@@rinnnnnnnnnnrinRinOnishi it's probably coming , I saw 2 different team working on it ( working differently from what I can understand ) so ... Wait and see
@@TheDragonfriday the best thing anyone could do is make it playable offline without a server 🤷♂️ sure online is cool and all but even If someone gets them running they’ll go down again eventually
54:45 I like how wind progression goes something like: 1) A short stun. 2) A longer stun. 3) An incredibly long stun. 4) Throwing you across the map. 5) Straight up killing you.
now that I’ve actually experienced it in rise(he and his subspecies), I can say his fight is so fun. Plus the fact that in his sleep he tries to swat you away like a fly is both original and hilarious. (love his equipment too, so cool.)
The smithy for this universe must have been Hephaestus, because turning all these godlike creatures into weapons to kill other god like creatures must've been pretty stressful... like I can just imagine you bringing him the carcas of guan zarumu and imagine him going "Im f*cking tired of making weapons from gods fiver"
@@CleopatraKing not really fiver refers to the fifth fleet and the fleets are part of the commision wich is the part of the guild that researches the new world
"The Frontier series had controversial monster design because they weren't as grounded" Me: Aww well they can't be that bad! Look at that new elder he looks so g- "Now what if this new monster was a purple monkey who wielded a gunlance and had the face of a MH developer?" Me: ...what?
I can see that being a Japanese humorous boss character. It's not a uncommon joke to compare a certain physical appearance to a Gorilla in Japan after all so I'm guessing that the developer in question were known as the Gorilla of the office and meaningful enough to bring to the public. Additionally if I'm correct so far it's likely that gunlance were his personal weapon of choice and therefore it resulted in a monkey with a gunlance that represents a certain developer in the game not meant to be taken very seriously. So being a bit used to Japanese culture it's not particularly strange. Considering how the game were mainly targeted towards a Japanese audience along with a few other Asian countries I think it made sense to most of the playerbase.
@@notxarb6353 you need to emulate the entire server, mostly known as a private server. Then, you need to get people to connect to it. You also need to store the player data files in those servers and literally run every hub on a different server network, just like the missions as they're all different connections. It's gonna take some time before someone gets the knowledge and resources for said things.
As a Korean who had a chance to experience Frontier first-hand, Espinas is still my all time favorite monster in the series due to how threatening it is. How the monster transitions into phases is very interesting, because at first the monster don't even acknowledge you while you are slashing him. That is up until a threshold where he get super mad and his charge speed becomes like a freaking jet. So, the only way to dodge is the fly jumping. Good times.
Having zero knowledge of Frontier before now, I am genuinely upset mainline never got the Tonfa weapon! They look and sound really fun along with adding a fast blunt option.
I've watched your series on this like five times but the fact you have condensed it like this is great, perfect background noise while farming on Rise. To this day this series is the only part of MH I've not played. People can't say nothing about how crazy the frontier monsters are now because Rise has some interesting ones 🤣 Keep up the good work man
I regret not being able to play it, Raviente is like Dalamadur on steroids 😂 Plus what I call Anime power Nargacuga looks insane. The one thing I will say is some of the weapons look broken to all hell like that magnet spike or whatever it is lol. To be fair the hunters needed it going by your vids lol
I started with Tri. And was obsessed as a kid. When I found out about MHF, Ray Gougarf and Lolo Gougarf were being released. I remember looking at their designs and over the top fight and going "wow this looks amazing, I hope it comes to console". I never did play MHF, but all the monsters were so cool looking, the fights looked absolutely brutal, but thats was the appeal I got out of it. It's a shame I'll never be able to play it. But then again, I wouldn't have the time to nowadays...
Props to you, this must’ve taken a looooot of work and research to gather all this info. On a side note from the outside looking in, frontier just looks like a clusterfuck of content. I wonder how long it would take for you to start from the very beginning and see EVERYTHING
I started playing like 5 months before the closure and got to do everythign due to the strong power creep and farming options for super rare materials. Alone 1 Raviente Weapon to max it until Zenith 100 lvl cost you like 1-2h with only upgrading while selling money coupons and buying Raviente Gems from a cheat patch for the last moment of the game. Grinding those Gems normally is a crazy task and takes years, since you need like 1.000.000.000.000 or so Gems to max the weapon and you dont get that many at all with each normal Raviente hunt...
@@NotGeblinDev bruv i went straight to HR6 in literally 3 days from starting XD (and i spent the first day fucking around farming low tier monsters because i didn't know that it's pretty much pointless)
I love that feeling of dread you get after fainting over and over again to a difficult monster than eventually after a good amount of tries you finally beat it and you feel amazing. When a monster crushes your will to play but you keep trying again and again until you crush it, is what monster hunter is to me.
@@Exel3nce That's just the teammates pressure though, it's one way to play the game but MH released before dark souls and has the same feeling of triumph when you actually fight on your own terms.
@@burnerman6976 Right? I mean, Seregios, Gore, AND Espinas? Not to mention the return of the jungle map, and the new monsters look sick too. I'll admit, I was starting to fall out of Monster Hunter due to the new direction it was taking, but now I think Sunbreak might be my favorite Monster Hunter yet
@@anthonysayegh8187 there was a monster hunter online game, I think he meant he can't wait for them to do that as well. I think that version was made in china?
I used to be one of those people who thought all of frontier's monster designs were terrible, but after watching this, there are so many I'd love to see in the main series.
