Quickly Comparing Monster Redesigns for almost 13 Minutes- 

Monsters Missing: Amatsu, Espinas, Lunastra, Variants, Subspecies, & Rare species. Reasons: Amatsu- Couldn't get a working version of Amatsu's old model at a convenient time. Espinas- Old model is in the Frontier Gulag Lunastraa- Old model is a little too old to get. (Her only appearance other than World was 2nd Gen) Variants/Subspecies/Rare species- This video was already much longer than I thought it would be, and it got incredibly repetitive with 6 Raths in a row that have very little difference in terms of the modeling.

I never realized how many monsters had gained an extra finger in their redesign like basarios, the raths, and all of the pseudo-flying wyverns in the form of dew claws

AKA watching monsters T-pose for almost 13 minutes.

And I love how monster hunter gave a in lore explanation on why the monsters look different from old gen to new gen

The reason a lot of the newer models look so "dull" in their colors is because modern games these days use real time lighting to shadow and illuminate their models. Older games didn't have this luxury so their textures had to have pre- baked shadows and illumination to achieve the illusion.

aside from the obvious texture upgrades and model fidelity improvements, I'm a fan of how they've altered alot of monster proportions to look more like actual animals, really hammering home the idea that these beasts are simply part of a larger ecosystem.

This video has also shown me the importance of lighting. The monsters looks so color dull without any lighting

I've hunted so many Daimyo Hermitaur over the years, and I can tell you right now, I didn't know it's face looked like that. I dunno why but to me it looks really freaky.

I do like how the anatomy of the monsters have improved from the fourth to fight gens. I just wish they kept some of the more vibrant colors and textures.

I ADORE great wroggi's t-pose. Its just like when you pick a cat up by the middle and their legs dangle

So many parents are gonna be freaking out when they walk in on kids watching the Khezu comparisons. 😳

I always find it hilarious that the MH team seemingly designed Diablos and his moveset and just said "This is perfect" and proceeded to never change him, lol

I notice that most fifth gen monsters are slightly buffer and bigger too than their old versions of themselves. The Devs must have spent a lot of time for these redesigns huh.(EDITED, By the way old Alatreon looks goofy as hell thank GOG they redesign him more handsome.)

i liked moss covered basarios more, but it does make more sense to have none since his body heats up

6:38 When you're watching alone. 1:01 When your parents walk into the room.

Im seeing people discusing the lack of color in modern games, thats is not true and its because of the PBR pipeline; Old Monster hunter relay on color to show detail because of engine limitations, with modern engines using the PBR pipeline or similar the color came with light of the scenarios and the specular maps, in the video they show only the albedo base color map that not represent the final presentation of the texture in game because o lack lighttning information and specular maps, we are basically seeing in the video an "unlit" version of the monster

Another interesting design difference (possibly due to technical limitations): All the older models have significantly harder and sharper edges, while the newer models generally make the monsters look smoother. Especially noticeable on the Wroggi and Rajang imo. Also the older generation of monsters were generally more slender and less chunky (Narga, Brachy, Deviljho and Zinogre spring to mind). Sometimes probably due to them now having significantly more fur. But I would wager probably also due to them being more limited in how much texture detail they can display, and thus having to limit how much surface area a monster has.

Every other monster: colour changes, proportion changes, slight anatomical differences Uragaan and Lagombi: INCREASED RESOLUTION

Everyone: Monster are lest vibrant and colorful.... Brachy : hold my slime...

Nice to see kirin trimmed his beard before he went to the new world

As much as I love the GU designs from a nostalgia standpoint, the updated renders for 5th-gen are just wonderfully realized. They feel so alive and full of personality

This video doesn’t capture things like Brachydios’ metallic sheen or Astalos’ wing iridescence because of the fact SFM doesn’t do PBR.

