"G Rank equivalent" in Iceborne is officially called "Master Rank"

[JPM岩]

https://twitter.com/MHKogath/status/1086090435515211777

Thoughts? I know that no one knows why its called G Rank, like, the G had no meaning.

[Jarrude]

It means "Great". Its a term used a lot in Japan to express upgraded or better versions of things. or giga?

[Flip_Light]

Makes sense. "G-rank" doesn't fit well with the western audience, and their goal in this game was to get the western audience hooked (which they succeeded in doing.)

Just means harder fights, which I think we can all agree is mostly a good thing :P

But yeah personally G-rank sounds better to me personally. Oh well xD

[JPM岩]

"G Rank" I'm more used to, but Master Rank makes more sense.

[Apothecaryᴿˣ]

Reminds me of a manga called "Gun x Clover." Boy, was that hot pile o' ♥♥♥♥.

Who cares. As long as there's monsters to hunt, I'm all for it.

[Sotanaht]

S-Rank probably would have tested better. But either way why fix what ain't broke? This will just lead to people ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that MHW still doesn't have actual G-Rank

[Flip_Light]

Originally posted by Sotanaht:

S-Rank probably would have tested better. But either way why fix what ain't broke? This will just lead to people ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that MHW still doesn't have actual G-Rank

That's what I was thinking was gonna happen. Lately the community has been full of nothing but whiners when it comes to MHW, I'm sure people are gonna flip their ♥♥♥♥ about the rename and say stupid things like "BUT IT'S NOT TRUE G RANK EEEEE"

[auliaindra99]

i think this opens up possibility of MHW getting another expansions, so MHW might get 2 major expansions instead of usual 1 and 4 hunter ranks instead of 3
the reasons why i think so is because MHW is bigger(in terms of data size) and more demanding than previous game so they probably can't afford to split the team into 2 like they did in the past, monster hunter is a game that is released annually so instead of releasing 1 mainline game,1 major expansions and 1 spinoff game per generation they probably will change it to 1 mainline game and 2 major expansions instead

[Shark]

BUT IT'S NOT TRUE G RANK REEEEE

[Kaldor Draigo]

Originally posted by Ban:

BUT IT'S NOT TRUE G RANK REEEEE

[Kaldor Draigo]

Jokes aside, as long as it is like G-rank, the name doesn't matter.

[JPM岩]

Originally posted by auliaindra99:

i think this opens up possibility of MHW getting another expansions, so MHW might get 2 major expansions instead of usual 1 and 4 hunter ranks instead of 3
the reasons why i think so is because MHW is bigger(in terms of data size) and more demanding than previous game so they probably can't afford to split the team into 2 like they did in the past, monster hunter is a game that is released annually so instead of releasing 1 mainline game,1 major expansions and 1 spinoff game per generation they probably will change it to 1 mainline game and 2 major expansions instead

I'm hoping World will be a base foundation, and expansion will add onto it, like Frontier.

[Xilo The Odd]

eh semantics. its all it is, its gonna be going into the quest ranks that constituted G rank back in the day, before they just started calling it G1, G2 and so on all the way up to G4.

[Meaw]

yes! master hunter!!

[CourtesyFlush09]

Smart move. I don't think many new, Western players would understand what G-rank means.

[Hare+Guu!]

Originally posted by CourtesyFlush90:

Smart move. I don't think many new, Western players would understand what G-rank means.

You'll have bunch of trolls saying when's "G rank" though.