The lost monsters of Monster Hunter
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2024
- The lost monsters of Monster Hunter:
The Monster Hunter series (specially the older generations) has a very unique theme and design philosophy associated to it. People that are at least aware of this franchise can rather easily identify it through still images or short clips, and that is due their artistic style not being just iconic, but also very well established, and to achieve the beautiful cohesion we see in the final products, a lot of work is done behind the scenes.
Throughout their development, Capcom conceptualizes a surprising amount of assets: Monsters, armor, weapons, locales and other miscellaneous elements. So many of these are created in fact that they make entire books solely dedicated to the hundreds and hundreds of concepts arts that originate from their game’s production.
In these books we can find dozens, many dozens of sketches or even detailed illustrations of creatures; some we can easily recognize, others are strangely similar to existing in game bosses, and some of them…. Do not resemble anything we have seen yet.
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One of my hopes for Wilds is a new Snake Wyvern!
Yessssss
Yeah definitely would be cool
I'm all more snake, bug, and crab monsters.
yes absolutely! and more beetle/crustaceans/arachnid themed monsters would be awesome too
@@pommedeter7407 not when you weapon repeatedly bounces off one of em
Hunting a Queen Ant Monster while tearing through Anthills of her minions throughout the map would be really cool. I would also like a better coordinated Vespoid Queen fight, I think Izuchi shows a basic version of what that could look like, having the Queen actually command her drones in attack and defensive patterns. Maybe even tie her health to the swarm, keep a group of drones super close that fly in the way of attacks and until all those are slain you can't harm the Queen.
I really want more bug monsters, that Orb Weaver looking Spider at the end is something I'd really like. They sorta imply Nerscylla is like that in the Ancestral Stepp and Volcano with all the webs strewn about, but it never really uses the environmental webs in combat. I'd love to have a Temnoceran that actually covers a portion of the field in a web that it then uses like Namielle does its watery slime.
What Nerscylla have you been fighting?- she jumps off of those things all the time and switches layers a ton
@@Sing_LoveWRScant forget the upside down combat bruh i hated nerscylla's fight
@@JapaneasuLuvboi lol, I feel ya homie
I want the Tetsucabra back . I miss him a lot.
I really like the early designs of Nergigante. The one that’s covered in blades and splits its mouth open! Very grotesque design and cool!
I like the final one but yeah
Looks way more unique I have to say. Probably too unnatural for Monster Hunter or something or maybe it had a different feel from what they wanted it to be.
I think that was a concept art for Gogmazios instead for Nergigante
@@megumin-staff6937the Gogmazios Concept actually is of a Brachydios subspecies.
The one they're talking about is indeed Nergi concept art that was also used as concept for Morudomunto.
14:22 Ant-Colony:
It could be safe to place Ant-Colony as separate zone you enter from Overworld, that way game loads you either by load-screen or seemlessly into Ant-Colony Zone where all computing power is given to these insects. Another is that players need to find entry point where Workers are and delve deeper to find entrance to nest itself and THAT finding opens Special Mission that Host then can start and invite other players to, that Quest then teleports players to Nest where you idea happens.
It could also work as Siege where other groups also join but just take different path on same nest. Perhaps there are "Control" Insects that control Warrior Insects via Pheromones, by killing them Warriors get disorganiced and weaker. Killing these "Controller" Insects makes path inward of nest easier for players as 1-4 group as well as Siege of 1-16 (or more) if it's Siege.
Loot from all other insects aside from Controllers and Main Guard before Queen is plenty but give mostly access to weaker weapons and armor with only great Defense rating.
Controllers drop little "Queen Gel" while Main Guard gives some of it by Carving and Mission Rewards you with plenty of Gel. Gel could be used to stick armors and weapons together better, it could also allow weapons to be upgraded towards Elemental paths in future. For armor it could rise defense a bit and while it keeps severe weakness to Fire and Ice, however Gel would increase heavily its Elemental resistance to Thunder, Water and Dragon.
Darn my brain went full on Theory Crafting on this as it felt most interesting 😂
I love Seltas and Seltas queen, but I really wished they went with the original design idea. Idk why but something about the males design being added to the female in that version looks so much cooler and more menacing to me.