6:03 Nah why does baggi gu model look like it did something mischievous 💀

i feel the old world versions are more vibrant on average which i prefer personally, also mossy basarios and the more pronounced rath wing patterns

Super cool video as always. This is the first side by side comparison I've seen of the old and new models so it's really cool to see how they changed. The difference in detail of the monsters is astronomical, it's really cool to see. And I appreciate the work you did for the video because I'm sure it was a lot. i would also be interested to see more experimentation with these old models and to know if there was anything interesting about them, like what you do with the new models.

so for most of them they just made the proportions bigger/thiccer. got it. also, 1. I forgot how big the beaks on the kut ku line were compared to now, like jesus christ 2. I also forgot how coke'd out rajang looked in old gen 3. I love that Great Wroggi still looks like they only have 1 brain cell just now its being shared between the 2 of them 4. Shaggy has elf ears????? since fucking when? why did I never notice this? he was my single most fought mosnter back in gen 4

I actually like Deviljho's older model better, over his "World" incarnation. It just looks more meaner and menacing.

Man. I never noticed that the leap in design between MHGU and MHW was THIS massive

I find Royal Ludroth really cute and charming for some reason, its just a floppy sponge lizard :)

0:50 I like how with every new model small things change like Diablos pinky finger and how useless it is so it shrunk so I like to think every new model evolves

Peak MH monster design 1:02

There’s for sure some which look great with the new models, but I really miss the more drastic differences of old gen. Not even just the duller colors, which I do hate, but like for example Rathian’s wings. Her patterns are just basically gone with how much they dulled them. The absolute best upgrade is what Rise did with Astalos’s wings imo, how gorgeous they are in full rainbow color. The worst, and I will stand on this hill forever, is what World did to Zinogre. Whyyyy does his face look like that it’s like the exact opposite of what they did for Fatalis and its bizarre

Great baggi just wznt from evil thinking to evil idea 5:58

Been a fan since the PSP era and this is a real neat video. It's interesting to see how a lot of the more vibrant colored monsters became less vibrant and vise-versa over the years. It's also impressive how many of the GU monsters still look fantastic!

tbh Rise has really good textures, the pc port was also very well done

I love how the in game explanation of why the designes are fifferent in World, Gu, and Rise boils down to "one's from the new world, and the other is from the old world" wich, ecologically makes sense

I like how their official explanation for the slight differences is because of regional differences. Oceaniz made a video about it called Obscure Monster Hunter Lore if y'all are wondering :)

I bought the artbook for World so I could write a paper for college on how it handles symbolism related to life and death and they include a bunch of lore blurbs to explain why monsters in World look and behave so different from their "old world" counterparts It's super neat attention to detail that just solidifies why I adore this series (Example from the book, Rathalos' changed apperance, especially in the face, is to help with nest building since New World Rathalos will mate with multiple Rathians instead of just one like old world Rathalos and then pick a preferred female to focus most of their attention on with caretaker duties. It also explains why New World Rathians tend to be more airborn than old world ones since some of them have to do all the baby raising duties alone if they aren't favored which means more flying around to find food and putting nests in more hostile terrain to protect them from ground predators)

Man the upgrade in graphical limitations and engine use really shows how far we've come with the franchise. Everything looks so much tidier in World and Rise compared to the older games. Makes me even more excited for Wilds

Me and my friend like to go on rants and arguments and try to see which is better, brightly colored monsters? (older MH titles) or realistically colored monsters? (MHW and MHR) We tend to argue for 20 minutes, and maybe even an hour. We would even pull up images of monsters and talk about how a brightly colored monster would stick out in its environment, while monsters with duller colors would realistically blend in with it, and so on and so forth.

I don't think I ever realized Valstrax was so cute. They're just a handsome little birdy

really interesting to see that even with tecnology limitations, the designs already reaflected all (or almost all) the morfology they had thought for the monsters

i think my favorite changes to the new designs is the eyes, they look WAAAAYYYY more defined and actually give the monsters character rather than just this blank stare of 4 polygons

While the old models have more vibrant colors, I personally perfer the new ones. The scales and fur of certain monsters have so much detail and depth to them. I also like the little details they have like Kushala's rusty discoloration on its face.

Seeing the comparisons has me at an impasse for each monster. Some almost look better in the Old World, but then you have certain areas on the monsters that do a better detail showing of them in World/Rise. But for the most part, certain lighting and textures can really scream which feels more right on the monster as a whole.

For that time they did a great job modeling and texturizing those monster! they still looking good! INCREDIBLE!