To be honest a lot of the "Base" monsters from frontier were pretty solid. It was just when they started making things like "uber black demon rathian with god nukes" that everything started getting ridiculous. Seriously, some of the creatures in frontier had more particle effects then a damn bullet hell boss by the end.
one thing i absolutely adore about Frontier is their absolutely beautiful armor designs. *almost* everything had such an mmo feel to them but they were all so awesome to look at
@@dustydd Ikr! He's so perfect, and while his mechanic is a bit “ridiculous” we finally saw Narwa, who uses a magnetic field to float, and attack. frontier was the first game to have magnetic based monster, so it proves that some ridiculous ideas can be added.
Nice work on compiling all of this together. Besides MH Freedom and Tri, Monster Hunter Frontier played an important role in of making me a fan of this series. Because of the influence it had, I hope that I can one day experience what this game has to offer in some way, whether it's bringing over the monsters to the mainline games or they make some spinoff series(Hopefully released internationally).
MHF is the perfect example of judging something before you try to get to know it. I hated it because of the designs but after this video, I have huge respect for this game. Getting to know about it's history and what it's been through, I can say that the designs don't bother me anymore. This game has many so many features, cool monsters, content, amazing armor designs and weapon designs, new gameplay elements, and much more. It's not a Monster Hunter game but if you can see and get past comparing it to other things, it would much easier for you to like it or at least respect it.
Glad Capcom didn't listen to their Japanese fans for World. Many Japanese fans didn't want World to be release outside of Japan, so maybe too bad Frontier was the result of Capcom listening to their mainland fans to not release it oversea.
Not the insult the video or anything (I often actively watch it as well because I like Frontier and your "documentaries") but I trained myself to fall asleep in three minutes or so to this particular video. I'm doing this for about three months already, you literally helped me sleep while my finals, thank you for this Superrad
Same happens to me when im trying to watch my favorite show at night, because i only turn it on when im literally falling in the bed, then i fall asleep like 5minutes after XD often times 1 episode lasts for like a week or something.
Love how they added so much from frontier ideal wise to the mainline games and side games. I know folks rag on frontier but it had alot of great things I would like in the mainline games like tonfas because tonfas cool and fave weapon.
"Weapon length I could see in the mainline series" bruh you showed dual blades that were long sword length, that was ridiculous, i hope to baby jesus that never comes to mainline.
Even though I've never played this part of the series, I gotta say I actually love how they turned the crazy element up to eleven, and gave us some of the most awesome Elder Dragons ever: Laviente - Not an Elder Dragon, but a Dalamadur-sized, ecosystem-eating colossus that is fought by up to 16 people at once, and comes in three different varieties: Normal, Violent and Berserk. Duremudira - Also technically not an Elder Dragon. Guardian of the Sky Corridor, Kushala copy and possible remnant of the Ancient Civilization. Shan'Tien - An epic cross between Lagiacrus, Amatsu and with a bit of Fatalis. Four phases, each with its own theme, with the last being ABSOLUTELY GODLY. Garuba Daora - Kushala, but with gold dust and crystals too. Dhisufiroa - Alatreon, but more specialized and more awesome. Three phases, each with awesome themes and it even plays dead. Harudomerugu - LIQUID METAL DRAGON. Unknown (Black Rathian) - The queen(?) of rage and hatred. Its Solstice theme actually OPENS with the "Quest Failed" music. Guanzoromu - A regal dragon that literally commands lesser wyverns called Egyurasu to fight alongside it - at least until it starts its second phase by eating one and powering up. Zenith White Fatalis - Possibly the original Elder Dragon. Its ultimate attack is so powerful that it doesn't cart you...it VAPORIZES you. What's worse, the only way to even face it is to survive the Hunter's Road. I hope some of these guys are moved over to the main series like Lavasioth was...
These videos are honestly amazing. It's so nice to be able to learn so much about my favorite series and see all the different monsters that we might not see in a long time. Love the videos man so informative
gotta love the fact this video is only 1 hour shorter than his compil of the ENTIRE MH SERIES.I mean CMON. Frontier alone had more than 2/3 of the ENTIRE SERIES’s worth of content !
A paired monster that never leaves each other’s side and fights the hunter together is a really cool idea I hope the MH team will explore more in the future. We already got something like this with the great izuchi and his minions, imagine how epic it would be for the flagship monster of gen 6 to be a carapaceon that can molt from its exoskeleton during the fight and the shell becomes another monster with its own unique attacks and behavior.
Damn, really sad I could never play this, and it seems I probably won’t get the chance to. I honestly love the crazy over the top style of this mh game and wish there was a western alternative. I would have loved to put all my time and effort into a singular mh title as well, with mountains of content, I love the gigantic scale of progression. Really hope something like this happens again.
we can only hope that its possible to bring it back like he mentioned in the first part of seasons section of it, even if they cant bring the multiplayer online
You can actually still play the game, although in an incredibly barebones means. If you get your hands on the game files, ErupeServer on github provides a way to setup a private server for MHF. It is, as I said, barebones in the literal sense. I don't think it comes with any translation, and a vast majority of the game is unplayable, as outside a few quests that are packaged in with the game files, every quest was hosted server-side, and with the shutdown of the servers they are all lost. The data is still there, but you can't start a quest that doesn't exist, especially if it isn't at the quest counter.
This stuff is so cool, I really hope they bring a lot more into the main series. Considering the progression from Gen > World > Rise has already turned our hunters into anime protagonists, Frontier's craziness would fit right in. Hell it might provide the proper challenge to match our power level, as the poor old Rathalos and Tigrex and other OGs are just being bullied by the hunters at this point.
