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First Generation

The First generation of Monster Hunter games, is the first set of Monster Hunter games released by Capcom.

The games began with Monster Hunter, then preceded by Monster Hunter G and Monster Hunter Freedom (which was Monster Hunter Portable in Japan). It then spawned a spin-off game named Monster Hunter i. The first set of Monster Hunter games were developed as early as in the year of 2004. Among the first generation games, only Monster Hunter and Monster Hunter Freedom were localized to the West; Monster Hunter G and Monster Hunter i never made it outside Japan, although taking to consideration that Monster Hunter Freedom is a port of Monster Hunter G to the PlayStation Portable. Asides from Monster Hunter Freedom, Monster Hunter G also gets a port to the Nintendo Wii on April 23, 2009. It came as a preorder bonus with the third generation game, Monster Hunter 3.

The storyline of the first generation games mostly take place in the Kokoto Village

Gameplay
The first generation of Monster Hunter games introduced some key gameplay elements to the series, with some of the elements still being used in the later generations of the games. Some of the elements are:


 * Hunters are customizable in the beginning of the game. Players can change their hunters' hair, face, skin, voice, and starting clothes.
 * Players can hunt with up to four people in a multiplayer mode.
 * There are a total of seven Monster Types in this generation. These are the Lynians, Herbivores, Neopterons, Bird Wyverns, Flying Wyverns, Piscine Wyverns, and Elder Dragons
 * Subspecies for monsters, monsters that had similar look with their original counterparts but differed in colors, minor aesthetics, and behavioral patterns, were first introduced in Monster Hunter G.
 * There are a total of 44 Monsters in this generation, including the subspecies equivalents of monsters. There are 13 Small Monsters and 31 Large Monsters.
 * There are seven Weapon Types original to this generation, which are the Great Sword, Sword and Shield, Dual Sword, Hammer, Lance, Light Bowgun, and Heavy Bowgun.

Trivia

 * It was not until Monster Hunter G and Monster Hunter Freedom where players can customize their hunters after the beginning of the game. Players are given options in games after Monster Hunter 1 to be able to customize their hunters' Hair, skin and clothes.
 * Among the main first generation games, only Monster Hunter Freedom and the Wii version of Monster Hunter G still has the ability to enable multiplayer mode, as the servers for the original Monster Hunter and Monster Hunter G has shut down long ago.
 * The original Monster Hunter is the only first generation main Monster Hunter game that did not introduce any subspecies counterparts to the monsters, as the Subspecies first started in Monster Hunter G.
 * It is also one of the only two main games (the other being third generation's Monster Hunter 3) to not introduce any subspecies to their game.