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i only ever enjoyed using the Clutch Claw! the new wounding system certainly does feel like a better-implemented approach, though

As a hunter that started my journey from GU and adores every game since, I can see strengths and flaws of each. GU has the widest roster of monsters and weapons, some of the wildest and charming character, and the most unique sets of armor and weapons. It's probably one of the worst games to start from tho, as being a celebration of past games, it expects you to be familiar with those. It's a bit annoying to have to have multiple wiki pages up as you play. Also as a first game, you will need to be carried by friends that play it before things start to click, or so my experience. World is probably the best starting point. It eases you in gently and the gameplay feels quite forgiving by comparison to previous entries. The scale of everything feels grand and you feel like you are truly a small part of a larger world. The visuals and audio are excellent, and the story had me invested. Some issues are that the early game gets a bit tedious at points with the pink rathian and nergi pre-battle segments in particular, and the generic weapons was a bit of a miss. The alpha/beta armor system was great tho, and i missed it going forward. Rise has the best flow state in combat, it feels so natural to me, I just kinda act entirely on memory and instinct. The characters are fun and the story intriguing. However with the lack of tracking and the massive boost to hunter mobility, the environment and the monsters feel so much smaller. I have been avoiding much of the news regarding Wilds, but i am optimistic that it will be another home-run that I will sink yet another 600+ hours as i have every entry i have yet played.

My main issue with the new System is with the Focus Strikes. I don't know if it's the same across all weapons, but some of them just feel super 'gamey' or almost buggy, as some of them as long as you land the initial hit of the Focus Strike on the Wound, even if you miss the entire rest of the move, the Monster still flinches, just feels really immersion breaking. Wounds are great, I think if it was just Wounds I'd be perfectly fine, but Focus Strikes (and Focus Mode in general for me) just don't click with me.

For me, I didn’t like clutch claw when IB came out, then I learned to like it more, then I realized switching from hammer why it’s such a pain, hammer is great because you have a combo and fluid chain to tenderize instead of something like great sword where when I played it felt like a chore and annoying getting interrupted during the move, or just have to stop my combos to tenderize. Anyways I liked it but I also like the wound system so I’m pretty happy

Can you mount in mhwilds?

I honestly dont get the hate about the clutch claw everyone is saying "you have to do it all the time its sucks" but its a badass move where you latch onto the monsters body and rip into its flesh why wouldnt you wanna spam that every chance you get?

It's an interesting thing to see, MHWIB is my favorite video-game, ever. But since I started with the earlier games, going back isn't that big a deal, I'm just used to it, but I can't deny World/Rise did the unthinkable and they're just a different beast entirely. Although, sometimes I still hop on MHGU and the controls confuse me cause of muscle memory, playing Valor HBG after playing HBG in World is a challenge.

im gonna miss clutch claw. the tenderizing was dumb BUT ramming monsters into walls was great fun

I guess it's a nice addition for players who want to use it. Personally I'm not interested in any other weapon aside from my main weapon so I'll never use it. Hope they don't add a fight that makes it necessary to swap, I'd be kinda pissed then.

I liked the clutch claw better. Tenderizing and everything

Yeeting monsters with clutch claw was fun, everything else about it was ass.

i love how everyone completely forgets about Rise & sunbreak

Wounding is such a novel way to evolve Tenderizing. The only thing I wish though is every weapon had a move using the new grapple. Maybe in the expansion.

What really happened is EA stole their game so capcom took all the improvements they could find and put them in wilds and outlanders.

I'm so glad that the Clutch Claw is gone. I hate that thing. Half the time, you're just swinging and climbing on monsters instead of using your actual weapon of choice. Feels like a worse version of Spider-Man and Shadow of the Colossus. And the way staggered monsters leap back to incentivize clutch claw, feels incredibly artificial and cheap.

I like the clutch claw for how u have a choice to tenderize instantly and everyone can deal damage equally the only issue I see with wounding in wilds if how other weapon can clear all with one focus shot Ik it’s only a MP problem but I hope they change it that per person can only close or pop one wound at a time

It's interesting that you choose valor longsword as your weapon. Because it's probably the game's 1st attempt at building a weapon focused on counter with i frames. It's like the 4.5 gen attempt at breaking away from the traditional combat model. Thing is if you turn one more game back in time, Longsword was fully about positioning. It's not a "better" style of combat. But it hold it's own merit that newer games no longer emphasize.

Don't forget how rise was also a test for wilds with palamutes, companions, and certain switch skills!

