HA, thrilled that my jokey question started off the podcast - and it led to a great discussion! I've been in a food rut of sorts, so I'm happy to have some new dishes to try out.

IT FEELS LIKE CHRISTMAS EVERYTIME THERE'S A THRID FLEET PODCAST EPISODE

*Yuna seeing Bishaten hurling fruit* Yuna: >:( you dun came to the wrong neighbourhood

phft hunting horn sounds, Valstrax horn, my friend Taco first impression thought, "why the hell am I hearing "pizza time" song" when I was using my valstrax horn.... then the more I hear, the more it really sounds like Pizza time lol...

welcome back to the "two expats constantly forgetting the english words for everyday groceries" podcast

Came for Monster Hunter. Stayed for quick and easy recipe.😆

Ruri will say on many occasions that his native language isn’t English-but he is clearly native “dad” with how available for use that fungi pun was.

Thank you for bringing up the weapon balance topic, Rurikhan! It was very interesting to hear from both of your persectives and I really do appreciate it! I actually meant that the question was more for the general player-base (with a bit of the speedrunning community I suppose) and if the disparity of weapons really affect the player-base. For me, it does kinda suck not just as a runner but as weapon loyalist knowing that some weapons do better than CB but are also easier to use, but like Gaijin said, when is there ever a perfectly balanced game? Nothing's ever perfect and it's just too unrealistic to reach. I just hope the community learns to not compare weapons (yea unfortunately some idiots do that) and appreciate the weapons for what they are and enjoy them, but also yea buff gunlance and charge blade pls.

“You can’t hate the Fungi” has to be one of the best puns I’ve heard in a long time XD.

once covid is over, we need a live action episode of the podcast where Gaijin and Ruri meet-up and cook food together.

"I loove italian food" *proud italian noises*

Fooooood talk, my favorite!

Next thing we know Yuna will have her own youtube channel doing speed runs. Giving chase to Canta as master of all weapons 🤣

Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate for the Switch had 1.2 million sales last time i checked

Was playing GU during the food section, the quest’s name: The Desert Gourmand. Super fitting

As someone who has a podcast about food and other related things and a huge fan of monster hunter this might be my fav episode

Thanks for the release rurikhan needed this for to wait for pso2

I can listen to you guys talk about for hours

I really loved the spaced out content, I know it's not the most common point of view, but this "update per month thing" got me hours more of enjoyment, after each new update you get to play a lot more with the new content and it always feel fresh. Nobody would've farmed last boss fight this much for instance if Valstrax was already out. Same for the Apexes, when they got out of the Rampage it was so cool

Honestly might be my favorite episode, and even though there's not too much news for Monster Hunter I still like that you two still do the show. Keep up the awesome work fellas

Dried mangos are legit, my in laws always bring some back from the Philippines for us, yum!

Coziest episode yet. Thanks guys 👍🏻

Fave weapons by just design in Rise: GS: Frozen Speartuna LS: Squakscythe (Death Stench) SnS: Blazing Falchion (Rathalos) DB: Perfected Dango 🍡 Lance: Devta Serpentblade (Remobra) GL: Mighty Cornpopper 🌽 Hammer: Yadora Morte (Death Stench) HH: Doara's Baphophone SA: Doara's Janah CB: Etherward (Chameleos) IG: Magia Crescent 🌙 LBG: Springnight Spawn (fish) 🐠 HBG: Ladybug Cannon 🐞 Bow: Beastking Thunderbow (Rajang)

MH 4 Ultimate on the switch would be amazing !!! And a collection of all older games would be a dream come true ;>

You guys own me another drink, the "thats golden" pun actually made me spit out my drink 🤣🤣🤣

Me at the start: No way they just talk about food for very long. Me 15 minutes in: Welp, we're still going and now I'm hungry, great...

Almudron Switch Axe. That's the one Gaijin thought Ruri was gonna pick.

I'm gonna slap down my 'there can only be one' weapon choices just for fun. GS: Rathian LS: Zinogre just for the fulgurbugs and the lightning effects SnS: Rathalos, good ol' red hot blade. DB: Wroggi sucks booty, but how can you beat dual revolvers? Lance: Babel spear GL: Royal Ludroth, just a giant harpoon gun Hammer: Gun hammer, no contest HH: Zinogre SWaxe: Chameleos CB: Die Walküre IG: Rathian LBG: Tiggy Tank HBG: Magnamalo Bow: Mizu Thank you for coming to my stinky opinion corner. :^)

On the topic of balance being important or not in MH, I believe that it does 100%. Obviously nothing can be perfectly balanced, that's pretty much impossible, but attempting to balance as much as you can is what I think devs should always try to do. I think that knowing that you're playing one of the weaker weapons in the game actually does hinder your experience, even if you're not actively thinking about it, it's always in the back of your mind that you could be playing better with a different weapon. Knowing that you're basically handicapping yourself by playing a weapon that is known to be weaker really sucks. It's a really bad feeling imo, and I don't think saying "well this is a PVE game so who cares" is a good way to look at it at all.