I was definitely one of those people that disliked Frontier due to it's Monster design and shift away from the core gameplay, but this has given me a newfound respect for the game and the unique mechanics. I would love to see more of the Frontier Monsters make it to mainline in the future (wild I can even say that now!) just brought more in line with the slightly more grounded design choices of the mainline series. I'd actually love to see Tonfas added too, I could see these working great with Wirebug attacks. Thank you for the hard work in putting this all together, it's helped shine a light on a unique and interesting title.
When home resonance kicks in Non-jokey comments aside, I found you recently based on your NV retrospective, now watched all your retrospectives and have moved onto these monster hunter vids, I have never even played Monster Hunter :D
You've earned yourself a subscription from me. I've been on a MH kick with the release of Rise, reading about old games, wanting to go back and finally play Generations Ultimate, and even considering giving the original a shot. And Frontier has always mystified me ever since I first stumbled upon it doing research back when I first got into the series. It was great to finally learn a bit more about the game that always seemed like the most strange and mysterious part of the series. And I gotta say, a lot of the issues with the game, such as the endless escalation in both monster and player power, seem like mostly symptoms of being an MMO. Without a regular reset between games, you have no choice but to build higher and higher. But that said, this also seems to have given the game a lot of really unique features that it's a shame that it's now dead. It's also disappointing to hear that it's unlikely that the content will ever come over to mainline MH. The recent games have felt like they could use, say, some new weapons, and Tonfas + Magnet Spikes would be a good additon. Back in the day I always thought Tonfas seemed too flashy, but frankly they'd fit in fine in a post-MHW era.
I really liked these history videos. I often wonder about how my favorite game series changed over time, but the best videos we usually get are just gameplay compilations for each entry. So having a really long video detailing aspects that are both similar and different is quite nice.
I think worlds engine opened up a large possibility of another attempt at a MH MMO, the series has also finally become as popular as it deserves to be in the west, so thats good.
This really makes me appreciate what monster Hunter world did for the franchise in making it popular in the US. After seeing everything that was in frontier I would hate to miss another game like it just because of it being Japan exclusive
Yea! It got alot of new people into the series so if world was JP exclusive it would genuinely suck because it'd be another MH game I know of but couldn't play due to region restrictions
I remember being 15 or so when I learned about frontier for the first time. I tried every solution I could find and understand to try and get any kind of access to it, searching forums for months in desperation to test myself against a wild, intense, testing entry in a series I already loved at that point. Somewhere in this process I remember I managed to figure out how to sign up for it's official email updates. Every single one I'd put through a translator to read everything I could, everything that I wanted a piece for myself so badly. I remember the strange, melancholic sadness of loosing my limited connection to it when one of those emails finally revealed it was going away. I felt that same feeling again, both sadness and satisfaction, a sense of connection and much more disconnect when I read the chat messages in your village tour when those people who did get to experience it finally had to let it go.
The same happened to me. Visiting the Monster Hunter wiki while playing Freedom 2 and Monster Hunter Tri and discovering all of these new, unknown and weird looking monsters that I would never be able to hunt. Pure mysticism, now lost.
Hypnoc and Lavasioth were actually a joint creation from the normal MH team and Frontier for the main series however they were added for Frontier first. So technically they were supposed to be in normal MH first and then Frontier second. Espinas was also supposed to be in MHFU alongside these two. At least that's what I heave heard anyway.
I was lucky enough to play this when it was available on the ps3, (Taiwanese Version of course). I miss this game so much and its sad it wasn't brought to the west. It definitely would've lasted a lot longer with Western support.
If you're looking for people who played MHOnline, I still have most of the core English community on Discord, and I'm sure most of us would be happy to help :)
This video is much appreciated! I know reuploads aren’t the best for the algorithm but I appreciate having one big video I can click play on without having to worry about a playlist. The simple things lol
I think Frontier presents an excellent case study of why Monster Hunter games work better as individual releases, rather than persistent online MMOs. The power creep starts to get a little ridiculous (in terms of player skill requirements, not just the absurdity of the monsters) when each new addition is expected to outdo the last and the hard reset we get every once in a while via a new generation/mainline entry helps curb this. Since Monster Hunter wouldn't necessarily have player levels in an online format (at least not in the same way that you'd see in something like World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy 14) simply raising the level cap doesn't "reset" players in this environment and therefore the standard expansion format might not produce the same results you'd normally desire. If they were to try and do another Monster Hunter online game, I think it would be better if they took a look at non-linear forms of player progression as they reach the endgame. While I do not condone it's business practices and generally hate Bethesda and ZeniMax's guts, the colloquially named "horizontal progression" present in Elder Scrolls Online may be a good template to start with.
After playing I’m coming back to watch, Magnet Spike has become my favorite weapon!! Edit:After obtaining a max level Ravi weapon and getting a ZP set Frontier is basically my favorite game right now! Sure Zeniths and Mousous as well as Arrogant Dura are tough as hell but that builds the myth!! Hope some of you other fans get to experience this true gem of a game
I honestly hope they bring something like frontier back out and bring it to the west cause as out there as these fights were I love that! As long as we get our normal mh games still I'd LOVE this
Greatest crime ever was Frontier not being mainline and carried over to modern consoles. Some of the greatest monsters. Largest amount too. Damn shame.
I knew it! I had been wracking my brain if the weapon size upgrade was something I misremembered or not since the people I asked told me it wasnt a thing. But there it is, there it finally is!
I never looked a mh frontier as a "not part of the mh series" kind of game, I looked at the monsters and they were ABSOLUTELY STUNNING. They had so much amazing designs and behavior, I'm really glad capcom brought Espinas to mh rise sunbreak
I really appreciate this as a way to get a sense of all that Frontier had to offer and what we missed out on. My information hoarding brain is satiated. It's so in depth, this could nott have been a simple video to make.