I also never knew khezu had what looks like teeth in its tail hole. Thank you graciously for this knowledge.

この違いは住んでいる環境によって違いが出ていると説明があります。 上手い例え方は浮かびませんが、インド象とアフリカ象の地味な違いみたいな感じですよね。 技術的なUIの変更をこの様に説明をして世界観を広げるのはとても素晴らしいですよね！ The explanation for this difference is that it depends on the environment in which you live. I can't think of a good analogy, but it's like the subtle difference between Indian elephants and African elephants. It's great to be able to explain technical UI changes like this and expand the worldview!

Thank you for reminding me that Basarios got into Rise but Gravios, his freaking adult form, did not. I am sad once again. Jokes aside, the textures and actual proportions look so much better nowadays, its interesting to see how its evolved. One of the big things for me is the eyes in 5th gen. They're more prominent and expressive now. Old Jho looks like he's wearing freaking sunglasses.

Amazing what a higher poly count can do. So nice to see some glow ups on many of the monsters.

Oh hey! You can see Khezu's vestigial eyes in the old one, it's a tiny yellow dot! Just above the mouth. Pretty sure that's an eye, could be a nostril. Ah, now I see that it looks so much sillier. Looks more forward and much harder to see on new khezu.

Hey 3d artist from the game industry :) The reason the new models look more “dull” is because they are showing the base colour map and that is only one of the many maps we use in the game engine so that lighting will react properly once everything is put together ingame While the old games put everything into the base colour and even add fake lighting and contrasting colours to make the base colour stand out to counter the really bad lighting tech back then :) So yes if you look at just the base colour then the old games would look better but the final product speaks for itself ingame😅

I kinda wish some of these newer monsters were more vibrant like the old ones.

Love how MH got a lore about the differences of the old and new gen monsters. I soo Love this series!!

No way, Hart's theme-!!!! I feel like I'm gonna blow up from the nostalgia! I just can never get enough of it!

1:17 You get to see something mildly uncomfortable

Love the world ones, but I do wish their colours were as sharp as the old ones, they all look so dull by comparison Also so happy I'm not crazy Yian Grugas wings fully changed

Basically they are more robust with finer lines and more added details, and I love that.

昔からやってたからこそ好きな作品のこういった進化を見ることができるのは嬉しすぎる

Guildmarms: "the guild wants you to find the difference between this picture (deviljho) and this picture (deviljho) Hunters: "it's the same picture"

The reflections on their scales (especially nergigante, you get hints of blues and purples in realistic ways) is freaking beautiful in-game. Monster hunter world is a beautiful game. It really surprises me how big an impact the lighting has and how they added different textures (matte, gloassy, etc) in such smart ways. It really felt like they understood what the designs were going for, and now they can finally create them in high def--its stylized but still feel realistic, love the art direction of mhw, excited to see what wilds has in store!

I find it interesting how the older games put the shading in the textures rather than letting the lighting engine handle it (because. It couldn't. Lol). I'm such a big fan of 6th generation console graphics, and Monster Hunter has basically been working with those limitations up until Generations Ultimate

idk if it’s just me, but I really prefer the older versions of the rath and alatreon models specifically. same for fatalis, but only for his wings. (I hate the stupid fabric-like wings that people seem obsessed with giving dragons lol). imo they look both more unique and more aesthetically pleasing, especially the vibrancy of the raths and the uniqueness of ala’s wings. it was more similar to kushala’s I think, but now they made them more.. normal? and I don’t understand why they’d want to do that at all

wwooooww can't wait to see you making the old monster cutscenes into the new gen 🤩🤩🤩🔥🔥🔥🙏🙏

4:00 I dunno about ya’ll but personally, Rajang has always terrified me..

The neutral lighting betrays HD Khezu. His skin has an actual pearlescent tone to it now. I love it.

Would love to see a comparison like this with the MH Stories models added. The old models were a middle ground between realism and stylization while Stories and World went all in on stylization and realism respectively. Seeing the three styles directly compared like this would be really interesting.

