Monster Hunter World & Iceborne Retrospective 

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Experiencing Monster Hunter World: Iceborne in its prime was such a surrealistically good experience tbh

Personally love how the airship hub is so inconsequential it wasn’t mentioned in any capacity

There is one issue regarding Base World's monsters that I don't see enough people talk about: The terrible elemental distribution for monsters. The number of monsters that use each element for attacks is as follows: 1 uses Ice, 2 use Water, 2 use Dragon, 3 use Thunder, and 15 use Fire, FIFTEEN!!! The number of monsters that use fire is only 1 less then all other elements combined and doubled! Edit: It's actually 14 Fire monsters, not 15. I thought Dodogama did Fire, but they only do Blast.

51:03 You can see the captured monsters in Astera They get displayed on a platform simmilar to the one from Seliana, it's located left of the entrence to your house, kinda where the research guy hangs out, you walk past it at 41:35

The real problem with Astera/Seliana is how they weren't made as the rightful session hub, given for its size. So much space to walk around and yet it's only accessible for single player. Rise corrected this aspect with Kamura Village.

Hear me out: I like the guiding lands. Now, I know this is unpopular, but I have a reason. I don't care much about augments, or the new drops. I also mostly played at the point where metal raths and brute and the like had event quests that didn't require guiding lands. I like guiding lands because I can load up world, hop in the guiding lands, and just wander around. I don't have to pick quests, load in and out, any of that. I can just wander and fight whatever shows up. The system has problems, horrible problems, but I like the guiding lands.

my take on the palicos in world is the fact that it made your 1 cat feel more personal rather than having a lot of different cats /dogs in rise. After spending an ungodly amount of time making my palico and palamute in rise I felt sad that they just weren't strong enough, if they can go back in a sense where their abilities were based on their tools rather than a class I'd be very happy

The guiding lands do give normal monster mats but when you talk to the handler and she gives you those mat rewards

Honestly I see World as a great foundation reset. Not a de facto improvement, but certainly a fantastic benchmark for future games to branch off from.

I'm a 3rd fleeter and fell in love with monster hunter in the old style. Then world blew me away and now I'm one of those who just can't go back. I understand why some miss the more complex and pondersome style of the old titles, but for me, the quality of life changes and the intense action of post world monster hunter is straight up crack and I'm hopelessly addicted.

I don’t care if someone started later or earlier with Monster Hunter, I’m just glad for a game that was so amazingly fun and rewarding that I tried some of the other games to see what the whole series had to offer. The series is fun, especially in a generation of games where that is starting to feel like an optional thing with devs and publishers.

The issue with leviathans is how their necks and bodies would have interacted with terrain. Unlike fanged wyverns, their limbs are too short so they can't compensate height difference with inverse kinematics. Their bodies and tails are also too long. Imagine lagiacrus on a steep slope between two rocks. Every single part of it's body would clip into something. Rise maps are more flat and sparse to avoid the issue altogether. Same reason gammoth can't be in World - he is too big to fit into most "doors" between areas. World is Hunter scaled, while Rise is Monster scaled.

I honestly wish I could go back to the days where I've played World and Iceborne for the first time, it felt great back then.

“You could potentially get another wall bang right away which trivializes hunts.” _me staring at my sleep, thunder, and paralysis hammers_ Maybe I am a monster

Mhw was my first game and that first experience was one of the best feelings ever. I remember the mystifying experience exploring the ancient forest to my fears of a surprise anjanath that spotted me. I still love running around in the maps.

"Have both charms and decos be craftable" My man, I agree wholeheartedly. If only there was a MH game where that was a thing.. 🥴

36:00 That player home is on the ship that serves as the hub area of Astera. Before you unlock it as a player home, you can visit that place via the big door in the gathering hub. It even looks a bit different. Sadly, once you unlock it, you can't re-enter it empty. The door will allways lead to your player home you selected at that point. So you need to start a new character if you like to see it empty.

I think the perfect way to do the camp is to have a separate inventory you can prepare with limited item slots, your camp inventory, where you can restock your items but only to a limited extent, but you can choose what you want to be restockable depending on what you *think* you'll need more of.

