User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate Discussion/@comment-24423627-20170220004239/@comment-27125903-20170220185015

Ever since I started in 1st gen, 2nd gen games were mostly a breeze (G Rank was brutal but I was still used to the mechanics).

A lot of the monsters in 2nd gen were pretty robotic meaning they were predictable which mean't armor and weapon upgrades weren't crucial until High Rank (In all honesty, if it weren't for the hitboxes and G Rank, MHFU would have been the easiest MH game to date)... I also even found Portable 3rd harder just by how fluent the monsters moved in comparison.... If 3rd gen had the broken hitboxes of 1st and 2nd gen, it would have been the hardest gen in the MH series without question.