Here's a bunch of timestamps, do tell me if there's anything I missed: 2:20 touhou 5:40 PS5 8:27 Nioh Complete edition 9:22 Minecraft 11:23 Halo infinite 12:57 Bravely Default 2 15:42 RE village 20:14 Hellblade 2 23:03 Bowser's Fury 24:50 Mass effect 29:18 Elden ring 31:03 Final fantasy 39:36 Outriders 40:25 Nier Replicant 42:23 Horizon forbidden west 48:44 MHRise demo+ new MHWorld playthrough 1:07:20 Collaborations 1:11:30 collaboration possibilities 1:22:31 Hub/Villiage separation 2:16:22 the imminent death of the demo 2:30:32 G/master rank and dlc vs new games 2:43:02 quirks from old games that would be cool in rise

I hope this podcast series runs for a while, it’s the only podcast I like listening to

I apologize for my coughing, it seems I can't catch a break :(

Capturing a monster to fight in the arena makes A LOT of sense.

So glad these podcasts are being released weekly! This is absolutely my favorite MH content on the Internet right now. You guys always have excellent and interesting conversations and I'm super thankful to be able to listen in :)

These Podcasts are a weekly highlight for me

My take on the split village/hub system: I prefer it being split for a couple reasons: 1) Village for story, hub for playing with friends. Friend can't play right now? Do village quests. Friend can play? Go to the hub. 2) Village quests being "easier" makes sense because it's just the "local problems" villagers have. You are the village hunter. Hub quests come as assignments from the guild, therefore "harder"/multiplayer scaled. Special monsters are a bigger problems and not just a village issue. 3) Same monsters in different maps. For example, in MHFU I needed some highrank Congalala material but village Congalala was only available in the swamp, which I didn't like too much (poison etc). The hub had Congalala in the jungle. BUT Having no split made sense in the context of World. You were sent there for research. There is no big guild set up in the new world yet. And every local problem is a big problem at the same time there.

If we can't dress the Owl as Melphestio I will be disappointed and we do need him back too.

Dudes I love the third fleet podcast. I’ve listened to each episode several times. Please keep it going as long as you guys enjoy it!

Well this was delightful. It's the first true gaming podcast I listen to and it's great. My favorite part about all the episodes (after binging them over the last couple days) is getting a bit of insight about your hunting mentalities! It's actually inspiring, considering I'm one of those who kinda got suckered in by the fast hunt times, for the worse. When I see myself taking too long, I get frustrated and hearing someone talk about the game in a much more relaxed way is great. I hope this podcast stays around for a long time!

I'm very happy village/hub separation is back, but sad that they're going to scale the hub too... I really wish they had manual scaling where I could choose to have 4 player scaling solo, scaling both the challenge and the rewards, that'd be great.

Beat Mizutsune with really bad Joycon drift while listening to this.

0 dislikes, that's what we like to see.

Gaijin basically just speaking my own mind for me the whole time.

Look forward to this every week, immediate thumbs up

You have to finish that DLC for Horizon, it adds lore and its great. I dont see Bayo being added to MH but another Platinum game that can work with MH is Astral Chain. That uses a pet system with dogs and cats.

My favorite podcast is back! Third fleet represent!

I look forward for these podcasts every week i could listen to you both all day. Hope you get better Rurikhan!! here we go.

These podcasts are saving my boring work routines, keep them coming

My favourite podcast series, hands down. And I listen to a lot of podcasts! Please keep it up :)

So, Yuna loves mizutsune, avoids speed running, wants to learn the shamisen and appreciates bow and hunting horn. You, sir, are raising a true woman of culture.

My go to thing during work from home. Awesome podcast as always 😎😎😎

I really love these podcasts 👍🏾

Your Podcasts are fantastic to listen to while hunting. Kept me sane while farming for an Ibushi Orb

Love this podcast

I definitely hope you 2 continue to do this through monster hunters rise release. Even if it's less frequent. 3 hours is not to long its the sweet spot for me when I'm gaming. Whether it's a long session or I break it I to segments myself, Knowing i got 3hours to digest these is awesome

This series is soooo gooooood!

