Bay 12 Games Forum

Yes, Escaped Lunatic, we've got a thread for that.

So, how do I shield-surf? And isn't there a way to use the Sheikah slate to see enemy HP? Or was that removed since E3?

Hold L2 and push A while you're in the air.

You need a piece of equipment to see enemy health.

I mean, the whole point of having astress test is to test servers, but there's no point if you have no servers.

And if they just wanted to do it as a demo then it wouldn't be only open at specific times

Or people should label their spoiler tags, like he did.
(I haven't looked inside it myself, still haven't beaten the game)

So I just want to quickly touch on the weapon durability thing again since that seems to be the major complaint people have with this game.

Are these people playing the game wrong or something? I'm drowning in so many high quality weapons that I'm at the point where I'm dropping old weapons to pick up fresh ones instead of letting them break. I haven't really tried using shields, so at one point my entire shield inventory was just knight shields, however I now have even better shields I'll probably end up not using (although I did just get spoiled on something by accident so we'll see if that changes).

I haven't even tried using the Master Sword because all my other weapons do more damage.

Also: Lynels... is it me or do they all have ridiculously high health. They seem more like an endurance test than an actual fight now. Spam those flurry rushes.

I just realized I'll never be able to complete my compendium because I didn't take a picture of one of the bosses =(

I found MH3U to be a good introduction to the series... or at least that's how I felt it being my first MH game.
MH4U adds a few things and I felt was a little more challenging, and unlike 3U you can actually play online multiplayer.
MHGen is the latest in the series and more likely than not has the most active online community. It does throw a lot of stuff at you at once which might not be so great for a beginner. However the "DMC-type moves" mentioned above do make the game easier, IMO. (It's also something I hope the tone down a lot or remove entirely in the next generation of games)

If you're not planning on doing multiplayer I feel MH3U has the best singleplayer. The entirety of low-rank is essentially a giant tutorial where you don't have to really worry about other monsters showing up to ruin your fight (unless you're fighting Qurupeco, which is the 'other monsters showing up to ruin your fight tutorial' monster.)

If you do want to play multiplayer... well it's a toss-up between 4U and Gen. I would say go with Gen simply because it's more active and may be more indicative of what to expect from future games in terms of weapons, movesets, palicos, etc. The weapon upgrade system also gives you a better sense of progression than in the other games.

By the way, if you do pick up a Monster Hunter game, be prepared for 50 hours of gameplay to be the equivalent of pushing start after booting up in other games. You'll be sinking hours and hours into it... or you'll hate it and never play it again. it's not for everyone.

E: Oh yes, almost forgot. You can probably post in the Monster Hunter thread and find someone who'd be willing to play multiplayer with you if you don't feel comfortable playing with pugs.