Monster Hunter World (Zero Punctuation)
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"Chipping single digit quantities of health off it"
_laughs in Greatsword_
Chortles in Charge Blade
Smirks in Switch Axe
Interested Glare in Insect Glaive
Quietly longswords in silence, trying to build gauge.
Chukles in Heavy Bow Gun
"The game does offer some support, but unfortunately, it is lies."
Best line in the video, and surprisingly true xD
spinning slash on the SnS and the Charge Blade SnS mode springs to mind.
I agree, but got to hand it to them they did a FAR better job than previous mh titles. You know those little pop ups you get when you find a new feature? They didn’t exist and there was no substitute for them. They just gave you an sns to start with and said absolutely nothing in mh4u 😂
@@evelync4930 The first time I played Monster Hunter Freedom comes to mind. It was the game that introduced me to the series, and the way you learned was by experience only. There were no crafting trees, there were just lists and there were no prompts, if you wanted to learn to use a weapon you either had to go out into the field and use them or go to the training center and get a quest to use them.
This made me dislike it at first, but then I somehow started liking it and Monster Hunter World is now my favourite game. I highly recommend to, as Yahtzee puts it, bash your head against the wall and see if your opinion changes at all, because mine did.
Advice such as "Hunting Horn is a support weapon" when it's totally viable solo or "Sword and Shield is a good beginner weapon" when it's utterly impenetrable.
Kinda, but not really. LS is damned near invincible. Once you learn how to reliably do the warp slash, you can completely negate damn near every attack in the game without needing to build with a single defensive skill. I think that's why it was given 3 stars, as well as having reliably decent damage, and an inherent Mind's Eye set of moves (Spirit Combo)
What if it's not called Monster Hunter because you hunt monsters but it's called Monster Hunter because you're a hunter who mercilessly hunts innocent creatures without reason.
We were always the monsters.
I thought we did it so we could adorn ourselves n it's flesh and kill increasingly bigger things...
Yup... which is why the game doesn't seem very appealing to me. I don't want to play a game where I'm the dirtbag :| I get plenty of that in real life already.
I’ve always wanted to role play as myself
Jeremiah Dalton
Sounds like the skit Warp Zone did on monster hunter
I realized we were the monsters once I figured out that "Mosshide" comes from the Mosshide pigs you see in the ancient forests.
I had avoided killing these little guys cuz I thought they were cute, also they didn't bug me. But I need the mosshide, so I killed it. And then I started killing everything else since I realized that the small animals are also resource givers. And then I realized that I was the monster! The Hunter, who is a Monster.
Monster Hunter
I think that "Are we bastards, because this seems like the sort of things bastards would do" could be useful out of context.
ruclips.net/video/hn1VxaMEjRU/видео.html are we the baddies ??
sonofdrjekyll
My thoughts exactly.
Seems like a good title for a book on human history.
The US population at various points in history.
Our uniforms gave skulls on them.
"50 Minutes isn't a generous time limit"
oh...
Leo Luster As a Monster Hunter series veteran, the 50 minute time limit is generous when played with other people. By yourself, it sometimes isn’t enough until you “git gud.”
AkaiAzul I agree. I’ve spent a lot of time on Unite and 4U (Also a little portable 3rd) so it’s practically unheard of for me to timeout, but back when I was a newbie playing Unite, I practically timed out in my first Tigrex/Nargacuga encounter because I was dodging too much, not to mention taking several tries on elder dragons that run away after the time is up and the battle resumed in another mission.
Monster Hunter has a very steep learning curve and that time limit is a part of it.
AkaiAzul Ain't that the truth. I had to solo the dalamadur to make g rank in 4U whereas most everyone else seemed to do it as part of a team. Damn snake took like a month just to finally win in the blasted time limit.
Its a lot of getting used to standing under the monster and knowing when you will be safe. The speed at which you can adapt to its moves and how quickly you can get back under it. Most hunts take me 5-30 minutes depending on more factors than you can shake a stick at, I almost timed out the first time I face a Baroth on Tri... but I got carted twice and had run out of healing items XD fun times. That is part of the beauty of Monster Hunter.
AkaiAzul or have the right gear while mastering a weapon gameplaywise (so only two cus the other ones all suck unless you are using it in multiplayer)
"Dont expect explosive action..."
The Bazelguesse would like a word Yathzee.
YOU DIDNT TALK ABOUT THE AMAZING AND ADORABLE CATS
This is the most vital part of the game
I spent thirty minutes on that fucker just for him to not mention them?!
EmptySky00 I find them extremely useful whenever I want to heal and they sneak up on me to bring attention to both of us when I want to get us killed.
Or the mind-numbingly infuriating mouthpiece that is the handler.
