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I have uncovered a dark truth from the trenches of my memory

He used to be a fucking Stabound character

that i entirely forgot about because i haven't played starbound in like ten years because i learned what good games are like

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Honestly i do hope Malzeno returns at some point in a future game for three specific reasons:

To redesign its moves to have less high fantasy energy ball bullshit. It would do it good to be a more physical monster anyway. Less of the vampire's magical pink balls, more of the vampire's evil tail thrusts please.

To prove to weirdos who claimed wirebugs allowed for faster monster attacks than in other games that Rise never had especially aggressive monsters, only odd moves specifically designed to counter wirebug spammers which wouldn't have been a problem if they never let wirebugs get past the brainstorm stage in the first place.

So that we can have a new theme for it that focuses more on instrumental storytelling rather than hinge on vocals to do most of the emotional work. Malzeno's theme is beautiful and it's pretty great at evoking what little story there is to it ingame, as a matter of fact i'd argue it says more about it than the damn story does, but vocals are for especially significant final/penultimate bosses and black dragons ONLY, not for flagships, same goes for Magnamalo (except in Magna's case the vocals literally add Nothing and could easily be removed with very little other change, since the biwa and shakuhachi are what carries the theme). This also isn't to mention the fact that Primordial not having a different theme is uh, fucking strange (though i kinda hope Primordial never returns unless it gets some MAJOR redesign to both its moves and its extremely wonky animations)....

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Honestly

I think Zoh Shia's hunting horn should have looked like a ghost pipe

It lives in the dark, it's a parasite that feeds off the symbiotic relationship other organisms have, and it grows white but turns black as it wilts.

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In an ideal world not every black dragon would have a very boring helmet design and also none of them would have a stupid fucking electric guitar or Kingom hearts ass string instrument as a hunting horn design.

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Congalala gijinka who's a huge middle aged kickass biker chick gang boss who permanently stinks of sweat and beer and cigarettes and garlic (loves to cook 4 the crew) and she's the coolest ever you either love her or you're terrified of her beating the shit out of you no in between press post now

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My monster hunter non-canon-compliant ocs are cool because they're big and hairy cryptid people with no sexual dymorphism who lay eggs and like to hang out wherever humans don't (they may scavenge a human corpse or kill a guild knight once in a while)

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why is the new Monster Hunter Stories white. that removes so much of what's good about them

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Next upcoming Monster Hunter area is Under My Bed

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I can't get over how excited i am over the change of artstyle for Stories 3..

They finally understood that they didn't need to make it look kiddy, and they also finally learned how to make baby monsters that don't look dreadful.

That spinoff series is actually growing in quality instead of resting on it's initial formula and that's so amazing to see, it's always the third gen folks, it's always the third gen that truly starts to peak.

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My crystal spores yum

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I'm seeing a pattern now

This year Wilds release + meaty updates

Next year likely Wilds basegame last updates + Stories 3

Year after likely Wilds DLC + MHS3 updates

We're eating good

I wonder if Stories is now officially the hole filler for the in between maingame to DLC time. They kinda did that with MHST2 and Rise/SB.

If you haven't gotten into stories yet i'd recommend playing the first two game in waiting for the third, it's not necessary for story context, but it is helpful for learning the mechanics. Despite the over the top animations the storytelling in itself actually doesn't reach too far from canon worldbuilding. It's just, what if MH was a cartoon with wack shit in it and storytelling that genuinely fucks but doesn't take itself too seriously unlike rise sb.

And if you don't wanna play MHST2 and all the grinding and such you could also see my no commentary playthrough of it

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THIS IS THE GREATEST

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Casting a curse so that the Gemma summer fit is replaced with that one Anubis rubber diving suit to make cis het guys as uncomfortable as i feel looking at rancid gooner shit.

Capcom be like what if we objectified women even more than usual this summer, what if we never got better at designing women in fucking 2025 ?

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Capcom be like what if we objectified women even more than usual this summer, what if we never got better at designing women in fucking 2025 ?

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Sometimes i get haunted with the sight of the transparent crimson glow valstrax figure on second hand selling sites

You know, you'd expect it to be red

It's not red