User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-17735225-20130929140200

After watching videos of MH4, I began to doubt my current skill to completely solo this game (I felt 3U was a bit too easy on certain parts). So I picked up my old hacked version of MHdos with all the online quests available, as I remember this game being so hard it makes Unite feels almost a casual game. And it stays true for the most part (Me being rusty and a bit spoiled by 3U).

I somehow manage to defeat Rajang in its horrifying glory despite my analog stick acting weird and ruining my GS charges (It's suicide to fight this thing without Earplugs; Frontier players will know). Now I wonder how hard MH4 actually is given that there's not much information around to guage how well a 4 players group is doing to damage the monsters(hitzones, elemental weakness, actual damage of mountings).

So may I ask you guys that play MH4 toward its endgame; how hard is this game compare to older MH titles? I'll put my own order of game's difficulty from easiest to hardest so you guys can specify the place to put MH4 in (Its my opinion though so feel free to make an argument if you find the order wrong).

MHP3rd  MHF2  MH3U  MHtri  MHfreedom  MHdos  MHfrontier

I'm talking about overall game difficulty, not the village part. And I didn't put MH1 in because the ease of headlocking in that game can completely change the difficulty.