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Title: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on May 10, 2018, 04:55:29 PM
ITS COMING!
Hope to see you all making the switch come August 28th! I'll be done and graduated in a new -normal hours- job, so I'm planning to be back in force!
Yes, the game will support save transfers from the 3DS Gen. Anyone planning to restart from scratch or just pickup where you left off? I'm tempted to start over myself.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Evan_B on May 10, 2018, 05:39:42 PM
The o my proper way to suffer through a Monster Hunter game is by starting from scratch.
Sorry, I meant “play.”
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: nickmitch on May 11, 2018, 09:23:49 AM
Every other Monster Hunter game, I tell myself that this will be the one that gets me into it. I think being on Switch could actually do it for me, depending on where my backlog is at launch.
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on May 11, 2018, 06:02:39 PM
Every other Monster Hunter game, I tell myself that this will be the one that gets me into it. I think being on Switch could actually do it for me, depending on where my backlog is at launch.
This is pretty much word for word my thought process here. I've bought Tri, 3G, and 4, and never really gotten into any of them, but I feel like this may be the one.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Evan_B on May 11, 2018, 06:22:40 PM
It does help that this is coming off of 4U's "most accessible yet" iterative improvements, but the other unique aspects of the gameplay that have been added with the Generations moniker (combat styles, mostly) allow players a lot of freedom and variety in the role they want to play in a party.
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Post by: nickmitch on May 11, 2018, 06:44:52 PM
I like the sound of that. I almost bought 4U because of that "most accessible yet" aspect.
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Post by: GK on May 12, 2018, 12:56:42 AM
Haven't finished 4U yet so I'll probably let this one slip by. Unless you have a regular group to hunt & gear grind with, guild quests becomes a frustrating chore.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Evan_B on May 12, 2018, 11:44:06 AM
Haven't finished 4U yet so I'll probably let this one slip by. Unless you have a regular group to hunt & gear grind with, guild quests becomes a frustrating chore.
We do just so happen to have a forum of people who are also interested in teaming up!
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on May 12, 2018, 09:22:49 PM
Yeah, there are 3-6 folks on here who have played together for 3U, 4U, and even Gen. Being on the new hit console may bolster those numbers a bit as well.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: lolmonade on May 17, 2018, 10:34:08 PM
I've been dumping a lot of time into Monster Hunter: Worlds....anyone here know the core differences in gameplay between the Switch one and that one?
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on May 21, 2018, 03:51:49 AM
Its almost exclusively Quality of Life features. It wouldn't be unplayable at all to switch to GenU. Things like gathering are a bit more of a pain. The monsters don't get into turn wars, they both hone in on the players (though they can injure each other in the process).
The general play in World is smother, but GenU has a lot of variety with all of the different hunting arts.
I think someone who adored World will be happy with GenU as a follow up title. It is significantly more challenging, and once you are a fan of the series, you will be able to go back to something like 3U/4U/GenU and appreciate the various content available. And there is A LOT of extra content in GenU. Highest monster count in the entire series.
DISCLAIMER - I've not played World, but I;ve read up a lot on it and the opinions of the fans who have played both and this all seems to be a general consensus.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on August 17, 2018, 06:21:04 PM
BUMP!
Who all is getting this and wants to start forming hunting parties?
I got it coming day 1, but won't get to dig in until the weekend. Anyone game to play that first weekend?
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: NWR_insanolord on August 17, 2018, 10:58:05 PM
I was planning on getting it but honestly the Diablo announcement makes me a lot less interested in this. I'm in the market for a loot grind game but Monster Hunter has never really clicked with me and I'm less inclined to give it another go knowing that's around the corner.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: pokepal148 on August 18, 2018, 01:21:05 AM
I'm down for Switch monster hunter. Idk if i'll get it right away though.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: pokepal148 on August 23, 2018, 02:52:30 AM
update: I preloaded it. apparently i'm more down for Monster Hunter than I thought.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on August 28, 2018, 12:30:10 PM
Its out for delivery, so it should be home when I get off work.
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Post by: Soren on August 29, 2018, 12:37:16 PM
Congrats to all you Monster Hunters. Part of me wants to dip my toe in but I think it would be better to have MHW be my first experience with the franchise.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: pokepal148 on September 01, 2018, 06:36:15 PM
So because I transferred my save from generations I'm pretty much just smack dab in the middle of the single player mode and I reached Village High Rank.
Also I have a fighter palico who is just getting all sorts of part breaks for me between Big Piercing Boomerangs and Giga Bombs.
BTW, it just occurred to me: Why isn't it called Purrowler mode? It's not like Capcom to leave a purrfectly good cat pun on the table like that.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on September 04, 2018, 12:35:24 PM
I decided to restart from scratch so spent the weekend "catching up", but I'm kinda regretting the decision now. But having spent a weekend playing I feel I'm too far into the rabbit hole to back out. Maybe I'll check it out my old save tonight and decide based off of how close I am to catching up.
