@@flyann2 would be cool to see some videos cracking open the files of various mh games and discussing any beta stuff left over its something i dont anyone has ever tried to do unfortunately
I loved the original playstation version I remember seeing it in PSM and was blown away! The cover art had me drooling in anticipation and I had to buy it immediately on release still have the disk to this day for whatever reason haha! Looks pretty damn similar to this beta version!
I remember being able to slice Velocipreys in half in the European release version of FU. I wonder why that one got away with a T-rating but this beta didn't.
I wonder why they always only go up to the velociprey hunt. I think people might get the wrong idea and think all you do is hunt dinosaurs that die in 3-4 hits and collect stuff on the map. They could've at least make Kut Ku the final boss of the beta because as a new player this one might very well take 15+ minutes and is the first time you feel like you overcame a tough challenge.
It took capcom 5 monster hunter main series and dozens of spinoffs to convince the western audience of fighting something for 15-30 minutes. I can understand why they took this route.
@@soyUsernameWasTaken I don't really think it was convincing that was needed. MH1US is terrible, go read the version differences if you haven't already but to make a short summary MH1US was far harder than JP among a whole host of almost random changes that work against the game. On top of this MH1 gated a lot of content behind online, in Japan where the vast majority of the population lives in a single area (Tokyo) internet service was far more common and better than most of the world. As such the western releases had some of their best content gated behind online, which many would never get to play. MH dos wasn't released in the west, though it did get an english fan-TL around a year ago. MH Tri was a game on the Wii, which overseas was not known for its extensive library of Action-RPG Simulation games the wii was viewed as a family console. MH4 was a 3DS exclusive, and a game on handheld. This one had the best odds of succeeding in the west up to this point, and it did succeed. It should come as no surprise that most western fans either started with world OR the handheld games. Those are the only ones that from any perspective had a decent chance at success.
I still have one of these. I got it from a yard sale many years ago, and at the time I had no idea why I couldn't progress past the first set of missions. Didn't notice the "Public Beta" on the disc till years later and I've just kept it ever since. Awesome to see someone talk about it.
Monster Hunter was so far ahead of its time. Tons of content, great animations, online functionality, tons of customization and build variety... it's always been a franchise with exceptional purchase value but back on PS2 it was even more obvious. The only thing that held it back for me was the awful controls.
Finally a video talking about this disc! I own this disc and a few other beta/demo discs for the Monster Hunter games as part of my Monster Hunter collection. It’s nice to finally have some light on this disc, amazing video!
Surprised your memory card lasted that long. I blew through so many playing Vice City that my dad stopped buying the Sony branded ones and just got me one of the XL third party ones. Ironically it lasted until adulthood
@@JohnZombi88riiiiight, still have the memory card! Killed three ps2 tho: one OG fat, and two slims. Still have the replacement 4th in storage. My original game is missing, but I still have the strategy guide
Ok this is monster hunter content I appreciate. A lot of monster hunter RU-vidrs do is reach really hard for lore that doesn't really matter but this is unknown unarchived territory.
Somehow I actually managed to get one of these from eBay for 20 bucks a few years ago. One of the few items in my collection that I consider “priceless” because I’m estimating less than 10 have probably ever been sold on eBay and I don’t think enough people care about it to give it much attention.
It was tedious to play. Yes a true classic, but man this game required a lot of patience. There is a lot of QoL you take things for granted doesn't exist in the first game.
Fun fact, in the early concepts of MH1, ideas of adding dismenberment to different body part (head, winds, arms) are mentioned in one of the monster concepts, probably one of the reasons it's rated M
@@rileykopinski6026 My comment was more about being a kid and the feeling you get when just booting a game for the first time. You get that warning, and know its not being censored. You know you're getting the full experience. Of course its not all encompassing.
