Best Monster Hunter?

My brother wants a Monster Hunter game and I have never played the series. He has only played one shortly on a PSP a long time ago.

Monster Hunter 4? Seemed the highest rated from a short search.

It's for a 3DS.

Wait 20 days.

What's then? I saw a release in October.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate is already out and has a shit tonne of content as well as G-rank, but on the 15th of July Monster Hunter Generations will drop, and while it doesn't have g-rank it does have a better monster roster overall, although the Styles & Arts systems are uh... very anime. Also you can play as cats.

In four days the Generations demo goes public. I don't know if the 4U demo is still up in the e-shop though.

Right on, thanks. I'll just grab 4 Ultimate and grab Generations when it comes out.

Forewarning: These games are EXTREMELY LONG TIMESINKS.

I'M TALKING HUNDREDS OF HOURS.

And grinding for better gear to take on new monsters to unlock more new monsters to get even better gear is going to be the primary carrot on a stick here.

Also the combat is going to feel clunky to anyone who is too used to hack 'n' slash combat, and is based heavily around the idea of committing to your movements during times where you predict the monster will have an opening, with no or little ability to cancel out of said movements, and your own movesets are going to feel fairly limited/restricted.

It can be quite punishing in the lategame and odds are you won't see even 50% of what 4U has to offer before Gen drops.

Furthermore Gen's going to recycle a lot of assests from MH4U.

These are factors I strongly suggest you keep in mind instead of diving headfirst and regretting it later. Try the demos.

Damn

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Someone's about to be very happy.

What the fuck does Anima even mean? Is everyone here underaged?

ANIMA
Noun [Psychology]
*Jung's term for the feminine part of a man's personality.
**The part of the psyche that is directed inward, and is in touch with the subconscious.

But in all serious, anime in this context means flashy and over the top, at least by Monster Hunter standards.

>e]
Thank you! Have a dip into what the future may hold for the franchise.

The day that happens, I'm bailing. Some of the monster designs these last couple gens have already turned me off.

Monster Hunter "standard" stopped mattering when 4 released.

4 wasn't that bad, what?

>tfw no mhgenerations on vita

Anime doesn't mean bad.

Allow me to rephrase.

4 wasn't that bad on the anime, what?

>literal anime story with anime characters
>2 anime as fuck weapons introduced, surpassing even the switch-axe

>polearm with polevaulting and a trained animal
>anime
Eh.

>Charge Blade

You might as well say it all started back in Tri with the Switch Axe then. Then again I guess you could, given Alatreon, but I give elder dragons a bit of a free pass when it comes to anime, so I'm gonna scroll on forward to Zinogre in P3rd in the EXTREMELY Japanese village of Yukumo.

>literal anime story with anime characters
Stories and characters have existed since the dawn of time, you're going to have to do more than that. Maybe the loli blacksmith, but competent children have also been a staple of western stories so that's not really applicable either.

The best I could potentially give you is Gore Magala with the Frenzy, but it's more like rabies in practice than a zombie virus.

4U definitely turned it up a notch though. Seregios is anime as fuck and the super move for the charge blade plus all the guard point combo stuff is ridiculous.

If you're going to get Generations might as well skip 4. These games have a ton of content and I think you'd get burned out. Also if you stopped playing 4 right when Generations comes out you will have not even have touched a majority of the content of the game.

Polearm swinging around at high speed and super jumps with an helper are pretty anime, yeah.

>Stories and characters have existed since the dawn of time, you're going to have to do more than that. Maybe the loli blacksmith, but competent children have also been a staple of western stories so that's not really applicable either.
4/4U remains the only MH game with actual story cutscenes and actual characters. You know what i'm talking about.

Still nothing surpasses the literal anime character introduced in MH2.

Have you actually watched the Glaive's animations? There's next to nothing anime about it in 4/4U except the fucking polevaulting, and even that's not so strange.