User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-4775842-20120801185254/@comment-77.189.225.14-20120801210248

why would it be a spin-off? I remember how they said about Tri you can observe and study the monsters before you hunt them. Well, after all that seems useless in Tri. i don't think it will be necessarey in MH4, but for the future it would be a cool feature. At least if the monster are fighting against other monsters or at least hunt there prey without killing it with one hit. If someday there would be exist a real freehunt where any monster could appear anytime it also could mean that if you study them you know when they will appear at which place. Especially with an onlinemode, where day, night and the weather is important for the hunt. As replacement for events they could put special happenings like breeding season between rathalos and rathian which changes there activities quantity and if you study them before you know when its gonna happen. It wouldn't be like "I killed 1000 rathalos" anymore. It would be more like "I just killed rathalos!!!" and the others like "wow, I didn't see one for days" (maybe this szenario would be more in a rare time and not in a breeding season, you get the point). Monster Hunter for now is acutally "Monster will appear in Area X in Quest X" and finaly become Monster "Hunter", where you actually doing a hunt.