Man. I love this.

yesss they're back

Now i never played GU so if they changed it there then feel free to ignore me but my main issue with the village/hub split was when you had your key quests in the hub only the party leader would get credit for it and if youre playing with 4 people thats 4 times running the same quest to unlock the next level of quests. That was so lame, time consuming and destroyed the fun for a few of my friends. If thats fixed then I would prefer the split rather than it being combined

Those Gaijin intros are fire!

I found something recently that I'm sure many people haven't seen, so here it is. I was playing HH, as you do, and I discovered that the new X+A twisty kick around attack acts as a quick turn for whatever direction is being input on the left stick, so that's cool. Combo that into earthshaker and you become an unstoppable gyroscope.

I've listened to this episode several times on Spotify already but really wanted to drop in on KZfaq with a comment, really excited to hear that you both are big Bravely fans! :D I'm personally really excited for BD2 to launch at the end of this month, and it's nice to hear other people's opinion on the series, even if you won't have the time to play! :D

i think you guys didnt realize that although village and hub is gonna be separate, we have seen hunters be with other hunters in the village, so its solving the problem of your friend is stuck in village while giving you the benefit of two separate suite of static quests

If I remember, monsters in hub mode are actually scaled for 2 people. They have something similar to 1.2 or 1.3 the health of village monsters. Even though it's not as exaggerated as what Gaijin said, it does feel like some weapons suffer in G Rank when you solo. In 3U, G Rank quests felt quite slow, in 4U and GU, it wasn't so bad because weapons like 4U IG or Valour LS still performed well. But yeah, bringing a Gunlance in G Rank is a bad idea for if you want decent times solo. Also, the reason why you need to upload to a server for Gen-GU save data is because of the size of the file. The save file for MHXX 3DS was smaller and had different binary registers.

I HATED that about multiplayer in MHW with my friends waiting for the cutscenes to end. If one of us on my friend group was ahead, we'd have to try and explain verbally where to go on chat, then sometimes we'd forget where exactly the monster spawns because it's been a while. So silly that it has to be that way.

new podcast hype

optional quest completion for village quest was the best part :)

One of the best “gaming” podcast!

I forgot it was today! A welcome surprise for sure.

I realised what monster I want in base rise. The invading species. I want Seregios

I see gijin shares my taste for women I understand you gijin it’s just hard to avoid sexy vampire/zombie sexy girls that’s just a good time

I know this is off the wall, but I’d love to hear both of your thoughts on if you could create a monster for the series what would it be like (element/gimmick/inspirations/etc)

I’m hopeful we’ll learn something major early february to carry us through after the demo online is turned off.

I could really feel Adam's anger with World/Iceborn quest structure LOL. Even when they talked about gem RNG from the previous podcast. The feeling is mutual, man.

Idk if I remember correctly, but I saw a guy on KZfaq before who played MGSV demo for like 300 hours, and I was like why would he do that, it's just a demo... And now, here I am... I understand him now.

Yes! Lost Planet 2 Rep! Thank you Rurikhan, I almost NEVER hear anyone talk about Lost Planet and the first 2 games were so good

You know this will be the new The carve and I love it

It is amazing to see 2 of my favorite 3 youtubers of MH together. Please invite Arekkz guys and this podcast will be the ultimate MH podcast. Good luck on this and will be looking forward to future podcast.👍

One of the things that really put me off with GU at the start of it is precisely the first gathering quests, but once I got past them, it became SO much better

Pls dont do shorter podcasts i love the fact that i can now listen to 3 hours of goodness while at work

Yes another episodes

“Too saucy for capcom” looks at chun li alt costumes..

Hooked on Touhou 11 now, thanks for the rec!

The MR Dodo Quest text is something like "Hunters think it's cute. No good. Kill it."

Question for next weeks podcast: what do you guys think about being able to eat and restock items at the base camp and being more likely to spawn at a camp even in high rank

Can't wait for TH17.5 to release. Been waiting since late 2019 for this one.

