As more clearly dedicated hunters trickle into our slice of the fediverse, let’s take the opportunity this smaller community gives us to share how Monster Hunter found us.
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It’s a long story, but essentially, I played the game for the first time with my older brother back when MH2NDG came out and Freedom Unite hadn’t come out yet. Played Freedom Unite a lot when it came out, put the series back down for a whole until my best friend told me to get a 3DS and 3U to play together.
Played a lot of 3U, 4U when it came it, loved Generations and Generations Ultimate on the Switch a lot (latter is probably my favourite MH game by a wide margin), World I found ok, didn’t play a lot of Rise.
Kind of on a hiatus right now with the series
MH Tri was my first. I remember getting the demo from GameStop and just being amazed. I easily put 600 hours in the game sleep bombing Alatreon and fighting Jhen Mohran.
I tried like a decade ago as a kid on the ds and couldn’t for the life of me figure it out, about the time rise was announced a buddy got me into world and it was a great journey!
MHW was my first. I was actually interested in MH before MHW came but I didn’t have the console or device for those games.
Right on. Welcome to the family addiction, 5th fleeter.
Growing up my dad would always do a silly amount of research into the best video games to get my brother and I. And they were always relatively unknown - games like Zack and Wiki, and ofc Monster Hunter. So for my 10th birthday I got Monster Hunter Tri, that’d just released that year. He also bought a classic controller for me, as he’d heard that it was borderline necessary.
I loved the game to death. I’d literally just wander around Moga Woods and live off the land for as long as possible. I ofc sucked at the game tho, getting totally walled by some of the first monsters like Qurupeco. But I didn’t really care as I’d just go back to messing around in the woods.
Eventually I hit a wall so hard that it led me to quitting the game. Gobul. I rage quit and didn’t fully come back to the franchise until years later. I would play on and off for a while, but it took years for me to fully get into the series. I had a 3ds and saw that a demo for 3U was available, so I tried it out. I loved it, and immediately went out and bought both 3U and 4U. Been playing ever since.
I’m actually playing through Tri for the first time since then now that the servers are up, and having a blast!
