It's the one mainline MH game I haven't played and I want to try it out because I hear it's like a "best of" tribute to the series.
However I also heard it's pretty long, and I have no idea how populated online is these days.
Apparently you can play as a Palico which sounds rad as fuck.
Is this game worth playing in 2024 or should I just stick with World and Rise for now?
If you can get over the clunkiness of the controls of MH games older than World, then GU is the definitive taste of the older MH titles and has pretty much every mon you could ever want to hit with an oversized anime sword.
Personally, all the loading screens and QoL changes that don't exist in the older games makes it unbearable for me, but your mileage will vary.
I started with Tri back in 2010 so the old games don't bother me!