User blog comment:.Rakle./Monster Hunter Online Information Blog Post/@comment-68.80.208.65-20130523025819/@comment-4563270-20130523162253

what i mean is the design aspects of rathian for the 4th gen are just better. even in mh4 for the 3ds with its limitations still aspires to that one design.

http://operationrainfall.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/MH4-Rathian-7.jpg

ok think of it like this. in concept tsujimoto set out for a very specific design.. the designs of something like rathian ONLY progress..

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100412062061/monsterhunter/images/c/ce/DoubleRathian.png

and if you look at the mho rathian it looks more like that 2nd gen rathian just higher res where as the transition from 2nd to 3rd to 4th gen rathian actually changes design aspects to give rathian a more smooth and organic feeling. the biggest difference there has to be the lighter coloration and that obvious fact that the spikes on her wings go from kinda crooked and edgy to smoother out same as with the phalanges going from very external and looking alien on the wing to more subtle and connected so the wings look just that more realistic. now take a look at any of those renders and then this.

http://www.mmoculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Monster-Hunter-Online-screenshot-16.jpg