. In my opinion, they’re the best endgame system a Monster Hunter game can have because they enable that very core concept of playing for fun. I honestly don’t need that much more out of the game. Just make them the core Zenny farming method in the endgame and we’re golden.

[@Purpelou]

Okami 2 and Dragon’s Dogma 2 are my two big wishes for Capcom’s E3 announcements, even though I know they’re very VERY unlikely. I do hope that whatever the Capcom collab for Rise is, that it gives us some kind of new fight in there. GREAT EPISODE BTW

[@thatperson0013]

Omg, just as I went "the most underrated monster is definitely Gobul". Gaijin : ye maybe Gobul. It's a great fight. Me: yeees THANK YOU.

[@DaRoachDoggJrr]

GAIJIN you just perfectly described how i am with food. I’ll be super hungry and look at food and think it’ll be so great but when i start eating i get this almost nauseous feeling in my throat like my body doesn’t want it. Happens with carrots, watermelons, and sometimes basically everything depending on the day

[@ivory6738]

For weapon balancing: May I present you to LBG, my (previous, still kinda am) main It does: - A whole lot of damage - A whole lot of utility - A whole lot of mobility and aggression All of this while being the easiest and safest weapon in the game. Whereas weapons like HBG only has Stickies, LBG has nearly everything under the sun and more. Besides LS, GL, CB, the ranged weapons, and DBs (they've been reduced to demon flight for good damage imo), the balance here is alright. Granted, so was World and GU when we get rid of the problematic ones.

[@chrisg1341]

I recommend Hungarian chicken parikas with spetzel for dinner, and dobos torte for dessert. Here's a random question for you, if you had to get an exotic pet what would you want (want, not what is most practical)?

[@leonardocarvalho2573]

really liking all this food talk lol

[@DaRoachDoggJrr]

I need some more of this food discussion in the future

[@TuPapiSiree]

I do agree they shouldn't have put Rise on that list. If they are just gonna talk about the events they coulda tagged it on at the end of the Stories 2 announcement as a surprise. I'm also not expecting much but people will be mad about it.

[@guardian_of_the_rune]

If we had full game at release everyone would be wearing Valstrax armor week 2 and everyone would be done. Remember when people wore Zinogre armor the first 3 weeks. Now that we have full game no one touches any of those pieces.

[@xx51m0nxx]

Have you tried to peel the aspargus before you cook it? ^^ The outer part of the white aspargus is really pain to eat. But if you peel the aspargus with a peeling knife, the rest ist really good after you cook it. Just with cooked potatos, ham and meldet butter. Classic german meal :3

[@Deidde]

I think one main difference about E3 these days is that games seem to take between 3 and 10 times longer to develop - and E3 is an annual event. So one solution would be to change E3 to every ~3 years, and have some kind of E3-Lite that tends to be focused on smaller announcements every year.

[@jackkrell7313]

Its odd tho, you would think that the better technology advances the faster a games development would be.

[@deinonychus1948]

Geez, Rurikhan's eyesight is just as bad as mine! I like to constantly remind people about my bad vision and then amuse myself when they try my glasses and realise just how bad my vision is lol

[@AstrlVoid]

zinogre's hunting horn is an 'electric' guitar

[@glutathion3268]

they really were accurate with the Okami and Megaman Collabs lol

[@tonytrident8874]

Rui was almost at 100% until he trashed olive oil LoL!!

[@stevehkng6560]

