A Monster Hunter's Journey | Generational Retrospective
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- Obliterating the Last Vestiges of my Personhood with Monster Hunter
I was tasked with looking back at every generation of Monster Hunter. This is an impossible job, at least without taking years to produce a video, so I went with a core entry per generation, and played extra games where necessary. MH1 for gen 1, Dos for gen 2, Tri for gen 3, MH4U (though the ultimate games originated in the 3rd gen) because 4U represents a pretty obvious shift for the series, and that conceit is maximized with Generations Ultimate, then finished Worldborne and Risebreak for gen 5. At the very least, I'm excited for Monster Hunter Wilds now!
Most of my most deranged projects happen because I wrote a couple of words down on a list of goals, and hit them one by one, entirely unaware of what Kingdom Hearts, Drakengard, Persona, Xeno, and now, Monster Hunter, would be like. This experience in longform demento-videos has fundamentally altered my perspective on video games, and helped me develop a whole language to discuss games I otherwise wouldn't have. It's been a rough journey, but you don't set out to get better expecting to land every step without failure. You trip, you fall, you get back up, and you keep on. Thanks so much to everyone who came out to support the show. I'll do some kind of poll-project again, but for now I need some time to unwind =_="
I have 2 regrets - not showing off the palicos in Generations Ultimate and not showing off the Hadoken I got smacked by from behind knocking me off a cliff by another player.
COME CHILL:
/ kbash
/ kbashshow
SPECIAL THANKS:
Gato Nero who recorded a bunch of extra footage for the video!
Cosa for gifting the 5th gen games!
Everyone else I've crossed paths with during this project - it means the world. MONSTER HUNTER WORLD GET IT
Additional sourced footage:
• Monster Hunter Frontie...
• Monster Hunter 3 Ultim...
• MGS: PW HD - All Monst...
• Monster Hunter Frontie...
Music:
Honestly it's just Monster Hunter soundtracks and the Napple Tale OST
CHAPTERS:
0:00 setting out
5:25 the foundation (MH1)
33:05 the expansion (Dos + Portable Games)
56:56 the culmination (Tri)
01:20:08 the shift (MH4U+GenUlt)
01:59:13 the new era (Worldborne/Risebreak)
How do you tackle Monster Hunter meaningfully? With a Monster Hunter Retrospective? A review, or analysis, or critique? Do regular viewers differentiate between those words? Does it matter? Monster Hunter is an action rpg functionally, but completely unique in its genre classification - it invented the Monster Hunter vibe, and spawned Toukiden and God Eater. It's a story of cultural penetration told through incredible detail work and dignifying the creatures it presents, something relatively unseen in video games. Monster Hunter Wilds is primed for bestseller status, even if the community is divided on the direction of the games. It's important to remember that World and Rise represent a total paradigm shift, and Wilds will likely take the sensibilities established in World and run with them. Playing through the games, I'm actually excited to play a modern Monster Hunter game - you know, see what they do with the formula - but even excited to play through Stories and Frontier one day. I'm not about to do them for fun, not any time soon, but I can see the value in the series now.
#monsterhunter #monhun #retrospective #monsterhunterworld #monsterhunterrise #monsterhunterwilds - Ігри
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“Monster Hunter is Cocomelon for the unemployed” is certainly a phrase.
Haven't made it to this section yet
1:48:50
It surely is a sentence.
I am unemployed and getting back into World is keeping me that way
oh god
Monster Hunter is so important it appears in the ending of the Academy Award-nominated 2022 film Tár
It's so important the system of questing appears in many many generic isekais
@@MesaAufenhandI’ve been playing this game for 10 years and it has never occurred to me that it might have invented that aspect of fantasy settings.
@@sekiro_the_one-armed_wolf you fool why its so important it created the term "monsters"!
Tar is genuinely one of the best films I've seen this decade so far. The MH cameo was just icing on the cake.
