Well, MH 1 is the og, but I think in terms of modern gaming and content, Frontier is superior, but that's just a thought. I'm impartial. I think both are great
Well that depends on who you ask MH1 is the original that started the whole series off but yeah going back to it is pretty clunky given the time it was made. MH Frontier stays with that classic MH formula except cranks everything to 11 and goes absolutely wild with its monster designs, movesets and weapons. Tonfas were easy my favorite weapon. Magnet Spike... we don't talk about Magnet spike.
"Better" is a really loaded term. I would say MH1 is more important in MH history than Frontier for obvious reasons, being the first game, but also because it was available globally so it had more reach, which makes it better as a historical example to point people towards when talking about the series and how it has grown. MH1 will remain relevant in that way even if the series continued for 100 more games, but Frontier is already becoming dated and replaced by newer games that are embracing much of what made it a different experience from the mainline series. That said, Frontier would definitely be my choice for which game to play if both were put in front of me, because it has far more content and superior game mechanics. I've also played through everything in MH1 back in the day, whereas I've never touched MH Frontier because of the hurdles involved in approaching it. I put all my hoop-jumping energy into playing Portable 3rd (which I bought the physical copy of despite using... other means... to play it in english)
Great vid, just a clarification based on our convo: Emulators for these kinds of games exist, but this game is not playable on them atm. The phone that runs the game encrypts the data, so it can be dumped properly at the moment. Unfortunately that means it's not playable to a wider audience, but hopefully in the future this will be possible. At the moment I have the only known device with the game, but I would imagine there are more out there. Thanks for using the footage! Again, great vid!
Quick corection the axel axe was from Monster hunter Explore not frontier, frontier had The Switch axe F wich is basically almost a difrent kind of switch axe had difrent mechanics but same idea
Not sure if you know this, but Frontier has been revived by the fanbase! It's an utter nightmare to actually get it working, but I was even able to play it in English. Also, I think the fact that we got Espinas in Rise is a sign that Capcom hasn't forgotten about Frontier and it might mean that they're going to implement some of the better and more grounded ideas from Frontier into the main series!
I started playing it too recently and while the difficulty starts spiking around HR 4 (I am at HR 5 and earlier today I brute forced my way through the Guanzorumu repel quest with my Rasta without carting... haven't done the rest of the HR 5 key quests though) it is still very good! I do wish that the dialogue was in English but aside from that it runs extremely well
That’s what I was looking for! It’s also the one I always wish I could go back and play because of how convenient it was. I love it, only downside was the broken gacha, and how you needed the best weapons to keep up with the monsters.
just a heads up to people wanting to play older games, contrary to what I see everyone say you can buy the physical games for cheap if you look for them. just last week I bought freedom 2 and freedom unite for $5 (combined) after a few days spent checking various second hand retailers (and yes they both were in excellent condition). don't be disheartened by exorbitant resale prices online, any older title that was relatively popular enough to have a decent number of copies still in circulation will be able to be found for a good price if you take the time to look.
the last physical mh game I need is the original stories, which is a bit harder to find at a good price because it sold less than the other titles, meaning there's a lot less copies in circulation and whenever I do find a copy it's around $70. this is the only title from the PSP and 3ds games that I've not seen go for cheap, all the others I've managed to get for $20 or less (and I continue to find them selling at those prices)
It's great to hear that there still are that many copies in circulation. Here in Portugal it's extremely hard to find any sort of MH products since it never really took off and people don't really know about it
here in Asia MH older titles are dirty cheap, especially here in Japan you can buy all of the older MH titles less than usd 20 each🤣 and in very good condition
hahaha 😂 I dont really mind having "pirate" games on older game consoles. his point on 3ds MH games is meh you can buy all those 3 games dirty cheap and 3ds is cheap as hell nowadays
the only thing that i truly want to happen to this franchise is another triple a title that doesn't cut lagiacrus BRING MY BOY BACK CAPCOM HE DON'T DESERVE THIS
@@ariannadravis3934 As much as I don't care for Rathalos, he absolutely should be in every game. He's a simple monster and Rathalos is almost the face for the Monster Hunter series as a whole. No other monster shares that level of iconic.
@@FleshlyDelight Nah, not really. I don't care if he's the mascot; we should be allowed to ignore him for a game or two. Im not saying never include him ever again, but treat him like..every other monster, cuz he is just another monster. Iconography is irrelevant here since each game has a flagship, you think about MH you think about each games flagship. What each person thinks of when they broadly think about MH as a whole COULD be rathalos, but i'd put my money on their thoughts going to indiviual favorite monsters. Not that it matters because it should be completely irrelrvant anyways, and treating each monster the same way is far and away superior for future monster lineups. If there were no favoritism, then more fan requested ones could be brought in, OR new ones (which i'd vastly perfer btw).
Accel Axe is from Monster Hunter Explore, not Frontier, Explore was a Mobile Monster Hunter game, that, as a common trend, also featured unique and currently still exclusive monsters 👍and generally, i think Explore played really well, so hopefully MonsterHunter Now plays a little like it
I'm so glad you mentioned MH: Spirits. I played it on my trip to Japan back in 2016, and even bought the special Zinogre accessory (essentially a proto-kinship stone that could be placed on a part of the arcade cabinet that read a QR code which is revealed after it pops open) available in the electronics section of the local superstore. I still have the small deck of cards I collected from my several plays of the game. I wish western arcades had more game cabinets with cards and progression to draw in regular customers. Couch gaming is great, but the thrill of playing at an arcade, as well as the social aspects, is such an amazing thing that I regret is missing from western culture.
Best I ever got in the west was animal kaiser. My arcade lost it when it got closed to earthquake damage. As bad as the game was I just liked playing it for the cards.
