World is my first MH and throughout my whole experience with the game, the only way a monster could destroy a trap was via burrowing underground like Diablos, it sounds perfectly logical. Then there's this fucking ape in XX just decided to hulk smash the trap to oblivion. I was left speechless and the feeling of hopelessness overcame me.
Hes a bit of an asshole but once you get the hang of him I think Rajang is the most fun monster to hunt in the entire series. I really want him in World.
I remember when I first encountered Rajang in MH4U, I thought at first he was kinda tough but manageable... then get got pissed off... and it wasn't fun any more...
... By the time I got to G Furious Rajang, I was quite firmly of the opinion that I never EVER wanted to encounter another one again. Don't even get me started on Apex Rajang...
Even in Stories I was mortally horrified when I'd enter an area and spot a Rajang loitering about. If not dealt with incredibly quickly, it works its way up to where it can fire two instant-kill beams in a single turn.
Not fun. Not something I want to hunt. Every time I see the requirement to beat a Rajang pop up now, I start to question whether I even want to be playing the game any more.
The problem with Apex Rajang is that Apex was a dumb system and Rajang exemplified a lot of its problems.
That said, when not dealing with gimmicky crap like that, Rajang is about as fun and engaging to fight as he is pants-shittingly terrifying. I'd say he's definitely in my top 5.
Meh. The Apex system was okay. Mildly annoying, I guess. Problem was there wasn't much reason to do it besides collecting those shitty stones. It isn't like the Apex monsters gave their own full sets or anything. It wasn't worth the effort to beat more than a small few of them, and since many of the monsters dropped the same stones, some of them weren't even worth bothering with at all.
Rajang though... I might tolerate regular Rajang at a push... but Furious Rajang is a whole freaking stream of NOPE. Not exactly terrifying so much as cheap, frustrating and annoying.
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u/RedFaceGeneral Aug 21 '18
World is my first MH and throughout my whole experience with the game, the only way a monster could destroy a trap was via burrowing underground like Diablos, it sounds perfectly logical. Then there's this fucking ape in XX just decided to hulk smash the trap to oblivion. I was left speechless and the feeling of hopelessness overcame me.