The issue with defender gear in my eyes is the way that it’s implemented. It is an available option right from the get-go, literally character creation, and it is difficult for someone just starting the game to realize what it is they are choosing at the point. More than once I’ve seen RU-vid “let’s play MHW” videos where someone wanting to fully experience this game for what it has to offer chooses to wear defender gear because it looks cooler than leather/chainmail, COMPLETELY UNAWARE that they just chose Easy Mode. They fight some jagras and kestodon in what they consider the tutorial, and then when the big bad Great Jagras shows up they think it’s finally time to get to the REAL game, only to realize upon getting hit that they take almost literally zero damage. This trend continues through all the following monsters, and leaves them wondering “Where’s the difficulty I’ve heard about? When do I get to the fun?” The game isn’t immensely difficult in the beginning even without the crutch, so it really spoils their first impression. Of course, when the first episode goes up the comments are full of people explaining what the defender armor is, and when they take it off they realize that oh, the monsters can actually deal damage. I just hate to imagine the people that didn’t have someone to tell them and ended up dropping the game because of this skewed experience.

Investigations were an amazing way to add extra hunts without making into a live service nightmare. They were randomly generated, had special objectives, and often required you to hunt multiple monsters or higher difficulty versions of monsters you usually couldn't!

I didn’t mind the clutch claw. But I was a hammer and sns main so having the spin grab and the shoryuken was awesome

listen i understand that ppl dont like wallbangs, okay? but hear me out throwing monsters off cliffs is the funniest thing in the entire monster hunter series

"They were aware of these balance issues" Yeah definitely, a noticeable amount of attacks where built specifically to counter how overpowered rocksteady and temporal were by either killing/pinning the hunter down immediately. Or draining the mantles duration instantly. Scarred Yian garuga multi fireball shot, Rajang literally ripping you off of it, AT Velkana tackle, Aletreon pin attack, all its lightning attacks, Wipe mechanics, Fatalis' bite/charge. It forced hunters to stop attempting to ignore mechanics or attacks for free damage by throwing on mantles and comboing it with clutch claw. Making the fight more engaging when looking for openings. And having some really memorable hunts. MHW had some low points but the high points were incredibly high to me that more than made up for it and let me have some of the greatest gaming experiences with my friends and family in an extremely long time. I'll always treasure this game.

As a vet that's played from MHFU. Iceborne and World's deco farming killed my love for the game. The amount of grinding was so obscene for an attack jewel 1 I stopped after safi'jiva and didn't touch that shit ever again. And here we are July 2022 and Sunbreak just dropped and I'm absolutely loving the series again. Fuck deco grinding, whoever thought of it should be fired

If you hate damage numbers so much just turn them off

18:30 Yep. This. 1,900 hours in the game, max MR and still not a single attack 4 jewel.

I really love the Steamworks. I personally don't mind the RNG or the mindless button pressing, it's just cute to see a man and his cats go nuts while I spam random inputs along to the song.

Based on how the new skill system works and Decorations now having "levels" of 1 to 4 (lv4 likely to return in Sunbreak) my personal ideal RNG farming mechanic would be to have decos and charms/talismans both be craftable at the smithy using materials, as well as to be meldable and/or received in quest rewards. HOWEVER, you can only craft Lv1-3 decos and the charms you craft are upgradable to a certain extent depending on the skill type like in World, but it will have no deco slots and only provide levels in a single active skill. You can then meld for Lv4 decos and melded charms can have deco slots and/or 2 different skills active, but they cannot be upgraded at the smithy. This I feel could balance things out. While you progress through the game you can make your own perfect self styled/comfy set, but still have the thrill to meld a better or god tier lv4 deco or charm at random to push your set even further. Level 4 decos are powerful in that they can provide 2-3 levels of a certain skill or have two different active skills. If you are able to craft Lv 4 decos and they work the same as in Iceborne that would be kind of broken imo. As for the charms you craft at the smithy which can be upgraded they would be balanced depending on how many levels a skill has. For example, with powerful skills that have 5 or 7 levels of activation, like Agitator and Attack Up, a crafted charm at the smithy when fully upgraded would only then provide 3 levels activation. But there could be an RNG melded charm that gives Attack Up Lv4 and Defense up Lv2 and have a level 2 deco slot.

