For real. I was thinking the same thing. I just remembered the pre-rendered cutscenes on 3DS and thought, "Damn, they really made World look just like these."It's awesome, too, because it shows how they stuck to the same art style.
Watching again that old intro for the first game is really bringing me the feels back! I would've never imagine that that "dragon" game that my friend lend me back then to try it out would become become one of my favorite franchises ever, even less one of the biggest franchises in the world! Things were ROUGH back then, I literally can't go back and play it nowadays, but damn there are some good memories in there. Killing that first Yian Kut-Ku in the old Jungle was one of the best feelings I've ever had with a game!
It may seem hard to go back, but trust me... even with limited movesets and things, having learned so many weapon styles and pattern recognition, you can sort of stomp older games now. I didn't learn how to use Bowguns until 4U, then went back to Freedom Unite and absolutely shredded.
@@Valoe7 It is him. He's too old to use a greatsword so he switched to longsword. It's even mentioned that he trained the field team trainer how to use a greatsword.
I also love the 4u intros, I would honestly love a movie based on 4u animated in full CGI. However, the best Proof of a Hero hands DOWN is Tri’s theme. It brings me to tears every time I hear it
I like how almost all of these show the basic solidarity of hunters. You are a hunter, you may be in trouble, if other hunters are around they'll help you, no questions asked.
Hearing you say Pokke village is one of your favorite villages makes me so happy, Arekkz! Hehe. It's the place I call home. I started out in MHFU! This is a fun video. Love seeing your reactions! :D
Been playing (and in love with the franchise) since the very first game on PS2. Dos always was my favorite intro - the way they showcased Kush and the new weapons at the end is so cool.
I remember playing the original and watching the intro, seeing those hunters running up to the rathalos and thinking "oh its gonna be an anime fight comin" and seeing them bounce off its hide just AMAZED me as I wasnt expecting any kind of realistic movement. Knew I was gonna enjoy the game from then.
Im still hoping they drop valstrax into world. He's my favorite monster in the series, and he would fit perfectly with the idea of world. I mean his whole gimmuck was that he was never on the same map in his hunts and was always flying around the world. Then heres world, a game toting its openess, with no load screens just one big area and monsters being able to come and go. Also not to mention Shara has a very similar if not the same skeleton as him. Either way I'd love to see him and his equipment in hd.
My only issue in seeing him is that Worlds areas are rather covered up, so maybe only the Wildspire and Hoarfrost could work but even then, the other areas has some areas opened up so my excuse is limited. My other one is the whole power scaling thing with Alatreon and "how can they this!?" Which is still weak. So my arguments are weak but it's just my thought process
I still hope they bring in a lot of the OG monsters, this is taking me back and lowkey putting tears to my eyes because I remember how hyped I was seeing these trailers for the first time! Man I LOVE these games sosososoooooo much!
I remember being a kid and watching MHFU trailer for the first time, I thought that we could see other players who captured monsters walking down a path, unfortunately that wasn't the case but I still wish that would be a thing.
Man do u remember the flute items for buffing these were some days Or the pole u could set in rain which would summon lightning And as it always rained in kush fights
My first game in the series was on the PS2 as a kid. I remember seeing an ad in a Gameinformer magazine with rathalos and loved the idea of making equipment out of those huge monsters. That intro gave me huge nostalgia chills
I technically started with Freedom, I got it alongside a PSP for christmas one year. It wasn’t until Freedom 2 that I really started to get into it and fall for the series.
11:49 I believe this is because MH2 was the first series to introduce hunting horn as well as gunlance, bow, and long sword, which is why Capcom used the trailer to introduce the new weapons.
I wish they introduced zinogre in iceborne the way they introduced it in portable 3. Imagine this, you visit the guiding lands at night just to see a bug that at first glance seems like your typical flash bug or thunder bug, until you do a double take and realise thousands of bugs travelling in one direction. Suddenly, Rathalos intercepted this moment and starts chasing you and you, being a skilled hunter, dodged his attack only to land right beside zinogre. Zinogre walks past you, with a glance of pity(towards you)/arrogance and charges straight towards the rathalos and proceeds to absolutely smash him. And the entire time, the only light source you have are light from the stars, the fulgurbugs and rathalos’ flame
I don't know if this is already covered somewhere ,but just to point out almost every trailer shows new 'feature' or weapon. To name a few: MH2(dos) : shows all 4 new weapon(Hunting Horn, Bow, Longsword, Gunlance) MHFU : the free capturing mechanic(you can catch monster even in non capture quest) Tri : water combat 4 :combat verticality and ride mechanic Generation : 3 hunter style and playing as cat Gen Ultimate : Brave style Charge Blade and IG got introduced in their own trailer too,subtly. You just notice these things when you play all of them lol. Love these detailed intro
Generation shows The fated four facing the main monster of the generation they represent (Rathalos, Zinogre and Tigrex) and in Glavenus fight, it shows that cat are playable, aerial and adept style, and ends on a hammer art. This intro is perfect to show how the fighting meta changed and why Fated four are dangerous, they face the alpha predator of First, Second and Third gen (could be better if Glavenus faced the main monster of fourth gen (gore magala) but at last, glavenus BECAME the main monster of fourth gen 😂😂😂))
Seeing 4 Ultimate always makes me wanna go back in time to the european release date. That Game was so fantastic. Definitely my Number 1 Monster Hunter Title out of all of them.
