User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-25259914-20141016164400/@comment-21371438-20141018163006

@Democide

because Gore subspecies with different Virus would require a whole new infected version of every infectable monsters -so, let's add this to Extreme monsters... it makes a whole bigger work, work they didn't even have for more new monsters than just 2... (not to mention new shagarus), and would be a really problematic work compared to just a variant that explain why there is no "chaos" shagaru... get me?

on Brachydios instead, people kepth asking for an "ice Brachydios", who... well... compared to the power of explosion, would totally have been ridiculous... what would have been, a crystalizing goo?

what people (me included) keep forgetting is that they actually read our posts and ideas.

i'll take the example on pokémon, during Hoenn age, the pattern on mascottes were this:

legendary 1

legendary 2

third "bossy" legendary

...well, or this was until the B/W pattern, where the "third legendary" was split into 2 games, and you know why? because they herd fans asking for pokémon grey

...and did something to surprise.

...or to make a bit of sense from the previous title...

same probably goes with Monster Hunter, as they probably noticed how the patterns were basis of great speculation and rumors about an "ice Brachydios", and i'll admit it, it wouldn't really fit brachydios at all... and truly many people are agreeing with me, thinking it's too "perfect" to have divverent variations...

i have the feeling they gave them variants instead of subspecies because of this, to surprise us, to avoid being expected.

ps. Kogath, Rathian is... different, rathian is tied with rathalos, excluding frontier, both of them will always catch up into being toghether.