@@sekiro_the_one-armed_wolf I don't think MH invented it, Quest Boards appeared in Trails in the Sky which released only 2 months after MH1(too soon after the release of MH to have been changed to include it), but it very likely popularized it. The concept likely comes from the concept of a Bounty Board often associated with Westerns
The original Monster Hunter & Monster Hunter Dos have a dedicated private server community over at MH Oldschool. If anyone is ever interested in playing the original Monster Hunter experience as it was meant to be, online, I highly recommend you come hunt with us online~ the experience is so different than playing exclusively the offline mode.
Are these servers accessible by someone playing on an Emulator, or would it have to be on original hardware?
Don't forget Tri's revitalized servers as well, and the Frontier project.
@@Valenrist You can access with both
@@Valenrist both work. Anything that can play PS2 games and connect to the network should work
@@scubajho I know about those, but because I don't work on those servers, I didn't think to include it, so my bad.
You're super right about playing with randos, but I love that your footage during that complaint shows you being completely oblivious to the Barioth getting put to sleep and waking it up with your dual blade combo. That GS was crying.
And every clip with glaive before the 2nd hour lacking buffs O.O
big yikes
Or him not using flinch free while playing with randos. That's some real self flagellation.
i pretty much exclusively play with randoms and i've had nothing but absolute fun, ESPECIALLY in mhgu!! everyone has been SO friendly especially compared to other games. there's so much potential for silly situations :)
"not tonight babe, a UA-camr just released a 3 hour video on a subject I know nothing about"
Time to start playing MH and become one of us, one of us, one of us
Honestly, hearing you talk about the camaraderie of MonHun really makes me appreciate the group I've hunted with for the past six or so years. We've got in-jokes about our specific palicos, how some of us seem to have certain monster types magnetized to them. It really does make MonHun feel special.
See my group has the magnetizing thing too but its every monster on one person. Like legitimately, we were fighting Crimson Glow in the Citidel and it literally chased him across the map as they desperately struggled to survive while the 3 other were desperately trying not to puke laughing so hard
How do you guys make a group and have a set schedule? Where did u meet? I’ve been solo since 4U bro and I’ve played every game since.
“I let my assumptions deprive me of joy too often,” hit me like a truck load of bricks. What a statement.
The ending speech actually started to make tear up. I remember playing MH4U with friends after school at the local cafe, just hours sitting there with a single (bad) bread bowl between us and free refills, laughing and bonding. As we got older and went our own ways, I've still played every new MH trying to chase that feeling. It's nice to know that people are still gaining a sense of community that's the spirit of MH, and hope that Wilds does the same or even better.
I'd love to play MH with someone else too!
I hopped on with world and played that and rise mostly solo and with randos.
Having a dedicated and familiar group sounds so great🥲
This is why I watch UA-cam. Tremendous video, Kbash is a workaholic, puts out so many videos, I often wonder where he found the time between vids to play the games, let alone write the script and edit them, and yet the quality remains top notch. Easily one of the top video game analysts on the platform.
4U is the game that actually got me into Monster Hunter and it's still my favorite in the series. That was some fun video game right there.
4u PEAK MH GAME IMO
Man same! I remember when it hit the 3DS (yes I was one of THOSE players XD) and I went bananas with a bowgun to the point my hands were cramping. Rise on the Switch brought me right back in, the added mobility really made it a delight.
Ditto!
Tri here, but by 4U I was obsessed.
Doodle!
Taking bets now on whether Kbash will do what he does best and find a way to convey a heartfelt, humanistic message about one of my all-time favorite game series in a way that makes my heart swell, eyes water, and deepen my appreciation for the games, OKAY HERE GOES
YUP. HE DID IT.
@@TheCrawl It's a wonderful thing Kbash cured his social anxiety by... Socializing. But really, this is a great video about a great series of games.
It's always so amazing seeing how this series of games that essentially boils down to a series of boss fights has emotionally touched so many people.
I literally made my first friend in high school thanks to MH4U, I vividly remember sneaking out of class to go to Gamestop to buy the game, then sneaking back in and showing it off to everyone.
Real.