Double posting to comment on the end of the video where they say "things are cherry picked from Frontier with no credit to the original." The Espinas trailer for Sunbreak was called "A New Frontier." Hopefully whatever internal culture is at Capcom is changing?
I still remember doing my service back in Frontier, when I was an absolute noob. Raviente changed me permanently. Even today, I don't think I'd be as good at hunting if I didn't hunt him. It wasn't really that hard, more like a rite of passage, like Lao. Dyuragaua hunts kept me on my toes, as my bad armor meant a single mistake was a one hit kill. After making its Long Sword, and ironing out most of my mistakes, I joined others and took Raviente down. Along the way, I fought Nono and Kamu, Espinas, Gogomoa and its event variant with the creepy mask (scarred for life), Taikun Zamuza, the scorpion, and many others. A memory I treasure deeply even today. HR99, since free accounts didn't go higher, but still proud af of what I had achieved. I couldn't fulfill my dream of hunting Shantien, but it was fine. I took what I could and grew as a hunter. And I would have it no other way. ;)
So I literally just started the video but dude thank you so much for making this Ive been in love for the series for a while now, definitly not a veteran but Ive been playing since MH3U, and ive wanted know so fucking bad why some people hate frontier and why some love its different takes on the monsters and formula. This is literally all I wanted to find, a clear concise objective look at the game. Thank you for that.
1:38:51 "didn't have much differences from your typical zinogre" shows a slam with a mile long radius
My brain is tellin me that its time to re-watch a 2 and a half hour series on a game I've never played
I felt this. It makes me sad that I can’t try it now too tbh
@@yunatic4992 heres to hoping modders can get it up and running on pc
@@rinnnnnnnnnnrinRinOnishi it's probably coming , I saw 2 different team working on it ( working differently from what I can understand ) so ... Wait and see
Get yourself a time machine, we will play it again!
@@TheDragonfriday the best thing anyone could do is make it playable offline without a server 🤷♂️ sure online is cool and all but even If someone gets them running they’ll go down again eventually
54:45
I like how wind progression goes something like: 1) A short stun. 2) A longer stun. 3) An incredibly long stun. 4) Throwing you across the map. 5) Straight up killing you.
6) launched into orbit
7) the Admiral's hair do
@@morganpriest7726 8) launched towards the sun 🤣
"Some of these monsters made it over Like lavasioth and hypnocotriece."
And in modern days we can add espinas too.
Triple Status fireballs let's GO!
Not to forget Espinas subspecies
@@jamiehughes5573 soon.
now that I’ve actually experienced it in rise(he and his subspecies), I can say his fight is so fun. Plus the fact that in his sleep he tries to swat you away like a fly is both original and hilarious. (love his equipment too, so cool.)
Only one of them @@flametitan100
The smithy for this universe must have been Hephaestus, because turning all these godlike creatures into weapons to kill other god like creatures must've been pretty stressful... like I can just imagine you bringing him the carcas of guan zarumu and imagine him going "Im f*cking tired of making weapons from gods fiver"
Yeah but can you imagine Guan being in rise and having the chance to make your Kohoot into Egyurasu 🤩
He wouldnt call you fiver though
@@vincentpey3929 its possible seeing as its servers were shut down in 19, the same year world released
@@CleopatraKing not really fiver refers to the fifth fleet and the fleets are part of the commision wich is the part of the guild that researches the new world
I have to tell you but the simthy is literally like dr eggman 🗿
"The Frontier series had controversial monster design because they weren't as grounded"
Me: Aww well they can't be that bad! Look at that new elder he looks so g-
"Now what if this new monster was a purple monkey who wielded a gunlance and had the face of a MH developer?"
Me: ...what?
I played it for 10 years and loved it, i know the salt in the west was enormous tho.
What was its name again?
@@thebuddah1253 Developer Gogomoa
I can see that being a Japanese humorous boss character.
It's not a uncommon joke to compare a certain physical appearance to a Gorilla in Japan after all so I'm guessing that the developer in question were known as the Gorilla of the office and meaningful enough to bring to the public. Additionally if I'm correct so far it's likely that gunlance were his personal weapon of choice and therefore it resulted in a monkey with a gunlance that represents a certain developer in the game not meant to be taken very seriously.
So being a bit used to Japanese culture it's not particularly strange. Considering how the game were mainly targeted towards a Japanese audience along with a few other Asian countries I think it made sense to most of the playerbase.
@@DajuOnTH-cam And that's what makes it brilliant
Neat, now I don't have to worry about autoplay screwing up my Frontier stuff.
I gotchu
Now that Espinas is in Sunbreak, I'm reallly REALLY hoping we get a few more monsters from Frontier. There were so many unique designs!
I want Baruragaru, the bloody leech thing.
I don't think it will in rise due to the leviathan skeleton issue(it seems to use the same skeleton as lagiacrus and agnaktor)
@@jamiehughes5573 I mean we got mizutsune and royal ludroth
I want extreme fatalis xD
If the player gets more op skills, cuz the frontier monsters are not effing around.
After watching this series, I have a new respect for this game. I wish there was some way to play it.
Emulators might work
@@BURRDAWG_ they need expertise and money, both things that most peopke lack
@@anomalocaris2593 expertise in what? Knowing how to emulate
@@notxarb6353 And programming a server and supporting said server
@@notxarb6353 you need to emulate the entire server, mostly known as a private server. Then, you need to get people to connect to it. You also need to store the player data files in those servers and literally run every hub on a different server network, just like the missions as they're all different connections. It's gonna take some time before someone gets the knowledge and resources for said things.
