What a MASSIVE change to the Monster Hunter formula. Anybody who is a long time MH player will immediately notice how everything is more convenient. Whetstone is now an infinite use item that's always in your inventory, so no need to buy or collect them. No need for bug nets anymore either, since you actually collect visible bugs now. Pickaxes, those are gone too. Just get your ore and move on. No more having to paintball monsters to track them. Now there's a new system of tracking through footprints and leavings. As for hot drinks and cool drinks, cool drinks are only needed in very specific situations. Not for an entire zone. And hot drinks, I don't think they're even in the game anymore.

Hell, there's even fast travel now. Now that's an aspect of "modernization" in game design that I can get behind.

This is absolutely a reboot for the series. There's so much improved here from the old games that I would have a really hard time going back. Monster Hunter World is the new formula, and I hope it's here to stay.