@@jiskool1 to be perfectly fair, all coin ops are... there's more overhead investment with cabinets that have ad hoc components like cards, but fighting games and high-score cabs mine your pockets aggressively as well, without the same sense of progression. They have their own type of personal progress, but it's less tangible. I think people fail at resolving the cost/value equation of these games the way they deserve based on how much enjoyment I got from just limited exposure.
i hope that they make a combination between frontier, world and tri for the water mechanic, cause i think the way they're evolving i think this can be an amazing feature in the future games
I heard water battles take up a fuckton of resources that could be used on other game features, since every submarine Monster had to have 2 versions (if fightable on land). Also the reason why they scrapped that idea.
@@Donnovo Wasn't this mainly when the games were still niche and on consoles that limited what they could do? I feel like they'd have a better chance nowadays that the games can be put on more powerful systems
Great video! But I'm surprised you didn't even mention Monster Hunter Explore. The (I think) most succesfull and probably "most genuine" smartphone Monster Hunter experience. Was really sad when they shut that down. The gameplay WAS somewhat stripped down, but very fun and enjoyable in its own way.
One of my favourite (and apparently obscure) MH games was Monster Hunter Hunting Quest, a weird mix of RPG, Card game and Idle Game, in which you create a deck of litteraly Hunters to explore and hunt monsters, while trying to upgrade each individual card I remember sinking lots of time on it using Google screen translation trying to understand what I was doing every 4 seconds
Not only that but hes talking about how these games should be ported to the switch ignoring that MG Generations was ported to the switch at launch as MH Generations Ultimate
I would argue that Freedom Unite is not as expensive. I think it is around $40 canadian for a physical copy at the time of writing. For a psp game is not bad, considering that some games on that console have gotten pretty pricey this days, and Freedom Unite has so much content that it is worth it. Or the digital version on Ps vita, despite looking a bit choppy is also a good alternative. Great video.
@@vladventura1928I got a second-hand copy for like 3 euros. It actually surprised me how cheap this game is, considering it's large roster of monsters and the fact that many view it as one of the best titles in the PSP library.
I played Monster Hunter Spirits, it was a great experience, the idea that you could either level up the monster you used during the fight or get a new monster was a fun experience.
One of capcoms forgotten mh game (kind of) is monster hunter explore. Basically its an rpg monster hunter in a phone which you control with a joystick on the screen and swipe on the screen to dodge. It also has a unique monster which is one of my most favorits of all time named morudomunto. It has the frame of gor, but the arms have a mouth in it and that its arms stretches, its black in color and has a big crown like horns with a big tail and it splurges out this black slime that hardens and becomes spikes on the ground infilcting wound meaning when you roll you take damage. And another one nef-garmat. Basically an edgyptian dragon, it has gold scales with a black skin and has blue glowy lines when enrages and here's the unique part. to un-enraged nef-garmat you need to attck the crystal attached to its tale that he picked up on the ground, if you pick up the crystal you get a buff making the fight easier thats why its necessary to take Off the crystal. And to name a few variants we have nargacuga with water jets for wings, a watermelon uragaan, a flaming rathian and rathalos (literally... they are on fire), a zinogre that's color green (looks cool ngl), we also ahve the OG frostfang barioth, a literally demonic rajang, and a golden lightning kirin fuk that guy. i dont know if my network was slow as hell but i was fr sure that bitch was teleporting. And dont even mention the events for example we have a colosal titan pickle, and an alfons diablos from full metal alchemist etc... In short "loved" the game.
Freedom Unite in RE style remake would probably kill me. I'd lap that stuff up like a stray dog at a buffet who doesn't know when the next meal is going to be.
came here from the Hey Jay! video reacting to yours! I wanted to see it unedited since this was always an interesting topic for me! keep up the good work
I would really like to see tri remastered. Underwater controls are fine if you are using a ps or Xbox controller and they can only get better with a remaster
In MH1 95% of people used their usb keyboards and were very social back when no one knew was usb was. Since MH1 I've played every MH and havent said a word to anyone... Capcom?
Monster Hunter Tri on the Wii was a wild trip of a childhood, played Monster Hunter Portable Third through emulation 6-8 years ago and then JUST tried it again couple months back and the servers are miraculously just as populated as they were way back when
Using citra to play through GenU (Japanese release on 3DS before switch, has all the content as the switch port, massive modding community that translates it to English, and unlocks a lot of special event quest and a lot of graphical overhaul mods that make it look better than the switch port) and 4U and using CemU to play 3U
@ 9:57 "There is always emulation (becuase freedom unite costs a lot)" It's $15.99 usd for an out of box UMD There are thousands of them Only the sealed box costs $90 usd. Working copies go for $15-25
MHO was a lot of fun, I played about 800-1k hours of it right before MHW release on PC It is pretty much MHFU but with MH4 influence. At that time it was the most high fidelity graphic monster hunter game we have, looks gorgeous yet it play exactly like traditional MH game with instance map instead of open interconnected one like MHW/Rise. The problem is that it is in Chinese so we have to wait for fan translation every update tho once you get used to it you can play it without it. There is some P2W element but the game difficulty isn't much different from traditional MH so it was mostly whalebait and ofc gacha cosmetic that looks cool but doesn't offer much else. You can still look great as F2P anyway with camo and you can get some in game currency from grinding to buy weapon camo and limited time armor. Oh and I love the Hunter character creation, IMHO my chara looks hella pretty even more so than MHW, such a shame I can't see her anymore. Oh and I play completely F2P and have a blast playing alone and with the discord community or even with random. Really wish there is an offline version of the game cuz honestly, it was a solid MH experience comparable to the general mainline title unlike MH Frontier who is on a completely different world
I did sink in around 100h into MHO and I remember playing mezaporta reclamation for a bit. Both were fun games. I wish there was a way to play them today
Correction about the Monster Hunter i part, while the SuperRAD did make a good video on it he had to get the Japanese flip phone to in order to play it. His community did help by sharing info about the game and donating for him to pay for the phone but as of now the only way to play this game is to own that phone it is impossible to emulate it. He had just been able to record footage that he can share for the video.