I had a similar experience when i started. Started on freedom 1 and i HAAAAAAAAAAATED IT SO MUCH!!!!! I put it down for like a year. I was bored one day and i decided to really bunker down and put in time to learn it and i fell in love with mh then. The learning curve was incredibly steep back then
One thing is for sure, the Rath family has been bulking up ever since the first one. Man were they skinny. It's the same for me as well, Freedom 2 was my first MonHun, but it didn't really click for me, and Unite was when I really got into the MonHun games.
Love seeing all these scenes again. Now that I've seen them, I have to agree, 4 Ultimate has to be a favorite. Likely for the same reason. 4 Ultimate, even though it has a little liberty with cinematic camera angles and CG rendering, shows pretty much exactly the stuff you do or encounter, during a hunt, with very little embellishment. You see them perform moves and duties looking almost exactly as you would while playing, just prettied up a little. Even the way some monsters just show up, interrupting in the middle of the fight, and where. I have to give it credit for that, because it basically does something different than many CG intros in games don't do. Make exactly what you do look awesome instead of making something that looks awesome but it isn't exactly what you do. Extra points for actually showing the Charge Blade in action. Now that I think of it, I don't remember if we ever got a classic cinematic featuring the Switch Axe in action. (as a side note, Freedom was where I got my start, but I didn't really click until Freedom 2.) If you were able to remove Plesioth from the game, you do realize that the hip check will still remain. That thing defies time and space, so it could be a double edged sword given at least with Plessy, you'll have some visible semblance of where that hip check came from.
maaaan, I came in with Tri, and I still love the intro and has probably one of the best opening scenes to a map. That first time walking out of the village was just SO amazing
dunno if this has been noticed or not but i think the huntsman from MHW's 1st fleet is the hunter in the rathian armor that started out with a GS in MHFU. just a speculation tho
Valphalk's skeleton has been in the game since base World, since Nergigante shares Gore Magala's which is what Valphalk (and Shara) all use. Would be cool to see him make his way in though.
didnt even care if val didnt fit in iceborne, i just wanna fight him we already got b52 bomber, why dont add f16 falcon as well? and do a collaboration event with ace combat.
8:34 cool secret mechanic from mhfu , that air balloon tells you the position of the monster once per mission if you use "greeting"emote . (Excuse my use of English)
I will never forget gore magala snapping tigrex's neck in the 4 ultimate intro. I believe 4 ultimate is still the best monster hunter game to this day.
I remember when I was a kid when RUclips first came out and my mum finally got internet I watched all the original clips and I fell in love with the series, we went to the store the a few years later and I remember seeing MHtri on the shelf and my mum bought that and a Wii for me. And then played every title since
I loved the old monster hunter games. I remember when i was like 6 years old my brother intrudiosed me to the first monster Hunter game. We always played it every night and i loved it. The lore of the game is also really sad and capcom nailed the game. I love it
I love how Freedom Unite's opening cinematic has Pokke Village's theme.... definitely my favorite song in the series (and seriously, why has Capcom not added it to World yet?!?!)
@25:11 - Ah, there's my nostalgia trip. (MH4U first game) One of my favorite details in the MH4U cinematics is that after completing the low-rank story, after the credits roll you have a short concluding cinematic showing a group of hunters setting off from the Gathering Hall -- namely, the same hunters seen in the opening cinematic(s). AND THEN after completing the high-rank story, after those credits roll you get a concluding cinematic showing the same hunters returning to the Gathering Hall in utter defeat. Gore Magala and Seregios certainly do not mess around!
One thing i think is really awesome ist the fact that the hunters in the GenU Intro are the same as the ones in the Generations Intro just with the armor and weapons of the fated four.
Tri is where I started with the series, so when 17:04 showed the water I was instantly getting back all the dormant memories of the first MH game that captivated my gamer heart x3.
I started with freedom unite. It's interesting that me and my friends played it so much that it really "united" us all with friendship that lasts 'till today. I almost can't choose a favorite intro, since I love every single one since freedom unite and really appreciate the ones that came before. Although, seeing them all back to back, the ones that still touch me the most with their awesomeness are: 4 Ultimate Charge Blade, Generations Ultimate and Freedom Unite, respectively. Seeing Valstrax in the intro still gives me goosebumps.
I think Tri had the best marketing. The cheese of the viking man fit wonderfully with stuff like the print ads: a picture of a GS hunter underwater with a huge Lagiacrus, with the text "What do you mean 'it got away?' Jump in there and catch it."
@@stardustfield523 I was around 10 when I played Tri... When the lagiacruz appeared in the gatheringquest I stopped doing the mainquest for a week only doing arenafights lol.