Finally finished watching this and wow, it must've been a lot of work! It was very enjoyable to hear your thoughts on World and Iceborne with a more fresh perspective after you played through it again. Fantastic video, thanks for taking the time to make it

favourite part was definitely Jhen vs Zorah Jhen: cinematic dynamic based Zorah: he walks cringe

I fall in the category of older players who have a hard time going back to previous installments, personally. All the quality of life and improved controls just made the game better for me and a majority of players I'm sure.

I started the series with Monster Hunter Tri and World is my favorite, it's strange to see it asserted like such a plain fact that the people who defend it ardently are people who started the series with it. It's just a game that values different things. You kept hammering home throughout this that the live service components made this game an unbearable grind, but I legitimately never engaged with any of it. I'm not sure that I ever saw the augment screen. It's a game that has a lot of features that let you play forever, sure, but I don't think that I ever actually grinded beyond what I needed to do in order to get my set and I saw almost all of the game's content through Fatalis. There were a ton of varied, beautiful, fun fights in cool settings with good controls and phenomenal music. The vibes were on point with Iceborne in particular, ending every session with my friends by just chilling out in one of our houses in Seliana was supreme. I loved the 16-person hubs, if you went searching for specific groups it was easy to find full hubs full of experienced hunters who would flow from one quest to the other - dropping that feature was a really bad technical limitation that they faced in Rise, I think. I liked the video, I watched all of it, there was a lot of thoughtful analysis, but it was full of so many moments where you described a feature and then said it was bad like it was a given and it really eluded me. The clutch claw was obviously bad, the DPS check for Alatreon was a strange design decision, but asserting that the game was full of player-retention mechanisms in almost all of the facets of its design when it was damn-near the opposite in my experience was surprising. Also: man, I'm standing by the idea that learning the Ancient Forest is a fun way to develop actual, non-numerical skill and ability in the game. Learning complex maps is fun! I wish more of them were like that! Sorry for the text wall, I just started typing and looking back now I'm realizing how much of it there was. Oops.

I really liked how you tackled the previous games in retrospect, so I’m excited to see what you have to say for this one! I’d say I’m a MH veteran but didn’t get to play *any* video games until I tried out Worldborne, and it made me fall in love with the series again and video games in general, so it has a special place in my heart for sure.

I took my sweet time to go through the whole video and I still feel that you encapsuled a lot of my thoughts on this game quite good; like your history videos, these are quite enjoyable and I hope to see more in the future, keep it up!

Hell yes, I been waiting for this video for a while. Thanks for the content man!

Maybe it’s a bit too complex a design choice, but what if nergigante integrated it’s prey into its metabolism briefly- for an example of this, let’s say after a turf war with teostra, nerg’s spike attacks inflict blast (or have a wind pressure effect with kushala) for the lifespan of a single molt. While this might bloat the combat a bit too much, but it would serve as a reason why nergigante needs to be taken down- if it makes it’s way to the source of the everstream and consumes it, gog knows what would happen

The journey of playing World all the way through to Fatalis will forever be my favorite gaming experience

Playing through Monster Hunter World & Iceborne was a fantastic experience for me. It felt new and fresh and exciting and I still adore it today. Even if it has its fair share of flaws, I would love to reexperience the game. My biggest gripe, as with every MonHun game, is the Hunter Rank. And the introduction of Master Rank was endlessly frustrating because I WANT TO FIGHT THOSE MONSTERS, but neither I nor my friends have fun in mindlessly grinding 60 ranks. Great video, thank you for your content

this is the type of retrospective that should be in the library of congress. it stays focused without feeling like things aren't being explained.

Very well thought out video. I really enjoyed it. Keep up the good work, and thank you for posting it

Hell yeh awesome!! I'd asked for this retro a while back and you said you were making it !! My bad not putting notification bell on but it's as good as I hoped !!