@@wyveriusblackfire3834 By the Elder Dragons I hunt for sport, that B to the Itch was terrible! "Oh, that looks neat, let's run straight at it and hope I get saved when I inevitably trigger a monster ambush!" Ugh... I really wanted to just let her reap the results of her own stupidity.
It's a weird sort of masochism to see a highly critical person take on something you love and have them NOT call it terrible. The criticism is still there, but it's not an ATTACK so you can't get upset, only nervously wring your hands and say "I think they might have liked it..!"
My morning started with Pissing myself twice and being unable to sleep for 14 hours. I'm just here to see what the funny man has to say about the complicated game. I see no Masochism in him having his own opinion afterall.
Happy birthday me, I guess.
dsa dsa Fuck you, you first.
Michael Jordan get a room.
For five.
Especially if you watched the tri video when that first came out monster hunter has come far
That's an odd level of investment in what another person thinks of the game. Is it not enough that _you_ like it?
“It’s not for everyone but if you do get into it it can be oddly charming” is perhaps the simplest and best explanation for the series
Jotaro and Yahtzee should hang out. They could talk for hours about Dolphins.
Is it normal to have erotic thoughts about dolphins?
Asking for a friend...
I wanna say yes, because the human mind isn't an exact science it's more like art. There is no 'normal' really.
Kiba Bloodfang maybe not but bestiality is pretty fucking far off the curve
Yare yare dawa.
You thought it was a monster, but it was me DIO!
Yahtzee is an important reviewer because he's a casual in the sense that he values his time in a way that means he doesn't have the patience to wait 20+ hours for a game to get good; but he has the experience to know when a game works mechanically and has charm. You can see this at work in this review when he compliments parts of the game but clearly doesn't have the patience or desire to really study the game to squeeze optimization out of it. Whether the fact that the game didn't grab him and demand his unwavering attention is his fault or the game's is up to the viewer.
didnt quite get much of that insight into the charm and mechanical goodness in his MH3 review when he quit during the tutorial (though understandably since it lasts a few hours) but hey, he's fixed it here so it is what it is.
@nothing4mepls it’s what I like to call the TB (May he rest in peace) aka I may not agree with everything they say but I have quite a good understanding of what X person seems to like and based on their likes I can work out if a game will be something I like (for TB it was puzzle games basically if he hated them there was a better than good chance ied really like them)
Pokémon did dog fighting in a context where it's okay
This does that with poaching.
Naw this isn't poaching. Most of the monsters we fight would somehow fuck up the enviroment if left unchecked. In Monhun, humans are a part of nature as well. In fact in Gen4 they added the Insect Glaive to help hammer home that fact. Monsters like Gore Magala would severely hurt the ecosystem they're in if not for humans coming to take them down.
Just like they make the point that Pokémon grow and become better by fighting, and that their relationship with a human trainer is beneficial.
In a world where monsters literally spawn infinitely, I think it's OK to cull the herd as much as you please.
@@BeardFaceSuper except they don't spawn infinitely, there are more than a few that are endangered, so you're not allowed to hunt them freely.
@@Yal_Rathol I'm not referring to the real world, ya dingus.
Yeah, the story is pretty barebones, but it does have ONE aspect that I adore. That being that your character actually does shit. There are so many games where you make a custom character and then proceed to watch in every cutscene as they are saved by the next npc with actual personality and motives you come across, while they bum around picking their nose. But in Monster Hunter, when someone's about to get ate by a Monster it's YOU that jumps in to save the day. Just really satisfying to not have a create-a-character be such a mindless jerkoff for once.
Agree
The cutscenes that start the Barroth and Diablos fights are my favorite, I think.
I chalk that down to the barbarian aesthetic. Kill or be killed. Hunt and survive. It's merely the way of life in the underdeveloped world of Monster Hunter
cough cough handler
Hard to call it underdeveloped when you have freaking boats that can fly and boats that sail in SAND.
Dark souls: A game so good it warped the heart of the most critical critic in all of criticdom and changed his opinion on games massively.
I just died laughing.
The essence of the sublime.
It has ruined my view on all games now 😂
I get it. I play PvP like its PvE now, and constantly challenge people to duels (in War Thunder). 100% Dark Souls.. and alcoholism... and nihlism... ok, it wasnt 100 %.
Are... are we the baddies?
XRXaholic It's always fun to joke about but it's not. This one doesn't do a good job of establishing that killing these monsters has a reason. Which is typically they either put an entire ecosystem in danger or an invasive specices or threatens the lives of a village or town or it's a fucking world ender.
Which is why it's called MONSTER hunter. Imagine feeling bad for killing the boogyman or Slenderman or Freddy Kruger.
