WEBVTT - Episode 76: Monster Hunter 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:13.880 Hello, welcome to another edition of Nerdificent. We are inching 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:17.159 our way to Spook October. I am one half of 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:20.040 your host, Danny Fernandez, sitting across from me as always 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:26.040 if episode seventy six in the books, the last episode 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:28.960 that was such a good episode, we're burning through him 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:31.120 were I think we are going to have to do 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:37.239 a live? Really yeah, because yeah, just because uh, why 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:40.200 won't you date me? Is hidden a hundred and they're 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:41.960 doing a live And I was like, yeah, we probably 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:43.720 should do a lot to do it. But if we 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.960 do it, you all have to show up. It's like 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.120 me like when I first moved to l A, I 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:51.200 didn't have a birthday party for a couple of years 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:53.040 because I was like nervous that no one would come. 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:55.560 And then on my thirtieth birthday party, I was like, 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:57.960 I'm doing so much cool stuff, like I know everybody 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.320 will come, and like everybody did, so it's really cool. 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:02.240 So but that's always been you know, as a little kid, 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:04.440 that's always like your worst nightmare that you have something 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:06.520 and like no one's going to come. That happened. It 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:08.759 was when it was the same thing. I just moved. 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:10.840 I was the new Kidden for some reason, I not 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.279 only tried to have a birthday party, but I decided 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.080 to have it in a completely different city. Like I 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:18.080 went to school in Downey and it was in Long Beach, 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:20.600 so literally no one came because it was just inconvenient 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.760 and barely anyone knew me except for one person, Everett Minor. 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:25.399 I will never forget his name because he was the 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:27.360 only person who was the one person who still talked 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:31.119 to him. No, I mean we we went separate ways. 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:32.920 He still I mean, I check with you know, we're 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:34.680 free to get an Emmy. You need to be like 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.399 an Everett mind. I have like my one person that 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.039 I'm like. I will be like, I don't care if 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.400 I think anybody. I have to think this one person 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.680 for I'll shout out Everett Minor. If I get Emmy, 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:48.280 do it? Do it? Yes? What are you speaking out about? This? 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.200 What I'm sinking out about is the Casta Grandes, which 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:55.720 is on Nickelodeon in's premiering I believe in October. Super Dope. 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.440 It is a spinoff from the Loudhouse, which was super 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:03.120 successful all and it follows the Latin Next Family and 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.400 it's really cool. I'm so excited that it exists and 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.840 that there's more space for us to play, especially in animation. 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:12.080 I can't wait to show my niece and nephew and 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.520 for me to watch it. Frankly, Um, but I'm really 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.000 really excited. I mean, that was something that I thought, 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:22.760 even though even though I was working with an animation studio, 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:24.520 I'm like, we are the only ones that don't have 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:28.040 an animated like, you know, we need an animated show 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:32.000 and with a family. And then and then they did 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.320 it and Lolo did it, and I was like, dang it, 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:38.960 now i gotta rework my pitch, which is but I'm 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:43.040 pitching something else. But um, I'm just really excited that 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:48.640 it exists, and it's just it warms my heart. Yeah, 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.760 and you gotta. Naomi has to watch it, yeah, I 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:55.600 mean she will. She's working on her Spanish. She's a bilingual. Yeah, yeah, 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.480 she she. I mean, she pretty much understands and speaks 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:02.480 both languages. Any well, her English sentences are finally coming 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:07.040 together because she, you know, uh, spoke a lot of Spanish. First. 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:11.000 What I'm goofing on what I'm goofing, what I was about, 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.320 I'm goofing about what I'm goofing out about him this week. 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:19.160 Oh my gosh, twenty years older. Yeah, I'm like, oh 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:23.000 my god, what I'm goofing about. Uh, you know, we're 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:27.640 I just got my hands on Gears five and so 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.079 I'm getting ready to launch into that. I'm a big 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:34.240 fan of the Gears war franchise. But there's just been 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.720 We're in that wonderful period of video games because you 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.720 have the Summer drought, were not that many games come out, 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.120 and now we're hitting fall and we're just we had 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.480 Gears five, Borderland's three is out, and then we have 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.280 the Call of Duty Modern Warfare Bay to Dry. There's 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:51.840 just so many good video games. And then Ice Born 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.880 has already been released, which is the new DLC for 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:59.120 Monster Hunter World has been released for the consoles and 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:02.119 now we're patiently waiting for it to roll out on PC. 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.240 And the reason I mentioned that is because this week 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:10.240 we're talking about my favorite game franchise ever, Monster Hunter. 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:16.080 Monster Hunter. Uh. It was funny because you know Danny 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:17.800 when and when she said, I was like, I don't 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.720 know about this game. I'm like, no one does. It's 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.520 it's like like truly, like honestly, it was a fringe 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.800 title up until Monster Hunter World, and people kind of 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:30.800 got excited about it, and then more games came out 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:32.720 and it kind of just went back to like a 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:37.560 dedicated fan base. I've been playing this game, it has 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:40.480 to be like over a decade now, but I started 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.279 playing it on the PSP even though it originally started 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:47.359 on the PlayStation. Uh, but this is just gonna be 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.719 the episode where I am going to yell about Monster 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.880 Hunter and get Danny's thoughts and opinions on it. And 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.279 then when I come over and watch some James Bonds 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.600 and I was going to say, is this your equivalent 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.280 of like when we did Wonder Woman, which I'm obsessed with, 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:08.520 except for people actually watch Wonder Woman. You know what, 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:13.360 you know, there's gonna be some Monster Hunter fans. Monster 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.120 Hunter isn't the same as Wonder Woman. No, you're right, 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.360 it isn't. I think one woman laps at times over 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.120 So you didn't play it on PS two knows when 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:25.000 it came out on PS two. So the cool thing 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.719 about Monster Hunter that made it interesting to me back 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.160 then was it was just the simple hunting game where 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:33.320 four players can team up to hunt giant monsters, but 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.000 it used the PS two's kind of at the time 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:40.000 fairly new technology of online play, the PlayStation online system. 