I'm late to the party, but I have to say: Monster Hunter World, despite it's flaws, is the game that saved me in my darkest moments. From starting as a feeble hunter begging for a Great Jagras to stop biting me so hard, to facing a world ending Fatalis, to coming back to the start as some sort of teacher for newer players... It was fantastic. Wonderful game, and I'll keep playing until the servers shut down.

As a hammer main, I like the clutch claw

I started playing MHW and Iceborn in 2020 and I've experienced full and very fun gathering hubs, but I would have to look for them actively. It was awesome, so it's a shame you never experienced them.

Thank you for this 2 hour video really loved all the topics covered! I found myself agreeing with some, but also disagreeing with others, and overall great content!

God I’ve missed these style of video, SO DAMN GUD!

thanks for the video! perfect posting time im starting my first monster hunter world playthrough ever!

Just wanted to say I absolutely love your content and haven't missed a single upload for months. By far my favourite RU-vidr in general. Thanks for doing what you do and keep up the amazing work!

On the topic of Augmenting, I think that the reason power creep is included so often is that players simply complain if there isn't power creep. When a new monster is introduced, if the activity does not give improvements to their gear, they will complain that it's pointless, there's no reason to hunt a monster. Part of the game's identity has become "Hunt really fun tough monster, take it's skin to make a hat.", which is the fundamentals of something like a looter-shooter or MMO.

a 2 hour video talking about one of my favorite series, hell yeah, finna sit down and watch this

Always happy to see proper critiques of stuff I like. Even if I don't always agree with your takes, great video nonetheless. Still think Iceborne is the best MH has ever been, and I hope it's used as the standard for any future entry

World was my first monster hunter. A friend of mine got me into around the beta. It was such a completely different experience to any other game ive played. Movemnet, gameplay and the types of weapons and armors and skills. I really didnt have anything to compare it to. Skip forward a year later and i became the highest hr hunter in my friend group but yet I could tell I was still very green, I didnt farm, nor did I have any good sets or understanding of mechanics. Eventually I did learn and soon got rid of my obsession with blast and gunlance and picked up lance. Went on with lance upuntil iceborne. But before iceborne I decided I wanted to try out the other games in the series, seeing another friend was a veteran hunter, I went to him for help about some things i didnt get. With each convo he also explained some things that changed or removed from older gen. He introduced me to MH4U and that became my 2nd monhun game. I immeadtialty felt the clunkiness and sluggishness of the movement and combos. But i disregarded that as I wanted to improve. But what stood out to me once I reached val harbor and ancient step, there was so much character and detail in this lil 3ds screen. Interacting with the people and just wandering the map really took me in. and the lil nuances like needing to actually have a map, paintballs were a nice touch of interactivity into the world. Theres alot of changes that world did that I really enjoyed after paying through 4u. Movemnet, combos and recovery is a much smoother and less frustrating experience. the skills and armor changes are a bit so and so for me. On one hand I do like the idea of balance with negative skills and craftable decos (so much better) but on the other I can see how a bit simplified in how world handled it with so many skills you can have active at once and no difference with gunner / blademaster armors along with deco rng in base world was horrendous. World in a gameplay I perfer much more, overall a better and smoother experience that still keeps some of its old world stuff and that lil blend of gu movesets is a really nice touch. But in terms of world building, areas (and monsters but thats its own thing cause new engine blah blah) 4u and overall older monhun had that so much better with its intricate map design and layout, and interactivity with the world and npcs. I hope in the next mainline entry they bring back the old map design (by that i dont mean loading gates, i mean how each area is unique and those lil details of the ancient civilization ) but still have it connect, a mix of both armor systems would be neat and please no rng decos or rng weapon stones.

I'm not sure I agree with the point about how both charms and decorations should be craftable in order to provide the most satisfying gameplay experience. I feel like having a "wild card" element that players can't control is conducive to encouraging them to think outside the box and experiment with more builds that use the charms they DO have when they don't have the charms that they would otherwise want, thereby keeping them in the gameplay loop longer. Perhaps if there was a way to control what charms you get in some limited capacity, then that would be a good compromise between giving the player more agency in their skills, while still having some randomness to encourage players to change up their gearbuilding and combat habits.

