User blog comment:Artemis Paradox/So we've been on MH3 online for a 3 months. What can we say about it now?/@comment-2055107-20101028112320

...hehe rants eh? is it ok if i post my views on monster hunter unite? cause thats all i own... ...anyways i have suffered quite a bit during my time on monster hunter unite, simply because in my part of the world, australia is a technologically isolated continent and barely anything decent reaches us...and so when monster hunter unite came out, there were no huge crowds hugging the stores, nor game shop owners holding back, with a copy of big rigs, a horde of zombies who were desperate for a copy of monster hunter unite...so pretty much i was soloing everything up to g rank, and so attitude-wise i havent really developed anything except an understanding of where noobs come from...hehe it used to take me like the full 50 minutes to kill a giadrome and now i sneeze on it and it dies...the thing is, with me is that i have a tendency to sympathise with noobs and try my absolute best to keep them alive and try to train them up so that they may carry what theyve learnt to other noobs so that they too can become "un-noob"... ...and so i tend to play in a sort "how do YOU want to hunt this thing" kind of attitude, as i let my very scarce monster hunter friends (i only have about 2, thats how unpopular it is in my area) decide what they want to do with a particular quest, since i had to knowledge to help them along...seeing that everyone was once a noob and if you dont have that helping hand, then there is a severe "lack of good players", i mean who knows, that noob that you rejected could have gone on and become equally as good as you, perhaps even better and isnt that the whole point of online monster hunter to further each others tactics, tips and hunting abilities?... ...but i have noticed what you have said about tri "noobs" and i think i may have even met one of them...they do believe that they are better than the greater majority and base their opinions on initial reactions and first impressions, they stick with one weapon and if need be, will use everything in their knowledge bank to defend that one single narrow minded view about that weapon, without ever exploring the alternatives... ...i think the reason why japanese players are so much better than western players is because "we" lack online ethics, japan have a lot of people, hence when a "good" game is released, chances are their friends have probably got it as well and so the day to day attitudes, outlooks, ideas and ethics are carried on onto the online community, because they know each other and know how they should behave around each other...now the problem with us is that we lack that control, what we perceive as "good" online ethics could be what we desire from the japanese players, literally friends who are like a train or bus ride away from us who we can talk to face to face about tactics and strategies...the problem with our "western" community is that our community is simply too big and the ratio of decent hunters to "noobs" is simply too great and so it creates this sort of "anonymity" kind of feel behind each character as online you dont know who you are playing with nor what kind of person you are playing with..unless there is change within our community this will unfortunately continue on... ..i have learnt one thing though... ..to receive a good helping response from anyone you must first put down your pride, your ethics, your skill and allow yourself to literally be a tool for the other person to use..by humbling yourself unconditionally, it kind of makes the other guy want to repay you...so in other words, if you want find decent players, go out on a few servers, spark a conversation with them, get to know how they hunt and what they use, offer some help if you are above their level and ask them what YOU can do for THEM, if they decline the offer nicely or even agree to the idea then that is someone who is going to be a good hunter... ...of course should you ever meet someone who flames, do not flame back, it only makes the already ignited fire bigger...the only exception to this act of decency, was as a few comments put it "griefing"...whos sole purpose is to live to annoy...im still working of ways to trying to lift them up to our level as hunters, as its monster hunter not monster annoyer... ...and so i conclude...i am not a monster hunter expert, i just enjoy playing the game...i too believe that hunter rank has nothing to do with how well you play, people can hack hunter rank 1337 but as a walkthrough once put it:.. "Having end-game weapons and armor doesn't change the difficulty. In fact, it only makes things harder. Without the time invested in the game, game-savers aren't armed with skills to survive stronger monsters. Compare that to someone who has invested countless hours completing missions on their own. You'll find the game-saver outclassed every time." ..in other words, it is not the character that determines how awesome you are at hunting but rather it is the player behind the character and the skill that has grown on the character that determines how awesome you are at hunting...

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