So I am about 25 minutes in so far, really enjoying the podcast and I just realised you haven't talked about Monster Hunter at all... Guys I don't think you need to worry if it's a slow news week, it's pretty entertaining regardless.

Thank you for bringing up the topic of weapon balance! While I do think there are issues with balance damaging- I think there are pretty big issues from even a pve perspective especially from a multiplayer perspective. There are many weapons that really feel like many of their primary purposes have been pushed out as the games have expanded. As a hammer main I hesitate to bring the weapon to hunts anymore because a lot of fun in using the hammer at all is getting KOs and giving your team large windows. Now that lbg is the light hammer, bow being able to stun and sns having metsu- I struggle to see what the weapon even brings to the table anymore- it cant even cut tails. You want to feel useful in hunts so a lot of players will default to using what ends up doing the most damage and it ends up being the top tier weapons or weapons that can proc cc easily.

I would pay for a whole-ass anthology, just to play mh3u on the switch. Then I'd play mh2dos because the hunting survival simulator type game sounds cool.

This didn't feel like a good question for this podcast, but for when you get into MHS2: Which six monsters would make up your team, why, and how would you gene splice them? (example: ice specialist seregios, dragon specialist Rathalos)

this has to be the most wholesome podcast on the internet :)

I got really into those food delivery services like Blue Apron. It really helped during lock down. It was all fresh ingredients in perfect portion, so no waste. It exposed me to new foods I never made or had before that I really enjoyed. I highly recommend it to those looking to shake up what they eat.

Okay, I'm gonna gross out all of you. I'm Austrian. Here, we have something called "Beuschel". Looked it up and the translations seem to be "lights, innards, innwards". It's what it sounds like. But it's so SO tasty. My grandma used to make it on special occasions because I love it so much. I don't eat it very often though. Haven't had it in years. I also love sea food a lot. My lazy dish is just seasoned fish filets. I also looooooove cheese. In Iceborne, that cheese pie (? not sure what it is called) looks so absolutely delicious. On the weapons: I love GL and SA the most. You know what weapon I get my best times with? Dual Blades - like, I can kill Rathian in 6 minutes, my best times with GL and SA are 10. I don't know why, but I do. I have since stopped trying to compare weapons because in the end, my affinity towards weapons varies so wildly, apparently. What I do not ever want to see again, though, is Capcoms absolutely garbage marketing of prowlers. I stopped playing multiplayer with randoms starting Generations because I was getting kicked out of lobbies instantly so much, even with fully kitted out prowlers. NEVER EVER say in the marketing that a weapon type deals less damage again. Please, Capcom.

one thing i hate about this podcast : it ends.. should wait for next week again

14:22 "You can't hate the fun guy!"

Me (german): wtf is asparagus Also me after google: ACH SPARGEL The fuckin thing i really dont like, thats also a highlight of the year for my entire family xD

OMG! Mom's lasagna! This is off to a great start guy's!

1:57:30 GS: Goss Harag LS: Chameleos S&S: Mizu Lance: Zinogre GL: Kushala HH: Nargacuga Hammer: Valstrax CB: Volvidon SW: Czar Switch Axe

I’d have to say for underrated Yama Tsukami and Hypnocatrice. Those guys were so fun and Yama Tsukami had interesting mechanics

All according to keikaku (keikaku means plan) is an oldanime meme from fan dub times where translator wrote that exact phrase

When Gaijin said that Yuna are super aggro even with no armor and he can't keep up with her. My first thought was..... "Yuna would be good at TDS."

On the topic of Rise being at E3, I expect them to do it for publicity since the PC port its expected to come out near the end of the year, they're probably just gonna remind people of that plus the colab event quests, as much as I would love them to drop a bombshell of content announcements I don't see them doing it.

My SNL brain perked up when I heard pizza and lasagna in close proximity to each other. Pizzuh ZUH, lasagna, sagna, sagna, SA

I kinda expect (hope) that the Capcom Collab 1 will be available right after the E3 presentation. And they'll probably talk about 3.1 at the end of June as well. But I also hope that they might have saved some content for the presentation and that they'll reveal 4.0 for September, maybe?

Sesame oil is the one. Game changer in food prep

I couldn't agree more with how beautiful iceborne runs on the series x on a 4k monitor. That has been my life for the last couple weeks and I still can'tget over how pretty it is, with rise for tv viewing in the evenings! I also enjoy simply hunting for fun!

