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The most rad episode yet, confirmed. Good to see you here dude!

Timestamps: 1:42 superads content 7:38 gaijins epic troll 8:26 Yoko taro 17:20 superRADs origin story: 21:17 gaijins (wrong) opinion on poogie 25:29 flagship monsters 31:50 quality of life features 43:01 maps 46:27 small monsters 50:01 aerial gunlance 51:25 open vs segmented maps 58:40 voice lines and acting 1:07:30 hunting times 1:13:49 GU gunlance and heat guage 1:18:07 appeal of the longsword 1:24:02 hunting horn changes ( bring back encores ;-;) 1:27:48 difficulty 1:30:49 switchaxes, and making 1000 switchaxes 1:36:02 superRADs gunlance opinion 1:37:02 doing all the arena quests 1:43:42 superRADs favorite monsters 1:46:20 hellfire cloak 1:49:00 luck and getting rare items 1:52:29 rampages 1:55:47 jhen/ dah'ren moran and the apex monsters 2:00:44 investigations and event quests 2:10:14 collab event quests 2:12:25 getting quality audio 2:17:33 superRADs next videos 2:19:46 stories and stories 2 2:23:44 history of the lance

This was quite possibly the best episode yet! SuperRAD is honestly the perfect guest, and has an honest fair analysis that really compliments Ruri and Gaijins natural synergy. I would love to see him back as a recurring guest from time to time! These three have a really natural dynamic that made this podcast absolutely fly by!

Local longsword main gets beat up by two dads,circa 2021

Finally, anti-longsword and pro-longsword under the same podcasting roof.

I do like the fact that when Magnamalo shows up for the 1st time, the kids draw their weapons without hesitation.

A big reason why Rise hunts are shorter is because we spend less time walking around.

When it comes to gunlance family, Rurikhan is like the nurturing father that taught you to love gunlance, while Caoslayer is like that cool uncle that brings it up to another level

"I'm gonna punch you full of holes!" in the Japanese the line, translated, is "I'm going to turn you into a bee's nest", so it's basically the same line there. /shrug

Poor Minoto. If her sister were to die that would mentally destroy her, completely obliterate her, she'd break apart like the glass that fell off my balcony. Hinoa would also be incredibly sad in the other scenario, but she isn't as obsessed with her sister as Minoto. Sparing Minoto would probably be the route to the worst ending in that hypothetical game.

The darker stories Yoko Taro is known for I believe came about because he thought it was strange that some players would boast about how many enemies they kill in certain games. So he wrote dark stories to get players to stop for a moment and reflect on this in one way or another. So I think he wrote up this piece for Monster Hunter Rise with a similar mindset. This game's story is about keeping the village safe from the Rampages but most players probably don't think about that and are more just thinking about killing more monsters to get better equipment.

Insurance doesn't exist!? Is everyone just going to forget Insurance has been a meal skill in MH for how many games now?

Gaijin: "If it was 20 minute hunts people would be less likely..." Me who still spends 25 minutes to down teostra: 😳

Its really cool to see a podcast of 3 folks who absolutely love dragon's dogma. So underrated.

I'm totally with Ruri when it comes the map designs in World. Ancient forest is on of the most breath taking environments in video games.

About the thesis at 1:21:00 Rise is my brothers first mh and he just reached chameleos -Every quest takes him at least 30min -I've never seen him complete a quest with less than 2 carts -He has failed about half the quests he did at least once So yeah, were just pretty good by now, but it can still be challenging for new players (He plays LS btw so that isnt the problem)(well it is one but not in terms of how hard the game is for him)

Id keep hinoa. She always makes pleasent small talk and eveb reminded irl to eat before going on the hunt a few times. So helpful it transcended the game world

I appreciate Rurikhan getting all these MonHun content creators together and talking. Good stuff man, keep it up!

SuperRad has easily become one of.my Fav MH creators over the last few months! So glad he made it onto the podcast

Dragon's Dogma : the most underrated game ever

26:00 As someone who started with 3U upon release, Brach absolutely came across as a flagship, being in the intro cutscene, having the hardest rank up, and having a unique element

Everyone out here hating on Iori. We all know why. He's living our dream job.