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:44.080 This was that early PlayStation online system, PlayStation network when 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:48.800 it was free. Uh uh so, But like my this 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.280 is also when like Final Fantasy eleven was coming out 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.200 and using it, my dad was you know, he was 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.360 already I was already barely able to use the PS two, 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:00.440 so adding like another factor to it was just possible. 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:02.240 So I never got to play it. Wait, so you 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.480 owned a PS two, but you had limited like your 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.560 did your dad put time limits on you? Essentially, so 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.400 we had a PlayStation and then we had it taken 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:12.479 away from us because we were playing it too much. 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:16.960 And then one Christmas, I like, I wrote a long 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.680 like letter and contract to my dad begging him to 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:22.760 allow me to get a play I was like, I 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:26.800 am willing to um to give up my Christmas gift 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.320 to get a PS two and that you know, I 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.360 will share it with my siblings and it will be 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.159 a gift for all of us. But I am wasting 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:36.720 my gift for it and how and I like did 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.440 all these rules. I made a contract of of all 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.320 the things that I will make sure I do before 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.720 I play it. So like all the chores and then 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.080 my homework will be done. And that if I if 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.600 he feels that I'm not, oh, you know, honoring the contract, 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:52.479 that he can show it to me and I will 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.960 immediately do whatever he had just the long plea and 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.640 it actually worked, and uh we got a PS two 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:03.040 and like Cooper that year. But because of that, it 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:04.720 was always kind of on that we were only able 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.520 to play it on the weekends, and it was it 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:11.120 was kind of like, you know, my parents weren't spending 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.640 that much money on a lot of the games. Uh, 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:19.400 So I was always playing PlayStation Underground demos, which if 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:23.480 you if you don't remember PlayStation Underground, it was like 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.320 a service you can sign up for where they would 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:29.440 send you a game disc with multiple demos on it 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.880 and you would and that's that's pretty much how how 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.000 I played new games was I would just play these 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.320 demos because I just couldn't get the money yet to 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:42.600 buy new games until I started, uh going to high school, 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:44.600 being able to like save up my lunch money to 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.240 like get stuff at games. Stop treating a minute, you know. 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:50.000 I did that not with a video game, but with 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.400 a cat I wanted. I used to be a cat 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.640 person I wanted to catch Little Danny wanted to catch 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.600 so badly that I did a whole power point like 0:07:57.720 --> 0:07:59.640 on why I should have a cat, Like did a 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.720 report on like why I deserve to have a cat, 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:03.840 and my parents got me like this little tabby cat. 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.680 I was gonna say, when you think of PS two, 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:10.559 what is the game that pops in your head? Oh? See, 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.880 it's funny because the fun of Fantasy seven, I've said 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.000 it many times, is my favorite game of all time, 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.520 and I want to think of that, but that definitely 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.640 that's a that's a PS one game that I remember 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.640 when I think of PlayStation to the game that kind 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:25.160 of sticks out to me the most is the game 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:27.560 I probably put more the most time in, which was 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:30.400 Kingdom Hearts, because that was the game I played a 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.200 lot of. But you're going to be like a Grand 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:39.400 Theft Auto. Oh yeah, Grand Theft Auto essentially ruined, Uh, 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.520 my little brother's attempts to play video games because he 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:44.960 was just you know, when you're young, you're just dumb. 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:48.520 You're just that's that's the only way to describe it. 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:52.360 And we had g t A and we we would 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:55.440 play and everyone you know, this was when kids when 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.320 you're a teenager, so you didn't really play the story mode. 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:00.960 You just took turns, getting as many stars as you 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.240 can and seeing how long you can survive. And my 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:06.760 little brother would join in, and I remember he, uh, 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.839 We're driving one time and someone was walking across the street, 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.240 and to try and be funny, he was like, you 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.640 run that person over and get like, get some points. 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.240 And they're like, you can't play g t A anymore. 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.199 And I was so scared when he said because the 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.240 time I thought, I thought like we were all going 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.080 to get into trouble, but it was just him and 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:30.320 I was like, oh, and it was perfect because any 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.000 anytime you'd be like can I play him? Like, no, 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.200 you got banned from playing it, so you gotta sit there. 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:38.840 What about a Saga genesis? Oh, Saga Genesis always gonna 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.000 be Sonic and yes, Sonic, That's what I was thinking too, 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.760 because especially Sonic and Knuckles. You had the cartridge where 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:45.800 you can stick Sonic too up in the top and 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:47.480 you would be able to use Knuckles in that. It 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:49.960 was it was dope and I never had a genesis. 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:53.320 This was before my dad married my step mom and 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:55.160 they were dating and I would go over their house, 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.280 and I remember I said, I wanted them to get 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:01.120 married just so I can play that saga genesis. Yeah, 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:05.400 mine was Sonic uh a Laddin and I think Earthworm Gym, 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:09.120 Earthworm Gym's That's that's a true classic, right, Yeah, yeah, 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.439 I'm surprised that hasn't gotten a remake yet, but it's 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:16.640 probably the way. Probably, Yes, let's go through the nitty gritty. 