2:11 From what I know this case is similar to “Super Mario RPG”. In this case it’s true that the one owning the rights of the franchise is obviously CAPCOM, but because the game was make in collaboration with Tencent Games CAPCOM doesn’t own all the rights of MHO. Which in short means that almost (if not all) of the content in MHO will never be in other MH (by this I mean like CAPCOM can’t extract a monster or armor set directly from MHO and put it in a new game or dlc, but they could still introduce something equivalent or inspired from this collaboration).
I logged over way to many hours on the original monster hunter on ps2. The controls were bad compared to today's monster hunter games. But I did get use to them and still enjoyed the game. Good memories buying that game on launch day😊
With Espinas (as a Frontier’s « exclusive » and also a pseudo flagship) in Sunbreak, who knows. Maybe we’ll get Tonfas or a similar weapon in future titles (because we really need a fast blunt weapon, like dual hammers!) Monster Hunter Online had some of the greatest exclusive Monsters too, let’s hope for the best for the next main title!
The 3ds monster hunter game are actually not that costly they are mostly less then $20, except for MH stories which have priced pass over $50 mostly around $60.
dude i came from a digimon world stream and i decided to close it and watch your video i thought i didn't close the stream cause of the city music in you video XD
You've earned a sub as i didn't know about the boobs monster hunter. If capcom remade master hunter 4 ultimate and performed the same treatment as they did in the RE games. It would easily be the best monster hunter hands down. Still, some updating in the game would be nice, like not having to press the button all the time to mind and gather... Just holding is fine. Also, QoL stuff would be nice, like having your pick axe and net outside your inventory so you can carry more stuff back home as well as a hunter's note book with maps, monster info and stuff. And, in my opinion, the best thing they could do was just make all the maps work like they do in world or rise. No loading screens during gameplay.
The maps span a lot of ground (aka you are halfway up a mountain and the first entry area is at it's foot. It would require a huge effort to recreate the maps for a seamless experience, and the only way I can see it done is expanding each small area into one larger map like in rise and connect them all the same way it is already. But that again would require a rework of the basic gameplay loop and timer.
Damn when people show their analytics it's normally around 30% subscription. Which is actually fine considering how the platform works. But seeing 1% made me sad. You do great work and got my sub
Correction: The axcel axe was from the mobile game monster hunter explore. You probably confused it for the magnet spike weapon, which is completely different.
I'd love it if Capcom would simply upload all of their older titles to Steam as they were first released, with all of their content, and just let us host private servers on our own. I'd love to go back and experience Dos for the first time with friends
Heads up for everyone: I think it was Capcom that announced last year (if my memory serves me right, it was around September - October) that they'll make another Monster Hunter game for mobile. Apparently, it's going to be faithful to the main games' gameplay. 🧐 Then again, I could be wrong. I'm not good at remembering things. 😅
MH Online, my beloved. I gave it a try back in 2017 (VPN w/ the English patch), but didn't get into full swing until about a year before it's shutdown announcement. Sure, it had it's janky moments and was a little rough around the edges, but I enjoyed every bit of it.
I think the problem with remaking older MH titles is that Monster Hunter is basically a live service game, even though it's not released as such. They do a major release (main, expansion, ports) EVERY YEAR, and try to lengthen it s relevancy through time locked content, and now, free DLC. Capcom doesn't want the titles cannibalizing each other, which is why they used to only release in single platforms, and also why they chose to delay MHGU localization until MH World has run its course. Basically, they want the whole fanbase to focus on the latest release. Though they've been shaking things up recently, so who knows?
@@OMGYOUARER8GHT Feels like an experiment. They already delisted it. Capcom's been itching to break into the mobile market. They freaking used the MH4 profits to open a new mobile studio for fuck's sake. That was around the time when they were already low on funds and was almost open to a buyout.
I hope we see some form of remaster for the older games, either for the switch or all platforms, or even see some new form of frontier, with all the speculation of some new monster hunter game probably coming around march of next year, it would be great to give the fans something fresh while working on the next major game
AWWWW MH Online still hurts my soul they had a full English port of it in like 2018 and i was having such a blast that was so close to the perfect monster hunter game
I still play mh4u a lot and mhxx on 3ds even more, tho the online shutting down really really sucks... tho I mostly play with my irl best friend in person so it wont stop us from playing
It's not just Generations (though there's at least a Switch port of THAT one exists), 3U and 4U, but also Stories is no longer purchasable unless you can find it physically... Which is a shame, as Stories 2 is on Switch but not the first Also quasi-related, but also Animal Crossing on the 3DS had MH content if you have the MH Stories Amiibo to scan, giving you an exclusive villager and a bunch of furniture items you can't get anywhere else, not even on the Switch version of Animal Crossing.
4:55 actually i don't think the Accel Axe was in that game, I'm pretty sure the Accel Axe was a Monster Hunter Explore (the mobile game) exclusive And yeah, Frontier is great, I'm not far in it but its super fun. Man i wish spirits had come to the west, i super wanted to try that game...... actually thats true for ALL of these, even the ones i hadn't heard of like reclamation. I'm a simp for anything monster hunter.
Hey dark hero I’ve been a fan of your Chanel for while ever since I found it a 1,5 years ago, And I’ve been wondering a question that I’m hoping you can answer for me, when it comes to the dromes and greats of monster hunter, which one in you opinion would be considered the deadliest? I’m hoping in A future video of yours you can explain the dromes and the greats in detail
I started with MH1 on PS2, the controls are...well odd. You use the right stick to attack, yes the right stick, not buttons. Is it bad? Hell no, I've had a lot of fun in the game. It's just dated. Be glad you didn't play online in the first game, people would literally kick you out if you weren't using specific weapons. I played dual blades and LBG and I got kicked out a lot for using dual blades.
There are also 2 Monster Hunter games that Capcom wants to forget. One is Monster Hunter Explorer and Monster Hunter Rider. MH Explorer is a mobile game that was released before MH massive hunting. It's easier to play but to get the armor, you have to Gacha for it. It's shut down in 2020. MH Riders is like MH stories, but of course to get the rider you want, you have to Gacha. And of course, they shut it down. MH Explorer is a good game and lasts long. I don't know why they shut it down but well, it's history.
