Ah, I remember pushing my parents to a shop that was ridiculously outside of a city that we just happened to be visiting. Got the last copy of 4U. Put like 50 hours in that weekend

Honestly, I would not mind a remaster for both 4U and 3U, respectively to tie us in before MH6.

We need an HD remaster of 4U. Nothing gets changed, just the model and map quality, and giving it a home on more consoles. Replaying this masterpiece with beautiful graphics on a big screen would be amazing. All I ask is that voice acting is left out.

4s narrative is best and it doesn't even have voice acting. Which goes to show how well music and choreography go into a memorable encounter

Mh4u was my first game in the series. I played the demo countless times because it had no play limits and it was super fun. i still remember how when i first fought nerscylla i super scared because i have a massive fear of spiders and than she slowly became one of my favorite monster in the entire franchise. I sadly had to sell my copy in order to buy gen, but with the 3ds closing i was able to buy the game for $5

On top of the wyporium you can in fact bully plesioth with the palico island and eventually unlock green plesioth which gets you it's armor.

This game is the reason I bought a 3DS. I wasn't going to miss out on this gem. Still the best and most memorable MH.

Man 4U is such an amazing game. I remember that permanently enraged Chaotic Gore you find in the wyvern nest when he does the ground slam attack the ground gets angled & messed up, & when he rams the ground again it gets even worse, the fight gets so chaotic (pun absolutely intended), it's so memorable & to this day I rarely ever see such a mechanic implemented in a game.

Not just the best Monster Hunter but one of the best games ever made i love this one so much I played it from 2014 to 2020 and manage to make 17 full relic armor sets It's a game that will always be in my heart since I even find the love of my life playing this and I'm so grateful for that It didn't turn out how I would like to but i will never forget that

Unlocking elder hall and expert rank after g rank blew my mind and I loved it

Man... I remember when I first got MH4U. It was by complete luck, my first monster hunter. When I was young, I wanted some more games for my 3ds since I really only had mario kart 7 and 3d land. I remember just going into a store and seeing this game with a dark dragon on it and thinking "holy sh*t, thats the coolest thing ever". I must have stared at that box art for what seemed like ages on the way home. Long story short, it became my new favourite game/series and to this day, the games that I always spend the most hours in. To think, this all happened because of a simple impulse buy, something I never do anymore.

10/10 game it cannot be beaten

2023 and still regularly playing this shit👌🏼

I started playing 4U on an emulator a few months ago and I'm in the middle of high rank. it's definitely a very different experience compared to 5th gen and I liked it. No I couldn't get a legal copy 3DS consoles are extremely rare here and this game even more so.

The only game I ever managed to get a collector's edition for was 4U, it holds a special place in my heart.

I remember watching my older brother playing M4U on his friend’s 3ds fighting a Zamtrios, and I thought it looked so cool. We both bought the game, and I’m glad we did. We’ve spent countless hours hunting together, and leveling up guild quest like Teostra and S. Magala.

I think this will be the perfect place to say goodbye mh4u and its community, it was such a blast to be part of. Will always have memories of hunters helping out new people or becoming friends and hunters side by side. Thanks for everything.

Would be amazing if they release ALL the MH titles on the switch

The only issue with 4U was french Insect Glaive users. JE SUIS MONTE!

4U will always have a special place in my heart. I grew up playing the ps2 and psp games but 4u was my first experience playing with friends. I’ll always remember getting a hunt in during lunch

They put so much effort into this gem and it shows. Great video.

I had braces for 5 years and got MH4U when I got my first major mouth surgery. I remember sitting in my living room unable to talk or really eat, but happy on my 3DS beginning my 4U journey I have so many good memories attached to this game. It’s the one mh that I really grinded through. Final HR was G Golden 492

3U/4U Remake or Remaster is truly needed.

It's my favorite game of all time. To this day it is what I play 90% of the time I play video games.

Still play it on 3ds to this day.

I love how much personality the palicos has in mh4u, gotta replay this masterpiece game again!

