User blog comment:Aandrew07/Tri's second anniversary! (Among other things)/@comment-924747-20120424113724

Ah yes, good ol' MH3, my first MH where I went online (MH1 was my first, followed by MHF2 then MHP2G), now that I think back I still remember the time when MH3 was released, the traffic of this wiki and the chat sure sky rocketed lol.

With respect to the anon who made the post below me, it is true that difficulty-wise MH3 is easy when compared to previous MH, especially MH1. But let's face it, I'm sure that MH3 was also the first MH for many others out there where they are able to go online and FINALLY play with someone else other than soloing everything. With this in mind, playing online won't be as easy, or rather, straightforward as it was when you play solo (having to watch out for your friend's attacks or you attacking them etc), and I can honestly say this change of play-style can make the game a tad bit harder online (sure wasn't simple having to get used to dodging your ally's attacks). Now here's an insight also to some people out there as a fellow MH veteran, why did I say it can make the game a tad bit harder online even though it's supposed to be easier with more people? Simple, remember MHFU and the felyne comrade system? Sometimes bringing your cat is even more trouble than going solo, as if you're not careful, you may forget that the monster is actually going for your cat and not you, thus messing up your timed attack (like a timed superpound), or you ended up running into their attacks by accident. Same thing applies in online, except now you need to deal with superpounds, GS upswings etc, which is why I, for plenty of my online time in MH3, just two-man a lot of quests with my good friend Art (I still remember our first Great Baggi hunt for my urgent xD). Moving on, it also made me feel depressed at times however whenever I go online and play with people, let's use one example to make it easier to imagine. Jho event came on, I'm ready to farm him with my Lagia LS and full Lagia armor fully upgraded. Made a room to farm him. 3 guys came in, all like HR34-ish, wearing all low rank armor and weapons. Okay I can handle that, it'll be almost similar to soloing Jho right? Dead.Freakin.Wrong. Their constant whining about asking for well-done steaks and foolish use of traps and asking for spare potions almost made me wanna choke somebody, throw that person into a tree, grab a bookshelved and throw it into a nearby car, then take off my shoe and shove it down the guy's throat. Almost. Conclusion of this? Yeah being able to finally play MH online with people sure is fun, but dang dude, sometimes the people you play with makes you just want to sit down and watch the world burn along with its stupidity. Sometimes.

That whole MH3 online experience aside, the whole charm system was, and still is, a love-hate for me. I love it like many others since you can get plenty of armor skill combinations out of charms, but I still hate it with a passion since most of the good combinations requires great high-end charms, which I have a horrible luck with :( Yeah, to this day my best evade charm is a +6 evade -10 health no slot lol. The new monsters however, surprisingly enough I didn't have that much trouble fighting them first time unlike other MH (like memorizing its attacks, when they are most likely to do which attacks, finding the spot to attack safely etc etc), but that's probably because the more you play MH, in general it just gets simpler and simpler. Alatreon however, I admit was quite fun, I even had more fun fighting it than Black Fatalis. First time fighting him, he pissed me off quite badly with his curve charge and dragon claw, the only 2 moves that would troll me to the ends of the universe to this day >_>. Indeed, I even thought Alatreon Plate was rare when I carved him, mainly because in the old days of MH, anything with "Plate" in them had a notorious reputation, and you can bet that I have more Los Ruby in MH3 than Los Plate, true story lol. Now I'm sure that some are still confused why I used Black Fatalis before? Black Fatalis was my very first true unsurpassable wall in my MH life (with the exception of my first Kut-ku in MH1, I still wasn't used to the controls yet then). That dude took all my experience and just threw it out the window, I remember getting annoyed at trying to farm him simply because I had completely no idea how to damage him effectively. Of course, as you can guess, the joy of overcoming Black Fatalis for the first time was indeed fun, but one way or another beating Alatreon for the first time also had that same satisfaction. Probably because Alatreon had more variation to his attack patterns? Eh, who knows, maybe, maybe not, not even I know.

All in all, with all that out of the way, how do I want to describe MH3 with just one word? Fun. Yeah, you can't deny that it is fun no matter how easy it is compared to the older generation MH, or how stupid and ignorant the people you meet online can be in MH3 (must be quite traumatizing if it's also your first time to be involved in a community online through MH3, and yes I know you can meet the same amount of stupidity from all over the net, but we're talking bout MH3 no?). Although I've retired from MH3, sometimes I just get that urge to play online and mess around, perhaps again for the millionth of time, try to perfect the timing and positioning to land a superpound to Alatreon's head when he turns to face you (it's possible, done it quite a few times by accident). But then, I remember how annoying people can get, then I get all depressed and I no longer feel like playing. Pissed off hunter's dilemma.

/end half-nostalgia-half-rant