I mean Generations Ultimate is Generations for 3DS but with all the dlc, extras, and polished better for switch. You can also get the physical copies actually pretty easy and cheap for MH3U and 4U
I'd love to replay monster hunter Tri. Tri was my first monster hunter game. I know the under water combat wasn't the greatest back then but I liked it and nowadays tech is better so it can easily be improved. MHW made so many great changes though and I would love to see another monster hunter game with the MHW systems in play.
I actually have the ps2 monster hunter used to play it all the time as a kid, but was never any good at it. Went back and played it recently between rise and sunbreak releases and put about 100 hours in, had a blast going through the game and beating everything I could in offline mode that i couldn't as a kid. Once you get used to the controls, I think you'll enjoy it. Great video, happy hunting :)
Ah yes the accel axe a weapon introduced in monster hunter explore being used in frontier, could've sworn explore was released a year after frontiers shut down
I still own a copy of MH4U on my 3DS. My first ever MH game and i am so glad i kept it after all these years. I did buy it physically at a gamestop complete in box years ago.
Same for me my first mh game. Lost my original copy so now I had to restart on the copy my sister bought for me. Also insect glaive is the best weapon hammer is a close second.
More importantly for MH3, it had a unique way to handle bowguns compared to any other title which was lost in MH3U and soon after 3U came out, the servers for 3 were shut down, making a massive part of the game unplayable even if you did manage to get your hands on a copy of the game. There is a fan server project that seems to be going along quite well but as far as I'm aware, aside from testing purposes, only a solo hub version is available right now. Needless to say, with multiplayer scaling, it's tough to really say the content is accessible even now. Also a little extra note for MH Massive/Dynamic Hunting were sort of followed by MH Explore as well. It wasn't so much a monster hunter game like the older ones and it really was more of a gacha game but the combat was pretty much inspired by those games. MHXR was removed from online stores in 2020 as well (probably to prepare for their next mobile MH game which was announced recently).
I would love to see MHO or MHFrontier in the west. I played MHO and most of the MHFrontier series and I can say without a doubt they have more difficult monsters. Capcom could always bring them out in the west in their newer MH installations but they likely won't because they seem to like pissing their fans off.
@@odafalz4156 I think at this point, we'll get more Frontier monsters now that Espinas is in. The only reason why they haven't added any Frontier monsters beforehand was because of the backlash they got when they added Lavasioth and Hypnocatrice in Freedom Unite. Online monsters, however, are even more in question since they weren't created by Capcom.
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Which MH game do you guys think is better? MH 1 (PS2) or MH Frontier ?
Well, MH 1 is the og, but I think in terms of modern gaming and content, Frontier is superior, but that's just a thought. I'm impartial. I think both are great
Frontier is waaaaaay better both in gameplay and content
Well that depends on who you ask MH1 is the original that started the whole series off but yeah going back to it is pretty clunky given the time it was made. MH Frontier stays with that classic MH formula except cranks everything to 11 and goes absolutely wild with its monster designs, movesets and weapons. Tonfas were easy my favorite weapon. Magnet Spike... we don't talk about Magnet spike.
"Better" is a really loaded term. I would say MH1 is more important in MH history than Frontier for obvious reasons, being the first game, but also because it was available globally so it had more reach, which makes it better as a historical example to point people towards when talking about the series and how it has grown. MH1 will remain relevant in that way even if the series continued for 100 more games, but Frontier is already becoming dated and replaced by newer games that are embracing much of what made it a different experience from the mainline series. That said, Frontier would definitely be my choice for which game to play if both were put in front of me, because it has far more content and superior game mechanics. I've also played through everything in MH1 back in the day, whereas I've never touched MH Frontier because of the hurdles involved in approaching it. I put all my hoop-jumping energy into playing Portable 3rd (which I bought the physical copy of despite using... other means... to play it in english)
Did you forgot about mh explore?
Great vid, just a clarification based on our convo:
Emulators for these kinds of games exist, but this game is not playable on them atm. The phone that runs the game encrypts the data, so it can be dumped properly at the moment. Unfortunately that means it's not playable to a wider audience, but hopefully in the future this will be possible. At the moment I have the only known device with the game, but I would imagine there are more out there.
Thanks for using the footage! Again, great vid!
Can't* be dumped properly
that is unfortunate. i remember playing and enjoying this game before MHW came out, shortly after it shut down.
Quick corection the axel axe was from Monster hunter Explore not frontier, frontier had The Switch axe F wich is basically almost a difrent kind of switch axe had difrent mechanics but same idea
Yeah that's my bad, I'm not far enough to unlock them and forgot about SA-F
@darkhero2, don't worry. I didn't mean to come out sounding rude, just making sure that you knew about it, amazing video ether way ❤
Is it Axel Axe or "Accel" Axe? I always thought is was Accel for Accelerate
@@karuiGaming its accel
4:17 "some of these assets elsewhere in the future."
lowkey think this scene and that specific quote was intentionally put together lol
Not sure if you know this, but Frontier has been revived by the fanbase! It's an utter nightmare to actually get it working, but I was even able to play it in English. Also, I think the fact that we got Espinas in Rise is a sign that Capcom hasn't forgotten about Frontier and it might mean that they're going to implement some of the better and more grounded ideas from Frontier into the main series!
I started playing it too recently and while the difficulty starts spiking around HR 4 (I am at HR 5 and earlier today I brute forced my way through the Guanzorumu repel quest with my Rasta without carting... haven't done the rest of the HR 5 key quests though) it is still very good!
I do wish that the dialogue was in English but aside from that it runs extremely well
It's super easy to get running. Just follow the written guide. Took me like an hour
can you guys send me the link?
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How? I have look into trying to emulate somehow if able. Where can I find the information to allow me to play?
I have been playing it,and musous are kicking my ass with g4 gear,its honestly insane
Can we get some Fs in the chat for Monster Hunter Explore since this guy actually forgot it
That’s what I was looking for! It’s also the one I always wish I could go back and play because of how convenient it was. I love it, only downside was the broken gacha, and how you needed the best weapons to keep up with the monsters.
