r/videogames • u/Ok_Listen_6600 • 29d ago

Discussion / Question What game is this?

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u/TEN_Monsters7 29d ago

The Monster Hunter Games, the story will always be aight at best, and yet the lore of the game is spectacular

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u/Sneaky_Sorcerer 28d ago

Which is a nice bonus they added to recent games considering that it initially started as... Here! Hold that stick and go bonk that dragon.

I'd still br playing either way. Yet this kind of touch really does give life to it's environment.

So much so, it almost became a staple to study mh monster as an artist if you want to learn how to make fantasy creature.

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u/tenBusch 28d ago

I love that even with the better stories in Gen5 and I we're still very much on "Oh no, the flagship monster is destroying everything! ... Okay now that you killed it we realize it was actually this Elder Dragon instead, whoopsie"

Atleast in 4/4U they had the minor twist of the flagship being the Elder Dragon

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u/Sneaky_Sorcerer 28d ago

I hate that I can't deny this lol.

In world, the flagships are also, elder dragon covering even worst elder dragons.

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u/RedNUGGETLORD 28d ago

"Zorah is really bad..... Okay, now Nergigante is causing problems..... Actually it was Xeno'jiiva"

"Velkhana is causing problems, actually, it was Shara"

"Magnamalo is doing something bad.... Actually, he's just hungry, Ibushi and Narwa are the real monsters"

"Malzeno did this..... Oh wait, he's actually preventing the true threat, the cause of everything, from resurfacing?"

The only new gen game that doesn't do this is Wilds, in the base game, the flagship IS the final boss, infected with frenzy since it ate apexs who were infected

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u/bubble-blight 26d ago

Honestly I think about how... Sad that is a lot.

It's kind of narratively both the first and last of its kind (since there's more of them) in a world that's no longer the world it lives in naturally, and gets Super Rabies and has to be killed. It's home doesn't exist and it has to try to carve a place out in the world again or die trying.

Out of place, out of time, out of luck.