New save I am 3 star village and just hitting 2 star for guild.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: pokepal148 on September 05, 2018, 04:30:57 PM
I'm at 7 star village and 2 star guild. Git gud scrubs.
It looks like I'll be scraping by through High Rank Village using my Low Rank Narga Armor. If Narga isn't in Village High Rank for whatever reason we're going to have some problems because Evade Extender + Critical Eye + Speed Sharpener is really good.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on September 07, 2018, 10:28:38 PM
Friends cancelled going out tonight, so I'll be online working up the food chain. Feel free to join if you want, I'm up for hunting anything.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on September 11, 2018, 02:05:44 PM
I'm at 3 star for both village and guild. Also finished my preferred LR armor with the Bumblepumpkins.
Started taking the train into work to save gas and time as my work pays my fares and the time is the same, so I'm using that time to chip away at all the little quests. Going to try and 100% the quests at the least with this version.
Think I'll try the Glavenus Bow since I have natural +10 Fire with my armor and I could gem it to +15 easily.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: pokepal148 on September 12, 2018, 12:30:11 AM
So Alchemy style on the switchaxe works very well for people like me who like to use the sword and axe modes interchangeably. Basically pressing "a" around two or three times while in axe mode will switch you to sword mode mid combo and pressing X a few times while in sword mode will switch you back. It's really interesting.
Anyone have an interesting hunter art setup? I have on Alchemy style Tempest Axe, (buffs attacks made from axe mode), demon riot (buffs attacks in sword mode) and energy charge (refills the sword guage and gives an affinity boost) so basically I cycle from one attack boost to the next. All of them are SP arts because Alchemy Style has access to SP mark 2 and SP mark 3 which give a few perks like Health regen and I can get a steady supply of earplugs from the Alchemy Barrel.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on September 12, 2018, 01:48:40 PM
I've been pretty boring, sticking with Bow and Adept style. The Rathalos Bow is underwhelming compared to previous iterations, so I've been sticking with the Astalos bow and going full-on status dealer with paralysis and poison.
I tried Arial style, but I'm just not feeling it.
It also feels like I'm having a harder time cutting tails, as in 4U I was an excellent bow-tail cutter. Though I also notice that people are much more clumsy/clueless/rude than in the past. Multiple times I -the gunner- are the only person aiming for the tail and the blade users are all over the place.
Coupled with the typical uncouth LR online random behaviors like insta-posting, and other hunters just not caring, just feels like the community is less savvy this time around. Last night I had multiple people crash my lobbies and post their 1/2 star urgents without a word, and others just rolling with it. One of them even had the audacity to sit at base or out of range twice in a row. I started pinging mid-quest and they finally came to help, so I just kept my mouth shut, but its almost like people are more apathetic. Perhaps it is the lack of easy communication options (really miss voice chat from Tri/3U); or maybe I'm just too wound up and snotty.
I should really try to get people on r/monsterhunterclan or the game's Discord, but I'm so irregular with my available online play time that I'm not sure the effort is worth it.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: pokepal148 on September 12, 2018, 01:53:37 PM
I can't have an automatic preset to go off when I get killed off either. I put #fakenews for that in 4U and it was the greatest thing.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on September 12, 2018, 04:03:58 PM
My favorite was "Thanks Obama" for the cheeky death comments. I also remember making all my presets themed quotes from films like Jurassic Park, Star Wars, and other films.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: pokepal148 on September 12, 2018, 09:38:17 PM
I've also been working with the Greatsword a lot this time around. That's been fun.
I've achieved some level of mastery over the Switchaxe, Dual Blades, and Sword and Shield and I have picked up some degree of skill with the Insect Glaive and Charge Blade so it's nice to add some more toys to the arsenal.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on September 13, 2018, 04:37:41 PM
Well I got to High Rank last night, so I'm pretty sure I'm on par with my 3DS save, so definitely no going back now.
I'll be leaving work early so I hope to have some free time tonight. I just cleared the dual Urragaan event quest solo on the train this morning, so I should be ready to upgrade to my first HR bow.
I really should branch out to other weapons. I always wanted to get good at Charge Blade, whats a good early HR armor for that weapon Pokepal?
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on September 14, 2018, 11:21:40 PM
I'm hunting online if anyone wants to join. Up to HR5, but I do want to take my time with High Rank before powering on to G so I'll be in this range for a little bit.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on September 20, 2018, 12:47:23 PM
The game got patched! (http://"https://twitter.com/monsterhunter/status/1042579590542065664") They added the ability to use the L3 to toggle running, which is something from World. Hoping they patch more features in down the road (native voice chat please!)
