Speaker 1: Hello, welcome to another edition of Nerdificent. We are inching
Speaker 1: our way to Spook October. I am one half of
Speaker 1: your host, Danny Fernandez, sitting across from me as always
Speaker 1: if episode seventy six in the books, the last episode
Speaker 1: that was such a good episode, we're burning through him
Speaker 1: were I think we are going to have to do
Speaker 1: a live? Really yeah, because yeah, just because uh, why
Speaker 1: won't you date me? Is hidden a hundred and they're
Speaker 1: doing a live And I was like, yeah, we probably
Speaker 1: should do a lot to do it. But if we
Speaker 1: do it, you all have to show up. It's like
Speaker 1: me like when I first moved to l A, I
Speaker 1: didn't have a birthday party for a couple of years
Speaker 1: because I was like nervous that no one would come.
Speaker 1: And then on my thirtieth birthday party, I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm doing so much cool stuff, like I know everybody
Speaker 1: will come, and like everybody did, so it's really cool.
Speaker 1: So but that's always been you know, as a little kid,
Speaker 1: that's always like your worst nightmare that you have something
Speaker 1: and like no one's going to come. That happened. It
Speaker 1: was when it was the same thing. I just moved.
Speaker 1: I was the new Kidden for some reason, I not
Speaker 1: only tried to have a birthday party, but I decided
Speaker 1: to have it in a completely different city. Like I
Speaker 1: went to school in Downey and it was in Long Beach,
Speaker 1: so literally no one came because it was just inconvenient
Speaker 1: and barely anyone knew me except for one person, Everett Minor.
Speaker 1: I will never forget his name because he was the
Speaker 1: only person who was the one person who still talked
Speaker 1: to him. No, I mean we we went separate ways.
Speaker 1: He still I mean, I check with you know, we're
Speaker 1: free to get an Emmy. You need to be like
Speaker 1: an Everett mind. I have like my one person that
Speaker 1: I'm like. I will be like, I don't care if
Speaker 1: I think anybody. I have to think this one person
Speaker 1: for I'll shout out Everett Minor. If I get Emmy,
Speaker 1: do it? Do it? Yes? What are you speaking out about? This?
Speaker 1: What I'm sinking out about is the Casta Grandes, which
Speaker 1: is on Nickelodeon in's premiering I believe in October. Super Dope.
Speaker 1: It is a spinoff from the Loudhouse, which was super
Speaker 1: successful all and it follows the Latin Next Family and
Speaker 1: it's really cool. I'm so excited that it exists and
Speaker 1: that there's more space for us to play, especially in animation.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to show my niece and nephew and
Speaker 1: for me to watch it. Frankly, Um, but I'm really
Speaker 1: really excited. I mean, that was something that I thought,
Speaker 1: even though even though I was working with an animation studio,
Speaker 1: I'm like, we are the only ones that don't have
Speaker 1: an animated like, you know, we need an animated show
Speaker 1: and with a family. And then and then they did
Speaker 1: it and Lolo did it, and I was like, dang it,
Speaker 1: now i gotta rework my pitch, which is but I'm
Speaker 1: pitching something else. But um, I'm just really excited that
Speaker 1: it exists, and it's just it warms my heart. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you gotta. Naomi has to watch it, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean she will. She's working on her Spanish. She's a bilingual. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: she she. I mean, she pretty much understands and speaks
Speaker 1: both languages. Any well, her English sentences are finally coming
Speaker 1: together because she, you know, uh, spoke a lot of Spanish. First.
Speaker 1: What I'm goofing on what I'm goofing, what I was about,
Speaker 1: I'm goofing about what I'm goofing out about him this week.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, twenty years older. Yeah, I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, what I'm goofing about. Uh, you know, we're
Speaker 1: I just got my hands on Gears five and so
Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to launch into that. I'm a big
Speaker 1: fan of the Gears war franchise. But there's just been
Speaker 1: We're in that wonderful period of video games because you
Speaker 1: have the Summer drought, were not that many games come out,
Speaker 1: and now we're hitting fall and we're just we had
Speaker 1: Gears five, Borderland's three is out, and then we have
Speaker 1: the Call of Duty Modern Warfare Bay to Dry. There's
Speaker 1: just so many good video games. And then Ice Born
Speaker 1: has already been released, which is the new DLC for
Speaker 1: Monster Hunter World has been released for the consoles and
Speaker 1: now we're patiently waiting for it to roll out on PC.
Speaker 1: And the reason I mentioned that is because this week
Speaker 1: we're talking about my favorite game franchise ever, Monster Hunter.
Speaker 1: Monster Hunter. Uh. It was funny because you know Danny
Speaker 1: when and when she said, I was like, I don't
Speaker 1: know about this game. I'm like, no one does. It's
Speaker 1: it's like like truly, like honestly, it was a fringe
Speaker 1: title up until Monster Hunter World, and people kind of
Speaker 1: got excited about it, and then more games came out
Speaker 1: and it kind of just went back to like a
Speaker 1: dedicated fan base. I've been playing this game, it has
Speaker 1: to be like over a decade now, but I started
Speaker 1: playing it on the PSP even though it originally started
Speaker 1: on the PlayStation. Uh, but this is just gonna be
Speaker 1: the episode where I am going to yell about Monster
Speaker 1: Hunter and get Danny's thoughts and opinions on it. And
Speaker 1: then when I come over and watch some James Bonds
Speaker 1: and I was going to say, is this your equivalent
Speaker 1: of like when we did Wonder Woman, which I'm obsessed with,
Speaker 1: except for people actually watch Wonder Woman. You know what,
Speaker 1: you know, there's gonna be some Monster Hunter fans. Monster
Speaker 1: Hunter isn't the same as Wonder Woman. No, you're right,
Speaker 1: it isn't. I think one woman laps at times over
Speaker 1: So you didn't play it on PS two knows when
Speaker 1: it came out on PS two. So the cool thing
Speaker 1: about Monster Hunter that made it interesting to me back
Speaker 1: then was it was just the simple hunting game where
Speaker 1: four players can team up to hunt giant monsters, but
Speaker 1: it used the PS two's kind of at the time
Speaker 1: fairly new technology of online play, the PlayStation online system.
Speaker 1: This was that early PlayStation online system, PlayStation network when
Speaker 1: it was free. Uh uh so, But like my this
Speaker 1: is also when like Final Fantasy eleven was coming out
Speaker 1: and using it, my dad was you know, he was
Speaker 1: already I was already barely able to use the PS two,
Speaker 1: so adding like another factor to it was just possible.