I'd also like to add some perspective with regards to the weapon balance in Rise, for any who would like to hear. I'll put a TL;DR here: I personally think weapon balancing will only be good for the community as a whole, but at the same time I don't think it's a serious concern. As for a background, of sorts, I've probably clocked around 400-500 hrs into Rise at this point, playing through all the weapons vs all the monsters, playing with meta, off-meta, and wacky super-comfort builds (my build loadout's full for probably all weapons except GL, HBG, and GS at this point because I've built only the best builds for each type of shelling for GL, HBG's sticky collection is pretty limited as of now, and GS doesn't quite benefit too much from element for me to make a element-dedicated build for the different elements; I'd just swap the different weapons around with the standard build and be done with it.). I love how every weapon feels rn, how they still keep a lot of their distinctive identities despite the large variety of moveset changes with similar function throughout all the weapons that occurred for just about every weapon (a counter for almost every weapon as an example). I've played since Gen 2 and pretty much headbutted my way to playing every weapon back when I played the games. With that out of the way, let me begin by saying what pretty much everyone knows at this point: ranged weapons are kinda insane rn in Rise. I know that they've always been sorta busted ever since the older games, boasting huge amount of damage from a safe distance in a roster of monsters that can't adequately punish you for doing so. I place this statement out in contrast with all the other 11 melee weapons in the game; I think that (with some GLARING EXCEPTIONS) most of the melee weapons are pretty comparable to each other in terms of balance. To me, then, balance is, simply put, sharing a SIMILAR COMFORT/EXPERIENCE, whilst not ruining the delicate balance of WEAPON IDENTITY. By comfort/experience, I mean just how it feels to use the weapon, the satisfaction with the hits of the weapon, the feeling of "I'm actually denting the monster", and the pace at which this is accomplished. This is an extremely subjective experience, for sure, and I will try not to rely on comfort/experience that falls more on the subjective spectrum, but will try to use some of the more "objective" measures of the experience. This, to me, would have to be DAMAGE NUMBERS. Some may have already scoffed when I mentioned damage numbers and stopped reading, and that's alright. But I'll give an example that is relatively easy to understand and replicate. Say, you want to get the feel of how much you're dishing out when facing the monster by testing weapons out vs the Toadversary. You entertain the narrator by using the greatsword first. You try to get the best build you can for GS that you can make with your available resources, and because you have all the armors and GSs in the game, you've built the Valstrax full set + Rampage Sword S + an attack 3, CB 2, 3-1-1 god talisman. You do the optimal combo for damage, swinging your sword 3 times with either TCS or rage slash, to your preference, and are satisfied with the large numbers. Damn it's satisfying to hit huge numbers with the GS, you think. Then, you tried out the bow, interested in how a majority of forums say it's one of (if not the best) damage dealing weapons in the game. You made a similarly OP build with all the available materials at your disposal, and start firing with your Rampage Bow S of whatever element of your choosing. You see the numbers as you dash around, and is also satisfied with the damage you dealt per shot, right? This is where what I feel happens to a lot of people when they start trying out all the different weapons. So let's say your TCS dealt 2000 damage (arbitrary, although do test it for yourself and see how accurate this example is), while your arrow damage at max level deals around 130 damage. Nothing out of the ordinary yet. Then you start seeing the total damage dealt, and holy shit did it dawn on you. A TCS takes a lot of time and positioning to satisfactorily hit a ton of damage. That's what gives GS it's WEAPON IDENTITY; it's a slow but extremely powerful weapon that rewards you for knowing where to be at the right time to deal a singular, destructive attack. But bow has this thing you can do: dash dancing. Simply unsheathing your weapon, charging sidestep, shoot, power shot, power volley, charging sidestep, and you're at max charge. Max charge is 4 arrows with rapid 5 at shot lvl 4 (130*4=520), and you can shoot the equivalent of 3 of these max level shots per charging sidestep (totalling 1560 for the full combo), and you can reposition while doing it to do it again, and again, and again. The important question you now ask, is why the heck is the swift moving bow dealing greatsword levels of damage with nearly minimal risk to himself, while the greatsword, although one of the best melee weapons in Rise rn, needs to stick its neck out to deal similar amounts of damage? This is the core problem, I think, with the weapon balance, as I personally see it, in MH rise. A weapon's IDENTITY is somewhat muddied because of weapons bearing SIMILAR OR SUPERIOR EXPERIENCE with said weapon. There are countless examples of this in the game rn: hammer's a satisfying KO machine, its identity tied to KO since its introduction in the games, but in Rise, so can SnS, CB, exhaust SA, all the bowguns, and even the bow. The heavy hitter weapons (GS, CB, hammer) have a good amount of setup to properly do its bursts, but the ranged weapons all can do it as well without as much of the risk. This can go on, and a pattern can be seen. A bird's eye view of weapon balance in Rise is this: all the ranged weapons are ridiculously good, melee weapons tend to compete pretty well with each other (but not with ranged weapons), with a couple of outliers (LS,and arguably GS in the upper melee range, and lance and GL in the lower melee range). I agree with gaijin saying that not all weapons should be exactly viable with each other, but I do believe that the level of satisfaction with the experience of using the weapons should be maintained relatively level while at the same time maintaining unique weapon identities. The solution may be summarized as something as simple as: tweak HBG, LBG, bow damage downwards, either tweak LS down a tiny bit or tweak the other weapons up a tiny bit, and buff the gunlance damage. This isn't me proposing a solution, per se (or even me suggesting anything should be changed at all), but I feel that it'll give some weapons a better sheen for just about everyone playing, regardless of player skill level. I understand that balance is a complicated issue to tackle, and solutions don't come easy, but I do feel that capcom should strive to do something to TRY to balance the weapons, even if it's not in this title but in the next (as they usually do now, btw). Will bow be bad if its damage is lowered to 80% of what it is now? Absolutely not, but it'll feel like you're doing similar "work" throughout the hunt in general, no matter what skill level. Will gunlance be broken if attack stats can stack with shelling damage? Probably, given how its a type of true damage, and that kind of damage is incredibly difficult to balance from what I understand, but CB got that treatment, didn't it? Will LBG and HBG be sad shells of its current glory if its sticky supremacy is suppressed by a little? Yes, yes it will, but you can still extremely safely shoot your stickies from the other side of the map, and you can't actually headlock a monster without extreme coordination, which is nice. I'd like to conclude this extremely long comment by trying to tackle the question of "does weapon balance matter for a PVE game?" I kinda agree with gaijin on this one, in that it's not necessary to collect data from the hunts in-game currently to try to continually tweak weapons, as you would in say fighting game or MOBA characters. I do, however, believe a more balanced roster (with the overpowered/underpowered weapons not too far off the mean) of weapons will lead to the sensation that the weapon is more balanced for everyone in the community, no matter if you're a casual or a speed runner. A lot more goes into the comfort/experience when using a weapon, such as how the weapon plays, how you approach a monster, etc, that makes what may be unusable for some the best weapon in your arsenal, but I don't think these aspects will be affected in any meaningful way with damage modification WITHOUT tampering on weapon identity. So overall, I believe yes, a weapon balancing would be good, but it's not the end of the world if you can cheese with some weapons but have to work extremely hard with others; it's been this way ever since to begin with. One can hope for meaningful change though :)

