@Fabz

If you are announcing your (happy?) retirement..I'll make a note of it on the list.

Edit: Give me your recent HR rank too..

I'm just through. I got everything and now I just play for fun and I have ZERO PATIENCE for assholes online who take this game WAAAAY too seriously. Like last night. I was playing just for fun, to waste time and relax with RgR and this bitch (the one who was dying) had the nerve to tell be "oh you couldve stunned the Los) during gameplay. I stunned it right away and said "r u happy now? And you stop fainting" (yes I snapped). Then she kept on going and going and I just left. This is not why I play this game... Just like in animal crossing when people took the game way to seriously". Be a human being. I play games to get my mind away from the daily stress. I don't need kids half my age to bust my balls. Perhaps Stache was right all along. Maybe I should have played it with my friends only. Or maybe it's just me. I need a break from the online community.

@Fabz

I knew it! I'm so glad I don't play with strangers. That blows, man.

You probably were playing with the same girl who leeched on to Chack and I!! SHE made Chack quit playing; if its the same girl, she'll have taken down the two biggest Monster Hunter Beasts that Negative World has ever seen.

Do you remember her name?? Very curious..

Mata Hari!

(alt joke: Yoko)

@Fabz

I understand what the problem was. At the same time I think both of you didn't handle it well. She really had no right to talk to you like she did, but neither did you. I mean yes, a hammer user usually goes for the head which usually results in KOs but the thing is that if it happens fine, if it doesn't, that's fine as well. You're at least doing damage. With that being said, two wrong don't make a right. You didn't have to follow her little game.

The guy who came in did that same thing to me. He spoke something about me using a dragon weapon and not bothering with Sinister Saints. Honestly, I thought that was not a cool thing to say because first of all, Sinister Saints has a fire element, and Lagia is weak to fire. I felt that all of you guys had enough dragon weapons to bring any more. But the main reason was that I hardly ever use Switch axes and I wanted to try it out just for fun. That's what I would have said but I just let it go, because honestly, it wasn't worth getting into an argument over. You have to understand that for every jerk that comes in there are a lot more people that are not like that. Just last week I met a great guy who showed me how to use cluster shots against Alatreon. What I'm going to do from now on is just leave every time I encounter any type of hostility from anyone on MH.

By the way, I just reached HR 100. I'm just about done with bowguns. Maybe I'll forge another set and that's about it, unless I'm really bored. Now I'm going after SnS and Switch axe.

After playing with it extensively. I've noticed a few things about the LS. You basically use the infinite combo x x a until you fill up your spirit gauge to try to spam the spirit combo or whatever it's called. After you press it for a certain amount of time it goes into this animation that pretty much leaves you open for attack. The good thing about it is that it has ESP, but it's too big a risk to assume. If I can get Mind's Eye using a SnS I'll pretty much have no need for the LS. Even though a LS might have more power (elemental/status and raw) I prefer the versatility that the SnS provides in the long run. I've learned that being able to roll-out pretty much whenever is a great ability to have. Spirit attack with a LS doesn't give you that option. Furthermore, since you're in full control you can get create more attack opportunity which results in more damage. The LS I feel is the most limited weapon in the game.

Not taking into account the bowgun, the Switch-Axe is probably the most versatile (followed closely by the SnS) and the Lance is the most balanced. Newbies coming in may think that the GS is more limiting but it's quite effective if you know how to use it, same thing as the hammer. I find that the LS doesn't do any one thing right. It's just there for the hell of it.

@Tranquilo
Heyyy, HR 100! Congrats dude! Sounds like people in the upper rankings take the game way too seriously, sometimes. Well, I can kind of understand, but at the end of the day it's all about having fun.


@anandxxx
@Mr_Mustache
Where are you guys? I won't be staying up super-late tonight, let's get this show on the road!

@anon_mastermind

I'm at work! I'll be home "in a bit" though. Stay up super late! It'll be a scream!

I'll pop in again right before I leave. I warned Anand I might have to play with my wife briefly..
..Chicks, man.

@Tranquilo
A solid strategy for LS is to spirit combo till yellow. Move in with a slash and then follow with a side slash. this keeps you mobile and continuosly doing damage. Spamming the spirit combo just pisses everyone else off because it trips everybody.

I also love when people challenge me. Them yelling at me brings out my A game. They mock and challenge me to outdo them. Once fighting jho when I shouldn't have. I had a high undertaker and people said it was trash when they were wielding water SnS's. I ended up causing three flinches till one dragon breath took out all three Sns users in one swoop. I just laughed and left the city. I enjoyed myself thouroghly and found a group that took out a diablos in 2 minutes. Some strangers are great to work with just don't let them get under your skin

@Wilie345

You're right. I don't spam the spirit combo. I was just making an observation about how limited the LS really is. For mobility I'd rather have an SnS. Like I said, the LS doesn't really do any one thing right.

By the way, did you ever get that problem fixed?

@anon_mastermind
I hardly call that something to be proud about. If anything I sort of weep when I think about how many hours I spent to get to this level. Some 400 plus hours. If you divide it by 24 hours in a day, that's 17 days of my life spent playing this game! That's 400 hours I could have spent learning how to drive or improving my drawing skills. I think I've played this game too much. I don't think I had ever played a game so much in my entire life.

Going back on the topic, people need to chill out more. I hardly ever tell somebody what to use, or not to use something unless they ask for advice.


Oh, and I think the Switch axe has the best tail-cutter. Of course it also depends on how powerful your weapon is but I've cut some tails in two or three clean hits.

Leaving work now..

@Tranquilo
No i haven't got it fixed. I don't really plan on it. The magic is gone. Before it broke i was able to take on every monster successfully. The urge to do it again isn't there anymore. I found out I spent two and a half weeks playing that game and I don't plan on doing anymore except rarely a quest or two. I might get the PSP one when it comes out.