CDPR should take a page out of from software's book. Keep your mouth shut about the game, make it, quality test it, release a teaser, continue to keep your mouth shut, finish quality testing and start working on the DLC, then announce the game, finish fixing the bugs and finally release it.

Another great video! Thumbs up guys. I remember playing MH Stories on 3DS XL with my 4yo daughter watching and her falling in love witch the eggs hatching mechanics :) she is 6yo in two days, knows all the monsters and even plays MH Stories every now and then and loves it! :) The "worst part" of it is, that in Czech Republic, there are just like 2 plush monsters available and when I showed her the picture from gaijin on twitter, where he was with Yuna in the MH Shop, she almost broke into tears, seeing all the plush awesomeness.

The only reason I never got tripped online was because I ran lvl 3 Flinch Free on my insect glaive sets to get the kinsect buffs. With 3 brace and all 3 extract, plus having 2 earplugs, I'd get bumped up to 5 earplugs and I think slight wind or tremor resist. It's nice to see something similar in the Rise demo with sight earplugs again so I'll probably end up stacking on my set if I can

It is a very good time to get into world. My best mate decided to hop into it and he's having an absolute blast. Trying to keep him away from the defender gear and we farmed high rank hazel for 4 hours today for carapaces. He got 5. He needed 20. We killed about 20 bazel

Gaijin Hunter is right; I NEVER played MH Tri online; so I COMPLETELY missed the awesomeness of Loc Lac City. Then as I played MH3U, I watched hunts from Tri, and they go from a city, to a measly port?! But as I played the village quests, I would go to Port Tanzia offline and play the quests there to really help me improve.

LMAO at the way Gaijin said “Shields up”

Big fan of the loo roll Ruri

Big agree with gaijin when it comes to the village/hub split, there were like no quests in world

I’m hoping for a lynel event to happen; a hunter vs. hunter situation

I'd love to see a Neo TWEWY/MonHun Rise Collab, where you can hunt the Noise and make armor based on clothing from TWEWY and even dress your Palico and Palamute as Noise.

YESSSSSS!

My son started playing monster hunter 4 ultimate at 3 years old. Hes seven now and he loves MH

This podcast eases the pain of waiting for Rise.

I agree so hard with Gaijin on hub/online separation. When I finished Base World's quests, I was like "Where are the hub quests?". It felt like I finished only half the game.

So, i personally also didn't like worlds combined quests, sure you can say "but things are locked to single player like farm upgrades" but for me thats an even easier fix than that worlds problem. Just make it so certain online quest can also unlock the farm upgrades and such. Generations half did that. If you looked at how you unlock hunter arts, most of them had 2 ways to unlock them. You either did this village quest or this hub quest. They can just do that for ingredients and farm upgrades. You can unlock them either with this village quest or this hub quest. Ofcoarse id still hope that they keep some thing special for people who do like doing single player, but that should be locked to special armor at most. Let me put it this way, if the Hayabusa feather was the only thing that was strictly only obtained through single player, but all farm upgrades and ingredients for your kitchen are obtainable in online without ever touching village, online only people would be perfectly fine through the whole game. Sude they wouldn't get that one armor piece, or maybe a set of 5. But if that's all you actually lose out on. If I was an online only person I would be fine never having them. Does that make sense? Sorry I'm not sure whats the best way to say that^

bravely default was fookin great man

But we had story-related things like Rampage with 4 players. Also you can have friends in your village. I think we'll get Village Quests with Multiplayer Scaling, that there's a Village/Hub divide, but both have Multiplayer.

1:36:00 I thought that @Rurikhan was going to mention Monster Hunter 4 and 4U here. Since in the online quests that had cutscenes (most notably Dalamadur) they all had 4 hunters. The cutscene would play every time but if everyone had done it before you could skip it.

I will give you all the Gs.

i like how quest was original way setup

Have they talked about tonfas or the other cool weapon types? Maybe even what would be cool brand new additions? I'd love to hear their thoughts on it

Health of Rurikan must Git Gud! Kidding aside, stay safe always man!

