User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-1668522-20131006114312/@comment-11112316-20131007231018

@Cottonmouth Glad to finally find someone who agrees with me on Garuga! He's a badass.

Anyways, I'd just want to point out that I am respecting differing opinions on the monsters. I've never actually called anyone's opinion stupid: I'm merely expressing my own, opposite opinion and expanding on why I feel such things. If I came off as condescending, I apologize. After all, we're all ultimately fans of MH, here. We can have our disagreements, but let's stay respectful about it.

With that out of the way, I think saying Dire Miralis is nothing like Crimson Fatalis is ignoring the clear similarities. Can we agree that both creatures have similar concepts? They're both supposedly embodiments of calamity and hell; they both use meteors; they both qualify as 'final boss' status. I could point out more similarities, like similar carves (Miralis Evil Eye and Fatalis Evil Eye), but I think I've made my point clear. At the very least, Miralis is a spirtual successor to the Fatalis trio; I just personally feel he goes a bit overboard and comes off as just a mildly changed rip off. You're perfectly allowed to disagree with me, though.

When I said MH4 should have been like MHFO, I probably should have elaborated. What I meant was I liked how MHFO implemented monsters: keep all the old ones and either add a lot of new ones or introduce nuances to old monsters. No monsters (besides, oddly, third gen's) are excluded, and new ones can come in at any time. Of course, trying to do that to a complete game like MH4 would have been difficult if not impossible, but can't we all agree that the best scenerio is having both old and new?

Again, I'm just expressing my opinions when I say certain Third Gen monsters come off as ripoffs to me. Am I not allowed to do that, as you are allowed to say Fatalis is boring?

Oh, and Chameleos Alchemist, if you couldn't tell, I was kind of joking around with my Garuga comment :P. Still, I don't see why Garuga shouldn't be in the game: he may be just a Rathian in a Kut-Ku's body, but I could argue we don't need subspecies because they're just slightly different versions of the base monster.