As a Korean who had a chance to experience Frontier first-hand, Espinas is still my all time favorite monster in the series due to how threatening it is. How the monster transitions into phases is very interesting, because at first the monster don't even acknowledge you while you are slashing him. That is up until a threshold where he get super mad and his charge speed becomes like a freaking jet. So, the only way to dodge is the fly jumping. Good times.
And now the whole world will get to experience the might of Espinas
Had to come rushing back to this video after the announcement. It’s a great day to be a monster Hunter fan
Hi Jaxon, the famous TH-camr
Me: *playing MHRise* hmm i wonder if there was something i could listen in the background while i hunt for the next couple of hours
SuperRAD:
Hey, cool, I'm doing the same xD
Did the same with mh4u
playing gu rn lol
Having zero knowledge of Frontier before now, I am genuinely upset mainline never got the Tonfa weapon! They look and sound really fun along with adding a fast blunt option.
They're basically DBs, but for Hammer mains
Having tonfa in combination with the wirebug would have been awesome.
@@GenshinLover283 except by ZZ they were 100% airial. literally, no going down.
@@dylanmussen7699 What? Since when?
Tonfa? Cool. The real loss? Magnet Spike.
I really deadass played this while grinding magnamalo parts at like 2am in the morning 10/10 content my dude
New SunBreak trailer made me rewatch my favorite yearly vídeo
I've watched your series on this like five times but the fact you have condensed it like this is great, perfect background noise while farming on Rise. To this day this series is the only part of MH I've not played. People can't say nothing about how crazy the frontier monsters are now because Rise has some interesting ones 🤣 Keep up the good work man
Glad you like them!
I regret not being able to play it, Raviente is like Dalamadur on steroids 😂 Plus what I call Anime power Nargacuga looks insane. The one thing I will say is some of the weapons look broken to all hell like that magnet spike or whatever it is lol. To be fair the hunters needed it going by your vids lol
I started with Tri. And was obsessed as a kid. When I found out about MHF, Ray Gougarf and Lolo Gougarf were being released. I remember looking at their designs and over the top fight and going "wow this looks amazing, I hope it comes to console".
I never did play MHF, but all the monsters were so cool looking, the fights looked absolutely brutal, but thats was the appeal I got out of it. It's a shame I'll never be able to play it. But then again, I wouldn't have the time to nowadays...
Props to you, this must’ve taken a looooot of work and research to gather all this info.
On a side note from the outside looking in, frontier just looks like a clusterfuck of content. I wonder how long it would take for you to start from the very beginning and see EVERYTHING
I started playing like 5 months before the closure and got to do everythign due to the strong power creep and farming options for super rare materials.
Alone 1 Raviente Weapon to max it until Zenith 100 lvl cost you like 1-2h with only upgrading while selling money coupons and buying Raviente Gems from a cheat patch for the last moment of the game.
Grinding those Gems normally is a crazy task and takes years, since you need like 1.000.000.000.000 or so Gems to max the weapon and you dont get that many at all with each normal Raviente hunt...
Without the capcom compression it'd be a LOT. + There were like 10000 event quests. Yeah. 10 thousand.
5 to 10 years I guess? depending on how much you play
Its actually not that bad. I started like less than a month ago and im already at hr4
@@NotGeblinDev bruv i went straight to HR6 in literally 3 days from starting XD (and i spent the first day fucking around farming low tier monsters because i didn't know that it's pretty much pointless)
How many monsters do you want in this game?
"Yes"
I love that feeling of dread you get after fainting over and over again to a difficult monster than eventually after a good amount of tries you finally beat it and you feel amazing. When a monster crushes your will to play but you keep trying again and again until you crush it, is what monster hunter is to me.
Thats rather souls borne tbh.
The Fights in mh were mostly fun and after failing, either by you or mates, you lose your mood
@@Exel3nce That's just the teammates pressure though, it's one way to play the game but MH released before dark souls and has the same feeling of triumph when you actually fight on your own terms.
@@thechugg4372 nah, mh never had that feeling.
@@Exel3nce well that's just your opinion :V
@@thenoobgamer95 not really. Monster hunter was never like that if you exclude the first entries
Watching this after Espinas gets revealed for Monster Hunter Rise hits different
I still can’t believe it’s real
@@burnerman6976 Right? I mean, Seregios, Gore, AND Espinas? Not to mention the return of the jungle map, and the new monsters look sick too. I'll admit, I was starting to fall out of Monster Hunter due to the new direction it was taking, but now I think Sunbreak might be my favorite Monster Hunter yet
Cant wait for MH Online next and Explore
MH Online hype.
Online was great man. I didn't get to play much of it but it was FUN
Wait wdym?
Same since they get more love from fans (well online idk for explore) then the frontier
@@anthonysayegh8187 there was a monster hunter online game, I think he meant he can't wait for them to do that as well. I think that version was made in china?
I used to be one of those people who thought all of frontier's monster designs were terrible, but after watching this, there are so many I'd love to see in the main series.
To be honest a lot of the "Base" monsters from frontier were pretty solid. It was just when they started making things like "uber black demon rathian with god nukes" that everything started getting ridiculous. Seriously, some of the creatures in frontier had more particle effects then a damn bullet hell boss by the end.
one thing i absolutely adore about Frontier is their absolutely beautiful armor designs. *almost* everything had such an mmo feel to them but they were all so awesome to look at
Inagami actually had a third feature: its kickass theme
Man I really hope they add it to Rise. Such a perfect fit.
@@dustydd Ikr! He's so perfect, and while his mechanic is a bit “ridiculous” we finally saw Narwa, who uses a magnetic field to float, and attack. frontier was the first game to have magnetic based monster, so it proves that some ridiculous ideas can be added.