I just finished Bravely Default for the first time after almost 9 years and it's by far my favorite RPG. I'll play Bravely Second once I have the time but I'll wait for reviews before buying Bravely Default 2, I'm not particularly fond of the aesthetic and I don't want to regret spending 60 euros in a game I might regret buying.

I would like to hear you discuss whether bad monsters (those most people don't care for like Kushala Daora, Cephadrome, Bulldrome and Plesioth) returning would be good or bad. Those lesser monsters could be reworked to be liked more afterall. Maybe you could even talk about different ways they could improve those monsters, like giving Bulldrome an actual moveset.

2:32:00 if we're going by that definition then MHDos also didnt get a g rank

We need to make a petition to see ruri and gaijin hunt together

The RE collab skins were Leon and Claire, and of course Mr. X as the handler. Also I agree with Gaijin, my nephew and I were frustrated at the cutscene crap.

49:03 @Gaijinhunter I hope to one day hunt with my daughter. She is only two but this here made this Hunter a bit teary eyed.

I loved bravely default and bravely second. I already played the bravely default 2 demo and the progress will not carry over to the other game but you will get items.

As a shakuhachi player, i'm actually pretty excited over what i've heard of Hinoa's and Minoto's songs so far, that's some quite nice material to see if i can play or not. On another note, i 100% agree with Gaijin on the notion "You can go 100s of hours in the village only and that's like an entire game on it's own, without never going online". When i started with MHTri, i only went online AFTER going to High Rank in the village (partially because i couldnt really speak or read english back then) and that made online feel like a totally different game altogether. Let them be separate, i say. And we'll see what happens upon release.

25:23 mass effect 2 is amazing- like, I played it as much as gaijin did. It really does stand atop the franchise. The first is good, beat it 3 times, and I beat 3 but... literally remember so little about it. But nothing compares to 2.

gaijin, make sure to play the Steamworks once before hunting Barioth! The jackpot cutscene has an alternate version with Serious Handler (possibly even funnier). I am okay with the name "Master Rank", but (like the pronunciation of "Tigrex") "G-rank" just rolls off the tongue faster. And I would rather see MR quest levels abbreviated simply as "M(number)" instead of "MR(number)". Meanwhile, in MH3U I just today unlocked ... Dire Miralis. (Wish me luck, playing solo!) MH3U protip: DO NOT equip Cha-Cha and Kayamba with the Felyne and Melynx masks at the same time. Their bombs will send you flying constantly. World's integrated progression was certainly good for it, and I agree that the number of optional quests is lacking ... BUT at the same time, older games weren't necessarily better. MH3U for example LITERALLY duplicated quests between village and hub, and repeated the same quests across low/high/G-rank. Same quest description, same map same monster same parameters. In all the hours I've played MH4U I've received a lot of StreetPass tags, and I take particular note of each player's count of "Caravan" versus "Gathering Hall" quests -- I have seen a few players who have made basically no progression in the story mode (some of them didn't even have their Palico yet!). When I transferred my Generations save file to MHGU, I did high-rank village exclusively as Prowler, then I soloed G-rank as Prowler (and a _melee_ Prowler too!) up to and including Ahtal-Ka. I've also soloed most deviants with the same Prowler (though Bloodbath is still left waiting). My opinion on MH World's "cutscene lock": Literally the only cinematics that include multiple hunters are ones that play automatically upon starting the hunt (repeat Zorah, Behemoth, etc.) which is one of two points in a hunt where all available players are guaranteed to be in sync to watch the same cinematic at the same time. I played all the way through _Bravely Default_ with the difficulty set on "hard" right out of the gate. It was awesome -- best turn-based system ever. My love for Final Fantasy as a series declined back in the 90s when FF7 came out, largely because of the PC port they also released. I don't remember which game I had which included a copy of the demo, but clearly something went wrong when I tried to install it because it scrambled all of the pre-rendered background assets into garbage and noise, completely and utterly destroying any sense of immersion. (3D rendering and FMVs were fine and all, but without those lovely rendered backgrounds....) FF6 is more my jam. I remember back in Generations 3DS, soloing that hub quest with triple Hyper Tetsucabras ... I did it, but with just 3 minutes left on the clock. It wasn't the closest shave with the timer I've had but it was definitely one of the "I'm never doing this quest again" hunts. (And the armor sets it unlocked were definitely worth it.) The DLC format for expansions (as proven with Iceborne) is nice for being consumer-friendly, but I agree there's also value in having an updated physical version with the expansion content already baked in.