@Wilie345

I hear you man. I know I've said it before but this game is pretty much done for me as well. I wouldn't really care if my save got deleted or I could not be able to play online. I mean, I've done pretty much everything. I really think it's time for me to move on. It's a weird feeling to have. I still want to play it, but I feel I want to do it out of habit, and not because I really enjoy it. I mean I do, but I'm not hooked like I was before. Now it's just something that I turn to whenever I'm bored and don't feel like doing anything. Like a few days ago when I stayed up until 4 am playing.

I really want to play Muramasa. The problem is I recently moved back to playing on an old, big ass, 4:3 aspect ratio SDTV (don't ask me how) and I feel like I'd be doing myself a disservice if I didn't play this game on an HDTV, even if this is the Wii. I'm tying to decide what's going to be the next game I'll play to death. Maybe I'll just play a bunch of Virtual Console games.

@anandxxx

Well someone fell asleep..or something...

Sorry, guys. I totally passed out from exhaustion, which is weird, because I took the day off. I hereby promise to go hunting next time.

@Tranquilo
I don't understand. Unless the TV has bad picture quality, SD shouldn't be a disadvantage at all, as far as the Wii is concerned. And a nice big size is even better!

As far as the Switch Axe, isn't the Sword Mode actually undeflectable? It's a cool weapon, but very hard to get used to. And I think you can roll out of the Long Sword combos. Just not the final Spirit Combo. Supposedly, they made the LS less spammable in Portable 3rd. But the whole game is easier. Actually, a lot of MH players seem disappointed by it, even though it sold a bajillion and a half copies.

I was playing in a bigger TV than the one I currently have. It's not the size, but the picture quality that bothers me. It's noticeably inferior and I'd rather enjoy the game with the picture being as crisp as possible. At any rate, I just had an epiphany and I'm officially retiring from MH. I realized I've spent too much time on that game and I've done practically all the quests. The only reason I would stick around is to try to improve some weapons but I'm not going to do that.

I have mixed feelings about MH. It's a good game, and there's a lot of variety. There's a lot of stuff I don't like about it, however. In my mind, doing a certain task should yield a specific reward. I think Dragon Quest IX is better in that regard. Even if you want to forge a specific weapon, often times you never have to fight a monster X amount of times, hoping to break its left wing for only a 17% chance of getting that specific item. The underwater fights are clunky. I often find myself disoriented and don't know which way is up or down or where the monster is.

I enjoyed MHtri, but I can't honestly say I enjoyed every minute of it like other games in my library. I don't think I'll play another one unless significant changes take place, and not just to the problems I mentioned above.

R.I.P. - RgR - November 1st, 2010/February 4th, 2011

@Tranquilo
Yeah underwater was a bit awkward. I feel it was a valiant effort for a first try at underwater combat. I don't think that we will see anymore of it. I love that 17% chance. That is what made that game able to take 2 weeks away from my life. I am hoping the portable 3rd once it gets to america. Without this game I never would have found this site so I feel it was definately worth the time and money spent on this game.

@Wilie345

That's just it though, the game is not as vast as it seems. Ultimately you end up fighting the same monsters in the same situations over and over again. Sure, sometimes you have a Sword. and other times you have a bowgun but you've seen all of their tricks and it takes away form the excitement a little. And as for the 17% chance, I think that's not how it should be done since it doesn't add anything to the gameplay really. The fight with Ceadeus is always the same, yet you never get the same materials.

Damaging the tail is pretty much guaranteed to give you a tail in the box rewards. That's how I feel everything should be handled in the game. If you perform certain tasks like slaying the beast, you should get a gem from its innards. Make the fight harder so it's more difficult to obtain.

Imagine if defeating bowser only gave you a 17 percent chance of rescuing the princess. You would have to fight find I don't know how many times until he drops the key to where she is being kept or something. That would suck, wouldn't it? I know the two are completely different games but my point still stands. If you break the horns in high rank battles, you should get stout horns no matter what. Just make it harder to break them if you feel that would be too easy.

The way the game is currently set up, doesn't enhance the experience in any way. If anything it just adds more hours between you and your objective of forging a new weapon. To me it's discouraging but then again a lot of people like to gamble, I am not one of them.

@Tranquilo

i know you understood. you understood the day before when you actually told me that maybe i should stop playing the game. when i play i'm distracted, not 100% into it, i have VERY LOW patience, i simply play to "waste time" and help noobs

I think underwater was okay. The camera, in general, though, could use some tweaking.

As far as the drop thing, I agree completely. That's infuriating and frustrating. I think they should keep what they have now, but also have a trading path for gems, and such. A difficult path, but a path nonetheless.

I still like the overall design of the game, though. Even though it is obviously limited in some ways, that allowed Capcom to really breathe a lot of life into what's there, particularly the monster AI and varied strategies. The game can become grindy, but just playing until you ace every monster one time would provide you with a fun, lengthy challenge. The danger is to remember to play because you want to, rather than because you feel like you should. That's a problem with every loot game, but I feel the core gameplay of Tri is so solid and exciting that I'm still having fun with it, even if I am killing my 100th Rathian (well, maybe not the hundredth...).

Monster Hunter seems archaic in some ways, but I don't care, because it still feels quite unique and is a lot of fun. I wouldn't be opposed to a radical revamp that still retained what was good about the series, though.

@anandxxx

That's just it for me though. I've done every hunt, and killed every monster in so many ways I can't even remember. The only thing that would keep me going would be forging/upgrading some weapons that I'm interested in, and I'm discouraged by how it's all handled by Capcom. Granted, most of their fanbase likes it as is so my complaints will fall on deaf ears (if at all). I guess I'll just move on with my gaming tastes.