Seeing peepholes of K-Bash's journey on twitter was an excellent prolonged prelude to this movie like video
It's honestly a shame you don't have the subs that you deserve. The amount of effort you put into your videos is insane. Now, I didn't watch all of them - but those few that I did (Soulsborne Games, Xeno-games, Persona, Bayonetta, God of War, and a couple of the shorter ones, like Shining Soul which was actually the video that I found you through) were all amazing.
The anxiety talk at the end is both incredibly relevant to Monster Hunter and surprisingly relatable. I want to play with friends so bad but I’m also hesitant to do anything with my voice
monster hunter is also so important, that rathalos, the same guy from the smash and metal gear crossover, is fightable in final fantasy 14.
Following this channel for 5+ years and currently on a MH journey of my own, this one is just special.
I love the way the cat is just sitting there while KBash throws the clothes on'em and the cat is just like, "Yeah, whatever. You just make sure my snacks are ready later."
It speaks to how entertaining of a content creator you are when I was engrossed in this entire thing and have never played Monster Hunter.
Literally watched it between work shifts and was totally invested the entire time. Fantastic shit.
Kbash detailing how much of a blast he had with gen ult made me very happy as it was the game that got me into the series and is still my favorite even after playing world and rise.
Man I got into Monster Hunter way back on the PSP and I still hold so many fond memories of playing MHFU with my friends. We had like 7-9 people playing the games all at once and the ability to just hang out and play together is special. The talk about community, camaraderie, and experiencing the game together rings so true. I love this series and can't wait to see where we go next with Wilds. You captured the series beautifully and it was a great deep dive into the games you played! Thanks for another fantastic video as always!
Monster Hunter was the series that dragged me out of the viscious cycle of World of Warcraft. I ran into Freedom 1 for the PSP at Gamestop and I dont think I have ever been so entranced by a game series before or after. Between the monsters and the world design i was hooked, learning the map layouts monster movements and weapon movesets was mesmerizing. Now ffw 20ish years and im nearly foaming at the mouth waiting for the next installment. Insanely happy to see you covering the series Kbash, Happy Hunting!
2:07:21 Oh my God THANK YOU.
For so long I've heard old Monster Hunter heads complaining about the new maps, specifically the forest for reasons that, to be completely honest, I have never bothered to understand.
It's so refreshing to hear someone that actually played the old games share my opinion on the Monster Hunter World maps.
Don’t often comment but I’ve been enjoying your videos for years and years so: thanks for another several hours of exceptional work. I know you work a lot but it’s always so nice to hear your take and thought process and you’ve made me both find news ways of appreciating games, and approaching critical analysis. Could go on but I hope you can find the time to enjoy yourself and keep enjoying doing what you do. Wishing you the best mate
your videos are always filled with so much passion its hard not to tear up alongside you. keep on keeping on, you're making something incredible here
This video couldn't come at a better time 'cause my friend invited me to a D&D campaign with a MH-inspired expansion and I'm so HYPED
Finished the video! Awesome video bro, I loved it. U convinced me to go back and start playing MH again, gotta finish Rise and maybe go back to Generations Ultimate
3U was my introduction, and it was the truest "Proper" playthrough I had through the whole series, complete with three other friends, two very close apartment rooms, and forgiving college schedules. Roughly 200 hours just to get into G-Rank, plus about another hundred to reach and beat Dire Miralis. We. LOVED. Those days. Months and months of great times.
I also miss swimming, and underwater combat. With polish I think they'd be more than accepted in today's modern environment. Also Moga Village, every day of my life. Your first Monster Hunter Village really hits different, and never quite leaves you.
4U is the one I have the most hours in (close to a thousand) and when I really opened up to the idea of playing online with Randoms. I finally learned how to play Bow properly, got decent-to-great with a healthy variety of weapons that let me challenge basically anything adequately, and just... played to hunt. Friends dropped off after awhile cause life got busier, but we still had great times. Still one of my favorites.
Generations and its Ultimate were fantastic. An absolutely staggering number of quests and variety of monsters and combinations, with stellar new favorites and plenty of returning oldies. It really was the shift into "anime" for the series, quite a bit more than 4, but... what a good ride. I still miss Hunter skills, like absolutely breaking damage logic with the Switch Axe infinite buff combo.