He a perfect monster for rise. There a bamboo forest in the shrine ruins so he can work in that.
@@Hraezlyrrrr Rukodiora and Rebidiora would also fit because of that
Nice work on compiling all of this together.
Besides MH Freedom and Tri, Monster Hunter Frontier played an important role in of making me a fan of this series.
Because of the influence it had, I hope that I can one day experience what this game has to offer in some way, whether it's bringing over the monsters to the mainline games or they make some spinoff series(Hopefully released internationally).
Hopefully, there are going to be playable custom servers for the PC version, they re in the works rn but with no completion date on the horizon.
MHF is the perfect example of judging something before you try to get to know it. I hated it because of the designs but after this video, I have huge respect for this game. Getting to know about it's history and what it's been through, I can say that the designs don't bother me anymore. This game has many so many features, cool monsters, content, amazing armor designs and weapon designs, new gameplay elements, and much more. It's not a Monster Hunter game but if you can see and get past comparing it to other things, it would much easier for you to like it or at least respect it.
Glad Capcom didn't listen to their Japanese fans for World. Many Japanese fans didn't want World to be release outside of Japan, so maybe too bad Frontier was the result of Capcom listening to their mainland fans to not release it oversea.
@@weirdboyrox why didnt they want it released oversea tho
@@soggycereal9563 In Japan even the console version had a monthly subscription, while in the West it is free to go online.
Not the insult the video or anything (I often actively watch it as well because I like Frontier and your "documentaries") but I trained myself to fall asleep in three minutes or so to this particular video.
I'm doing this for about three months already, you literally helped me sleep while my finals, thank you for this Superrad
Same happens to me when im trying to watch my favorite show at night, because i only turn it on when im literally falling in the bed, then i fall asleep like 5minutes after XD often times 1 episode lasts for like a week or something.
Man this movie long videos are just what I needed to pass these 2 hours
Rewatching after fighting Espinas in Sunbreak really makes me hope we see Akura Vashimu or other frontier monsters soon
"I'm putting a lot of effort in saying Zee instead of Zed"
Every canadian and french player approving...
And british
So weird, this dude makes really good videos, and gets a ton of views 90.9k subscribers. Love watching your MH videos.
Love how they added so much from frontier ideal wise to the mainline games and side games. I know folks rag on frontier but it had alot of great things I would like in the mainline games like tonfas because tonfas cool and fave weapon.
Imma sleep to this then watch it about 5 more times while playing rise later
I would love to see frontier monsters make it into more MH games
Same. Everything before the G Patches i could see fitting into the mainline.
Wish granted lmao
@@mikeandikes8857 Espinas in Sunbreak says hi ;)
I cannot wait to watch this whole thing! The next couple hours are going to be great 👍🏻
Can’t wait for my favorite flagship monster to return. Thought it was over for frontier, glad a new generation can finally fight espinas
"Weapon length I could see in the mainline series" bruh you showed dual blades that were long sword length, that was ridiculous, i hope to baby jesus that never comes to mainline.
You would never be able to get within 10 meters from them.
The theme for this series is basically "but faster and stronger"
And with spikes
@@revthescatman137 or a completely new element or combining multiple elements into one
if u are were today, we all know the reason
Welcome to mainline espinas!
Even though I've never played this part of the series, I gotta say I actually love how they turned the crazy element up to eleven, and gave us some of the most awesome Elder Dragons ever:
Laviente - Not an Elder Dragon, but a Dalamadur-sized, ecosystem-eating colossus that is fought by up to 16 people at once, and comes in three different varieties: Normal, Violent and Berserk.
Duremudira - Also technically not an Elder Dragon. Guardian of the Sky Corridor, Kushala copy and possible remnant of the Ancient Civilization.
Shan'Tien - An epic cross between Lagiacrus, Amatsu and with a bit of Fatalis. Four phases, each with its own theme, with the last being ABSOLUTELY GODLY.
Garuba Daora - Kushala, but with gold dust and crystals too.
Dhisufiroa - Alatreon, but more specialized and more awesome. Three phases, each with awesome themes and it even plays dead.
Harudomerugu - LIQUID METAL DRAGON.
Unknown (Black Rathian) - The queen(?) of rage and hatred. Its Solstice theme actually OPENS with the "Quest Failed" music.
Guanzoromu - A regal dragon that literally commands lesser wyverns called Egyurasu to fight alongside it - at least until it starts its second phase by eating one and powering up.
Zenith White Fatalis - Possibly the original Elder Dragon. Its ultimate attack is so powerful that it doesn't cart you...it VAPORIZES you. What's worse, the only way to even face it is to survive the Hunter's Road.
I hope some of these guys are moved over to the main series like Lavasioth was...
Anyone else here re-watching the retrospectives a couple months before MH Wilds?
These videos are honestly amazing. It's so nice to be able to learn so much about my favorite series and see all the different monsters that we might not see in a long time. Love the videos man so informative
Glad you enjoy it!
Who else watching this now that Espinas got confirmed for Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak
love the espinas (especially flaming)(db user)
gotta love the fact this video is only 1 hour shorter than his compil of the ENTIRE MH SERIES.I mean CMON. Frontier alone had more than 2/3 of the ENTIRE SERIES’s worth of content !
A paired monster that never leaves each other’s side and fights the hunter together is a really cool idea I hope the MH team will explore more in the future. We already got something like this with the great izuchi and his minions, imagine how epic it would be for the flagship monster of gen 6 to be a carapaceon that can molt from its exoskeleton during the fight and the shell becomes another monster with its own unique attacks and behavior.
