Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate: Reviews and Discussion

For one, I don't even understand the need to have a high rank Gold Rathian and Silver Rathalos. They were perfect in 3U as just G-rank monsters.

You certainly have a lot of good complaints and I agree with most of them however...in regards to this one; It's because MH4 had Gold and Silver. A lot of people forget that MH4U/4G is just an expansion on MH4 because we didn't actually get MH4 in the States/Europe. MH4G has all of MH4's content AND G Rank / High Rank Village added on. They didn't remove any content that was in MH4, which means that Gold and Silver have both High and G Rank versions, because they were in MH4 and G Rank did not exist in MH4 (which is typical, the first entry in a generation never has G Rank).

You can notice several trends that are common across their games because of the way they do that. For instance, the new monsters don't have subs until G Rank, because the subs didn't exist in the original game. Dalamandur feels like a final boss type fight because it was, in MH4. Ukanlos is an urgent after an urgent because he was added with MH4G and is a gateway into G Rank. Similar to how in MHFU, you beat Akantor, then have to do some random G Rank Urgent quest to actually get into G Rank (I forget what it was, maybe Plum Daimyo?). There's also two separate "ultimate challenge" village quests because both MH4 and MH4G had one at the end of their respective offline questlines. This is also why Savage, Raging Rajang, Elder Dragons, etc., are all available in High Rank when they are basically the hardest monsters. Because the game is actually an expansion of a game we didn't get, a lot of things seem weird but make sense if you had access to the original game.

I know this is a long shot, but was anyone lucky enough to get through with the proxy thing to download any of the event or challenge quests? I've been looking for the Star Knight armor like crazy, but all I find are assholes that troll people with the quest.

I wonder if I can grab the event DLC data off of my JP 3DS. I'll have to look into it when I get a chance. I know you could do that in MHFU, but the 3DS might make it harder to do.