To be fair, many M rated _Capcom_ games did this for some reason that I don’t understand. I believe it ended when Dead Rising came by in 2006. But it is both cool and a little silly that there is a warning like that.
would love to see a full M rated monster hunter game since it looks actully like a cool idea for a not main title game of monster hunter ... I mean they are creative with those just look at palico dairys and stories so a more dunno horror themed or survival themed game would be a perfect fit for an M rated monster hunter title
On the Wyverian Elder in the fields... i DO remember somewhere between freedom 1 and 3, you could talk to him for free items a certain amount of times, but after he's tired of giving you stuff, he berates you for being spoiled and cuts you off. It wasn't just the beta.
That's the same blood effect they used in MH 2G and the main reason because i can't never play Freedom Unite the hit effect feels so empty in comparison, in 2G was very pleasant
There never was a MH2G. Dos never got an expansion. Though reading further you seem to be referring to MHP2ndG, which is the expansion of Freedom 2 (MHP2nd)
@@wishdere nope, Frontier was its own thing from the start. It did start off with online city of Dos, dundorma, but it already had different events and quest progression. Not to mention it didn't have G-Rank for a long while. It was also made by a different team and was under online titles, not spinoffs/expansions.
MH 1 blew my mind in the ps2 era; absolutely no one was on with me at the time. Freedom 2 on the PSP had the legend of being popular in the west and i knew Freedom Unite was a masterpiece, but i played it alone in Brazil. Glad MH World became popular
Eu joguei muito o MH2 de ps2 era totalmente em japonês aí tinha que entregar uns items pro pessoal da vila pra progredir e só consegui indo em foruns buscar ajuda,na época do msn conheci um companheiro de caça que joga comigo o mh rise até hoje
It would be great if we have the options to turn off the gathering spot symbols. I really like the gen 1 & 2 approach tbh, like embedding the mining points as the cracks on the wall, herb bushes between grasses and foliages, etc.
@@NafenX That's not really a game design thing, but an Internet thing. It's infinitely easier to find that information now, and there's ultimately only a few places you can place stuff like that unless you wanna make the game tedious and frustrating. The modern MHW guiding lands do have partially randomized gathering spots that are "hidden" like described, but you can only do so much in the modern era.
Hey cool to see this. The slice in half animation was in Monster Hunter Freedom 2 and Unite too. If you do enough damage to a Velociprey,Genprey,Ioprey or Giaprey then you can slice them in half. :D Which is cool but alas,you get no body and thus no carves from it.
just wanted to say i really loved this video and i think you should keep doing these deep dives - i will deff watch and so many others! i hope you make it big :)
That's so weird. Similar thing happened with first-run copies of StarCraft which were M-rated but then it was re-rated to T and stayed that way I guess. Also happened to TESIV Oblivion which was re-rated from T to M but I feel like everyone knows that story.
@@ammagon4519 Data miners and modders found uncensored nipples on the female character model though it's not visible on console through normal gameplay.
there's very little in the way of data mining for these old demos, hope this draws more attention in that regard because you know that US demo is hiding something
OH FUCK, That's the copy that i had! Now it's clear to me why the game stopped at the velocidrome. My copy wasn't official, i've bought it as a pirated copy, so it probably was the copy of the beta that the dude downloaded. Damn
If that's actually rare, I might ask my mom to find my copy. I was a member of the Playstation gamer advisory panel. I had that online network test beta of MH1, as well as another for Auto Modellista, Capcom's cel shaded racing game. There was another game that they ran out of copies before they got to my name (maybe resident evil outbreak? Something like that) and they sent me a Playstation shirt instead. The beta was fun. You could fight kut ku or gypceros, but there was a rathalos that would assault you during an unrelated mission. I remember there was one group of hardcore players that managed to farm him enough to have a full rathalos set by the last day of the beta. Simpler gaming days
back when I was a mear boy we had PS2 and on that we had the fisrt SOCOM, AOE 2, Hitman 2, BF2, Republic Commando and SvR and those where amazing as a 10 years old, I did miss out on the early monter hunter train tho because that did not come to Finland (as major) till MHW.. But boi me and my brother where sucked into it, because we played the hell `n out of Souls games and I to this day still love it.. (Souls `n MH are the goats in my heart)
I never played the og monster hunter back when I grew up on the ps2, but when netflix was lovefilm and you could rent games, I rented a copy of this game so I could try it out, was a lot of fun. I mainly got into the series through freedom unite, and now that I think about it, I think I might have originally played the demo version of it before my dad got the game and put on my PSP, although at that time I had absolutely no clue what I was doing in the game lol(I was rather young then)
BRUV!! That blue disc binder case with the Sony logo, I HAD ONE LOL...except it was the Gamearts logo instead, but as soon as I saw the binder I went back in time lol
I'm still looking for a US version where the E3 trailer, in cartoonish emote part, it was Rathalos on the area. They swapped with Rathian later after you slay Rathian
I've been trying to get into Monster Hunter a couple of times now, but somehow it still hasn't clicked. Should I start with this one? It looks like so much fun!
