User blog comment:Aandrew07/A Final Farewell/@comment-4674269-20130501235732

When I first entered those city gates, I never expected to hunt with anyone. I had finaly finished the offline story and wanted to access the contact that was only available online. After all the crap I have seen from other video game communites, I figured I would go at all the quests alone. I did for a short while, plowing through early low rank monsters with the final gear I earned after playing offline. I wasn't until one day when a hunter or two joined one of the quests I initiated. I don't remember many details after that, but I soon began to have fun with these strangers who were helping me on my quests. Before long, I started joining other people with their quests, up until I finally fought Jhen Mohran, one of the most fun and engaging bosses I had ever fought in a a game, and with other people non the less.

Finally I was in high rank, now I could acess are the high grade materials and weapons. When I fought my first high rank Great Jaggi, I noticed that the game indeed got more difficult. I realized I needed other peoples' help if I were to continue. Though that time, I had fun fight Jhen hundreds of time, experiencing the terror of Deviljho, and laughing as hunters joined me in dance at the stairs waiting for our last party member to get ready. I had learned that beyond being a great game, Monster Hunter had the greatest online community I had ever encounterd.

I shall miss the city of Loc Lac. I am shamed I never got an opertunity to visit in its final days. But its memory will live on, through us and the future hunters will tell of the stories of the city in the Great Desert.

In the World of Monster Hunter, You're Never Alone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQOuBJQ6_bM