Also while not a cut design I would love to see the blood sucking leviathan from Frontier return. It not only has a really cool design, but its mechanic of sucking creatures blood and gaining that ailment depending on the creature is cool and I think fits really well into the fantasy ecosystem that Monster Hunter has established.
Yeah i also love Baruragaru!
I would like to point out that Wilds will most likely use the RE Engine. The same engine as exoprimal and dragon's dogma 2. So not only can it handle loads of enemies but also snake wyverns.
Your concept for the ant combat sounds like a super advanced version of the original Vespoid Queen fight. Slaughter enough vespoids and you summon the vespoid queen but with a lot more variety and complexity.
I love how he showed some gameplay and most of them are the player getting obliterated😂😂
You know what I think would be interesting that I’m surprised we haven’t gotten yet? Herbivorous dinosaurs.
We rarely get huntable monsters that are purely herbivorous, as most of the ones we hunt in game are carnivores, omnivores, or rock eaters, and pretty much all dinosaur based monsters are based on theropods. We’ve had small monsters based off herbivorous dinosaurs before, Aptonoth being based off hadrosaurs, Rhenoplos being based off ceratopsians, Apceros being based off of ankylosaurs and so on, and Diablos and Monoblos both have ceratopsian horns and frills, but we’ve never had a proper ceratopsian, hadrosaur, ankylosaur, or stegosaur based large monster.
In the trailer we see Doshugama as a social, pack hunting monster, so what if some of these guys were herd animals. What if you fought a hadrosaur monster that used its roars to stun you or call its herd members to its aid? What if you fought ceratopsians that formed a defensive circle around injured members forcing you to fight through them or slip over or under them?
the main problem with making the target monster the weakest one in the ant colony example is that unless you do some cliche "locked door" mechanic, the hunters WILL find a way to get past the more powerful gaurds and attack the queen directly, ending the hunt very quickly.
I'm sure we'll have to fight herds or monsters ! Maybe not tens of them but 5 or 6 at a time, like on the trailer, it also seems like this would be an évolution from the rampagne game mode in Rise.
I loved your Ant colony idea, damn that would be so cool!
ok this video was amazing, really thank you i enjoyed it a lot. The best thing about this franchise is how it is such a kind welcoming community
The Green and Yellow Butterfly Komodo Dragon in the thumbnail looks amazing!!
Hunting an ant colony for its queen might be cool but I think fighting hordes of small monsters would get old quick.
What could be fun is if they use ants to expand upon pack monster fights and have the fodder ants pile on the queen to protect her, forming a large mass of ants that act like its own large monster, think Ahtal-Ka but with an ant army mech suit. Breaking off "parts" of the large ant mass would eventually cause the structure to fall over and have the queen be exposed.
If we really want to keep the hordes of small monsters idea, maybe the large mass can command a few of the fodder ants as part of its moveset (like how Rakna-Kadaki uses Rachnoids or Izuchis moving in sync with Great Izuchi). Just my own take on it since I feel MonHun does big monster fights better.
Thoughroughly enjoyed this video
Your voice is easy to listen to, the visuals make follwing you easy and also I just love the theorycrafting
I have another idea for the tortoise fortress. The fortress on its back is instead a giant termite colony. A traditional and grand symbiosis of two monster species.
This monster hunt is similar to that of Seltas Queen, with 3 phases. The 1st phase, you fight this slow, sluggish giant tortoise monster with powerful, heavy attacks. It's armour is impenetrable, fortified with the termite's defences. The only weakspots the hunter can attack are the exposed limbs. The head being the most vulnerable, but also most dangerous. With jaws like a snapping turtle, it's shockingly fast with it's long neck and bite attacks. Its stomps create tremors and a long tail that lashes like a whip.
After enough damage is dealt to the tortoise, the fight shifts to phase 2. The colony's host has been injured and retreated into its shell and half buried itself into the ground. The termite queen emerges in fury. A neopteron monster, modelled that after Seltas and Ahtal-Ka, attacks the hunter to defend its host. The hunter must fight and kill the queen while fighting back "soldier termites" to move into phase 3.
