Monster Hunter is hot, we’re in a dry year for releases, and there’s a 20th anniversary coming up, and man, I think it’d be pretty neat if Capcom re-released some of the older Monster Hunter games. Here’s my opinion on why these games should return and how I’d do it. Enjoy!
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And even if they never come back, they're pretty easy to get on your PC. Plus havin an actual controller doesn't give ya carpal tunnel!
I would love to revisit generations just because gammoth is the only one of the 4 flagships to not reappear since. Also love great maccao, malfestio and the moofas lol
rise feeling like a sequel to MHGU makes this idea seem more legit. give the maps from the older games maps in the style of rise but adjusted for a lack of wire bugs. mhfu is a magnificent game that should receive an update and we could also see the return of underwater combat. soft remake should be the way to go
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This is the ticket. If they do a Triple Threat Bundle of Unite, 3U and 4U I think they're golden. Especially if they can get it out on as many consoles as possible. Cross-Play would be phenoooomenal. Genuinely mind blowing and I would GLADLY buy something like that. Even if it wasn't able to get Cross-Play in, I Might even be crazy enough to buy it on both Switch and PS5 so that I'm not limited on who I can play with.
Monster Hunter Tri, my beloved.
I want 3U and 4U for PC, honestly. I played 4U on 3ds but I cant do everything alone in this game. As for 3U, I havent tried the game yet and I wanna experience the unique things about the game such as, underwater fight, Giginox, Qurapeco and Kelbi Stingshot(slime go brrrrr).
I would ideally want freedom unite, 3U and 4U and have generations come to other consoles as well as PC
I hear a lot of people talk about 4U being the premiere choice if your only going to bring a single game forward, but I’d be curious to see what bringing a game like Portable 3rd could do since the west never got it. We saw the reaction to GU after we didn’t see XX for so long. Just a thought
TL;DR- You could get a 3DS together with MH:Generations for under $60, 3U for around $100, and 4U for around $140 if you're not picky about which 3DS model you're getting.
All of the 3ds titles are on Amazon for prices that aren't too ridiculous for discontinued content. MH4U is the most expensive at ~$99, MH3U is $60 new and $45 used, and Generations(non-ultimate) is the cheapest at about $15.
The 3ds is a bit trickier, but the cheapest ones are under $100 and the most expensive ones are about $340. I just replaced my old one for about $170
The biggest barrier to entry for newer players, in my opinion, is the loading screens between zones on the map. The best way to port the games would be to have the MH:Rise team build out the gaps between zones to make a seamless map. I say the rise team specifically because their level design style is overall a bit closer to the older games than World.
I kinda want the old way to gather.. I came from MH (PS2) 2005, was 8 years old back then, had to follow a Mosswine to find a mushroom gathering spot, had to manually find herb to gather, just the knowledge alone, made me feel the same as slaying my first Yian Kut Ku to break out from being a Greenie Hunter, but keep the pickaxe, I hate bringing a few pickaxe and breaking after 2-4 picks. Hate em'. Oh and I played Tri, I love the idea of "Build your own Bowgun." Please let it return, I love my HBGs and I hope Gunner Style Armor comes back, just make it when I equip it with a range weapon it has a different look, like the old ones where 1 side is well protected while the other is more exposed, just change it back to visually, fashion has become kinda boring when everyone practically look the same, and like it or hate it, I like needing entry fees for a quest, I like prepping for a hunt, and maybe MH TRI REMASTERED TO STEAM THIS YEAR !? Come on, its AN ANNIVERSARY !
I dont want an extra input lag. I want them to make very well polished port.
It might not happen but here's some thoughts for a possible collection. First collection is G, Freedom Unite and maybe finally localize Portable 3rd. Second is 3 Ultimate and 4 Ultimate with a possible third game or maybe just these two. How about the first Monster Hunter Stories?
I would say my, never will happen but still want it wish is a game that has all the old maps and monsters in a MHGU visual style but without the styles and arts. Otherwise if i had to pick MHFU or MH4U
The nostalgia andys are a little ridiculous sometimes.
Bring back potion flex
Even GenU for me is still a valid release for PS/Xbox/PC, i don't own a switch and i'll gladly pay Capcom for that too if they simply sell it on a platform i have
Straight up, as a 5th gen only player i'd buy any and all re-releases of the older titles because 5th gen has made me fall in love with this series
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate PC version please
As a man a solid year into a constant 4U addiction, I can agree a re-release of old gens would go hard
How you feel about that anti cheat thing keeping people from modding the game?
