So I've Been Playing Monster Hunter One... 

MH1 was my first game I played in the franchise, way back in 2005. Now that I'm a lot older and better at MH, I've decided to document my experience playing it in 2022. I'm genuinely shocked about how much I remember. Hope you all enjoy! I'll be playing this at twitch.tv/cera_cymmetry for those interested >:)

As somebody who beat freedom unite solo, getting through G-rank is the equivalent of waterboarding.

Man I played this as a kid and the feeling of conquering a Rathalos for the first time was UNPARALLELED

2004 was 40 years ago unbelivable ...

Ah yes, back when Blademasters and gunners had completely different sets and it was still possible to get one shot wearing maxed gunner armor because it had weaker base defense but higher elemental resists(I still miss the looks of some of those gunner sets). The absolute state of balancing what items to bring and what ammo to bring was so real back in those days, I still remember when they first gave us gunner pouches, and my inventory woes were gone!

One of the biggest regrets of my life is learning about the series 2 years after World's release. i had ps2, and played on it daily for a few years around 2010 (got it first time around 2007) and never realized how much i was missing. I had no internet either until 2013.

I still wake up in cold sweat from powderstone quest. Old gen Gravios is my sleep paralysis demon.

I absolutely loved the medieval aestethics from first two gens MH. I mean, i do like every game in the saga, and 4U is a close second, but the first two gens have something special, i even liked more how the felynes looked before with their calm and more "animal" eyes and behavior rather than the actual way.

I remember Rathalos never stops flying in MH1

The original games have an unforgiving level of difficulty. I remember a few of my friends wanting to play some of the older games after playing MH World and I had to warn them that it was a totally different kind of gameplay and felt more like a souls like title for me. A few backed out and some of my friends really grinded and played the older games and ended up enjoying them even more due to the extra challenge.

I saw this game sit on the shelf month after month year after year. I thought it looked okay but never payed it much attention but the price- never went down it stayed at its maximum listing and being a penny pincher youngin I was focused on other titles until .. one day I saw it and I don't exactly know why.. I finally picked it up and looked at it, I bought. To this day I tell everyone how great this game was. In the last few months that the game was up was when I had connected my playstation 2 backplate network adapter. I was finally able to play online. Alone in my room in the dark I played this game all day single player, it was so hard so frustrating. This game was literally an adventure unlike anything else I played before. The action combat, the way your weapon dulled and bounced off hard plate, it didnt punish you it simply changed the game. Everything had function and utility. The environments were peaceful I could literally sit and camp in them, the tall grass plains above the swamplands, or the roaring bubbling beneath the looming mountain. The sound of nature as light rays shown from the mysterious canopy of the lower ring of the forest hearing the ominous music. This game was so much darker and more mature than any of the other games. It was filled with a dark realism- A real roguelike with consequences. From the Egg quest avoiding the raptors chasing you figuring out how to do everything without a guide or any help from any community, to printing out the latest info from game helpers that were playing about armor sets and printing out concept art with Hunitar gear that was comparable to FF. I played this game in the final months of online. Nothing since captured that nostalgic anime-like mmo feel that anime itself portrays than monster hunter did. or has since then. You can feast drink eat and emote at the tavern and drink get drunk. stumble around and get into trouble. Nothing was known too much about recipes and it was all failures and learning from more experiences hunters at the time. To the coolest and most epic fight to this day. Mt Shao Lung. I remember my very first time fighting him. A literal walking mountain. Way, way cooler than the modern games, it was mono e mono a race against time with how much dps you could pump out and not getting killed trampled setting up bombs hacking at the legs to hunting Diabalos or later.. the black dragon. Its a bit nostalgia but also fact, I be sure to remember this game because its very much a part of who I am and how I hold games to standard. If it doesn't use feel good mechanics like monster hunter then why not. Its the baseline standard to tell what's wrong in games at times and always a source of inspiration for me. I played it so much even after the servers went offline. To the very last day to the last hour I- you know its funny I hadn't realized it until now but I'm getting faint flash back memories of the people and names I used to play with. If anyone remembers Jenova lemme know! I know there is at least one of you out there :D I hope time has been treating you well. Well, I kept playing single player as a form of protest for the shitty hand held ports to psp etc. I played so much I wore out the reading optics of the console. I was able to prolong my ps2 for a while but.. I was able to get full black dragon armor online. Probably one of the few people ever to have full dragon armor set as it was only craftable in town. I'm sure there is a way to emulate it but still. I got my data on a memory card now, still. I had to comment. I love this game. To this day. To clarify the majority of the content of this game is actually online, to my surprise. [about 40% single player 60% online]

