Monster Hunter Wilds Ascendance - 2nd New Snake Elder Dragon, Underground Locale & More! (Theory) — Transcript

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1. 0:01[screaming]
2. 0:08>> Honestly, I could watch Wood Woads do
3. 0:10anything forever. Hello my fellow
4. 0:15hunters. Today Today I want to talk an
5. 0:20idea. Something that has a fair amount
6. 0:26of evidence to support it and especially
7. 0:29more so since Paris Game Week and our
8. 0:33little look at Mador
9. 0:36Stronghold.
10. 0:38And it revolves around what the
11. 0:41inevitable
12. 0:43second map, second new locale will be in
13. 0:47Ascendance because first and foremost
14. 0:50more than likely we're going to get a
15. 0:53second map, right? It's sort of
16. 0:56the thing that's done with G rank, with
17. 0:59master rank. With Iceborne we got the
18. 1:02Hoarfrost Reach and the Guiding Lands.
19. 1:04With Sunbreak we got the Citadel and
20. 1:06then the lovely remake of the jungle. So
21. 1:10in Ascendance
22. 1:12we've got the Skybound Eyrie and then
23. 1:16we've got
24. 1:18what? And that's kind of a harder
25. 1:21question to answer because we know that
26. 1:24we're working with the Forbidden Lands.
27. 1:28We can't just kind of randomly plonk in
28. 1:31a map and go, "And also you go here and
29. 1:34do some quests." Like sort of jungle was
30. 1:36in Sunbreak. Jungle wasn't like super
31. 1:39relevant to what was going on, but it
32. 1:41also was just fine, right? Like we went
33. 1:43to the jungle, we did some hunts, okay.
34. 1:45Citadel is the story map. And generally
35. 1:48that structure can work mostly anywhere
36. 1:51except kind of specifically in such a
37. 1:54localized to the specific area of the
38. 1:57world and its cultures and themes as the
39. 2:00Forbidden Land. Leaving the Forbidden
40. 2:03Land is kind of a weird thing to
41. 2:06imagine, and I feel like would be hard
42. 2:08to justify. But, not having a second map
43. 2:13means not having another place to then
44. 2:16viably include a whole other host of new
45. 2:19and returning monsters. And given the
46. 2:22scale they keep telling us that this
47. 2:24expansion is under that big massive
48. 2:27word, the idea that we're going to get
49. 2:30lots of Elder Dragons, which again has
50. 2:32been encouraged by the return of the
51. 2:33Dragon Watch in Medoi's Stronghold and
52. 2:36what the devs have been saying in Q&A's,
53. 2:38how this really is the time of the Elder
54. 2:40Dragons and exploring them in a way we
55. 2:41never have before, Wyveria and the
56. 2:43Guardians and all of the mysteries
57. 2:45that's going on, the goop monsters,
58. 2:47etc., having space for more stuff feels
59. 2:50almost needed. But, that space has to
60. 2:54exist in a narratively sensical way,
61. 2:58which means staying technically within
62. 3:01the Forbidden Lands. But, we have a
63. 3:03fairly good map of the Forbidden Lands.
64. 3:06We have a good idea of the kind of
65. 3:07locales it possesses. We have the
66. 3:10desert, we have the forest, we have the
67. 3:12fiery map, we have the frosty map. Your
68. 3:15bases are kind of covered. And while
69. 3:17it's easy to imagine them going, "Well,
70. 3:19like on the other side of Wyveria,
71. 3:21there's this, you know, swampy place, so
72. 3:24we can totally get like a swamp map and
73. 3:26that can bring us things." That is
74. 3:27obviously always possible and there's no
75. 3:30real way to know that until it happens
76. 3:32or doesn't, but there also isn't the
77. 3:34most, you know, crazily creative thing.