The first one hit me with a huge nostalgia bomb... The first MH was my first MH game, and probably the one in the series were I've logged more hours. It was nice to see that intro again :)
I remember there being a cinematic from the first game that took place in a forest of some sort. It involved a pitfall trap and featured one of the bow guns. I couldn't get into the game back then, but I specifically remember that cinematic because I was like "Hey, what do you mean there's guns in this game?"
I'll always love Tri's intro because it was my first MH, but I really love the first intro because those first three minutes really tell you everything about their vision for the game. They don't show you hunters or any big monster, they show you a herd of Aptonoth going to find a drink, and then you see the Velociprey coming in for an ambush, and then Rathalos claiming the kill. It all serves to provide this vision of the food chain in this world, and its ecology, which is exactly what's always been at the heart of Monster Hunter; presenting this natural world with incredible creatures, and how they all fit into nature, which is also a lot of what Tri's intro does as well. The other intros all have things they do that are awesome, and also show what the developers envisioned the game could be, but for me those two really show what the series is all about.
What i personally really like about the Monster Hunter openings is that you see the progress of the Hunter in (almost) every generations, thats a really really nice detail ad my favorite partabout the "G" or "Ultimate" openings
yeah, the balloon in the mhdos intro is the balloon you see flying in the air. you actually get a close look at it in some areas in generations too, and it looks just like that. the balloon is used for tracking monster positions, I presume.
I remember playing the original Monster hunter on my PS2 when I was 10 years of age... And I SUCKED at it, it was so hard playing with the analog stick, getting items, crafting weapons... Then my next game was Monster hunter freedom 2 on the PSP, played the heck out of that game with my friends, we had this "ritual" on friday, thay all came to my house to play the game on ad-hoc, and the we would go get dinner to a local restaurant. Then just out of curiosity, when I already played Freedom 2 (and maybe Unite, I don't remember) I completed the original game (hammer for life) on my still working PS2 when I was like, 17, it was so fun, and I was suprised of all the monster that I didn't know are ALREADY on the first original Monster hunter, because when I played it at 10, I was just able to make it to yian-kut ku or so. Oh man, the memories
the second intro of 4 ultimate was actually the one used in the japanese version. japan got monster hunter 4 and 4 ultimate instead of just the latter, and for them, 4 had the intro that we got, while 4 ultimate had the intro with seregios.
I will say a big thanks to you and your channel for existing bro. I still remember how i ran to type you name on youtube each time i was stucked or didnt understand something. Today i am having a good smoking time and as you said grab your popcorns and all i was really well equiped. Mhw was my 1st game and since i been so attentive to you so many times it feel i knw you personally and good friends too. And we are having a chat through video call we are talking to each other this time am living my teachers journey and nostalgia. Thanks arekz thanks a lot. Your weapons tutorial worth gold brother. And never shave that beautiful beard you have.
My favorite thing about the Generations and Generations Ultimate intros is that they feature the same hunters: Blonde Bowgun Guy Faceless Greatsword Guy Brunette Hammer Girl and the Prowler Felyne And they're all using the Fated Four equipment in the GU intro too, nice touch.
my very first monster hunter experience was MH-Tri on wii.... watching the into cutscene with the rathalos flying off as the soundtrack kicked in made me fall in love with the franchise and i have played every MH game that came out since in europe... so many great memorys
So happy that you fell into Monster Hunter as well. I've learned so much on MHWIB from your vids.. i also fell for MH during Portable2G era, which is essentially Freedom Unite for Asia, we had it a bit earlier... From then on the only title i missed was Generations Ultimate. Monster Hunter really does hold a very special ppace in my life
I smiled the entire time watching this, what a journey, i can't believe this was my childhood game. My favorite franchise of all time, holds a very special place in my heart ❤️
I can still remember running away from Rathalos back then when I was a 6th grader playing monster hunter freedom. I was doing that quest where you're ask to deliver a wyvern egg and there's that damn rathalos which also happens to be on the same area where you could obtain the egg (Area 5 forest and hills). Everytime I can get my hands on an egg my hands would shake as I run away from that mean wyvern. This game really felt real as I first played it. This game was my childhood and was playing all psp and 3ds series. The only game that never made me bored after a month or two.
Now I want an animated series on this game. Basic plot : Hero's journey , starting out in the Old world and then the New World. (Maybe even meeting a few hunter friends along the way, a hunting party of pals )
Man, great video. I remember getting Monster Hunter along with Turok cause I loved dinosaurs as a kid. Barely remember either of them (I liked Dino Crisis more cause I'm a RE fan too) but seeing this intro cutscene is nostalgic as hell
Freedom 2 brings in the nostalgia man. I remember fighting Giadrome for the first time and thinking, wow now this is hunting. And I remember the quest sinking feeling, and the popo tongues; that shat me up man
Been in it since 2004. Was playing a japanese imported copy from thailand of MH1 on my pal PS2 with network adapter (which was very rare and hard to get by that time). It was released as PAL version about 1 year later and I switched to it and could suddenly read the text woop! By that time though the game was about 10 times harder and there were no wikis around, so killing stuff took a VERY long time. Back then Longswords as a category did not exist, they where actually a part of the Greatsword tree. But I'v been in love with this series from the start and own original copy of all the games, including limited editions, books and loads of extra merch :D There's many things i miss in World, like insect, crab and ape type monsters. There's sooo much content they could bring into world, especially from the MH Frontier series. One of the coolest ones imo is Chameleos. Fighting something you can't see was always very mystical.
i started with the MHFU and watching the cutscenes from there reminded me of how I started out as an old world hunter and then transitioning into the new world creating my character there purposefully giving them a face scar to make me feel like yeah, i've tangled with a lot of this monsters and i have scars to prove it. its amazing how long we have come so far. and that monster hunter theme, never fails to give me goosebumps.
