I've never been a fan of the old monster hunter games; they're far too clumsy and janky. I played Freedom Unite and couldn't understand why you'd choose it over the new one, unless it was for nostalgia. It moves... too slowly. Coming from a newer game to an older one and having to play without quality-of-life features like Lance's omnidirectional hops or the exclusion of certain attacks that smooth out weapons. (Gunlance Sweep) It feels like I'm playing a neutered version, which is understandable given the game's origins in the second generation.

It's just not my thing, and the same goes for the other old games. The cool weapons and insane monster designs were the only things that drew me in (despite the fact that I knew I didn't like old Monster Hunter). Unfortunately, after playing the game and remembering "wow, I sure don't like the old-style monster hunter games," I was quickly disillusioned. Cool for people who grew up with Monster Hunter, pretty underwhelming for others.

i'm sorry but even though nearly all the frontier mon designs are fantastic a decent chunk of them are really bad to fight with constant dashing around the map making it a nightmare to actually fight them, hitboxes are worse than ever, and the general design of "hehe everything oneshots you and has ungodly stats" is not fun at all in a Monster Hunter game and usually gets endless shit in other entries, but i guess MHF players are built different.
I also have a bone to pick with the rain server for keeping daily rewards, gacha cringe, and a small handful of the basegame's more atrocious grinds (and it apparently gets much worse from G rank onwards) alive and well, maybe I'll revisit if that fist rebalancing project is ever finished because there's some insane potential here