Not sure I buy that. If these "monster" populations evolved within an ecosystem and were not somehow artificially introduced into it by natural disaster or say human meddling (in which case, it is again the sentient beings at fault, not really the "monsters"), then they can't really have a long-term negative impact on the ecosystem by default. Apex predators naturally follow the cycle of increasing their population until it becomes unsustainable (because they've eaten a lot of the prey), experiencing a population decline while letting the prey population replenish, and beginning the cycle once again. The ecosystem remains in equilibrium.
As for threatening the lives of a village or whatever, most of that occurs when human settlements begin developing land and encroaching on natural habitats, destroying hunting and grazing land, and squeezing animals into smaller and smaller natural habitats that they can't easily migrate out of. Again, this is primarily a human issue. Animals or "monsters" will only react to being threatened.
For a lot of people stating that this is just human cruelty or what not to the monsters, the actual story explains as to why we are even here. SPOILERS!!!! _--------------------
You start off simply researching why these creatures known as elder dragons are all mysteriously converging on this one chunk of land, and they do it every 10 years, have you progressed through the game you find out more about how the ecosystem of the land works and how it relates to the monsters, and then you find out that something has happened and some part of the ecosystem has become fucked in the thrown out of whack, not because of the humans but because of the monsters, so then towards end game you have to chase down a particular monster or else something is going to happen that's going to destroy the ecosystem across the entire continent and cause it to become nothing but a smoldering pile of rock basically as if Yellowstone were to erupt, so there is a legit reason for us to be there, we want to live
XRXaholic No literally these monsters are the equivalent of mudslides or natural disasters. There are some who would wipe out entire specices if left unchecked and making a lot of other life extinct.
And humans need a place to live too. Not like hunters are building freeway's on the homes of the monsters or huge sprawling cities. It's just usually a small village that's most of the time out of the way of stepping on the toes of the environment. Just some monsters start problems in even those areas.
At the end of the day they can leave the monsters alone but again if it's not for the monster hunters then there wouldn't be anything left. Especially in the case of the world enders like Xenojiva in this game who if had fully matured would start an all out war with the other Elder dragons.
Monster Hunter lore where human and wyverians are rare, and Hunters are decedants of super soldiers, even rarer. Monsters and Elder Dragon rule the world, humanity just came out of decline and rebuilding with lost technology, is improving since Gunner and Blademaster armor are United as one. If you played and follow the series (yes even the mobile version) human we're once super advance race that coexisted with the elder dragon, greed for power led to the downfall of humanity, human build towers out of elder dragon scales, build anti-dragon living machine, yet victory comes with the dark ages of declined. However human rebuild quick, weapons and armor are increasing more advanced, yet humanity never regained the coexistence with the elder dragon, they are lost forever.
That description of how the dual blades work is the most accurate thing I've ever heard: that's exactly the reason why I main that weapon.
Eating animation is the best part of this game.
Greyshi You just like the cats lol
And the Buff Cat crew making the food looks awesome
DarkZholt True, especially after you upgrade the canteen a few times and Meowscular Chef starts doing a bit of cooking too
The eating and drinking animations in this game just trigger my Misophonia. I don't wanna hear disgusting mukbang asmr in my games
In terms of Monster hunter stories, I think that Monster Hunter 4 is the closest the series had to have an overarching plot. The build-up for the elder dragon of that game is the best this series has seen, not that it is saying much.
The first hint you are given is that the Caravaneer you come into town with shows you a golden scale and that he wants to find out the story behind it. From there, you having to fight off the elder dragon, called Gore Mangala twice before you could actually hunt it.
When you do finally beat it you find out that it was an adolescent dragon, and this supplemented by a scene that implies that the Gore Mangala you just beat is not only still alive, but that it just shed its skin. Then you learn that the Gore Mangala's adult form caused a mass breakout that caused an entire hunting area to go into a frenzy, and be sealed off because it was deemed too dangerous. You are later shown a cutscene of an monster getting knocked down, getting back up as the infection takes over, and turning on its own. Showing you exactly what will happen if you fail to slay the Shagaru Magala.
All this buildup to the Shagaru Magala is meet with the hunter and the titular monster circling each other. Like two Apex Predators about to square off to the death. The fight is fairly difficult as well. There is a reason people call the rock in the middle of the arena the safety rock. Best of all, it all ties into the beginning. The scale that the caravaneer found all those years ago was the scale of a Shagaru Magala.
It could be made into a movie easily ... but instead we are getting that Paul W. S. Anderson movie with a random idiot from New York getting teleported into the magic world of Monster Hunter and learning how to hunt to save the day ... I hope CAPCOM stops this thing from happening, it's almost as bad as the script for the Shadow of the Colossus movie.
Actually Gore Magala technically isn't an Elder Dragon at all, in-game and in-universe it's classified as a "???".