Freedom Unite is pretty cheap online funnily enough
Porting 3U & 4U would be great. Would buy it in a heartbeat. The only things i'd want them to change is; clean up the worst of the hitboxes, make the controls feel more like the modern gens now that it isn't on a handheld and add layered armours. That kinda stuff they do in patches so it shouldn't be a huge deal and the rest doesn't bother me.
I'm still holding out for a port collection coming at the end of the March anniversary countdown!
honestly i’d love to play all of the olds games the only tweaks i’d like to see is just making so carving and gathering just requires holding down the button, i don’t even care if the animation still has to wait for your character to stand back up i just wanna hold the button please😅
AND WHAT THE HELL IS THAT "RETURN TO WORLD" BS GOING AROUND?, i haven't seen crape and i'm still an active player.
But, about the point you are talking about, from a business standpoint, it would be DUMB to release a MH right now.
I would definitely say just pure ports of 1G, Freedom Unite, 3U, and 4U would be a fairly logical choice. They're the capstone games of each respective generation and cover a massive amount of ground content wise, and they still hold up for the most part. I think they may decide just to leave behind 2 and P3rd due to them having content that mostly gets covered by the aforementioned games.
5:57 I fell through dalamadur last night multiple times, his hand also chipped me twice when his hand wasn't on the platform anymore.
7:36 Now I haven't played dos, but defensive skills in 1 and 2 honestly have just boiled down to me slapping on anti wind in 1 (the best skill in the game) and in FU I'd just poison LS daora to make his wind more tolerable (though the 3 elder rock paper scissors armour do make said rps fights better).
10:00 I like the idea of 3u and FU, 4U I'd appreciate as I've begun to have cough emulation issues.
I also think porting FU over 1-dos solves a myriad of issues, the 1/2/freedom boxes have ONE page, G has 2, why they reverted it in Dos is beyond me, MH1 also technically has 4 versions, 1JP, 1EN, Freedom 1 and 1-G (and the wii version of 1g but I don't know the differences there to see) It also avoids my biggest gripe from 1-3 the fuckin HRP system done every key quest? too bad, 10 hours of grinding capture plesioth per level to unlock the double raths, to then grind 1k HRP a quest? No I don't think so, It's why I've dropped 1JP, this is altered in 1EN and 1G (1g uses En's online quest and HRP system) but it's still ubsurd.
If we had to have ports, i'd only be picking FU, 3U and 4U, 4U would need some 3U like adjustments regarding bottom screen control due to single screens and 3U would need the talisman pool oversight fixed, as for dlc's, they'd have to redo them, or renew them and seeing as we've lost USJ and sonic in Rise just this week, it might not happen (I say USJ due to the USJ armour of 4u being, very good).
As someone who played 4U as my first mh game I would love a port of any old gen mh title cuz I have a huge nostalgia for them. Honestly I think porting an old title could help newer fans see the roots of the games they love. Kind of like how many people played GU during the pause in between world and Iceborne. In an optimal world they would do some kind of bundle but I just wanna play some Monster Hunter
I feel like a port of MHGU to PC/PS5/Xbox first would be a perfect first test for Capcom. I imagine it would be the least bothersome to make a port out of since its already on a modern console. It would also allow modern generation of MH fans to try out a game that's oldschool, but not TOO oldschool if you know what I mean? Its tough and punishing still, but not AS tough and punishing as the titles before it (I imagine at least based on hearsay, i've never played any of the older titles beyond GU ^^'). Then if that port does well and people enjoy it, by all means start pouring in all the old titles for modern generations to enjoy!
I started playing MHGU in earnest not too long ago and am having great fun with it. Its clunky sure, but it works and its amazing to get to see all the weird monsters i've only been able to read about until now! Also went ahead and set up Frontier on my PC because of your videos cataloguing the cool insane monsters in those games, so thank you for putting in the work on making them.
4u was my very first MH game, and is my absolute favorite of all time, I so wish I could play it again so much! Maybe one day.
We need an anniversary collection for pc, Xbox and ps5
I've been saying this since World came out!!!! Where's the HD collection Capcom?? Like, I still got a lot of these games on original hardware and playing solo is fine and all, but the Wii U and 3DS servers are going down later this year and without online multiplayer the experience just isn't the same.
I would cry if they re-released any of the older titles. Crossplay or no, just being able to play FU/3U/4U on a modern console with a controller would make me elated beyond words.
Since I started with 4U, I like the idea of having the games before it being available since I haven't experienced them and it would be good to advertise some of their game mechanics if they bring them back in Wilds.