Great video! Love your voice its so soothing

I love the clutch claw and wall bang but I hated the Tenderizing as you have do it all the time. It would have been better if you only have to tenderizing it 2 or 3 time

If you could change the wound/focus strike mechanic, what would you do?

When you playing Monster Hunter World first and then try old Monster Hunter, maybe you cant feel how excited us when Monster Hunter Generation Ultimate out for the first time, just making us so very excited with the mechanical and the Monster

Maybe you could make a video just talking about a singular monster every now and then. Whenever you feel like playing one or two quests, you can just do that and make a 5ish minute video about it.

I've been really enjoying ur content! Great videos you've really inspired me :)

As someone who started with world this video is very interesting to me since I actually dislike world for more or less the same reasons you dislike GU and I found myself really loving every other entry in the series way more. The gameplay in older titles felt deliberate and thoughtful and if I was ever caught in an animation and punished I always felt it was my fault while in world I would watch as I just didn’t press any inputs but for god knows what reason my character was unable to move at all and I would be hit for it.

Just wondering, why are you using Sakura slash in Valor? Since yk, the main use of the art is to lvl up your gauge, which doesn't work with Valor... If it's for the damage Critical juncture hits just as hard plus being a counter.

Please keep going! Its been fun following your journey so far

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I would like to see it continue, but yeah, take a break. Play what you enjoy. Why don't you try something different? Like MH Stories?

I started with Rise, then went to World and finally GU. I very much agree that the lack of QoL makes things feel more rough, and the jank is definitely noticeable compared to the newer games. One thing I will give GU, though, is that every successful hunt feels like an accomplishment. In the newer games, I can feel confident that at any given time I have all of the tools, abilities, and polished game-code to win without too much difficulty. In GU, the palpable lack of those things means that even a low-rank Rathian hunt feels like a challenge. Seeing that jagged [Quest Complete] notice always feels like a well-fought reward

I think a lot of us old hunters tend to look at the old games with rose tinted glasses, we already know a lot, how to quickly amass the materials we need, when we need them, where to get them, etc, without going through the troublesome slow gathering and information researching as much as possible. So to a new player it all seems so tedious, because it is, and to us it doesn't because.. we've 'done our time' and know best how to tackle it with minimal tedium. Realistically, there's a lot wrong with old monster hunter and if we knew back then that it could be better, that we wouldn't have to spend 20 seconds at each gathering point for random results, or getting clipped by some of the most ass hitboxes ever designed by man, I have to wonder if we would look so kindly upon it as we do having played it when there was nothing better. Great video though, and I'm glad you have enjoyed parts of the game despite the drawbacks of an aged title.

On the point of prep before hunt I believe Capcom tested with Rise and Sunbreak, once you striped it all from the game the game becomes arcady, stale, shallow. It's like when you only have your favourite meal everyday it becomes repulsive, I played MH since the first one, World and Wilds hit the mark on balance QoL and action. Already the more you play GU you will understand.

Keep going!!!!!!!!! At least try high rank and if you don’t like the game by the end of high rank then you probably won’t like the rest of the game.

Another chapter in my Monster Hunter journey complete! There may be a lot about MHGU that isn't to my personal liking but I did truly enjoy my low rank experience, let me know if you want to see the series continue down below ⬇

Ah yes, mhgu the game that brought my mhfu nostalgia back with even more content! Still playing to this day

How exactly are you quantifying difficulty? What makes something more difficult than something else? If you're going to talk about game difficulty, you need to contextualize it within a quantifiable framework like DKART, otherwise you're not really saying anything about difficulty, you're just describing your experience with the game. Give me something I can count.

With the fast travel mechanic being much more convenient than before (no more need for farcasters to escape while in combat), the addition of pop-up camps, the seikret having auto-travel and still being quite fast (the windward plains is really not large enough for the seikret despite the plains being the largest that maps have ever been), implementing this dual-weapon feature seems like an unnecessary decision. They had to redesign the entire weapon/armor skill system for this too, so depending on how that actually plays out in release, this may have a chance of being an immediately obsoleted mechanic since you can change armor and restock items in camps. I still see some likely benefits, for example allowing blunt users and gunners (sans Slicing ammo) to be able to cut tails, or maybe a weapon swap can be used to take advantage of an anticipated long window of attack or just having more options with how to reach monster parts in general. Though if this is something that should have been considered without needing to have dual weapon systems is a different conversation. It's really a non-issue in co-op hunts, but then again, in solo you can just sos for npc hunters that use different weapons to help you with that. So as of now, I can't really see the dual weapon system as anything but a wasted mechanic.