Speaker 1: So I never got to play it. Wait, so you
Speaker 1: owned a PS two, but you had limited like your
Speaker 1: did your dad put time limits on you? Essentially, so
Speaker 1: we had a PlayStation and then we had it taken
Speaker 1: away from us because we were playing it too much.
Speaker 1: And then one Christmas, I like, I wrote a long
Speaker 1: like letter and contract to my dad begging him to
Speaker 1: allow me to get a play I was like, I
Speaker 1: am willing to um to give up my Christmas gift
Speaker 1: to get a PS two and that you know, I
Speaker 1: will share it with my siblings and it will be
Speaker 1: a gift for all of us. But I am wasting
Speaker 1: my gift for it and how and I like did
Speaker 1: all these rules. I made a contract of of all
Speaker 1: the things that I will make sure I do before
Speaker 1: I play it. So like all the chores and then
Speaker 1: my homework will be done. And that if I if
Speaker 1: he feels that I'm not, oh, you know, honoring the contract,
Speaker 1: that he can show it to me and I will
Speaker 1: immediately do whatever he had just the long plea and
Speaker 1: it actually worked, and uh we got a PS two
Speaker 1: and like Cooper that year. But because of that, it
Speaker 1: was always kind of on that we were only able
Speaker 1: to play it on the weekends, and it was it
Speaker 1: was kind of like, you know, my parents weren't spending
Speaker 1: that much money on a lot of the games. Uh,
Speaker 1: So I was always playing PlayStation Underground demos, which if
Speaker 1: you if you don't remember PlayStation Underground, it was like
Speaker 1: a service you can sign up for where they would
Speaker 1: send you a game disc with multiple demos on it
Speaker 1: and you would and that's that's pretty much how how
Speaker 1: I played new games was I would just play these
Speaker 1: demos because I just couldn't get the money yet to
Speaker 1: buy new games until I started, uh going to high school,
Speaker 1: being able to like save up my lunch money to
Speaker 1: like get stuff at games. Stop treating a minute, you know.
Speaker 1: I did that not with a video game, but with
Speaker 1: a cat I wanted. I used to be a cat
Speaker 1: person I wanted to catch Little Danny wanted to catch
Speaker 1: so badly that I did a whole power point like
Speaker 1: on why I should have a cat, Like did a
Speaker 1: report on like why I deserve to have a cat,
Speaker 1: and my parents got me like this little tabby cat.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, when you think of PS two,
Speaker 1: what is the game that pops in your head? Oh? See,
Speaker 1: it's funny because the fun of Fantasy seven, I've said
Speaker 1: it many times, is my favorite game of all time,
Speaker 1: and I want to think of that, but that definitely
Speaker 1: that's a that's a PS one game that I remember
Speaker 1: when I think of PlayStation to the game that kind
Speaker 1: of sticks out to me the most is the game
Speaker 1: I probably put more the most time in, which was
Speaker 1: Kingdom Hearts, because that was the game I played a
Speaker 1: lot of. But you're going to be like a Grand
Speaker 1: Theft Auto. Oh yeah, Grand Theft Auto essentially ruined, Uh,
Speaker 1: my little brother's attempts to play video games because he
Speaker 1: was just you know, when you're young, you're just dumb.
Speaker 1: You're just that's that's the only way to describe it.
Speaker 1: And we had g t A and we we would
Speaker 1: play and everyone you know, this was when kids when
Speaker 1: you're a teenager, so you didn't really play the story mode.
Speaker 1: You just took turns, getting as many stars as you
Speaker 1: can and seeing how long you can survive. And my
Speaker 1: little brother would join in, and I remember he, uh,
Speaker 1: We're driving one time and someone was walking across the street,
Speaker 1: and to try and be funny, he was like, you
Speaker 1: run that person over and get like, get some points.
Speaker 1: And they're like, you can't play g t A anymore.
Speaker 1: And I was so scared when he said because the
Speaker 1: time I thought, I thought like we were all going
Speaker 1: to get into trouble, but it was just him and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, and it was perfect because any
Speaker 1: anytime you'd be like can I play him? Like, no,
Speaker 1: you got banned from playing it, so you gotta sit there.
Speaker 1: What about a Saga genesis? Oh, Saga Genesis always gonna
Speaker 1: be Sonic and yes, Sonic, That's what I was thinking too,
Speaker 1: because especially Sonic and Knuckles. You had the cartridge where
Speaker 1: you can stick Sonic too up in the top and
Speaker 1: you would be able to use Knuckles in that. It
Speaker 1: was it was dope and I never had a genesis.
Speaker 1: This was before my dad married my step mom and
Speaker 1: they were dating and I would go over their house,
Speaker 1: and I remember I said, I wanted them to get
Speaker 1: married just so I can play that saga genesis. Yeah,
Speaker 1: mine was Sonic uh a Laddin and I think Earthworm Gym,
Speaker 1: Earthworm Gym's That's that's a true classic, right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm surprised that hasn't gotten a remake yet, but it's
Speaker 1: probably the way. Probably, Yes, let's go through the nitty gritty.
Speaker 1: The Monster Hunder franchise as a series of fantasy themed
Speaker 1: action role playing video games that started with the game
Speaker 1: Monster Hunter for PlayStation two, was released in two thousand four,
Speaker 1: and titles have been a release across a variety of
Speaker 1: platforms including PC, home console, portable consoles, mobile devices, and
Speaker 1: the series has been developed and published by Capcom. I
Speaker 1: wanna even hit that harder because I don't think it
Speaker 1: really drives home just the struggle that is being a
Speaker 1: Monster Hunter fan. So it started off on PS two
Speaker 1: Monster Hunter, and then the series primarily took place on
Speaker 1: PSP PlayStation portable, which was this the was which was
Speaker 1: the kind of opponent to the DS. So for the
Speaker 1: longest I was playing Monster Hunter, uh, you know, it's
Speaker 1: been long. I don't know. The statue of Limitation, but
Speaker 1: for free, because you used to be able to hack
Speaker 1: the PSP and you would just be able to download
Speaker 1: the games like emulators and put them on a flash
Speaker 1: drive and play. So that's how I got into it.
