As more clearly dedicated hunters trickle into our slice of the fediverse, let’s take the opportunity this smaller community gives us to share how Monster Hunter found us.
You must log in or # to comment.
In 2007ish, I used to go to the library in Mallorca to get a Wifi connection on my PSP and download demos. I downloaded this interesting-looking demo of a new game called Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. The download corrupted on me, and my brother was the first to play it; I managed later via hospital Wifi. It was so difficult and I always lost the mission, so I thought it was impossible. But I loved the game, and went on to buy it from PSN. I was convinced it was cursed/evil for a while due to the Diablos and dual blades. I later bought a friend MHTri for his birthday in 2013ish, and when I learned how to hack my PSP around the same time, I was very impressed by MHP3rd.
P3rd was magical in a way. From the special feeling of having to patch it with broken fan translations to the setting and graphics upgrade, to the majestic first appearance of the now iconic lightning boi. Glad the curse found you, enjoy being one of the damned.
I inherited my addiction from a coworker/friend. I was recruited to help him pass a wall he could not solo through in MHFU: the infamous Plesioth hipcheck barrier. He set me up with an LBG, probably the most straight forward weapon for a non-hunter gamer to grasp. From there, things just spiraled as I lost control of my life. Through fortunate timing, Tri was only months from release when I started my MHFU journey, so I developed my habit right as a steady supply of the primo ish was starting to come out, and I haven’t wanted to or been able to shake the habit since.
A friend got me into Monster Hunter ca. 2013 and now I have nearly 5000 hours split across various games, the bastard. I guess I won’t be doing cocaine or gunpla or toy car collecting anytime soon! XD
It’s a really great experience, I often say good MH games (that is, MH games in general: bad games are a rarity in this franchise) bring out my three preferred Ms: music, monsters and marvels, the latter one meaning the landscapes, the maps, the exploration. You haven’t experienced what kind of comfy immersion can game developers go for until you wander about the Sandy Plains at night to bbq up some Aptonoths and Rhenoplos into steak, and you watch the shooting stars in the night sky.
And then you get distracted from the bbq serial griller and you end up with 2x Burnt Meat instead…Started out with 3U. Underwater is great btw, don’t listen to people who say it shouldn’t return. The first time I tried the game I just Didn’t Get It and thought it was not for me… but man the music was so cool (the Sandy Plains battle music!) and the monster designs (Barioth!) insisted that I should make another try. Grabbed it back after a long break, followed the instructions this time, found a weapon that was to my liking (switchaxe, or as we call it, the Swag Axe), and haven’t really stopped much since then. I take good care to backup my saves often as well, juuuuust in case I don’t really like to grind hundreds of hours for the most random rewards on the double.
By this point the only gen I have not played is Gen1, I’ve played Dos, FU, Tri, P3rd, 3U (1400 hrs), 4U, XX, Gen, GU (1200 hrs), Rise, Sunbreak and Stories 2 (800 hrs). Nowadays I can sometimes be found on the LanPlay network on MHGU and MHRS, and I’m waiting to get a better computer so I can try Frontier and maybe Iceborne. When I show up on the net, it’s usually to accompany randoms on quests thanks to the wonders of doot doot.
A fellow hunter of culture. Swagaxe dropping in tri right as I was finishing up FU probably cemented my addiction. It really is something special. Hope to see you in the wild someday, hunter.
Thanks! By this point it looks like my focus will be on either GU, Iceborne or Frontier once I can get that new computer. At the moment I do play GU and Rise online, just not on Nintendo’s network due to banned console.
I’ve heard there’s fan efforts to bring back online to Tri. Might be interesting to track that down as well once I get the adequate machine, as Tri on the Wii U was top ambiance.
My friends and I got access to the MH:W demo on the PS4. We played it a decent amount leading up to release day and pretty consistently found ourselves coming back to it. By the time Iceborne came out, we were practically veterans with hundreds of hours put in and we made the switch to PC. It’s been tradition ever since. World, Iceborne, Rise (first on Switch, then again on PC) and lastly Sunbreak. We were starting to feel burnout pretty hard by the time Sunbreak rolled around, but I’m sure we’ll get together to hunt in whatever’s coming next in the series!
In World I mained IG then later in Rise I mained LS. Thinking about picking up GS in the next one… 🤔
Rolling with a crew is always a treat. So many great times with hunting buddies over the years. Welcome. Enjoy the wait for MH6 with the rest of us.
Happily :) crazy what’s happening over at Reddit though, isn’t it? I used it for a little over 6 years and I would’ve never expected anything like this. I hope this community and Lemmy as a whole grows just as big as reddit did. I need all my niche subs back haha
Perhaps crazy how sudden and fast it happened, but not that it happened at all. Enshittification is a well known thing by now and it comes for all the corporate sites with IPO dreams. Any hope Reddit had of staying true to its purpose died with Aaron.
Lemmy/kbin/the fediverse has a better shot at resisting that due to the decentralized nature. But, the younger generations have some tech learning to do if all the reports about their general inability to use anything that’s not an app is to be believed.
