User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Deserts/@comment-2049092-20120428172211

I love the Sandy Plains and the Old Desert. Hey Lord Loss, I think the Gorge would count as being in a desert(although it hasn't been released into the west it'd still be a nice mention, maybe you're planning an all Frontier area blog.) I personally hate the 2nd generation of the Desert, it's just a carbon copy. Also, you see a giant lake and a lush patch of plains in the background of area 1 of the Sandy Plains and in the base camp, and we never went near the shores of it. It would've been nice to see a more savanna-esque,moderate desert that the Sandy Plains were just short of delivering. Imagine if you could have seasons like in MH2(although the seasons didn't do much it was still a nice concept) you could have a wet season and a dry season which could've easily have had different monsters appearing in different seasons,but we just got(from the looks of it) the dry season and a pond for Barroth instead of a lake.