User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-1653324-20120702034405

Afraid of long walks just to find boss monsters. If it does happen that you'd take 5-10 minutes just to traverse landscape (even good looking scenery will get boring, with the sheer number of quests hunters do).

Phantasy Star Portable 2 is somewhere between open world and MH style maps, but walking already takes a extremely boring amount of time (that isn't counting requiring to kill every monster). Add to that, MH monsters roam around. Chasing a fleeing monster to its nest is excruciating on big maps. Transportation would be an important aspect if this were the case.

But it's currently in the development pahse so it's too soon to say anything.