Man the times playing with a PS2 despite playing a ton of games I’ve never heard Monster Hunter not even on the PSP. I only got into it fully through Monster Hunter Rise and over time fell in love with the game and by extension it’s community of passionate Monster Hunters from all different points of media. I’m glad I became a fan.

Ah yes, the OG -Quests have registration fee -Weapons controls use the right joystick -No means to gather from maps without having to get into pre-existing undedicated quests -Monster materials eat up space at the inventory and the ones attained in quest rewards CANNOT be sent straight to item box. -Small monsters still don't give an f and would gang up with large monsters against you. -While this was something that's entirely new to 5th gen, the fact that QoL was so undeveloped back then made it hurt so much in retrospect: there were no weapon utility safety nets! Today we are spoiled with infinite use of Whetstones and a Normal Bullet lvl1 being available by default. Edit: Adding some more nostalgic inconveniences: -You can't capture monsters outside of capture quests, considering the limitations of the og game and how frequent monsters changed Area, capturing a sleeping monster could have been a time saver (OG). -Nearly every item procurement on the map is randomized, in 5th gen, utility and consumables-related items are guaranteed and doesn't initiate the "slot machine" animation (pre-5th gen). -The Book of Combos, and the inability to combine stuffs INSIDE the storage box which plagued the series until recent years. -Mining and Bug-catching used to be an economically exhausting activity because you needed breakable items to commit to those activities, which while can be crafted throughout combination, was simply way more convenient to buy... And of course, they consume space in your inventory. -Recovering health at camp was awkward af, you need to have your character do a lengthy animation of them throwing themselves onto a mattress (yes, they brought those effing mattresses to the wilderness) and take a short nap. Now camp-healing is not tied to animation, as your character heals automatically as you enter inside and you can do other stuff all the while.

Oh man nostalgia. My father bought me the original monster Hunter when I was little and I played the living hell out of it. What a great video!

My younger brother and I started on MHFU. That's the mh game we both have the most time in. literally thousands of hours. Such a good game. We even had MHP3rd on our chipped PSP's before it was translated into English. We were so comfortable with the games on psp that we beat the whole game in Japanese with only some dialogue and none of the text translated except some monster names. Good Times.

I've been playing MHFU through an emulator recently with the goal of reaching G-Rank, and one thing I noticed about these older games (specifically Pre-3rd Gen) is that the game is incredibly unfair, but at the same time, it has so many exploits that make the monsters act like babies while you bash their skulls in with your hammer. Its unfair in the sense that monsters have hitboxes that make you cry, and that we have none of the quality of life changes we see today. On the other hand, monsters can get stunlocked so easily because of the lack of KO cooldowns, flash bomb and trap deteriorations, and easy to exploit AI that you CAN do, but you dont HAVE to. Comparing to what we have today, it's honestly amazing how tedious MHFU was, it makes me appreciate what we have today. Having said all that, MHFU is a ton of fun.

Grew up with this game. Very calming environment i think. Different than nowadays MH. Ty for the nostalgia dude👍🏻

I remember as a kid playing this game for hundreds of hours and loving every moment of it. Outside of maybe various Final Fantasy titles, I had invested nearly all of my time playing on my PS2 dedicated to this one game. I was stoked when Game Informer finally did a review of it, and absolutely crushed that they rated it so low because they couldn't deliver the egg unlocking the 4 star missions.

Great video! I started with Freedom Unite myself, And I do kind of miss certains aspects of the older games. Not so much the slowness of gathering, but rather the feeling of being a trapper/hunter, facing large beast. Where modern games are more Anime fights against big bosses. I feel like Generation, World and Rise are kind of their own beast, I love the more twitchy gameplay and Rise is definitely my second favourite game. I feel like MH4 was the perfect mix between the hunting-gathering aspect and the flashier gameplay.