My first entry was Worldborne. When I moved to Risebreak, I found base Rise more challenging than base World. I only carted about two or three times in World but a lot more often in Rise. Worldborne gives you a lot in your favor. Most don't realize it or have the game sense to take advantage. You've got mantles (free buffs you can slot decos into), your cat with a free revive, environmental traps to abuse, an abusable slinger, tail raiders, faster attack recovery, and so on. Monsters in Worldborne are also slower than in Rise. Some, like Nargacuga in World MR, are slower and less accurate than their High Rank Rise counterparts. In Rise, I had to dodge a lot more often to survive. Rise often sets you up for more combos, whereas World’s damage reactions are tuned to keep you safe, along with the slower, less accurate monsters. Monsters in Rise tend to track the player more accurately and have a lot more delayed attacks to force you to learn when to counter or if you want to counter at all. (dodge!) This is very similar to how games like Kena Bridge of Spirits handles difficulty (which I also found personally more difficult than world as it does a lot of what Rise does with enemies). A good way to test the effectiveness of tracking is *attempting *to do the event quest with the two furious Rajangs, alone, and with no use of the gate. (In general, the increased tracking and faster monsters force you as a player to get better sooner. The damage reactions from world, mantles, environmental hazards, poor tracking, slower monsters, etc do not encourage the player enough in my opinion to get better) Player attack recovery, like dodging, is generally slower in Rise. It's designed for you to use the wirebug for dodging-a resource to manage. Or, you can plan ahead, attack when you know you’ll have a chance, and then dodge normally, saving the wirebug for an attack or self-buff. I started solo with hub quests from the get-go. Village quests felt like tutorials, while Hub is where you’d mostly be. I don't consider Village a real evaluation since it seems illogical. As for anomaly, I loved it. It felt like a more casual grind than the Guiding Lands. Very straightforward and optional, with great variety in hunts and a great system for upgrading gear. It gave me a reason to fight earlier monsters again, which in Worldborne, felt mostly forgotten. As monsters get stronger, your gear gets stronger too. None of it felt artificial to me (unlike maintaining the tenderize status for normal damage in Worldborne). Tempered monsters are more artificial-they just do more damage and have more health. The afflicted system in Rise gives them a unique DPS check. If you meet it, you’re rewarded with an exhausted monster. It also encourages hitting certain parts you normally wouldn't, using skills like Part Breaker or those that help hit hard spots easier. Risen Monsters get new moves and a powered-up mode. At higher levels, they get a few more moves and are faster. That’s far from artificial-they didn’t just add more HP and damage. They gave non-elders unique mechanics and elders a significant upgrade. If monsters feel too tough, it’s usually an issue of not upgrading armor or not using easy-to-get armor skills. The game allows up to 250 HP (50 more than World). You don't absolutely need it, but it’s there to ease the burden if the player isn’t as experienced. To avoid my comment being auto deleted I won't link this directly, but someone named ryukishi8492 made a video demonstrating the differences of monsters in side by side. Seeing that may change your perspective significantly. Also for 4:30, positioning being important has not changed in Risebreak. A good way to practice patience how to handle these monsters is to try to S rank the Arena quests and do more solo quests (no followers or pets.) Doing so will teach you how to tackle these monsters more effectively in uncomfortable situations.

Quality of life is nothing but casualisation and streamlining. You are too stupid to play MHGU the most modernized entry, not only that you are too stupid to stop playing. Absolute grifter and shitter.

I think all the examples you brought up where a player might want to swap a weapon is exactly why the devs have given us this option, and even if you or I may have underutilised this mechanic, we'll probably use it more in the full game. I also found myself in the situation where I was trying to get good with a certain weapon, wasn't doing too well, and switched back to something I was more comfortable with, which is something capcom expects newcomers might do. Other than that, I see myself swapping weapons when I'm just out on the field hunting and I want to keep things fresh. Might seem like an inconsequential mechanic now since you can just change to any weapon you want at a camp, but the convenience of saving time to fast travel and not having to change your whole gear will be something that players will grow to appreciate when they want to just stay out and keep hunting.

personally, I prefer the 2 sets switch skills in Risebreak... I mean the tent is already there with you... if i wanted to switch weapons, I'd retreat from the hunt and go back to the base to re-equip. Switching weapons mid battle would've been nice if it was as seamless as the switch skill system. But the fact I had to call the seikret, use a command to switch the weapons, then get down again... its just way too long imo. The devs could do a simpler weapon switch actually, and surprisingly, it's done by doing the way switch skill swap does it. Enter the command, both you and the seikret toss out each other's weapons, then get back to hunting. Tho, all in all, I really much prefer the multiple movesets that Risebreak gave us with Switch Skills.