every monster hunter game: don't worry you just trapped the monster, you didn't kill it. it is VERY much alive. we will take it back to base and study it for science. btw here is its spine as a reward
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I assume they euthanize the monster in most cases because you beat it to near death and destroyed most of its body parts but they do an autopsy and you get more parts because its surgical removal
The fact that you can't have every part of the monster just to make you do the battle again is just... Bad. It's a smaller but still important reason why I never got into MH
I think it's "justified" by the fact that the village needs the parts more than the hunters do...?
Still insanely dumb, though. Drives me away from MH, too.
Either grind mooks. Or have a couple of Big Boss Spectacle Fights. Not a fan of grinding bosses to grind bosses.
I feel inclined to point out that this actually varies by monster. For most monsters, you actually can get a tail by carving the body or as a quest reward, it's just that the percent chance of getting the tail from those is much smaller than carving the tail directly.
Haven't tried MH: Wilds but in MH: World you could fight monsters in an arena. I just assumed that's where they put all the monsters we catch instead of kill. 😂
Dungeon Petz rules explain that pets taken off the board have gone to live out the rest of their lives on a farm and that the addition of meat to the resource supply is just a coincidence. :)
I chose to believe that all the monsters are just out there carrying around their own spare parts just in case they get attacked by some kind of invasive monster hunter. 😆
Fun part is if you capture a monster in the new mh game during just running around the zone, the traps eventually break and the monsters simply run away and disappear
They are alive, but messed up for life after beeing beaten to a bloody pulp by a creature a tenth their size
I like that in Skyrim, some dudes got their hearts replaced by "unholy nature magic" briar-hearts. And that they immediately fall dead if you manage to successfully pickpocket said hearts !
I always wanted to play this game but I never understood the goal/point? In Mario and Zelda the point is to rescue the princess but what is the point/goal of monster hunters just to kill monsters?
If you're looking for story, Wilds is the most narratively driven of recent entries. No real justification for repetitive endgame grinding, but the general gist tends to revolve around preserving ecosystems / stopping dangerous phenomena / creating or restoring balance to locales.
Well, the monsters they hunt are first for science; you learn about the ecology. Other hunters will use them to protect vulnerable populations, because ecologist get out of whack. A city-sized monster will enter a region and the impact is massive on the smaller species, which are big as trucks.
The Wattsonian reason? You're working for a hunter's guild trying to protect human settlements from monsters or restoring environmental balance when certain monsters get out of control, be it overpopulation, killing too much wildlife, or causing natural distasters.
The Doylist reason? Slaying giant monsters and using their scales and fur to make new, kick-ass armor and weapons to fight even bigger, even stronger monsters is satisfying as fuck.
First, you kill monster. Then, you make fabulous attire from their entrails. Then you kill bigger monsters. Repeat until the heat the death of the universe.
The lore reason is you’re killing monsters because they threaten people/villages/nations, or they upset some ecological balance. You work on behalf of a guild, with aims to protect people and the environment.
The gameplay reason is you need monster parts to make cool weapons and slutty outfits.
When you trap them in Wilds they get up and walk off after a minute or so.
You still get various parts of their skin and skeleton, but they're out there wandering.
Im pretty sure lore wise they study the monster and then still carve it afterwards for resources. It just gives them more time to research rather than the brief time before the body decays in the wild
Ah, monster hunter…the game where you go out into a creature’s natural habitat to smack it around with a giant sword and then turn it into a pair of boots….😭
Ngl, I always wondered what would happen to the trapped monsters when I trapped ANOTHER monster. They have a single holding pen, and I know I'm not out there catching/releasing the same great jagras' over and over . . .
I was totally on board with the idea of capturing monsters. Then I got reduced to my last potion by that damn firebreathing cuckoo and now I feel very strongly about reducing the minimum levels required for a viable population.
I actually really liked that in world theyd show the monster back at camp you captured and would have folks you could talk to say stuff about how theyd release it when they were done.
It reminds me that when they translated / adapted Lupin the 3rd for my country they added stuff like "don't worry, those are sleeping bullets" here and there...
Still wondering how Goemon is able to make people sleep by touching them with his sword.
I just remind myself that its okay if I consume and use every part of it, to honor it's sacrifice. I say this in the hope you don't see that I have a 14 tails and 48 talons, and enough hide to carpet the whole region in my chest that I've gathered trying to cut out a gem from one for my fashion set.
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Still insanely dumb, though. Drives me away from MH, too.
Either grind mooks. Or have a couple of Big Boss Spectacle Fights. Not a fan of grinding bosses to grind bosses.
Some monsters keep a spare on hand ig
The monster appeared to have only one head
I'm guessing the bio-engineering is similar to that of Resident Evil
They are alive, but messed up for life after beeing beaten to a bloody pulp by a creature a tenth their size
"Shouldn't the fight be over now?"
The gameplay reason is you need monster parts to make cool weapons and slutty outfits.
*gets 3 rajang hearts*
*shocked pikachu face*
"Don't worry, the three hearts you got were spares, it keeps the fourth one"
You still get various parts of their skin and skeleton, but they're out there wandering.
The monsters are better off without it
Just speculating :)
(I have never played this genre)
Still wondering how Goemon is able to make people sleep by touching them with his sword.