It's crazy how much this series has changed since it first came out

This game is the weirdest guilty pleasure I can name. Janky as fuck, but being the start of it all makes it hard for me to be super brutal on it. Especially considering how the G rank gave it a lot what I love most in Freedom Unite.

MH1 was my first online video game. I have fond memories of doing plate runs and trying to get my Eternal Annihilator and full Dragon Set to flex on everyone in Red world.

This is such a nostalgia buzz for me. I remember getting Monster Hunter in a preowned section of a game store. I tried it out and fell in love with its aesthetic and immersion. So many memories of online lobbies and the ability to unlock potions when you beat solo story. I'm glad it finally has its time in the light and the direction it took, but its nice to see someone cover the classic. Thanks for this!

The first Monster Hunter has this mythical atmosphere about it I cannot really describe it well.

I played Monster Hunter when it first came out and I have to say, it was one of the most exciting games I’ve ever played. The cinematics, the designs, I remember how you would have to swing a long sword/greatsword with the direction of you push your right stick. No game is like MH, and if it is, it took it from MH lmao.

I'm playing my first MH game now, Rise, and it's amazing how similar these games are almost 20 years apart.

Found this in my recommended and I'm super invested in this.My first MH was MH3 TRI and ive played every MH game released after that in the west, and I really want to see how the OG Monster Hunter was and how it played. Subbed man

MH World was my first MH experience and since I got a PS2 I decided to get MH1 just out of curiosity and ended up liking it. I appreciate everything that was introduced for the series and respect all the jank it had. Gonna finish it one day, although it's a shame that I won't get a chance to confront Fatalis here.

Not wrong about the lance. In mh1 it was bugged and the "piercing" mechanic was always active

man.. i miss Kokoto Village music.

I soloed the entire Freedom Unite's village quests on the PPSSPP emulator and I can say it was rough in some areas, but it was a genuinely enjoyable experience. The rewarding aspect of defeating tough monsters like the tigrex and nargacuga was an amazing experience. My family never understood why I played this old game on my modern gaming computer, but I never will regret playing it.

Great video! looking forward to part 2. MH1 was my yellow sleeve Monday gateway drug. You've made a point that other youtubers have talked as well that of the design difference as the series went on from Fantasy Hunting Simulator to Fantasy Hunting Action. Dos to me personally was the last of the Hunting Sim before they started leaning more towards Action and the 20min fight. With all its pros and cons of modern MH there is still the divergent other path that has not been filled or explored with the series of a more robust Hunting Sim. I personally would love to see the 2020+ attempt at this style again.

the old monster hunter here has such a magical vibe to its atmosphere to me, the world and all its charm seems so much more intriguing than the newer games, like it was treated with more care or something idk, but i adore the world in that game its enchanting

This was a lovely video Cera. It's so interesting to me to see how similar it is to Freedom Unite ! Same animations, familiar maps... It's like I've played it without playing out. I'm looking forward to hearing about your later quests ! Thank you for your hard work. 😉✨

Great video, this was really engaging to watch. I like the sandpaper analogy with FU💪

Very awesome video! I also started with MH1 on PS2 and it was still online as well! Was quite an effort to find a broadband adapter for the fat PS2... But Dayum did I play a lot online! Looking forward to part 2!

Huh, the thing that make me stick to MH1 back then, is the gathering and material grind

I think Freedom Unite contributed to my arthritis more than any other game or work

I'm halfway through the 3* quests as of last night. I remember buying this in 2004 (actually that's the copy I'm playing on my PS2 right now haha) and getting my friends into it. We even did the online stuff which was difficult enough to use I beat the game and have loved the series ever since. Projared started a playthrough not too long ago and inspired me to start playing it again, I'm having so much fun! Also, that's slay 10 bullfango quest is some straight up buuuuuuuullllllllllsssssssshhhhhiiiiiit

Super cool retrospective. Played so much of this when it first came out, but none of my friends could see what I saw in it.

i loved the heavy feeling the weapons gave me back then and like you mentioned, it was very important to manage your ressources, it was like a survival simulator :D i loved it