The queen is dead. The termite colony is dismantled. The fortress structure collapses, leaving the tortoise shell bare. The tortoise re-emerges from the ground, devastated and angry to have lost its colony. Without the weight of the fortress, the tortoise's movements are faster and ferocious. It's like a hybrid of Duramborus and Seltas Queen. I find terrifying to imagine this monster is now light enough for it's powerful legs can sprint like a crocodile when it charges 😂 (flashbacks of hyper Seltas Queen...) Killing the tortoise ends the hunt!
It is a 2 1/2 monster fight and you will receive rewards from both monsters and maybe some cool archaic weapons that we can reforge at the smithy.
Gastropoda monster type would be cool.
Mollusks like. Snails and Octopuses would be cool
The Ant Herd concept aged like fine wine🍷
My favorite concept is Steel Fist Wyvern (and it will probably be my favorite monster if the Monster Hunter team ever uses it)
the whole concept of a Leviathan that uses its head as a fist is genius
Lol I was wondering if you would be in the commentary section... Of course you are!!
Lost? I think you mean “yet to be integrated”
10:43 Also, lorewise, elder dragons are known for not being able to track down as "hatchlings", so that'd be unusual to explain after all this time.
The ant colony actually sounds like it would work really well as the symbiotic species for the giant turtle.
Now when I think about it, ant colony could work really interesting even as ”single” monster type of deal. Like, imagine a ton of those small things swarming into some kind of deadly amorphous entity.. Something really shapeless but at the same time they could construct various temporary false-appendages on a whim to strike a hunter, or maybe even try to swallow us whole..
So, an ant colony what forms some kind of lovecraftian ”shoggoth” kind of monster, and you have to somehow break it’s surface to damage the queen what will serve as a ”core” of this whole thing..
There's a spider enemy in Rain World who acts very similar to that and it's TERRIFYING. the swarm will all coalesce into a giant spider centipede
When I finally got my very first iPad and I downloaded a drawing app, I made my very own monster. That well was inspired by the desert zone and Monster Hunter world. I thought that this monster would be perfect for that area because of what it specialty is. I actually have a picture of it on my deviant art account. So when I saw the desert area in Monster Hunter Wilds, I was like oh my gosh, my leviathan would be perfect for this place absolutely perfect. It acts like a king cobra it has these sacks around it neck area. Well, if you can call it neck since it’s a serpent. That can inflate with both air and water, but the monster also can produce its own water itself, and it burrows and pretty much does all of his traveling underground, just like a certain other monster. that’s where it’s large ears and the sack on its neck come in it can inflate those sacks with air and float or well propel itself around and attack opponents that way by using it, razor, sharp, digging claws or using its tail like a club zooming back-and-forth a little like the motions that Rathalos does. But here’s the thing that makes it work really well in a desert the water that it either makes itself with its water or if it has migrated from a different location and has collected water, fish and plant life within the sacks, it can travel miles and miles and miles to a pretty much barren desert area and make a sinkhole like pit and can create an oasis. Because if their territory doesn’t have a suitable oasis, they are unable to lay their eggs. It’s a shame. I haven’t quite seen a monster like that show up in any of the Monster Hunter games that I know of so far. And I’ve heard about these books. I definitely gotta get my hands on them. Oh also forgive me thank you so much for your videos. I love watching them.😊
I really like that last example. It feels like a dungeon raid that MH, since it's concept was a medieval rpg, can implement
Given their newly revealed intent to have herd monsters, large monsters in packs, ants would fit perfectly! We could easily be fighting dozens of giant warrior anta backed up by dog sized soldiers, all lead by a super sized flying queen. Ants are terrifying in real life, giant monster ants would be amazing!
I would like the giant turtle to be in a game as a central hub, imagine a whole game about having to protect this giant elder dragon from other predators you encounter while it migrates because your village is on it !!!
Lovely concepts!
Wish they’d make more of those art books, or at least translate the other ones they’ve put out.