World was and is the game that stands the test of time. The polish on it is phenomenal, and I still have friends that I play with semi-regularly in it. Including new friends that just got in mere months ago at time of writing. I've got my gripes with it, especially the base game and the lack of consequence for some negligence, like being able to eat during hunts now, but Iceborne fixed most of my real issues and the rest are me being a hipster saying "the old games' pacings were better!". Mere internal gripes that I shouldn't even listen to. It's a fantastic game that speaks for itself.
And... I don't really care for Rise, lol. It's a great game, very fast paced. Too fast paced for what I associate the series with. Like an Arcade Mode speedrun through fights. It just didn't do it for me, even if the movement is super fluid and fun. I do NOT knock anyone that likes it. I think I just burnt out of the series on the whole at the point I started it. I've been playing the games for like, a decade now.
I need to get to SunBreak though. I've heard it's good, and I like all the changes I've heard it brings. May give it a shot sometime.
But the most important of all are the memories. I'll never forget some injokes and Attack Names that my group gave for some moves, just so we could communicate and stay alive in harder fights. Great times.
This might be my favourite essay of yours yet. Admittedly it is largely because I'm impressed by how quickly and how comprehensively you came to understand all the finer nuances of the series, notably critiquing yet understanding the big shift in direction for the series into something more action-y. But most of all, your closing discussion about all the beautiful ways your online experienced helped really resonated with me on a personal level corny as it sounds.
I deal with anxiety a lot and a lot of is social. For the longest time I was terrified of interacting with strangers online. Not to mention that I was basically unable to get into the older games (minus Stories) because I got screwed over trying to solo it. But eventually I got into the series properly with World and I owe it to a good friend of mine I met on tumblr some years back. We had a strong friendship going before then, and we helped each other through some tough spots in life. So naturally he helped carry me through World/Iceborne so I could get the full MonHun experience--more importantly it was another thing that me and him could bond over and I appreciated that just as much as his ability to back me up with his crazy endgame level equipment. There's so much I love about monster hunter as a series, so much of which you also covered in your essay but I appreciate your ability to find the humanity in it most of all.
Enjoy your break KBash. You earned it.
OH AND WAS THAT A FRIGGIN GRAVITY RUSH CAMEO?!
Great video!!! It was so cool to see this finally come out! Very fun to be seeing this after all those cool streams in the discord. Well Done KBash. Here’s to you and the community.
I'll admit. I've been praying for the Gobble and Nibelsnarf to return for years.
Nibelsnarf is love, Nibelsnarf is life.
Also Tetsucabra is king
I'm working my way backward through the series, and I'm at Portable 3rd right now. Slowly losing the systems and small adjustments that made things more comfortable game by game has been a really fun challenge as someone who likes to say he's a veteran despite only playing since 4U.
I'm gonna hunt em all!
Also, you saying dragon instead of wyvern over and over drove me nuts. I play these games too much to be annoyed by that lol.
I'm really starting to warm up to the long form content. It's really good analysis that i can relax to! I started watching this change in 2020 while i was stuck at home pregnant with my son, and your vids have been a source of comfort since! Three years, and a second kid later; you're still going. Please never stop,your channel is a gem 😭
I am in awe and fear at the thought of a kid that listened to Kbash in the womb. Jokes aside, congrats for the kids!
Bro, you are an absolute beast for this remarkable coverage. Thank you for this topic i hold near and dear. Awesome video man and I too miss my dearly beloved sword oil.
Another gamer based and monster hunter pilled - really glad you stuck this one out to find your love for the games (even though it's perfectly fine if some people never get attached, it's a very niche kind of game loop).
I was just thinking of buying world again and now this I think it’s a sign to sink countless hours into a game after a breakup.
I've been so excited to see this video since you posted on Twitter about the Bulldrome! And I gotta say, you hit the nail on the head with this one. Me and the boys have spent many an afternoon and late night hunting and I will take that experience, the laughs, the build idea sessions, getting folded by monsters in high or master rank that have one nasty ass move that I can't seem to evade, literally any day for as long as I can get it.