78. 3:37And if there's one thing we know that
79. 3:38they like doing is giving us some
80. 3:41creative maps. The Coral Highlands, the
81. 3:44Rotten Vale, even Wyveria itself. And
82. 3:47honestly, every map in Wilds is a very
83. 3:50nice take on its base biome. The Scarlet
84. 3:53Forest really is up there for my
85. 3:54favorite just naturally jungly map and
86. 3:57they tend to be my favorites. So, I
87. 3:59don't see anything being a bit too
88. 4:02plain. I mean, look at the Skybound
89. 4:04Eerie. That's unlike anything. We're
90. 4:06going to an ancient civilization-y
91. 4:09floating set of islands and those
92. 4:11islands as they've now said in the Q&A
93. 4:13have a castle on that we will unlock as
94. 4:16more zones as we progress through
95. 4:17Ascendance. That's just ridiculous. So,
96. 4:21then what are we thinking when it comes
97. 4:23to the second map? Well, thanks to the
98. 4:27Amadoi Stronghold gameplay, thanks to a
99. 4:30certain set of wood woods, thanks to a
100. 4:32certain mining operation,
101. 4:36what about this? What if the second map
102. 4:39is quite literally the opposite of the
103. 4:42first? The Skybound Eerie high above in
104. 4:46the sky flying, the second map deep
105. 4:51below under the ground, an actual
106. 4:55subterranean cave system vibe locale.
107. 5:00Think about it, right? That way it gets
108. 5:03to be in the Forbidden Lands cuz it's
109. 5:05under it, so check. It's really unique.
110. 5:09It lets you do some really fun
111. 5:11interesting monster designs that would
112. 5:14live down there and it gets to be this
113. 5:17really fascinating space ecologically
114. 5:20and gameplay-wise to explore. No true
115. 5:23sky. You can have it lit by all sorts of
116. 5:26glowing crystals or mushrooms or even
117. 5:30some white viridian wilkie shenanigans
118. 5:32going on. A lot of creatures producing
119. 5:35natural light. A bioluminescenting
120. 5:38eucephalopod underground would be
121. 5:41insane. But, imagine a underground giant
122. 5:45cave system that's a whole map.
123. 5:48And then you think, wait, you kind of
124. 5:50don't need to imagine that because it's
125. 5:53already sort of happened in miniature.
126. 5:57The Caverns of El Dorado. Yeah, Kulve
127. 6:01Taroth, while being a special arena for
128. 6:04a single Elder Dragon as they tend to
129. 6:06get in siege form, is an underground
130. 6:10locale. And imagine if said Caverns of
131. 6:13El [music] Dorado
132. 6:15had been extended out into a full map,
133. 6:18what that could have been like. Well,
134. 6:20that's what I'm thinking here. And
135. 6:23actually way back when Kulve came out, I
136. 6:25talked about this very similarly. The
137. 6:27idea of Kulve Taroth's whole space being
138. 6:31a full map with various other kind of
139. 6:33mineral-themed creatures would have been
140. 6:35excellent. Maybe there's some merit to
141. 6:39that finally now in Wilds. But outside
142. 6:42of, hey, it would be cool, we kind of
143. 6:45need at least a little bit more to go
144. 6:47on, right? Well, first and foremost, we
145. 6:50have that Kulve Taroth has slight little
146. 6:53hinty connotations. We have the Gold
147. 6:56Helmcrabs, which until now were only
148. 6:58found with her. We have uh the Woodwose
149. 7:02setting up a mining operation in the
150. 7:05stronghold, and the area that they have
151. 7:07done it, the tunnels that they've
152. 7:09created, look very similar to the
153. 7:12caverns. In the trailer, one of the
154. 7:15objects they bring back looks very much
155. 7:17like a shiny golden mineral that again
156. 7:20is very reminiscent. They're also
157. 7:22embedded in the walls. Now, obviously
158. 7:24that could just be some ore, but the
159. 7:26Woodwose are going kind of crazy here.
160. 7:29There is multiple tunnels. They go very
161. 7:31deep. You could totally see a world in
162. 7:34which the Woodwose pull a, "We dugs too
163. 7:37deeps and awakens the big monsters." You
164. 7:40know, that kind of vibe, right? And it's
165. 7:43like, "Oh god, Wood Woods, no." And it
166. 7:46would give a perfect kind of opportunity
167. 7:48to be like, "Okay, yes, the Skybound
168. 7:50Aery is what matters, but the Wood Woods
169. 7:52have just knocked into this huge
170. 7:53underground ecosystem, and there's loads
171. 7:55of monsters very upset down there.
172. 7:57Hunter, we need to go deal with this,
173. 7:58and then we can get back to the Skybound
174. 8:00Aery." It's kind of a chapter in the
175. 8:02story. And that would be super exciting.
176. 8:07And it would give a place a arena for
177. 8:11Kulve Taroth. She could start down there
178. 8:13and then emerge and then be dealt with
179. 8:15in the fortress like Lao-Shan Lung. But
180. 8:18outside of that, then, the devs when
181. 8:21talking about the Wood Woods and the
182. 8:23mining operation in the Q&A, they were
183. 8:25asked what kind of things we might find
184. 8:27down there, and it was mainly focused on
185. 8:28the materials and such, but there was
186. 8:30this sort of hesitancy in their reply.
