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Mr. Locke
Jul 28, 2010

Rigged Death Trap posted:

I havent played anhthing past 3G so whats so awesome about 4U?
I though MhGen/X was the best so far

MonHun Gen. is probably my favorite so far for solo play (Aerial Style actually makes Heavy Bowgun FUN in a solo setting) but a party of four decent people make mincemeat of almost all the content. While I had problems with both 3U and 4U's endgames (gently caress Apex monsters and Wystones. Brought down an otherwise excellent G-rank experience in 4U) and I've only gotten so far in MHG at this point, I can't imagine Aerial or Adept styles not trivializing a vast majority of the older monsters- especially aerial style, since a lot of the non-flying monsters have no good ways of dealing with an airborne hunter, and the general lower HP of monsters hold up very poorly to being mounted 3+ times in five minutes.

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Mr. Locke
Jul 28, 2010

MachuPikacchu posted:

Counterpoint: Yian Kut Ku is the absolute worst, and I hate it. Anything with a hitbox three times larger than itself should not exist.

The second two hitboxes are the guilt and shame you feel when you try to attack and kill such a majestic creature.

Mr. Locke
Jul 28, 2010

Skippy Granola posted:

Gobul cheats, is the short answer. Numerous spherical attacks, surprising mobility, and a mouth that takes up 120 degrees of its frontal hitbox. Real nice.

Truly, the perfect predator.

Mr. Locke
Jul 28, 2010

Bellophon posted:

I'm really loving this LP, but it's also making me really glad I started with 4U.

Is all water combat that bad, or is Gobul just a special case?

Both? Underwater combat is never good, but everything Skippy said is absolutely true- Gobul is overdesigned to be a complete menace underwater, which is why a major mechanic with Gobul is learning how to minimize that- Gobul is really bad on land, and has some unique traits that haven't been shown off yet, one of which is that he shares a major weakness with an incarnation of Ganondorf.

That said, Gobul isn't even the worst underwater encounter in the game. There's a very special one much later, and even later then that there's a special variant of one of the underwater monsters who's redefined 'jerkass' for the franchise. But Gobul is the worst we're going to see for a long time.

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