[@Mr.Fahrenheit825]

1:23:58 i had to make a comment about this part because there’s one monster that I’ve been saying is way too underrated and that’s Great Girros. I recently picked up World (because i finally was able to get something to be able to play it) and Great Girros just completely stood out from the other monsters I’ve fought (so far in the story I’m past the part where you fight Odogaron). Whenever people talk about Great Girros 90% of the time it’s people making the comment that they forget he was in the game which is really disappointing given how absolutely amazing the fight is. I just love the staging of the figh, where it has the small Girros just circling around you while you face Great Girros, until he steps back and calls and then you just get hit with wave after wave of Girros that can paralyze you. I also just love how Great Girros attacks you by just hurling himself at you, like how he will just jump in the air and head but the ground and roll on his back. Idk, Great Girros is a really under appreciated monster and i would absolutely die if Capcom puts him in Rise Ultimate (or hopefully base Rise but that ship has probably already sailed)

[@Pingpongsicc]

'...by the time you get to this one it should be the exact release date of monster hunter stories 2" Ruri: *dial up noises intensify*

[@rurikhan]

56kbps neural links.

[@HeliosIncarnate]

You were talking about not wanting them to announce a game with nothing to show for it and I was just going no, don't say it, don't do this to me "Prime 4" And I teared up.

[@emmanuelrojas154]

My day just got better! Happy early birthday to me!!!! You guys are my heros!

[@bobynoname8194]

i LOVE lagombi for the amount of times i had to fight snow baron i hope they bring a apex of him in at some point cuz his move set was a pain but i think it would make for a fun challenge for the wire bugs the amount of moving around he dose exhausting your wire bugs him throwing multiple and massive snowballs in the air andd the snowball effect in general would make the fight pretty difficult and they could even make his ice freeze your regen on wire bugs for a time

[@LucarioKuchiki]

The fight with the All Mother, Marshmallow isn't the only one who shows up. I was watching a live stream of Ina from HoloLiveEN and Kushala showed up, really threw my mind for a loop.

[@mrblooper1994]

You guys have to get Rotatasker on the podcast. He's a fun interesting guy!

[@r3gret2079]

Agreed! Rata is hilarious

[@tonytrident8874]

A bad habit from the 80s!!!! I love it!!