11:05 thats just dual longswords!
Damn, really sad I could never play this, and it seems I probably won’t get the chance to. I honestly love the crazy over the top style of this mh game and wish there was a western alternative. I would have loved to put all my time and effort into a singular mh title as well, with mountains of content, I love the gigantic scale of progression. Really hope something like this happens again.
we can only hope that its possible to bring it back like he mentioned in the first part of seasons section of it, even if they cant bring the multiplayer online
You can actually still play the game, although in an incredibly barebones means. If you get your hands on the game files, ErupeServer on github provides a way to setup a private server for MHF. It is, as I said, barebones in the literal sense. I don't think it comes with any translation, and a vast majority of the game is unplayable, as outside a few quests that are packaged in with the game files, every quest was hosted server-side, and with the shutdown of the servers they are all lost. The data is still there, but you can't start a quest that doesn't exist, especially if it isn't at the quest counter.
Forward a year and development is really far and most of the game is playable now. Playing currently and absolutely loving this game
@@Yasashi2588 can you tell me how you dl it ?
This stuff is so cool, I really hope they bring a lot more into the main series.
Considering the progression from Gen > World > Rise has already turned our hunters into anime protagonists, Frontier's craziness would fit right in. Hell it might provide the proper challenge to match our power level, as the poor old Rathalos and Tigrex and other OGs are just being bullied by the hunters at this point.
I was definitely one of those people that disliked Frontier due to it's Monster design and shift away from the core gameplay, but this has given me a newfound respect for the game and the unique mechanics. I would love to see more of the Frontier Monsters make it to mainline in the future (wild I can even say that now!) just brought more in line with the slightly more grounded design choices of the mainline series. I'd actually love to see Tonfas added too, I could see these working great with Wirebug attacks.
Thank you for the hard work in putting this all together, it's helped shine a light on a unique and interesting title.
When home resonance kicks in
Non-jokey comments aside, I found you recently based on your NV retrospective, now watched all your retrospectives and have moved onto these monster hunter vids, I have never even played Monster Hunter :D
I heard about this 8 years ago and ALWAYS wondered what it was and where you could get it.... this video is finally brought me closure
Espinas confirmed for Sunbreak time to watch this again lmao.
You've earned yourself a subscription from me. I've been on a MH kick with the release of Rise, reading about old games, wanting to go back and finally play Generations Ultimate, and even considering giving the original a shot. And Frontier has always mystified me ever since I first stumbled upon it doing research back when I first got into the series. It was great to finally learn a bit more about the game that always seemed like the most strange and mysterious part of the series. And I gotta say, a lot of the issues with the game, such as the endless escalation in both monster and player power, seem like mostly symptoms of being an MMO. Without a regular reset between games, you have no choice but to build higher and higher. But that said, this also seems to have given the game a lot of really unique features that it's a shame that it's now dead.
It's also disappointing to hear that it's unlikely that the content will ever come over to mainline MH. The recent games have felt like they could use, say, some new weapons, and Tonfas + Magnet Spikes would be a good additon. Back in the day I always thought Tonfas seemed too flashy, but frankly they'd fit in fine in a post-MHW era.
I really liked these history videos. I often wonder about how my favorite game series changed over time, but the best videos we usually get are just gameplay compilations for each entry. So having a really long video detailing aspects that are both similar and different is quite nice.
great series! now I have an incentive to rewatch all of it again.
Now im sad and mad, it sucks that this game never came to the west and now its unplayable. I hope it gets revived.
Same
I think worlds engine opened up a large possibility of another attempt at a MH MMO, the series has also finally become as popular as it deserves to be in the west, so thats good.
This really makes me appreciate what monster Hunter world did for the franchise in making it popular in the US. After seeing everything that was in frontier I would hate to miss another game like it just because of it being Japan exclusive
I mean, World may have been the game that made the series boom in the west, but it still had localized versions of all the main titles except P3rd
Yea! It got alot of new people into the series so if world was JP exclusive it would genuinely suck because it'd be another MH game I know of but couldn't play due to region restrictions
@@emblemblade9245 dos, and p3rd actually
4 if you wanna get technical
And generations ultimate 3ds if you really wanna get technical
I remember being 15 or so when I learned about frontier for the first time. I tried every solution I could find and understand to try and get any kind of access to it, searching forums for months in desperation to test myself against a wild, intense, testing entry in a series I already loved at that point. Somewhere in this process I remember I managed to figure out how to sign up for it's official email updates. Every single one I'd put through a translator to read everything I could, everything that I wanted a piece for myself so badly. I remember the strange, melancholic sadness of loosing my limited connection to it when one of those emails finally revealed it was going away. I felt that same feeling again, both sadness and satisfaction, a sense of connection and much more disconnect when I read the chat messages in your village tour when those people who did get to experience it finally had to let it go.
The same happened to me. Visiting the Monster Hunter wiki while playing Freedom 2 and Monster Hunter Tri and discovering all of these new, unknown and weird looking monsters that I would never be able to hunt. Pure mysticism, now lost.
hate it that we never got the chance to experience this masterpiece
I mean you can now lol I guess.
@@robertparker9404 ?
@@ivorymask2599 it's alot of people playing the games now go on Amazon you can get a copy
@@robertparker9404 i mean i guess you could buy a copy but that wouldn't make any sense since the servers are shut down
@@ivorymask2599 lol can always solo
I really hope a new frontier game gets made I miss it
Amazing effort thanks you all involved
Hypnoc and Lavasioth were actually a joint creation from the normal MH team and Frontier for the main series however they were added for Frontier first. So technically they were supposed to be in normal MH first and then Frontier second. Espinas was also supposed to be in MHFU alongside these two. At least that's what I heave heard anyway.