187. 8:33And this, of course, could be
188. 8:34translation issues, etc., but there was
189. 8:37this vibe of, "You never know what might
190. 8:39be found down there." If you think about
191. 8:41the world of hunters of Monster Hunter
192. 8:44and how that might play out, there was
193. 8:46just something about the way that they
194. 8:49were saying it and the words that they
195. 8:50used and the way that they looked at
196. 8:52each other that just gave me a kind of,
197. 8:54"Is there a bit more going on there?"
198. 8:57And that one might just be, again,
199. 8:59translation, me misinterpreting it, but
200. 9:01there was just something. And then,
201. 9:04beyond that, right, we know that we need
202. 9:07to have some really exciting new Elder
203. 9:10Dragon juice. The Dragon Watch is back
204. 9:12in town, and they're researching the
205. 9:14Elder Dragons in this new [music]
206. 9:15forbidden lands that are appearing. We
207. 9:17have Gog Magog, and what is that? A new
208. 9:22snake wyvern that is also an Elder
209. 9:24Dragon that can fly as the lord of the
210. 9:28Skybound Aery, the apex there, more than
211. 9:31likely. Well, what if its twin, its
212. 9:34counterpart, is a second new snake
213. 9:38wyvern that's also an elder dragon, but
214. 9:41this one is underground. Think about it.
215. 9:44It's the perfect shape, perfect skeleton
216. 9:46of monster to go through tunnels and so
217. 9:49on and so forth. You know, literally
218. 9:51sneaking through them. And also, in the
219. 9:54ascendance logo, in this classic logo
220. 9:57that we have talked about a lot, we have
221. 9:59one snakey dragon going up, skybound
222. 10:02aerial gunner Roja, but we also have one
223. 10:05snakey elder dragon going down. That
224. 10:08could be the second one symbolizing
225. 10:10below the earth as opposed to above it.
226. 10:13And just as you have more Wyveria ruins
227. 10:16in the sky in the eerie, you could
228. 10:17certainly have more Wyveria ruins deeper
229. 10:20underground in wherever this is. And
230. 10:22then you could do Guardian and the
231. 10:24Ancienty stuff that ties in with it as
232. 10:26well. Now, obviously, I'm not about to
233. 10:28say that this is some watertight, it's
234. 10:31going to happen, look at this, the signs
235. 10:33are there, you can't ignore it. But
236. 10:35between the whole wood wood mining
237. 10:37operation, the gold helm crabs, the down
238. 10:40logo and snake wyvern skeleton being
239. 10:43perfect, the kind of vibe the devs gave
240. 10:46while talking about it, the fact that it
241. 10:48would be a perfect way to have a second
242. 10:51really unique, interesting, and series
243. 10:53first locale without leaving the
244. 10:55forbidden lands, and also give a way to
245. 10:58have more literal ground monsters new
246. 11:01and returning as opposed to justifying
247. 11:03everything as living in floating
248. 11:05islands, I think that more than
249. 11:08anything, it would just be a perfect
250. 11:11choice if that's what they went with for
251. 11:13a second locale, that underground
252. 11:15direction. And it's something I really
253. 11:18wanted to bring up and see what you guys
254. 11:20thought as well. It's always something
255. 11:23I've wanted in Monster Hunters and just
256. 11:25seeing that wood wood mining operation
257. 11:27really kind of stirred that oh, I've
258. 11:30always wanted to see a big underground
259. 11:33ecosystem, a full locale with no sky,
260. 11:37all the rock around you. How fascinating
261. 11:40that could be, the types of monsters to
262. 11:43call a place like that home. I think
263. 11:45it's certainly interesting
264. 11:48and as such want you guys to get
265. 11:50involved in thinking about it and
266. 11:52letting me know what those thoughts end
267. 11:54up turning into. In any case, yes, I
268. 11:59would love that. I really, really would.
269. 12:01In any case, I would love to know your
270. 12:02ideas for what the second locale, if
271. 12:04indeed we get one, we might not get one,
272. 12:06you might think that we don't, and
273. 12:08that's completely fine, too, but what
274. 12:09you would want {slash} what you think is
275. 12:11likely or possible as a second locale.
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