I think that is just because nobody knew its was Shagaru at first.
The Shagaru Magala fight was probably my favorite part of any MH game up to now (haven't played World yet) because the combination of the overarching plot, the monster's new form and the beautiful yet dangerous particle effects, the relative difficulty of the encounter, and of course the music. It honestly felt like I was at the conclusion of an epic tale, and I was the brave hero facing down this rival of mine, this monstrosity of unknown origins, in a final bout to the death.
Then I farmed it for the armor
Other titles in the series have had fakeouts like that, though afaik 4/4U is the only time there's been that much of a chekhov's gun or that the fakeout has actually been the "final boss" itself (ie the fakeout was that gore magala was the big threat and was dead, when in fact shagaru magala was the big threat and gore was merely its juvenile form, AND didn't actually die).
In MH1, the fakeout is Lao Shan Lung, a mountain-sized elder dragon, migrating outside of its usual habitat and straight through a human city, which will be destroyed if you don't slay it. It turns out that this Lao (which was merely a juvenile, apparently the adults are even larger) was actually fleeing from the true threat, the cruel and vicious dragon Fatalis, which wiped out the neighboring kingdom of Schrade overnight and killed its entire population of both humans and dragons (including Lao's parents). So you killed an orphan, good job asshole.
In MH3, the fakeout is that Lagiacrus, an electric leviathan, is causing the earthquakes around the fishing village of Moga. In fact Lagiacrus has only become more active because of the earthquakes in the first place, and they are actually caused by a vast deep sea dragon known as Ceadeus, thought to be merely a myth by the guild, which rams its head into the walls of a sunken ruin to alleviate the pain of its twisted, overgrown horn pressing on its skull.
MHXX seems to have a fakeout or two as well, though I can't read much Japanese so I'm not really sure what it is. I just know that a huge deal is made about the jetpack dragon Valphalk, which appears in the sky during every quest as a glinting red "star" (actually the light from its exhaust), but then after you defeat it you are told that it has some connection to some kind of ruin, which turns out to be a hulking metal dragon controlled via silk strands by the treasure-hoarding mantis Atlal-ka. There's also a Lao not long before you hunt Atlal-ka, but I really do not know why.
Oh and of course Zorah Magdaros is the fakeout in World. In actuality the whole bizarre elder dragon "ecosystem" in the New World is essentially a reptilian conspiracy, but that's all I'll say on the matter since I'm sure some people care about spoilers in this more story-heavy title :^)
2:13 there's a word for that. Vivisection.
Now he is displaying 5 hand penises! Everyone, arm your vivisectors!
ThisNameIsntCreative
"I guess you really can judge a book by its cover."
"Oh, absolutely. Especially if the inside flap wiyh the plot summary counts as the cover"
Treehouse of Horror... I wanna say 98 or 05
I don't think that ready salted crisp monster would last five minutes on the same continent as me.
I too watched this video at some point in time
**Random quote from the video followed by a commentary on how a funny joke in the quote is funny**
I'm so proud of you.
*proceeds to agree and then follows up with an unrelated comment.
"Just be honest with me, are we a bunch of bastards?" Killed me!
On the Yahtzee scale of good to bad, he seemed to say it was good
There is no scale, if he recommends a game, he recommends it.
It didn't seem that he recommended it so much as he implies it fills a specific niche decently well.
Quit putting words in his mouth.
WELL SAID! I'll give that comment an 8/10.
Jfc you fanboys get so easily triggered
You people really need to fucking relax.
"it didn't seem that he recommended it" that seems like you're putting words in his mouth
If you talk to the housekeeper in your room there is a training area where you can try all the weapons.
ssh....stop. you are proving he's kind of speedrun the game...
Ah cool where in the tutorial did he miss that?
VermilionBShadow when the housekeeper is introduced, she tells you to talk to her if you want to try out any of the weapons.
Yeah I think I skipped over it on accident, I just tried them out directly on the field whenever I felt like using it myself.
You know, when something has 3 stars for ease of use, that means it's hard to use, not easy. Easy is one star. It's one of those weird inverse scales that you find sometimes.
Wait, are you for real? Because I just started and also tried the Long Sword because the game (and a fee others) said it was beginner friendly.
Needless to say, it was not for me. Switched to Duel Blades and started Kratos’ing!
@@Pine0wlple I haven't played MHW so I can't say for sure, but I know Overwatch rates its heroes like this. One star is easy, two is medium, three is complex.
Na, 3 stars is easy.
It's just that some of the other weapons require a bloody PhD to be played.
The Long sword is pretty easy since it only has one charge meter and one mode.
Nah I main the DB which has 3 stars for ease of use and it definitely has no where near the amount of stuff to memorize as say a charge blade which has 1 star IIRC
I'm glad he actually played this Monster Hunter and actually enjoyed it.