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.240 The Monster Hunder franchise as a series of fantasy themed 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.760 action role playing video games that started with the game 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.079 Monster Hunter for PlayStation two, was released in two thousand four, 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.160 and titles have been a release across a variety of 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:31.880 platforms including PC, home console, portable consoles, mobile devices, and 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.079 the series has been developed and published by Capcom. I 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.120 wanna even hit that harder because I don't think it 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:41.400 really drives home just the struggle that is being a 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.560 Monster Hunter fan. So it started off on PS two 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:48.200 Monster Hunter, and then the series primarily took place on 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:52.000 PSP PlayStation portable, which was this the was which was 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.840 the kind of opponent to the DS. So for the 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.959 longest I was playing Monster Hunter, uh, you know, it's 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.280 been long. I don't know. The statue of Limitation, but 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.000 for free, because you used to be able to hack 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.560 the PSP and you would just be able to download 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:06.640 the games like emulators and put them on a flash 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.040 drive and play. So that's how I got into it. 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.200 We'll get into the mechanics of the game of how 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.000 I was playing it wrong for so long, like all 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:18.080 my PSP career, I can't even see how I was 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.800 having fun with it, because it's actually the reason it 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.840 has such a small fan base. So there are a 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.680 lot of games that are made in Japan, uh that 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:30.880 don't really make it to the mainstream American market, and 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.319 a lot of times these games are just kind of 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.880 canna have this hardness to it. I think that this 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.480 this kind of trend grew with games like Dark Souls 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:42.199 and Souls type games where it's known to be hard, 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:45.760 and that's fine, but I find that early odds like 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:49.000 the two thousand four round Monster Hunter, the games like these, 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:52.280 they never had a chance. And I don't want to 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:55.640 say it's because we never gravitated towards them. I think 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.760 it also was just kind of the publishers looking at 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.240 it as like the American art audience would never kind 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.880 of gravitate towards these games. Okay, so the series took 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:09.560 off in explosively in Japan with Monster Hunter Freedom on PSP, 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:12.640 but like you were saying, it wasn't as popular in 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:16.280 Western markets, and they equate that to the fact that 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:20.240 Western markets favored home consoles and computers during the mid 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:23.600 two thousands. Yeah, and that's that's actually also a very 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.720 important point about that. So one of the things about 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.240 you remember how I mentioned that this was a multiplayer game. 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:35.720 So the PSP versions were multiplayer, but they're only multiplayer locally. 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:39.120 And the reason and that's a that's a very good 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.920 thing you pointed out. Uh. So in Japan there was 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.319 already a culture of people meeting up and playing their 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.960 PSPs in public places, so they didn't have a trouble 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:52.679 with trouble with that. But out in America, the PSP 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:56.640 also wasn't a high selling handheld game. Uh, you know, 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:58.400 we were more into the D s out here. The 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:01.080 DS was crushing the ps B, so you already have 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:04.920 that issue there also with that the DS, uh you know, 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:07.840 and I think it was specifically the D sides when 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.520 it really started taking off. The DS introduced like the 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.640 Nintendo Network where you can play online, and we were 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:18.079 out here in America, we already were adapting to online 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.800 multiplayer games, especially in the around here. You have the 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:25.160 PlayStation Network, and then Xbox three six, you know they're 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:28.040 they kicked off Xbox Live. And then you had like 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:31.520 Halo two, one and two. So we were very into 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:36.720 online multiplayer and not necessarily that into meeting up that 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.079 that's where the problem persists. So now you have Monster 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:43.120 Hunter sitting on a console that is not widely except 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:47.240 used out here and using a multiplayer format that isn't 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.640 very popular out here, and that actually was kind of 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:52.760 a problem. So the way that a lot of people 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:56.600 got around it out here, uh, and the old head 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:58.800 Monster Hunter people will remember this is there was a 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:00.800 service I forget the aim of it, but you would 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:04.400 use this app and you would locally connect your PSP 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:08.560 to this app on your computer that would locally connected 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.720 online to other people. So you were had like so 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.520 you would have to go to a forum, find people 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:16.880 and then agree to use this app to do it 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.880 because there was no type of online multiplayer yet. It 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.840 was all local on PSP. And this was for the 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.680 run of the PSP version, like all of the ps 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:27.520 and that was the thing, so it jumped from ps 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.680 to to PSP, and then it was pretty much PSP 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.880 versions until we had to swap over to when it 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.200 started coming out for the three d S and the 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.720 d S system So then the d S systems kind 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.040 of got I think the first one still was local, 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.920 and then the one after that is when we started 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.680 getting online multiplayer, and in sometime around that time, we 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.080 also had a version come out for the Wii when 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:53.360 it came to the d S and then that's when 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.200 it started picking up a little more because you were able. 