I like how in the older games Kirin didn't even have a flailing animation when KO'd. It just lay on the floor, totally still, eyes open.
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Monster Hunter 15th anniversary website now live (update: memorial trailer and potential tease for next game)
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Part of me wants them to get upgraded to Elders.
They're final boss style monsters that you fight in specific arenas and are worshiped by various people as gods. Just have a line that says "Actually we didn't check that hard, turns out they have Elder Dragon Blood and Bones, oops."
I'm pretty sure everyone considers them as elders... except the monster list in game LOL!
They're related to Tigrex. Akantor still has vestigial wing membranes and the top of its head looks just like Tigrex's.
Elders shouldn't be the only qualification for being the big bad boss monster, and I really had to hand it to Capcom for bucking that trend with MHGU when the final monster turned out to be a Neopteron. Granted, it is the most insane preying mantis in history, but an elder dragon, it most certainly is not.
Definitely would like to see that more often. Not that I don't like Elder Dragons, but it gets a bit old when the final boss is always an Elder.
Not really but will show off new things related to already announced products (gameplay mechanics mostly)
Interesting. Definitely no chance of the Switch game being announced (not that it was likely anyway, Capcom has to market Iceborne first), but maybe they'll show off gameplay of Iceborne.
They should've made Nakarkos part of a brand new family.
I want to see more cephalopod-style monsters, even if we don't ever see underwater combat again.
But I guess it's cool that Elder Dragons don't have to be actual dragons.
Yeah, sea life is sadly underutilized in the series. But hey, given how long it took before they realized folks might actually want to fight giant bugs, maybe they're not so unlikely for inclusion after all.
While true, the only thing we've gotten that's close to a shark is actually a toad!
You forgot the most fun monsters to fight in the series: The Piscine Wyverns!
Don't you just love how sometimes like
Plesioth will be in the water and
like
he just stays there
doing nothing
for fucking ever
Plesioth will be in the water and
like
he just stays there
doing nothing
for fucking ever
Plesioth and Lavasioth were a mistake. Especially the latter since they introduced Agnaktor.
This guy gets it. It made me a little angry that they gave Lavasioth the magma armor gimmick, since it called attention to how much Agnaktor rules and how much worse Lavasioth would be without it.
Ukanlos and Akantor are actually ancestors/cousins of Tigrex etc. who never left their extreme hot/cold environment for a moderate one. The ones who left evolved and grew smaller while Akantor/Ukanlos remained the same without any threat to them.
Hey remember how much better it was when you could dive in the water after him? But nooooo, underwater hunting is gone and I don't know if it's ever coming back. :(
You're close, but the ancestor in this case was something closer to Tigrex. You can see it with how Akantor has vestigial wings, pointing to a flying ancestor.
I would love to try and make a Monster Hunter phylogenetic tree.
I don't because I haven't played 3 :P but from what I heard almost everyone hated the underwater combat?
It had a divisive reaction, but there was nothing fundamentally wrong with it that wasn't unfixable.
There is something like that out there, I remember reading it long time ago. It showed bunch of family trees with ancient monsters not in the game. Maybe in one of the illustrations books or the MH wiki, I can't remember.
Instead of dropping water combat wholesale, they should have overhauled it to be better and allow us to swim superhumunaly well.
The 24-hour clock is way more common but not quite universal. There also expressions like 午前9時 and 午後9時, which mean AM and PM respectively. よる and あさ just mean evening and morning; in the Capcom case, they're saying "7 in the evening."
I'd probably would be more welcoming of such an idea, if they just went all in and gave Hunters (and Prowlers) propulsion packs that had aerial and submerged modes. Not only could you have better control underwater for leviathans, but you could then chase flying wyverns when they took to the skies, as well!
Something like this is pretty much the only means I can imagine them upping the ante when it comes to their concern about how to "add on" hunting in 3D space.
You don't even need propulsion packs for uncanny swimming.
Have a throwaway line about how huntersundergo special training to be able to swim on par with aquatic animals and then have your hunter swimming around like Ecco the Dolphin on dreamcast.
Though air combat sounds sick, to be sure.
I'm not a big fan of underwater combat, perhaps because I only experienced that on the 3DS.
However, I think they recognised and have heard of Plesioth's problems, and have addressed them in recent games. They now spends way less time in water and would randomly jump out much more often. Not only that, I don't think I can recall a time in recent games, where they would dive right back into the waters after they just got out.
The fixes though, revealed a devastating fact about the eel with legs.... That they are not terribly fun nor challenging to fight once you take away their cross-dimensional hipcheck and "nerfed" their swim time.
Plesioth was fine in GU and didn't spend much time in water.
The hitbox are sometimes Wtf but that's more its gimmick now, can't do Plesioth without this.
The hitbox are sometimes Wtf but that's more its gimmick now, can't do Plesioth without this.
Yeah, we need some new archetypes. Cephalopods and carnivorous plants are long due!
I will riot if that Meowscular Chef hammer doesn't win. World is sorely lacking in gag weapons.
I would pay a couple dozen of dollars for a high quality CGI wildlife mockumentary in the style of Walking with X series.
Why does underwater combat keep coming back up
It was awful
I would only accept a hybrid approach at this point. Allow the player to dive for resources, harpoon fish with slinger, use slinger to provoke large monsters on land
Done
None of this trying to use your damn weapons underwater
It was awful
I would only accept a hybrid approach at this point. Allow the player to dive for resources, harpoon fish with slinger, use slinger to provoke large monsters on land
Done
None of this trying to use your damn weapons underwater
You are not wrong about gag weapons and that hammer is awesome! I want it!
Not to mention the elder dragon fight. I loved doing that shit with a group.
Lavasioth in GU is actually a pretty fun fight. Lavasioth in world was a mistake of the highest order.
Ceadeus was legit the worst fight in the entire series history
Also the Capcom TV stream basically was a wet noodle
Merchandise and antics mostly. There was something about March 21st in the ending trailer section but I cant read japanese so