[@DarkWhiteside]

There is nothing wrong with the Italian cheese bread it’s the GREATEST thing they have ever sold. MOUTH WATERING

[@ivory6738]

Also I would agree with gaijin that I enjoy every MH equally. But GU has so much to sink yourself into and I love it a whole lot. Even stopped playing Rise to go through the entire village with Aerial IG and Valor LS lol.

[@Zero0mtk]

I'm going to make a wild guess and say "Devil May Cry collab" because: Dragon's Dogma 2 is coming -> Itsuno is the director -> Itsuno is the director of DMC3-5 -> they'll do a DMC collab to remind people of Itsuno's Dragon's Dogma 2! #GalaxyBrain

[@xx51m0nxx]

My fav weapons: - Hammer: Goss Harag, it looks awesome. - Lance: The Teostra looks really good, the shild is awesome. I wich there was a nice Chameleos Lance, i can imagine it would look great. - Gunlance: Almudron looks good. There i wished we hat a Goss Harag one

[@Runaetus]

Can't wait to finish work so i can listen to this while playing🥰

[@tydresen3905]

Thank you, Mr. Rurikhan.

[@Theron37]

Speaking of weapon designs, I actually love the Kushala Daora weapons with the animal motifs. Also, I've heard there used to be a Chameleos SnS in the older games. Is this true? The only Chameleos weapon I used was the IG (in 4U and Rise). I get the feeling the SA Gaijin had in mind for Ruri might be the Almudron SA (the Monado).

[@Ace_khandose]

Dude i love lasagna too (Italian cuisine my fav too) and I’ve made it a couple of times and I plan on making it this weekend. I’d post it in your discord if you had a food channel which you totally should. And FYI you’re wrong my mom makes the best lasagna 😋

[@blackbird5557]

The keikaku means Plan joke comes from an old Death note fansub

[@TheCovertKid]

I would love to see another Ex Troopers and Lost Planet too. I loved piloting those vital suits

[@watcherTL]

When it comes to Capcom's fighting games division, they put Ryozo in charge of it a couple of years ago.and the company massively restructured the division, including the ousting of Yoshinori Ono. Early development of Street Fighter VI was troubled before the restructure, so they're currently doing an extra season pass in Street Fighter V to by time for SFVI. Capcom's one big thing for E3 is probably Pragmata, that one thing they showed last year with an astronaut, a robot girl, a robot cat, and a domed moon city collapsing.

[@taichiixsan4619]

I am just playing dragons dogma just now. First time i created a sorcerer type character because the spells in this game is so satisfying. The channeling, and the magnitude of the spells. Just wow.

[@r3gret2079]

Good on ya n congrats for the no drinking Gaijin!!! I got 10 years sober from alchohol.

[@TecnoRase]

If MHGU had the weapon tree visual like World and Rise we'd spend more time navigating it than actually playing the game lmao

[@LugaruEvolutions]

Me, a German: NOW LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT ASPARAGUS

[@ivory6738]

Correction: Every ammo thats fired stationary is faster shooting than walking and shooting.

[@tigrexclaw1284]

I believe that rise ultimate will heavily reference 4u, hence why there wasn’t a single monster from it (Zam, Tetsu, Najarala -> obviously bc wirebug, etc.), hence why minoto & hinoa propose more villages will request our aid soon, hence why rondine hasn’t had any involvement in the story what so ever. I think you’ll travel to far off lands with her and the smithy, could even imagine taking Hinoa or Minoto with you (have a travelling squad like in 4u). Edit: Wait, I think you talked to Rondine for something in the earlier parts of the game.

[@MrGhosta5]

I love Japanese food but especially Japanese curry. I pretty much eat Japanese curry every day during my lunch break.

[@yue8049]

1:32:30 Oh wow I didn't know that was in the game, but "All according to keikaku" is actually a reference to an old Death note Fan sub !

[@Lindobomba]

Recently finished Monster Hunter Stories on my iPhone. What a great game.! Love it so much. Everbody should give it a try! Can‘t wait for Stories 2.

[@brianhoff4991]

There are 3 weapons that I've wanted to come back since the first MH. First was ninja sword which we've got now. The other two are lances, the Greyburg Javalin and the Native Spear. I loved the looks of those and still do.

[@JuanGarcia-of3ug]

Gaijin number 1 dad for real

[@keko23]

Rurikhan I didn’t know you were Portuguese! Fellow monster hunter portuguese fan here!

[@worstwordmonger]

As a CB main, the comment about Capcom not showing it love hit harder than a CB does