How Monster Hunter 4 PERFECTED its genre - Monster Hunter 4 REVIEW

4 is definitely where its at. Its at least top 3. The game grew with the player and led on the best story the franchise had to offer.

4u had the best roster of monsters. My friends and I played it everyday for four months, ordering pizza , drinking beer, fighting gog drunk. Best times ever. A year later while waiting for one of our friends to lobby up one of our best friends died at 23 being hit dead on by a drunk driver so this game holds a special place in my heart . R.I.P Chris

4U is a certified hood classic. Best of the series.

4U literally saved my life. When I was at the worst point of my depression it wasn't friends or family that kept me from ending it all, it was this game.

I'll always remember the hype leading up to Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate's release. I was in high school at the time and one of my friends imported a Japanese 3DS to play the DEMO a week early. We all thought he was crazy, but we were all huddled around him watching him play that demo during lunch when he got it.

watching this dude debate with himself over definitions he himself made is entertaining

playing through 4u rn (30 hours) in and I must say, the way quests and story are handled is really the best in the series. So far the whole game has just been a positive surprise in general, might become my fav depending on how it goes.

39:33 Okay I've got a criticism on this part. You seem to be under the idea that learning about the Elder Crossing and by extension New World wasn't really important and the Guild just did it out of curiosity but that simply isn't true. Elder Crossing always causes mass destruction in the Old World every 100 years due to the Elder Dragons starting to move toward the New World (For example that's why Lunastra marched through the village bringing destruction in Legends of the Guild so that gives a good idea of what it causes). A massive Elder dragon migration is obviously a big deal for the world of MH, both Old and New. And it's especially big a deal when it suddenly starts happening every 10 years instead of 100 and no one knows why. The cause was of course a Xeno'jiiva and the Guild took care of it. We don't know if this restored the frequency of the Elder Crossing or not but presumably yes and even if not that just means the Guild knows the cause for the acceleration of it and has means to try stop it. So as an answer to the "Is anything the Guild really necessary or even beneficial for the humanity's survival" should be an absolute yes Imo. I think World presented its story very poorly and caused alot of confusion as a result but the setting is great and makes more sense when you understand what's actually happening. Namely what the Elder Crossing causes and why the guild went there in the first place Also, it's only the 5th fleet's job to research monsters through killing or capturing them hence the hunter + Handler tag teams. The other fleets have their distinct jobs and goals too. The Guild is doing much more in the New World than just randomly killing monsters to study them But yeah other than that this is a great video. It's nice that you're able to approach these topics from all kinds of angles since the Dos video was pretty black and white

MH4U was my very first MH experience, i was but a young lad with a 3ds and a dream of defeating larger than life dragons and dinosaurs. I hope it gets a remake someday

21:37 Tri had an item box next to the exit in Loc Lac 34:20 Third Gen also had specific locales such as the Sacred Land or Underwater ruins

35:37 Man, I remember Fire drill as one of those infamous Guild/Ancestral hall quests, one could drop into a lobby, chat "Fire drill?" and everyone then knew what was up next, absolute classic Also, impressive double K.O. there, would have quick-chatted a "wow" in a heartbeat. Awesome video, long live the Caravan!

you made me remember why 4U is my favorite MonHun game. Now I want to replay it, even if my backlog is huge.

MH4U is the golden age and one of the amazing 4 hunter online or solo game on the 3ds.

Something worth noting is that Monster Hunter 4 and 3G were both announced on the same day, so that should give a little better idea of the development timeline

Funny how the two games that each double down on different aspects of the series are even meant to be parallels of each other. One of the reasons why Dundorma is back is precisely because 4U is supposed to parallel Dos.

4U is still my most beloved and most played game in the series. I play it even now and not Rise/world/. Monster Hunter without guild quests and Relics is boring to me

Eleven minutes in and i can't stop smiling. You've improved so much over the year! Great character development right here.

Couldn’t play MH4U because playing on the 3ds hurts my eyes so really hoping they remaster this game!!

I just finished the intro section of the video and I can't wait to find the time to finish the rest. I love discussing MH, as I feel fairly unique, as my first game was World, and then through playing the old games for the first time, I started forming my own opinions on this franchise. 4U is particularly special to me as it was my second MH game, and more importantly, it was the one where I truly fell in love with this franchise. Additionally, 4U easily has the best in game cutscenes in the series, I love how perfectly they blend into gameplay, world also did this well for the most part but I feel like 4U executed them better and I love how nearly every monster got a cool intro cutscene in 4U. I've played all the way back to freedom unite, but would be interested in playing 1G, portable 3rd, tri, and maybe dos. But those games could be tricky to emulate, I felt that it was a bit difficult getting Hunsterverse to work for FU so I'm not sure if I could do fan translations for games like protable 3rd (which weren't localized) or other requirements for emulating games like in Tri, where I'd have to connect to a private server to play high rank.

You mention that humanity's existence doesn't quite rely on the Guild's actions in World, but they do say that if Zorah Magdaros were to die in the everstream it would basically cause a thermonuclear explosion that would completely destroy the New World... Then chasing Nergigante around leads the seeker to find the nesting place of Xeno'jiiva, a previously undiscovered species of elder dragon. Not saying World has a good story, but the Guild stopping Zorah was a very important task that happened to lead to the discovery of weird new species after a somewhat disappointing boss fight.