User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Discussion of the Week: Monster Revamps/@comment-7584137-20170429100005

1) My favorite one is easily Fatalis. As I said here on the wiki multiple times before, Fatalis was easily one of my least loved monsters back in FU, since it was just a boring and very cheap boss; the only threats it posed where it´s large HP and it´s ridiculously overpowered attacks. Definitely not the dragon I was hoping for.

But then came the forth generation, and they brought it back, and IT IS EVER SO GLORIOUS. Let me tell you, when I saw the new Fatalis and it´s vast improvements (including that precious flame breath) I could actually believe that this beast once brought down an entire kingdom. Fatalis quickly went from one of my most despised monsters to my favorite Elder Dragon.

Honorable mention must also go to the Raths. Banned´s point about them feeling like "stiff robots" in the past is the exact reason why I just can´t bring myself to go back to earlier titles in the series. The monsters just feel so... outdated and slow, like poorly made animatronics. I much prefer the more fluid monsters we have right now, and that goes to the Raths as well. Also, their appearances are now much better if you ask me. Rathian especially used to look so pathetically ugly and thin.

2) I´d say Lao-Shan. Surprise, surprise, it´s still the same boring and pitiful boss it always was. Really, that honestly leaves me sad. I was looking forward to seeing it being an actual threat.

3) Lao-Shan again. MAKE IT ACTIVELY ATTACK US. PLEASE. What satisfaction do we get out of killing a titan like it when it doesn´t even bother to really defend itself? A Lao-Shan hunt isn´t as much a "hunt" as it is a bullying festival. And I hate bullying. Why couldn´t it have received a Fatalis treatment?

4) Not sure.

5) I wouldn´t call any monster "beyond saving". Fatalis is the living proof that revamps can be a very good thing.

6) HELL NO! New versions for me, no matter which monster we are talking about!

7) I´m not sure, honestly... unlike the Raths in the past, there aren´t any monsters so ugly that they really need a makeover.

8) I would honestly expect a bit more from Aggy. Not that it is bad, I just felt like it could have used some new attacks.

9) No. For me, that is simply an improvement. A revamp implies that the monster was heavily and drastically updated.

10) I am all in for a new Queen Vespoid, especially since we are still lacking in big creepy crawlies! But please, PLEASE, revamp it. If it´s gonna come back as the same old thing, then forget it. I´d rather not see it again.

11) Scrap the older Rath models all together. They just don´t look like the royalty they are meant to be.