How Monster Hunter 4 PERFECTED its genre - Monster Hunter 4 REVIEW 

You ain't finished 'till the grind is finished

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You know, monster hunter series did the same to me, growing up alone was hard, and depression didn’t help, but when I started 4U, everything changed, joy was something more frequent in me, and since I was close to one of my uncles, he started playing with me every time we meet In birthdays or events, and before I knew it, my father and older brother were hunting with me, that’s why I decided that I’m not giving up until i play every monster hunter 🗿

It was the same for me except in 3u. It taught me that no matter what wall I come across, and no matter how impossible it seems. There's always a way to overcome it. A lesson that I still carry with me a decade later lol

usually, I am a nihilist and don't believe these kind of stories until one of my grandmas passed away at the time MH 4 release and MH 4U carried me throught that time, so yeah I am glad that MH 4U helped people. Sorry for being a jerk and I hope you are moving forward and yes depression comes in many shapes and form is not the same for everyone. Stay safe and don't give up.

its the one that has the most pleasant story, the best presentation of such story and also the best pacing of content. its not super bloated like gen and XX where you have 100 of quest and monster to do each rank, which is kind of a chore considering that 95% of the monster are returning one that most player already know by heart. its not super short and easy like base world where you just have a handfull of quest by rank. in 4u i enjoyed the low, high and Grank. in X and world i despise the low and high rank. one is way too long to do, the other way too short ( and zorah and xeno are bad too). 4U had the perfect balance.

THATS WTF IM SAYIN

Not the most sold🤔 Do sales matter that much no but world is the better game

@@tankbeast8480 It really isnt, world is one of the worst ones. Its still a godly game, its MH after all, but still one of the worst.

@@MatthewCJoy everyone has their opinions. I really appreciate what world did to the overall presentation of the franchise. Definitely the best game in terms of immersion and with the best areas. Sometimes I just equipped the ghillie mantle and watched the monsters going on with their daily business like hunting for food or fighting other monsters over their territories. With Iceborne two of my favorite boss fights ever (Fatalis, Alatreon) where added. I’d put 4U as a very close second to W/IB. I think it really depends on which aspects are most important to you.

R.I.P. Chris, may you continue hunting wherever you are, so that when your friends join you you'll have sick gear to show them and you didn't loose your touch.

I lost it at the 4th different portable monster hunter definition

Good point. World's story was certainly presented very poorly. I think part of the issue is that a lot of the hunts that were given were due to aggressive monsters being found near Astera or whatever other research base was out there and that gave a weird impression since it was constantly stated that the Guild was in the new world for research and our hunter didn't directly participate in much of that research themselves. I do think that hunting Nergigante was a mistake on the Guild's part, though, since that did cause genuine damage to the ecosystem, but it also allowed for new discoveries. It's important to note that everyone was working in uncharted territory at that point working to unravel the cause of the elder crossing, so it kinda just showed that research is messy, much like in real life.

Yo, any new thoughts about the game?

How do you feel about it now?

@@kaden1016 I finished up HR (almost) and even though there is parts I didn't like, there is a lot that i did like and that surprised me. I won't be playing further tho, as I don't really want to solo hub :/ I want some of it's DNA in mh wilds :)

High rank pink rathian urgent was classic

I hope MH6 gets guild quests again, with rise and world they have brugh a lot of people to the franchise, now is time to show that people a real monster hunter (with MHW worldbuilding and graphics if possible)

Mine is 3u played it 2k hours but i have to say i never played 4u so maybe its time to buy it

​@@drpepp. I think 3U is better, but 4U is also good. I'd also rather play FU than 4u though ngl.

@@latinaparfait 3U is great but 4U I feel like is objectively better. 3U was my entry to the series and imo one of the best

1300 hrs and HR 999 there. I miss this 4u and the lvl 140 apex rajang gq

>seems to have a clear vision for the series in their titles No, they don't since world. Capcom completely stopped listening to community

​@@AirMage50 how have they don't listen?

@@ender_z4nd3r83 Look at how MH Rise/Sunbreak turned out. There's your answer.

@@wayofthekodiak3118 some people like that game and some people hate it what are you trying to say?

@@wayofthekodiak3118you realize rise is not a main line game how don’t people get this.the team that made world DID NOT MAKE RISE.rise is a place holder till mh6 drops and even tho it is it’s a dam good game.just like generations,or stories,or frontier you can basically call those games test games kinda pushing the limits of the series and seeing what they can add to the main line games like world,4u,and soon to be 6.

