User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Generation 1/@comment-203.106.76.21-20130210125455

Personally, i love all MH games (though i've never played tri or frontier). In my opinion, MH1 will always have a special place in my heart. Sure, the movement wasn't fluid, the hitboxes were unrealistic, the monsters never took damage from each other (preys shrugging off rathalos fireballs), and weapons types and areas were limited, but it was the series that started it all. And at the time, the interface was unique, as well as the concept of sharpness of weapons and the monsters were pretty different from the standard definition. All in all, it was a great game. Of course, you shouldn't really compare it to the newer games, they built on their mistakes and refined the system, but like I said, it was the staring point.