Finally Ruri also hates weeks old fruits in the fridge! My girlfriend kills me for not wanting to eat those blackhole colored bananas! xD

Geez, Rurikhan's eyesight is just as bad as mine! I like to constantly remind people about my bad vision and then amuse myself when they try my glasses and realise just how bad my vision is lol

I need some more of this food discussion in the future

really liking all this food talk lol

Okami 2 and Dragon’s Dogma 2 are my two big wishes for Capcom’s E3 announcements, even though I know they’re very VERY unlikely. I do hope that whatever the Capcom collab for Rise is, that it gives us some kind of new fight in there. GREAT EPISODE BTW

I recommend Hungarian chicken parikas with spetzel for dinner, and dobos torte for dessert. Here's a random question for you, if you had to get an exotic pet what would you want (want, not what is most practical)?

they really were accurate with the Okami and Megaman Collabs lol

For weapon balancing: May I present you to LBG, my (previous, still kinda am) main It does: - A whole lot of damage - A whole lot of utility - A whole lot of mobility and aggression All of this while being the easiest and safest weapon in the game. Whereas weapons like HBG only has Stickies, LBG has nearly everything under the sun and more. Besides LS, GL, CB, the ranged weapons, and DBs (they've been reduced to demon flight for good damage imo), the balance here is alright. Granted, so was World and GU when we get rid of the problematic ones.

I completely agree with Gaijin that the core Monster Hunter endgame is and should be just hunting for fun. We don’t reaaaally need an endgame loop in the vein of The Guiding Lands or Relic weapons. I do find them nice, but they’re not necessary. With that being said, I still don’t get WHY he doesn’t pay much attention to investigations or liked them in the first place. In my opinion, they’re the best endgame system a Monster Hunter game can have because they enable that very core concept of playing for fun. I honestly don’t need that much more out of the game. Just make them the core Zenny farming method in the endgame and we’re golden.

Dude lives in one of the most unique culinary cultures on the planet and he makes stew while dreaming of little Caesars. Morimoto's book on Japanese home cooking changed my life. Oyakodon, karei raisu, salt-grilled fish, I cooked food from that book for a week straight and was astounded that everything tasted awesome and didn't use a microgram of butter. All cuisine has its place. All food has merit. And we all have our hang-ups. Ha!

You were talking about not wanting them to announce a game with nothing to show for it and I was just going no, don't say it, don't do this to me "Prime 4" And I teared up.

i LOVE lagombi for the amount of times i had to fight snow baron i hope they bring a apex of him in at some point cuz his move set was a pain but i think it would make for a fun challenge for the wire bugs the amount of moving around he dose exhausting your wire bugs him throwing multiple and massive snowballs in the air andd the snowball effect in general would make the fight pretty difficult and they could even make his ice freeze your regen on wire bugs for a time

GAIJIN you just perfectly described how i am with food. I’ll be super hungry and look at food and think it’ll be so great but when i start eating i get this almost nauseous feeling in my throat like my body doesn’t want it. Happens with carrots, watermelons, and sometimes basically everything depending on the day

Have you tried to peel the aspargus before you cook it? ^^ The outer part of the white aspargus is really pain to eat. But if you peel the aspargus with a peeling knife, the rest ist really good after you cook it. Just with cooked potatos, ham and meldet butter. Classic german meal :3

zinogre's hunting horn is an 'electric' guitar

Also I would agree with gaijin that I enjoy every MH equally. But GU has so much to sink yourself into and I love it a whole lot. Even stopped playing Rise to go through the entire village with Aerial IG and Valor LS lol.

Omg, just as I went "the most underrated monster is definitely Gobul". Gaijin : ye maybe Gobul. It's a great fight. Me: yeees THANK YOU.

You guys have to get Rotatasker on the podcast. He's a fun interesting guy!

Rui was almost at 100% until he trashed olive oil LoL!!

Good on ya n congrats for the no drinking Gaijin!!! I got 10 years sober from alchohol.

My day just got better! Happy early birthday to me!!!! You guys are my heros!

Dude i love lasagna too (Italian cuisine my fav too) and I’ve made it a couple of times and I plan on making it this weekend. I’d post it in your discord if you had a food channel which you totally should. And FYI you’re wrong my mom makes the best lasagna 😋

If we had full game at release everyone would be wearing Valstrax armor week 2 and everyone would be done. Remember when people wore Zinogre armor the first 3 weeks. Now that we have full game no one touches any of those pieces.

Recently finished Monster Hunter Stories on my iPhone. What a great game.! Love it so much. Everbody should give it a try! Can‘t wait for Stories 2.

