User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Giant Monsters/@comment-765166-20131020180925

There are various concept art that depict more giant monsters, like this one giant Turtle with a castle on its back. Would have been neat to see how that would work out.

Daren is pretty neat too. We have always had similar species of monsters in MH and Daren is welcome to the ever-growing roster of monsters.

If I remember the lore correctly, we were always going to fight a young Lao-Shan Lung and it was not its fullest form, so what if the wings depicted on concept arts were its true final form?

I enjoy Lao-Shan Lung's battle and actually imagine people pushing the rocks above to help out on battling the titanic monster. Lao is also welcomed with open arms if a revamp for it is in order. I'm imagining the environment to be more interactive towards Lao, and am expecting at the least for it to have Dragonblight as an ailment.

I view Dara as the main series' way to bring over Raviente onto the main MH series. It is fought differently in that the terrain is very limited, vertical and would require a whole lot of jump attacks to reach those easy spots to land hits. Its classification is off-setting though as it definitely suites the Snake Wyvern type. I mean Gaoren is still a Carapaceon even for its colossal size. I guess the defining term for Elder Dragons is if they have existed from way long ago.. but yeah, that's one inconsistency problem there.

Yama is a missed opportunity for MH4. You'd think that a Tower Area designed for him, and one of the few vertical maps in the older generations, would suit Yama very much for the Fourth Generation.