Princess Luna best princess gets a thumbs up.
Princess Luna do u like MHW
You need to watch more of his reviews then.
all he does is do shit reviews of games and edgy kids love it.
I would say this is a borderline positive review for Yahtzee. He basically calls MHW a charming yet tedious chore, that eventually becomes kinda-sorta-maybe fun if you're willing to embrace the time sink.
4:53 was the first time I saw Yahtzee have a mouth
Yahtzee making a cake reference seems dirty somehow
Cass Reid
I'm choosing to assume that this wasn't a Portal reference, but instead a reference to one of his Mario reviews where he started using "cake" as a euphemism for sex.
lnsflare1 that's a brilliant assumption, and the dirty factor still stands
Hey it's that critic with a hat, a funny accent, and somehow can make cursing sounds smart and witty.
this is not atop the fourth wall.
this is not ashens
This isn't Caddicarus's channel :U
asdqw vasdfa Hey, it's the salty youtube commenter with nothing better to do with his life
+Frog Lawyer Uhh dude work on your comebacks.
I'll never get over that "banging head against wall for hours on end" bit! It cracks me up every time...
4:33 That animation is just too good XD
I felt the same way about their " research" collection methods. I just capture the monsters now instead of kill them.
yahtzee... you do know you can talk to the little cat housekeeper in your house and he will take you to the mythical training grounds that explain the combinations and mechanics of any weapon you happen to be using, right?
riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight?
ameteuraspirant sure but that doesn't explain the intricacies of weapons. For example it just teaches you combos but it doesn't teach you What kinsects do
Had to look that shit up in the wikis and the MHW wikis aren't even complete!
kind of, but the way most people actually learn how to play these games is to go to gaijin hunter. the guy is practically capcom's ambassador. he's as integral as vataai is for dark souls lore.
I just started playing... fucking thank you for this!
ameteuraspirant I wish the house keeper was outside in town also so you don’t have to see the loading screen twice. Or to have the training area behind the smith so you could test out the weapon right after being created or upgraded.
very accurate. I too enjoy the cooking cutscenes a bit too much.
No kidding! I didn't even TRY to skip them until about 40 hours in when I had already memorized every single nuance of the cutscene, and even so I don't skip it always (only when the mission is already loaded).
especially SOS quests where you feel like you're dragging everyone behind by taking a couple extra seconds to make sure you didn't forget cool drinks.
I just so happened to watch his monster hunter tri video yesterday, his experience was similar to mine. The first monster hunter game I played I hated, came back and now it's my favorite series
what game was it?
unlimited971 the first I played was on psp then I played MH4U and put >999 hours into it. Then I got generations and my DS got stolen :(
We all have our stories of MH. I started from MH1 back on the psp, I took to it well and have been with it since (I took a break during MH3 and MH3U), I just wish MHGenU was for 3DS as well as switch. (Sorry about your DS though).
Huh...I guess it IS about the story you make for yourself =D
2:15
That's how I feel when the game makes me "start shit" with a monster that was just innocently wandering around, or sunning itself on a rock peacefully.
However.... it kind of balances out when another monster who can't mind his business butts in to my hunt or safari like at 0:43
Killing monsters like tziti or kulu yaku kinda hurts cause of this lol. You can smear yourself right across their bunghole without agroing them, drawing my weapon on them feels wrong
@@UnagiTempura
Yeah there are very few monsters who "deserve" a butt kicking. Only ones I can think of at the moment are Brachidios, Velkhana, Shara Ishvalda, Rajang, Bazelgeuse, and sometimes Deviljho. Those monsters are either actively ruining the environment for their own selfish reasons or butting into my hunts and starting to hunt ME.
The other monsters are kinda chill unless you get in their way or start drama with them.
"Bet he's gonna like this one but rip it a new one anyway"
I just love how he always makes the games do stuff, and it looks so natural, Like when Dark Souls is sneaking up behind him with a chair raised high,
He really loves dark souls huh..... Usually it holds an axe though.
2:26 the two rabbits lol
I'm new to Monster Hunter but have to say I'm enjoying it one hell of a lot. It feels like a breath of fresh air to be honest. It's somehow over the top and also feels somehow authentic. As in everything is massive and the concept is kinda silly but the way it all moves and feels is sublime. It's got such good weight and movement to it all. That and it's so nice to play a game that's not trying to crotch thrust micro-transactions at you.
Loving this game so far, the world/bosses/ weapons are so enticing. Love the variety
I love how you can hear him leaning away from the mic for a quick second
4:10 Yahtzee realized he was sitting to far away from the Mike but threw it in anyway lol. Mistakes in zero punctuation are like shooting stars.