Fr bro 😂
just a heads up to people wanting to play older games, contrary to what I see everyone say you can buy the physical games for cheap if you look for them. just last week I bought freedom 2 and freedom unite for $5 (combined) after a few days spent checking various second hand retailers (and yes they both were in excellent condition). don't be disheartened by exorbitant resale prices online, any older title that was relatively popular enough to have a decent number of copies still in circulation will be able to be found for a good price if you take the time to look.
the last physical mh game I need is the original stories, which is a bit harder to find at a good price because it sold less than the other titles, meaning there's a lot less copies in circulation and whenever I do find a copy it's around $70. this is the only title from the PSP and 3ds games that I've not seen go for cheap, all the others I've managed to get for $20 or less (and I continue to find them selling at those prices)
It's great to hear that there still are that many copies in circulation.
Here in Portugal it's extremely hard to find any sort of MH products since it never really took off and people don't really know about it
@@Lord_Slug I got really lucky by finding a physical copy for $90
here in Asia MH older titles are dirty cheap, especially here in Japan you can buy all of the older MH titles less than usd 20 each🤣 and in very good condition
soooo anything before 4U is bloody expensive got it!
Pirating games on Nintendo consoles is simply the morally correct choice
Unless if its still available for purchase. So basically Switch games, everything else is fair game.
@@karuiGaming true true
@karuiGaming true (unless gated by the absolute garbage that is Nintendo online) but true
@@sekiro_the_one-armed_wolf Good thing this ain't Twitter lol.
But yea they would.
hahaha 😂 I dont really mind having "pirate" games on older game consoles. his point on 3ds MH games is meh you can buy all those 3 games dirty cheap and 3ds is cheap as hell nowadays
the only thing that i truly want to happen to this franchise is another triple a title that doesn't cut lagiacrus BRING MY BOY BACK CAPCOM HE DON'T DESERVE THIS
Bring back the Beast. Gives us Deviljho.
Lagiacrus Deviljho and Brachidios should be in every MH games. Like rathagang.
@@tonexipontana No monster deserves to be in every game
@@ariannadravis3934 As much as I don't care for Rathalos, he absolutely should be in every game.
He's a simple monster and Rathalos is almost the face for the Monster Hunter series as a whole.
No other monster shares that level of iconic.
@@FleshlyDelight Nah, not really. I don't care if he's the mascot; we should be allowed to ignore him for a game or two. Im not saying never include him ever again, but treat him like..every other monster, cuz he is just another monster.
Iconography is irrelevant here since each game has a flagship, you think about MH you think about each games flagship. What each person thinks of when they broadly think about MH as a whole COULD be rathalos, but i'd put my money on their thoughts going to indiviual favorite monsters.
Not that it matters because it should be completely irrelrvant anyways, and treating each monster the same way is far and away superior for future monster lineups. If there were no favoritism, then more fan requested ones could be brought in, OR new ones (which i'd vastly perfer btw).
@@FleshlyDelight we lost aptonoth in rise/sunbreak after 16 years of being in every title.
Accel Axe is from Monster Hunter Explore, not Frontier, Explore was a Mobile Monster Hunter game, that, as a common trend, also featured unique and currently still exclusive monsters 👍and generally, i think Explore played really well, so hopefully MonsterHunter Now plays a little like it
I'm so glad you mentioned MH: Spirits. I played it on my trip to Japan back in 2016, and even bought the special Zinogre accessory (essentially a proto-kinship stone that could be placed on a part of the arcade cabinet that read a QR code which is revealed after it pops open) available in the electronics section of the local superstore. I still have the small deck of cards I collected from my several plays of the game. I wish western arcades had more game cabinets with cards and progression to draw in regular customers. Couch gaming is great, but the thrill of playing at an arcade, as well as the social aspects, is such an amazing thing that I regret is missing from western culture.
Best I ever got in the west was animal kaiser. My arcade lost it when it got closed to earthquake damage. As bad as the game was I just liked playing it for the cards.
This comment made me think of Dragonball Heroes. I'm glad we got console ports but the original experience is amazing.
When I played sprits I used desert Barioth until I swapped to kushala
The only games I’ve seen with cards is injustice and tmnt. Problem is that everyone knows it’s a money sink so no one bothers to play.
@@jiskool1 to be perfectly fair, all coin ops are... there's more overhead investment with cabinets that have ad hoc components like cards, but fighting games and high-score cabs mine your pockets aggressively as well, without the same sense of progression. They have their own type of personal progress, but it's less tangible. I think people fail at resolving the cost/value equation of these games the way they deserve based on how much enjoyment I got from just limited exposure.
The Mesaporta Reclamation games looks like something I genuinely would of loved and enjoyed for the strategy.
and you can’t forget the PLOT.
Me too I mean that looks amazing and that board like map looks really nice like mh meets fire emblem
i hope that they make a combination between frontier, world and tri for the water mechanic, cause i think the way they're evolving i think this can be an amazing feature in the future games
There's underwater battles in Frontier?????
@@ZAH33D No, it was in Monster Hunter Tri and 3 Ultimate
I heard water battles take up a fuckton of resources that could be used on other game features, since every submarine Monster had to have 2 versions (if fightable on land). Also the reason why they scrapped that idea.
Forget water battle... Bring back the customizable bowguns.
@@Donnovo Wasn't this mainly when the games were still niche and on consoles that limited what they could do? I feel like they'd have a better chance nowadays that the games can be put on more powerful systems
Great video! But I'm surprised you didn't even mention Monster Hunter Explore. The (I think) most succesfull and probably "most genuine" smartphone Monster Hunter experience. Was really sad when they shut that down. The gameplay WAS somewhat stripped down, but very fun and enjoyable in its own way.
The fact that it gave Duramboros an exciting variant makes it a great game by default.
