Necronium
I never really grew up with many of the old Zeldas. They never had much of an impact on me.
People keep praising A Link to the Past like it's made out of gold and kitten farts, while I simply can't see why.
But I do quite like the Oracle of Seasons/Ages, as well as Links Awakening.
As long as they don't have a too set amount of things that drop from certain things, the drop system seems good in MH.
However, hopefully it's not as bad as Diablo once did it; This rare mob drops something. You need one to craft this item. Welcome to grinding the same monster over and over.
Because if that's the case, I'd prefer the Diablo RNG. At least then you get excited when something cool drops.
But yeah Destinys way to handle it was just terrible. I've wanted to try it, but only three classes and the lack of any decent gear system, makes me sort of not wanting to pay every month for it.
ALttP is a personal favorite, simply because it was the first played and completed by me. :v
It sounds like you're talking about like, the staff of herding, or the keys for the infernal machine. Each monster has at least, 3 or 4 items specific to it I think; It's hide, claw, and the piece you break off the monster when fighting it. But it's never guaranteed what you get. Sometimes you get 3 claws, or 3 hides.
Destiny isn't helped by the fact that, to be max level, you have to use a certain set of gear. Sure you can intersperse an exotic armor piece, or if you're some magical ********, you can get iron banner armor pieces when the Iron Baner is active and those also can get you to level 32(meanwhile your rank in IB resets everytime), but in the end everyone ends up looking the same, just with a different shader.