25:09 bruh why are the reflections so good for a game made in 2004.
great video as always! super happy to see you tackle one of my fave series
I always find myself at a lost for words sometimes with your skill in writing
It's shown throughout this giant video, but especially at the end when you talk about the multiplayer experience with your community in 5th gen
I don't know if you majored in it, studied in it, or was a writer as a hobby, but it really makes these videos just the most enjoyable things to watch and listen to
You mentioned a couple times about the grueling production process meaning that you'll probably always miss the finer details of these games you play, but that being the case, I'm happy that you were able to give them a shot regardless, engage them for what they are, have a really well written video at the end for it
Cheers, and thanks too
KBASH MONSTER HUNTER VID?! YES PLEASE
Yoo I never knew that Toki Wartooth had started his own channel in his hay day about video games 🤘😝
Oh hellyea! I've been looking forward to this video for some time. Can't wait to sit down and watch it in pieces over the next two weeks.
It is time to watch another 2+ hour KBash vid about games I never played. And I will enjoy myself. Immensely! Thank you for your hard work!!
Been a fan for years, but i still watch Kbash credits all the way thru, one of the few people who make them genuinly fun to watch. Stay fantastic man.
Fun fact: In MH1 you actually *can* kill the Rathalos in the egg quest he shows up in. You can even kill him before so much as going near a Velocidrome. It just takes forever and takes a lot of grinding beforehand.
As a long time monster hunter fan, this video was incredible. Love how you dissected where the two different genres of monster hunter exist and split while also being incredibly entertaining and heartfelt!
Omg yes please my favorite video essayist covering my favorite game franchise, I’m scared and excited at the same time
This is my favourite of your videos and I’ve been watching for years, very well done and a real trip down memory lane
I'm actually so happy you did Tri instead of 3U, Tri was the first game in the series that clicked for me (started with FU) and as much as I love 3U, it just FEELS super different than Tri!
Your praise at the end is something o preach very often. I’ve played since the first game with outbreak 1 and 2. Wanted other online games for my ps2 besides ffxi. Since then it’s maybe my favorite series that I just jump in for a sort of zen. I have lost buddies over the years thru them losing interest or something else. Rise is maybe my favorite so far and I’m sure wilds will replace it and I’m hoping by then I’ll find like minded individuals to go on that journey with.
the Patrons allowed this man to cook, and he made a fucking 5 course meal.
i love this video, favourite essay you've made, fantastic work!
Awesome video. I loved it! It gave me a new perspective and understanding of what games are, and how I can approach them differently in the future.
It's finally done! Good stuff man. I like waiting til the full release instead of checking the patron stuff. Wish I'd had more time, I would have tried to jump in while you were playing on the discord.
Man that speech at the end really resonated with me...but the accidentally pushing yourself into another zone's loading screen while attacking was like looking into a mirror lol.
Thanks for covering world and iceborne! I’m so excited for wilds
On god i might be so out of place on this channel but you made me rethink how to enjoy videogames. Thank you!
You can't jumpscare us like that at 2:27 - I almost felt the bones leave my body.
Finally, I've been waiting for this video since I stumbled upon this channel years ago.
This was amazing. Thanks for your work on this!
Excellent restrospective! Although I've only played Rise, it's really fascinating how humble roots Monster Hunter had in the beginning and how it evolved so much over the years.
What a great video, congratulations for your good work!
I watched it in it's entirety in one go.
You’re one of my favorite UA-camrs. Keep it up
I'll have to watch this later due to the length, but I can't wait to do so! Peak franchise that has been with me ever since Freedom Unite :)
Monster Hunter is my favorite franchise EVER. This whole thing inspired me to make a new character in World. Thanks!
Monster Hunter was a series that I had been watching for a while. My 2DS had a broken r button and i had no idea how to fix it as a kid, so i only got games i knew i could beat without it, so i missed those games. I didnt have anything that could run World at the time. When i got a Switch, i played the Gen Ultimate demo countless times, thinking about buying it but never actually doing so. When Rise was revealed i knew that it would be great, so i bought it as soon as i got the money and didn't put it down until i beat it. From the sidelines, i thought Monster Hunter was just about hitting huge beasts until they fall, but its way more than that. KBash proved that in the video. It's about community. The games themselves and the fanbase have the most charm ive ever seen from a community
Your Patron shout out has big “everyone is here!” Energy.