Speaker 1: We'll get into the mechanics of the game of how
Speaker 1: I was playing it wrong for so long, like all
Speaker 1: my PSP career, I can't even see how I was
Speaker 1: having fun with it, because it's actually the reason it
Speaker 1: has such a small fan base. So there are a
Speaker 1: lot of games that are made in Japan, uh that
Speaker 1: don't really make it to the mainstream American market, and
Speaker 1: a lot of times these games are just kind of
Speaker 1: canna have this hardness to it. I think that this
Speaker 1: this kind of trend grew with games like Dark Souls
Speaker 1: and Souls type games where it's known to be hard,
Speaker 1: and that's fine, but I find that early odds like
Speaker 1: the two thousand four round Monster Hunter, the games like these,
Speaker 1: they never had a chance. And I don't want to
Speaker 1: say it's because we never gravitated towards them. I think
Speaker 1: it also was just kind of the publishers looking at
Speaker 1: it as like the American art audience would never kind
Speaker 1: of gravitate towards these games. Okay, so the series took
Speaker 1: off in explosively in Japan with Monster Hunter Freedom on PSP,
Speaker 1: but like you were saying, it wasn't as popular in
Speaker 1: Western markets, and they equate that to the fact that
Speaker 1: Western markets favored home consoles and computers during the mid
Speaker 1: two thousands. Yeah, and that's that's actually also a very
Speaker 1: important point about that. So one of the things about
Speaker 1: you remember how I mentioned that this was a multiplayer game.
Speaker 1: So the PSP versions were multiplayer, but they're only multiplayer locally.
Speaker 1: And the reason and that's a that's a very good
Speaker 1: thing you pointed out. Uh. So in Japan there was
Speaker 1: already a culture of people meeting up and playing their
Speaker 1: PSPs in public places, so they didn't have a trouble
Speaker 1: with trouble with that. But out in America, the PSP
Speaker 1: also wasn't a high selling handheld game. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we were more into the D s out here. The
Speaker 1: DS was crushing the ps B, so you already have
Speaker 1: that issue there also with that the DS, uh you know,
Speaker 1: and I think it was specifically the D sides when
Speaker 1: it really started taking off. The DS introduced like the
Speaker 1: Nintendo Network where you can play online, and we were
Speaker 1: out here in America, we already were adapting to online
Speaker 1: multiplayer games, especially in the around here. You have the
Speaker 1: PlayStation Network, and then Xbox three six, you know they're
Speaker 1: they kicked off Xbox Live. And then you had like
Speaker 1: Halo two, one and two. So we were very into
Speaker 1: online multiplayer and not necessarily that into meeting up that
Speaker 1: that's where the problem persists. So now you have Monster
Speaker 1: Hunter sitting on a console that is not widely except
Speaker 1: used out here and using a multiplayer format that isn't
Speaker 1: very popular out here, and that actually was kind of
Speaker 1: a problem. So the way that a lot of people
Speaker 1: got around it out here, uh, and the old head
Speaker 1: Monster Hunter people will remember this is there was a
Speaker 1: service I forget the aim of it, but you would
Speaker 1: use this app and you would locally connect your PSP
Speaker 1: to this app on your computer that would locally connected
Speaker 1: online to other people. So you were had like so
Speaker 1: you would have to go to a forum, find people
Speaker 1: and then agree to use this app to do it
Speaker 1: because there was no type of online multiplayer yet. It
Speaker 1: was all local on PSP. And this was for the
Speaker 1: run of the PSP version, like all of the ps
Speaker 1: and that was the thing, so it jumped from ps
Speaker 1: to to PSP, and then it was pretty much PSP
Speaker 1: versions until we had to swap over to when it
Speaker 1: started coming out for the three d S and the
Speaker 1: d S system So then the d S systems kind
Speaker 1: of got I think the first one still was local,
Speaker 1: and then the one after that is when we started
Speaker 1: getting online multiplayer, and in sometime around that time, we
Speaker 1: also had a version come out for the Wii when
Speaker 1: it came to the d S and then that's when
Speaker 1: it started picking up a little more because you were able.
Speaker 1: And then Moss Round Generations was the last one that
Speaker 1: kind of released before World, which was a first the
Speaker 1: first time since um since the first um Mon will
Speaker 1: not the first one the first time since the WE
Speaker 1: version that it was released on consoles because and there
Speaker 1: was a big deal for Monster Hunter fans because we
Speaker 1: are now leaving the handheld universe to get a full
Speaker 1: graphic overhaul and kind of a lot of quality of
Speaker 1: life improvements in Monster Hunter. But that's all nitty gritty
Speaker 1: stuff within the game that I'm gonna say for when
Speaker 1: we're breaking down that part. This is just Monster Hunter
Speaker 1: in general. But now we're at Monster Hunter World. I
Speaker 1: will mention because as a Monster Hunter old head, I
Speaker 1: will have to mention some of the things we lost
Speaker 1: in it going to the major consoles. Uh. And by
Speaker 1: major consoles, I mean it was released on the Xbox
Speaker 1: One and the PS four, and then the switch version
Speaker 1: got Monster Hunter Generation Ultimate, not the World one, which
Speaker 1: is jarring if people got into World for the first time.
Speaker 1: And then you will talk to me about so the
Speaker 1: original did you ever play the original Monster Hunter? And
Speaker 1: I never played the original monster so your first Monster
Speaker 1: Hunter was So Monster Hunter came out for the PlayStation two.
Speaker 1: The Monster Hunter two was released on the PlayStation two
Speaker 1: as well. But then the UM, the an enhanced version
Speaker 1: UM came out for the PSP called Monster Hunter Freedom Too.
Speaker 1: So I came in during that time Monster Hunter Freedom
Speaker 1: to see. And the way they have these these listed
Speaker 1: is the most chunkiest way on the wiki because the way,
Speaker 1: the the fact of the matter is the way Monster
Speaker 1: Hunter has kind of been released. And if you listen
Speaker 1: to our Street Fighter episode, I mentioned how capcom loves
Speaker 1: re releasing games. Uh, this that's the story of Monster Hunter.
Speaker 1: A lot of times Monster Hunter will instead of having
Speaker 1: a DLC, will just be rereleased with new monsters and
Speaker 1: new weapons. So you had Monster Monster Hunter which was
Speaker 1: on PlayStation two, and then an enhanced version was released
Speaker 1: for PS two called Monster Hunter G and initially it
Speaker 1: was only released in Japan, but was later released in
Speaker 1: North America for the PSP, and that was Monster onund
Speaker 1: of Freedom and then a WE version was later released
Speaker 1: but only in Japan. So that's Monster Under Freedom. So
Speaker 1: that was the first PSP one I I dabbled in
Speaker 1: that I that was the first one I played technically,
Speaker 1: but I the time I first played it on PSP,
Speaker 1: there was also the Monster Hunter of Freedom too that
Speaker 1: was available, which was Monster Hunter Too that came out
Speaker 1: um on. It was the Monster Under two came out
Speaker 1: on February sixte UH in Japan, and then UH it
Speaker 1: only came out on the PSP in two thousand seven August.
