A Monster Hunter's Journey | Generational Retrospective

“Monster Hunter is Cocomelon for the unemployed” is certainly a phrase.

Monster Hunter is so important it appears in the ending of the Academy Award-nominated 2022 film Tár

The original Monster Hunter & Monster Hunter Dos have a dedicated private server community over at MH Oldschool. If anyone is ever interested in playing the original Monster Hunter experience as it was meant to be, online, I highly recommend you come hunt with us online~ the experience is so different than playing exclusively the offline mode.

"not tonight babe, a YouTuber just released a 3 hour video on a subject I know nothing about"

You're super right about playing with randos, but I love that your footage during that complaint shows you being completely oblivious to the Barioth getting put to sleep and waking it up with your dual blade combo. That GS was crying.

4U is the game that actually got me into Monster Hunter and it's still my favorite in the series. That was some fun video game right there.

“I let my assumptions deprive me of joy too often,” hit me like a truck load of bricks. What a statement.

Honestly, hearing you talk about the camaraderie of MonHun really makes me appreciate the group I've hunted with for the past six or so years. We've got in-jokes about our specific palicos, how some of us seem to have certain monster types magnetized to them. It really does make MonHun feel special.

Taking bets now on whether Kbash will do what he does best and find a way to convey a heartfelt, humanistic message about one of my all-time favorite game series in a way that makes my heart swell, eyes water, and deepen my appreciation for the games, OKAY HERE GOES

The ending speech actually started to make tear up. I remember playing MH4U with friends after school at the local cafe, just hours sitting there with a single (bad) bread bowl between us and free refills, laughing and bonding. As we got older and went our own ways, I've still played every new MH trying to chase that feeling. It's nice to know that people are still gaining a sense of community that's the spirit of MH, and hope that Wilds does the same or even better.

Seeing peepholes of K-Bash's journey on twitter was an excellent prolonged prelude to this movie like video

monster hunter is also so important, that rathalos, the same guy from the smash and metal gear crossover, is fightable in final fantasy 14.

Kbash detailing how much of a blast he had with gen ult made me very happy as it was the game that got me into the series and is still my favorite even after playing world and rise.

This is why I watch Youtube. Tremendous video, Kbash is a workaholic, puts out so many videos, I often wonder where he found the time between vids to play the games, let alone write the script and edit them, and yet the quality remains top notch. Easily one of the top video game analysts on the platform.

the Patrons allowed this man to cook, and he made a fucking 5 course meal.

The anxiety talk at the end is both incredibly relevant to Monster Hunter and surprisingly relatable. I want to play with friends so bad but I’m also hesitant to do anything with my voice

3U was my introduction, and it was the truest "Proper" playthrough I had through the whole series, complete with three other friends, two very close apartment rooms, and forgiving college schedules. Roughly 200 hours just to get into G-Rank, plus about another hundred to reach and beat Dire Miralis. We. LOVED. Those days. Months and months of great times. I also miss swimming, and underwater combat. With polish I think they'd be more than accepted in today's modern environment. Also Moga Village, every day of my life. Your first Monster Hunter Village really hits different, and never quite leaves you. 4U is the one I have the most hours in (close to a thousand) and when I really opened up to the idea of playing online with Randoms. I finally learned how to play Bow properly, got decent-to-great with a healthy variety of weapons that let me challenge basically anything adequately, and just... played to hunt. Friends dropped off after awhile cause life got busier, but we still had great times. Still one of my favorites. Generations and its Ultimate were fantastic. An absolutely staggering number of quests and variety of monsters and combinations, with stellar new favorites and plenty of returning oldies. It really was the shift into "anime" for the series, quite a bit more than 4, but... what a good ride. I still miss Hunter skills, like absolutely breaking damage logic with the Switch Axe infinite buff combo. World was and is the game that stands the test of time. The polish on it is phenomenal, and I still have friends that I play with semi-regularly in it. Including new friends that just got in mere months ago at time of writing. I've got my gripes with it, especially the base game and the lack of consequence for some negligence, like being able to eat during hunts now, but Iceborne fixed most of my real issues and the rest are me being a hipster saying "the old games' pacings were better!". Mere internal gripes that I shouldn't even listen to. It's a fantastic game that speaks for itself. And... I don't really care for Rise, lol. It's a great game, very fast paced. Too fast paced for what I associate the series with. Like an Arcade Mode speedrun through fights. It just didn't do it for me, even if the movement is super fluid and fun. I do NOT knock anyone that likes it. I think I just burnt out of the series on the whole at the point I started it. I've been playing the games for like, a decade now. I need to get to SunBreak though. I've heard it's good, and I like all the changes I've heard it brings. May give it a shot sometime. But the most important of all are the memories. I'll never forget some injokes and Attack Names that my group gave for some moves, just so we could communicate and stay alive in harder fights. Great times.

Following this channel for 5+ years and currently on a MH journey of my own, this one is just special.

I love the way the cat is just sitting there while KBash throws the clothes on'em and the cat is just like, "Yeah, whatever. You just make sure my snacks are ready later."

Fun fact: In MH1 you actually can kill the Rathalos in the egg quest he shows up in. You can even kill him before so much as going near a Velocidrome. It just takes forever and takes a lot of grinding beforehand.