The newer monster hunter games try to explain it away as functionally conservation efforts, telling you that the ones you’re killing are throwing off the local ecosystem, but it falls pretty flat when they also pit captured ‘research specimens’ against you in the arena they built explicitly for that purpose…
Isn’t the story of a majority of Monster Hunter games preservation? When certain monsters start destroying the balance of a biome, that’s when we’re supposed to take them out. You of course hunt multiple times because it’s a game, but story wise you’re only killing what needs to be killed to preserve balance and continued existence of all the monsters, often hampering an invasive species or a specific infection etc.
Yes.
Spoilers for every Monster Hunter plot:
The monsters in the wild are becoming way more aggressive/crazy, resulting in not only the ecosystem going out of whack, but also endangering human settlements.
You start off as a rookie hunter by culling them, and as you work up the ranks you discover that the source of this imbalance is actually due to a mysterious new monster (not actually that mysterious because it’s usually the cover art monster).
You gradually gain more experience and kill the flagship monster, graduating low rank (the first half of the game), roll credits.
But it turns out the mysterious new monster only invaded the ecosystem because it was escaping from an even bigger threat, the new Elder Dragon of the game, whose awakening is a once in a 1000 year occurrence and is causing even more mayhem in the ecosystem.
You work up the ranks again, and slay the Elder Dragon, graduating high rank (second half of game), credits roll for second time.
Rinse and repeat for the G rank DLC/expansion, where you also get some new areas.
Canonically everything is done for the ecosystem. Gameplay wise there is significant dissonance as you genocide multiple species just for a 1% drop to upgrade your corpse dress.
I mean, at the same.time tho… These are digital monsters, not living animals…
The games about sick boss fights and cool gear. That’s fun in its own right
Tainted Grail is amazing if anyone needs something with a good Elder Scrolls kind of game in a setting that’s a mix of Arthurian legend and Lovecraftian horror.
That’s why I don’t do any of the quests in Skyrim that kills a giant or mammoth. They’re just doing their thing, won’t mess with you if you don’t mess with them or their stuff.
This is one of the points covered several times in The Witcher series. The monsters are doing their thing, and should really only be messed with when they interfere with humans.
Yes! I liked that aspect in both the books and the games.
I found Monster Hunter boring.
That’s totally valid. No one’s perfect.
Speak for yourself.
I’m joking.
Just stirring the shit a little.
I’m sure m.h is fun for lots of folks just wasn’t my cup of tea. I’m a simple man, i like my rts and fps…with a dash of rpg. I couldn’t appreciate the beauty of m.h