I got into Rise, and I very excited to play through the MH games on the 3DS for the first time

I remember playing mhfu, and saw the trailer for mh4, and saw how cool the IG and CB were in that trailer. I could dream of playing mh4 but really cant because I dont have 3ds. Years later after I got my first 3ds, I played mh4u with only IG and CB. Still my favorite MH of all times

i loved playing this game, insect glaive and charge blade were my absolute favorite weapons in it (especially the kushala ones X3 )

Fantastic video Heavy, been on a bit of a Monster Hunter binge again recently and really love to see these essay videos coming about everything monster hunter. I hope you continue your thing man. Happy hunting.

My first mh game was world, and after the kulve taroth dlc, I decided to get 4U, and that is when I truly fell in love with the series. The 3DS MH titles are the best in the franchise imo. They are charming, Goofy, have cool monster designs and interesting gimmicks, the weapons aren't too complicated yet are satisfying, The maps are fun to traverse, music is great, I can go on about how much I love 3U and 4U and how I think those games got the MH formula down to perfection. I cannot wait for MH6, and I hope they bring back some of what made these games special for me, my one wish is to bring back the heal flex, I feel like the slow moving heal is too easy to execute, takes too long, and just doesn't have as much risk, the flex just makes finding an opening to heal feel so much more rewarding please Capcom.

4u was my 2nd old world game and my 4th MH game. It might be my favorite of all of MH. It has a special place in my heart mainly because if the satisfying combat, awesome roster, and high difficulty.

4U is the MH game I've put the most time in. I just can't get into World, Rise is okay, 3U is fun but... GU is in second as Gen was my first MH game. Now I have to get back to my CB playthrough of 4U.

Im literally playing this game on citra emulator android 3 days ago and i got the full set of Tetsucabra. Will continue playing it.

This was my 2nd monster Hunter game I ever played and it was the only monster Hunter game where I crafted and upgraded every armor set, every weapon for all the weapon classes, reached max gold once, and had a playtime of around 800 hours. In fact it was the first game I’ve had in general that I put that much time into .

Great video, love your channel and would love to see a video like this about gu

*Me with a physical copy of 4u* :D I first played the 3u demo and sort of bounced off it, and then I got my hands on the 4U demo and obsessively played it - excitedly telling my Dad about the monsters I fought and how fun they were, only for him to buy the full game for me a week later. Being the first time I got a gift outside of my birthday, I was thrilled and never put it down for a week straight. I remember spending 40min hunting black gravios with the rathalos cb due to not knowing how elemental resistance worked.

These games hold such a special place in my heart, and 4 Ultimate will probably always be my favorite. I loved your analysis of it and I agree wholeheartedly that I would want to see a remaster!

Very happy to have the three 3DS MH games on cartridge.

MH4U was my first introduction to the MH series. I now know that MH isn’t really known for its story (barely) but 4U felt like it had a story and the whole Rivalry with the Gore Magala where both you and the monster grow stronger over time. It was cool. Going to different villages was really cool as you got access to new items and crafting. The subspecies thing was amazing but ever since 4U, the new MH games felt lackluster when climbing the ranks because in 4U (just like stated in the video) had the subspecies be stronger or a variant version of monsters you’ve already hunted. It was cool seeing not only you progressing but it felt like the monsters were “evolving”. It helped they had different weaknesses, different resistances, and different weapons/Armor. The newer games don’t really have that and basically just “fight this again” whereas in 4U, everything is getting stronger not just you. 4U just holds a special place in my gamer world

Nargacuga in mh4 is memorable when you first meet him. Love that rat and those streaking red eyes!

This game came out more recently than I imagined. I've only gotten so far into 4U (the tetaucabra quest) but I'll be diving back into it. Decently got all the 3ds MH games before the shutdown.

This was my introduction to the series, and I loved it

I'm glad I have an actual hard copy of this game 500+ hours and I haven't finished it. Gotta go back to it ♥️

Played only a bit of 4u, but the quest complete theme still sticks in my head.