This was phenomenal

I really loved the video! I am a new player that came into the series at World and while I really love world and everything, it isn’t perfect and I see all of the points that you make. I’m excited to try out some of the older games to get the full experience! Overall great video

Can confidently say this game was in my top 5 it was such a beautiful experience especially since it was my first monster Hunter game I remember stressing out due to nergigante then making friends online and defeating fatalis it was beautiful

I joined Monster Hunter with World, and I really appreciate your perspective. This video is great and your channel has reminded me that I eventually want to go back and play some of the older games. I also really liked your Hander video. Great stuff.

Iceborne really gave me that 'escape the real world' feeling. I met a lot of new friends as well. I am thankful for the experience and everything it offered!

Yesss I've been excited for this one

I agree on Astera being bad. Imo it's tge worst village/city in the entire series, I detest it. It's not at all built or designed for verticality while at the same time having the most vertical layout we've seen up until this point in the series, the lifts don't even feel like they were planned and only added after they noticed how bad Astera is to navigate. The placement of some of these lifts is horrible as well, like putting the ground floor lifts ALL the way away from where you spawn into the area as the worst examples.

Your point from 27:38 to 28:16 needs to be spoken louder because World elitists need to sit the fuck down and realize that MH games aren't supposed to be drawn out or forcefully stretched out with "endgame content" but rather explored from beginning to end. It's a game, not a goddamn job to put so many incentives upon just to prolong its lifespan. World/Iceborne's content DID NOT raise the bar nor set a new one; it just overcompensated for a Monster Hunter game with its continual release of brand "new" content and instead raised expectations and demands that just puts too much needless pressure on upcoming games when it never needed to.

One thing that has always stuck out in my mind about the charm vs. decoration debate is that some weapons were absolutely hamstrung by the change. I went about 200 hours without getting Capacity Boost in World. I literally could not get that one decoration , and I think I only got it halfway through my Iceborne playthrough after a story hunt of all things. It honestly just annoyed me, because I'd done plenty of grinding for the decoration and gave up to just play the game instead of wasting my time grinding - and here it was, after 200 hours on a random story hunt. I think those who defend the change never had to experience that and think of the worst part of RNG decorations being that you don't have the right amount of attack boosts for the meta build. Being forced into a grind with no guarantee of the decoration and being forced to awkwardly build around that one skill you need sucked. This didn't matter too much, as nothing was impossible to do with a Capacity Boost charm, but it was annoying knowing that I was basically missing out on using charms that had rarer deco skills because the game's RNG decided it wouldn't give me a needed decoration for my weapon.

I’m a new player to monster hunter, but i really really appreciate your absolute understanding and lack of aggression to those who share different views, a trait that is quickly becoming rare online… your content really is a breath of fresh air and i respect you massively for that. keep it up :)

32:40 , finding monsters are actually easy, since they have a spawn point, even without finding tracks hunt 1 or 2 in 1 map you'll know where they spawn or rotation, later noticed that in my 200 hr mark.

Hard agree on disliking the live service angle. I burned out on the Iceborne hamster wheel and dipped I think after Rajang was added, and I never went back because it was equal parts a slog and a drain on my patience. The drip feed of event stuff is not out of the norm for a Monster Hunter game, but when World was new, the quests rotating in and out meant that you had to stay on top of updates or potentially miss out on things until the quests decided to pop up again. Pair it with weekly bounties, and it completely changes the lens some people view the game through. You're no longer only playing because you want to, you're being incentivized to do chorelike things that you may not normally do because there's a carrot on a stick to chase, or because OMG there's an event only here for one week have to play right now right now!!!. The vibe is very much like mobile game throwaway missions and temporary events that are there to drive up player retention, engagement and induce FOMO rather than continuing to build onto the existing experience. Something about the experience as a whole rubbed me the wrong way and my interest to keep up with the game died off. Also deco grinding is hell and I'm not doing it a second time lol

These video are timeless love them

I've played monster since MH1 and have seriously played it since MHF2. MHW+IB is, in my opinion, the best monster hunter to date. Having been following the series and seeing the changes with each iteration, I got the feeling if world didn't do it's overhaul, there wouldn't be much left to improve in MH. Case in point mhgu being an anthology with crazy variant monsters and hunter styles. As for long time players feeling disenfranchised, that happens with any change. You have to remember these developers are trying to innovate as well. As long as the heart of the series is still intact, which it is, I have no major complaints with world.