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.240 And then Moss Round Generations was the last one that 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:02.920 kind of released before World, which was a first the 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:08.720 first time since um since the first um Mon will 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:10.520 not the first one the first time since the WE 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.720 version that it was released on consoles because and there 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:15.840 was a big deal for Monster Hunter fans because we 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.680 are now leaving the handheld universe to get a full 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.760 graphic overhaul and kind of a lot of quality of 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.720 life improvements in Monster Hunter. But that's all nitty gritty 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:27.640 stuff within the game that I'm gonna say for when 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:29.720 we're breaking down that part. This is just Monster Hunter 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.560 in general. But now we're at Monster Hunter World. I 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:36.120 will mention because as a Monster Hunter old head, I 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:38.080 will have to mention some of the things we lost 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.800 in it going to the major consoles. Uh. And by 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.520 major consoles, I mean it was released on the Xbox 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.400 One and the PS four, and then the switch version 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:50.720 got Monster Hunter Generation Ultimate, not the World one, which 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:55.520 is jarring if people got into World for the first time. 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:57.840 And then you will talk to me about so the 0:15:57.840 --> 0:15:59.960 original did you ever play the original Monster Hunter? And 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.040 I never played the original monster so your first Monster 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:08.320 Hunter was So Monster Hunter came out for the PlayStation two. 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:12.040 The Monster Hunter two was released on the PlayStation two 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:16.520 as well. But then the UM, the an enhanced version 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:23.200 UM came out for the PSP called Monster Hunter Freedom Too. 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:27.480 So I came in during that time Monster Hunter Freedom 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:31.680 to see. And the way they have these these listed 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.120 is the most chunkiest way on the wiki because the way, 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.920 the the fact of the matter is the way Monster 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.880 Hunter has kind of been released. And if you listen 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:46.080 to our Street Fighter episode, I mentioned how capcom loves 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:51.000 re releasing games. Uh, this that's the story of Monster Hunter. 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.640 A lot of times Monster Hunter will instead of having 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.360 a DLC, will just be rereleased with new monsters and 0:16:56.480 --> 0:17:00.640 new weapons. So you had Monster Monster Hunter which was 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.760 on PlayStation two, and then an enhanced version was released 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.439 for PS two called Monster Hunter G and initially it 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:08.560 was only released in Japan, but was later released in 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:12.080 North America for the PSP, and that was Monster onund 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.840 of Freedom and then a WE version was later released 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.280 but only in Japan. So that's Monster Under Freedom. So 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:21.520 that was the first PSP one I I dabbled in 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:24.080 that I that was the first one I played technically, 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:28.600 but I the time I first played it on PSP, 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:32.479 there was also the Monster Hunter of Freedom too that 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.439 was available, which was Monster Hunter Too that came out 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:39.520 um on. It was the Monster Under two came out 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:44.679 on February sixte UH in Japan, and then UH it 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:50.240 only came out on the PSP in two thousand seven August. 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.240 So that's the first one I like actually played over 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:56.600 and over and over and over, and that was Monster 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:02.000 under Freedom too. Then they later dropped another UH like 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:06.199 expansion called Master Hunter Freedom Unite, which is yet another 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:10.359 re release. And then you had Monster Hunters Try which 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:14.119 came out for the Wii, and that one was that 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.199 one was the one that was talking about that came 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:19.480 out on the Wii, and then eventually they came out 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:22.400 with a PSP version and a PS three but only 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.640 in Japan called Monster Hunter Portable the third and then 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:28.680 the Enhanced version, and this is when we made the 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.680 big jump to the three D S. Monster Hunters three 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:33.840 Ultimate is what came out for the three D S. 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:37.600 But like I said, it wasn't um. This was still 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:42.320 like poor local. I've never heard someone monster Hunters so 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:46.199 many times. The funny thing is like, looking back, I 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:48.000 was like, oh yeah, I was just kind of playing 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:51.040 the same game for and over again with just the 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:53.239 bunch of But yeah, so that's pretty much. So my 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:58.440 first one was Monster Hunter Freedom and if I love you, 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.119 I cannot wait to hear out the characters and what 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:03.640 these monsters look like. We're going to take a really 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:06.960 quick break and then you are going to you are 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.919 going to paint a picture of the Monster Hunter world 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:12.600 for people that have never played it, like me. We'll 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:23.720 be right back and we're back. So little Iffy, how 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:26.560 old were you? Oh? This was oh man, if we 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:29.239 so we got to go into major storytime. So I 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:33.639 was I was an adult technically I was eighteen but 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:36.600 the way I the way I got into this was 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:38.760 I wanted to hack my PSP and I was this 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:40.959 was when I was still going to community college, as 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:42.680 when I was like, yeah, I just found some dude 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:45.840 on Craigslist. So I looked. So I looked up on 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.959 Craig's list somebody who was hacking PSPs. And then I 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:52.639 went and it was this like like this like Latino 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:55.439 cat my age and we were like in his garage 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:56.960 and he was like, man, you're so cool. I'm gonna 0:19:56.960 --> 0:19:58.879 show you how to do it. He was like, He's like, 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:00.640 and then you can do it from money if you want. 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:02.240 And I was like, no, I'm not gonna like meet 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:04.480 up with strangers, but I'll do it for my friends, 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:06.840 you know. So he like told me how to do it, 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:11.400 and so so I was probably like um young eighteen 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:15.040 college's and so I was playing primarily by myself because 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:16.919 I tried to do that Internet thing. I tried to 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:19.480 explain to you, it was just too hard because I 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:22.159 think I needed one more like peripheral, because I needed 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:27.640 a like wireless dongle that would uh basically wirelessly connected 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:29.840 to my PSP, and that just was too You have 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:31.879 to use eBay to find it. I just it was 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:34.360 too much effort, so I let it go. And then 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:37.679 when it came to the Three DS, my good friend 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:41.639 and cousin Brian had a play group and we they 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:43.960 all met together and played. So I started meeting up 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:46.719 with them and we would go to the house and 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:49.320 this was actually the group we we got real into. 