Thunder Serpent and Final Boss were absolutely terrible

[Fraktal]

I hope Capcom ditches these two clowns from future games.

The floating ♥♥♥♥ was weird, the mounted weapons dumb, and the general moveset lackluster and boring.

XenoJiva was 100x the finale boss that these two idiots are.

Luckily the Valstrax fight was great, really enjoyed it.

[LunarisRuin]

Xeno'Jiiva was not that good.

He kind of just runs and stumbles around and maybe shoots a laser or two. At least Ibushi and Narwa are threatening with interesting moves other than charging at you for 98% of the fight.

[zero]

yeah the xeno's were just all around better, it felt like the mounted weapons always go away a bit too fast, but i guess its because of their high damage.

[Ahriman]

xeno jiiva was a terrible monster. take off the rose tinted glasses dude. lol
ishvalda gets points simply for looking very cool but it wasn't a very engaging fight either. at least they tried to be more creative with narwa and ibushi.

[Jeris]

Replace turrets with dropping rocks gimmick and you have the Xeno fight.

[zero]

Originally posted by Jeris:

Replace turrets with dropping rocks gimmick and you have the Xeno fight.

i mean: dragonator is already in the arena, thats just falling rocks but sideways

[OoOoOoooOOoOoorgle]

I...wat.

Allmother is so much better than the absolute snoozefest that was Xeno. Shara even managed to be better than Xeno, and that should be insulting.

If you really want World to win this "fight," pick Safi or maybe Kulve.

Personally I prefer Safi to all of the above, and hope we get something along those lines in Sunbreak.

[rina]

I think they are kinda lame but Xeno and Shara weren't better. AT Xeno was amazing tho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRw0hkbU8ew
That's the only memorable thing about Shara.

[LunarisRuin]

Originally posted by OoOoOoooOOoOoorgle:

I...wat.

Allmother is so much better than the absolute snoozefest that was Xeno. Shara even managed to be better than Xeno, and that should be insulting.

This is the truth and nothing but the truth.

[heroesground27]

People loved Xeno'jiva's appearance, but I distinctly remember everyone saying the fight was lackluster and boring. The AT version was considered an improvement.

[Greb]

I don't think any of the big monster fights have been good, except maybe Behemoth if you consider him big enough. Xeno'Jiiva only started being fun once I had access to a Kulve Taroth Anjanath based bow so I could just shred him mercilessly. Arch Tempered Xeno'Jiiva could have been fun without the time limit, Safi'Jiiva was never fun, at least not after the magic wore off from the first few kills he became a chore to fight. Shara Ishvalda was kind of fun, definitely a lot more engaging and had some fun stuff going for him, but the first part of the fight was just padding which made me always hesitant to fight him. Don't think I need to mention Kulve Taroth, even the killable version.

Dunno about anyone else but Narwa and the Allmother was just creepy. That ball sack shaped float sac thing that also seemed to double up as a pregnant stomach, it just veered into weird almost fetish territory to me, lol. I know this is 100% opinion, but just everything about it was odd to me. From the giant rings of pure solid gold you had to dive, jump or duck over, to summoning the weapons emplacements that stick around only long enough to reach them without using them in most cases, to the big AoE death spin vortex thing, to the annoying design where it's floating upside down (which for some reason struck me as very silly and that made me find it hard to enjoy) making melee a nightmare. Knocking it into various positions where the goal was to blast the float sac ballsack womb thing was just odd to me too lol.

Also the fact they talked in cutscenes made things weird too. I don't know if that's a common thing in previous Monster Hunter games admittedly, but it felt really out of place. I can respect that it might be a Japanese thing though - it felt very "anime" in design and I recall watching some old Godzilla episodes back in like the 90s where some of the monsters communicated telepathically and such...so yeah. Not really complaining about it, just saying that it was weird.

Seemed like a boss that'd only be fun if you had a bowgun, anyway. Blech!

[AfLIcTeD]

"Oh great gotta pack my weapon away again so I can climb these floating rocks"

"♥♥♥♥ it didn't climb the ledge and my wirebugs are on cooldown. Great missed all that free damage"

Narwa in a nutshell.

[Fraktal]

Originally posted by OoOoOoooOOoOoorgle:

I...wat.

Allmother is so much better than the absolute snoozefest that was Xeno. Shara even managed to be better than Xeno, and that should be insulting.

If you really want World to win this "fight," pick Safi or maybe Kulve.

Personally I prefer Safi to all of the above, and hope we get something along those lines in Sunbreak.

Wasn't Safi post IB? I was trying to keep it to the base game and its content pre IB>

[OoOoOoooOOoOoorgle]

Originally posted by The Orange and Blue Ninja:

Originally posted by OoOoOoooOOoOoorgle:

I...wat.

Allmother is so much better than the absolute snoozefest that was Xeno. Shara even managed to be better than Xeno, and that should be insulting.

If you really want World to win this "fight," pick Safi or maybe Kulve.

Personally I prefer Safi to all of the above, and hope we get something along those lines in Sunbreak.

Wasn't Safi post IB? I was trying to keep it to the base game and its content pre IB>

Yeah, I did consider that might be the case.

But I still think world loses base-vs-base. The twin serpents may not succeed everything they attempt here in their fight mechanics, but they're trying. And to me it felt a lot more like something is actually "going on" during the fight.

Compared to a (Cool looking! Consolation points) dragon that lazily lumbers after you and occasionally remembers it has a laser and something-something hot floor. Yaaaawn.

[Neeto]

In your opinion*

[zero]

Originally posted by Neeto:

In your opinion*

yes its a forum post, thats at the end of everyones message lol.

i'd still agree though, they try to give them unique mechanics but they're too quick and otherwise its just a floaty dragon to try to make you use your wirebugs and stuff instead of really being interesting.