>Sir the raptors are on deck and being prepped for launch.
>Excellent, they seem a bit jittery, I guess they sense the oncoming battle.
>>45484075
Lets ride bitches
>>45484075
umm... no, Sir. I'm pretty sure that's because they are retarded. Lowest bidder and all, Sir. But I heard they are only MILDLY retarded
>>45484312
Well we would have went with the Dragon mechs but we were told to stay within budget.
>>45484312
YOU NEED FIGHTER!? I HAVE FIGHTER FOR YOU! ON THE CHEAP GREAT PRICE ONLY MILDLY RETARDED
>>45484441
This is exciting and I am happy to be here.
Crazy Hassan! You old, er, camel you! Whattya got for me today?
>>45484493
I HAVE ALL KINDS OF STUFF! STRAIGHT FROM THE LAB AND READY FOR COMBAT! MIGHT TRY TO BITE YOUR ARM AND HUMP YOUR LEG MAY HAVE BEEN A DOG AT ONE POINT BUT ONLY SLIGHTLY STUPID AND TOUGH!
>>45484547
Anything that used to be a camal around here?
>>45484577
MEET ABU! WAS CAMEL ONCE BUT FOUND IN LAB! IT STANDS ON TWO LEGS NOW BUT STILL HAS HUMP! (I think it's a hump...) NOT NEARLY AS RETARDED AS BEFORE GOOD PRICE
>>45484630
Dear Mr. Hassan. Camels are ships of the desert but can they also operate on ships of the sea?
Regards,
Carlos
>>45484682
CAMALS AMAZING ANIMAL! BEST OF ALLAH'S CREATIONS! SHIP DESERT AIR VERY VERSATILE!
![wunqkfW[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/MIpD7NH.jpg "wunqkfW[1].jpg")
>>45484075
>>45484391
>>45484547
OKAY. SO.
I recently found out about this and this thread looks like my only opportunity to share what I've learned:
Capcom recently released some new concept art for MONSTER HUNTER and in one of them it finally revealed a major plot point/world building piece of information about the world:
Monster Hunter essentially takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where in Mankind and Dragons fought a massive war against one another with the Dragons themselves turning themselves more and more into Genetically Enhanced Cyborgs.
The Humans in turn began turning and producing Dragon Hunters who were similarly Genetically enhanced and so forth to fight these Mecha-Dragon-Genocide Machines.
Both sides eventually ended up driving one another to extinction and the remaining bio-weapons on both sides were let loose into the wild; the functional ones eventually breeding, surviving, de-evolving and become less "militarized" and more "naturalized", thus producing the flora and fauna of creatures we see today.
This includes the humanoid races we see today- whom at one point where completely genetically engineered and manufactured for various purposes and castes, but have since evolved and bred into their own natural niches.
>>45484741
That's...actually really fucking cool. I don't even play MH and honestly, this has made me interested. I do have a 3DS though, maybe I should start.
>>45484741
Name of said game? Can't find that specific Monster Hunter.
![tumblr_nle4w3nFWA1rqcx52o2_500[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/YU72Bjs.jpg "tumblr_nle4w3nFWA1rqcx52o2_500[1].jpg")
>>45484925
>Name of said game? Can't find that specific Monster Hunter.
It isn't the backstory for any specific "game", but the entire "Monster Hunter Series".
The Monster Hunter Series takes place 10's of thousands of years in the "future" where in the history of the Dragon wars have been long since forgotten and all the weaponized creatures and dragons have become perfectly mundane and ordinary creatures people hunt and so forth to fuel the economy.
The Games never explicitly elaborate on the "forgotten history" as no records have obviously survived that long and people have excited and survived for so long they too themselves have evolved and become naturalized beyond their artificial origins.
The people living within the world don't humor any such notions of "lost history" and assume that Monsters, Dragons and Dinosaurs are just as natural as any other creature and this is just normal life for them. You never get any explicit hints or tidbits about this history, but with that said:
Screenshot related.