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:52.280 Um we were real in the Hero Escape and we 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:55.600 we had these huge Hero Escape battles that spiraled into 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:57.480 kind of we'll have to do an episode on that, 0:20:57.600 --> 0:21:00.000 but it spiraled into where we started creating our own 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:03.360 pieces and figures, and literally it became a mad dash 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:07.560 where it's like, if we can find a figure, a 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:10.520 toy that was the size of a Hero Escape figure, 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:12.880 would make a card for it. So we as soon 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:18.160 we had Spider Man, Goku, you know, any g I, Joe's, 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:20.760 anything we can find, and we just blew this game 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:23.600 off the roof, which is funny because the way it 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:25.919 goes all the way, it's kind of come full circle 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:29.000 as I now have the Magic the Gathering tabletop Battle 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:32.560 of the Planes Walkers tabletop game, which is what Hero 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:36.440 Escape it turned into. So Hero Escape kind of uh 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:40.080 got bought by Hasbro and then they kind of took 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:43.199 that property and made the Magic of the Gathering tabletop game. 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:46.520 When I found that out, it was like a mind freak. Okay, 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:50.080 so you you are playing this game, what a track like? 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:52.840 Why did is it? Why did it become like a 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:54.800 game that you were hooked on about? It made be 0:21:54.880 --> 0:21:57.399 hooked on it. It's the perfect weed game. So the 0:21:57.480 --> 0:22:00.879 way the game primarily works is you don't you're you 0:22:00.960 --> 0:22:04.040 customize the hero character. It is a nameless character that 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:09.040 you can change. Uh. They can turn into every skin 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:12.320 color and you can be a male or female, and 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:16.120 you can get many different hairstyles. You can get Goku hair, 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:21.119 high Samurai hair, and an afro. And the story generally 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:23.840 are all the same. You are this like lowly hunter 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:27.679 and in this world, uh, everyone wants to be the 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:30.760 greatest hunter. It's a it's a typical anime shown in 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:33.639 Start and you have to work your way up in 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:37.720 using the hunter boards and so you you have a 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:40.919 list of hunts that the village needs for various reasons, 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:45.479 and as you get do better hunts, you can have 0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:48.000 a chance to upgrade as a hunter and raise your 0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:51.360 hunter rank until you're strong enough to fight like an 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:56.280 elder dragon. Uh. And instead of having like stats and 0:22:56.520 --> 0:22:59.200 classes and all that, there are stats will get into 0:22:59.280 --> 0:23:02.560 that in the tricking us with it. But really, if 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:04.919 you choose your weapon and you can play however you 0:23:04.960 --> 0:23:09.439 want so uh, you know you can use like in 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:11.639 the most most of them. You can use like a 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:15.480 long sword, which is a wildly long sword like looks 0:23:15.480 --> 0:23:18.280 like Sefros blade. You can use a great sword, which 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:22.520 looks like a buster sword from Cloud. Uh. You have bows, 0:23:22.920 --> 0:23:24.800 you have a gun bow, you have a lance, you 0:23:24.800 --> 0:23:26.920 have a gun lance, and these are all weapons you 0:23:27.000 --> 0:23:30.119 can use. There are no restrictions. No one weapon is 0:23:30.160 --> 0:23:33.840 better than the other. It's really just based on play style, 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:37.439 like however you want to play, and the way you 0:23:37.480 --> 0:23:41.560 acquire new weapons is you hunt monsters. You farm the monsters, 0:23:41.560 --> 0:23:44.680 so you hunt them multiple times and use their parts 0:23:44.760 --> 0:23:48.480 to the monster parts to make armor and weapons. So 0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:52.359 it's that's pretty much the game is the cycle of 0:23:52.440 --> 0:23:56.159 hunting monsters, and it's a very similar style to a 0:23:56.200 --> 0:23:58.359 lot of your Dark Soul Souls type game in the 0:23:58.440 --> 0:24:01.800 sense that, like some you will be able to, like 0:24:01.840 --> 0:24:03.840 once your armor is strong, you'll be able to like 0:24:03.960 --> 0:24:06.400 bust through them easy, but lots of times you're kind 0:24:06.400 --> 0:24:08.840 of following the patterns of the monsters, Like they have 0:24:08.880 --> 0:24:13.160 different attack patterns, they have different moves. If they get enraged, 0:24:13.160 --> 0:24:16.320 they'll you know, they'll change up their attack patterns, and 0:24:16.359 --> 0:24:20.120 it's kind of learning that and finessing that and they 0:24:20.160 --> 0:24:23.320 there's always a randomness to it. It's it's kind of 0:24:23.359 --> 0:24:25.560 has that rogue like element in the sense that the 0:24:25.680 --> 0:24:28.560 monsters are all different sizes. They tend to be around 0:24:28.600 --> 0:24:32.280 the same health point, but there's different things that can happen. 0:24:32.320 --> 0:24:35.760 Sometimes you're on a map um and there's multiple monsters, 0:24:36.080 --> 0:24:38.280 so you can be trying to hunt one monsters, but 0:24:38.400 --> 0:24:42.600 it gets uh, you get another monster who joins in 0:24:42.640 --> 0:24:45.159 on the fight, and now you're fighting two monsters. So 0:24:45.240 --> 0:24:47.760 that's why even though you're fighting the same monster over 0:24:47.800 --> 0:24:50.879 and over again, it doesn't get boring. It's it's fun 0:24:50.920 --> 0:24:54.280 because you're like, okay, uh, you never know what's going 0:24:54.320 --> 0:24:59.360 to happen. Who is Polico? Okay, So the policos are 0:24:59.760 --> 0:25:04.399 the little tiny cats that that help you on your hunt. 0:25:05.160 --> 0:25:08.119 Very cute. Yeah, they're they're the cutest ones and like 0:25:08.280 --> 0:25:13.760 as the game progressed in the series, Yeah, you they 0:25:13.800 --> 0:25:17.680 stand like people. They talk to you, they call you mouster. 0:25:18.440 --> 0:25:22.760 Uh yeah, and they and as the game progress, you 0:25:22.800 --> 0:25:25.200 can make armor for them and so like you can. 0:25:25.280 --> 0:25:29.960 I'm a Meosis, Yeah, meaosis and mister okay, I always 0:25:29.960 --> 0:25:32.080 play a male character. They say anything, I mean, do 0:25:32.119 --> 0:25:36.320 they talk like? Yeah? Words other than that. Okay, it's 0:25:36.320 --> 0:25:39.760 not like a group situation. Yeah, yeah, no, they they 0:25:39.760 --> 0:25:42.720 it's not they were they saying that they're trying to 0:25:42.760 --> 0:25:46.400 help you. Uh. You know some games you hire them 0:25:46.480 --> 0:25:49.280 and you would train them separately. Uh. One of the 0:25:49.320 --> 0:25:52.920 cool things that you know the newer Monster Hunter world 0:25:52.920 --> 0:25:55.240 has implemented is they level up with you as you 0:25:55.320 --> 0:25:58.960 hunt instead of like having to do separate training regimens. 