I love Japanese food but especially Japanese curry. I pretty much eat Japanese curry every day during my lunch break.

There is nothing wrong with the Italian cheese bread it’s the GREATEST thing they have ever sold. MOUTH WATERING

'...by the time you get to this one it should be the exact release date of monster hunter stories 2" Ruri: *dial up noises intensify*

I am just playing dragons dogma just now. First time i created a sorcerer type character because the spells in this game is so satisfying. The channeling, and the magnitude of the spells. Just wow.

I would love to see another Ex Troopers and Lost Planet too. I loved piloting those vital suits

1:23:58 i had to make a comment about this part because there’s one monster that I’ve been saying is way too underrated and that’s Great Girros. I recently picked up World (because i finally was able to get something to be able to play it) and Great Girros just completely stood out from the other monsters I’ve fought (so far in the story I’m past the part where you fight Odogaron). Whenever people talk about Great Girros 90% of the time it’s people making the comment that they forget he was in the game which is really disappointing given how absolutely amazing the fight is. I just love the staging of the figh, where it has the small Girros just circling around you while you face Great Girros, until he steps back and calls and then you just get hit with wave after wave of Girros that can paralyze you. I also just love how Great Girros attacks you by just hurling himself at you, like how he will just jump in the air and head but the ground and roll on his back. Idk, Great Girros is a really under appreciated monster and i would absolutely die if Capcom puts him in Rise Ultimate (or hopefully base Rise but that ship has probably already sailed)

Can't wait to finish work so i can listen to this while playing🥰

Me, a German: NOW LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT ASPARAGUS

I have a similar problem with eating Gaijin!! I’ve become less picky as I’ve grown up, but there are some staple foods (Cheese and Crackers/ Charcuterie trays especially) that I get a gag reflex with

I do agree they shouldn't have put Rise on that list. If they are just gonna talk about the events they coulda tagged it on at the end of the Stories 2 announcement as a surprise. I'm also not expecting much but people will be mad about it.

My fav weapons: - Hammer: Goss Harag, it looks awesome. - Lance: The Teostra looks really good, the shild is awesome. I wich there was a nice Chameleos Lance, i can imagine it would look great. - Gunlance: Almudron looks good. There i wished we hat a Goss Harag one

Speaking of weapon designs, I actually love the Kushala Daora weapons with the animal motifs. Also, I've heard there used to be a Chameleos SnS in the older games. Is this true? The only Chameleos weapon I used was the IG (in 4U and Rise). I get the feeling the SA Gaijin had in mind for Ruri might be the Almudron SA (the Monado).

The keikaku means Plan joke comes from an old Death note fansub

I choked on my Italian cheese bread when I heard gaining favorite food was Italian cheese bread. It was just an amazing coincidence

Hey gaijin! If you clean the carrots and then store them in water in the fridge they last about a week!

Rurikhan I didn’t know you were Portuguese! Fellow monster hunter portuguese fan here!

A bad habit from the 80s!!!! I love it!!

The fight with the All Mother, Marshmallow isn't the only one who shows up. I was watching a live stream of Ina from HoloLiveEN and Kushala showed up, really threw my mind for a loop.

Gaijin number 1 dad for real

There are 3 weapons that I've wanted to come back since the first MH. First was ninja sword which we've got now. The other two are lances, the Greyburg Javalin and the Native Spear. I loved the looks of those and still do.

I think one main difference about E3 these days is that games seem to take between 3 and 10 times longer to develop - and E3 is an annual event. So one solution would be to change E3 to every ~3 years, and have some kind of E3-Lite that tends to be focused on smaller announcements every year.

1:32:30 Oh wow I didn't know that was in the game, but "All according to keikaku" is actually a reference to an old Death note Fan sub !

I believe that rise ultimate will heavily reference 4u, hence why there wasn’t a single monster from it (Zam, Tetsu, Najarala -> obviously bc wirebug, etc.), hence why minoto & hinoa propose more villages will request our aid soon, hence why rondine hasn’t had any involvement in the story what so ever. I think you’ll travel to far off lands with her and the smithy, could even imagine taking Hinoa or Minoto with you (have a travelling squad like in 4u). Edit: Wait, I think you talked to Rondine for something in the earlier parts of the game.

Thank you, Mr. Rurikhan.

Ruri I was a cook at a university with a really ethnic cuisine . Fancy af. Next time you try your stir fry add honey yuzu / lemon juice and honey. Instant fancy

I can confirm, the Italian Cheese Bread from Little Caesar's is quite delicious.

I had a thunder resist and stun resist set that I brought to Arch Kirin with a hammer. It's basically a big Kelbi at that point.