I feel like Capcom was sending us a message with the number of times a bowgunner comes to the rescue at the last second.
Im glad i have a friend who's a bowgun main lol.. It helps a lot
I happen to be a bow-gun main and i can tell you this is canonically accurate.
HBG main here with numerous amounts of friend requests lol
Rapid sticky for the win!
we always arrive on time to save someone in sos hahaha .
I miss all the ecology videos unlock after monster hunts in previous titles~
Yeah same, they were awesome!
it really made mhgen and mhgu really boring for me
@@tofuteh2348 thats why mh4u is my fav
@@tofuteh2348 Yeah, the fact that MHGen abandoned proper intro cinematics is a shame.
@@Regufyz 4U is my all time favourite MH title, despite MHW exist..
I'm kinda proud how they made mhw/iceborne look like the old intro cinematic's quality.
Lol frs
I like that MHW was supposed to make you feel like you were playing all those intro cinematics from previous games.
Mhw isnt disappointing
Only kinda? I’m hella proud
For real. I was thinking the same thing. I just remembered the pre-rendered cutscenes on 3DS and thought, "Damn, they really made World look just like these."It's awesome, too, because it shows how they stuck to the same art style.
Watching again that old intro for the first game is really bringing me the feels back! I would've never imagine that that "dragon" game that my friend lend me back then to try it out would become become one of my favorite franchises ever, even less one of the biggest franchises in the world! Things were ROUGH back then, I literally can't go back and play it nowadays, but damn there are some good memories in there. Killing that first Yian Kut-Ku in the old Jungle was one of the best feelings I've ever had with a game!
It may seem hard to go back, but trust me... even with limited movesets and things, having learned so many weapon styles and pattern recognition, you can sort of stomp older games now.
I didn't learn how to use Bowguns until 4U, then went back to Freedom Unite and absolutely shredded.
Took me a week to beat Khezu in MHF2 lol
@@ppca0290 I got stuck for two days each on Plesioth and Monoblos.
My first ever cart on that Popo tongue mission. It motivated me to grind until I killed that fuckin Tigrex even if my left index finger hurt.
@@mangckyatmamon I IMMEDIATELY noped all the way back to camp.
Mh3 is where I started, I almost wanna cry
Limbo I started at 3 ultimate, picked it up because the 3ds cover art looked really cool😂
mh tri here
@@ROBDEWAND Also started with tri on the wii.
@@masonleslie3039 same here but I bought the game after playing the demo and falling in love with how bombastic the music was
MHTri was the best online experience I have ever had
11:45 in here actually they're introducing the new weapon : the longsword, hunting horn, gunlance and bow
Yes. Yes they were.
That MH2Dos opening is, to this day, my favorite, Kushala looks so menacing and badass
it also introduce the new weapon class during kushala cutscene, HH, bow, GL and LS
Used to be my favorite the first time i see it now i hate it because of the WIND PREASSURE
That wind is menacing alright
16:19 and here we can see the rising of The Huntsman
Makes me wonder where his palico is right now
@@z1u512 bruh...
@@z1u512 he has a palico?
W
16:35 In case you don't know, that's the Huntsman from World(i think).
@Captain Soldier I dont think that's him since he uses a great sword, but he could've switched mains.
It's not him.
Yes it is him. Keep in mind that he's the Master of Field team leader. Which should tell you that he taught him how to use that Great Sword
@@Valoe7 It is him. He's too old to use a greatsword so he switched to longsword. It's even mentioned that he trained the field team trainer how to use a greatsword.
@@makez1909 I wanna see the ace hunters return if gore magala makes it to iceborne, we already have the ace cadet so were is the other 3 :)
I also love the 4u intros, I would honestly love a movie based on 4u animated in full CGI. However, the best Proof of a Hero hands DOWN is Tri’s theme. It brings me to tears every time I hear it
It's not proof of a hero, it's called to one with life.
@@reshi606 Oh seriously? I thought it was just Tri's version of Proof of a Hero, sorry
Your wishes was granted it seems
@@Stories-ji7lz Apparently! The movie was decent enough but I would've liked to keep more of the "hunters going about their daily life" feel tbh
If the movie was longer it’ll probably be able to do more of that, wish it was longer than 58 minutes
I like how almost all of these show the basic solidarity of hunters. You are a hunter, you may be in trouble, if other hunters are around they'll help you, no questions asked.