Damn, this brings me memories: I'm surprised that I got hooked into the game right from the start. I didn't play it on release, I think I first played it in 2008, but it was so different from all of the hack'n'slash game that were populating the PS2 that I got really invested in it right from the get-go. Looking back at it, I realized that most of the time I spent with the game was farming for resources and money. First gathering the Kut Ku scales from dung and then doing the "Liver of Legend" quest for money and spending countless hours at mining points going after those Machalite Ores. With that said, I still think it holds up pretty well. I mean, the core gameplay of Monster Hunter was already present in it and presented in a straight up manner: Kil monster -> Use its materials to craft its gear -> Use new equipment to kill tougher monsters -> Gather their materials and so on, its just that it lacks all of the QoL improvements we got with each new game in the series, with better controls (right stick analog for attacking was interesting back then, but I can't go back to it haha), better RNG, better monster AI, better mobility, access to farming items in the village, better and more rewards, less expensive crafting and purchasing, screen prompts for gathering/carving... If you take all of that way, you'll still get the original MH game, and I think that says a lot about how strong of a concept they had back then for this game that would eventually become a series.

Hearing that portable 3rd reccomendation made my day. I return to it every so often because of how good it feels progression wise.

Ohhhh the nostalgia is strong, I can’t remember if I played this or morrowwind first but this is what sparked my love for really involved games.

Freedom Unite was my first Monster Hunter and I've love love love loved the game ever since. Literally my favorite game series. "Proof of a Hero" still gets me hyped when I hear it ❤ Takes me back to Lao-Shan Lung and Jen Mohran ❤

Hell yeah Deathprize was my primary SnS I used online. I started with the Iron Lance line but once I got Genprey mats I upgraded it and kept using Deathprize for ages.

haha the bullfangos and tranq bomb fails gave me a good laugh. I hated it back then but now i miss those days. I remember that you can adjust the height and distance of your throws with the left stick. Throwing while standing still, sneaking, running gave you different throws

Great review bud!, can't wait for part two!

Hello Cera. There are things I agree with and things I disagree with, but I really enjoyed your point of view. I'm one of those who enjoy the more gathering-heavy nature of the older games and value things that most people dislike, but is a subjective matter at the end of the day. Looking forward to part two. Take care, sir.

I think if I ever played mh1 I’d enjoy it for the same way I enjoy dragon quest 1. It has a unique charm for its simplicity, even if objectively the game is incredibly flawed, it still feels interesting as a history piece, to see firsthand what a style of game used to be like.

Only really touched this on a PS2 demo disc earlier this year and while it was jank, it had its charm. It was a very ambitious game for the time.

So many memories. One of the first online games I played. Farming the plates for that end game armor, what a journey. PS2 Hunter name: Dark Knight Odin

Ahh I remember playing this game back in the day compared to monster hunter world.... World is super easy when it comes to farming minus the big monsters

Mh1 is basically THE game for people who like big big game hunting. As someone who played mh from 1 to world, i can safely say i fight almost like a monster (more specifically the diablos) nowadays with all the mastering of the gunlance. It's something else to be not only extremely strong at offense, but also in dodging and defense to the point it's just harassing all the monsters. I really do enjoy mh a whole lot. Nothing(god eater, toekiden) will ever play like mh with it's weight and precise controls once you master it.

I have never watched your videos before but you instantly had me hooked with "10 trillion years ago in the year 2004"

This is an awesome video. I would love another video like this. I started Monster Hunter with the second installment on the PSP. Which I think is a remake of one of the PS2 titles.

I may have failed high school due to this love. Had 5k hours total across 3 characters. Every morning and night I played.

My first game is 3u, and I used to say how it was really janky. After I bought a psp and monster hunter freedom, I really appreciate the quality of life features that made the game playable! Seriously, I spent FOREVER getting full iodrome armor and a iodrome bowgun, and i felt like it was UNUSABLE because of the god damn small monsters. Melee weapons are basically required solo. Combined with the fact that the psp was really not comfortable to play on, I just couldn't handle it. Now, I actually started playing the game again on an emulator, and it's a lot nicer to play with an xbox controller. What I really loved though was the dual blade progression. I finished the hurricane dual blade tree completely before even fighting velocidrome, which I found extremely funny. Mind you, it probably took me like 3 hours of mining to get all the materials to make the max dual blades, but I'd say it was worth it! Maybe...