One of my favourite (and apparently obscure) MH games was Monster Hunter Hunting Quest, a weird mix of RPG, Card game and Idle Game, in which you create a deck of litteraly Hunters to explore and hunt monsters, while trying to upgrade each individual card
I remember sinking lots of time on it using Google screen translation trying to understand what I was doing every 4 seconds
“Buying physical copies of older games will cost you”
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I bought a double bundle deal of 3U and 4U for the 3DS on Amazon for $50CA… seriously😆
Not only that but hes talking about how these games should be ported to the switch ignoring that MG Generations was ported to the switch at launch as MH Generations Ultimate
If the company is no longer actively trying to make money off of a game then its ok to pirate it
the Accel Axe was from EXPLORE not FRONTIER, the Switch Axe F was in Frontier
A lot of people probably already said this, but the Excel axe is from MH explore, not frontier.
I would argue that Freedom Unite is not as expensive. I think it is around $40 canadian for a physical copy at the time of writing. For a psp game is not bad, considering that some games on that console have gotten pretty pricey this days, and Freedom Unite has so much content that it is worth it. Or the digital version on Ps vita, despite looking a bit choppy is also a good alternative. Great video.
I found the game myself, but good gravy I hate playing it on the PSP.
Yeah can confirm, I bought one a few weeks ago for like 20 USD
@@vladventura1928I got a second-hand copy for like 3 euros. It actually surprised me how cheap this game is, considering it's large roster of monsters and the fact that many view it as one of the best titles in the PSP library.
I played Monster Hunter Spirits, it was a great experience, the idea that you could either level up the monster you used during the fight or get a new monster was a fun experience.
One of capcoms forgotten mh game (kind of) is monster hunter explore.
Basically its an rpg monster hunter in a phone which you control with a joystick on the screen and swipe on the screen to dodge.
It also has a unique monster which is one of my most favorits of all time named morudomunto.
It has the frame of gor, but the arms have a mouth in it and that its arms stretches, its black in color and has a big crown like horns with a big tail and it splurges out this black slime that hardens and becomes spikes on the ground infilcting wound meaning when you roll you take damage.
And another one nef-garmat. Basically an edgyptian dragon, it has gold scales with a black skin and has blue glowy lines when enrages and here's the unique part. to un-enraged nef-garmat you need to attck the crystal attached to its tale that he picked up on the ground, if you pick up the crystal you get a buff making the fight easier thats why its necessary to take
Off the crystal.
And to name a few variants we have nargacuga with water jets for wings, a watermelon uragaan, a flaming rathian and rathalos (literally... they are on fire), a zinogre that's color green (looks cool ngl), we also ahve the OG frostfang barioth, a literally demonic rajang, and a golden lightning kirin fuk that guy. i dont know if my network was slow as hell but i was fr sure that bitch was teleporting.
And dont even mention the events for example we have a colosal titan pickle, and an alfons diablos from full metal alchemist etc...
In short "loved" the game.
Freedom Unite in RE style remake would probably kill me. I'd lap that stuff up like a stray dog at a buffet who doesn't know when the next meal is going to be.
came here from the Hey Jay! video reacting to yours! I wanted to see it unedited since this was always an interesting topic for me! keep up the good work
4:16 I like how you direct the word "Assets" on this section .. it's too straightforward but I like that one 😆😂
That Pokemon diamond/pearl city music doesn't go unnoticed :)
Dear Capcom....
GIVE ME MY MAGNET SPIKE YOU COWARDS!
Thank you.
I was able to play MHO on my PC for a few months with the English patch and sucked that it closed
It looked cool like the concept and gane play looked difrent and interesting would have loved to play it at some point
Tbh I would love to see a remake of Freedom Unite.
I would really like to see tri remastered. Underwater controls are fine if you are using a ps or Xbox controller and they can only get better with a remaster
I heard that Digimon World music in the background boi
In MH1 95% of people used their usb keyboards and were very social back when no one knew was usb was. Since MH1 I've played every MH and havent said a word to anyone... Capcom?
Subbed... because of the very funny intro and the awesome accent!
Monster Hunter Tri on the Wii was a wild trip of a childhood, played Monster Hunter Portable Third through emulation 6-8 years ago and then JUST tried it again couple months back and the servers are miraculously just as populated as they were way back when
Using citra to play through GenU (Japanese release on 3DS before switch, has all the content as the switch port, massive modding community that translates it to English, and unlocks a lot of special event quest and a lot of graphical overhaul mods that make it look better than the switch port) and 4U and using CemU to play 3U
@ 9:57
"There is always emulation (becuase freedom unite costs a lot)"
It's $15.99 usd for an out of box UMD
There are thousands of them
Only the sealed box costs $90 usd. Working copies go for $15-25
MONSTER HUNTER ONLINE HAD 800H in this GAME CAN RECOMMEND SO GOOD
ARBITER ESTRELLIEN MY BABY OR PURPLE SLICEMAGIL:D!
MHO was a lot of fun, I played about 800-1k hours of it right before MHW release on PC
It is pretty much MHFU but with MH4 influence. At that time it was the most high fidelity graphic monster hunter game we have, looks gorgeous yet it play exactly like traditional MH game with instance map instead of open interconnected one like MHW/Rise. The problem is that it is in Chinese so we have to wait for fan translation every update tho once you get used to it you can play it without it.
There is some P2W element but the game difficulty isn't much different from traditional MH so it was mostly whalebait and ofc gacha cosmetic that looks cool but doesn't offer much else. You can still look great as F2P anyway with camo and you can get some in game currency from grinding to buy weapon camo and limited time armor. Oh and I love the Hunter character creation, IMHO my chara looks hella pretty even more so than MHW, such a shame I can't see her anymore.
Oh and I play completely F2P and have a blast playing alone and with the discord community or even with random. Really wish there is an offline version of the game cuz honestly, it was a solid MH experience comparable to the general mainline title unlike MH Frontier who is on a completely different world
I did sink in around 100h into MHO and I remember playing mezaporta reclamation for a bit. Both were fun games. I wish there was a way to play them today
Correction about the Monster Hunter i part, while the SuperRAD did make a good video on it he had to get the Japanese flip phone to in order to play it. His community did help by sharing info about the game and donating for him to pay for the phone but as of now the only way to play this game is to own that phone it is impossible to emulate it. He had just been able to record footage that he can share for the video.
