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In this plurk I make up a bunch of monhun monsters
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1: A giant lizard-like creature with an extremely long tongue that ends in a smaller fake monster
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The small monster hangs out as a bait target
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then when you attack it the main body jumps out
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uses the tongue monster to attack from unexpected angles while you try to fight the main body
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the fact that it's the tongue specifically is very funny and fits in really well with the decidedly goofy tone a lot of monsters inherently have
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2: bird monster with reversible feathers that are blue on one side and red on the other side. when it's blue, it breathes lightning, when it's red, it breathes fire
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also its personality changes
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3: Dragon with centipedes for hands
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doesn't need much elaboration. its hands are centipedes
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4: There are plant monsters, right? Plant growing on the ceilings of caves that unfurls downwards to fight you in melee at ground level
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5: Black bird/dragon that can smoke teleport short distances like nightcrawler
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6: Albino Rathalos. Found in a deep underground subterannean monster biome, pure white body, no eyes
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7: Just a kilometer-tall walking monster tree that grows fruit that draw monsters to it in a feeding frenzy, then it absorbs nutrients from the bodies of the ones that kill each other
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8: A sarlac pit but instead of just waiting around, it can get up and drag itself around with its claws and grab people and throw them into the mouth on its back
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9: Monkey monster with a tail that ends in a rigid club. Its tail can extend somehow. wukong jokes
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albino rathalos just makes me think of khezu and that's a comparison i didn't need
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looks up
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gross
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10: Amphibious monster with a jaw like this, but it can buzzsaw
https://images.plurk.com/4AKG63bUpKRVcGkutYborT.png
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RobotApocalypse what do you think
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oh ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ already said the khezu thing, good, i don't have to
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honestly most of these would make pretty good monsters
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i like 1 a lot lmao it's very plausible as a real MonHun monster
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2 also
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when it's blue it defensively sticks to its own territory, but when it's red it actively attacks other monsters/hunters
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but sadly there are not plant monsters - monhun leans very hard on the idea that monsters are simply wild animals and part of the natural ecology
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but there could be plant mimics
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that could still be true of plant monsters!!
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but OK
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walking stick monsters
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yeah
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okay no expanding on that
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11: plant mimic monster fought in a bamboo forest with stabby bamboo legs
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4 actually has promise. i could see some kind of big slug monster that sticks to cave ceilings and grows moss on its back for camoflage
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god, 11 would be terrifying
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that would rule tbh
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4's concept is basically "a monster that could just hide safely on the ceiling but it's so aggro that it comes down to throw hands on purpose"
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oh rad
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yeah i dig that
skerple
4 honestly strikes me as being adjacent to those glowworms in caves
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or the tongue things in half life
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that hang from the ceiling
skerple
which I say as a point in its favor
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which I say as a point in its favor
moontouched
11 just being like "what if a daddy long legs was like as tall as a tree and walked around trying to kill you"
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oh man..... no wait i got it, 4 as a gigginox variant - mossy gigginox or something
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Ideal for 11 is that if it stands still then suddenly it becomes really hard to tell where it is
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yeah
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that's how they hunt
skerple
I figure if you pitch a monhun creature and my first response is "hey, yeah, that reminds me of this wild shit in real life " you're doing something right
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they just wait for the fog to roll in, then stand very still
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until something walks under it
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and suddenly a bamboo spear falls on you
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and then the forest is alive
skerple
I am VERY into bamboo mimic monster
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yeah bamboo mimic monster is very good
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counter is aerial type weapons that can get up to its main body more easily
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honestly the fact that a lot of these make me go "hey that's a bit like [existing monhun monster]" means they're pretty plausible as designs
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5 is me thinking gameplay first, just for the wild attack strings you could get
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poofing around in mid-combo
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7 would probably be a plot monster
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yeah i could see 7 as a big post-game elder dragon thing too
skerple
maybe with 4 you could lean into the glowworm thing - like, the ones I'm thinking of in real life use their light as a lure for prey, so you could pretty easily scale that up
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a glowworm angler fish
skerple
lush glowing ceiling moss with what looks like a gathering point or something, nice, let's see what we can oops it's alive and trying to eat you
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like gogmazios
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hahaha i love monsters with gathering point lures
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5 is remarkably similar to how the nargacuga fight operates minus the smoke and the fact that it is means you're definitely on the same wavelength as the monhun devs
skerple
the more closely it mimics an actually beneficial environmental feature, the better
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https://images.plurk.com/4Y33Fy2qThLLZjm2lR6V3C.png This is Gobul. it likes to bury itself under the silt in bodies of water and pokes its chin hairs up through the mud so they look like a mushroom gathering point
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but it is a bird/cat/dragon that's very [teleports behind you]
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when you try to gather from it, it jumps out and chomps you
skerple
excellent
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it's very funny
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nakarkos also has false appendages that it constructs skeletons of other creatures around
skerple
so yeah do 4 like that except for some kind of ceiling moss/fungus instead
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less of a lure tactic and more of a scare tactic but still mimicry
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god nakarkos was so good, i want it in another game
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oh I finally looked up nakarkos and god damn
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that's an incredible design
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it's so good
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"here have this undead 2-headed dragon"
"sike it's actually a cephalopod using its arms covered in bones as decoy heads"
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it's excellent
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okay
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12
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something with the nargacuga sort of body shape but one of its arms is little and the other is HUGE
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then it has flame gets on the back of the huge arm that it uses to rocket punch
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13: Small spider-like monster that lives in the same territory as a specific other bigger monster, like Diablos or something,
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oh that's cool. similar idea to a pistol shrimp
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then when a diablos dies it uses its many long limbs to puppeteer its skeleton
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BONE DIABLOS
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that fucking rules and we already have precedent for it with the FUCKING MANTIS MECH MONSTER
skerple
hey how about a monster pair that functions like the tarantulas that keep pet frogs
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is that a thing
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it is
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i would ask which one but the answer is yes for both
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what do they do with the frogs
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ohhh yes ahtal-ka FUCKING RULES
skerple
yeah there's a species of tarantula that lets tiny frogs live in their burrows because the frogs eat small pests that would threaten the spider's eggs
skerple
the frog gets protection, the spider gets pest control
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maybe that's how Bone Diablos acts when it doesn't have a skeleton to hijack
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Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate: Ahtal-Ka G-Rank...
