I did play both, but honestly, I don't count them for monster appearances, that game design allows for having almost the entire mh roster with more ease.
New to the franchise myself but from what I've heard. This monster/fight was so epic that it completely overshadowed one of the arguable worse mechanics they've ever introduces in a game, namely the underwater combat.
It was peak for me. I vividly remember being at my local blockbuster and seeing him on the cover on a MH game. Had to rent it.
His fight is fucking sick and you get to descend into its lair at a cave underwater at the end when it retreats and you finally get to fight it on land.
He was the flagship for an older title in the series (mh3). The way they paced the difficulty in those older titles is a bit hard to convey to newer players, but essentially your first encounter with him is when you are a fledgling hunter completing gathering quests (back in the old days you wouldn't really fight a large monster until rank 2 if you believe that lol). He ambushes you during that, and it was a very memorable moment. Totally get the lack of interest on your part though, definitely more of a treat for old farts lol.
Personally, first game being monster hunter tri I loved seeing lagiacrus on the cover of the game.
Other than that I agree with it not being particularly special, the design just tickles me in a way others don't, IMO it has some sort of edge to it while remaining a relatively simple design.
I love his look, it's a big blue sea crocodile that glows and produce thunder.
Its fight was also really cool underwater, imo people who complain about underwater were just not using the talent to swim faster...
His fight on land was obviously way worse than underwater but it was designed long ago when monster hunter was far from what it is now, it can be modernize really easily.
Lagiacrus made it to 3rd place in the official popularity pool despite not being seen in a main game for almost a decade and having a big part of the community who started with world, at which point it was already missing for a long time. A lot of people must find him interesting to have such result.
As to why is he more interesting than Dalamadur I don't know, things like these are very emotional, Lagi is my favorite monster while Dalamadur doesn't do anything special to me
Sorry for actually trying to understand what people like about him. I'm not trying to poop on anyone's happiness, just trying to understand and yet your comment didn't help me.
What do you like about him? What specifically makes you want to fight him again over other monsters?
Well first it isn't my job on the internet to make people understand stuff.
Secondly, I can't speak for why people want to fight him.. I think its moreso he is a flagship that hasn't gotten a ton of love lately (Hasn't been in a game since 2017's MHXX or 2018's MHGU which is still the "old" style of MH).
You say you aren't trying to ruin anyone's parade yet you say he is boring and has a boring design. What's your favorite Monster? I can choose to crap all over it if you like for no reason or we can accept people just like things and you don't need to understand why, ever.
is it really a big deal for someone to find out why their opinion is different from others? your last response is really just a "let people enjoy things" and its not really bringing any points to a contructive discussion
You're free to crap over any monster you want. I just stated how I feel about Lagi cause I don't see anything special about him that would make him be so extremly loved. Like there are so many cool and diverse monsters in all of the monster hunter series. Stuff like Valstrax, a fucking dragon with jet engine wings, the black dragons, you know stuff like this. Those kind of monsters are so unique in their design and fight so I can understand when people would want such monsters back. Compared to such monsters, Lagi is not really special. He's just a big leviathan.
I actually hoped to find out from others, why he is so loved by the community and if there's more to it than simple nostalgia. It's genuine curiosity from my side but instead of giving me your opinion, you come back with such a comment.
The fight is VERY fun. He's much stronger than the hunter underwater, giving him the advantage. Then he goes on land where the hunter has more of an advantage, but lagi is no slouch.
Lagiacrus's inital apperance in the series, Tri, gives it an incredibly cool introduction. Since it is the first large monster players encounter in the Village questchain, the theme for Deserted Island is assosciated with it heavily.
Also since it was capable of underwater and land combat, it was the monster to take advantage of that game's very underused gimmick. (of the 18 monsters in Tri, only 4 could swim. 3 could change between sea and land and only 2 did so by choice). Combine that with a fight that took advantage of the parts break matters angle Tri pushed incredibly hard, it's a memorable fight against a monster that is set up very early into the game.
To put his popularity into perspective, despite having been in only Tri, 3U, Gen, Gen Ultimate. "Tremors on Land and Sea - Lagiacrus" was voted the 2nd best monster theme in the Monster Hunter 20th Anniversary and Lagiacrus itself ranked 3rd in the Hunter's Choice Top Monster poll beneath Zingore (a monster that was designed to replace Lagiacrus in Monster Hunter Portable 3rd owing to the lack of underwater combat) and Nergigante (the flagship of the then most recent monster hunter game)
Basically, the first big wall in people's first Monster Hunter and he skipped the last 2 games. If Anjanath skipped Rise and Wilds, people would be demanding his return in whatever the next game is.
I personally think Lagiacrus is lame, but I started with gen 1, so Tri throwing out all the old monsters and replacing them with worse versions always felt lame to me.
I'm hyped for the new monsters, I just find specifically monsters in Tri unappealing. I guess, maybe it's because I'm not a fan of leviathan skeleton in general, I tend to dislike leviathans in every game, and in Tri they were half the roster. I also hate new raptors that they introduced in Tri with a passion (Jaggi, Baggi, all that). I think they are like a bad joke compared to old preys and dromes. Probably my most disliked monster in the series.
I do think that the T-rex skeleton is awesome and I love majority of 3rd gen monsters that use that skeleton, especially Deviljho. Except Brachydios. The fight itself is alright, but I can't get over how stupid he looks. But that's not a Tri monster, so that's beside the point.
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u/SpookyCarnage 12d ago
lagiacras, the monster being shown, is a fan favorite