Based off of the games I've played, I feel like 3rd gen laid the groundwork for 4th gen, as when I went from 3rd gen to 2nd, I noticed a lot of things were different, where the jump from 4th to 3rd was not quite as drastic. Overall I feel like the time of 3rd and 4th gen is the "Golden Age" of monster hunter where I feel like the game series perfected its formula, with 3rd gen making the enrage system more dynamic, adding the exhaust effect, elemental blights, etc. And 4th gen truly perfecting the innovations of 3rd gen, while adding new aspects of its own with mounting and land verticality. I truly wonder what MH6 is going to be like, my main wishes are underwater combat returns (I loved it) and the healing flex returns (It was goofy and I loved it, also it made healing feel more satisfying with a bit more risk/reward).

I honestly don't know which you're saying is which but while both have a lot more stress placed on story than other titles (besides World) do, Rise (and World for that matter) has such a fixation on convenience and "quality of life" features that it has utterly transformed the core gameplay. Even wirefalling reflects this dogged philosophy of making everything more convenient and removing anything that any player might think is frustrating or a waste of their time, no matter how vital a part of the core design it actually is. A lot of people complain about spiribirds but even those were put in to lessen the importance of setbuilding, and conversely armour gives like three times as many skills per piece/set as ever before to make setbuilding itself practically effortless and any gains from engineering a set marginal, because people are more likely to see setbuilding as a tedious inconvenient waste of time than to see going 2 seconds to the left on the way to the monster to grab a few permanent attack buffs as a tedious inconvenient waste of time.

Hurts your hands as well. I always have to flex/stretch my fingers periodically when playing action games on the 3Ds.

Just play it on pc, it will never be ported

I've been hunting solo for a long time, personally. I wouldn't care if it had online play at all, I just want to be able to play 4U on a better platform than 3DS, especially if it's PC. And yeah, I know you can emulate it, but Citra has a lot of flaws and I'd prefer a version of the game that functions smoothly. All the better if it has kbm support.

@@vitriolicAmaranth I agree, but if they rerelease the games it makes since to have online support

@@caravaneerkhed Yeah, absolutely. I just feel like there has to be a monkey's paw if this ever happens, so I want the universe to know where to compromise.

@@vitriolicAmaranth well capcom is celebrating a monster hunter anniversary… and we haven’t gotten a new mh game announced yet, so I think it’s not out of the realm of possibility

Very interesting to think about. I think the main issue with these games is that they were the "PSVita hunting genre alternative". They were attempting to capitalize on the gap left by MH when it went to 3DS, so they were ultimately derivative, and a dying console made that even worse. That said, Soul Sacrifice deserved much better than what it go. That game's approach to story telling and dark theme was truly special.

If anything Monster Hunter would have probably saved the Vita. Players and other companies would be influenced by such a big move from capcom.

i held off on the caravaneer's challenge until i had G-rank armor so it wasn't too bad. the master's test, on the other hand... completing that was the single most amazing feeling i've had playing 4U.

You can say the same you said about 4U about GU as well. More so even, as the inmplementation of Styles added 5 more ways to play and master a weapon outside of Guild Style. Also, of all games with flashy moves GU did imho implement them the best, as, unlike in Rise/Sunbreak you have to earn them by playing well, and then there is also always a chance to waste them, so you need to master these moves in addition to the basic moveset. Not to say that some of the styles weren't better or more unbalanced then others (looking at you, Valor). In essence though i believe that GU took the mechanical mastery of 4U and added just enough spice to make GU a perfect Monster Hunter game.

@@WH40KHero GU seems like the best mix between old style combat (4U and previous) and the newer more mobile combat introduced in 5th gen (World and Rise). Which is funny because GU technically came out before World. I also prefer GU's arts/styles system over Rise's as GU's feels more rewarding while still retaining the classic combat as the core of your moveset. Rise feels spammy when it comes to the silkbind attacks and wirefall makes the game feel more safe. World has a lot of utility and tools to make the game a tad easier along with mobility healing and restocking which exists in all 5th gen games now. GU seems like the perfect balance for those who want flashier and more mobile combat while still retaining that mastery aspect present in 4/4U.

Thats because in my opinion compared to Rise/Sunbreak the Silkbinds are just a resource you can use that regenerates fast, while Hunter Arts (with two notable exceptions) take longer and are essentially finishers with which you are rewarded after a time of good play. Getting and landing a hunter art is powerful, flashy and very rewarding, and even after hundreds or thousands of uses it doesnt get old, while i can imagine silkbinds get stale fast.

