User blog comment:Artemis Paradox/So we've been on MH3 online for a 3 months. What can we say about it now?/@comment-68.205.58.255-20100802171035

First of all, bear with me. Monster Hunter Tri is my first real experience with the series beyond studying it and watching it on the Internet for the past few years.

Anyway, my experience with the online has been mostly positive. I've met a lot of cool people, some good, some still learning (as in, not quite as good). I've only met around... seven jerks... that I can still recount (I tend to forget about em though). I've also met beggars, ones that wanted me to help with their urgent quests or simply farm some random monster. They're usually no trouble though.

Usually, I try to hunt with friends or others who around my skill level. I make exceptions though. I don't mind helping out beginners every now and then, it can be fun utterly destroying those low-rank Great Jaggi in under 30 seconds or bash the poor Barroth to get past HR9, once a terrifying beast... now just a big muddy punching bag.

If I enjoy hunting with someone, odds are they'll see me again down the road. I still hunt with guys who get KO'd for doing the craziest things. Some would find that too annoying, sometimes I do find it annoying... but... I'm not perfect either. Sometimes I screw up big time that makes me look like I just started playing yesterday, like getting KO'd twice by Uragaan or Deviljho. I can't count how many times I've been screwed over by that damned stun effect... it ALWAYS happens at the WORST POSSIBLE TIME! Drives me crazy, but at the same time it reminds me - I'm just another hunter with a bunch of fancy numbers in my profile.

Some have said that the experience is too short... I can't agree. I'm still hooked on this game... I have been for months since it came out. I have about 650 hours in now. I still have goals as well - there are weapons and armors I want to forge and try, and I still need the award for killing all the giant-sized monsters (just recently got the mini crown award a few days ago, after all this time).

Of course, I have a few issues of my own.

One, which recently about three weeks ago, is that I can't directly join my two of my best hunting partners anymore. If they make a city I can't enter or warp to it, and vice versa. I can join total strangers and other people on my list, but not those two... and no, none of us use the block feature. The only way I've been able to join them is waiting for someone else to start a city and meeting there. I've gone through all the settings of my router (which is wireless, and that can't be helped), set it to the most stable channel (1 or 11) or made sure it had no firewall running while I was playing. It's a strange issue... and very frustrating for me. Didn't have this trouble before... so... not sure what to make of it.

Other than that... the only thing that's irked me... is ye oldschool party... I don't want to offend anyone though... I know there are plenty of players of MH1 around here. I've just noticed that some of them act... well... like old sticks in the mud... and sometimes a bit proud... That's all I'll say though.