Charles211

L botton is your friend bro haha. Put the tile for monster tracking in the wiiu controller pad. Click on the big monster you want to auto pan to (if theres more than one) and Presing L (tapping it not holding it down) auto pans to it.

Already out in Meijer.

Holy crap you live in royal oak ( your receipt) ?? Im from Farmington Hils!!! If i was back home not in college i'd be driving to that meijer right now. I'm like 2 hours away right now tho ;(

Wow that story really made me smile haha. Once you take down your first big monster, you'll understand why people like it. 

What might help is if I tell how I got into monster hunter.  I'll put in a spoiler so as to keep this thread shorter.

 

Spoiler

I started with Monster hunter Tri for the Wii. I got it pretty much on a whim from seeing it advertised in multiple places and reading an article in Nintendo Power and thought it looked similar to Zelda Twilight Princess. Boy was that a stupid assumption.

I started the game and immediately chose the sword and shield since my favorite series was Zelda and I pretty much wanted to be Link. I did the initial gathering quests and bought some basic armor, and went up through getting the games companion, but I really wanted to see what the online was like. So I hopped online with my terrible internet connection and started questing.

It immediately felt better hunting with other people as I could learn from others, but being on the rookie server meant the other people weren't that much better save for a few. I took down the first 3 boss monsters with a little struggle due to me and others constantly getting disconnected, but I perservered.

After getting to the end of the first batch of quests, I was presented with my first urgent quest, a quest that must be completed to advance to the next group of quests.

At this point, I figured I was fairly good at the game and didn't think it would be that hard, but was still on the fence about how much I actually liked the game. It was this urgent quest where I met Barroth, or as I call him, "the noob killer".

I spent 10 hours on a saturday trying to bring this guy down. Due to getting disconnected and everyone there being so bad at the game, I was only able to attempt it 20 times in that ten hours. I did get advice from some helpful veterans that helped a little (like that I should change my armor since it was the weakest one in the game, lol) but nothing really to get me close to victory. I was getting tired and frustrated, but I was determined not to let this thing win. At this point, I wanted it's blood on my blade and its corpse at my feet.

Eventually, after a 30 min fight, it finally fell. Me and my group were ecstatic and partied in the game for probably ten minutes. It was at this point that the game finally clicked and I got hooked. It's about having the odds stacked against you, and yet still coming out on top. Overcoming obstacles and working together so that when you win, it feels like an accomplishment. Sometimes the rush of adrenaline during the fight, combined with the satisfaction of victory, yields an addiction to the cycle.

I then put over 1200 hours into tri. Then my wii died and I had to start over, but being more skilled, I made much shorter work of getting back to where I left off (I solo'd that urgent quest in ten minutes when I got to it. I wanted vengeance).

 

That should help explain what makes it so great.

 

I really should use spoilers more.

Ever notice how the people who agree with my opinion actually PLAY monster hunter, and those who dont are ALL on the outside looking in?

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3Dude pretty much got it. So did Lightning-ninja in a much nicer way haha.

I started out with MhF2 on the psp. Since everyone on the pirating forums were going ape sh;t about how great of a game monster hunter was.

Played it for a while, slow paced. Got to this one mission with a Large as monster (Tigrex) that i tried to go up against. Failed so hard.

I was like eff this. This game is stupid. I hate when i fail against games haha (Dark souls still catches my eye because i havent finished it).

Few week later i play the game again. This time i read the quest objective. I'm suposed to get the hell away from the monster not fight it 

because it was obviously oped to the gear i had at the time.

I have more than 200 hours on that game total now. If you just call something stupid because its difficult, you'll never get the full effect of playing it.

Its no Mario game, it doesn't spoon feed you levels with minimal difficulty that you can pass on the 2nd try. It gives you monsters that are hard as hell.

When you beat them for the first time. You're like Wii yes. i did it. you now know you can beat them, more confident, more knowledgeable. Its a fun game.

I think everyone should try it.

Oh and people who are talking about the online mode being fun. Oh its fun as hell. same concept, but when you're in a party working together effing with a monster. Its so much more fun.

I'm just average at the game. I understand people trashing it because...frankly you're not good at it haha. Don;t take it as an offence, just know that's how It is for ANYONE and EVERYONE at first. 

Its something you learn. Just like learning to read and write. You're gonna eff up at first before you're writing like Jesus.

SO I implore you go buy the game!!! so we can get MH4.... I wanna play it lol. or i'm gonna go have to learn Japanese. and that's no fun.

I made tigrex b;tch dog now. js.