User blog comment:Plexioth- xD/Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate/@comment-71.63.9.39-20121110225920/@comment-173.72.25.189-20121121055355

Eh, I wouldn't like to be tied to a real-time clock. MAYBE it could be tied to the calender to determine the season, but never to the actual time of day. It would be way too annoying.

Having seasons would only work if they effected the probabability of something showing up, instead of having X only available in certain seasons. Like, say, certain subspecies would be more likely to show up in each season. And maybe also affect what bugs, herbs, and shrooms are more likely to pop up. Perhaps even effect the drop rate of rare monster materials. But never have something be excluysive to a season--not in a game like MH. Seasons would take too long to change, and it would screw up the flow of a material-farming game like this.

Random weather could definately be fun though. It would change often enough that you COULD have weather-exclusive monsters and items. Sunny, cloudy, rainy, thunderstorms, tornados, hurricaines, floods, droughts... fun times! You could even have Cha-Cha do a weather dance! Or have consumables to summon weather.