I’ve been waiting for this for a while!
4:10 audio hiccup
Twitch I thought no one was going to point it out
Ok you heard it too.
Sounds like he moved closer to his mic or turned around while still talking
He just stepped away to stroke a puppy or eat some sweets or fuck a dolphin or something.
yeah i heard it too. It sounded like he started talking while he was leaning back to grab hold of something as was on his way back to the mic having grabbed whatever it was behind him he was reaching for.
I love the intro with the head against wall because it sums up a lot of games
Notice that when he makes his wall-to-hard-games comparison, his hat has a cast and is bleeding. This implies that his hat is part of his body.
What this game lacks in actual story it makes up for with its world, imo. It's hard to explain, but the way the game contextualizes itself is seriously charming and pretty cute
"Poopants" hahaha. Thats the nickname i gave my poogie! Great minds think alike.....ppfffttt lol
With the way he talked about this game I half expected it to end up on his games of the year.
It’s great that basically the biggest compliment he gives the game is that the food looks delicious
Can’t believe Yahtzee thinks there aren’t enough tutorials when you start the game, while I agree that some of them were a bit lacking, I must have gone through about 50 of em in 10 mins.
They're words for the sake of words, the amount of usefull stuff they actually explain is next to nothing
hunters are actually *heavily regulated* , only being able to hunt a species of monster if they're threatening the population of different species to extinction, or if the monster threatens towns, lives or cities. plus adding to that illegal poaching is punishable by *death*.
Wait, when is that established? :o Because wow, that's crazy. Considering how many monsters there are how and how destructive they can be, I'm shocked that poaching without a guild mission is a capital offense.
Well, not completely. Your also allowed to kill any monster that wasn't reported that enters into the area....um, purely for self-defense that is =)
@@Shadowslash1 Thats what the paperwork would say. You would be fighting a Jagras when the B-52 and Deviljho show up and start fucking you up. Then you would have both of those to deal with.
@@gabrielshadwick886 Pretty sure that B-52 and Pickle have no bagging limits since they are very dangerous invasive species.
@@psychocrysis2 And now we have Rajang
Turns out "getting their knob on" is actually one of the main reasons the Elder Dragons are going there. Though Bitumen-zilla is dying and looking for a place to be its final resting spot and just so happened to choose the leyline that would mean blowing up the continent of left to do it.
It's also true of Monster Hunter Rise as well: the rampage: an event where, every 50 years or so, all the monsters suddenly attack as a large herd, is caused by two elder dragons trying to find each other and mate, as their mating will result in a horrific lightning storm that all the other monsters are trying to flee from.
"Rolly Polly the Fuck out of Dodge" is my absolute favorite phrase I've ever heard!
This is actually the easiest monster hunter game to get into, it was probably made that way because its a full console release rather than a handheld game. It makes it even easier to get into if you have a friend thats already into the series playing it with you.
What a positive review.
0:35 "Monster Hunster"
As I have unashamedly said a number of times, I love this man. Hilarious as always.
What ever happened to judging by the cover?
Oh wow I didn't even notice I hadn't seen one of those in ages. I love those.
danehb89 yeah, same here. I just saw one in the recommended for this video and was like "wait a minute" lol
He probably got bored of it or realized it's not as profitable anymore. Oh well, all good things come to an end.
Yathzee is like the last paid worker at the Escapist, so I guess judging by the cover was cut because of money.
Shuizid I guess, it just seems like a pretty low budget series. Like there wasn't much editing or anything and it was great. I'm not sure exactly how well it did (Definitely not as well as zero punctuation) but I assumed it was pretty popular. Who knows, maybe Yahtzee didn't even enjoy doing it
"looking for herbs that can fix your erectile disfunction" lol... and um goodluck with that
you evil machine! How dare you encover the plots of the pharma mastahrminds... By the way, thanks.
I suggest armour seed. It makes your skin "hard as rock"
Glad im not alone on the food bit.
The nickle and diming is pretty much with the super speed weapons like Dual Blades. The trade off is damage or speed. I kind of go heavier with a hunting horn and still do more then 10 damage while being fast enough to dodge out of the way if they're doing some weird attack. Then again, I've been playing sense MH 3 Ultimate.
"let's just go with action adventure"
- every dev in past decade?
How deliciously moist
Wow... This dude hit the nail on the head.
Seriously the chef cats with never stop being so god damn entertaining
"You'll need a list of flow charts and data sheets to kill these monsters." - Where do I sign up?
One of the greatest games to date.
Highest grossing Capcom game ever, and rising
A lot of fun with your friends
I’m an older player from the older games and love it to death
Still haven't got far in world in terms of quest but in older MH games when you accept a quest you could scroll and see who your client is you got your town elder asking to save their village then you get a spoiled princess paying you to fight two lizards for her enjoyment and scientist who want a capture a wyvern for 'tasting' purposes not testing
Two words: explosive hammers.