Uh-oh you stopped just before the true rookie breaker mission. For me it was the Cephalos hunt with the Greatsword. But for most its the first Egg Carry quest. Surviving that as a true rookie to the series is a true mind breaker. Even then -- if you beat the egg carry quest, beating the actual true Rathalos hunt after is the a real challenge for most to pull off in under 50 mins. I had 3-4 different friends give up on the game on either the Kut-ku hunt, the egg carry quest, or the Rathalos hunt. None of them made it past and i was still left playing the game by myself lol. Great video and retro recap there! Being a long time player of the game really makes the game far more playable thats for sure. I revisited it back on twitch years and years ago while waiting on the Wii U's release to happen so I could stream Monster Hunter Tri via HDMI output. Its definitely helps you appreciate the progress the series has made.

I absolutely loved this game as a kid. About time I got online for the PS2 they already closed down the servers :( I never got to experience the epic online missions after beating the main story.

The total Immersion this game astonishing, it's feel like I live in this game.. gathering, scenery location, NPC, complete fulfill my childhood

unleash the claw

I had the incredible experience of playing MHF and MHFU with a solid four man group on our PSP's. I miss those times, following the Bullfango to find blue mushrooms so I could have potions.

Playing through MHFU currently as I miss the older generations. The new ones have some good quality life changes but can feel somewhat easy compared!

As a gen 1 guy myself (mh freedom for psp) i have to say, with no disrespect, lance is the easy mode kek

Freedom unite has a very special place in my heart. Meeting up with my two buddies after school and just playing the whole afternoon, while watching the newest Episodes of Bleach... It was a great time with less Problems :) dying again and again against two tigrexes or the fatalis.... Just wow. What a great game for its time

I miss this game on my PSP sooooooo much!! Many, many hours of fun! I remember cheeseing the Yian Garuga to get its whole armor set and greatsword lol!!!

I've been enjoying MH1 and MH2Dos far more than I ever did with World and Rise. I hope you'll find something more as you play!

I only played Freedom once, the first quest, after I had slain Fatalis with my group. It was clunky, and I don't wanna return to the game after the new entries being great, but the nostalgia hit me, even though I never played it before. Wish we saw more of the monsters and locations from that game return in the next entries, maybe even a remaster like Resident Evil 2?

World was my first MH game. Had a lot of fun with it. Liked it enough to want to go back and try some of the older MH games.

My first MH game was Tri and I've only recently heard the horror stories of the first game... the hyper-aggressive small monsters, the control scheme... definitely a ton of growing pains as the first game of a franchise, comparable to Street Fighter 1 with its later sequels

i wish they would split the franchise , like a slower more realistic game and the more fighting focused ones we have atm. i think a lot of ppl enjoyed the more realistic hunter stuff , farming, preparing and fight monsters. but some stuff i would like see to change like loading zones.

I've played mh1 on emulator because i was curious how it seemed no one mentioned it all, and it kinda makes sense why. I'm a 5th gen player, but i think monster hunter 1 has a lot of aspects that I like in concept. Namely, it just has a ton of charm. I wish I could enjoy it, but the dated controls and clunkiness make it impossible for me. I would love to see this game remastered, change some of the more broken/blatantly unfair things, adapt it for modern controls, and have it in HD. I'd love to give this game a chance, agonizing grind and all, especially if I could access multiplayer.

The first game I've played of the franchise, has been a long road so far! Awesome video bro =D

I still love the original monster hunter, I still have my original PS2 and welll into 5000 ours on the game, I still go back to it every so often to relax and get a hit of nostalgia

This game was awesome : immersion was insane ; no numerical data to help ; marking the monster with paintball to be able to follow them otherwise you could run after the monster, like a Benny Hill episode, for tens of minutes ; the "easy as f katana gameplay" didn't exist back then, collecting quests could be really challenging.

Some of the older games just have a different classic look that I’d be happy to see brought back somewhat. Neither over the top anime level unrealistic flashy gear nor boring over simplified realistic metal and bone copy pasted design. It’s more subtle, but each item has the spirit to show off what it was crafted from clearly.