Mantles are pretty cool but the most used ones like rocksteady and temporal are terrible. They made the game less fun for me. The problem with defender gear is that most new players are already overwhelmed by the game, they don't know what they are doing and end up stumbling over overpowered gear that allows them to skip a big part of the game. Then they wonder why the game is so easy, why monsters do no damage, why all the interesting looking stuff is worse than the beginner equipment and they don't learn how the game works. And then they reach MR and suck balls and the worst part is that they end up being a burden to even average players.

all around a really nice video. personally i can't help but look back at the game through rose-tinted glasses. world&iceborne was my first experience with the series and i was in awe from start to finish. i was too busy being fascinated by everything to even really notice the lackluster sides of the game. honestly even after rise and (early) mhgu, it's still my favorite, at least until i actually go to play it again and remember the bad sides lol

Monster hunter is for sure my favorite videogame series. I feel like I like each game for different reasons. I usually don't get too critical of games. But, that's honestly why I like your videos. You go into way more depth about each generation than I ever could. Keep the videos coming. 👍

Im glad to see more retrospective videso for MHW, the game and got me into MH in the first place.

I remember World being the game that introduced me in the series. It was a point in time where I felt like there wasn't a game that had everything I wanted, that scratched the itch so well, when I started hearing whispers about it before its release. When the trailer dropped I watched it, and I was just utterly OBSESSED. It was so cool. Giant monsters that are responsive to the player and the environment that were visually interesting with such interactive environments. But we didn't have an Xbox, and I was 14 so I couldn't afford it. From then I was on the hunt for the older games, I just needed to get my hands on monster hunter. Finally, in a CD shop with my dad while we were out promoting his band, I saw it. In a little bin next to the cash. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate. I was so excited. I flipped my shit and begged my dad for it. We were pretty poor so I was expecting a no, but he said yes, told me not to tell my stepbrothers. When I got home I started it up and it all just hit me. I don't know why, but the series has always been so homey and comfortable for me. 3U even more so, it just has this air of relaxation ironically. Idk where I was going with this, but, please play both gens. New and old. They both have so, so much to offer

So, Monster Hunter Worldborne is a great game, I won't deny that. But since I played GU, i couldn't help but feel it lost a few things in the fun factor. The battles were a bit less active until a good chunk through the game, the first map being as confusing and convoluted the way it is startled me, and a few design choices actively upset me (like no pause button and it being an Expected to Play Online game). But recently, i did start to appreciate some of the things it did not only for itself, but for the rest of the franchise and the fandom. Sure we got a lot more vocal gatekeepers and stuff, but we also got millions of new players and fans, and now they're helping pave the way for new Hunters in Rise as well. Monster Hunter Worldborne was the first Monster Hunter game I played with an actual friend that wasn't a rude, overbearing lardass. This game gave us Turf Wars, more smooth combat, beautiful movement, and some pretty damn good music. It might not be my favorite Monster Hunter game, or even the best one. But it damn well deserves my respect. And I'm happy that my friend convinced me to give this game a shot.

I just started playing this game like two weeks ago and I can already tell I'm going to be playing it for years to come. I wish I started playing back in 2018

"That we are going to talk about later on" in the tone of a break up conversation starter LOLOL

The base world mansion is located in the gathering hub, it's the aft castle on the Galeon used as the gathering hub. If you load into the gathering hub and run to the doors near the aft you can enter your room

I wish they bring back negative skills, it really gave each armor piece a personality that matches the monster they're made from. You wanna look like Jho then you'll starve like jho etc. Hell the fatalis armor had the opposite of divine protection which gives their armor description some merit because it's obvious that armor is trying to kill you in exchange for getting the power of fatalis. Also the best thing imo they added is health augment, high risk high reward gameplay is now more accessible and not locked to only the best speedrunners.

