So I tried the very first Monster Hunter game...

[Good Night Owl]

And dear god has this game come a long way. Monster Hunter World is my first Monster Hunter game, and I have heard that if it is, don't bother to play the others. Well here's the thing, i have experience with old games, and can tolerate lesser versions of a more modern game.

I wondered why every single time you try to search the web for "Monster Hunter 1" it turns almost no results for the first game, and it feels near impossible to find guides without getting results for another MH game. I wondered why no one talks about the FIRST Monster Hunter, and found out why.

It's old... Old, and it was the first Monster Hunter game. All the mistakes they made, they fixed. I get so frustrated while playing it because I play it solo, but there are many times you will find yourself in situations where it's CLEARLY optimized for a multiplayer experience when you're getting tossed around like a volley ball by 10 Bullfango (Boars) all in one area of the map.

Because of the stiff movements, it can actually be pretty difficult to dodge attacks that you can see coming from a mile away. There are a lot less weapon choices. interestingly, there is incentive to try different weapons on certain monsters. Monsters who change position a lot seem to be better handled with a big, slow heavy hitter rather than the sword and shield which chips away at them slowly. I haven't gotten far enough to say for sure, but I'm thinking a fast weapon would be better against big targets, and ranged is good against Wyverns... Or pretty much everything.

Items seem to be CRUCIAL in the first game. Some Monsters are literally almost impossible to beat without certain items. Sounds like a good things, until you realize that all the plants look the same, and there's no indicators telling you where you can and can't gather. There's no "Expeditions" so the game is basically encouraging you to forage as you go. But because of the lack of indicator, that sucks when you're on a timer (and you ALWAYS are).

Not sure how far I'll get because I usually stop playing from frustration rather than any sort of satisfaction. Most of the anger comes *not* from the item gathering (which is a chore compared to MHW), or even the fact that you have to stop and flex (being literal there) just to drink a potion. It comes from the mechanics of the monsters. Some of them have requirements that the player simply won't be prepared for, like requiring certain items to make them vulnerable, or *way* easier with this weapon instead of that weapon, ect. This is fine in late game (like MHW. But this is right in the beginning of the first game)

What I do wonder is, are all the others like the first? I Mean, are they improved, or are they copy pastes of the first game? I do know that damage numbers aren't a thing in other MH games, and you have to figure out their weaknesses, that's fine. But the first game has kinda... Weird hit-boxes, that make it awkward to figure out where they are "weak"

Despite all I have said though, I'm not even past 3 star missions yet. These are just first impressions of the first game, and things I've noticed about a small handful of monsters.

[OvO (Oval)]

oh mH1,i remember i play MH freedom
i cannot go back, it is a wifi 4 player game
but many things improved there is just a classic game, IE, mario

[Good Night Owl]

Originally posted by seaoneday:

oh mH1,i remember i play MH freedom
i cannot go back, it is a wifi 4 player game
but many things improved there is just a classic game, IE, mario

Yeah. I'm HR 52 in MHW. I love MHW so I tried MH1. MH1 is... interesting.

[Popcorn]

Originally posted by seaoneday:

the monsters has 2000-3000hp and i remember when i am HR10 i hit like 5-10
yes you can Flare SOS and add friends in lobby
it is an expertise game which needs both fighting muscle and skills of know how
it is the know how of how to do certains things and know how of how to hunt a monster
I cant tell the plants too, but u will need months to know which plants can craft certain potion and some just left it there
i think 3 or 5 stars you can grow honey and thus mega potion, and you can use controller hot key to drink potion and u hit R1 running while drinking potion the monsters rarely can interrupt you
just add more friends to play we are nice and see if you can get to HR 15 and more magador story

u DO realize he's talking bout the FIRST monhun right? not MHW?
edit: of COURSE u edited it right afterwards xD

[OvO (Oval)]

I remember i hunted like 30 times of one hour before I hunt down the TIgerRex in MH1

[Popcorn]

i dont remember my first difficult monster, but my first MonHun was 3U, my bros we all got 3ds' JUST to play MonHun, stayed until 3-4am once at my 2nd oldest brother's house (had a party going on the next day too xD)

[Good Night Owl]

Originally posted by seaoneday:

I remember i hunted like 30 times of one hour before I hunt down the TIgerRex in MH1

Sounds pretty tough. I tried fighting Rathalos in the tutorial. Nearly got one-shotted by him just like MHW, so I ran lol

[Good Night Owl]

Originally posted by wameng0409:

i dont remember my first monster, but my first MonHun was 3U, my bros we all got 3ds' JUST to play MonHun, stayed until 3-4am once at my 2nd oldest brother's house (had a party going on the next day too xD)

Does that game have a lot of different monsters from MHW?

[OvO (Oval)]

does it have a 3d screen?

[Kaldor Draigo]

"What I do wonder is, are all the others like the first? I Mean, are they improved, or are they copy pastes of the first game?"

They are certainly improved. Even MHFU is way better than the first game.
But from MH3 onwards they improved enough to not be frustrating games.

In fact, I like 4U and XX more than World so it depends on the player if you are going to like them more or less than World.

[JPM岩]

Monster Hunter is the franchise where everyone can agree that moving forward is the best choice (at least for main series)

[Kaldor Draigo]

Originally posted by seaoneday:

I remember i hunted like 30 times of one hour before I hunt down the TIgerRex in MH1

Tigrex is a second gen monster. His debut was in Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (Freedom 2). How did you fight him in MH1?.

[Popcorn]

Originally posted by Sckolar:

Originally posted by wameng0409:

i dont remember my first monster, but my first MonHun was 3U, my bros we all got 3ds' JUST to play MonHun, stayed until 3-4am once at my 2nd oldest brother's house (had a party going on the next day too xD)

Does that game have a lot of different monsters from MHW?

lots of underwater/introduction of leviathans. Los and Ian were still in there

[lexilogo]

Yeah, MH1 is, uh... Yeah.

As the series went on they did improve a lot of MH1's flaws, like the difficulty ramping up too early, many monster mechanics that were simply unfair, Plesioth's existence (though that one came and went), and so on.

A lot of veterans would agree that the third generation of Monster Hunter games onward is what one should look to if they're interested in older MH mechanics.

3 has underwater combat, 4 was the straightforward evolution of the series with underwater combat getting axed, and Generations was a gigantic celebration of MH history with the single largest monstercount in the main series, and also took the chance to experiment a bit with the Hunter Arts system.

The older MH games were still good in their own rights especially for the time, but, to put it diplomatically, the jank is real.

[Madknight]

That Bullfango quest was a pain to solo, but The Fatalis fight is still my favorite elder dragon fight to date.

[OvO (Oval)]

when i back to the forest with my fire spear, i just swing it around and the nine dogs dies