You gave me a scary thought where Bluepoint does a remake of one of the games in a few years.
I would rather just get updated returning monsters with new movepools and cool new stuff in a brand new game… I love MH3U, but just imagine new better water combat! I also think the new Rise monsters will feel super cool in a new game when you don't have noskill wirebugs, silkbind moves, and wirefall bullshit. :^)
They really need to work on a better endgame loop cause Guiding Lands and Anomalies are such a slog. I love title-update monsters, but everything else… all the augment grinding and scaling after Shara Ishvalda and Gaismagorm is just terrible… its so bad I'd rather there be nothing.
Definitely need more Frontier and Online monsters in the mainline, Espinas returning was a great addition.
If they do they better have the gathering hubs scaled because playing mh4u or mh3u online by yourself with no friends is grueling
I've played MH stories as my first game but like I beat that no problem but I have been playing monster hunter Rise/sunbreak soloing every monster no problem first trying them an haven't lose a quest yet the only problem I had was understanding the controls but sitting in the training ground for about an hour…… Figuring out witch weapon I wanna use first was fun (Look I'm use to holding r to run an A an b being guard an attacking ok but that beside the point) the point is I have been also playing MH generation ultimate an i still haven't lose a quest an I tbh want the older games to come back for the anniversary
Also bring back Hunter art pls capcom
Go back and play tri, or tri ultimate, then play world.
World of difference. There's a feel brought up with the older titles, i don't know what it is about it, but there's a charm there that is absent from world.
Awww…. bulldrome are so cute 😮
I hope to God Wilds remove the ability to access your item box and the mini canteen, but I dont see that happening many World and Rise players would probably suffer from an aneurysm from the lack of "accessibility".
Anyway I hope to see all classic MonHun games on current consoles and PC especially Freedom Unite to 4U on switch. I would love to go back to my origins in Pokke Village.
adding in the event quests and updating freedom and freedom unite to work with the right stick would be hugeeee. also 3U and 4U with right stick instead of the 3DS c stick would be great
I’d personally prefer soft remasters, with maybe some small changes. Like, if they incorporated GU’s “hold to gather” mechanic I wouldn’t complain.
Obviously they’d have to update the UI, as it was made for handhelds and the map covers a fourth of the screen, so scaling that down and just making it look higher res would be great.
For FU in particular I’d just say to speed up UI animations, like you showed with the item box, include item icons in the UI (like in your inventory), and include prompts when near gathering spots. Hell, even the IOS port of FU included that last one.
I’d love a collection to release, but if I had to choose one I’d say either FU or P3rd. 4U is my favorite but it’s still relatively new compared to the others, and while I love 3U idk if they’d bring it back without tweaking underwater combat, and idk if that’s within the scope of a “soft remaster”.
FU on the other hand is a lot older, and has an obscene amount of content and monsters that still haven’t seen the light of day since. P3rd on the other hand literally never released here at all, and while I’ve played it and love it thanks to fan translations, I’d love for it to actually release and be officially playable.
Started my journey with MH4U after seeing a video about how you properly play a Monster Hunter game. As my first game their were some fights that live rent free in my mind because of how close the battle it was.
If there a game I want remastered it would be the one with the Plesioth and it's janky hitbox. Some newer players, me include, need to understand why in Stories one of Plesioth attack is called "Hyperspace Tackle"
It won't happen, unfortunately. Capcom very much wants the MH community to forget these games exist in favor of World and the hype for Wilds. World's wild popularity has completely changed the vector of the franchise for better and worse (mostly worse, IMO).
Emulation is great for monster hunter fans
Freedom Unite remaster: My favorite Monster Hunter. My friends and I all clocked in over 1000 hours in it. Its more deliberate pace could be a bit jarring for the newer audience.
3 Ultimate remaster: I'm currently replaying 3U on the side. Underwater combat would benefit greatly from modern control schemes.
4 Ultimate remaster: Safest choice. It's the Monster Hunter game that I remember the least about, so I'd definitely be down for a full replay of it on modern hardware.
New content for World or Rise: With so many people returning to these games, they could drop some new monsters into them. Like a teaser to set up some Wilds reveal.
I would love to see the older gen games on pc, but lets be honest there is a small chance of that actually happening.
Maybe generations Ultimate can go to PC tho. They alreay did in on switch so they have at least proven willing to port that.
Started with Tri and I absolutely miss Lagiacrus and the underwater hunts so badly. Seriously if Capcom made a Monster Hunter game that combined all of that together in one massive package I'd buy it in a heartbeat! I'm not holding my breath though.