The skill system is one thing. The selfish part of me just wants to see the return of separate Blademaster/Gunner armors, again.
Given how big MH is now, a new Switch game would be impossible to miss. Maybe back in the 3ds days, where it would've been announced in Japan first with a different title.
It's AM. Japan uses a 24hour clock. If it was the evening it would be 19:00.
It's the start of the 5th Gen but it's like the 19th installment in the main series. I think the poster just meant a 5th gen Switch game.
They usually have exclusive footage. They don't really announce anything though, but can hint/tease things.
I don't feel it's in Capcom's best interest to dig up the first two generations of the series with how damn far behind they are on pretty much every front for accessibility, as well as encounter designs in terms of hitboxes and really stupid shit like how Plesioth used to work. MH4U absolutely deserves an HD remaster, but I don't think there's really a pressing need for anything else outside of Stories.
The entire reason World had a lower monster count is that it is the start of a new generation and a significant hardware leap. People comparing it with Generations Ultimate don't seem to remember that Generations Ultimate is the 4th iteration of Monster Hunter's 4th generation.
No need to compare World with Gen (a celebration title) when you can compare it with 4.
I don't think you can blame folks much when Capcom decided to add no new monster families to World or that certain skeletons are over-represented at the expense of not having any of the great and unique ones that fourth gen added. No one was asking Capcom to limit themselves to the bare minimum for the first big console project in years, and yet here we are.
Sure. 4 also wasn't a hardware jump and reused a bunch of early monsters without much updating, but I agree that 4 is the gold standard and World doesn't live up to 4's standard.
They basically added a new monster family with the fanged wyverns, which were literally just Zinogre before World.
Increasing the numbers of an existing family isn't exactly breaking new ground, though, especially when you have Tobi-Kadachi and it being more or less a baby Zinogre with some Kecha Wacha gliding thrown in for some weird reason. And it really doesn't help that most of the new fanged wyverns take after Royal Ludroth more than anything else Zinogre.
I was going to come on here and call you out saying there were tons of fanged monsters before they just called them fanged beasts, but I checked and you're right. They have Zinogre as the lone fanged wyvern (in gen ult anyway) whereas all of the rest are fanged beasts. Weird. Even more strange, the royal ludroth is a leviathan and the great jagras (which is nearly identical) is a fanged wyvern.
It's an unofficial family, but Akantor and Ukanlos use a lot of the pseudowyvern skeleton shared by Tigrex, Nargacuga and Barioth. Of course, monster family names don't really mean much when elder dragons include the likes of a unicorn, a sand whale, at least two Cthulu-like creatures and a world serpent.
I mean, more power to you. After playing through 4U and Generations and starting a Generations Ultimate play through because I don't have my 3DS file, yeah, I am done with the 4th generation.
No, they should clearly abandon it all and just rerelease Generations updates until the end of time.
Fanged beasts = Mammals (Pigs, monkeys, bears, elephants)
A comprehensive list would be exhausting, to say the least, especially when you consider that the Rath and Diablos skeletons got overhauled in Tri, so they technically count twice.