Ha, I’ve just bought this last week. Will be playing through it after sunbreak. It’s gonna be a journey that’s for sure.

MH1 was one of my favorite games for the PS2 second only to Shadow of the Colossus, I had so much fun online.

I personally liked the old MH games more. They were more challenging and not so easy like the actuall games. They appeared darker and grimmer, not so flashy.

MH4U was my first MH game, and I can’t even bear to go back that far. It’s hard to escape the feeling that gens 1-4 were just prototypes of increasing degrees of success.

Interesting to see the concept idea evolved into what we have today.

I got this on launch when I was very young and it took me and my brother almost a year to tackle Kut Ku as we weren't playing the game in a way you're meant to play the game. We were getting bodied easily and now I look back after playing every MH game in the series and see how far its all come. This game may not be the best but it started everything and it's got a huge sense of nostalgia in the music and the environments for me. I'd love to see them remake Forest and Hills in the next game. Though when I play new MH games post Gen U, it does make me miss the way old MH used to be and I'm not really sure how to put it into words. The QOL improvements are super good but something about having to prep for a big hunt, make all your gear ready and make sure everything was in your pouch was just fun to me.

I love the the older generation, it has the feeling of monster hunting and teamwork. Compare to the new generation more like Monster May Cry

Thank god the series moved forward and put more ephasis on the hunt part. From a game called "Monster Hunter" I've always expected monster hunting action. If I wanted to spend 30 minutes gathering berries, then I would've bought Farming Simulator or something.

Im so happy my entry into the series was MH3 truly an amazing game which i still cant get the dame feeling anymore in the new MH games

This brings me back to discovering MHF2 because a memory stick I bought had it loaded in (PSPs with CFWs were incredibly common where I am). I actually didn't like it at the time and deleted it to make space for other games. And it took a year or so later when I encountered MHFU the same way before I fell in love with MH 😂

MH1 came out the same year as Onimusha 3. The year before, we were playing Prince of Persia and Devil May Cry, and the year after we were playing DMC3 and RE4. All of those games are old, but only MH1 still stands out today as an example of terrible game design.

monhun has been casualized into the grave. it needs an insane difficulty spike a la GL140 mons where fear is your constant companion. also for the love of gog: bring back underwater!

Yes yes yes, the one that got me into the series. I wish I can play it again.

I love that he mentions soloing freedom. That was my first Monster Hunter I played and yes I did solo it.

Oh boy, I started with that one way back in the magical days of the ps2. It would be very hard to go back now 😅

Loveit! Looking forward to more episodes of mh1

To Me monster hunter 1 is the definition of a game that is both over and underrated. I also went back to play through the whole thing last month and I was shocked how much I enjoyed the experience. I also used the lance and was a big fan of the Bone spear tree and the tusk tree. I feel like it's overhated more now than it rightly deserves as being untouchable mostly either by people who never played it or haven't played it in so long that it's just a distant memory. One big thing I recall thinking about the game prior to replaying it was how grindy it was, but in practice I almost never grinded at all re-playing it. Pretty much every weapon upgrade I was doing required only pretty common items like medium monster bones or earth crystals or something to get really far into it's tree, and since there wasn't a whole lot of skills on armor with a few exceptions and with the Kut ku armor only being around 3 pieces I wasn't stuck fighting the same things over and over and just sort of progressed as I was making things. The most time consuming thing really was making sure I had megapots going into the Rathalos fight because I had massively overestimated it in my head due to remembering it from my childhood being an insanely long and tough fight but it wasn't so bad really. Maybe lance is just that good in gen1. The right analogue combat is super unpleasant in certain fights or locations especially the jungle but most monsters don't really get on your blind spot that often so I rarely had to attack and turn the camera at the same time so found myself not using the claw nearly as much. As for the Bullfangos god yes, people joke about bullfango's and stuff still to this day but the joke kind of has no meaning in newer games where small monsters rarely interfere but good god are those vespoids out for blood in Mh1, Just trying to mind my own business hitting a mining node while 9 vespoids surround me from all angles is true pain. Fighting Basarios in particular was an interesting experience because of all the vespoids around him and his poison cloud instakilling them every so often, I just started thinking of it like they were part of his moveset as rotating drones cause they just keep coming back and being killed by the basarios even if you just focus on avoiding them. Is it as good as any of the later games? probably not, is it unplayable? Definitely not. did I regret replaying it? Nope was a fun weekend, even unlocked the postgame monsters. It also blew my mind when I realized the theme of the village subtly changes when you beat the monoblos for the first time, I never knew that and i don't even think that version of the theme is on youtube.