I was so nostalgic about this game that I spend hours and hours installing an emulation of it on my PC configurating the settings, and all that crap only to find out my PC was clearly not able to make it run even with the 30 fps cheat cap. This video just adds more pain

I still have 4U, was the 1st game that got me playing Monster Hunter thanks to a friend letting me play his a little, While Rise/Sunbreak made me happy since i felt the series was gonna be ended at Gen Ultimate and i'm glad they added 1 more because man i did a LOT in Rise when it came out, way before i got the expansion

Fantastic video. This is like *the* video that 4 ultimate deserved, and it's never too late. The only MH I replayed (2nd time in Japanese ver), with combined 3x the hours of the next longest MH savefile, its story & pre-endgame progression is miles ahead of anything they have made since. Literally hours of things I can share, but your video is already so spot on so only this: there is a reason why endgame hunts in this game had a level of replayability never seen again in the series, I'm talking about combined 1000s of rajangs+zinogres+deviljho etc. before getting bored, and that was popular. The secret lies in 4U's "turn based" combat once you settle in, the real diversity in approaches that different weapon mandates, a level of "getting better" and feedback from it, that GenU, World, Sunbreak didn't have. Never had hopes for a remaster, since Capcom. But oh it's one of those wet dreams of the decade I don't even want to entertain the ideas.

Funny thing when I saw that you posted this video I couldn't stop laughing because I just started a new file on my 4U cartridge 2 weeks ago

I credit this game as my favorite game of all time. Getting that gold crown and rainbow armor set was worth the hours I put in. Such a special game. Great video! Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

Damn good watch. I'm already playing it on my Steam Deck because I dumped the data from my physical copy and this makes me wanna play it even more than I already am

I remember getting 4U at my local swap meet when generation came out on 3ds and didn't get into that time until years later and my god i was absolutely amazes and shock how the graphics look that time and how great the weapon gameplay feel mostly long sword

My first game in the series was World, and while I was planning to play 4U next, I stumbled into Stories (which btw I hope you make a video on in the future). I don't prefer it over World, but as a first experience into the previous generations I enjoyed it very much, and it offered freshness on many fronts. I look forward to playing Stories 2, just as much as I look forward to playing 4U, especially after this video.

I recently setup the 3ds emulator for pc while also transferring my saves and am playing 3u and 4u again on pc which also has online functions and resolution upscaling

Got it on my birthday when i was 9 or something and it changed my entire life, i spent 4000 hours in mh4u and i just love this game, i played it for 7 hours every day back then without any breaks and i just love it

I'm currently replaying that game and I did not realize as a child how great this game is. Might become my favorite

I miss the sheer variety of monsters in 4U, from low rank and all the way to G gold crown there was always something new to fight. I still remember my favorite armor sets in that games was an Artian X set and a molten tiggy set, the artian set looked cool and the molten tiggy one had speed eating and earplugs making it very agile in most fights.

You are a hunter who is thrust into dangerous hunts in order to eliminate threats. No village to protect. No elder crossing to solve. No rampage to prevent. This is what I love about MH4U. The game portrays hunters as special class operators that are sent out on missions to hunt. It's so cool!

I disagree with your section about saying 4u has no gimmicks. Shortly after that segment you talk about wystones and the gripes with coating timers. It would be better stated as a more grounded gimmick that super flashy switch skills or tenderizing and slinger.

Before watching the video, I'll just say this: 4U was my first experience with Monster Hunter. When I was around 9 or 10, I got an email from Nintendo offering me a download code for the 4U demo. I told a friend about it, because they said I could get a code for a friend too, and he apparently knew about MH beforehand, because he said it was a really cool game that we should definitely play. So we played the demo, and I was instantly sold on it. I bought the game when it released and played it for about 200 hours, only making it as far as early High Rank with my insect glaive because I did not know how elemental resistances and skills worked. Sadly my friend never bought the game. Fast forward to very recently and I've started playing the game again with my brother, but it just doesn't feel the same. I think it's most likely because I'm so used to regular game controllers now, that playing on a 3DS just doesn't seem to do the game justice. I think I may try to emulate it at some point, to see if I can't get that classic MonHun feel again.