Got a purple orb first try while listening to the podcast the luck is real

1:26:25 100% with you gaijin! I love the behind the back hunting horn play, that's what got me so into it to begin with back in the day... would be really cool to be able to style on a monster completely backwards again. It would be nice if there were some mechanic to keep track of for HH, maybe an upkeep hoop that would let you get infernal melody up more.

Babe wake up, the boys are gonna talk about Yoko Taro’s mad ramblings

This is the most excited I’ve been for a podcast so far and I’ve loved them all

I'm pretty sure that hunters have always been super human. I don't know of anyone who can fight a dragon with a slab on a stick.

SUPER RAD! This is what I have been waiting for

Great podcast episode! Gonna go check out rad's weapon history videos now.

Recently stumbled on Rad and i’m pumped to see him here!

What I miss from the older games is when two monster would fight you at the same time, now they just come get ready for mount and leave

SuperRad is here too!? This just keeps getting better! Time to grind and listen😁.

When talking about Quest times, I remember when I saw solo-ing G-rank in MHFU, I actually kept timing out against Black Gravios and Black Diablos. I no doubt could have played better (this is going back more than 13 years, I was a babby teen), but I remember I ended up winning by bringing max amounts of traps, Bombs and components to make more and using them all in the last 5 minutes, placing my last trap and hoping they were low enough health to Capture.

This has possibly been my favorite episode of the podcast so far. So good and it's great to see just how fantastic the monster hunter community is overall with so many genuine good people that do content

BOI WHAT A CROSSOVER

Moofy is 100% better than Poogie. And that's a fact.

Can't wait for the next episode!

It's so nice to be able to listen to you guys week after week, talking about one of my favorite franchises. Thanks for the work and efforts y'all put in

Capcom should really get Ruri and Gajin to do the interviews for their Monster Hunter directs. This is the best Monster Hunter talk show ever.

With the 4U opening, the opening with seregios was in the western version, but i think it could only be seen if you looked in the cutscene list. It might have played after clearing high rank hub or starting high rank village but I don’t remember off the top of my head

I'd love to see a Dark Souls crossover in monster hunter. So many possibilities for monsters and armors. 😭

Wanted to put this out there... My friend and I are pretty much new to MH with Rise being our first game (technically I've had lots of the demos before but nothing beyond demo games on 3ds or switch), and I feel obligated say that we failed 3 different village quests. I timed out two times and triple carted once, he timed out three times. Now, just having beaten Teostra for the first time, I have a new file that is going through early game again and I'm still having a tiny bit of trouble on the hub quests (granted, I'm using weapons I'm not used to on this new profile). My point? I think the early game is heavily balanced around the assumption that you are a newbie to the game, and I think it's designed specifically to be easy to clear the village quests (hence why all the tutorials are there instead of in the gathering hub)and up until Magnamalo for the hub is also designed for newcomers. From my perspective, I think that Rise is well-balanced, but I also think my perspective specifically comes from a point of absolutely no experience. Rise is definitely easy, but I think that that was on purpose. Veterans, even ones who came from World/Iceborn, don't give themselves enough credit on how good they are.

LOVED this one. They all compliment each other so well.

SuperRad should definitely come back to maybe talk about souls/dogma/stories. Between this episode and the live stream we got so much to enjoy. Love this podcast and I'm a mega fan of SuperRad

Oh shit, son. I was excited for this discussion, but I wasn't expecting such a banger. SuperRAD always seems to be fair and honest in his critique.

In the Yoko Taro version, they would look at the affection levels of the twins, so if you sacrifice the one you like less, it would pick your weapon based on the ones you used the least. So Rurikhan would get a long sword, since that's what she picks for you, or bow, since that's what she uses.

Duuude! The small monsters are nuts in this game, Me and my friend were following Magnamalo to another zone while discussing who was stronger: Magna or Nergigante? Then on cue a Gajau popped Magna in the face and got the huge knockdown! "Well Magna just got destroyed by a fish so I dunno..." 🤣

Before a Rampage I'm like "eh fuckin Rampages. Ok I can dig it I guess." After a Rampage I'm like "yo that shit is super dope. I could do another" But if I take too long to start another I'm back to "eh fuck 'em."

Love listening to this on my commute, good as always! Boy would it be cool to be on a podcast with these Monster Hunter legends!