*chefs kiss*
This is the kind of game where, if you like it, you're going to put a million of hours into it. But if you don't like it, you'll immediately figure out why, and it's never something overly egregious. It's just "I don't like to grind" or "I like more concise boss fights". You can't hate this game, and if you like it, you absolutely love it
"Another thing that took a while to click was the combat where the game happily throws you into the deep end with a box of 14 different weapons all with their own mechanics"
Me, a veteran hunter since 3u:HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHA, world has training area, and dmg numbers. In the good old days we went to moga woods or volcanic hollow to get an idea for learning our weapons
the only indicator for longsword users for as long as i can remember was the gauge filling faster the higher damage you dealt or the monster dying faster
A live dissection is called a vivisection
Somehow I knew he would turn the meal scene into an innuendo.
last time i was this early Yahtzee still liked Spunkgargleweewees
Nick Lager When the fuck was that
I guess you were never this early then
Vocal Fry I'm pretty sure he called that game of boring lump of snot
So 2007 when he praised cod 4.
So he found it oddly charming. Hmmm, wait, is that a praise of some sort ?
Pretty sure anything non-offensive is considered a praise here
Aurelien Genty Monster Hunter and Castlevania were the Dark Souls of games before Dark Souls.
Of course he likes it.
Probably best not to make clueless comments like that. Too many people throw that comparison around but don't understand how off the mark they are.
Monster Hunter and Dark Souls have so little in common.
As in Dark souls is easy when you figure it out. Monster Hunter is the harder grindy game.
Monster Hunter is also easy when you figure it out. You can kill, trying to avoid spoilers for anyone reading, "END GAME MONSTERS" in under 5 minutes. You just have to figure out monster patterns etc. etc.
Other then that one combat comparison, the games have almost nothing in common.
There is a training mode after you get a room , from the house cat you can go to a training area and can change weapons there
I feel the need to mention the actual TRAINING ROOM, where you can see and at the same time practice any combo/mechanic you want, with pop-up following buttons to help with any combo
Man, you cannot imagine.
So many years ago, I was so very upset that Monster Hunter Tri, a game that I had come to love and adore as my entry-point into the Monster Hunter series, felt like it just got shat on by Yahtzee without him actually putting the work in to get very far. And then the Extra Punctuation came out and it just bothered me even more.
Here was a content creator who I had actually come to enjoy, and was actually looking forward to him roasting my favourite game at the time a bit, and it felt like he just... gave up. Like it wasn't worth the effort to him.
And finally, so many years later, he comes back to the series, and it seems like he's finally starting to get it. At least, enough so to actually put effort in.
The feeling I get from watching this... ... ...it's a strange kind of catharsis, to finally be released from such a long-lasting bitterness. I enjoyed watching this.
(I'll still never get over that he couldn't seem to beat Resident Evil Revelations's final boss though.)
The three stars refer to how hard it is for a beginner to learn 😂
You just chose one of the hardest weapons
3:40 "No shit was clicking"
*dolphin*
2:56 Oh hey, it’s Warfstache British cousin
I remember playing my first monster hunter game on the PSP. But then I realised I couldn't really play any online missions cause, who the heck still uses a PSP. I tried out the MHW beta and it's a pretty dam good RPG, but best played with friends.
Vince Gamboa I have gone through the whole game solo and I have had a great time. I believe I am about to the end of the main story. Just one more Elder I believe. After this I plan to play with my friends. I like know I can solo everything and enjoying the story before a bunch of other people come in and start messing about with my stuff.
In all fairness the series was created with co-op in mind.
Samir Malik I plan to take advantage of it later.
2:35 - The reason why we love to grind in it so much
what's kinda funny is a year or so later, they did add a pair of fish dual blades.
HA HA! MONSTER HUNTER IS GOOD AND I CAN STOP CROUCHING BEHIND THIS BUSh SPYING ON YAHTZEE. I WILL FOREVER BE SEXUALLY SATISFIED.
Knowing that Yahtzee will one day review *HuniePop*
it fills me with determination!
Paradox Acres Jesus Christ why
HOw many years you been waiting? lol
Huniepop and an Undertale reference in one comment? Pure cancer
God why.
that would be glorious
I sure do love me some Monster Huntster.
a plot to monster hunter is like fuzzy dice on a tractor. the tractor still does what you want and need very well without them but you cant go "oh look at my fuzzy dice"
Basically Monster Hunter is just one thing. But it excels at that point like no other: GRIND. Grinding and Grinding .. about 300 hours of it for now if you want to max out and probably another 700 hours with the new expansions (if there is g-rank). I personally love it but for some people it might feel like work.