Great video!! Very well done!! I agree with you 1000% 👏

So, PC, Console, and switch remaster when capcom. I know it can be emulated on PC, but I'd like an official release. If this was released in an HD or remastered form it could be a nice buffer to keep people busy until MH6.

Finally those hours of pain for making a good image without the logo were worth it

Like many others, I bought the 3DS/Wii U monster hunter games, havent gotten to try them yet but hopefully this week I’ll get to it. Also, I think its interesting that 3U and Generations made it to both handheld and consoles while 4U never got a console release, kinda bummed about that personally

one of my fav games ever, and still playing online today :)

Mh4u was the start of my monster hunter journey and I absolutely love it, I wish I could play it again soon, and I hope that one day capcom will realise how good of a game it was and take ideas from it and put them into the next monster hunter to come

I still have my 3DS copy and play it whenever I'm travelling. This game introduced my favourite monster in the franchise in Nerscylla, and for that I'll be forever grateful. Fingers crossed she makes a reappearance in Wilds.

I tried the demo and wow charge blade feels really good it’s not as complicated. The long sword doesn’t have any counters or helm breaker and that was the main thing I enjoyed so for mh4u I’m be a charge blade main never thought I’d ever say that

the dream for old monster hunter accessibility for me would be a "monster hunter classic hd collection", with mhf, mhfu, mh3u, and mh4u in a collection for consoles and pc. maybe some texture upscaling, but nothing else. other than that, while technically it existed in 3rd gen through charm mining, i did feel that the endgame systems of 4 and 4u were kind of the start of the "endless rng grind-a-thon" that im still mixed on. on the one hand, more stuff to do, but it does feel slightly hollow to do the same quest over and over again for the slight chance of a reward. i definitely agree that the lack of gimmicks (aside from maybe mounting being too easy) makes the game great. i dropped iceborne halfway through the update cycle because of clutch claw. overall, 4u is definitely a worthwhile experience, especially for the village story. personally i still prefer 3 ultimate, the moga village is just a nice place and some of my favorite monster designs.

I bought this game yesterday. I just reached the second village and I'm really enjoying it so far

I started with MHF2 and had like 2000 hours of playtime in it (when combined with my MHFU playtime after that released). So that game will always have a special place in my heart. But I might have to agree with you on this. MH4U is such a well-made game.

The world/4gu comparison makes me hyped about mh6, to see if already passing to the new graphic advancement lets them have a better roster and get the best of both worlds

I remember getting 4U the summer before high school and putting 1200 hours into it. This game is a must for anyone that hasn’t tried. I played almost the entire game alone and had a blast

Ah my first Monster Hunter game, this game quite literally had an impact on my life and helped make me many friends I still have to this day. Glad I stuck with this franchise and made even more memories

The peak of the series imo, would love to play it on modern consoles, playing it on 3Ds kinda hurts my hands after extendet periods of playtime, wich keeps me from playing this game more...

i am playing right now 4u with my friend and we are figting in like the 6 aged text quest after dalamadur this game is so fun and the combat feel so nice in the sense that when i win i feel that i cluch it with skill , my favortie of the saga 100%

From its new monsters/subspecies to locations to mechanics (frenzy, guild quests, wyporium), 4U has remained the peak of MH quality for me even a decade later. Having subspecies in High Rank/Expeditions was the best thing they could have done for game progression, by the time Apex Monsters were introduced I would have lost interest if the monster variation in HR wasn't done so well. Compared to other MH games I found myself farming triple as many armor sets cause the roadblocks on the first playthrough were interesting enough to make me reconsider how I fought each monster. Even with how much I played this game I'd still buy a remaster. Great retrospective!

9:52 get those ankles broke

i remember doing a 7th grade project about our interests at the time and i legit said monster hunter and gore magala in the class as if everybody knew what i was talking about 😅 many years later it is still a game i look back at and realize how far i came as a hunter 😎😎 (and a person 😭)

I'm going to add one more on to the story part here. At least for me, the whole aspect of being part of a traveling caravan made it feel like you were part of a ragtag family. Traveling and completing hunts supported by each other for the prosperity, success, and survival of the group. Add the Ace Palico on top of everything, a true ace. Generations had me feeling like some underappreciated tourism agent until the airship researchers came by. World made me think it is a 'chosen one' story after I started to question what everyone did until I showed up, more so after meeting the Admiral. Rise got me feeling like my hunter was of something he should be invested in as a member of the village.