I just realized: That first one actually features a right-handed SnS
Darthplagueis13 only in the cinematic.
S&S actually didn't get its item-using abilities until MH2.
@@Stratelier Never played the original, but according to the wiki, the SnS was objectively inferior in the OG Monster Hunter
37:21 showing off his shiny new weapon from that last hunt! I just love the details in MH trailers!
28:41 OMG is the hunter eating slowly I can't believe it
Must've had an off day
Hearing you say Pokke village is one of your favorite villages makes me so happy, Arekkz! Hehe. It's the place I call home. I started out in MHFU! This is a fun video. Love seeing your reactions! :D
Been playing (and in love with the franchise) since the very first game on PS2. Dos always was my favorite intro - the way they showcased Kush and the new weapons at the end is so cool.
If you noticed, at 37:23, the greatsword main made a barioth greatsword out of the barioth they hunted.
The main theme of MH3 makes almost make me cry
Best MH theme imo.
My favorite theme, probably because i started in Tri, but honestly to me it's just the loudest and most hype of them all (maybe outside of MHGU)
Same, when the theme builds up then slows down is when i get that tear.
Every time!
Ik im late but mj3 squad
I remember playing the original and watching the intro, seeing those hunters running up to the rathalos and thinking "oh its gonna be an anime fight comin" and seeing them bounce off its hide just AMAZED me as I wasnt expecting any kind of realistic movement. Knew I was gonna enjoy the game from then.
7:27
Its the skylight in area 5 at the forest and hills. The beach is in the jungle in the 2nd generation.
17:02 This one always gets my nostalgia gears going. I grew up with Tri, and every time I would play it, I would watch this cutscene....
Nice to meet another fellow hunter born from the start of 3rd gen
that opening shot with the water is so impactful and really establishes what makes it different from the other games
Im still hoping they drop valstrax into world. He's my favorite monster in the series, and he would fit perfectly with the idea of world. I mean his whole gimmuck was that he was never on the same map in his hunts and was always flying around the world. Then heres world, a game toting its openess, with no load screens just one big area and monsters being able to come and go. Also not to mention Shara has a very similar if not the same skeleton as him. Either way I'd love to see him and his equipment in hd.
next mh maybe..
My only issue in seeing him is that Worlds areas are rather covered up, so maybe only the Wildspire and Hoarfrost could work but even then, the other areas has some areas opened up so my excuse is limited. My other one is the whole power scaling thing with Alatreon and "how can they this!?" Which is still weak. So my arguments are weak but it's just my thought process
I still hope they bring in a lot of the OG monsters, this is taking me back and lowkey putting tears to my eyes because I remember how hyped I was seeing these trailers for the first time! Man I LOVE these games sosososoooooo much!
I remember being a kid and watching MHFU trailer for the first time, I thought that we could see other players who captured monsters walking down a path, unfortunately that wasn't the case but I still wish that would be a thing.
Man do u remember the flute items for buffing these were some days
Or the pole u could set in rain which would summon lightning
And as it always rained in kush fights
I always used the pole to fry that stinky-ass congalala :[
The original opening! Proof of a Hero starts playing, Rathalos lands and _boom_ goosebumps and chills. Every time.
I never realized the heavy emphasis on the guns doing most of the work taking down monsters in these opening cinematics. Capcom knows they're OP.
This was awesome and so nostalgic :) who here's been playing since the PS2 MH days?
My first MH game was MH Freedom on the PSP :)
My first game in the series was on the PS2 as a kid. I remember seeing an ad in a Gameinformer magazine with rathalos and loved the idea of making equipment out of those huge monsters. That intro gave me huge nostalgia chills
I bought it before work the day it came out. Longest work day ever
Me. I still remember farming Earth Crystals like crazy to upgrade my Rusted Greatsword
I technically started with Freedom, I got it alongside a PSP for christmas one year. It wasn’t until Freedom 2 that I really started to get into it and fall for the series.
idk why but when I heard that nostalgic intro, I teared up...
manly tears were shed watching this vid
I was able to hold in the tears for Proof of a Hero but when I heard Tri/3U's intro (To Those Alive) it was full on waterworks for me.
11:49 I believe this is because MH2 was the first series to introduce hunting horn as well as gunlance, bow, and long sword, which is why Capcom used the trailer to introduce the new weapons.
Great sword bounces in the original and my first thought was "Should have specced for Mind's Eye"
My first thought was that the bowgunner hired the two noob blademasters as canon fodder...
@@darthplagueis13 lol
I wish they introduced zinogre in iceborne the way they introduced it in portable 3. Imagine this, you visit the guiding lands at night just to see a bug that at first glance seems like your typical flash bug or thunder bug, until you do a double take and realise thousands of bugs travelling in one direction. Suddenly, Rathalos intercepted this moment and starts chasing you and you, being a skilled hunter, dodged his attack only to land right beside zinogre. Zinogre walks past you, with a glance of pity(towards you)/arrogance and charges straight towards the rathalos and proceeds to absolutely smash him. And the entire time, the only light source you have are light from the stars, the fulgurbugs and rathalos’ flame
What? That's exactly how zinogre ecology cut scene in iceborne, except the last sentence.
