Topic: Monster Hunter and Monster tags

When searching for "monster_hunter" and looking specifically for the titular creatures, it's very difficult to produce search results that don't also include non-monster images, like those with felynes and/or humans and no monsters. It's possible to exclude felynes and humans from the search, but that would also exclude images with both felynes/humans and monsters.

To this end, I suggest the creation of a new species tag, something like "monster_(mh)". This tag would encompass all monster species from the Monster Hunter games, like Zinogre, Rathalos, et cetera, and make searching for them easier.

I wasn't sure how to submit this suggestion given its scope, so I thought a forum topic would be the best avenue.

Related topics: topic #27628 & topic #28397

If you want to have a wyvern_(mh)/monster_(mh) tag, you have to consider tags for the other non-wyvern/monster species as well.

Well, what I was thinking is having a broad tag like monster_(mh) just to separate the majority of creatures in the game from the "non-monsters". Wyverns, elder dragons, fanged beasts, herbivores, and everything else would be all lumped together under the tag, both large and small monsters, without subdividing them further into their in-game classifications. So, all of the canonically non-sapient species of the MH universe, I suppose, regardless of whether they're being depicted as sapient per artwork. I don't feel that any finer classification of this sort is necessary.

It's true that lynians like felynes are sometimes on the field as enemies and "small monsters", but I feel like the line can reasonably be drawn before them.

solar-radio said:
To this end, I suggest the creation of a new species tag, something like "monster_(mh)". This tag would encompass all monster species from the Monster Hunter games, like Zinogre, Rathalos, et cetera, and make searching for them easier.

So essentially an equivalent to pokémon (species) as separated from pokémon, except for monster_hunter? It makes sense to me, though would felyne and canyne fall under monster_(mh)?

watsit said:
So essentially an equivalent to pokémon (species) as separated from pokémon, except for monster_hunter? It makes sense to me, though would felyne and canyne fall under monster_(mh)?

Yeah, just like the pokemon_(species) tag. Felynes I feel would be reasonably excluded from the tag, given that they're anthropomorphic and sapient, and not generally called "monsters" by the games. Canynes are a more difficult call, though; while they're not referred to as monsters, they're not able to talk like felynes are, and are effectively tamed small monsters. Canynes are definitely open to interpretation, on whether they'd be included or not.