MH4U is excellent, and I would recommend playing on Citra emulator if possible rather than on a 3DS. Dual stick controls feel much better to use, and having 3-4x native resolution is practically necessary unless you like squinting. I transfer my save to my new3DS to play online but otherwise try to avoid it due to its crappy analog sticks

Yeah, they saved the entire current ecosystem of the mainland of the new world because Xeno was causing Zorah to move further inland than it normally does, and it's death could cause quite the destruction of the ecosystem (of course it would have made new ones but everything currently alive in a wide area would die.) Nergigante HAD to be killed because it was stopped the hunters from stopping Zorah. It didn't understand that we weren't trying to steal it's kill we were trying to move it somewhere else. And since we can't capture them, the only options is to kill them. Then you find Xeno and the fear of the unknown kicks in, we see this (at the time believed to be) baby dragon showing power exceeding other fully grown elder dragons, though it was later found to be around the juvi/adolescent stage it was still something extremely scary and dangerous. Then they find the guiding lands and they find safi who legit saps the life from the areas it's in to benefit itself and while most creature do this on a certain level, theres like no life or plants in safi's nest at all clearly showing how much it's destroyed the land. Then fking Alatreon comes and it's like OH SHIT THE WALKING CALAMITY THAT JUST HAS TO SIT THERE AND IT FKS SHIT UP OMG KILL EM DON'T LET EM FIGHT THE RED LASER BOY BY GOD STOP THE MATCH. Fatalis: goes without saying. The only unnecessary thing I feel in the game is the breaking of kulve's horns... definitely made me feel like an asshole tbh but damn is that armor make be feel like a bad bitch. Atleast for the BIG monster bosses. Or the lesser ones... honestly I got nothing for them, atleast it was explained the kulu was fking with research camps and that Anjanath was being an asshat and we couldn't explore due to it's aggressive nature and strong sense of smell allowing it to find researchers and hunters almost no matter where they tried to set up. In the desert we see rathian and barroth fking with carts and stuff. and Leginanna is stopping the air ship from safely getting to the high lands.... odogaron is... well its odogaron it's gonna try to eat anyone and anything it sees. every other monster inbetween (not included the elder's recess) i don't feel super needed to die.

dunes night? 🤨

He didn't forget about Zorah. He ignored it because it doesn't make 4 look better which is clearly the point of this video. He said himself this is his fav. This video is verbal masterbation. It's biased, and he's not even trying to hide it. And why should he? The comments ( as of the posting of this comment ) are 9/10 other people saying 4 is their fav or his sycophant fans. Oh I forgot. The only thing he really said that wasn't just nostalgia was that 4 had mission based gameplay. You mean to say that Capcom figured out that a handheld gaming system lent itself better to small bite-sized gameplay segments instead of a whole huge console-based thing like world had? You're smart, you're really smart. It's almost as if they developed world and for for specific machines with specific goals in mind that those machines could deliver on. Imagine that!

@@altosforteaquax5083 Well the Point of the Video is to explain why People who are bias towards 4 like it, so yeah. And its not like its special in its missionbased Stuff, its from his Perspective just perfecting the Formular. I dissagree whit some of his Points about World, or overall, but I dont see it as a bad, or subjective Video.

@@Sunaki1000 This video is a veiled hit piece on World.

Ok sorry to come in way late here, but how the hell did you beat that quest? I've been stuck on it for months and desperatly want to see gogmazios :(

​When you're stuck just use Insect Glaive. It's by far the most busted weapon in 4U and much easier to master than charge blade.​@@erichdavis2897

​@erichdavis2897 it's simple really, stygian is a pushover, so you can focus on killing him first. I recommend charge blade for this quest as it can stun the heck out of brachy. Also bring a full stack of dung bomb

@@atlasthechamp82 Is stygian really that big a pushover? I've had issues with his speed making attacks pretty much unavoidable with weapon drawn, and no time to sheathe. I may just need to practice the fight though

@erichdavis2897 yeah, I remembered steamrolling him with basically any weapons. Most of his attacks are very telegraphed and he doesn't hit that hard. But if you want to cheese him then just use the insect glaive and vault, not a very good fit for raging brachy tho

Was expert rank the max relic quests? Or were they the quests that would appear on the quest board in intervals after a hunt?