Holy shit a new Kbash video about the best franchise of all time. Also I appreciate the "Proof of a hero" flute-playing in the beginning, what a banger
Monster Hunter is a game that defined my childhood. I was there during the ps2 era, begged and found my way to Dos and FU, swam constantly in Tri/3u, fell in love with 4u, GU was a fun event, and stuck with the franchise in World and Rise. I've dipped my toes into many of the spin offs, it is a franchise that I am deeply in love with and would want to be able to spread it to others.
If this vid pops off you better do a killing Fatalis video for world that would be awesome. Great vid happy you seemed to enjoy MH as much as I've been lately.
That ending was really great and sweet. I kind of relate to having social anxiety, in a way I actually have worse when it's online
Heckin' crazy surprise to find this in my sub feed, great work.
Swapping Dos for Freedom Unite was an option, but Dos is better for this video's purposes, ie. being comprehensive without ending a poor gamer's life. Still, if you ever find yourself with free time, some people consider Freedom Unite to be the apex of old Monster Hunter. 3U is also a surprisingly different game than Tri.
I started playing MH in MH3U and still play RiseBreak/Worldborne. But during all of my years playing one of my favorite multiplayer stories from my time playing comes from MH4U comes from a Dah’ren Mohran quest where we killed it so fast it died well outside of the fighting area so when we went carve it we hit the invisible wall and we all did the “Despair” gesture. Still one of my favorite moments in all of MH games I have played.
I started my journey with 3U on the wiiU. I had heard some kids at my school talking about Lagiacus and Zinogre and took a dive into the series at christmas. It was a major struggle to start off solo, the game didnt make any sense compared to other action titles those days. But with dedicated time and friends, I made it through one of the best games i'd ever played. It's turned into a major obssesion of mine, with 1000's of hours poured into each new title, and I wouldn't be here without the friends who cleared Goldbeard Ceadus and Dire Miralis with me.
My introduction to MH was Freedom Unite on the PSP, which I played for something like a 100 hours before I moved on and didn't touch the series against until MH World, so I remember being very confused about people speaking loudly about how much they missed all the different styles and special weapon moves from the previous entries when MH world mostly like going back to the MH I knew and loved with cool new weapons and some very welcome QoL/"Modern" gameplay design and features. This look at each generation of the series has helped put all of that into context for me so thank you for your efforts!
57:29 happy you chose this game
This is the one my best friend started with, the reason he loves the franchise Glad I found a random video retrospective
I started with World and didn’t know if I should go back to the old games
Appropriate the video
thanks, kbash. you're always there and you're the best thx thx thx
Im with the fifth fleet myself, and man World was probably my favorite thing for like 3 years straight. One of the things i loved a lot was just all the free content ypdates before Iceborne even came out. Then Iceborne happened at it was like an entirely new game with even more free content updates. Im also lucky to have people i know well to play with too, so we had lots of great memories of the game.
I've had a weird history with MH. I first got into the PSP games when they came out mostly just to play with a few people in my college DnD group. We had a great time but I never really played much on my own, relying a lot on advice from friends as we played together. Skip forward to like 2014 or so and picked up Ultimate 3 when it was on a digital sale for like $10 and once again had friends who pushed me into it. Stuck with it a bit longer only to fizzle out until 4 Ultimate at which point I had enough personal enjoyment to really play on my own a fair bit.
Then World hit. I was in a relationship with someone who was incredibly into the series so of course we jumped on it hard, even started up an online group that got relatively big. That lasted maybe 3 weeks until I suddenly got locked out of Discord server, dumped out of nowhere after a year of supporting someone who was clearly using me (to the point of quitting their job and relying on me for way too much with promises of paying me back, something that clearly never happened). Apparently I should have put life completely on hold to devote myself fully monster hunting to keep our relationship strong.