Fuck yes! Let’s goo! I have to go to work soon but you better believe I’m gonna be listening to this tonight while I eat dinner and roam around exploring in Elden ring

Everytime you make the aside about the Poogie patch benefiting the game I smile

As one of the many people who disliked your first MHW video, I have to say this one was fantastic. Your arguments were concise and persuasive; I actually found myself agreeing with most of your points. This was Joseph Anderson levels of scripting and arguing, well done.

1:32:00 I'mma hard disagree on the HUB scaling, that varied wildly, especially if you actually had teams of 4. Was playing 4U awhile back, did a G-Rank Hunt with 3 randoms and we fought a Tigrex and Zinogre, 4min, that's all it took to kill both of them, it should never take 4min to beat 2 G-Rank Monsters. On the other side some of the later stronger monsters were scaled up to be more difficult such as Akantor, Ukanlos, etc, but the difficulty could be killed just by them having more players and you being able to inflict more damage. 5th gen introducing scalable health meant that every monster could be fought in any group without the size of your group trivializing the monster with only your teamwork being the main factor of how much it took to kill a Monster. 1:50:23 So I disagree on this as well, kinda. While I agree they shouldn't have let you full restock, the one benefit I find for this is during certain hunts with multiple monsters the ability to swap gear is useful. If anything a limited form in the ability to bring a single spare armor would be fine as it would allow for players to not just go with the run-raw only option, possible a set of spare items as well for these longer hunts too. Fights are not built around it at all, my proof? Alatreon actively disabled farcastering and Fatalis damn near punishes you for it with the 20sec cutscene you have on the windrake. Then there's old school Fatalis, 4U Fatalis will delete 85% of your HP by brushing past you, Fatalis damage wise did not change at all. I wouldn't say preperation is gone, I still find myself preparing for every hunt similar to how I do in 4U. Also damage numbers....yeah they could go. 1:57:10 I'mma counter and say LR Ceadeus is worse on this front than Xeno. Felt like a slightly more engaging Zorah in the sense he doesn't really notice anything I'm doing. I was basically beating an old man. I've yet to meet Goldbeard so....no answer on that yet. On your preparation critism, part of the preparation feature I think you yourself might have forgotten is the armor building prepation with the exception of Raging it seems. Similar to if you go into Chameleos's fight and Kushala in 4U with poison resist and wind resist respectively it takes away form the more annoying aspects, the same goes for Viper Tobi and Blackveil, go into their fights with the armor skills you need and suddenly its less of an issue. You did do a great job of detailing the issues on grinding though. I think everyone can agree the grind to MR100 was extremely excessive, base world had it only at HR50 and if you weren't rushing the story you basically were around HR35 by the time you beat Xeno thus the grind was small to unlock everything. Very fair point on the Guiding lands though. I like it as a map but the grinding is.....tedious. Overall good video, I know it was long but I think you needed to look at some features a little more and why they were changed to be this way. I still prefer World miles over the old school due to my general displeasure of how the old games did challenge, the hard tracking, small monster hell, potions, hyper restrictive skill system, no aiming for flash bombs, village that is worthless to the HUB making the Village pointless when playing with friends, etc.

so MUCH effort is put into this video, i have to write a algorythm comment!

I very much look forward to these two hours

3U was my first game, and I have hella respect for the vets before me. My problem is when the vets shit on new players rather then guide them. 😔

I just love your videos and I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one with those gripes about the game (and possibly capcom itself had some issues since most of that is absent in rise). My main issue with this game is the absurd amounts of time it DEMANDS the player for most content, the live service characteristics just didn't worked for me and if you want to be a completionist or experience most of the content you really REALLY need to dedicate your time like a full time job.

this video taught me that lagi was present at one point in the new world and he's being held prisoner from us, WHERE IS HE, WHERE IS MY AMOR