In the UK we did get the cinematic for Seregios for 4U. Also data mines have shown that the online hub monsters solo or co-op have more health than Iceborne ones and do more damage. Were basically already in G-rank.

Rondine gets murdered later by a hyper paranoid villager after everyone else dies.

Love this episode! Love all the discussions and diversity of opinions while keeping it friendly. The MH community has felt so divided lately, so it feels good to see you guys come together to talk about those things and prove that not everything has to be mutually exclusive

Rad was a great guest, I'd love to see him back on the podcast!

Man i dont know about anybody else but I'd love to see underwater combat come back from the 3rd gen but with the smooth movement we have now that'd be the perfect monster hunter game for me

Thanks for a great episode yet again! "Daddy needs a new pair of boots" does sound a bit extreme in the context of carving a monster corpse, but it's also an idiom used to bring good luck when gambling, which gives the expression a nice double meaning as you're trying to get the gems and plates :D

how to solve the open maps vs segmented maps argument: Arctic Ridge, Desert, Jungle

You guys are ALLL my kohais... I've been playing monster hunter waaaay back when it was on the dreamcast. Back then, it was called phantasy star online.

Superrad looks like Egoraptor if he was still cool instead of becoming whatever Arin is meant to be

The bullfango chat cracked me up; I have a clip of me and a bullfango teaming up on the last hit on a rajang. Respect the piggies :)

This is my favorite episode so far.

rewatched it a few times coz I love the dynamic of those 3

I can’t believe they spent all that time talking bout killing kids 🤣

SuperRAD! What a wonderful guest! Lovely talk gentlemen

I feel about Sword and Shield the same way SuperRAD feels about Longsword. World and Rise added big burst damage high commitment attack and almost all of them, except a few hits in perfect rush, are shield attacks. But I'm not here for Sword And Shield. I am here for Sword (and also shield is here). This is what I've been playing, the weapon's simplicity is what made me like it. Yes, it was only one combo and assorted utility. No, it was not boring at all. The nuance was in *using* it, and giving it big flashy burst damage moves goes against how I use it, dancing around the monster, avoiding every monster, striking it without needing an opening, breaking every part systematically with my pinpoint precision, and using and abusing elemental and status attacks. Falling Bash, Hard Basher and Perfect Rush *all* go against that. And I'm not using them, because they're not fun, and it feels like I'm missing half a moveset, because I *am*. Like, my playstyle got Spinning Reaper *and a nerfed X combo*. That's it. You can loop back into the X combo from Spinning Reaper with R+X, but you could already loop in almost immediately from the roundslash finisher, and the Spinning Reaper also backloads the damage *a lot*, which I don't like either! It's just... It's mutating into something alien, and I'm desperately grasping onto the few things that are still familiar, and I don't have a second best to main even though I play every weapon to an extent because nothing is as comfortable as this sword, and I'm scared about what other changes they'll make, and I don't like it.

Dragon's Dogma crossover sounds amazing!! I would like to fight the arch-hydra. The idea of severing heads instead of tails intrigues me.

i loved investigations. I like random quests, in different maps, different monsters popping up ect. i like that. i don't like how im stuck into going to fight narga in the mud map every run. granted we have event quest with him in the forest. But i want more quests in diff areas. and i want all arena quests for all monsters. (like not the coin quests but like the normal 4 player kind)

rampages are nice change if pace between hunts. makes me want great/dromes to bring actual horde that surrounds you and herbivore stampede events in normal hunts

OMG, when Ruri mentioned Herny I was like PLEASEEEEE INVITE HIM TO THE PODCAST!!!! hahaha xD I have been asking for this for so long and I will continue to do so! As always guys, amazing podcast TY for the content!

I'm so glad they had Superrad on the show 🙌 that dude is no pun intended pretty rad...OK some pun intended.

I meaaaaaan if you use wyvern fire, it stops the heat gauge, so you can use shells as much as you want. And if you were at the very tip of red, it would stay on red, and you would keep the buff

This was my fav episode by far

the tempered investigation system from world will work really nice in Rise with some charms for rewards instead of decorations

Please include SuperRad in future podcasts! Loving this trio and the dynamic between you guys. I had just found his videos and was completely stoked to see him as a guest..very good work Third Fleet!