Speaker 1: So that's the first one I like actually played over
Speaker 1: and over and over and over, and that was Monster
Speaker 1: under Freedom too. Then they later dropped another UH like
Speaker 1: expansion called Master Hunter Freedom Unite, which is yet another
Speaker 1: re release. And then you had Monster Hunters Try which
Speaker 1: came out for the Wii, and that one was that
Speaker 1: one was the one that was talking about that came
Speaker 1: out on the Wii, and then eventually they came out
Speaker 1: with a PSP version and a PS three but only
Speaker 1: in Japan called Monster Hunter Portable the third and then
Speaker 1: the Enhanced version, and this is when we made the
Speaker 1: big jump to the three D S. Monster Hunters three
Speaker 1: Ultimate is what came out for the three D S.
Speaker 1: But like I said, it wasn't um. This was still
Speaker 1: like poor local. I've never heard someone monster Hunters so
Speaker 1: many times. The funny thing is like, looking back, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh yeah, I was just kind of playing
Speaker 1: the same game for and over again with just the
Speaker 1: bunch of But yeah, so that's pretty much. So my
Speaker 1: first one was Monster Hunter Freedom and if I love you,
Speaker 1: I cannot wait to hear out the characters and what
Speaker 1: these monsters look like. We're going to take a really
Speaker 1: quick break and then you are going to you are
Speaker 1: going to paint a picture of the Monster Hunter world
Speaker 1: for people that have never played it, like me. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back and we're back. So little Iffy, how
Speaker 1: old were you? Oh? This was oh man, if we
Speaker 1: so we got to go into major storytime. So I
Speaker 1: was I was an adult technically I was eighteen but
Speaker 1: the way I the way I got into this was
Speaker 1: I wanted to hack my PSP and I was this
Speaker 1: was when I was still going to community college, as
Speaker 1: when I was like, yeah, I just found some dude
Speaker 1: on Craigslist. So I looked. So I looked up on
Speaker 1: Craig's list somebody who was hacking PSPs. And then I
Speaker 1: went and it was this like like this like Latino
Speaker 1: cat my age and we were like in his garage
Speaker 1: and he was like, man, you're so cool. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: show you how to do it. He was like, He's like,
Speaker 1: and then you can do it from money if you want.
Speaker 1: And I was like, no, I'm not gonna like meet
Speaker 1: up with strangers, but I'll do it for my friends,
Speaker 1: you know. So he like told me how to do it,
Speaker 1: and so so I was probably like um young eighteen
Speaker 1: college's and so I was playing primarily by myself because
Speaker 1: I tried to do that Internet thing. I tried to
Speaker 1: explain to you, it was just too hard because I
Speaker 1: think I needed one more like peripheral, because I needed
Speaker 1: a like wireless dongle that would uh basically wirelessly connected
Speaker 1: to my PSP, and that just was too You have
Speaker 1: to use eBay to find it. I just it was
Speaker 1: too much effort, so I let it go. And then
Speaker 1: when it came to the Three DS, my good friend
Speaker 1: and cousin Brian had a play group and we they
Speaker 1: all met together and played. So I started meeting up
Speaker 1: with them and we would go to the house and
Speaker 1: this was actually the group we we got real into.
Speaker 1: Um we were real in the Hero Escape and we
Speaker 1: we had these huge Hero Escape battles that spiraled into
Speaker 1: kind of we'll have to do an episode on that,
Speaker 1: but it spiraled into where we started creating our own
Speaker 1: pieces and figures, and literally it became a mad dash
Speaker 1: where it's like, if we can find a figure, a
Speaker 1: toy that was the size of a Hero Escape figure,
Speaker 1: would make a card for it. So we as soon
Speaker 1: we had Spider Man, Goku, you know, any g I, Joe's,
Speaker 1: anything we can find, and we just blew this game
Speaker 1: off the roof, which is funny because the way it
Speaker 1: goes all the way, it's kind of come full circle
Speaker 1: as I now have the Magic the Gathering tabletop Battle
Speaker 1: of the Planes Walkers tabletop game, which is what Hero
Speaker 1: Escape it turned into. So Hero Escape kind of uh
Speaker 1: got bought by Hasbro and then they kind of took
Speaker 1: that property and made the Magic of the Gathering tabletop game.
Speaker 1: When I found that out, it was like a mind freak. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you you are playing this game, what a track like?
Speaker 1: Why did is it? Why did it become like a
Speaker 1: game that you were hooked on about? It made be
Speaker 1: hooked on it. It's the perfect weed game. So the
Speaker 1: way the game primarily works is you don't you're you
Speaker 1: customize the hero character. It is a nameless character that
Speaker 1: you can change. Uh. They can turn into every skin
Speaker 1: color and you can be a male or female, and
Speaker 1: you can get many different hairstyles. You can get Goku hair,
Speaker 1: high Samurai hair, and an afro. And the story generally
Speaker 1: are all the same. You are this like lowly hunter
Speaker 1: and in this world, uh, everyone wants to be the
Speaker 1: greatest hunter. It's a it's a typical anime shown in
Speaker 1: Start and you have to work your way up in
Speaker 1: using the hunter boards and so you you have a
Speaker 1: list of hunts that the village needs for various reasons,
Speaker 1: and as you get do better hunts, you can have
Speaker 1: a chance to upgrade as a hunter and raise your
Speaker 1: hunter rank until you're strong enough to fight like an
Speaker 1: elder dragon. Uh. And instead of having like stats and
Speaker 1: classes and all that, there are stats will get into
Speaker 1: that in the tricking us with it. But really, if
Speaker 1: you choose your weapon and you can play however you
Speaker 1: want so uh, you know you can use like in
Speaker 1: the most most of them. You can use like a
Speaker 1: long sword, which is a wildly long sword like looks
Speaker 1: like Sefros blade. You can use a great sword, which
Speaker 1: looks like a buster sword from Cloud. Uh. You have bows,
Speaker 1: you have a gun bow, you have a lance, you
Speaker 1: have a gun lance, and these are all weapons you
Speaker 1: can use. There are no restrictions. No one weapon is
Speaker 1: better than the other. It's really just based on play style,
Speaker 1: like however you want to play, and the way you
Speaker 1: acquire new weapons is you hunt monsters. You farm the monsters,
Speaker 1: so you hunt them multiple times and use their parts
Speaker 1: to the monster parts to make armor and weapons. So
Speaker 1: it's that's pretty much the game is the cycle of
Speaker 1: hunting monsters, and it's a very similar style to a
Speaker 1: lot of your Dark Soul Souls type game in the
Speaker 1: sense that, like some you will be able to, like
Speaker 1: once your armor is strong, you'll be able to like
Speaker 1: bust through them easy, but lots of times you're kind
Speaker 1: of following the patterns of the monsters, Like they have
Speaker 1: different attack patterns, they have different moves. If they get enraged,
Speaker 1: they'll you know, they'll change up their attack patterns, and
Speaker 1: it's kind of learning that and finessing that and they
Speaker 1: there's always a randomness to it. It's it's kind of
Speaker 1: has that rogue like element in the sense that the
Speaker 1: monsters are all different sizes. They tend to be around
Speaker 1: the same health point, but there's different things that can happen.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you're on a map um and there's multiple monsters,
Speaker 1: so you can be trying to hunt one monsters, but
Speaker 1: it gets uh, you get another monster who joins in
Speaker 1: on the fight, and now you're fighting two monsters. So
Speaker 1: that's why even though you're fighting the same monster over
Speaker 1: and over again, it doesn't get boring. It's it's fun
Speaker 1: because you're like, okay, uh, you never know what's going
Speaker 1: to happen. Who is Polico? Okay, So the policos are
Speaker 1: the little tiny cats that that help you on your hunt.