From time to time i come back to rewatch the monster hunter videos. Great beside playing monster hunter
I was lucky enough to play this when it was available on the ps3, (Taiwanese Version of course). I miss this game so much and its sad it wasn't brought to the west. It definitely would've lasted a lot longer with Western support.
If you're looking for people who played MHOnline, I still have most of the core English community on Discord, and I'm sure most of us would be happy to help :)
This video is much appreciated! I know reuploads aren’t the best for the algorithm but I appreciate having one big video I can click play on without having to worry about a playlist. The simple things lol
They're actually really good if they're long and stitched together. They perform better than the original
Hardcore Khezu with hardcore electro-NUTT
Babe wake up, another 3 hour video essay about a game I've never played just dropped.
I like how every time we see someone with a long sword they are never attacking the tail
I've watched this series of videos several times over now and all I can say is that these are some of the MH community's more legendary videos!
Me: nOoOoooOo u can't one shot me with an arena wide move!!!!!!
White Nargacuga: hehe punchy punch goes wooooosh
Only 1 year later we got Espinas in Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak!
Maaaan the ending feels bitter sweet
I love coming back to these videos and just recapping on the games I never got to play, but thanks for making these videos :)
We did it boys and girls
I think Frontier presents an excellent case study of why Monster Hunter games work better as individual releases, rather than persistent online MMOs. The power creep starts to get a little ridiculous (in terms of player skill requirements, not just the absurdity of the monsters) when each new addition is expected to outdo the last and the hard reset we get every once in a while via a new generation/mainline entry helps curb this.
Since Monster Hunter wouldn't necessarily have player levels in an online format (at least not in the same way that you'd see in something like World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy 14) simply raising the level cap doesn't "reset" players in this environment and therefore the standard expansion format might not produce the same results you'd normally desire.
If they were to try and do another Monster Hunter online game, I think it would be better if they took a look at non-linear forms of player progression as they reach the endgame. While I do not condone it's business practices and generally hate Bethesda and ZeniMax's guts, the colloquially named "horizontal progression" present in Elder Scrolls Online may be a good template to start with.
Time to rewatch this masterpiece
thank you for the effort to produce such a good video, that was my entertainment during the week
by now you can actually play it again, which is so cool
After playing I’m coming back to watch, Magnet Spike has become my favorite weapon!! Edit:After obtaining a max level Ravi weapon and getting a ZP set Frontier is basically my favorite game right now! Sure Zeniths and Mousous as well as Arrogant Dura are tough as hell but that builds the myth!! Hope some of you other fans get to experience this true gem of a game
Very nice. These were very informative. I'll enjoy watching them again.
I honestly hope they bring something like frontier back out and bring it to the west cause as out there as these fights were I love that! As long as we get our normal mh games still I'd LOVE this
Time to watch all of this without any regret
Greatest crime ever was Frontier not being mainline and carried over to modern consoles. Some of the greatest monsters. Largest amount too. Damn shame.
OH MY!!! OK, considering the fact that I heard these videos multiple times while playing, I can't imagine how much time that translates to!
I knew it! I had been wracking my brain if the weapon size upgrade was something I misremembered or not since the people I asked told me it wasnt a thing. But there it is, there it finally is!
1:00 and now Espinas in Rise Sunbreak
this series was how i found out about you, so glad i did
Same!
I'm just waiting for that fateful and glorious day when someone REPAINTS AN ONLINE MONSTER HUNTER GAME
I love how hard core rajang is just furious rajang from iceborne
I never looked a mh frontier as a "not part of the mh series" kind of game, I looked at the monsters and they were ABSOLUTELY STUNNING. They had so much amazing designs and behavior, I'm really glad capcom brought Espinas to mh rise sunbreak
I really appreciate this as a way to get a sense of all that Frontier had to offer and what we missed out on. My information hoarding brain is satiated.
It's so in depth, this could nott have been a simple video to make.
It was not. Took a long ass time lmao
Okay but that hunter festival event sounds badass
Awesome video, it’s crazy how even just going through the most basic facts of all the updates and monsters took almost 3 hours
Double posting to comment on the end of the video where they say "things are cherry picked from Frontier with no credit to the original." The Espinas trailer for Sunbreak was called "A New Frontier." Hopefully whatever internal culture is at Capcom is changing?
I still remember doing my service back in Frontier, when I was an absolute noob. Raviente changed me permanently. Even today, I don't think I'd be as good at hunting if I didn't hunt him. It wasn't really that hard, more like a rite of passage, like Lao.
Dyuragaua hunts kept me on my toes, as my bad armor meant a single mistake was a one hit kill. After making its Long Sword, and ironing out most of my mistakes, I joined others and took Raviente down. Along the way, I fought Nono and Kamu, Espinas, Gogomoa and its event variant with the creepy mask (scarred for life), Taikun Zamuza, the scorpion, and many others.
A memory I treasure deeply even today. HR99, since free accounts didn't go higher, but still proud af of what I had achieved. I couldn't fulfill my dream of hunting Shantien, but it was fine. I took what I could and grew as a hunter. And I would have it no other way. ;)
the first updates of this game really look amazing, its as if 2nd gen continued development. such a shame its gone atleast for now
So I literally just started the video but dude thank you so much for making this Ive been in love for the series for a while now, definitly not a veteran but Ive been playing since MH3U, and ive wanted know so fucking bad why some people hate frontier and why some love its different takes on the monsters and formula. This is literally all I wanted to find, a clear concise objective look at the game. Thank you for that.