Topic: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate

This sounds exactly like what I will have to do when I get the game. Cheers @zionich

@Tsurii Well, ignore everything I said then. xD

Oh my gosh. 2 savage deviljhos in the arena to get my splattered hide? Gold Ian and silver Los in the forlorn arena to get my gold rathian parts? Hooo boy, now we're gettin to the good stuff. Up till now I have had zero fear going into any quest. Because I transferred my data from Generations and I had really good armor. But now, I've caught up to where I was. And holy crap... Reading some of these quests puts the fear of God in me.

@JaxonH Can't wait. I finally got to High Rank in Village and I think I am HR 5 in Hub.

Another Time @JaxonH

@zionich
Ya sorry!
Everyone seems to show up right when we left for a quest, or right when we're done or taking a break...

I should set HR limits though, since we're working on my brother's G rank Urgent and then HR6 and HR7 quests for farming. That way people don't join who won't meet the HR rank at least.

@JaxonH No worries lol.

I'm officially in G-Rank now.

BUT.

I'm not gonna be starting G-rank quests yet. Half the game is high rank. No reason to just whiff past half the game. So I'll be doing High Rank hub quests and working my way through all the village quests (yes, I'm crazy enough to do it- the plan is a page of quests every day, and some of the quests on each page are already done, so I think it's a realistic goal)

Which means I'll be more open to hunting with others for the time being. Do need some materials though. Splattered hide from savage deviljho, and some conflagrant sac, whatever that is...

I need some Hyper stuff for upgrading my weapons and armor.. best way to get them atm are doing some DLC 7* event quests. I downloaded them all but they are not showing up, only 2 pages of low ranked ones.
Are there special requirements for unlocking them like clear all previous event quests because I’m HR8 in hub.. just need to finish urgent for G rank I guess? Deviljho I think.

@Tsurii
Omg.. thank you so much! I was in Hunter’s Hub and Pub and after you told me to to check under high rank section I just realized they are all there. I thought they are only available from that arena guy/girl and not from Hub quests.
I delayed buying a year subscription because I’m quite busy these days and have so much singleplayer games backlog but MHGU really tempting me to jump in right now. I hate and love this game at the same time. 😀

I think I've had a change of heart.

I think I like MHGU more than World after all. Which is crazy to say, because it's behind in so many respects. But gosh dang. I'm having way more fun with this game than I had with World, or any other game in recent or distant memory. At first when people were saying they liked this game more I was like nah, it's great and all, and easily the second best in the series, but no way does it take the top spot. How could it?

But maaaan, after playing it as much as I have in English and thoroughly investing in it, I think I've had a change of heart. I think I'm enjoying this game more. I think that wouldn't have been the case had they not given us so many DLC item packs. But 9 robust item packs with slickaxes and honeys and max and ancient potions, etc, combined with the farm and all the items you can buy and the special trade items... you don't really spend very much time doing tedious stuff. All of the tedium has been removed. And the game is so amazing just with sheer monster variety and environment variety and armor variety and weapon variety, and the combat is still top notch...

I love this game.

Eh, I prefer this game over World from the beginning anyways...they're both still not my #1. But World is just...less actiony compared to GenU. I'm not a huge fan of open world-type games either, even when they're not true open world games like MH World or Xenoblade 1 or 2. (I did finish the first game, though, couldn't stay into 2)

But yeah, GenU and any other past MH game you get right to the fights. No wandering oversized open-world maps to find monsters, no using bugs to find monsters for you or investigating their poop to find them. I do like some changes they bring in, but...I just like the older games much more.

Things I miss from World that are not in MGGU.

-The ability to destroy a trap.
-Bounties (Though sometimes they make for good gathering quest that will count as a day)
-Cut Tails being shown on the map
-The free Map (That did appear in other portable MH)

Which is all so minimal. I definitely prefer MHGU over World and I know a lot of it is the fact that it is portable but also that there is such a great Monster variety. The calculated zoning and Item usage doesn't bother me because that was always just apart of the tactics.