I love Portable 3rd and Freedom Unite the most But 4U was amazing, i was blown away with what they did on the 3DS

The CC says dollar murder for dalamandur had me dying😂

Oh wow. 46min. Glad i'm free rn

When i had bought the collectors edition used it had progress up to tigrex and i just loved it every monster was a spectacle to fight

Great video. I love a lot of the points brought up. However I felt I needed to point out that at some point(around the 36min mark), it was brought up how 4U had no gimmicks, I kinda disagree. Every MH has added mechanics and gimmicks. Some stayed in the series, some were only in their original game. 3 had monster exhaustion, 4u had mounting, etc. All in all awesome video. I especially liked the in depth discussion over the post game of 4U, specifically what it does well. Not to mention the similarities and differences 4U holds with many other MH series games.

MHWI and MH4U are tied for my favorite MH game. I like more the overall gameplay of MHWI, I like the investigation quests as they make quest variety potentially infinite (while MH4U suffered from low quest variety in G-rank), the events were amazing, I very much prefer the optimized Guiding Lands as an endgame compared to the Guild Quests from MH4U and Safi'jiiva, Iceborne Raging Brachydios, MR Kulve Taroth, Iceborne Alatreon, Iceborne Fatalis and AT Velkhana were the most fantastic hunts I experienced. The technical jump from MHGenU to MHW is something the series really needed. Only one thing (well two, the bits on sticks weapons) prevents Iceborne from blowing out of the water MH4U: the tenderizing mechanic, which I consider to be even worse than the heat gauge of GL in MHGen. Thanks goodness the last update made this annoying maintenance less frustrating. IMO, Capcom should do one final update were the tenderizing mechanic goes away entirely and the hitzones are rebalanced to their World values/tenderized values, something which would be easy to do and would remove the biggest stain on an almost perfect game. MH4U was the second MH game I played and it was a lesson in humility. My first MH game was MHFU and I did it 100% solo. I expected MH4U to be a walk in the park, only to be obliterated in HR and G-rank. The monsters moved so fast while hitting almost as hard as in MHFU, and much harder for Lv140 monsters. I would consider this game to be the hardest MH overall. Gore/Shagaru Magala are my favorite flagship monsters and I remember the first time I fought Gore for real: "Ok, I fought this guy two times already, I know how to deal with wait? What is he doing with his wings?" Gore pulls out his feelers, the area goes dark and I get destroyed by Gore Magala. The frenzy virus mechanic is IMO the best abnormal statut and the best "super state" for the monsters. Apex was very good (and scary) too, but going a bit too far with the immunity against the elements and the super armor. MH4U introduced IG and CB, my two favorite weapons since (and they were really OP in this game) and the augment system (too bad you could not roll back and get refund). Many of my favorite monsters from MHFU returned (Akantor, Ukanlos, Rajang), this was the first time I fought Zinogre and Deviljho, the monsters who made me put Evade on all my sets. Gogmazios (an XXL Shagaru Magala trading the frenzy virus for tar) is IMO the best MH final boss. An excellent game overall. My only issue was the relic armors/weapons, no night version for all the maps and the Volcanic Hollow being the same map than the Sunken Hollow (even if it was justified in the story). A 5th gen remake of MH4U would be a blast and hopefully, MH6 will be a spiritual successor of MH4U.

42:50 just noticed this little bit here, but it is NOT illegal to play games on emulators. it is only illegal to steal the roms off of websites, but using the ease of 3DS modding, and simply dumping the copy of the game and dlc yourself is 100% legal. no matter how hard Nintendo’s trillion dollar legal team try, it is simply not illegal to play your own copy of the game on an emulator, and it should be encouraged for games like MH4U or 3U that have had their servers nuked. the real problem with 4U emulation is that Citra is a fucking beast to run, due to 4U lacking a native “3D off” toggle in the settings, resulting in it running like absolute dogshit on any computer not spec’s out decently.