United Potatoes it’s repetitive as shit.
Maybe, but everyone loves a good BM.
So, how many times on average do you have to fight a monster to get decent armor or whatnot? Does the combat keep you hooked? I'm a Souls fan but am so on the fence about this game.
It depends on what you mean by decent. There are 2 tiers in the game and then there is the end game stuff. Low rank you don't really need to worry about repeatedly killing monsters. You will make a couple of things here and there to get you an advantage against the next monster but you won't be making sets. High rank you might need to consider your armor a bit more carefully but you're still not really going to be making sets. End game you get to fight much harder variants of all the monsters and this is where you will be making armor sets to specifically deal with a particular monster. And that is where you will kill a monster dozens and dozens of times. But to just get one full armor set it is about 4 to 6 kills on average.
For instance recently they released Deviljho into the game. He is a high rank monster and was underwhelming because most of us were end game. So this weekend they did an event with a tempered Deviljho. That thing kicked many a players butts. It forced people to consider their gear more appropriately and work together. It was easily a 30 to 40 minute fight for people that were well prepared. Mind you there are people doing speed runs of the end game content and this thing was still kicking peoples butts.
Does it keep you hooked? I can't speak for you, but yes it has kept me hooked for 370+ hours now. Well worth my $60. You should get at least 60 hours out of it just for the story such that it is.
eh, not that long at least i think so :/
The 3 stars were for difficulty, not ease
0:23 TRI!!! My first one as well.
Yahtzee Hi from Russia! I love every video you've ever done, you are my inspiration and I respect you very much! I've been watching since long ago when I didn't know English much and your videos were like a challenge for me to understand with how fast you're speaking, it always felt much more satisfying when I finally get that one play of the words. I love you stuff, thank you and I wish you the best!
Still dunno if I should buy it. I feel like my friends just play it because they played the last 109 of them
VG SPOOK if they got hooked on and older, inferior version years ago, imagine how much more fun MHW is.
As a complete newcomer to the series, I am 150 hours in and can recommend the game.
I've only played one other MH years ago, that was Tri, and I love this game.
Why do you think they played it to begin with?
As Yahtzee said Monster Hunter is a pretty niche series, but it's one of the best at what it does. It's pretty hard to recommend to someone new to the series.
1:49 yeah because dark souls is a story-focused game that has such a gripping narrative
But the angry demon was angry, or angry bad guy was angry, or sad witch was sad, that's story focused isn't it?
To be honest, though the games don't put their story as first priority, there IS a very good plot behind each game... Well maybe each game except Dark Souls 2, and even that had some pretty neat characters. You'd have to dig really deep (or look for Vaati's videos) to understand the lore, but if you do, it's pretty awesome! Makes all the boss fights more epic when you know exactly who they are and why they're there facing you.
Tbh there is back story in DS, but most times you need a compass and a guide dog to find it.
This is true, but damn is it vague when you just play the game. Only recently did I learn that I didn't fight every boss in DS3. Didn't even know about Midir...
HashSlingingSlasher someone didn't pay enough attention it seems
This episode of Zero Punctuation is just what a needed after a workrich day.
4:06 hey it's nergigante
porcupicante
Yahtzee: I had a hard time getting into this game because I kept having to kill things for poorly explained reasons and I felt like a bit of a bastard.
Also Yahtzee: Spec Ops The Line is a beautiful perfect game of perfect perfection. I love that its gameplay is basically all the shittiest bits of Uncharted rolled into one. 10/10.
Elmo9001 Haha, I take it you don't agree with his opinion :P
Elmo9001 in one case the need to murder was used as a plot point to actually provide satire/commentary to the fps genre and how those games make light of killing. The irony in having fun was the point.
Here you kill things to have fun. No irony, no satire, no commentary, killing the monsters is the fun of the game.
Nothing against MH but you're making a massive false equivalency
Never actually played Monster Hunter, I just never miss an opportunity to bring up how I think Spec Ops is pretentious garbage trash. "Ooh, it's so satirical, how this game IRONICALLY uses constant chest-high walls and regenerating health against endless waves of the same enemies, in order to make fun of games that do exactly that." Gameplay-wise, it's just, like I said, the shittiest parts of Uncharted all glued together, but with some wanky 'Oh no you were the real villain' story rammed in to try and trick you into thinking that it is something deeper and more thought-provoking than your average COD clone.
Nothing against you, fine sir, but I challenge you to read back 'The irony in having fun was the point' without immediately conjuring to mind the image of a game developer using the Portal gun to masturbate directly into their own face.
Elmo9001 What the heck are you on about? Kids these days.
Well isn't uncharted already made up of like 90% shitty bits?