My most anticipated games other than Monster Hunter Rise and Stories 2: Shin Megami Tensei V, Breath of the Wild 2, Nier Replicant, Final Fantasy 16, Hellblade 2

I just wish they would have revisited the collabs from world in iceborne. Like having the dante armor become the devil trigger for master rank or megaman mission giving megaman gear for the hunter would be great. I feel that the collaborations from rise really depends on if it will be fully nintendo switch or not.

I think next time I would like to hear what yall would want for endgame difficulty for rise. Like do yall want a refined temper and arctempered system like world or deviants and hyper deviants like in gu or just like how yall kind of got into having the 'multiplayer' section have the harder quests

I love collecting physical games But an add-on Grank is much better for me personally since I come from a low-income family

Yesssss finally lore fuck yeah

i would love to see gaijins face in future podcasts

The first time I heard the name 'Yuna' I instantly thought of FFX =D 1:16:43 Ah, someone watches Zero Punctuation XD I watched this in two sessions, three things on hub/village: 1: PSP MH made the gathering hall quest scale based off party size when you start the hunt. 3DS changed it so it didn’t matter, my guess was with more access to online more groups had leavers and they didn’t want that to ruin the hunt for those left. In both cases, a solo hunter would only deal with a 1.1x damage and health difference between village and gathering hall. Which is also why 3DS monster hunts went so quickly. 2: Like Gajin said, you could go without touching village, but you had to do gathering hall. Almost all the village upgrades has an equivalent gathering hall upgrade (meaning to unlock one thing there was in most cases a village and gathering hall quest for it and either will do). I think maybe one or two things were village only but most could come from just gathering hall. You do however have to hit the hall or all the village quest won’t appear as some came up after reaching new hunter ranks. 3: Beyond giving you a chance to learn the monster, the were rewards from completing village quest just like the are for gathering hall. I myself start on the village quest then jump to the hall, then after finishing the hall key quest, I make the armor and weapons I like the burn down the side quest in village before doing the same in the hall. All at my pace, but that’s one of the advantages of being a solo hunter, I don’t have to hurry or feel I slow anyone down.

Just bought my copy and all the amiboo for the layered Armour. Sheila's uo

Agree with Rurikhan 100% Lost Planet 2 is incredibly underrated

I finished GU village quests while listening to Ruri mentioning he still didn't finish village quests

Alright, my switch finally arrived, so I can at least play the demo this weekend. I'm really enjoying it, even though I'm still fumbling hard with the joy cons. It also looks very pretty for a handheld console title. There's just one thing I don't like, and it's the mounting. The system itself is cool and handles pretty well, but I hate what it does to the flow of the combat. When I hunted Mizutsune, it was a bit difficult because for me he was a new monster, and I hunted him with a weapon I never really used before. Of course, there was the fumbling with the controls too. Anyway, I mounted the Great Izuchi pretty early, did some damage, and it was cool. Later a Rathian joined, I noticed that Mizu had put it into the mountable state and I thought I was lucky and that I wanted to try using Rathian as well because I liked the moveset. When I finally got close, Izuchi came again, got put into the mountable state by Mizu, and I hit it by accident and ended up delivering the final blow to Mizu that way. If the game near forces the system multiple times per hunt, I don't think it's fun anymore. I felt like I got the win handed to me on a silver platter so close to the end. There was no risk to me, and I could deal high damage. If I didn't want that, I'd have to go away to continue the hunt elsewhere. To be clear, I like the system, but I don't enjoy how hard the game pushes you to use it. The first time I embraced it, the second time I thought it was a good opportunity, but the third time I realized what the game was doing and I felt a bit robbed. I really hope that for the final game, they'll ease up a bit. I don't want to have the monster I hunt put other monsters in a mountable state multiple times per mission.