User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Discussion of the Week: 3rd and 4th Gen. Online Halls/Cities/@comment-4702773-20170505165442

Loc La, no contest! It just felt like an actual place! The day/night cycle, the fact that the gathering hall was here, and down the road was the shopping district, and to the left was housing, and the smith was over here, and the main gate with the amazing view of the Jhen Tusk Monument thing! The whole thing just worked. It truly is the Jewel of the Desert. Loc Lac will always be my absolute favorite location in the MH universe. To quote the soundtrack, Loc Lac, (has become) Eternall (to me)!

Probably the Elder Hall. Hunters are social people. We hunt together, we celebrate victory together, we lament defeat together. I think the second extra video from MH4U summed that up really well (The one that takes place in Val Harbor's hall). And because of this, the idea of sitting in a big empty room with a (literally) giant social figure looming over us is kind of weird. I know G Rank are the best of the best, but it just seems odd that they'd be shepharded into a big fancy hall with so few people in it. The eating area seemed out of place, heck I felt out of place when I was in there.

Yes. Nothing else to say about this. So terribly generic. Bring back Loc Lac and all its glory!!

It has to look ike hunters would actually gather there. That is to say, the pub has to look like a place hunters would eat at. In a real scenario, if the Elder Hall was the place to accept quests, the G-Rank hunters would accept them, and then mozy on over to Val Harbor for a drink before work. Hunters risk their lives every quest, so they'd want a place with a lot of other people to laugh and shout and the like. A good online hall needs to look, act, and FEEL like a place you'd want to spend your possibly last few hours of civilized living.

I guess? Nothing too over the top though. A theme is good and al, but I'd be fine with a different restaurant in each.

Loc Lac should return!

I would remove it. Plain and simple. Can't improve it to make it more lively because its the freakin' throne room of the Wyverian Elder. Although.. since he was a hunter too, I wouldn't be surprised if he was okay with making the place a bit.. louder.

Why not a giant floating airship port? Like a migratory dock for resupply and leisure?

Back in Tri (heck even in 4U) the NPC's felt like people, so yes. The NPC's in Gen were just annoying. Even the NPC's from past games were lifeless dialogue spitters.

They were pretty generic back in those gens, so it might be best to just let them fade. The hub from MHFU would require so much revamping that it wouldn't be the same place anymore.

Sure, I'm all for story. I'm gonna reference Tri again, because that's where I started, but the whole thing with Jhen was amazing. The fact that certain NPC's got nervous as it got closer was cool, and then the sandstorm hit and everybody's either scared shitless or super pumped. The storytelling part of Tri for all offline was amazing too. You really connected with the villagers. Why can't Capcom do that again???