Commenters were absolutely right in the last one that learning the maps is part of prep. The biggest thing with world and what makes it so much better than older games is that the maps actually matter. Go into generations and remove jurassic frontier and the game is unchanged. Remove half the maps the quality is unchanged because the maps are barely different. In world Remove even one map and the games hurt as much as it was when leviathan were removed. The maps are monsters in their own way, challenges you have to learn to be truly effective. Only in world could I often beat monsters to their next area because I knew the shortcuts. The maps are a massive evolution of the older maps which were just meaningless. The open environment was a significant change Even rise, which I'd argue has worse maps than world is many orders of magnitude better in maps than older games. It's not even a comparison frankly older maps were glorified arenas. My point be even if the changes are detrimental (which frankly almost none are) they are necessary to get better maps, which creates a much more dynamic and exciting experience,each hunt is much more repayable now than ever before thanks to the change to open that the monste rhunter team has always wanted to do, from the concept phase of monster hunter 1

I love how the monsters in world felt more natural in their environment compared to Rise.

it would be nice to be able to actively cultivate plants on a field and then be able to pick up the grown items

For the section on Astera I'd like to add that a popular mod for base MHW was putting all the important NPCs (smith, farm, etc) in the multiplayer hub so they were all right in a small area along with the actual quest desk

I think this is a wonderful video, and I appreciate all the hard work and time that went into it. Though there is a small mistake that i noticed, the Steamworks isnt random there is a pattern for the button. It changes weekly thats why it feels random. The numbers that show up after a round is the game showing you the patern so that you may write it down.

serious handler is best handler

I think it would be really cool if MH 6 were focused on the relationship between the hunters and villages. A cool way to handle it would be by having us the player sent to the village at the star of the game by the guild to be it's first hunter. A new village that is just starting out, many villagers already know each other but see us as an outsider and as we help build and grow the village it becomes more alive. There could even be no hunter hub as they just haven't set aside an area just for hunters as you are the only hunter they have, at high rank some villagers may set out to become hunters and other hunters come to join you. Some villagers like children could even want to hear stories of your hunts. Telling them stories would act as another hunt, but you would gain no materials as you are just reliving a memory. This would also work with seasons which I would like to see come back alongside underwater combat. Monsters that may not be available due to to migrating away can be fought by retelling stories. I would also like to see more minigames, darts would be cool to do with friends between hunts and would bring more options than just arm wrestling. I am not sure if Monster Hunter would ever make a game without RNG charms or decos but if they do I would prefer it be charms. They should also have an event quest for charm farming with each monster in the game. The set of quests would give charms with skills present on the armor of that specific monster. Having those quests set to 30 minutes would also change it up limiting the time but allowing you to do other stuff when on that quest, or they could have each quest set to just 15 minutes. For example hunt a rathalos and you will get 5 different charms at the end, those charms can only have skills on the rathalos armor. While there is still RNG, it is targeted and makes sure that all monsters could be relevant as you might want a charm with the skill that a certain monster's armor set is built around. I would also like for the old skill system to be combine with the Alpha/Beta armor, it would be nice to also have the negative skills exclusively on those armors. Negative skills wouldn't be on decorations or charms which would help players that want to use a full armor set as the decorations and charms could not only negate the negative skills but provide more skills. I like the old skill system as it makes skills more powerful and limits the players from being able to have essentially all attack skills.

I don't have internet so when I hit Alatreon, I quit playing. I never fought Fatalis and I doubt I ever will be able to.

World was my entry point into MH and despite its flaws and the very valid criticism older fans have its hard to deny that it's a fantastic entry point into the series. I played through world with some friends who were long time veterans and the way they talked about some of the older games made me really excited to eventually visit some of them. World made me a monster hunter fan.

As a fifth-fleeter, I don't mind the clutch claw because I'm confident enough in my ability to complete a hunt without it and can chose to. Unfortunately, Rise doesn't give me the option not to smash a monster's face into a wall because any hit during a dizzy state will force a mount.

44:22 This broken moment when you get 10 Celestial Tickets from this crazy mashine

“I hate 5th fleeters”. Those people need to cope, monster hunter world was one of the greatest games I have ever played and it made the series more popular, boo hoo I’m sad that it’s not the same old thing for the 5th time.

Man I have been trying to get into monster hunter since 3 ultimate but life always came in the way. World really let me experience monster hunter in a great setting! It did better to hold your hand to help me understand what to do and combat etc. i may go back and give the older ones a chance again but I really like the direction they’re going with it.