Speaker 1: Very cute. Yeah, they're they're the cutest ones and like
Speaker 1: as the game progressed in the series, Yeah, you they
Speaker 1: stand like people. They talk to you, they call you mouster.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, and they and as the game progress, you
Speaker 1: can make armor for them and so like you can.
Speaker 1: I'm a Meosis, Yeah, meaosis and mister okay, I always
Speaker 1: play a male character. They say anything, I mean, do
Speaker 1: they talk like? Yeah? Words other than that. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: not like a group situation. Yeah, yeah, no, they they
Speaker 1: it's not they were they saying that they're trying to
Speaker 1: help you. Uh. You know some games you hire them
Speaker 1: and you would train them separately. Uh. One of the
Speaker 1: cool things that you know the newer Monster Hunter world
Speaker 1: has implemented is they level up with you as you
Speaker 1: hunt instead of like having to do separate training regimens.
Speaker 1: And uh. Typically the flow of most Monster Hunter games
Speaker 1: is you get a quest. Then there's a setup portion
Speaker 1: so you can go and you can get different items
Speaker 1: you may need for the quest. If it's in a
Speaker 1: particularly cold area, you'll need a hot drink. If it's
Speaker 1: in a hot area, and you'll need a cold drink
Speaker 1: to keep your character from being too cold or hot.
Speaker 1: You'll if you want to capture instead of killing the monster,
Speaker 1: you'll need to get trapped and trapped parts. If you
Speaker 1: are using a bow, then you'll need like, you know,
Speaker 1: your arrows. If you're using like a gun lance, you
Speaker 1: have different weapons you load for that. And you also
Speaker 1: can choose your meal and the meals uh they have
Speaker 1: some pre made ones or you can like choose every
Speaker 1: part of the meal. But the meal will give you
Speaker 1: some type of stat boost, whether it be like extra
Speaker 1: health or extra stamina or both and damage up in
Speaker 1: different things like that. And it does a really cute
Speaker 1: eating animation, and then you start your quest and now
Speaker 1: it's pretty it's pretty simple, and the fact that you
Speaker 1: just eat and you do well. Back in the day,
Speaker 1: there were some combinations that would make you sick and
Speaker 1: debuff you like if you made a bad food combination,
Speaker 1: you would set off in a quest and just have
Speaker 1: worse stats because you didn't do a good combo. Uh.
Speaker 1: And and then you set off to your quest. And
Speaker 1: the quest uh in monster own are usually sets you
Speaker 1: in different types of maps. So typically uh, there's a
Speaker 1: frost a snowy map, a desert map, a jungle map.
Speaker 1: It's just like yeah, and just like a regular kind
Speaker 1: of planes map and every and that's kind of part
Speaker 1: of the challenges the monster and you never know what
Speaker 1: part of the maps, so the maps are usually sectored
Speaker 1: off into different sections. There's usually anywhere from ten to
Speaker 1: twelve sections of a map. Do you always have a
Speaker 1: polico assigned to you in the later games? Yeah, in
Speaker 1: the later games you do, I believe in the world
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, you can have to too, yes, uh,
Speaker 1: or that might be generations. I'm mixing it up with
Speaker 1: you can when it's you and another person. When there's
Speaker 1: just two of you, you still get to have your polico.
Speaker 1: If you do any more than two, then you can't
Speaker 1: have your policos with you. Then it's only uh, it's
Speaker 1: only player characters. But the policos can you can set
Speaker 1: up how they operate. They can either be attackers, you
Speaker 1: can have them do healing things to you. I typically
Speaker 1: do that way because I use great sword, and with
Speaker 1: great sword it's a very it does a lot of damage,
Speaker 1: but it's very slow, so you're leaving yourself open a
Speaker 1: lot of times because if you miss, you're doing a slow,
Speaker 1: long attack, and so I get hit a lot. So
Speaker 1: I'm looking at apparently you can have MegaMan. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: so that was one of the big cool things about
Speaker 1: Monster Hunter is They did a lot of cross crossover events,
Speaker 1: so they they just did one with Final Fantasy where
Speaker 1: you can fight a behemoth from Final Fantasy and then
Speaker 1: you can get a big ragon called Rathelos in Final
Speaker 1: Fantasy fourteen. Um and they always had this, It was
Speaker 1: so funny. They always have this big um U s
Speaker 1: a j uh collab that they always did and I
Speaker 1: was like, what is this and it always was super
Speaker 1: cool blue and they always had world details and it
Speaker 1: was U s a j U s a j And
Speaker 1: one day I finally looked it up and it was
Speaker 1: for Universal Studios of Japan. Like they would always do
Speaker 1: a collab with them so that you can get like
Speaker 1: this Universal Studios of Japan Monster Hunter gear. But they've
Speaker 1: done you know, Mega Man. I'm going to imagine, so
Speaker 1: it's essentially literally MegaMan, you know, in like block form
Speaker 1: that is like fighting like it looks like that style
Speaker 1: next to Monster Hunter, like three D style. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna imagine that under his suit is a little cat.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's exactly what's under Yeah, it's the armor
Speaker 1: that you put on the cat. So there's a time
Speaker 1: cat uh. You can. They did a crossover with fairy
Speaker 1: Tail so you're able to make it look like a fairytale.