That's almost exactly what happens dude.
@@-papah-7608 read the start
I don't know if this is already covered somewhere ,but just to point out almost every trailer shows new 'feature' or weapon.
To name a few:
MH2(dos) : shows all 4 new weapon(Hunting Horn, Bow, Longsword, Gunlance)
MHFU : the free capturing mechanic(you can catch monster even in non capture quest)
Tri : water combat
4 :combat verticality and ride mechanic
Generation : 3 hunter style and playing as cat
Gen Ultimate : Brave style
Charge Blade and IG got introduced in their own trailer too,subtly.
You just notice these things when you play all of them lol. Love these detailed intro
MHP3rd's opening is when I finally knew how paintballs worksXD
yoo i started in freedom united and these cutscenes bring me so much nostalgia! damn i miss my psp
4U and GU had the best ones, change my mind
Generation shows The fated four facing the main monster of the generation they represent (Rathalos, Zinogre and Tigrex) and in Glavenus fight, it shows that cat are playable, aerial and adept style, and ends on a hammer art.
This intro is perfect to show how the fighting meta changed and why Fated four are dangerous, they face the alpha predator of First, Second and Third gen
(could be better if Glavenus faced the main monster of fourth gen (gore magala) but at last, glavenus BECAME the main monster of fourth gen 😂😂😂))
In general yes 4th gen trailers are amazing!!! Cant really decide between 4U and Gen myself
Seeing 4 Ultimate always makes me wanna go back in time to the european release date. That Game was so fantastic. Definitely my Number 1 Monster Hunter Title out of all of them.
Arekkz - "I miss Khezu, he had cool armor"
Capcom - Gotchu homie! *Slaps Khezu into Rise*
I had a similar experience when i started. Started on freedom 1 and i HAAAAAAAAAAATED IT SO MUCH!!!!! I put it down for like a year. I was bored one day and i decided to really bunker down and put in time to learn it and i fell in love with mh then. The learning curve was incredibly steep back then
11:50 I don't remember if they were in the first or not, but I know the intros like to show off the new weapon types.
MH 3 Tri is when I started, it made me fall in love for the saga, many emotions in its intro cinematic every time I watch it.
MHtri was the pinnacle of MH online
It's cool seeing how as the title progress, the monsters are wrecking the hunter but the hunters begin to hold their own.
Oh wow.. The older games look beautiful, the handler was no where to be seen, almost brought me to tears.
One thing is for sure, the Rath family has been bulking up ever since the first one.
Man were they skinny.
It's the same for me as well, Freedom 2 was my first MonHun, but it didn't really click for me, and Unite was when I really got into the MonHun games.
Tri was my first MH game and its intro still gives me goosebumps every time I watch it!
Playing since tri, retroactively played the older ones. Nostalgia.
Proof of a hero will never not bring a tear to me eye
Love seeing all these scenes again. Now that I've seen them, I have to agree, 4 Ultimate has to be a favorite. Likely for the same reason. 4 Ultimate, even though it has a little liberty with cinematic camera angles and CG rendering, shows pretty much exactly the stuff you do or encounter, during a hunt, with very little embellishment. You see them perform moves and duties looking almost exactly as you would while playing, just prettied up a little. Even the way some monsters just show up, interrupting in the middle of the fight, and where.
I have to give it credit for that, because it basically does something different than many CG intros in games don't do. Make exactly what you do look awesome instead of making something that looks awesome but it isn't exactly what you do. Extra points for actually showing the Charge Blade in action. Now that I think of it, I don't remember if we ever got a classic cinematic featuring the Switch Axe in action. (as a side note, Freedom was where I got my start, but I didn't really click until Freedom 2.)
If you were able to remove Plesioth from the game, you do realize that the hip check will still remain. That thing defies time and space, so it could be a double edged sword given at least with Plessy, you'll have some visible semblance of where that hip check came from.
The brave hammer evade in the Gen U op always give me goosebumbs xD
TYhanks for giving a shout out for Lagi, Arekkz. My number one monster in the series. Love her battle tune and glad she was back in XX.
maaaan, I came in with Tri, and I still love the intro and has probably one of the best opening scenes to a map. That first time walking out of the village was just SO amazing
I started with 3U. My hook was Great Jaggi howling. That's when it clicked for me.
dunno if this has been noticed or not but i think the huntsman from MHW's 1st fleet is the hunter in the rathian armor that started out with a GS in MHFU. just a speculation tho
Val would definitely fit in iceborne. Plus, they already have the model in world! Shara ishvalda is the same model! Pivoting wing arms and all!
Valphalk's skeleton has been in the game since base World, since Nergigante shares Gore Magala's which is what Valphalk (and Shara) all use. Would be cool to see him make his way in though.
didnt even care if val didnt fit in iceborne, i just wanna fight him
we already got b52 bomber, why dont add f16 falcon as well? and do a collaboration event with ace combat.