0:25:59.480 --> 0:26:03.520 And uh. Typically the flow of most Monster Hunter games 0:26:03.640 --> 0:26:06.879 is you get a quest. Then there's a setup portion 0:26:07.000 --> 0:26:09.400 so you can go and you can get different items 0:26:09.400 --> 0:26:11.479 you may need for the quest. If it's in a 0:26:11.600 --> 0:26:14.879 particularly cold area, you'll need a hot drink. If it's 0:26:14.880 --> 0:26:16.600 in a hot area, and you'll need a cold drink 0:26:16.640 --> 0:26:18.760 to keep your character from being too cold or hot. 0:26:19.160 --> 0:26:22.080 You'll if you want to capture instead of killing the monster, 0:26:22.160 --> 0:26:25.600 you'll need to get trapped and trapped parts. If you 0:26:25.640 --> 0:26:28.040 are using a bow, then you'll need like, you know, 0:26:28.119 --> 0:26:30.639 your arrows. If you're using like a gun lance, you 0:26:30.680 --> 0:26:34.760 have different weapons you load for that. And you also 0:26:34.920 --> 0:26:38.280 can choose your meal and the meals uh they have 0:26:38.440 --> 0:26:40.879 some pre made ones or you can like choose every 0:26:40.880 --> 0:26:43.280 part of the meal. But the meal will give you 0:26:43.359 --> 0:26:46.080 some type of stat boost, whether it be like extra 0:26:46.119 --> 0:26:49.720 health or extra stamina or both and damage up in 0:26:49.960 --> 0:26:52.440 different things like that. And it does a really cute 0:26:52.440 --> 0:26:56.080 eating animation, and then you start your quest and now 0:26:56.280 --> 0:26:58.639 it's pretty it's pretty simple, and the fact that you 0:26:58.800 --> 0:27:01.400 just eat and you do well. Back in the day, 0:27:01.480 --> 0:27:04.520 there were some combinations that would make you sick and 0:27:04.720 --> 0:27:08.399 debuff you like if you made a bad food combination, 0:27:08.520 --> 0:27:10.879 you would set off in a quest and just have 0:27:11.040 --> 0:27:14.840 worse stats because you didn't do a good combo. Uh. 0:27:14.920 --> 0:27:17.960 And and then you set off to your quest. And 0:27:18.000 --> 0:27:21.239 the quest uh in monster own are usually sets you 0:27:21.280 --> 0:27:26.560 in different types of maps. So typically uh, there's a 0:27:26.680 --> 0:27:31.200 frost a snowy map, a desert map, a jungle map. 0:27:31.520 --> 0:27:35.520 It's just like yeah, and just like a regular kind 0:27:35.520 --> 0:27:39.120 of planes map and every and that's kind of part 0:27:39.119 --> 0:27:41.240 of the challenges the monster and you never know what 0:27:41.359 --> 0:27:43.800 part of the maps, so the maps are usually sectored 0:27:43.840 --> 0:27:48.040 off into different sections. There's usually anywhere from ten to 0:27:48.119 --> 0:27:50.760 twelve sections of a map. Do you always have a 0:27:50.800 --> 0:27:56.119 polico assigned to you in the later games? Yeah, in 0:27:56.160 --> 0:27:58.560 the later games you do, I believe in the world 0:27:58.600 --> 0:28:03.960 if I remember correctly, you can have to too, yes, uh, 0:28:04.119 --> 0:28:06.520 or that might be generations. I'm mixing it up with 0:28:07.080 --> 0:28:09.600 you can when it's you and another person. When there's 0:28:09.640 --> 0:28:12.040 just two of you, you still get to have your polico. 0:28:12.119 --> 0:28:13.960 If you do any more than two, then you can't 0:28:14.000 --> 0:28:17.120 have your policos with you. Then it's only uh, it's 0:28:17.119 --> 0:28:20.360 only player characters. But the policos can you can set 0:28:20.440 --> 0:28:23.960 up how they operate. They can either be attackers, you 0:28:24.000 --> 0:28:27.639 can have them do healing things to you. I typically 0:28:27.640 --> 0:28:30.159 do that way because I use great sword, and with 0:28:30.280 --> 0:28:32.479 great sword it's a very it does a lot of damage, 0:28:32.480 --> 0:28:35.199 but it's very slow, so you're leaving yourself open a 0:28:35.200 --> 0:28:37.679 lot of times because if you miss, you're doing a slow, 0:28:37.800 --> 0:28:41.120 long attack, and so I get hit a lot. So 0:28:41.360 --> 0:28:44.880 I'm looking at apparently you can have MegaMan. Oh yeah, 0:28:45.080 --> 0:28:47.240 so that was one of the big cool things about 0:28:47.280 --> 0:28:50.800 Monster Hunter is They did a lot of cross crossover events, 0:28:51.120 --> 0:28:54.480 so they they just did one with Final Fantasy where 0:28:54.520 --> 0:28:57.920 you can fight a behemoth from Final Fantasy and then 0:28:58.480 --> 0:29:02.040 you can get a big ragon called Rathelos in Final 0:29:02.120 --> 0:29:06.440 Fantasy fourteen. Um and they always had this, It was 0:29:06.480 --> 0:29:11.160 so funny. They always have this big um U s 0:29:11.240 --> 0:29:15.239 a j uh collab that they always did and I 0:29:15.280 --> 0:29:17.200 was like, what is this and it always was super 0:29:17.240 --> 0:29:19.440 cool blue and they always had world details and it 0:29:19.480 --> 0:29:21.440 was U s a j U s a j And 0:29:21.480 --> 0:29:23.240 one day I finally looked it up and it was 0:29:23.360 --> 0:29:27.280 for Universal Studios of Japan. Like they would always do 0:29:27.440 --> 0:29:29.760 a collab with them so that you can get like 0:29:29.840 --> 0:29:33.920 this Universal Studios of Japan Monster Hunter gear. But they've 0:29:33.960 --> 0:29:37.160 done you know, Mega Man. I'm going to imagine, so 0:29:37.280 --> 0:29:41.240 it's essentially literally MegaMan, you know, in like block form 0:29:41.360 --> 0:29:43.840 that is like fighting like it looks like that style 0:29:44.320 --> 0:29:48.240 next to Monster Hunter, like three D style. I'm just 0:29:48.280 --> 0:29:51.160 gonna imagine that under his suit is a little cat. 0:29:51.360 --> 0:29:54.760 Oh yeah, that's exactly what's under Yeah, it's the armor 0:29:54.840 --> 0:29:56.560 that you put on the cat. So there's a time 0:29:56.760 --> 0:29:59.840 cat uh. You can. They did a crossover with fairy 0:30:00.040 --> 0:30:02.400 Tail so you're able to make it look like a fairytale. 0:30:02.560 --> 0:30:04.560 I want to show you somebody on Reddit did a 0:30:04.600 --> 0:30:08.760 tutorial they made their Polico into beers from driving that one. 0:30:08.840 --> 0:30:14.280 Oh yeah, coloring, and there's tons of tutorials too. So 0:30:14.920 --> 0:30:17.120 here's the thing that they changed in the world, which 0:30:17.160 --> 0:30:20.360 I'm glad they did. So remember how I said Japanese 0:30:20.400 --> 0:30:22.800 games can be like so hard. This is something they 0:30:22.920 --> 0:30:25.680 never explained in the game and something that you literally 0:30:25.760 --> 0:30:30.600 found out through going to wikis. But the way stats 0:30:30.640 --> 0:30:33.920 worked in the earlier Monster Hunter games is you would 0:30:33.920 --> 0:30:36.520 have to get so you you would get armor, and 0:30:36.520 --> 0:30:39.880 they'd have a stat so it might say damage plus two, 0:30:40.640 --> 0:30:45.840 damage plus three, or defense plus two, defense plus three, 0:30:45.880 --> 0:30:50.400 et cetera. Right now, a normal video game player would think, oh, 0:30:50.440 --> 0:30:54.280 if I put this on, then I'll get damage plus 0:30:54.320 --> 0:30:58.640 two and damage plus three. Not in Monster Hunter and 0:30:58.760 --> 0:31:01.600 Monster Hunter the earlier games you had to get. So 0:31:01.640 --> 0:31:04.600 the way it worked was you had a stat boost 0:31:04.680 --> 0:31:08.480 of small, medium, are large. And the way you get 0:31:08.480 --> 0:31:10.880 those stat boosts is whether you can get the statu 0:31:11.240 --> 0:31:16.000 I think it was ten, fifteen or twenty, and so 0:31:16.080 --> 0:31:20.080 that means that if you put a strength plus two 0:31:20.920 --> 0:31:23.160 then you didn't have strength plus two. That means you 0:31:23.200 --> 0:31:25.239 have to find strength plus three. And when you have 0:31:25.320 --> 0:31:28.680 a strength uh, and then you get two more pieces 0:31:29.200 --> 0:31:31.520 or no, I think it was five ten fifty strength 0:31:31.520 --> 0:31:35.160 plus three, then you have a strength attack up small. 0:31:36.040 --> 0:31:38.920 So that so that's why I said I wasn't really 0:31:38.960 --> 0:31:41.960 playing it until later when my play group explained that 0:31:42.000 --> 0:31:45.240 to me. So that also kind of made it difficult 0:31:45.280 --> 0:31:47.240 for players because then it made it kind of hard 0:31:47.240 --> 0:31:50.080 to mix and match your armor because you know, you know, nerds, 0:31:50.120 --> 0:31:53.600 we like to stylize our characters. You couldn't really mix 0:31:53.640 --> 0:31:56.880 and match your armor because you needed like certain a 0:31:56.960 --> 0:31:59.480 certain amount of the armor to work well. Now in 0:31:59.600 --> 0:32:01.800 monster a world, what you see is what you get. 0:32:01.920 --> 0:32:04.840 If it's like plus two attack, then you get plus 0:32:04.840 --> 0:32:07.520 two attack. And so now people are getting really creative 0:32:07.560 --> 0:32:10.120 with their looks and all the different things you can 0:32:10.160 --> 0:32:13.400 do with it. We have to take another really quick break. 0:32:13.600 --> 0:32:16.240 We're going to hop back into Monster Hunter right after this. 0:32:25.080 --> 0:32:26.760 So if he wanted to say, did you ever play 0:32:26.840 --> 0:32:29.960 Monster Hunter Stories? No, I skipped it because it was 0:32:30.040 --> 0:32:35.600 just a little too cartoony and not in shade, because, um, 0:32:35.640 --> 0:32:39.640 it looks a lot like Pokemon. Um, it looks really 0:32:39.680 --> 0:32:43.520 cute though it's straight up. Yeah, it actually kind of 0:32:43.520 --> 0:32:46.000 looks like Digimon to be honest. Yeah, no it was. 0:32:46.040 --> 0:32:48.480 It was kind of you know, hit or miss for 0:32:48.520 --> 0:32:51.600 different people in the Monster Hunter community. Uh, it's just 0:32:52.560 --> 0:32:54.880 for me. I was like, it's just not monster like 0:32:54.920 --> 0:32:57.800 I fall. I go to Monster Hunter to hunt monsters, 0:32:57.840 --> 0:33:00.720 not really do this like whole lower base thing. But 0:33:02.080 --> 0:33:04.560 a few people like it, I wanted to say. Also, 0:33:04.720 --> 0:33:08.000 there was a Monster Hunter the Reel, which was a 0:33:08.120 --> 0:33:11.440 ride that opened in Universal Studios Japan for about half 0:33:11.440 --> 0:33:14.200 a year in you could have gone on it. Yeah, 0:33:14.240 --> 0:33:16.080 I know. I wasn't able to make it out there. 