As cool as remasters would be, I’d honestly be happy even if they just ported them over to the switch with no changes!
2:11 From what I know this case is similar to “Super Mario RPG”. In this case it’s true that the one owning the rights of the franchise is obviously CAPCOM, but because the game was make in collaboration with Tencent Games CAPCOM doesn’t own all the rights of MHO. Which in short means that almost (if not all) of the content in MHO will never be in other MH (by this I mean like CAPCOM can’t extract a monster or armor set directly from MHO and put it in a new game or dlc, but they could still introduce something equivalent or inspired from this collaboration).
Also MHFU for IOS?
Heads up, the iOS ver of freedom unite was never updated for the most recent ver of iOS, so that no longer works.
4:17 Capcom pls utilize the "ASSETS" of the future MH games
I logged over way to many hours on the original monster hunter on ps2. The controls were bad compared to today's monster hunter games. But I did get use to them and still enjoyed the game. Good memories buying that game on launch day😊
Capcom also seems to forget about Sengoku Basara series and how it just dies silently . . . 😢
Yes I love that game I wish we get a ps4 and ps5 and Xbox series version of that game 😊
With Espinas (as a Frontier’s « exclusive » and also a pseudo flagship) in Sunbreak, who knows. Maybe we’ll get Tonfas or a similar weapon in future titles (because we really need a fast blunt weapon, like dual hammers!)
Monster Hunter Online had some of the greatest exclusive Monsters too, let’s hope for the best for the next main title!
Monster hunter frontier was one of the best things on Wii U. Probably almost as good as 3 ultimate.
The 3ds monster hunter game are actually not that costly they are mostly less then $20, except for MH stories which have priced pass over $50 mostly around $60.
dude i came from a digimon world stream and i decided to close it and watch your video i thought i didn't close the stream cause of the city music in you video XD
I always think of that DarkSouls like by capcom (which i always forget its name)
I always assumed Monster Hunter would have me hunting politicians and priests...
A port of 4u would be great! I never played it due to not being a fan of handhelds at the time. I played 3u then mhw, then gu, and mhrs of course.
Same, if they managed to port Generations Ultimate on the Switch then they could manage to port in 4U.
You've earned a sub as i didn't know about the boobs monster hunter.
If capcom remade master hunter 4 ultimate and performed the same treatment as they did in the RE games. It would easily be the best monster hunter hands down. Still, some updating in the game would be nice, like not having to press the button all the time to mind and gather... Just holding is fine. Also, QoL stuff would be nice, like having your pick axe and net outside your inventory so you can carry more stuff back home as well as a hunter's note book with maps, monster info and stuff.
And, in my opinion, the best thing they could do was just make all the maps work like they do in world or rise. No loading screens during gameplay.
I feel like the removing of loading screens would require massive changes in the locales to accomodate for that.
The maps span a lot of ground (aka you are halfway up a mountain and the first entry area is at it's foot. It would require a huge effort to recreate the maps for a seamless experience, and the only way I can see it done is expanding each small area into one larger map like in rise and connect them all the same way it is already. But that again would require a rework of the basic gameplay loop and timer.
ONLY 1%! man you got my sub just for that, I can't believe how low that is. For such good content.
Damn when people show their analytics it's normally around 30% subscription. Which is actually fine considering how the platform works. But seeing 1% made me sad. You do great work and got my sub
the physical mh games aren't realy that expensive on ebay from what i have recently looked up
Freedom Unite was me and my brothers first entry to the series. Such a fun time.
Well, atleast in Germany and Poland you get all the physical 3ds titles no problem for a pretty decent price.
4:17 believe me i want tome of those game experience and armor's in a future monsters Hunter 😏😂
Correction: The axcel axe was from the mobile game monster hunter explore. You probably confused it for the magnet spike weapon, which is completely different.
The real game abandoned by capcom is the entirety of the MegaMan franchise 😢
I'd love it if Capcom would simply upload all of their older titles to Steam as they were first released, with all of their content, and just let us host private servers on our own. I'd love to go back and experience Dos for the first time with friends
Monster hunter footage with Digimon World OST. You sir are a brother from another mother.
Heads up for everyone: I think it was Capcom that announced last year (if my memory serves me right, it was around September - October) that they'll make another Monster Hunter game for mobile. Apparently, it's going to be faithful to the main games' gameplay. 🧐 Then again, I could be wrong. I'm not good at remembering things. 😅
MH Online, my beloved. I gave it a try back in 2017 (VPN w/ the English patch), but didn't get into full swing until about a year before it's shutdown announcement. Sure, it had it's janky moments and was a little rough around the edges, but I enjoyed every bit of it.
You've forgot about Monster Hunter Explore which was the game with Accel Axe. Frontier only had Tonfas and Magnet Spike there :D
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I think the problem with remaking older MH titles is that Monster Hunter is basically a live service game, even though it's not released as such. They do a major release (main, expansion, ports) EVERY YEAR, and try to lengthen it s relevancy through time locked content, and now, free DLC. Capcom doesn't want the titles cannibalizing each other, which is why they used to only release in single platforms, and also why they chose to delay MHGU localization until MH World has run its course. Basically, they want the whole fanbase to focus on the latest release.
Though they've been shaking things up recently, so who knows?
Bruh they have done MHFU on phone,I still don't get what don't they do it again on other titles
@@OMGYOUARER8GHT Feels like an experiment. They already delisted it.
Capcom's been itching to break into the mobile market. They freaking used the MH4 profits to open a new mobile studio for fuck's sake. That was around the time when they were already low on funds and was almost open to a buyout.
I hope we see some form of remaster for the older games, either for the switch or all platforms, or even see some new form of frontier, with all the speculation of some new monster hunter game probably coming around march of next year, it would be great to give the fans something fresh while working on the next major game
MHO looked so good, it's such a shame it never got ported outside of china.
