Episode #85: Chef’s Special Platter (Low Rank) MP3
Episode #86: Chef’s Special Platter (High Rank) MP3
Episode Description:
select button dot net is proud to present a two-part Monster Hunter extravaganza.
In the Low Rank episode, our panel rambles on about a variety of topics such as: mountain bosses, gripes about Frontier, whether it is acceptable to be anime or not, content reuse throughout the series, and world building. (Don’t fret, we didn’t restrict our discussion to Low Rank content.)
In the High Rank episode, we stay focused a bit more and cover the larger omissions from the earlier episode: monsters at large, hunt dynamics, the grind loop, locales, and more… (Use a fancy-pants podcast app, and you’ll get to enjoy chapter navigation and an array of relevant screenshots throughout this episode.)
Big thanks to HOBO for hooking us up with some sweet cover art for these episodes!
Low Rank musical choices:
Rotten Vale Battle Theme - Monster Hunter World
Nargacuga Theme - Monster Hunter X/Generations
Zenaserisu Theme - Monster Hunter Frontier Z
Gogmazios Theme Part 1 - Monster Hunter 4G/4 Ultimate
Pokke Village Theme - Monster Hunter Portable 2nd/Freedom 2
Thanks to @Sakurina for doing all of the legwork on putting this together, I am so overwhelmed with life this year that I could not even come close to pulling together another um, april fools thing.
oh my god, my lack of particularly rigorous vocal practice has mostly lead to me sounding like the terrible nerd that I am, I need to never speak again
there’s a lot we didn’t get around to talking about, which I’ve pulled together into a bit of an sprawling addendum here
dissecting how early-preview invaders in flagships and endgame invaders like bazelgeuse and deviljho have been regularly practiced and comparing that to the emphasized food chain in World
my old loving gender metaphorage ripped out of the magala family,
particular examples going into why some earlier unvoiced npcs work compared to a certain overbearing generic enthusiasm in world-
…regardless! I think we relatively succeeded in getting out something reasonable relatively close to World’s release, even if it was quite the anxious and troublesome hassle (and I’m quite sad we missed out on BustedAstromech, need to make it up for him some time)
big thanks to @Sakurina for having pulled together things, @CourierRice for entertaining me thinking mh thoughts for forever in anticipation of this, and for @gary to have popped in and provided some rounding out of us rambling fogies
now people should be blessedly free of me talking for fucking ever about this shit, as I have to go hide in a corpse swamp out of self-conscious terror for a few months millennia.
@r-i et al i super loved your talk about the post-post-apocalypse stuff. i remember you posting about the mantis way back so it was cool to hear it again
sadly i fell off the mh train after feeling lukewarm towards 4u so im not familiar w any of the monsters relevant to the theme
