User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Discussion of the Week: 2019/@comment-28847569-20191230181003

1. It was a pretty solid year overall, and I was pretty productive irl, so I would say I enjoyed it.

2. Probably to balance my schedule better, I guess, but I was never really one to do "New Year Resolutions"

3. World Peace. Within the range of plausibility, idunno.

4. Technically 3rd Gen (the 3U 3DS Demo that is no longer available), but officially 4th Gen (4 Ultimate), and I've played every MH game since, including Frontier, Online, and Stories.

5. I actually originally hated the series due to the 3U Demo (my interactions with Giggis there is basically the main reason I hate Gigginox so much, lol. I don't even mind Baleful Nox.), but I saw a streamer playing 4U, and it looked fun, so I picked up the demo and, eventually, the game. The beginning was hard for me mainly because it was hard finding a first weapon, but my experience with the 3U demo got me used to DBs, and I also liked how CB played, so those were my main-two weapons for most of my first 4U play-through.

6. Lots of ups and downs (Such as introducing tons of quality-of-life that streamlines the game, but actively neutering the difficulty to a point where positioning and timing doesn't matter for most monsters, for two examples), but it does seem like World usually improves with every update, which I appreciate. I was a little scared when IB started giving monsters flashy super-moves, but so far, it seems like IB is handling it way better then how Frontier usually handles it (where they're extremely annoying to avoid, unconditionally OHKO, or, oftentimes, both).

7. Honestly, besides 3U (I eventually did buy the full game and made it past Goldbeard solo), I've basically enjoyed every MH game I've played. Granted, I enjoy some more then others (Gen>World, Online>Frontier, 4U>Everything because nostalgia is unbreakable), but I can say that I enjoyed my time with the majority of these games.

8. I wasn't really surprised about IB's announcement, naming scheme aside.

9. Eh, some Online or pre-G-Rank, not Beru, Frontier monsters would be nice, but at this point, I'm not sure what other monsters IB could add due to how Safi's weapons work.

10. Hard to say. I would assume IB will get an average of one title update-per-month, but I doubt all of them will be new monsters. Considering IB is at the point World was when it got Kulve, I can't imagine there's going to be too many new monsters in the future.

11. Eh, maybe? Hypnocatrice is still treated as a "mainseries" monster, as the 15th Anniversary Size comparison and the MHX update to the taxonomy chart showed. However, he seems to be in that weird limbo occupied by monsters like Yama where the MS team just doesn't seem too interested in prioritizing them at the moment. In that sense, I would prefer if it continued to get as many original monsters as possible, but it would be nice to see Hypno (as well as Yama) appear in a future, especially since Frontier and Online are shutting down.

12. To the surprise of everyone, Espinath, lol

13. Probably. IIRC, World base didn't sell too well in Japan, and although IB sold better, I would imagine that Capcom would still want to capitalize off their handheld console market, especially with the Switch being a very-successful console in its own right.

14. Eh, we've heard so little about it for so long that I've kind of just stopped caring.

15. Not if we leave cookies under all of our Christmas trees on NYE.

16. IIRC, I beat Nerg for the first time on New Years day, so that was nice.

17. Kushala Daora. Every single game, this monster manages to get exponentially more annoying (spinoffs aside).

18. I think for almost five years now. Pretty save to say that my love for the series has only been strengthened over all of these years.

19. Yeah, considering how big the MMOs were. I think half of the monsters introduced in the series are MMO-exclusives, and both games introduced a lot of lore as well (even if that lore's canoncity to the main series is dubious at best) so that's a major chunk of MH's identity that just won't really be a thing in... a few hours actually (MHO's last day today).

20. Maybe Portable 5th or a new MMO, but I wouldn't be surprised if Capcom just pushed onwards to MH6 as another return-to-form (similar to how MH4 was a return-to-form after the Old New World adventures in 3rd Gen).