![]() ![]() Rage Mode, especially for the Deviljho.Any of the already mentioned monsters could appear when you least wanted it, and quite a few players have been introduced to the Gigginox this way. Pitch dark forest, looking around.then suddenly, a pair of red eyes light up right in front of you. The Nargacuga, circa Tri, at least initially.The Gigginox vomiting up its young complete with high pitched gurgling.The Plesioth attacking an Aptonoth trying to get a drink, dragging it into the water with it making but a token effort to escape its doom.The Gobul swallowing whole an entire school of fish, which simply disappear in a flash, before attacking and swallowing whole a cow-sized Epioth.In World, Great Jagras does the exact same thing with Aptonoth, but you can also hit it's engorged stomach to make it puke its meal back up. By which we mean seizing it by the rump and slowly swallowing it whole while it desperately, but futilely tries to break free. Quite a few of the Monter Hunter ecologies fit into this.Alternative: in World, if you are fighting a monster and there's another one like Bazelgeuse or Deviljho coming to join the fray, the music suddenly cracks into a creepy glissando before playing the monster's theme.It's a Jump Scare both out-of and In-Universe, because unless you have certain food buffs, your character flinches. Just hope the monster isn't right behind you and you didn't expect it, or you're headed for an area boundary and the monster suddenly shows up right in front of you-it has no smooth transition into the area so it just suddenly pops up. Whenever a large monster in the area sights you, a Scare Chord plays.Some areas have the decomposing carcasses of long-dead monsters stuck in the ground.Perhaps the worst is if you're in a party of three or four players, everyone's health bars are at critical levels, and the monster is about to inflict a deadly Area of Effect attack on the entire party.Even worse: Running from a monster, and making it to the next area, only to see another, potentially more dangerous monster waiting for you.The monster lunges and you have nowhere to go. Then you realize you've hit a wall and you've backed yourself into a corner with the exit so far away. You try to run towards the exit using the minimap as a guide. ![]() Alternatively: Running away from a monster, having the camera at the monster so you can see what it's doing.Alternatively: Running away from a monster, having the camera shifted towards an exit so you can see where you're going, only for the monster to smack you unconscious from behind with a projectile attack because you couldn't see where it was coming from, or because your stamina emptied out from panic-running.You can bet whoever it happens to is desperately mashing the controller to get free and screaming "NO NO NO NO NO!" It's the series equivalent of a deer-in-headlights moment. In general, being stunned, low on health, and around a monster about to finish you off is this, especially if the next defeat will result in quest failure.Good luck if you're an on a quest with both of them! She will know, and she will come over and make you pay for hurting her children. Try grabbing a Wyvern Egg while a Rathian is present on the map.Perhaps it's for the best that the Equal Dragon Weapon has never appeared in the games and is of dubious canonicity. It’s badly decomposed, with exposed muscles and bones, a torn-off arm, and organs dangling from between its ribs. As if that wasn't ghoulish enough, concept art shows what the Equal Dragon Weapon looks like when it's rediscovered many years after the war. The Equal Dragon Weapon is a massive, dragon-shaped abomination seemingly cobbled together from robotic parts and the corpses of more than 30 elder dragons. Not to mention, the aforementioned Flesh Golem, called the Equal Dragon Weapon, is horrific in and of itself. ![]() The question is, WHY did they resort to such drastic-if inhumane-measures? Is it because something bigger, badder and smarter than any of the currently known monsters is still out there, waiting to take revenge on humanity for the sins of the Ancient Civilization.possibly as intelligent as Ahtal-Ka if not moreso?
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