User blog comment:Seieireppa/A few thoughts on what's happened/@comment-3441860-20150921042812/@comment-1419424-20150921044442

Here's the thing, though—the only ones who would EXPERIENCE that gameplay are the ones who bought GER. No one would look up videos unless a) they have the game already, or b) they were interested in buying the game, in which case they wouldn't have seen any gameplay already.

And MH never got an anime... but it got a whole bunch of manga. MH is less popular among the anime community in Japan than GE is, anyway. It's way more hardcore. MH players are less likely to mess around... and besides, MH has zero story, only a series of objectives. There's nothing to adapt, both in terms of plot and in terms of the setting, which just wouldn't suit an anime. Other similarly-set series, such as SAO, Berserk, etc., only got animated because of their setting being more appealing and because they already HAD a plot.