Speaker 1: I want to show you somebody on Reddit did a
Speaker 1: tutorial they made their Polico into beers from driving that one.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, coloring, and there's tons of tutorials too. So
Speaker 1: here's the thing that they changed in the world, which
Speaker 1: I'm glad they did. So remember how I said Japanese
Speaker 1: games can be like so hard. This is something they
Speaker 1: never explained in the game and something that you literally
Speaker 1: found out through going to wikis. But the way stats
Speaker 1: worked in the earlier Monster Hunter games is you would
Speaker 1: have to get so you you would get armor, and
Speaker 1: they'd have a stat so it might say damage plus two,
Speaker 1: damage plus three, or defense plus two, defense plus three,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Right now, a normal video game player would think, oh,
Speaker 1: if I put this on, then I'll get damage plus
Speaker 1: two and damage plus three. Not in Monster Hunter and
Speaker 1: Monster Hunter the earlier games you had to get. So
Speaker 1: the way it worked was you had a stat boost
Speaker 1: of small, medium, are large. And the way you get
Speaker 1: those stat boosts is whether you can get the statu
Speaker 1: I think it was ten, fifteen or twenty, and so
Speaker 1: that means that if you put a strength plus two
Speaker 1: then you didn't have strength plus two. That means you
Speaker 1: have to find strength plus three. And when you have
Speaker 1: a strength uh, and then you get two more pieces
Speaker 1: or no, I think it was five ten fifty strength
Speaker 1: plus three, then you have a strength attack up small.
Speaker 1: So that so that's why I said I wasn't really
Speaker 1: playing it until later when my play group explained that
Speaker 1: to me. So that also kind of made it difficult
Speaker 1: for players because then it made it kind of hard
Speaker 1: to mix and match your armor because you know, you know, nerds,
Speaker 1: we like to stylize our characters. You couldn't really mix
Speaker 1: and match your armor because you needed like certain a
Speaker 1: certain amount of the armor to work well. Now in
Speaker 1: monster a world, what you see is what you get.
Speaker 1: If it's like plus two attack, then you get plus
Speaker 1: two attack. And so now people are getting really creative
Speaker 1: with their looks and all the different things you can
Speaker 1: do with it. We have to take another really quick break.
Speaker 1: We're going to hop back into Monster Hunter right after this.
Speaker 1: So if he wanted to say, did you ever play
Speaker 1: Monster Hunter Stories? No, I skipped it because it was
Speaker 1: just a little too cartoony and not in shade, because, um,
Speaker 1: it looks a lot like Pokemon. Um, it looks really
Speaker 1: cute though it's straight up. Yeah, it actually kind of
Speaker 1: looks like Digimon to be honest. Yeah, no it was.
Speaker 1: It was kind of you know, hit or miss for
Speaker 1: different people in the Monster Hunter community. Uh, it's just
Speaker 1: for me. I was like, it's just not monster like
Speaker 1: I fall. I go to Monster Hunter to hunt monsters,
Speaker 1: not really do this like whole lower base thing. But
Speaker 1: a few people like it, I wanted to say. Also,
Speaker 1: there was a Monster Hunter the Reel, which was a
Speaker 1: ride that opened in Universal Studios Japan for about half
Speaker 1: a year in you could have gone on it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know. I wasn't able to make it out there.
Speaker 1: It was a big deal, like all that was a
Speaker 1: big thing. And now there's gonna be a Monster Round
Speaker 1: movie coming out, which at first everyone was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, but then like leaked footage of the trailer
Speaker 1: came out. Now everyone's kind of on board with it,
Speaker 1: so we'll see what it's supposed to drop in. Feel
Speaker 1: like we would have seen more of it if it
Speaker 1: was But um, did you check any of the leaked footage? Like,
Speaker 1: did you look at any of it? No? I really
Speaker 1: don't like looking at like trailers. I like to just
Speaker 1: go in blind. So I'm pretty much of what what
Speaker 1: you are? You don't watch any trailers, you know? Uh?
Speaker 1: Really funny Mark was that way about my friend Mark
Speaker 1: Ellis was that way about anything Star Wars because he's like,
Speaker 1: I'm already going to see it. I don't need to
Speaker 1: watch I was in percent already seeing it. Don't need
Speaker 1: anything to be spoiled. I feel like trailers are cut
Speaker 1: really badly now. They give too much away. They do,
Speaker 1: so that's why. So my my theory about that is
Speaker 1: because they're trying to get the people that are not
Speaker 1: in that fandom. Us that are in the fandom, we're like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're already going to see it, We're already down. But
Speaker 1: they need to kind of get the other part of
Speaker 1: the audience here in America to be on board with it,
Speaker 1: you know, like the people that don't actually follow this
Speaker 1: in the news all the time. So sometimes they'll drop
Speaker 1: some of the whoa cool, Oh she's in it, and
Speaker 1: it's like, why did you give that away? Why did
Speaker 1: you show us that the villain or this part? You know,
Speaker 1: why did you? But it's for them to also be
Speaker 1: in it. Yeah, you're right, it looks like Mila Djovivic
Speaker 1: is going to be Oh, It's a September has a
Speaker 1: drop date of September four, directed by Paul ws Anderson. Uh,
Speaker 1: and it looks like the synopsis says, behind our world,
Speaker 1: there's another, a world of dangerous and powerful monsters that
Speaker 1: rule their domain with dead Lee for well, you know what,
Speaker 1: I love her for doing this, and Resident Evil and
Speaker 1: any other video game franchises that she has capitalized on. Uh.
Speaker 1: When Lieutenant Artemis and her loyal soldiers are transported from
Speaker 1: our world to the New World, the unflappable Lieutenant receives
Speaker 1: a shock of her life in her desperate battle for
Speaker 1: survival against enormous enemies with incredible powers and unstoppable terrifying
Speaker 1: attack I love whoever did this just had a thesaurus.
Speaker 1: Artemists will team up with a mysterious man, Tony Jaw,
Speaker 1: who has found a way to fight back. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think that's the thing people really don't like is the
Speaker 1: combining world's premise, where it's like, no, you just have
Speaker 1: the like world has a pretty good story. World has
Speaker 1: the more the most cohesive story out of all the
Speaker 1: monster hunters. And that's saying a lot because World really
Speaker 1: doesn't have much of a story. It's generally the same thing.
Speaker 1: You're a young plucky hunter coming to a new town,
Speaker 1: but now it's being attacked by an elder a dragon
Speaker 1: and they don't know why, you know, and I feel
Speaker 1: like you could just do that. Are you excited at
Speaker 1: all that more people will be exposed to this franchise? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but World actually did such a good job with that.
Speaker 1: World is actually one of Capcom's highest selling games. They
Speaker 1: sold over I think it was fifty million units in total.
Speaker 1: More than seventy percent of world sales were outside of Japan,
Speaker 1: which was a major milestone for Capcom. It looks like
Speaker 1: we will also have Ron Perlman. Yeah, T I T
Speaker 1: I is dropping in Megan Good who was just in shazamne.
