User blog comment:Cottonmouth255/Discussion of the Week: Arenas/@comment-5043481-20140928073951

Some of the best have to be the small arenas from earlier games. With small monster battles, and the dreaded king shakalaka they were a lot of fun. The music was kind of funky as well.

The Great arena wasn't... well, great. It served a purpose but was not as nice looking as the other arenas. My worst memory of this one was fighting 2 giant bulldromes in that challange quest.

3rd gen arena has the best theme, one of the best themes in the game in my opinion. That enough is brilliant, but it also has a dragonator (apparently, I've never seen the button). Plus, some of the quests here are very hard. Hard hitting lineup in paticular.

New things. What does the wall do in the MH4 arena? Raise up when you press a button? A slightly crazy idea which would still be fun is a kind of man catapult in the arena, so you can hit the monsters in mid air, preferably with a huge damage bonus for using it.