Tri's intro still gives me chills. It was my first mh and the moment I saw that intro I knew I would fall in love with the game
12:14 where it all started for me, and the intro also holds a place in my heart
8:34 cool secret mechanic from mhfu , that air balloon tells you the position of the monster once per mission if you use "greeting"emote . (Excuse my use of English)
one of the many things i miss is the old Ravager Blade design
and for me, Zinogre and Amatsu have the coolest roars EVER
I will never forget gore magala snapping tigrex's neck in the 4 ultimate intro. I believe 4 ultimate is still the best monster hunter game to this day.
I remember when I was a kid when RUclips first came out and my mum finally got internet I watched all the original clips and I fell in love with the series, we went to the store the a few years later and I remember seeing MHtri on the shelf and my mum bought that and a Wii for me. And then played every title since
I loved the old monster hunter games. I remember when i was like 6 years old my brother intrudiosed me to the first monster Hunter game. We always played it every night and i loved it. The lore of the game is also really sad and capcom nailed the game. I love it
I love how Freedom Unite's opening cinematic has Pokke Village's theme.... definitely my favorite song in the series (and seriously, why has Capcom not added it to World yet?!?!)
@25:11 - Ah, there's my nostalgia trip. (MH4U first game)
One of my favorite details in the MH4U cinematics is that after completing the low-rank story, after the credits roll you have a short concluding cinematic showing a group of hunters setting off from the Gathering Hall -- namely, the same hunters seen in the opening cinematic(s). AND THEN after completing the high-rank story, after those credits roll you get a concluding cinematic showing the same hunters returning to the Gathering Hall in utter defeat. Gore Magala and Seregios certainly do not mess around!
16:19 It's the young huntsman! even has the base rathalos longsword!!!
4 Ultimate definitely my favorite
One thing i think is really awesome ist the fact that the hunters in the GenU Intro are the same as the ones in the Generations Intro just with the armor and weapons of the fated four.
Tri is where I started with the series, so when 17:04 showed the water I was instantly getting back all the dormant memories of the first MH game that captivated my gamer heart x3.
I started with freedom unite. It's interesting that me and my friends played it so much that it really "united" us all with friendship that lasts 'till today. I almost can't choose a favorite intro, since I love every single one since freedom unite and really appreciate the ones that came before. Although, seeing them all back to back, the ones that still touch me the most with their awesomeness are: 4 Ultimate Charge Blade, Generations Ultimate and Freedom Unite, respectively. Seeing Valstrax in the intro still gives me goosebumps.
I think Tri had the best marketing.
The cheese of the viking man fit wonderfully with stuff like the print ads: a picture of a GS hunter underwater with a huge Lagiacrus, with the text "What do you mean 'it got away?' Jump in there and catch it."
Man that Freedom Unite one hits home
God, the first MH game lives in a special place in my heart, god that game changed my life as a kid.
What I love about that opening to MH2 is that at the end the hunter team all wield the four new weapon types added to 2.
3 Ultimate was where I grew up, where are my Generation 3 people at!
The pain of fighting lagiacrus under water,so nostagic
@@stardustfield523 I was around 10 when I played Tri... When the lagiacruz appeared in the gatheringquest I stopped doing the mainquest for a week only doing arenafights lol.
Nice beard. Thanks for your guides, they really helped me get into the game.
The first one hit me with a huge nostalgia bomb... The first MH was my first MH game, and probably the one in the series were I've logged more hours. It was nice to see that intro again :)
It's true astalos was never really noticed
Mizutsune and glavenus got all the attention
I remember there being a cinematic from the first game that took place in a forest of some sort. It involved a pitfall trap and featured one of the bow guns. I couldn't get into the game back then, but I specifically remember that cinematic because I was like "Hey, what do you mean there's guns in this game?"
I'll always love Tri's intro because it was my first MH, but I really love the first intro because those first three minutes really tell you everything about their vision for the game. They don't show you hunters or any big monster, they show you a herd of Aptonoth going to find a drink, and then you see the Velociprey coming in for an ambush, and then Rathalos claiming the kill. It all serves to provide this vision of the food chain in this world, and its ecology, which is exactly what's always been at the heart of Monster Hunter; presenting this natural world with incredible creatures, and how they all fit into nature, which is also a lot of what Tri's intro does as well. The other intros all have things they do that are awesome, and also show what the developers envisioned the game could be, but for me those two really show what the series is all about.
What i personally really like about the Monster Hunter openings is that you see the progress of the Hunter in (almost) every generations, thats a really really nice detail ad my favorite partabout the "G" or "Ultimate" openings
yeah, the balloon in the mhdos intro is the balloon you see flying in the air.
you actually get a close look at it in some areas in generations too, and it looks just like that. the balloon is used for tracking monster positions, I presume.
i don't know why i am dropping tears when watching these. these intros really bring back memories.
@16:45 that's the Bladesmaster in World. He upgraded his Rathalos GS for an LS.
I remember playing the original Monster hunter on my PS2 when I was 10 years of age... And I SUCKED at it, it was so hard playing with the analog stick, getting items, crafting weapons...