Not gonna lie ruined the series for me for a long long time. I ended up getting Rise to try and finally get past that mental hurdle of someone hurting me terribly. And have to say it did mostly work, got me to take inventory of my life and recognize how much better my life has become.. Still not something I can bring myself to play an insane amount like I used to but I'm happy I managed to reclaim a part of something I enjoyed after having it taken from me for so so long.
I am hypothetically that insane person who wants to tackle the entire lineage... I just need the hardware, but it's been a dream of mine. Thanks for the video, I'm excited to dive into it.
I appreciated the bit talking about social anxiety. I also suffer from it pretty heavily, and it's made Monster Hunter a very difficult series to get into, but it also taught me some lessons that are different from the ones you took from it in this video. That's just another thing to appreciate about the video game art form, I suppose. Thank you for putting yourself out there and being vulnerable, KBash. The video was great.
One little quirk I loved about Tri was when you went to the multiplayer lobby you got a whole new Hub town
It's super simple but I loved it
Yet another banger of a video. Cheers!
My favourite monster hunter memory was playing Rise with friends and getting Rajang stuck on a cliff, so we had to fight it, all 4 of us and the largest rajang I've ever seen on a tiny cliff, barely able to dodge attacks. That was a fun hunt.
i got one of those ads right after he said “you know the ones” my life just got about .16% better
I started with 3 ultimate with my partner and have loved the series ever since, really excited for Wilds to come out and see where the series evolves to next
Mhw is what got me into mh. It's the best game I've ever played. Thank you very much for your video.
Thank you for making this.
Thanks for giving the series such a long shot. It's my favorite franchise and while I don't appreciate nearly every entry, it's pretty insane how long it went on by now at this generally high level of quality and high frequency of releases.
Also, I'm glad you checked out the original. Not many people look at it and think it's worth their time when they could just hunt Rathalos in World, but it genuinely is a different experience. Unfortunately not one that holds up very well and let me tell you as someone who suffered it a lot longer (I'm in G-rank in MHG), you probably made the right call by calling it a day. Unfortunately, it becomes endlessly repetitious and the drop rates are straight up unreasonable, to the point of averaging 250 Rathalos kills and tail cuts to make the armor. It's really not much fun grinding for anything beyond basic high rank gear.
Also THANK YOU for playing tri over 3U and highlighting some of the differences. These aren't the same game as most people say, they really changed just about everything crucial to its identity from the art style to the gameplay. Tri is really the last game you could consider being made with the spirit of the original in mind, despite how much easier it generally is. It has more fantastical designs, more color and more action compared to MH1 for sure, but it still tried to go for subtlety. P3rd was really the first game that really ditched the old design and said fuck it, this game is now a mission based boss rush from start to end and 3U never went back on these changes. Even the game exclusive mechanics and systems are just neglected in favor of streamlining your boss fighting. It's the last game that makes me go "They just don't make em like they used to" for that reason.
I don't care about 4U, but GU is actually a weird special case because it completely drops all pretense to be anything but a boss fighting game. I don't even think I had to properly gather anything past the quest clearing on both my saves except for the occasional flutterfly for Neset transmogs. This game also doesn't even start you out making you gather a lot. There are like 5 village quests where you do that, but it's hilarious how you also get free DLC item packs that give you one stack of platinum eggs that sell for more than max money in this game, on top of the like 140 dash juices and max pots. The real meat of the game is the mechanics and even though you hype them up, you're honestly still underselling how truly overdesigned this game is. The broken thing about valor isn't that you can sheathe and survive. You take 30% of that attack as red damage, so 3 of those is almost like getting hit anyway and surviving doesn't make the monster be dead. What's so stupid about it is just how strong the new moves in that style are. LS gets a parry attack that deals half a GS full charge in damage and has no startup lag, can block everything and combo into the spirit finisher from there. It's stupid. HBG really takes the cake in this game, being able to solo kill G-rank monsters in less than 3 minutes, which is ridiculously fast even by this game's standards.