0:33:16.120 --> 0:33:18.400 It was a big deal, like all that was a 0:33:18.400 --> 0:33:20.480 big thing. And now there's gonna be a Monster Round 0:33:20.600 --> 0:33:23.360 movie coming out, which at first everyone was like, I 0:33:23.360 --> 0:33:26.400 don't know, but then like leaked footage of the trailer 0:33:26.440 --> 0:33:28.520 came out. Now everyone's kind of on board with it, 0:33:28.560 --> 0:33:32.160 so we'll see what it's supposed to drop in. Feel 0:33:32.160 --> 0:33:35.160 like we would have seen more of it if it 0:33:35.880 --> 0:33:39.280 was But um, did you check any of the leaked footage? Like, 0:33:39.320 --> 0:33:41.320 did you look at any of it? No? I really 0:33:41.360 --> 0:33:44.959 don't like looking at like trailers. I like to just 0:33:45.000 --> 0:33:47.480 go in blind. So I'm pretty much of what what 0:33:47.840 --> 0:33:51.719 you are? You don't watch any trailers, you know? Uh? 0:33:52.120 --> 0:33:54.840 Really funny Mark was that way about my friend Mark 0:33:54.880 --> 0:33:57.000 Ellis was that way about anything Star Wars because he's like, 0:33:57.000 --> 0:33:58.800 I'm already going to see it. I don't need to 0:33:58.880 --> 0:34:02.160 watch I was in percent already seeing it. Don't need 0:34:02.240 --> 0:34:04.640 anything to be spoiled. I feel like trailers are cut 0:34:04.680 --> 0:34:07.160 really badly now. They give too much away. They do, 0:34:07.480 --> 0:34:11.560 so that's why. So my my theory about that is 0:34:11.600 --> 0:34:13.239 because they're trying to get the people that are not 0:34:13.360 --> 0:34:16.360 in that fandom. Us that are in the fandom, we're like, oh, 0:34:16.400 --> 0:34:18.239 we're already going to see it, We're already down. But 0:34:18.360 --> 0:34:21.359 they need to kind of get the other part of 0:34:21.400 --> 0:34:25.279 the audience here in America to be on board with it, 0:34:25.719 --> 0:34:27.759 you know, like the people that don't actually follow this 0:34:27.880 --> 0:34:30.759 in the news all the time. So sometimes they'll drop 0:34:30.800 --> 0:34:32.719 some of the whoa cool, Oh she's in it, and 0:34:32.719 --> 0:34:34.440 it's like, why did you give that away? Why did 0:34:34.440 --> 0:34:36.640 you show us that the villain or this part? You know, 0:34:36.640 --> 0:34:39.799 why did you? But it's for them to also be 0:34:39.840 --> 0:34:42.680 in it. Yeah, you're right, it looks like Mila Djovivic 0:34:43.120 --> 0:34:46.480 is going to be Oh, It's a September has a 0:34:46.560 --> 0:34:53.360 drop date of September four, directed by Paul ws Anderson. Uh, 0:34:53.440 --> 0:34:56.040 and it looks like the synopsis says, behind our world, 0:34:56.200 --> 0:34:59.480 there's another, a world of dangerous and powerful monsters that 0:34:59.600 --> 0:35:01.960 rule their domain with dead Lee for well, you know what, 0:35:02.239 --> 0:35:06.040 I love her for doing this, and Resident Evil and 0:35:06.080 --> 0:35:10.280 any other video game franchises that she has capitalized on. Uh. 0:35:10.360 --> 0:35:13.879 When Lieutenant Artemis and her loyal soldiers are transported from 0:35:13.920 --> 0:35:17.600 our world to the New World, the unflappable Lieutenant receives 0:35:17.640 --> 0:35:19.920 a shock of her life in her desperate battle for 0:35:19.960 --> 0:35:25.200 survival against enormous enemies with incredible powers and unstoppable terrifying 0:35:25.239 --> 0:35:27.960 attack I love whoever did this just had a thesaurus. 0:35:28.680 --> 0:35:31.719 Artemists will team up with a mysterious man, Tony Jaw, 0:35:32.040 --> 0:35:35.680 who has found a way to fight back. Yeah. I 0:35:35.680 --> 0:35:37.960 think that's the thing people really don't like is the 0:35:38.000 --> 0:35:41.000 combining world's premise, where it's like, no, you just have 0:35:41.719 --> 0:35:44.440 the like world has a pretty good story. World has 0:35:44.480 --> 0:35:48.120 the more the most cohesive story out of all the 0:35:48.160 --> 0:35:51.040 monster hunters. And that's saying a lot because World really 0:35:51.080 --> 0:35:54.239 doesn't have much of a story. It's generally the same thing. 0:35:54.280 --> 0:35:57.560 You're a young plucky hunter coming to a new town, 0:35:58.000 --> 0:36:00.440 but now it's being attacked by an elder a dragon 0:36:00.480 --> 0:36:02.800 and they don't know why, you know, and I feel 0:36:02.800 --> 0:36:04.920 like you could just do that. Are you excited at 0:36:04.920 --> 0:36:08.040 all that more people will be exposed to this franchise? Yeah, 0:36:08.080 --> 0:36:10.319 but World actually did such a good job with that. 0:36:10.360 --> 0:36:14.399 World is actually one of Capcom's highest selling games. They 0:36:14.480 --> 0:36:17.960 sold over I think it was fifty million units in total. 0:36:18.640 --> 0:36:21.600 More than seventy percent of world sales were outside of Japan, 0:36:21.640 --> 0:36:24.120 which was a major milestone for Capcom. It looks like 0:36:24.160 --> 0:36:27.120 we will also have Ron Perlman. Yeah, T I T 0:36:27.320 --> 0:36:31.920 I is dropping in Megan Good who was just in shazamne. 0:36:32.400 --> 0:36:37.200 Here's my thing. It's it's never a good sign when 0:36:37.280 --> 0:36:42.240 people stuff like too many slebs in a like video 0:36:42.280 --> 0:36:44.880 game film, because like when you really think of like 0:36:44.960 --> 0:36:47.879 all major kind of I guess you want to say, 0:36:47.960 --> 0:36:52.640 like fantasy or sci fi franchise, how like you really 0:36:52.800 --> 0:36:56.279 don't have that many like name names, like you'll have 0:36:56.320 --> 0:36:59.640 a few, but you typically try and save the budget 0:36:59.680 --> 0:37:02.319 for v effects. You know, if you're dropping all that 0:37:02.360 --> 0:37:04.719 money with t I ron PERLM and all that. It 0:37:04.800 --> 0:37:06.960 makes me afraid how much money you're gonna have left 0:37:06.960 --> 0:37:10.360 to make the giant dragons that take place in this game, 0:37:11.200 --> 0:37:14.120 which you know, I guess we can run down a 0:37:14.120 --> 0:37:19.360 lot of the monsters. Uh So, typically every monster in 0:37:19.440 --> 0:37:22.640 a game starts off with your level one being like 0:37:22.840 --> 0:37:28.759 tiny raptor esque monsters and ending in gigantic, larger than 0:37:28.800 --> 0:37:32.080 life monsters. One of the bigger kind of well known 0:37:32.160 --> 0:37:35.600 monsters in the game has been the Rathian and the Raphaelos, 0:37:36.520 --> 0:37:41.400 which are two wyverns that are the worst to fight. 0:37:41.719 --> 0:37:44.080 Uh they were the worst to fight until we learned 0:37:44.080 --> 0:37:47.560 about basil geese, which we'll talk a little bit more later. 0:37:48.560 --> 0:37:51.840 But like so, the Rathian and Raphalos are the two dragons, 0:37:52.160 --> 0:37:55.960 and they have poison tail. So you'll be fighting them 0:37:56.400 --> 0:37:59.520 and they'll shoot fire and you'll dodge all that, and 0:37:59.560 --> 0:38:01.560 then in the in they will poke you with their 0:38:01.600 --> 0:38:03.759 poison tail, and now you have to run away from 0:38:03.800 --> 0:38:06.040 the fight and let your pelico get all beat up 0:38:06.080 --> 0:38:08.560 while you try and heal from poison. Because the poison 0:38:08.680 --> 0:38:12.800 is pretty brutal in Monster Hunter, mostly because it takes 0:38:12.840 --> 0:38:15.080 away your health a lot. But those are kind of 0:38:15.080 --> 0:38:18.239 like the the big wyverns you have. I enjoy this 0:38:18.880 --> 0:38:21.840 praying mantis looking thing. What was what's the name of 0:38:21.840 --> 0:38:26.759 that one? It looks like a taruk maybe Egyptian mantis. 0:38:26.840 --> 0:38:30.080 Monster Hunter xx oh this was Japan only. Oh no, 0:38:30.200 --> 0:38:32.840 but that that Monster Hunter x X. That that's the 0:38:32.840 --> 0:38:37.200 one that came out as Monster Hunters generations alter um 0:38:37.280 --> 0:38:39.880 because I but I do own Monster Hunter xx because 0:38:39.920 --> 0:38:42.520 that's how much I love Monster Hunter. And this nibble 0:38:42.640 --> 0:38:49.719 snarf these words is great. Zeno gray is great. It's 0:38:49.760 --> 0:38:53.400 like a little electric fox. That's pretty cool. The nibble 0:38:53.480 --> 0:38:56.960 snarf is a sand swimmer. It looks like a giant 0:38:57.640 --> 0:38:59.440 what I'm looking at looks kind of like a worm 0:38:59.680 --> 0:39:03.239 ish thing. And then a zam trios. A zam trios 0:39:03.239 --> 0:39:06.080 straight up looks like street sharks. And oh yeah, that's 0:39:06.160 --> 0:39:09.480 that's the puffy one. Um yeah, oh yeah, nibble snarf 0:39:09.520 --> 0:39:13.520 is great. The great sword for that using its parts 0:39:13.600 --> 0:39:17.120 is really cool. Nibble snarf is nasty though, because nibble 0:39:17.120 --> 0:39:20.480 snarf goes under the sand and it's also a desert level, 0:39:20.560 --> 0:39:23.440 so you have to drink uh so much water to 0:39:23.560 --> 0:39:28.359 stay cool. Um. But but like the nibble snarf will 0:39:28.400 --> 0:39:30.799 just pop up from underground and just try and swallow you. 0:39:31.040 --> 0:39:36.880 So it looks like monstros Fromocio. Try and find zam Trios. 0:39:37.120 --> 0:39:39.799 Remember when we did our Street Street Sharks episode and 0:39:39.840 --> 0:39:41.440 I was like playing around on d V and art 0:39:41.520 --> 0:39:43.239 and saw things that I shouldn't have seen. But it 0:39:43.280 --> 0:39:46.160 was essentially street sharks in human form, like in what 0:39:46.200 --> 0:39:48.480 they would look like in a in a live action 0:39:48.920 --> 0:39:51.879 and it was like buff and erotic. Um, that's what 0:39:51.960 --> 0:39:56.640 zam Trios looks like in some of these iterations of him. 0:39:57.120 --> 0:39:59.879 Las see this is zam Trios gets real puffy like that. 0:40:00.160 --> 0:40:03.600 Oh yeah, looks like a street shark that's been stung 0:40:03.640 --> 0:40:07.440 by bees. This is the one that I saw, Iffy, 0:40:07.560 --> 0:40:10.719 I mean, doesn't that look like art? Yeah, zam zam 0:40:10.800 --> 0:40:14.319 Trios is rough. That puffy thing he does when he 0:40:14.520 --> 0:40:16.799 like sucks up all the air is like he kind 0:40:16.840 --> 0:40:19.040 of it's harder to hit him, and he can like 0:40:19.360 --> 0:40:22.920 roll uh, he can roll over and it's not a 0:40:22.960 --> 0:40:25.880 bad it's not a good time. Um. And you know, 0:40:25.960 --> 0:40:28.000 so these are like kind of like your bigger monsters 0:40:28.040 --> 0:40:32.200 that you're hunting. There's a lot of life in Monster Hunter. Uh, 0:40:32.239 --> 0:40:33.840 if you go to a map, it's not just going 0:40:33.880 --> 0:40:36.040 to be that one monster. There's you know a lot 0:40:36.040 --> 0:40:39.240 of herbivores that you can kind of bully, uh, usually 0:40:39.280 --> 0:40:41.520 for their meat so you can like raise your stamina. 0:40:41.880 --> 0:40:43.920 But then you also have these weird bugs that are 0:40:43.960 --> 0:40:48.160 there from time to time, like vest Boyd's. They're the 0:40:48.200 --> 0:40:51.759 worst because the way they work is they like slowly 0:40:51.840 --> 0:40:53.799 inched towards you, and you think, oh, there's no way 0:40:53.840 --> 0:40:55.920 this thing is gonna get me. But if you're fighting 0:40:55.960 --> 0:40:59.640 like a giant monster and you're not paying attention, it 0:40:59.640 --> 0:41:02.000 can thing you and then it will paralyze you, and 0:41:02.040 --> 0:41:04.680 then you're just stuck on the ground for about five seconds. 