Then my next game was Monster hunter freedom 2 on the PSP, played the heck out of that game with my friends, we had this "ritual" on friday, thay all came to my house to play the game on ad-hoc, and the we would go get dinner to a local restaurant.
Then just out of curiosity, when I already played Freedom 2 (and maybe Unite, I don't remember) I completed the original game (hammer for life) on my still working PS2 when I was like, 17, it was so fun, and I was suprised of all the monster that I didn't know are ALREADY on the first original Monster hunter, because when I played it at 10, I was just able to make it to yian-kut ku or so.
Oh man, the memories
First time seeing Arekkz' face. Man, I am surprised how well he actually resembles his in-game character.
14:17 fyi, the guy in the trailer is the old hunter in mhw.
Back when he used to main GS
Its hard to beileve that I have been a subscriber to your channel for 8 year!! Back in the OG MH days!!
4:56
the hunter from tri, dosnt have his wyvern greatsword (havent exsited yet?)
the second intro of 4 ultimate was actually the one used in the japanese version. japan got monster hunter 4 and 4 ultimate instead of just the latter, and for them, 4 had the intro that we got, while 4 ultimate had the intro with seregios.
I will say a big thanks to you and your channel for existing bro. I still remember how i ran to type you name on youtube each time i was stucked or didnt understand something. Today i am having a good smoking time and as you said grab your popcorns and all i was really well equiped. Mhw was my 1st game and since i been so attentive to you so many times it feel i knw you personally and good friends too. And we are having a chat through video call we are talking to each other this time am living my teachers journey and nostalgia. Thanks arekz thanks a lot. Your weapons tutorial worth gold brother. And never shave that beautiful beard you have.
My favorite thing about the Generations and Generations Ultimate intros is that they feature the same hunters:
Blonde Bowgun Guy
Faceless Greatsword Guy
Brunette Hammer Girl
and the Prowler Felyne
And they're all using the Fated Four equipment in the GU intro too, nice touch.
my very first monster hunter experience was MH-Tri on wii.... watching the into cutscene with the rathalos flying off as the soundtrack kicked in made me fall in love with the franchise and i have played every MH game that came out since in europe... so many great memorys
So happy that you fell into Monster Hunter as well. I've learned so much on MHWIB from your vids.. i also fell for MH during Portable2G era, which is essentially Freedom Unite for Asia, we had it a bit earlier... From then on the only title i missed was Generations Ultimate. Monster Hunter really does hold a very special ppace in my life
I smiled the entire time watching this, what a journey, i can't believe this was my childhood game. My favorite franchise of all time, holds a very special place in my heart ❤️
I can still remember running away from Rathalos back then when I was a 6th grader playing monster hunter freedom. I was doing that quest where you're ask to deliver a wyvern egg and there's that damn rathalos which also happens to be on the same area where you could obtain the egg (Area 5 forest and hills). Everytime I can get my hands on an egg my hands would shake as I run away from that mean wyvern. This game really felt real as I first played it. This game was my childhood and was playing all psp and 3ds series. The only game that never made me bored after a month or two.
Now I want an animated series on this game.
Basic plot : Hero's journey , starting out in the Old world and then the New World.
(Maybe even meeting a few hunter friends along the way, a hunting party of pals )
20:34 So, the Yian-Kut-Ku?...I miss that old friend
best bird
23:34
Brings a smile to my face and a tear to eyes.
Such a nostalgia trip.
(The music I mean)
Man, great video. I remember getting Monster Hunter along with Turok cause I loved dinosaurs as a kid. Barely remember either of them (I liked Dino Crisis more cause I'm a RE fan too) but seeing this intro cutscene is nostalgic as hell
Haha subtitles saying "witness dad mom's pretty menacing now" 11:36
11:50 That's partially because MH2 introduced HH and in the trailer they were showcasing all the new weapons. Bow, Hh and LS.
And gunlance
Freedom 2 brings in the nostalgia man. I remember fighting Giadrome for the first time and thinking, wow now this is hunting. And I remember the quest sinking feeling, and the popo tongues; that shat me up man
Been in it since 2004. Was playing a japanese imported copy from thailand of MH1 on my pal PS2 with network adapter (which was very rare and hard to get by that time). It was released as PAL version about 1 year later and I switched to it and could suddenly read the text woop!
By that time though the game was about 10 times harder and there were no wikis around, so killing stuff took a VERY long time.
Back then Longswords as a category did not exist, they where actually a part of the Greatsword tree.
But I'v been in love with this series from the start and own original copy of all the games, including limited editions, books and loads of extra merch :D
There's many things i miss in World, like insect, crab and ape type monsters. There's sooo much content they could bring into world, especially from the MH Frontier series.
One of the coolest ones imo is Chameleos. Fighting something you can't see was always very mystical.
i started with the MHFU and watching the cutscenes from there reminded me of how I started out as an old world hunter and then transitioning into the new world creating my character there purposefully giving them a face scar to make me feel like yeah, i've tangled with a lot of this monsters and i have scars to prove it. its amazing how long we have come so far. and that monster hunter theme, never fails to give me goosebumps.