I’ll never forget playing MHFU in high school with the homies, good times for real, and long love the claw

An absolutely *massive* part of my teenhood, and one I *almost* quit after getting whooped a few times by Velocidrome during my rental of the game from the local Box Seat Video/Franks Rentals(the local game rental shops -- pretty sure everyone that wasn't just unlucky got to experience their own video game rental shops. Places were MAGIC). Never have I been so glad to stick it out from then, through all of the following titles(Tri especially holds a dear place) up to Rise, throughout all the ups, downs and hilarious jankiness(lookin' at you Water Combat. You were super cool, but god damn you took getting used to).

I started here at 1 with a bone greatsword and then went over to mhgu with my SNS, 2000 hours later and I can honestly say I love this series

Oh boy. This brought back some memories. Especially regarding gypceros. My GS kept bouncing off it I thought I needed a better weapon or some better sharpness. Come to find out by this video green is the highest. I think that's where I stopped playing the game too.

The little explanation of camera controls makes sure that my first experience with this game (if I do play it) is definitely going to be emulated.

MH1 was my first game too and more recently while waiting for Sunbreak, I dug it out. My old character gave me nostalgia, but I let my Sweetheart play the game on a new save (I have a PS2 still that has survived). My Sweetheart's first game was MH4 Ultimate and after that was World, then Iceborne, and then Rise. So... After all my stories of the older games of Monster Hunter I've played through the years, they were interested in seeing just how big a difference MH1 from the much more recent versions was. They were actually very shocked that I hadn't been joking or exaggerating just how huge a difference there was from weapons available, to the controls (They had carpal-tunnel after three hours). I had never shown them my old character and they were surprised by how much work I put into it back then and then came the big question from them... "Why did you play all the other games until Tri?" Yeah... So here's the problem I had then, Tri felt depressing to me and it didn't help that my friends grew to hate the game and dropped it or that it felt so much more slower than even MH1 to me. So I gave up after completing it, because Tri ruined my feeling for Monster Hunter for awhile and my friends I played with did NOT want to play Tri anymore. Cut ahead years after and that's what I told my Sweetheart, that Tri, despite that I loved the story and stuff... Depressed me. When World came out I was pretty reluctant to try again after all those years, but I gave it a shot when my Sweetheart bought two copies. And I loved it. World rekindled a love for Monster Hunter I lost and now it was also easier to find friends to play with who liked to push challenges. It also had me using the Glaive more and after testing the weapons I was used to (Longsword, Dual Blades, Lance, Hunting Horn, and Greatsword) I began using the Kinsect Glaive the most as my main weapon. Then we went into Iceborne and then eventually Rise. It hasn't given me that depressing feeling since then and when I played Rise for the first time, there were monsters I had never encountered because I didn't keep going after Tri, so my Sweetheart got to see me fight my first ever Mizutsune (A monster they've grinded the daylights out of on MH4 Ultimate) and it was incredible to me with the soapy bubbles. And now Sunbreak is coming and... Well, when I saw Velociprey I was hit by a massive wave of nostalgia, because it's literally the first threat you can deal with in gen 1. Honestly, I don't think I'll ever replay Tri, but Rise has so far brought back a lot of nostalgia and World revived feelings I had for a game series I dropped. (Again, I love the series, but it was really lonely and depressing with Tri for me.) Now I'll probably be fighting the new and returning monsters with my Sweetheart and our close friends, and I really want to see my Sweetheart's reaction to Velocipreys even if they're weak raptors because they're a very nostalgic creature for me. Now if only I can make a Velociprey Greatsword for nostalgic reasons. I had to edit because I have a few bugged keys that either don't register or multiply when typed.