The biggest letdown of MHGU is no Dalamadur =(

The #1 complaint is that in World...the monsters flee WAY TOO MUCH. So I'm still having to put away weapons to continue running after them. At least in GenU they stick around to fight you a while, besides when they do flee it doesn't take forever to get to the next area...only for them to flee again. lol

Also, you can destroy traps in GenU, same with cut tails and stuff. They're marked on the map in GenU, I actually noticed this when playing XX....at the end.

@Joeynator3000 Really, I guess I missed how. Wow, mind blown. I need to try that.

Maybe I need to zoom in and try that. I didn't see the option to destroy a trap prior to you saying that.

lol yeah...just go up to it and press "-". You lose the trap, not sure how that works in World, but you can still do it. It is possible that this could be a Prowler thing, though. I never tried it as a Hunter.

@Joeynator3000 You loose the trap in World also. Ill give it a try.

HOLY SMOKES, I don't remember seeing that icon the other day, Thanks @joeynator3000

Okiez, yeah I'm so glad i can remove traps....so annoying to set one and the monster taking off right after, missing the trap. Then I have to sit around and wait for the trap to vanish on its own. xD

@Tsurii Lol, no worries. So ya, I like MHGU a lot more than.

I knew for traps but never noticed marked tails.
Never tried MH:W because I heard it’s “the best MH ever” and didn’t want to like it more then MHGU but now I’m 100% sure I couldn’t ask more from MH in general considering MHGU is the best game on Switch at this moment imo. Sure there are lots of great games on the system but this one keeps on giving.

MH World is better in a lot of respects- graphics (definitely), environments, scope, more fluid animations, and tons of QoL that make for a smoother experience and less tedium. The move sets are rad as heck too, and I liked the gold, silver and bronze reward system, although I hated that system of endless quests you picked up.

But that's about where it ends. MHGU also has tons of QoL that it doesn't really get credit for, many of which aren't even in World:

Skipping meal and monster death animations
holding A to carve and gather multiple times
holding A to craft super fast instead of one at a time
disabling traps
transmog
not having to wait 2 minutes to turn in a paw pass for a Harvest Tour
renaming Palicos
buying supply drops
styles, arts and SP mechanic
outside attacks contributing to the mount meter rather than knocking you off
actually playing as a felyne for the first time in the series
Beast type prowler
teaching Palicos skills and support moves
horn melodies can be displayed in the corner of the screen rather than the middle
status messages appearing in the corner
severed monster parts showing on the map
jiggling the fishing lure
cutting/blunt kinsects can be swapped
palico armor pigment
transporting items back from camp via Transpurrtor
field pouch
turning in account items at any time

And nearly a dozen robust item packs full of all kinds of goodies, including almost 100 slickaxes to duplicate rare bugs/ore which removes a large part of the tedium, on top of selling bomb casings and gunpowder and dung bombs and Kelbi horns and catalysts and all that jazz.

World felt great when you're in the map hunting the monster. And despite my initial impressions I actually really like the scout fly tracking system now. But the progression was just wack. It didn't really feel special when you graduated to high rank. And by the time I got through that I was bored to tears. I stopped playing before I even got to the level 40 Kirin. And that's because the endgame is just so paper thin with the tempered and archtempered monsters... you just get sick of elder dragons, and Bazelgeuse. That fricker is in EVERY. SINGLE. QUEST.

The foundation is much stronger, but the rest of it let it fall short of MHGU. Once they make a sequel that has a lot more monsters and they bring back the superior armor system of MHGU (IF they bring it back) and old decoration system, and have G rank with tons of quests, it'll blow MHGU away, easily. So it's not that the core system in place is inferior in World, it's just that the game fell short in too many areas and MHGU excels where it counts. But mark my words, when they make a sequel, and add more content and better end game and address some of the issues people didn't like about it, it'll easily top any game to date.