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Mop it up on September 25, 2018, 06:55:31 PM
I'm hunting online if anyone wants to join. Up to HR5, but I do want to take my time with High Rank before powering on to G so I'll be in this range for a little bit.
Welp, I finally caved and a friend finally convinced me to get this game, so perhaps we can find some time to play? Would be nice to get the gang back together.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on September 25, 2018, 07:02:24 PM
Yay! So excited to see you joining! ;D
Will see you on soon!
I've actually joined a smaller Discord server for Monster Hunter GU, so I've been able to find a few other players. Y'all are welcome to join if you want.
https://discord.gg/ZByyYQ
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Mop it up on September 25, 2018, 07:07:18 PM
Oh, I see how it is! Turn your back on us why don't ya!
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on September 25, 2018, 07:08:44 PM
Just playing the field.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on September 25, 2018, 10:23:16 PM
Don't forget you can port your save data from Gen on the 3DS, did you get Gen?
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Mop it up on September 25, 2018, 10:36:38 PM
Of course I did that, no way am I starting over!
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on September 25, 2018, 11:41:37 PM
Are you Nova in the game?
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on September 25, 2018, 11:54:46 PM
Are you on discord Mop it up?
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Mop it up on September 26, 2018, 12:57:12 AM
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on September 26, 2018, 12:20:25 PM
Just thinking it would be easier to communicate via discord if you want to try next time.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Mop it up on September 27, 2018, 01:31:31 PM
I have a USB keyboard for Switch, though I s'pose this game still only lets you chat in lobbies and not during quests. Really lame how they still haven't fixed that problem. I guess Discord would be the place to type during quests.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: pokepal148 on September 27, 2018, 02:40:05 PM
are you implying that Monster Hunter has horrible ingame communication options outside of 3 Ultimate? That is crazy talk.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on September 27, 2018, 10:06:47 PM
Going to be on in a bit if anyone cares to join.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Mop it up on September 27, 2018, 11:22:55 PM
I can't join your hub, it's too high of a level. :(
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: pokepal148 on September 27, 2018, 11:40:25 PM
You could always join mine.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: pokepal148 on October 06, 2018, 01:31:08 PM
So Alchemy style Switch Axe is becoming stupidly powerful now that I'm getting good at maintaining an infinite Demon Riot build (and I have Tempest Axe to fall back on if I lose Demon Riot which is very possible.)
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: pokepal148 on October 17, 2018, 05:51:09 PM
I'm basically hanging around in HR9 right now. I figure I should finish the Singleplayer and wrap up all the Generations content I want to do before moving on to G-rank, otherwise once I reach G-rank I'm probably going to ignore most of it.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on October 18, 2018, 01:27:36 AM
I'm saving the unfinished low-level solo quests for the train since I ride from time-to-time and that's an easy hour I need to kill. Also, I keep telling myself I need "one more upgrade" before doing anything by myself so that I can finish the quests quicker.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: pokepal148 on December 20, 2018, 07:00:26 PM
I plan to actually attempt to solo G-Rank in it's entirety this time around. This is not at all in any way a bad idea and will totally end well for me and my sanity.
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Post by: kaijugamer on February 12, 2019, 10:00:48 PM
I've read from NintendoSoup that a new Monster Hunter title for Nintendo Switch will be announced this March.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on March 08, 2019, 01:20:08 PM
Assuming the started building one for Switch (or porting World) right after World released on PC, the timing fits to show off another one.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Mop it up on March 08, 2019, 06:57:23 PM
I have been itching to hop back on Monster Hunter GU now that things in life have calmed down a bit.
I haven't played in a while, but I could get back into it. I believe we were in G2 if you don't mind doing that level.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on March 12, 2019, 11:44:43 AM
I'll be down for most anything. Only goal I remember having was to get the Breath of the Wild gear but that required G4 (and I'm not quite there yet).
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Mop it up on March 13, 2019, 06:58:06 PM
I'm usually available in the evening if you wanted to set up a time to play sometime.
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on June 12, 2019, 02:51:37 AM
I'm tempted to pick this up since it's half price on the eShop for the E3 sale. Are other people here still playing it?
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Post by: pokepal148 on June 12, 2019, 03:21:50 AM
I'll play with you. Why not?
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on June 12, 2019, 03:04:00 PM
Count me in. Been wanting to get back into it.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: pokepal148 on June 19, 2020, 10:42:08 PM
Well, I'm back on my harebrained scheme to try and solo this game's G-rank content. I made it all the way to g2 now so I guess I'm doing something right.
Edit: now the Nargacuga is kicking my ass.
Title: Re: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimately Switching to Consoles!
Post by: Stratos on June 22, 2020, 02:55:42 PM
I saw you online and almost joined you. Still want to get back into playing this once more.