3rd gen Rathalos my beloved! Nargacuga with a slim body and wyvern teeth too, not to mention Tigrex with lips I really can’t be the only one that misses the old designs, maybe next gen rathalos will get his red face back, who knows

10:15 GIVE IT BACK CAPCOM. GIVE THE BEARD BACK

Its crazy that only in base color view u can really see the detail in the texture in the new gen models otherwise u just "feel" the detail

the awkward moment when your family walks in while khezu is on screen

I find it weird that for some of the redesigns the original colors are less bright or are removed

Tbh I don't know if I have a preference between the old and new models, if nothing else I just appreciate how cool and unique so many of the designs are overall.

昔と今でモンスターの姿が違っても モンハンは生息地に合わせた進化を遂げた と理由付けがなされてるのが面白い

I liked the deeper, narrower body plan of the old Rajang. It looked like an actual cursorial animal, like a mandrill. That kind of deep chest also packs on a lot more axial muscle in real life and allows for more dynamic spinal motion. The new design has had a restructured torso that looks much more human and makes it appear stiffer.

6:01 i dont remember the greats being in GU

Bro they took tigrex's lips

I can't imagine the hours of work behind each monster design

I love these kind of videos!

the redesigns are more realistic/detailed, but the older ones are nostalgic

My favorite redesign has to be the Garuga, the team went out of their way to remade entirely its wings to make them more realistic, such a small detail yet very appreappreciated since I always hated the way the wings of some monsters I also love the Zinogre’s design in World, with its more lean body

My brain hurts looking at both of these at the same time. 😵

Missed opportunity to use Khezu's theme during that part of the showcase XD

I got into Monster Hunter with World (cause my local pawn shop ALWAYS had it playing on the TVs). It absolutely blows my mind how good the models and gameplay were for the older games.

Just for the sillies, I'd love to see the regular series' Monsters compared to the ones in Stories (1-2) someday. Maybe an April Fool's kind of video or something. 😂

Even with the evolution of the monsters it feels like lots of details are missing compared to the older models imo. Wilds got the color correction right for rathalos at the very least.

Gore's wings being made more tattered and more like a cape is an awesome touch

This shows that their models were ALWAYS flawless. Only made for different consoles. But even old monster hunter games look so good and high quality still.

Makes you really appreciate the detail they put into world and rise 😊

MHRise版のジンオウガが尻尾断面や帯電モーション(効果音)だけでなく 細部のデザインもMHWorld版から流用した上でリデザインしているのが分かって感動を覚えてしまった。 MHWildsだとMHWorld版を継承しそうだけど、前脚の筋肉は 超帯電状態限定でも良いから従来作並に肥大化して欲しいなぁ

While I adore the amount of detail of the new models, I just wish certain colors weren't as washed out in comparison to previous gens, I know that's a matter of art direction at this point, but on certain monsters I prefer their previously slightly more saturared/bright colors.

idk why but I find this combination of music and close-ups very funny

The biggest improvement IMO are the wings. Them being bigger, with more defined patterns and less tatters not only just makes them visually much nicer to look at, but also more believable, because y'know, they're bigger.

Yian Garuga definitely got the glowiest glow-up of all glow-ups

1:07 well, this looks familiar

I like how most of our more dragon-like ones got more proportional to being “real”. Larger wings, sleeker heads, and sometimes thinner bodies.

そもそも昔の時点でデザインが優秀すぎるよね、みんなカッコイイ

This is a great reference for drawing some of these monsters

A lot of them seem to share a common theme: The old worlders are stockier with bigger frames and smaller details. The new worlders are thinner with slimmer frames but larger weaponry. And then the elder dragons are the exact opposite, with the new world variants being either bigger or less weaponized than their old counterparts. It really builds into the fact that they accounted for all the extra moving around that happens in new world fighting where hunters and monsters both scramble around the environments and each other a lot more.

I’ve decided to interpret a couple of differences as the regional differences suggested by the creators. Forest and hills rathalos are the leanest and spikiest of the raths, coastal rathalos have large, vibrant wings and robust black legs, and new world raths are duller, but bulkiest. Old world garuga have a taller mane, old world Teostra have a less full mane, new world and old world zinogre are almost unrecognizable, and new world Deviljho are a less diverse population and have an even more flawed jaw, as the brute wyverns face extinction