Was monster hunter frontier good?

[Guizin]

I believe it was available for pc, right? Only for south Korea
Was it any good? I heard frontier was controversial and that it was too flashy. Anyone knows anything about that
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[Seamus]

Frontier was on PC and Xbox 360.

Pretty sure South Korea only got the pc version, while Japan got PC and 360.

It was... okay.

[Brig]

Ice teostra looks dope

[Tregrenos]

Let's just say it was the most "anime" and went into the territory of unexplainable magic the mainstream games avoid aside from crossover shenanigans. If a creature can do something "just because" it just doesn't fit well within the MH universe and while you can try and explain most of the crazy Frontier designs with an open mind there are a few that you'd be grasping at straws to rationalize.

[Guizin]

Originally posted by Tregrenos:

Let's just say it was the most "anime" and went into the territory of unexplainable magic the mainstream games avoid aside from crossover shenanigans. If a creature can do something "just because" it just doesn't fit well within the MH universe and while you can try and explain most of the crazy Frontier designs with an open mind there are a few that you'd be grasping at straws to rationalize.

give me some examples

[McREEEEEE]

No. Why?

Lunastra is something you would find in Frontier regularly. Lots of monsters aren't designed to be a fun fight. They are designed revolved around gimmicks and to be an annoyance

[JPM岩]

Frontier is considered the best MH game simply due to it showing Monster Hunter in it's truest form. Things got harder and harder, gear not more and more elaborate. Most of MHGenU and Iceborne are pages taken from Frontier's book.

[Tregrenos]

Originally posted by Guizin:

Originally posted by Tregrenos:

Let's just say it was the most "anime" and went into the territory of unexplainable magic the mainstream games avoid aside from crossover shenanigans. If a creature can do something "just because" it just doesn't fit well within the MH universe and while you can try and explain most of the crazy Frontier designs with an open mind there are a few that you'd be grasping at straws to rationalize.

give me some examples

https://monsterhunter.fandom.com/wiki/Eruzerion
The "Shoto Todoroki" of Monster Hunter was something added because "it looked cool", but made no sense. If it weren't a perfect half/half it wouldn't be so ridiculous compared to what we've seen from Elder Dragons. If maybe they kept the left side and right side as they are, but the middle was more "normal" and not a perfect split it wouldn't look like a cartoon character.

https://monsterhunter.fandom.com/wiki/Ruler_Guanzorumu
Fire wings? Ok, but why though? And how the hell does this thing fly with all those spikes? This thing has to be full of hot air for it to float, much like its joke of an edgelord concept.

https://monsterhunter.fandom.com/wiki/Harudomerugu
A Kushala that sweats liquid metal and has a bunch of knives instead of wings which are made of solid metal yet somehow allows this thing to fly? It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Magnito!

https://monsterhunter.fandom.com/wiki/Guanzorumu
When designing this thing the directions said "More spikes!" and had a little heart drawing next to it. Not the most bizarre design when compared to those above, but it essentially sums up Frontier with the statement "Too much isn't cool enough!"

[mewlynx]

Originally posted by Tregrenos:

Originally posted by Guizin:

give me some examples

https://monsterhunter.fandom.com/wiki/Eruzerion
The "Shoto Todoroki" of Monster Hunter was something added because "it looked cool", but made no sense. If it weren't a perfect half/half it wouldn't be so ridiculous compared to what we've seen from Elder Dragons. If maybe they kept the left side and right side as they are, but the middle was more "normal" and not a perfect split it wouldn't look like a cartoon character.

https://monsterhunter.fandom.com/wiki/Ruler_Guanzorumu
Fire wings? Ok, but why though? And how the hell does this thing fly with all those spikes? This thing has to be full of hot air for it to float, much like its joke of an edgelord concept.

https://monsterhunter.fandom.com/wiki/Harudomerugu
A Kushala that sweats liquid metal and has a bunch of knives instead of wings which are made of solid metal yet somehow allows this thing to fly? It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Magnito!

https://monsterhunter.fandom.com/wiki/Guanzorumu
When designing this thing the directions said "More spikes!" and had a little heart drawing next to it. Not the most bizarre design when compared to those above, but it essentially sums up Frontier with the statement "Too much isn't cool enough!"

They are pretty ridiculous from a design and concept standpoint, but that's not necessarily a bad thing imo. Granted, the spike meme is very real with Frontier monsters, but there are still some standouts. Plus, the end-game to Frontier seemed way more exciting with how stupidly strong and over-the-top the monsters get, but I also never played Frontier so maybe it wasn't as fun as it looks.

[lexilogo]

Originally posted by maelynx:

They are pretty ridiculous from a design and concept standpoint, but that's not necessarily a bad thing imo. Granted, the spike meme is very real with Frontier monsters, but there are still some standouts. Plus, the end-game to Frontier seemed way more exciting with how stupidly strong and over-the-top the monsters get, but I also never played Frontier so maybe it wasn't as fun as it looks.

Okay, I will preface this by saying that not every Frontier design is bad visually IMO, it's just that it's more in a "even a broken clock is right twice a day" sense. I also appreciate that Frontier's design choices are deliberately different from the main series and even like the idea of MH spinoffs having slightly more outlandish designs.

WITH THAT SAID, is there anyone out there who still isn't clear on what doing MH: Frontier designs does? Okay, last time.


This is your brain.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2282651411

This is a very blurry Frontier monster design.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2282651380

This is your brain on extremely blurry Frontier monster designs.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2282651468

Any questions?

[ᔑᓭ∴ᔑリ⊣]

afaik frontier is more like an MMO than an actual MH game

[Schizm]

Originally posted by ᔑᓭ∴ᔑリ⊣:

afaik frontier is more like an MMO than an actual MH game

MHO is more MMO like an MMO, frontier was structured like a normal MH game.

[Tregrenos]

Originally posted by lexilogo:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2282651468

In keeping with Frontiers overall design they threw in Spiked Fatalis because why the ♥♥♥♥ not? I swear this game immediately opens with your character stepping on a loose nail.

[DLOZanma]

While Frontier does exaggerate on spikes being put on things for no reason, sometimes i feel like people completely forgive mainline designs for....bias, i guess? That Guanzorumu thing up there has less spikes on its whole body than Safi'Jiiva does on its tail alone. Hell, Rathalos itself has 0 reason to be chock full of spiked scales since "flat" scaled wyverns like Tigrex exist. Not to mention World itself brought to MH the most spiky monster of all, even spikier than Frontier's half fox half edgehog Hyujikiki, not that foxy here ever held that title before, considering Akantor was also a thing.

[Shpeeno]

I don't think frontier having spikey monsters is a bad thing. Espinas looks pretty cool imho.

Most of the original monsters are fine, really. Where it gets bad is with the exaggerated "variations" of existing monsters, like the zenith species, or the frontier fatalises mentioned above. Adding more/bigger spikes to an existing monster isn't necessarily a bad thing, they just handled it poorly and many of them look pretty stupid.

Original spikey monsters like Nergigante or Espinas or Akantor look cool because there was at least some competence going into their designs and how they looked.

Frontier White Fatalis has some unicorn horn jutting out of his head for no reason that makes it impossible to take the god of all monsters seriously.