The places you go to hunt often have little clues laying around: The Primal Forest specifically being made up of the massive Fossilized skeleton of three ancient weaponized Dragons.
What would I even look up to find more mech animals? These things are fucking awesome!
>>45485116
Dammit now I want a Monster Hunter game set in mecha times.
>>45485137
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lor_uUkJkkw
>>45484391
Halliburton got weird after Cheney unveiled himself as literally the Antichrist.
>>45484741
Oh hey I have that book. I never thought of it in that interpretation. Makes a lot more sense when you put it that way though. Has there been anything else released on the topic beside that page and the other small mentions? A lot of those details are new to me.
I like the concept, but on the other hand there's also a sketched chart in the back of the book showing how all the wyvern subspecies arose through convergent evolution.
Not sure which explanation I like more really.
>>45489401
This thread made me open that concept art book back up, and damn it seems like every time I open it I find something new. I do not remember that flying vampire bear being in there.
>>45484741
Honestly, MH always seemed kind of post-apocalyptic.
>>45484075
>the raptors are on deck
Sheeeiiiiiiit
>>45484075
Get flying veichle.
Name it after gay dinosaur
Plane maker logic
>>45492404
Yeah well maybe if your name was cooler you'd get picked for plane names more often, Pteranodon.
Quit being such a salty bitch
>>45492411
>getting any hay dino name
>not havingg such inspiring name as bald eagle, freedom, flying gun.
![latest[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/YK1omj0.png "latest[1].png")
>>45492404
>dissing best plane
>>45492520
>Naming your plane after an eagle
>not even a good eagle at that
>>45492821
>raptor
>best plane
hey now, don't say things you can't take back
>>45492404
Raptors are a type of bird, you silly goose. Velociraptors are the land-based dinosaurs.
>>45484075
This artsy-fartsy crap is totally impractical. We're still sticking with good old planes and tanks for the next 20 years, minimum.
>>45492990
What would be more scary, a mothafukin dragon or a predator drone that you can't even see?
>>45484075
>Sir the raptors are on deck
Finally. Now we ride against Nekron!
>>45493059
Irrelevant. Efficiently winning the war is the primary directive.
>>45493059
the drone?
can't shoot what you can't see
>>45484075
>behaves like a big dumb seabird
>poops
>runs away when you try and do maintenance on it
>runs away when you try and plug in the external power cables
>gets all funny when you don't fuel it
>won't let you fuel it because it doesn't like having the hose plugged in
Literally the worst
>>45495564
10/10 would join military
>>45485116
Honestly, the primal forest's skeleton looks like it might be a larger Dalamadur or similar
>>45493201
I think not being able to kill what you can see is scarier
>>45496029
Great, you get to be a PACT Seaman assigned to an aircraft carrier.
You're park of Deck department, your job is to chip paint and clean all day. If a plane-bird gets loose and shits all over something you're the guy who gets to go clean it up.
Don't worry though eventually you'll be e yo strike for a rate, but because of peer pressure you'll strike Boatswain's Mate and still have to do the exact same job until you rotate to shore duty.
And then you'll re-enlist to keep your fat dependopotamus wife who you know cheats when you're on deployment happy and because you forgot how to be a civilian so you'll rotate back to sea and be the LPO of Deck department so now you supervise people doing the shit you hated for years and oh fuck the plane literally bit that 18yo kid straight out of bootcamps arm off right in front of you and fuck you're on the hook for it too.
Now you feel like you've got PTSD and lost a pay grade, but you suck it up and make first again, before you know it you've made chief but you feel like you're dead inside and even though you're back on shore duty doing a cushy job and divorced that fat bitch wife and have a new one who actually loves you, the idea of retirement and not being in the military anymore is too much for you so you decide to suck on your 1911 because your entire career nobody ever told you it's okay to get help.