AWWWW MH Online still hurts my soul they had a full English port of it in like 2018 and i was having such a blast that was so close to the perfect monster hunter game
Happy to say i've been hunting since the first game on PS2.
Best browser game, but i can't read japanese and was play it until it closed 😭
I still play mh4u a lot and mhxx on 3ds even more, tho the online shutting down really really sucks... tho I mostly play with my irl best friend in person so it wont stop us from playing
It's sad the MHFU Steam port from the ransomware incident didn't actually materialize.
It's not just Generations (though there's at least a Switch port of THAT one exists), 3U and 4U, but also Stories is no longer purchasable unless you can find it physically... Which is a shame, as Stories 2 is on Switch but not the first
Also quasi-related, but also Animal Crossing on the 3DS had MH content if you have the MH Stories Amiibo to scan, giving you an exclusive villager and a bunch of furniture items you can't get anywhere else, not even on the Switch version of Animal Crossing.
Before I watch this is it Frontier.
4:55 actually i don't think the Accel Axe was in that game, I'm pretty sure the Accel Axe was a Monster Hunter Explore (the mobile game) exclusive
And yeah, Frontier is great, I'm not far in it but its super fun.
Man i wish spirits had come to the west, i super wanted to try that game...... actually thats true for ALL of these, even the ones i hadn't heard of like reclamation. I'm a simp for anything monster hunter.
Hey dark hero I’ve been a fan of your Chanel for while ever since I found it a 1,5 years ago, And I’ve been wondering a question that I’m hoping you can answer for me, when it comes to the dromes and greats of monster hunter, which one in you opinion would be considered the deadliest? I’m hoping in A future video of yours you can explain the dromes and the greats in detail
I started with MH1 on PS2, the controls are...well odd. You use the right stick to attack, yes the right stick, not buttons. Is it bad? Hell no, I've had a lot of fun in the game. It's just dated. Be glad you didn't play online in the first game, people would literally kick you out if you weren't using specific weapons. I played dual blades and LBG and I got kicked out a lot for using dual blades.
I remember playing Monster Hunter Freedom Untie on IOS. It was my introduction point to monster hunter and I was hooked for life!
MH Frontier G was also ported to ps vita.
And now people revived this game, there's custom server for it now.
Is it just me or Monster Hunter Riders was not mention in this video?
Also, damn it Capcom, where is my Monster Hunter Stories 2 expansion dlc?
Accel Axe is Explore exclusive, which brings me much sadness because if it was really in Frontier I could actually play it (it looks SO FUN!)
There are also 2 Monster Hunter games that Capcom wants to forget. One is Monster Hunter Explorer and Monster Hunter Rider. MH Explorer is a mobile game that was released before MH massive hunting. It's easier to play but to get the armor, you have to Gacha for it. It's shut down in 2020. MH Riders is like MH stories, but of course to get the rider you want, you have to Gacha. And of course, they shut it down. MH Explorer is a good game and lasts long. I don't know why they shut it down but well, it's history.
Never mentions MH Diary Poka Airou Village or MHP3rd. Y?
I mean Generations Ultimate is Generations for 3DS but with all the dlc, extras, and polished better for switch. You can also get the physical copies actually pretty easy and cheap for MH3U and 4U
The game was so good! I want that big fat beaver in a main title
I'd love to replay monster hunter Tri. Tri was my first monster hunter game. I know the under water combat wasn't the greatest back then but I liked it and nowadays tech is better so it can easily be improved. MHW made so many great changes though and I would love to see another monster hunter game with the MHW systems in play.
Tri is nice and all, but 3U kinda has it beat in pretty much every way possible...
Emulate it then, even the online service has been received by fans
I actually have the ps2 monster hunter used to play it all the time as a kid, but was never any good at it. Went back and played it recently between rise and sunbreak releases and put about 100 hours in, had a blast going through the game and beating everything I could in offline mode that i couldn't as a kid. Once you get used to the controls, I think you'll enjoy it. Great video, happy hunting :)
is no one relize "file city" digimon world 1?
TH-cam won't let me like this video
Ah yes the accel axe a weapon introduced in monster hunter explore being used in frontier, could've sworn explore was released a year after frontiers shut down
im surprised you didnt mention Monster Hunter Explore
I still own a copy of MH4U on my 3DS. My first ever MH game and i am so glad i kept it after all these years. I did buy it physically at a gamestop complete in box years ago.
Same for me my first mh game. Lost my original copy so now I had to restart on the copy my sister bought for me. Also insect glaive is the best weapon hammer is a close second.
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Wutttt
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WAAAAAT
How tf you know about this but not about mh spirit
More importantly for MH3, it had a unique way to handle bowguns compared to any other title which was lost in MH3U and soon after 3U came out, the servers for 3 were shut down, making a massive part of the game unplayable even if you did manage to get your hands on a copy of the game.
There is a fan server project that seems to be going along quite well but as far as I'm aware, aside from testing purposes, only a solo hub version is available right now. Needless to say, with multiplayer scaling, it's tough to really say the content is accessible even now.
Also a little extra note for MH Massive/Dynamic Hunting were sort of followed by MH Explore as well. It wasn't so much a monster hunter game like the older ones and it really was more of a gacha game but the combat was pretty much inspired by those games. MHXR was removed from online stores in 2020 as well (probably to prepare for their next mobile MH game which was announced recently).
I saw "the game abandoned by Capcom" and immediately thought this video was going to be about dragon's dogma
I would love to see MHO or MHFrontier in the west. I played MHO and most of the MHFrontier series and I can say without a doubt they have more difficult monsters. Capcom could always bring them out in the west in their newer MH installations but they likely won't because they seem to like pissing their fans off.
How about Espinas in Sunbreak?
@R 2 it's a start, but they have a long way to go.
@@odafalz4156 I think at this point, we'll get more Frontier monsters now that Espinas is in. The only reason why they haven't added any Frontier monsters beforehand was because of the backlash they got when they added Lavasioth and Hypnocatrice in Freedom Unite.
Online monsters, however, are even more in question since they weren't created by Capcom.