I played the OG monster Hunter on the PS2.. online, with the bulky modem and all the required bits... went online to make an account so I could then log into it on my PS2.. I ended up beating the game and then becoming a pro stun-locker for Rathalos so I could farm the plates...
Originally it's because a lot of the footage I used are from older games ( weird aspect ratios, lower quality) so it helps with that, and if I ever need to subtitle it gives me room, but ultimately it ends up being a stylistic choice that helps people recognize the channel :)
BRUV!!! That blue and black CD holder/binder!!! I had one! Lol, I mean except instead of Sony logo it had an off brand like Gamearts or something, I can't remember, but it was the same otherwise!! Man, that sent me back..
You'd be surprised about the Velociprey slicing but, in Freedom Unite, you can slice the Velociprey in half, but it was very short like in the clip. Strangely enough, Unite somewhat feel a bit like beta MH 1 for the blood spewing out and the velociprey cut in half, imo.
I had a copy of the Japanese beta disc back then too. I could make a few e-mails and see if my counterpart in Fukuoka still has one of the many I mailed out over the years.
yeah ps2 demo discs had trailers like that, it might even be on one of them, I remember DMC had an insane trailer that made it look like a horror game.
ah the demo disc of the first MH game on ps2. i had a demo disc along with my copy of Final Fantasy X-2. good memories tho shame i dont have it anymore (gave it away at some point after i got the full game)
This is making miss my old copy of Monster Hunter G - the amount of blood when you hit an enemy _was_ a bit gratuitous, as you showed/mentioned - but it was a great indicator of hitting weak spots. I've downloaded a mod to simulate this in MHW, but it's just not the same. 😮💨 The other bits are quite interesting though! I actually was given a copy of the demo/beta version when I bought MHDos, it was in Japanese. I remember I barely touched it because I had already played the full game extensively by then and didn't feel like I was missing much retreading the early game. I wish I thought to comb it for differences back then! The guy I bought it from just threw it in as a bonus, because he was a MH fan as well; this was in China to be clear, around 2005~2006, back then MH had almost no following in the west. Thanks for the nostalgia! 👍
I got the online functionality working on my japanese copy of MH1 but decided to go with emulation for my playthrough so I could easily download the english patch
and yet... 20 years ago when it showed face there was only ever ONE copy of monster hunter in blockbuster, or it was sold out and unavailable. till monster hunter 2 was in the demand..it made me treasure my psp days with freedom and unite. a well burned 2k+ hrs easy, love this franchise
A buddy of mine sold me this game from a box of ps2 discs that said 5 dollars each. Me and another friend of mine put over 2000 hours into a shared character account, then moved onto the PSP versions and then to the 3DS and now here we rest on top of the mountain of MH Rise waiting for the announcement of Monster Hunter World 2.
I remember when I was working at GameStop at the time, A lady from capcom came in and gave a few copies to people. They never do stuff like this anymore.