mantis mech monster for those inclined to watch
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cleans small pests out of the diablos lair
skerple
I love that
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like hunters
moontouched
also the tarantulas never stop needing the frogs, so when the tarantula dies the kid that inherits the burrow will also inherit the frogs
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hunters are very much pests
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then-- wait
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no I'm making this monster better
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you have a diablos den
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and a couple dozen spiderling monsters patroling it for things diablos don't like
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and then, when the diablos does
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dies
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the entire pack of spiderlings
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piranha its flesh off
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and move in
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to control the skeleton as a collective
skerple
oh that RULES
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holy shit
moontouched
OH THAT RULES
skerple
if a new diablos wants to move in, it has to prove itself in combat against the spiderling collective
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the fight against the bone diablos is kind of like diablos but it has weird extra moves that distorts its body structure
moontouched
and then it will inherit the spiderling collective
skerple
yes
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if you aren't at LEAST hard enough to go toe-to-toe with an undead skeleton puppeted by spiders, you don't DESERVE this burrow
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you must prove you can protect them. by defeating them.
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and then the spiderlings go back to their other lifestyle
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until THAT diablos dies
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and the circle of life continues
skerple
I love it
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that's the kind of living ecology that we love to see in monster hunter
skerple
Bone Diablos is just an adaptation of the spiderling collective to survive dry periods between living Diablos hosts
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a way to hunt larger prey
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that's VERY monhun
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also forcing you to grapple with the fact that you're fighting a DRAGON SKELETON FULL OF SPIDERS
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Y E P
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I imagine them as less spider-shaped and more like
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I want this to be a real monhun monster now
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four legs, ending in hooks
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that can link up in chains
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oh THAT rules
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to form 'muscles'
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it's easy to imagine the first story mission introducing them too
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a diablos has been found with some new kind of monster sharing its den, go kill it
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you go kill it
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and before you can carve it up
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the swarm moves in
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and it's time for phase 2
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I think the two real winners of this plurk are bamboo mantis and bone diablos
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2, 5, and 9 are real good as like
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not the big setpiece monsters but other ones filling in the ecosystem
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yeah
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incidental encounters
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yo this mechamantif fight RULES
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i think 1 is a really good ecosystem filler monster too. something kinda chameleon-looking with a giant long tongue lure
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BWAAAAAH! : RIGHT???? IT'S RAD AS HELL
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ahtal-ka is so good
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i didn't get to play the game it's in and i'm sad about it forever. i really hope it shows up in the Rise expansion....
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I am 100% sure I would not enjoy playing Monster Hunter which is a shame because I fucking love Monster Hunter's aesthetic
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live vicariously through watching other people play monster hunter
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my kingdom for Woolie vs Monster Hunter
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he did play World on Super Best Friends
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but it has Pat backseat gaming him and being Wrong about things
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namely that Pat does not believe in Fashion Hunter which is, just, how's he always so wrong all the time
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(fashion hunter = going for gear that looks good over gear that has the best stats)
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Honestly I haven't REALLY watched much with Pat in it
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The first I heard of Pat was a bunch of people talking about how much he sucks
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hahaha
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So I just kinda stuck with the Woolie vs stuff
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he's...divisive. he can be really funny but he's also notorious for being wrong about things or having bad opinions
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but who knows, maybe woolie will do a woolie vs when MHR hits PC next week
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I have been informed that bone diablos may just be hermitaur
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hermitaur wears a diablos skull and uses its horn to attack from beneath but
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it's certainly less involved
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than the idea you've put forth
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yeah Hermitaur is just a hermit crab using a diablos skull as a shell
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it doesn't have any of that puppeting or symbiosis stuff going on
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it's just a giant crab that went "hey, cool skull - i'm gonna wear it as a hat"
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