0:41:04.840 --> 0:41:08.040 And that's when Zantrios just, you know, just lays all 0:41:08.120 --> 0:41:12.280 on you. I really like is Barroth. It's a giant 0:41:13.480 --> 0:41:16.080 almost looks like a t Rex with a hammer head. 0:41:16.800 --> 0:41:20.960 And that one he's real tricky because that the hammer 0:41:21.000 --> 0:41:25.680 point of his um his head is extremely hard. So 0:41:25.719 --> 0:41:28.040 if you try and hit him with a blade, if 0:41:28.040 --> 0:41:30.839 you're if it's not sharp enough, it'll bounce off. Now, 0:41:30.880 --> 0:41:33.319 if you're someone like me who's a great sword user, 0:41:33.360 --> 0:41:36.640 you're charging up for like six seconds to like bring 0:41:36.640 --> 0:41:38.359 the blade down and do a big hit if they 0:41:38.480 --> 0:41:41.719 like shift and then put their head there. You just 0:41:41.800 --> 0:41:44.120 wasted all that time and it's a it's a bad time. 0:41:44.160 --> 0:41:46.600 It's gonna you're gonna hear a lot of me complaining 0:41:46.680 --> 0:41:52.879 about charging up. Um. I love these names. It kind 0:41:52.880 --> 0:41:55.839 of just like there's one called tigx. Oh. Yeah, tig 0:41:55.840 --> 0:41:59.080 Rex was the that dude back in the UH and 0:41:59.400 --> 0:42:01.719 that was like your first like why vern that you 0:42:01.760 --> 0:42:06.360 went against in the earlier monster hunters and tires would 0:42:06.360 --> 0:42:10.000 move super fast around the map, which made which kind 0:42:10.000 --> 0:42:13.479 of taught you to learn to understand the timing because 0:42:13.480 --> 0:42:15.600 you're not gonna be able to chase it around, so 0:42:15.640 --> 0:42:18.440 your move is either going to be knowing where it's 0:42:18.440 --> 0:42:21.239 gonna land and hitting it or baiting it to try 0:42:21.320 --> 0:42:25.800 to attack, you defend against it and punishing punishing it it. UH. 0:42:25.840 --> 0:42:28.000 But this is also where the fun of having teammates 0:42:28.000 --> 0:42:30.040 can help, because if you have someone with the bow 0:42:30.080 --> 0:42:32.400 that can keep harassing it till like it tries to 0:42:32.440 --> 0:42:34.640 go after the teammate and you defend it with a blade. 0:42:34.920 --> 0:42:36.960 There's all. Like I said, there's no one way to 0:42:37.040 --> 0:42:39.600 play monster Hunter. Like even when you go to just 0:42:39.640 --> 0:42:42.440 straight up hunt quests. You can kill the monster or 0:42:42.680 --> 0:42:45.799 you can, uh, you can capture it, and there's so 0:42:45.880 --> 0:42:48.280 you can use a trap. There's like three different traps. 0:42:48.280 --> 0:42:50.440 You can use the pitfall trap and the electric trap, 0:42:51.040 --> 0:42:53.360 um and I think there's one more trap I'm missing. 0:42:53.880 --> 0:42:57.120 And when they're trapped, then you can throw a tranquilizer 0:42:57.160 --> 0:42:59.399 at it and if the monster is weak enough then 0:42:59.400 --> 0:43:02.319 it falls us leap. Yeah, which means I also didn't 0:43:02.360 --> 0:43:06.319 go into the stages of the fight. So when you're 0:43:06.360 --> 0:43:07.960 on a hunt, you usually have to hunt a monster, 0:43:08.520 --> 0:43:11.480 and there are stages to the fight because after you, 0:43:11.480 --> 0:43:13.799 you know, do enough damage to each monster, it's gonna 0:43:13.920 --> 0:43:16.200 leave the area that it's in, you know how I said. 0:43:16.239 --> 0:43:18.480 It's the map is broken up in the quadrants. It'll 0:43:18.560 --> 0:43:21.800 leave an area and uh, sometimes it will need to feed. 0:43:22.040 --> 0:43:24.720 It will leave an area to feed and say it feeds, 0:43:24.920 --> 0:43:27.600 and then you chase it down some more. You chase 0:43:27.640 --> 0:43:29.520 it down some more until it gets really tired and 0:43:29.520 --> 0:43:31.279 then I don't want to take a nap. And then 0:43:31.320 --> 0:43:33.920 when it takes a nap, that's usually the last phase 0:43:33.960 --> 0:43:37.040 before you can kill it or capture it. And that's 0:43:37.040 --> 0:43:40.480 pretty much it it's like rents repeat those things. Now. 0:43:40.640 --> 0:43:43.800 The tricky things once again to look back to the 0:43:43.880 --> 0:43:48.200 hardness of the games is there's actually a like clear 0:43:48.280 --> 0:43:51.120 path that you need to take for these games. Like 0:43:52.360 --> 0:43:55.279 most people, if you didn't know this, you just did 0:43:55.360 --> 0:43:58.800 all the hunts and then eventually you get an urgent quest. 0:43:59.040 --> 0:44:01.920 But there actually are specific hunts you you do for 0:44:02.080 --> 0:44:04.560 urgent quests, so if you know those hunts, you can 0:44:04.600 --> 0:44:08.239 kind of streamline your kind of rank ups. So like 0:44:08.239 --> 0:44:11.160 like usually it's like these two monsters at this level, 0:44:11.520 --> 0:44:13.480 then you'll get your urgent quests, and then at the 0:44:13.480 --> 0:44:15.680 next level it will be like three or four monsters 0:44:16.000 --> 0:44:18.200 and then you just hit those instead of doing all 0:44:18.280 --> 0:44:20.960 of it, and then once you get to the last one, 0:44:21.360 --> 0:44:24.600 you'll get a credit role. And then eventually they added 0:44:24.600 --> 0:44:27.400 a level called G Rank, which were super hard versions 0:44:27.400 --> 0:44:30.759 of monsters and it and it was cool because it 0:44:30.880 --> 0:44:33.200 kept the stats of like the how many hunts you 0:44:33.239 --> 0:44:36.360 did with which weapon, what's the biggest version of a 0:44:36.400 --> 0:44:39.560 monsque you fought the smallest version, etcetera. And gonna have 0:44:39.560 --> 0:44:41.760 to come over and maybe play it. Mainly just because 0:44:41.800 --> 0:44:45.000 I like the cat a lot. The Polticos are great, 0:44:45.040 --> 0:44:47.360 see and then and then, and that isn't even talking 0:44:47.400 --> 0:44:49.640 about the I think it's called the mill and the 0:44:49.680 --> 0:44:53.840 minks and the Milnx. There's the evil version of Policos 0:44:53.880 --> 0:44:56.920 that are on maps that will attack you and steal 0:44:56.960 --> 0:44:59.560 your items. Uh so you and the only way you 0:44:59.600 --> 0:45:01.680 can get your item back as if you hit kill 0:45:01.800 --> 0:45:04.319 them first, and you don't really get to kill them, 0:45:04.360 --> 0:45:07.360 they just kind of get knocked out and disappear. Honestly, 0:45:07.760 --> 0:45:09.880 I want somebody to come up with a tutorial on 0:45:09.960 --> 0:45:12.640 how to make your Polico a dog. I mean that 0:45:12.680 --> 0:45:16.560 would be crazy. Oh also, since you love Polico so much, 0:45:16.600 --> 0:45:19.680 I forgot to tell you. In Generations there was a 0:45:19.719 --> 0:45:22.040 whole new mode they created to where you can play 0:45:22.200 --> 0:45:25.200 as the Polico. So you so so you would get 0:45:25.239 --> 0:45:28.759 to do hunts as a Polico. And what was cool 0:45:28.760 --> 0:45:31.920 about it is you had unlimited gathering stuff. So you know, 0:45:32.120 --> 0:45:35.200 not only do you need monster parts for different armors 0:45:35.239 --> 0:45:38.880 and weapons, but sometimes you'll need resources like different ores 0:45:39.000 --> 0:45:42.520 from mining stuff. Sometimes you might need a bug or two. 0:45:42.719 --> 0:45:46.440 Sometimes you might need different vines or plants or bones, 0:45:46.680 --> 0:45:49.440 and these are all things you just find from gathering 0:45:49.600 --> 0:45:52.360 on the level, so it's not just about hunting monsters, 0:45:52.480 --> 0:45:55.880 is also about going around gathering resources from the map. 0:45:56.400 --> 0:45:58.719 And that new mode was cool because you were just 0:45:58.760 --> 0:46:00.799 able to kind of just be a kitty and just 0:46:00.960 --> 0:46:05.320 run around and gather the resources semi stress free because 0:46:05.400 --> 0:46:07.840 monsters still were live and active on these maps and 0:46:07.880 --> 0:46:13.880 they did hunt you down. Hello mioster e st Um. 0:46:14.920 --> 0:46:17.120 This has been enlightening on a subject that I have 0:46:17.280 --> 0:46:19.840 never played. Yeah, yeah, that's this has been me talking 0:46:19.960 --> 0:46:22.880 too much about Monster Hunter. But you know, if you're 0:46:22.920 --> 0:46:25.160 interested in the game, the best place to start right now, 0:46:25.280 --> 0:46:28.040 honestly is Monster in the World. They streamlined a lot 0:46:28.120 --> 0:46:30.840 of the stuff. There's so many quality of life updates, 0:46:31.920 --> 0:46:34.040 but you know, if you do only have a switch, 0:46:34.560 --> 0:46:39.200 there is uh that either one available is Generations Ultimate 0:46:40.040 --> 0:46:42.759 and I just would say go on the monster on 0:46:42.840 --> 0:46:46.880 a wiki and everything I just mentioned it'll have for you, 0:46:47.000 --> 0:46:49.640 which is the key quest that you need to do 0:46:49.960 --> 0:46:54.040 in order to upgrade. And just like general stat combos 0:46:54.120 --> 0:46:56.880 that you can do, and now that it's going to 0:46:56.960 --> 0:46:58.920 be dropping in, you can have a leg up on 0:46:58.960 --> 0:47:02.759 your friends who have ever watched it played it. Yeah, exactly, 0:47:03.480 --> 0:47:06.279 when everyone's asking you all these monster Hunter facts. When 0:47:06.320 --> 0:47:08.000 this movie that is for sure not going to be 0:47:08.080 --> 0:47:10.520 a flop comes out in twenty day, you don't know. 0:47:11.800 --> 0:47:15.640 The photos look cool. I mean everything about it looks cool, 0:47:16.040 --> 0:47:19.520 but it just feels like the recipe. It's like when 0:47:19.560 --> 0:47:21.960 you're looking at a recipe, We're like, man, this this 0:47:22.120 --> 0:47:24.080 gumbo looks good, but I saw what you put in it. 0:47:25.480 --> 0:47:27.879 How could you talk about Lee lu Dallas that way? 0:47:28.280 --> 0:47:32.040 Oh look, Mila knows how I feel about She can 0:47:32.120 --> 0:47:37.640 do no wrong, Multi pass t I however, I am 0:47:38.080 --> 0:47:41.279 at Ms Danny Fernandez friends on all the things. Please 0:47:41.360 --> 0:47:43.320 catch me at New York Comic Con. I have a 0:47:43.360 --> 0:47:46.080 bunch of panels that I announced I updated it. I'm 0:47:46.080 --> 0:47:49.680 actually gonna be there Thursday through Sunday, so I have 0:47:49.840 --> 0:47:52.520 panels glore. I'm also rejoining sci Fi Wire to do 0:47:52.680 --> 0:47:57.320 the Great Debate that's Friday night there. I'm also on 0:47:57.400 --> 0:48:00.840 a Latin XT panel on Thursday and on Sunday I 0:48:00.960 --> 0:48:03.799 have a panel with the Disney Princesses. All super cool. 0:48:03.920 --> 0:48:06.319 Check it out. I would love to meet you at 0:48:06.320 --> 0:48:09.800 New York Comic Con, and you know me if you 0:48:09.880 --> 0:48:13.640 away on Twitter and Instagram, if D's on Twitch, I 0:48:13.760 --> 0:48:15.680 will not be a New York Comic Con. And if 0:48:15.719 --> 0:48:18.440 you're sad in Texas that you're not at New York 0:48:18.480 --> 0:48:21.000 Comic Con, white women will be performing at the Troll 0:48:21.040 --> 0:48:24.040 Comedy Fest in Houston, So pull up see us do 0:48:24.200 --> 0:48:27.960 some some canedy. And uh yeah, besides that, you know, 0:48:28.040 --> 0:48:30.960 I'll be goofing around town, uh doing stuff, just stuff. 0:48:30.960 --> 0:48:33.800 Follow me on Twitter and you'll know where I'll be at. But, 0:48:33.960 --> 0:48:36.000 like we always say, stay neardy.