36:20 3u/3 has swimming Technically a gimmick since it never appeared before it or since.

This was my first monster hunter game and I'm glad

Man i wish i could play this game. The monsters of 4th gen are so diverse and unique. It‘s a crime many of these did not return to 5th gen, they have to fix this mistake in monster hunter 6. We need Seltas Queen, Zamtrios, Najarala and Dalamadur. My 3DS broke down, so if I‘m ever going to play this, it will be via emu.

38:54 After seeing the flat zones of Rise/SB i don't think this is even a issue. This is a cool feature which allow us to see plenty animation/interaction that monsters have with their environment. At least that's my opinion

You might that remaster this coming year. Crazy.

It's actually incredibly funny and sad that out of all of their franchises Capcom is so incredibly bad at preserving Monster Hunter while we've gotten remasters and ports of many of their other franchises to modern consoles and PC. MegaMan (even Battle Network), Street Fighter, Devil May Cry, etc. But Monster Hunter has only ever had HD re releases or ports to other consoles for a couple of games in the series over it's lifespan. Basically just 3 Portable and Freedom getting console releases and 3U having a 3DS and Wii U release. It's very sad.

4U is so good. It was the first Monster Hunter game for 3DS that allowed you to play online so that was a really big thing since 3U on 3DS could not play online.

I have a feeling that Wilds will be similar to 4U. I don't like emulation but I'm now playing 4U and I'm amazed of how they handled the traveling aspect of the game where you travel from village to village.

This is my favourite video to date

I lost my file when my mh4u n3ds died about a year ago, it's been tough wanting to go back to it just cause that was my most played mh file, world surpassed it after iceborne had me hooked for a solid year or so though. I remember I grinded guild quests lv140+ to get relics to complete my set of being able to have Honed Blade, Steady Hand, and Evasion+2 on the same armor. Losing that with my file gone now did a number on my willingness to try and get back to that point (I had almost done everything so... yea it was a lot lol)

4u has some of the best Giant Monsters rosters in the game. Dalamadur alone is still one of the best truly huge giant monsters in the game, and it's a shame it hasn't been in any of the new games since.

MH4U was my first MH game, which made me love the franchise so much I remember encountering hunters in the hub, I love the tavern like hub and seing it bring so many memories And for those that played during this golden age, 3 words... "Je suis monté" - Me, a former french insectglaive main (I traded the baguette for a baguette launcher, I now play LBG) I hope that the new MH games are going to be less arcardy : - No special moves and skills, your own skils are what will decide you fate, having special moves and skills to get out of dangerous situation where you should be punished isn't great, in Rise if you get hit, the second you touch the ground you can just wirebug away from danger, it shouldn't be like that - Makes preparation and strategy a thing again, it is part of a hunt to take the good item with you, to organize them, same with strategies, I used so much of my time creating item loadout to be effective for the type of gameplay I want to play - Make us search the monsters (use World system to find hints but remove the bugs so that YOU have to search and think) - Make monsters hit harder, not be more tanky, it gives more challenge, health tank are just boring at some point while fighting a monster that can kill you in a matter of a couple hit but that can also die more or less quickly can makes a battle more fun - Bring back gunner armor, yeah it means farming two times more for a full set, but they could improve things like when crafting one piece of armor, you get both the blademaster and gunner, same for amelioration, this or they allow of to carve the monsters 2 times more and get more rewards overall (because getting like 4 scales out of a monster bigger than a house is bull****), playing gunner was also pretty dangerous and required skills, because of less defense, one hit and you're out (unless you used evade +3 and became untouchable, that thing is so good ngl) but on the other hand you could attack from range, which made things fair (and now that we can even fire on the move, having as much armor as a blademaster make things too unfair)

This was my first and favorite monster hunter game- but I don’t have a clue how to play it now ever since I lost my 3DS as a crappy teen