It's a shame you didn't play even more of it because the "real game" honestly starts after the hub final boss, because then the set building options and optional quests expand a whole lot and you can make the stupidest shit viable. I made the arrow strike of the bow usable, for example and that's not nearly the most deranged thing you could possibly do in that game. You can one shot G-rank monsters with the right setup if you really want to.
I can also confirm that everyone really sucks. You think you're good, there's someone way better than you. And that guy takes dozens of attempts to make his speedrun be as fast as it is and will triple cart in online hubs. I've played with these people, it's just part of the game.
My depression has been fueled by loneliness as of late. That last speech featuring your anxiety helped me realize that I need to find my village. It's an amazing analogy, as I've been playing MH for 10 years now, but I have never had people to play with. I'm sure it'll be a great way to start getting out there again. Thanks for the insight, and what a great video
First MH Review with no bulldrome joke
The ghost that did a deep dive on every monster hunter exists, they are called SuperRAD, they have an entire series on mh, recapping every game.
Monster Hunter Portable Unite and Portable 3rd were LIFE
Maybe the developers want me to play online, but I will always be a solo hunter, it's much more fun for me, even since the early entries 🗿.
By the way, someone must be crazy to consider Rise a spin-off when it's basically XX 2 and in many ways is a better successor to the fourth generation than World. I also think it's a little sad that you won't experience the G rank of any of the pre-World games and that you don't get too far into the post games and therefore the bigger and cooler challenges. But good video even tho
2:20 Yes you can, SuperRad did. Stoked for your vid Kay!
i am maybe fifteen minutes in and HE GETS IT HE GETS IT YOUR HONOR HE GETS IT
HE GETS WHY I LOVE THE SERIES RAAAAAAAAH
it was the monsters that drew me in- i saw Narga and never looked back. but what really sold my soul was the ecology cutscenes. no humans, just the world. just everyday pieces of nature. i love that shit
update: i will ALWAYS be a Ceadeus fanboy, he’s my favorite monster and setpiece in the series. 3 and 3U nailed the visual quality of being underwater. the way Lahi’s eyes glow while the rest of his body is dark and looming is actually fuckign beautiful. i love moga woods. it’s not the deserted isle. it’s home.
update 2 after finishing the video: before MHW released, it was featured in an edition of GameInformer. The article was headed by, in bold white text, these words: “Monster Hunter fans like to talk.” We make our own narratives, our own stories, together and solo. I could wax poetic about my arduous struggle to best Gogmazios, with a forever changing roster of fellow hunters, or the times I joined a hub in Generations just to end up chatting with the little 3DS touch screen keyboard. I could boast about my coolest Shagaru Magala kill(IG + Dive + one cart left + a dream), or talk about how Nargacuga taught me positioning and dodging in 3U, earning it my personal nickname of “mentor”.
I think that’s why Monster Hunter chooses to keep its narrative serviceable. Because we, the players, *are* the story. Shared over heaping tavern feasts and Discord calls. And, god, it’s earned me friends I’d never have otherwise, and it’s a series I’m proud to have been playing for over a decade.
@@fridgegremlin5496Loved Ceadeus and even though swimming was clunky I was one of those sickos that actually enjoyed it and wishes it came back someday.
Thank you for this amazing video
KBash really needs to do a video on Kid Icarus Uprising. The controls, gameplay and characters are so interesting.
playing tha fucking hits my boy. Enjoyed from start to finish.
Yes, another love letter to MH that brings me to another great person n' channel!
This might be one of the best Monster Hunter videos ever created, this is top tier work (currently at 2:17:00)
Holy shit I’m crying that ending speech was so unexpected but so incredibly wonderful. This IS the best Monster Hunter media (better and more emotional than the movie or shows)
Love the fact tha KBash liked the underwater segments in Tri. It is absolutely my favorite part of that game and I will always hope that they bring it back. The environment, the themes, the atmosphere, the monsters they were all made with so much detail and thought put into them. It is so disheartening knowing that the community was so full of try hards that complained so much about how much they sucked at it that capcom just over canned the undewater stuff and over corrected. Now every time they use one of those monsters or areas it just doesn't feel the same without it