Speaker 1: Here's my thing. It's it's never a good sign when
Speaker 1: people stuff like too many slebs in a like video
Speaker 1: game film, because like when you really think of like
Speaker 1: all major kind of I guess you want to say,
Speaker 1: like fantasy or sci fi franchise, how like you really
Speaker 1: don't have that many like name names, like you'll have
Speaker 1: a few, but you typically try and save the budget
Speaker 1: for v effects. You know, if you're dropping all that
Speaker 1: money with t I ron PERLM and all that. It
Speaker 1: makes me afraid how much money you're gonna have left
Speaker 1: to make the giant dragons that take place in this game,
Speaker 1: which you know, I guess we can run down a
Speaker 1: lot of the monsters. Uh So, typically every monster in
Speaker 1: a game starts off with your level one being like
Speaker 1: tiny raptor esque monsters and ending in gigantic, larger than
Speaker 1: life monsters. One of the bigger kind of well known
Speaker 1: monsters in the game has been the Rathian and the Raphaelos,
Speaker 1: which are two wyverns that are the worst to fight.
Speaker 1: Uh they were the worst to fight until we learned
Speaker 1: about basil geese, which we'll talk a little bit more later.
Speaker 1: But like so, the Rathian and Raphalos are the two dragons,
Speaker 1: and they have poison tail. So you'll be fighting them
Speaker 1: and they'll shoot fire and you'll dodge all that, and
Speaker 1: then in the in they will poke you with their
Speaker 1: poison tail, and now you have to run away from
Speaker 1: the fight and let your pelico get all beat up
Speaker 1: while you try and heal from poison. Because the poison
Speaker 1: is pretty brutal in Monster Hunter, mostly because it takes
Speaker 1: away your health a lot. But those are kind of
Speaker 1: like the the big wyverns you have. I enjoy this
Speaker 1: praying mantis looking thing. What was what's the name of
Speaker 1: that one? It looks like a taruk maybe Egyptian mantis.
Speaker 1: Monster Hunter xx oh this was Japan only. Oh no,
Speaker 1: but that that Monster Hunter x X. That that's the
Speaker 1: one that came out as Monster Hunters generations alter um
Speaker 1: because I but I do own Monster Hunter xx because
Speaker 1: that's how much I love Monster Hunter. And this nibble
Speaker 1: snarf these words is great. Zeno gray is great. It's
Speaker 1: like a little electric fox. That's pretty cool. The nibble
Speaker 1: snarf is a sand swimmer. It looks like a giant
Speaker 1: what I'm looking at looks kind of like a worm
Speaker 1: ish thing. And then a zam trios. A zam trios
Speaker 1: straight up looks like street sharks. And oh yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's the puffy one. Um yeah, oh yeah, nibble snarf
Speaker 1: is great. The great sword for that using its parts
Speaker 1: is really cool. Nibble snarf is nasty though, because nibble
Speaker 1: snarf goes under the sand and it's also a desert level,
Speaker 1: so you have to drink uh so much water to
Speaker 1: stay cool. Um. But but like the nibble snarf will
Speaker 1: just pop up from underground and just try and swallow you.
Speaker 1: So it looks like monstros Fromocio. Try and find zam Trios.
Speaker 1: Remember when we did our Street Street Sharks episode and
Speaker 1: I was like playing around on d V and art
Speaker 1: and saw things that I shouldn't have seen. But it
Speaker 1: was essentially street sharks in human form, like in what
Speaker 1: they would look like in a in a live action
Speaker 1: and it was like buff and erotic. Um, that's what
Speaker 1: zam Trios looks like in some of these iterations of him.
Speaker 1: Las see this is zam Trios gets real puffy like that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, looks like a street shark that's been stung
Speaker 1: by bees. This is the one that I saw, Iffy,
Speaker 1: I mean, doesn't that look like art? Yeah, zam zam
Speaker 1: Trios is rough. That puffy thing he does when he
Speaker 1: like sucks up all the air is like he kind
Speaker 1: of it's harder to hit him, and he can like
Speaker 1: roll uh, he can roll over and it's not a
Speaker 1: bad it's not a good time. Um. And you know,
Speaker 1: so these are like kind of like your bigger monsters
Speaker 1: that you're hunting. There's a lot of life in Monster Hunter. Uh,
Speaker 1: if you go to a map, it's not just going
Speaker 1: to be that one monster. There's you know a lot
Speaker 1: of herbivores that you can kind of bully, uh, usually
Speaker 1: for their meat so you can like raise your stamina.
Speaker 1: But then you also have these weird bugs that are
Speaker 1: there from time to time, like vest Boyd's. They're the
Speaker 1: worst because the way they work is they like slowly
Speaker 1: inched towards you, and you think, oh, there's no way
Speaker 1: this thing is gonna get me. But if you're fighting
Speaker 1: like a giant monster and you're not paying attention, it
Speaker 1: can thing you and then it will paralyze you, and
Speaker 1: then you're just stuck on the ground for about five seconds.
Speaker 1: And that's when Zantrios just, you know, just lays all
Speaker 1: on you. I really like is Barroth. It's a giant
Speaker 1: almost looks like a t Rex with a hammer head.
Speaker 1: And that one he's real tricky because that the hammer
Speaker 1: point of his um his head is extremely hard. So
Speaker 1: if you try and hit him with a blade, if
Speaker 1: you're if it's not sharp enough, it'll bounce off. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're someone like me who's a great sword user,
Speaker 1: you're charging up for like six seconds to like bring
Speaker 1: the blade down and do a big hit if they
Speaker 1: like shift and then put their head there. You just
Speaker 1: wasted all that time and it's a it's a bad time.
Speaker 1: It's gonna you're gonna hear a lot of me complaining
Speaker 1: about charging up. Um. I love these names. It kind
Speaker 1: of just like there's one called tigx. Oh. Yeah, tig
Speaker 1: Rex was the that dude back in the UH and
Speaker 1: that was like your first like why vern that you
Speaker 1: went against in the earlier monster hunters and tires would
Speaker 1: move super fast around the map, which made which kind
Speaker 1: of taught you to learn to understand the timing because
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be able to chase it around, so
Speaker 1: your move is either going to be knowing where it's
Speaker 1: gonna land and hitting it or baiting it to try
Speaker 1: to attack, you defend against it and punishing punishing it it. UH.
Speaker 1: But this is also where the fun of having teammates
Speaker 1: can help, because if you have someone with the bow
Speaker 1: that can keep harassing it till like it tries to
Speaker 1: go after the teammate and you defend it with a blade.
Speaker 1: There's all. Like I said, there's no one way to
Speaker 1: play monster Hunter. Like even when you go to just
Speaker 1: straight up hunt quests. You can kill the monster or
Speaker 1: you can, uh, you can capture it, and there's so
Speaker 1: you can use a trap. There's like three different traps.
