Gen was not 'mainline' in the same way that Marvel games was not mainline to SF and Tekken Tag games were not mainline to Tekken.
They were still played, a lot.
No idea what you are talking about when you say MH4 was never a 'thing' for western players.
The whole game doesn't take place in a desert. The intro and first map changes constantly.
Honestly, I could go a game without Diablos.
They should give us Triablos already. Give it the Tigrex stance to make it more unique.
How about Octoblos, the more horns the better.
Both
So far the chance of Diablos being in the next mainline title has been of 100%, so it's an easy bet
Diablos has missed MH4 and MHGen. It's not 100%.
Gen is not mainline and MH4 was never a thing in the west so for western players it's 100% alright.
You understand that games don't cease to exist for purposes of statistics if you haven't personally played them, right?
But MH4 literally doesn't exist in the west.
But it still exists.
Gen was not 'mainline' in the same way that Marvel games was not mainline to SF and Tekken Tag games were not mainline to Tekken. They were still played, a lot. No idea what you are talking about when you say MH4 was never a 'thing' for western players.
MH4 was a JP only release.
So what? We got M4U which is what really matters.