>>45497634
>literally every BMC
>>45497634
You forgot about all the blow jobs your branch is famous for giving.
Triceratop cav 4 lyfe!
>>45498263
>2016
>actually thinking the navy is particularly gay
the demography of the branches of the US military tells me that the Marine Corps is the gayest branch by far.
>>45484391
everything about this picture is full of fuck yea.
>>45493091
Those were dragonhawks, you rube.
>>45498535
But the Marines are quartered largely on navy ships and assigned to naval-adjacent posts.
There's no escape from the fact that boats make you gay.
>>45484630
Hassan, that looks like a hippo jaw to me. Are you losing your touch?
>>45485116
I hate when people repeat this. It's concept art from MH1 that never got implemented in any game. MonHun doesn't need a 2deep4u post-apocalypse backstory.
>but how do you explain the super human hunters not taking fall damage?!
It's a video game
>>45499225
They have the lowest proportion of female personnel out of all branches by a huge margin and the lowest proportion of minority groups.
The Marine Corps is literally a white boy sausage fest, the gayest possible environment.
>>45484075ZOIDS
>>45499328
I wouldn't argue with Mr Hassan on the subject of camels.
>>45500820electric guitar
>>45484391
>>45501671
>>45493093
But breaking the fuck out of the enemy moral is very effective.
Not to mention not being able to kill what you can see and it being all up in your face is more horrifying.
>>45493059
Predator drone, because when they JDAMs you're ass, you won't see it coming, you don't where they'll strike next or when.
Thus breaking enemy morale and induce PTSD more effectively then a huge ass dragon mech that could be seen miles away, and thus your average enemy soldier can anticipate the general direction of where the attack is going to happen.
The general populace kind of forgot that the reason why vets get PTSD is not because they shat their pants when they say the enemy missiles and guns being fired at them, its not seeing them that's the problem and having the feeling of dread that at any moment some missile, bomb or landmine IED is going to blow up in their face.
>>45502019
>Thus breaking enemy morale and induce PTSD more effectively then a huge ass dragon mech that could be seen miles away
That's the point. Something that's very very huge would be like a god to them as it fucks up their infantry. Not to mention if it's the talkative variety, then it can taunt their asses as it shoots big ass missiles and lasers.
>>45502076
Anon, its a big fucking target.
The enemy knows where it is, and can gauge out pretty accurately all of its strengths, weaknesses and performance specs and armaments as well as extrapolate its MO. Which is a death sentence in the age of electronic and information centric warfare.
Because if you can predict where its going and shooting, you can plan your strategic and tactical movement to never engage it in combat and just achieve more important objectives before spamming all your missiles at it, or hell even capture it once you break the enemy chain of command, communication network and logistics.
>>45484741
>>45485116
The Equal Dragon Weapon concept art isn't really canonized in-game like, say, hunting robots (the Artian armor set) and sea people. Call me a stick-in-the-mud but I think you're reading a little too heavily between the lines and considering it canon. The creators themselves state in interviews that the game and setting as a whole were originally going to be much darker and more high-fantasy (hence things like the EDW, the mummy-hydra-cobra thing, and pic related in the earliest concept art in Monster Hunter Illustrations 1).
The massive bones in the Primeval Forest can be attributed to lao-shan lung, where in-game you are said to only fight juvenile specimens and adults actually live up to their title of "Moving Mountain of Sanctity."
I'm not saying that this couldn't become canon in future games, since capcom's shown repeatedly that concepts are merely shelved rather than discarded (I'm almost tempted to say Gogmazios is a more current-setting-friendly incarnation of the EDW idea), but for now there's not much evidence for anything beyond "Some shit went down back in the day and Schrade's been leveled and fatalis squats there."
>>45492871
>hey now, don't say things you can't take back
Did you mean don't scrap things you can't take back?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W7pph9KhYY
>>45484630
Oh god it looks like it has googly eyes everywhere.