Speaker 1: You can use the pitfall trap and the electric trap,
Speaker 1: um and I think there's one more trap I'm missing.
Speaker 1: And when they're trapped, then you can throw a tranquilizer
Speaker 1: at it and if the monster is weak enough then
Speaker 1: it falls us leap. Yeah, which means I also didn't
Speaker 1: go into the stages of the fight. So when you're
Speaker 1: on a hunt, you usually have to hunt a monster,
Speaker 1: and there are stages to the fight because after you,
Speaker 1: you know, do enough damage to each monster, it's gonna
Speaker 1: leave the area that it's in, you know how I said.
Speaker 1: It's the map is broken up in the quadrants. It'll
Speaker 1: leave an area and uh, sometimes it will need to feed.
Speaker 1: It will leave an area to feed and say it feeds,
Speaker 1: and then you chase it down some more. You chase
Speaker 1: it down some more until it gets really tired and
Speaker 1: then I don't want to take a nap. And then
Speaker 1: when it takes a nap, that's usually the last phase
Speaker 1: before you can kill it or capture it. And that's
Speaker 1: pretty much it it's like rents repeat those things. Now.
Speaker 1: The tricky things once again to look back to the
Speaker 1: hardness of the games is there's actually a like clear
Speaker 1: path that you need to take for these games. Like
Speaker 1: most people, if you didn't know this, you just did
Speaker 1: all the hunts and then eventually you get an urgent quest.
Speaker 1: But there actually are specific hunts you you do for
Speaker 1: urgent quests, so if you know those hunts, you can
Speaker 1: kind of streamline your kind of rank ups. So like
Speaker 1: like usually it's like these two monsters at this level,
Speaker 1: then you'll get your urgent quests, and then at the
Speaker 1: next level it will be like three or four monsters
Speaker 1: and then you just hit those instead of doing all
Speaker 1: of it, and then once you get to the last one,
Speaker 1: you'll get a credit role. And then eventually they added
Speaker 1: a level called G Rank, which were super hard versions
Speaker 1: of monsters and it and it was cool because it
Speaker 1: kept the stats of like the how many hunts you
Speaker 1: did with which weapon, what's the biggest version of a
Speaker 1: monsque you fought the smallest version, etcetera. And gonna have
Speaker 1: to come over and maybe play it. Mainly just because
Speaker 1: I like the cat a lot. The Polticos are great,
Speaker 1: see and then and then, and that isn't even talking
Speaker 1: about the I think it's called the mill and the
Speaker 1: minks and the Milnx. There's the evil version of Policos
Speaker 1: that are on maps that will attack you and steal
Speaker 1: your items. Uh so you and the only way you
Speaker 1: can get your item back as if you hit kill
Speaker 1: them first, and you don't really get to kill them,
Speaker 1: they just kind of get knocked out and disappear. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I want somebody to come up with a tutorial on
Speaker 1: how to make your Polico a dog. I mean that
Speaker 1: would be crazy. Oh also, since you love Polico so much,
Speaker 1: I forgot to tell you. In Generations there was a
Speaker 1: whole new mode they created to where you can play
Speaker 1: as the Polico. So you so so you would get
Speaker 1: to do hunts as a Polico. And what was cool
Speaker 1: about it is you had unlimited gathering stuff. So you know,
Speaker 1: not only do you need monster parts for different armors
Speaker 1: and weapons, but sometimes you'll need resources like different ores
Speaker 1: from mining stuff. Sometimes you might need a bug or two.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you might need different vines or plants or bones,
Speaker 1: and these are all things you just find from gathering
Speaker 1: on the level, so it's not just about hunting monsters,
Speaker 1: is also about going around gathering resources from the map.
Speaker 1: And that new mode was cool because you were just
Speaker 1: able to kind of just be a kitty and just
Speaker 1: run around and gather the resources semi stress free because
Speaker 1: monsters still were live and active on these maps and
Speaker 1: they did hunt you down. Hello mioster e st Um.
Speaker 1: This has been enlightening on a subject that I have
Speaker 1: never played. Yeah, yeah, that's this has been me talking
Speaker 1: too much about Monster Hunter. But you know, if you're
Speaker 1: interested in the game, the best place to start right now,
Speaker 1: honestly is Monster in the World. They streamlined a lot
Speaker 1: of the stuff. There's so many quality of life updates,
Speaker 1: but you know, if you do only have a switch,
Speaker 1: there is uh that either one available is Generations Ultimate
Speaker 1: and I just would say go on the monster on
Speaker 1: a wiki and everything I just mentioned it'll have for you,
Speaker 1: which is the key quest that you need to do
Speaker 1: in order to upgrade. And just like general stat combos
Speaker 1: that you can do, and now that it's going to
Speaker 1: be dropping in, you can have a leg up on
Speaker 1: your friends who have ever watched it played it. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: when everyone's asking you all these monster Hunter facts. When
Speaker 1: this movie that is for sure not going to be
Speaker 1: a flop comes out in twenty day, you don't know.
Speaker 1: The photos look cool. I mean everything about it looks cool,
Speaker 1: but it just feels like the recipe. It's like when
Speaker 1: you're looking at a recipe, We're like, man, this this
Speaker 1: gumbo looks good, but I saw what you put in it.
Speaker 1: How could you talk about Lee lu Dallas that way?
Speaker 1: Oh look, Mila knows how I feel about She can
Speaker 1: do no wrong, Multi pass t I however, I am
Speaker 1: at Ms Danny Fernandez friends on all the things. Please
Speaker 1: catch me at New York Comic Con. I have a
Speaker 1: bunch of panels that I announced I updated it. I'm
Speaker 1: actually gonna be there Thursday through Sunday, so I have
Speaker 1: panels glore. I'm also rejoining sci Fi Wire to do
Speaker 1: the Great Debate that's Friday night there. I'm also on
Speaker 1: a Latin XT panel on Thursday and on Sunday I
Speaker 1: have a panel with the Disney Princesses. All super cool.
Speaker 1: Check it out. I would love to meet you at
Speaker 1: New York Comic Con, and you know me if you
Speaker 1: away on Twitter and Instagram, if D's on Twitch, I
Speaker 1: will not be a New York Comic Con. And if
Speaker 1: you're sad in Texas that you're not at New York
Speaker 1: Comic Con, white women will be performing at the Troll
Speaker 1: Comedy Fest in Houston, So pull up see us do
Speaker 1: some some canedy. And uh yeah, besides that, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll be goofing around town, uh doing stuff, just stuff.
Speaker 1: Follow me on Twitter and you'll know where I'll be at. But,
Speaker 1: like we always say, stay neardy.