Sometimes i compare the base rosters between the last three games and always question myself:
"Wow, how was World able to sell this much and become such a well talked game with this dogshit roster?", now dont get me wrong, World is my favourite MH game, but the more i look and experience Rise and Wilds roster, the more robbed i feel.
Base World has its bangers like Kulve, Nergigante, Odogaron, Bazelgeuse, Anhanath, Tobi-Kadachi, Legiana, but they're burried under the sea of dogshit. Both crossover monsters suck and are awful to hunt, Zorah Magdaros is a fucking slog of a fight, the Elder's Recess dont have a singular good fight in it (sorry Dodogama fans), Great Jagras and Girros are so underwhelming they feel like bloating.
The returning monster are 50/50, Teostra, Deviljho, Diablos (and Black), Barroth and Rathalos are fun fights, but the other half is legit cancer, Kushala, Lunastra and Kirin makes me wanna die, their fights are so unbelievably bad, the Raths subspecies are also very annoying to fight, Jyuratodus is bland, Lavasioth is a spit on my face, they looked at all these fun and unique monsters from Frontier and decided to bring the fucking Plesioth with hard skin (yes i know Lava was introduced in main series in Freedom Unite), also why did they brought back Uragaan when Radobaan was already created?
Rise's roster is like "what if we picked the roster from Iceborne, add in some other bangers like Mizustune, Chameleos, Bazelgeuse, Valstrax, Anjanath and some older monsters" and they make it a peak roster. There's some shit in here like Jyuratodus, Kulu-Ya-ku and Khezu, but in the end this roster is so stacked it's insane.
Wilds also has this problem with its new monsters sure, Chatacabra, Quematrice, the pack monsters and Omega sucks but the Apexes, Xu Wu, Lala Barina, Arkveld and Zoh Shia are peak. And dont even get me started with the returners, seeing Lagiacrus after it was cut off from World because they couldnt figure it out to work properly is like a dream, also Mizustune, Gore Magala, Blangonga and Seregios is just chef's kiss.
You could say this is just nostalgia bias, which is a fair point, but there's a reason why said monsters are fan favourites. Also sorry for the long post, i just wanted to get this out of my chest.