15:33 the you get the itchyblight, ur character will start scratching their body until you drink ancient potion
That ant hunt sounds amazing
so at some point we're going to get a giant earwig monster
I know he’s talking about the ants in 12:10 but my eyes were fixated on the pharaoh cat wyvern on the same page and now I want that thing to be an ACTUAL thing. 👀✨
if we're going for ecosystem
I think rather than hunting it, we'd establish a trading route with it. Think about it, they are able to traverse the dry desert, they know the ins and outs of the area. it's a whole nomadic civilization in the making alongside the humans, wyverians, etc.
so what if instead of a siege battle against the turtle and turtle goblin, we fight with them repelling (something), the flagship mon maybe idk (herd of seregios perhaps idk).
They hired us 😊
I think it'd be interesting. That 1 specific turtle people we reached an agreement with as a secondary hub. The quest to help with monster repel turned the whole hub into combat zone. The siege weapons and defenses you pass by when you go to the smithy are actually being used.
How about combining the Giant Turtle Dragon and the Ants? These Ants could Have made a nest on the Dragons back where they protect the elder dragon from parasites and invaders while the elder dragon itself protects the ants from Volvidon and Barroth?
Could even have the hunt have 2 Big Monsters technicly. The Giant Turtle Elder and an Ant Queen?
I think if they are to made a ant queen monster it would be in line with Rakna Kadaki
Her base self have 5 arachnids to help, but her Pyre subs have 10, more noticeable when Pyre does her ultimate explosion attack she throws out all alive arachnids
So we could get an Ant Queen monster that use Ant soldiers that are smaller than the arachnids, but there could be like 20~50 Ants with different types
that unless the player manage their numbers the fight gets harder
Wilds is the perfect game to bring back Vespoid Queen and actually make the fight GOOD.
Minus the fort on its back isn't the giant turtle-monster just Lao Shan Lung?
Would love to see a video on the races of hunters in MH, and the possibility of something like playing as Wyvernians in a future title.
Theyll add everything but new weapon types
I think the ant colony would be a great "one of" hunt. Too much tied to a potential environment most likely not versatile enough to be "re-used". Also the idea of an harmless queen to slay doesn't sound like something to be proud of as hunters (even with the whole colony in her defense), so i'd make the queen part of the trio. Maybe specialized in buffing/applying statuses.
I don’t think the giant turtle will be in wilds how you said cos monster hunter had a different idea when it first was in the making with having magic involved so that idea was more for that idea of the game but a giant turtle is always welcome to hunt
I actually wouldnt mind having to defeat 50-100 ants to lure out the queen boss ant as a quest.
I want ukanlos to come back in wilds, he has the best fight among all end bosses of old gen and his theme is better than gammoth's theme
Maybe the quest is that the ant colony is growing too big a bit and you need to be sent there to exterminate the queen and the brood,so you need to mask your scent with the other ants by having a dead ant on your back and kill the brood and the queen,as once you terminate the queen,you could get the queens exoskeleton,making it so that you could wear it,and use the mandibles for fighting other monsters!(I think it makes sense for jagrass or chameleos to be its natural predator,but since they probably left for other prey items or just left the area entirely,it’s your fault)
I actually really like the ant idea
We need Leviathan, Insect, Fang Beast
15:09 you're narrating Earth Defense 5
I want Dalamadur back😢
Whybsint there an Ultraman ref in MonHunt yet
More good looking WEAPONS that SHINE would be cool using this unused Monster.
Shargu's gore Magalais similar to the baby elder dragon
6:42 It's Fortroise
Interesting
good video i hope these ideas come to wilds
Ngl bro you cooked with the ants
1:39 how the fuck zinogore got no diffed by some raptors
He was dying to the frenzy virus.
Would be nice to fight a scorpion
Monk Snail!
DO NOT BRING YAMATSUKAMI BACK 🗣️🗣️
What I really want is kinda of a really wild reimagining of the flow of the game, with long expeditions into massive areas, having to survive and interact with the environment and fauna while chasing the objective of the mission. With big monsters roaming freely that are not there to be hunted in the traditional sense, but more so to interact and change the environment in a way that creates limitations for the player, to make us feel little and powerless in the wilds, something that the series really need to explore more at this point.
I think it will be healthy for the series to mix this new approach with the more traditional boss rush to create something new and refreshing. If they just make the same game again with little innovation, I'll still love it for sure, it's MH after all, but Id be lying if I didn't admit I'll be a little disappointed for the lost opportunity to innovate
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