User blog comment:Aandrew07/Discussion of the Week: Subspecies/@comment-184.38.86.22-20121020200029

Man the subspecies,love'em or hate'em they are a good idea hands down.It makes it feel as if they were real animals similar to another species(they are closely related to)but adapted differently,specialized for their own enviroment(or more specializied than their cousins living in the same enviroment) and just bulit similar to them.To me,the best examples of the subspecies were both Frontier(some of their monsters atleast) and the 3rd gen.The 3rd gen is undoubtly the best example of the subspecies.True,I've played just about every MH game(except MH,MHG,MH2 and MHFO)and I have to agree the 3rd gen is undoubtly the easiest gen but it made up for it with some pretty memorable monsters and their subs.The 3rd gen's subspecies where pretty unique in their own ways and turned most of them into their own independent species made for a different enviroment unlike the monster they were based off.Each of them had something special about them either it being them fighting differently than their normal counterpart or they being smarter than their counterpart.Still for me,each subspecies in the series will stay in a special part in my heart and I hope they return in the 4th gen but their is a 50/50 chance they'll return in MH4 though.