User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Discussion of the Week: 4th Generation Reflections/@comment-26421638-20181122202729

1 and 2) The introduction of an insane amount of amazing or original monsters, Insect Glaive (and CB too, i cannot use it but others do and they love it), Mounting Mechanics and, most importantly, they perfectly balanced new and old returning stuff, feeding both newcomers and nostalgic hunters... I have to say that 4th Gen is my favorite Gen, thousands of hours of pure fun!

3) Despite being a huge fan of MHGen, they've undoubtedly lost a bit of realism with Styles/Arts etc... On the other hand both 4U and GenU went to "Over the top" with certain challenges like Lv 140 Monsters or EX Deviants... Plus, 4th Gen introduced this "abnormal mosnters" like Frenzy, Apex or Hypers... i find them cheap and a bad way to put more challenge or "fake" content... Unfortunately this mistake has been repeated in World with ATs...

4) If only all the QoL improvements that MHW had were introduced in 4th Gen... Plus, i miss Treasure Hunt Quest and is a real pity that mosnters like Hyonocatrice, Shen Gaoren, Lucent Nargacuga and many more didn't make in any 4th Gen Game.

5) Hard to tell right now since we're only at the beginning of 5th Gen... But i surprisingly miss Hunter Arts... Everything else we'll see on future games.

6) A Wild Ride! That's for sure! I've lost the count of how many OMG moments i (and we) had

7) Everyting that is not Primal Forest, Sunken Hollow or reworked 1st/2nd Gen Areas. Favorite 4th Gen Monster? Astalos (Possibly Valstrax but i haven't faced yet), Favorite Revamp? Fatalis and Gravios. Favorite Flagship? See above. Favorite Final Boss? Possibly Ahtal-Ka.

8) Insect Glaive, a weapon nearly capable to change my main weapon... It didn't make it but went really close, and I'm glad for that! Then of course Mounting and Hunter Arts.

9) After MHGU a game like MHW was NECESSARY because the series really needed to get rid of some old clunky stuff and they made it... But the result isn't as expected for other factors like being considerably slower and giving to much attention to secondary details, really lacks of INTERESTING content and additional content are mostly bad... MHP3RD has roughly the same amount of content but it was way better than World. MHW is still a MH game for me in the core but ironically less than Gen/GenU, which are some kind of Spin-off Games.

10) Everything that i can say is that I've preferred Gen over 4U because doesn't have subspecies, have a slightly better Bestiary, Hunter Arts and was a good game who put together all the previous Gens... But this may change when or if I'll play with MHGU