Started World/Iceborne 2 weeks ago with DB switched to hammer and started listening to the podcast and ive been convinced into GL and never going back too damn fun

This was dope! All three huge pillars in the community in the same podcast! What a time to be alive. Bring Hey Jay on board for one of these!!

I don't mind worlds approach to the map, like having rathalos having a nest on the highest peak of the Forrest and all the "traps" you can trigger on the map, in rise it feels like you gotta run from A to B... It feels very simplistic and arcady. Still a good game though.

The collaboration I've wanted to see for quite some time now is with Star Wars. Not because I want a lightsaber SnS or Long Sword. But because I'd love to hunt a Rancor.

49:30 Whoa I had no idea Ruri at one point felt like Rise was his favorite Monster Hunter game of all. That's cool to know, even if that opinion has changed over time. Especially considering how much he prefers slower, more methodical gameplay over arcade design. Really looking forward to Wilds next year. It seems to be a mix of both designs which should be fun.

Drinking game: Drink every time Rurikhan says or yells 'Gunlance'

I would love to just see the mobility of the hunter in rise but with the prep work needed from older gens. For gathering stuff like ore and bugs I would like to see the need to upgrade your net/axe in order to get more/better materials. Also magnomalo's weapons blast needs to be purple

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I’m with Ruri, I loved the Ancient forest.

AGREED ABOUT VOLVIDON! Good lord, killing him IN TIME is so hard since he's jumping around all the time

It's good that people can still use Long Sword in the old way, even if it feels like you're wasting the counter potential. Maybe the developers can make that playstyle better with Switch Skills, imagine one that replaces the Iai Spirit Slash with another non-counter move.

I loved the maps in world even if they were a little confusing sometimes. They were a little busy but they had so many nice details like the mentioned azure rathalos spot and each map felt like its own world. I think from a gameplay perspective rise definitely has better maps though. I would never just wander around rise aimlessly like I've done in world though.

1:14:11 this explanation about the heat gauge is also applicable to MHR ground splitter... and losing the ground splitter buff after weapon sheath doesn’t help, when other weapons don’t lose their buffs upon weapon sheath.

I just recently watched both of SuperRad’s history of monster hunter videos and they were phenomenal 💯

Our boy did it

I love SuperRad! Glad to see him in the mix! Keep up the good work bois

Gaijin not liking poogie is odd. Back in MHFU I didn't play to protect the village, I played to protect poogie. Poogie4life Moofy too

I love maintaining the flavor of the setting ( referring to mention of modern slang in rise ) but I want layerable armor that is modern so bad. Want to run around in joggers, hoodie and some running shoes slaying monsters. Bonus points if they add physics to the hood on the hoodie.

Great podcast, I’m a second fleeter and you guys hit me with major nostalgia!

Very happy to see my boy SuperRAD join the third fleet podcast, this episode just went FREEEEEE! Thank you guys for keep bringing these to us ❤️

What I'd really like is if the series split into two directions. You have the "mainline" games starting with World now that go into a more mainstream direction, and the "portable" games that attempt to preserve more of that traditional experience while only cutting as much fat as necessary. A development in Rise that I'm especially worried about is the heavy increase of counter attacks. Monster Hunter combat is supposed to be about positioning and timing, but positioning loses its importance when you introduce spammable counter attacks that make you take no damage and deal significant damage to the monster with little regard for positioning. On a sidenote, Ancient Forest was great. By now I think the only people who hate it are actually having trouble orienting themselves in a 3D environment. I've watched a streamer run past a path for five minutes with chat trying to explain to him where it was. Here's a hint, if you can't find something, look around where you can actually walk instead of running up and down the same path 20 times while looking at the sky.

This podcast went by fast. I totally lost track of time listen to this. Well done.

I love these podcasts! One thing that would be fun to see is a hunt with the guest’s,

Regarding maps: I hope that the next game they combine the old and new map techniques. basically divide hunting quests & arena quests so that hunting quests make you depart and you have to travel to the location of the monster your hunting (either fast travel to camps or ride yer doggo through map to map). basically have all the maps at current size or so and connect them through a transition zone (loading screen) that has you load into a different map or region if you've "traveled" fair enough.

So many hot takes this episode

I like the shorter hunts, so we can always take 15 min for sub-quests and collecting in the beginning. It’s also great that we‘ve got time to kill Magnamalo and Teostra in the same hunt (with 2 people).