Topic: If you still haven't picked up Monster Hunter Tri

^ Fail Statement.

What a gross exaggeration. Where did you hear that?

I'm a remote nunchuck person and that control sceme is perfect IMO. Comfy, great cam control. It's awsome!

Yahtzee's review is one place. Totally incorrect.

@Mickeymac Imo Monster Hunter Tri is a lot better than Phantasy Star Zero, and this is coming from a fan of Phantasy Star Online since DC ver.1. Put countless hours into PSO and a lot into Zero. Maybe MH isn't to your tastes though; I don't know. Zero was alright, but somewhat lacking in comparison to Online (evasion was nice... something that they happened to have taken from MH). It's a nice tide over until the real cause for celebration - Phantasy Star Online 2's release.

@CaptainDingo Wiimote + nunchuck is perfectly fine (as Peach said). It's the MH veterans from the PS2 and PSP who make that claim since they're so used to using dual analogs and face buttons for playing the game.

@Jay - 10 hours is a conservative estimate. I've prob put 15 hours into various games in the series and I have yet to enjoy a single moment.

I don't know, maybe I just heard wrong. I never saw Yhatzee's review (someone mentioned that) but I know I've read that elsewhere. Either way games like this just usually aren't MY types of games. Although I could one day buy it and realise how horribly, horribly wrong I was. Who knows?

Intros are everything. If it's boring at the beginning, then I'll not play the rest of it

Actually, I agree that you need to get about... 5-10 hours in before the game gets interesting, though to me the game wasn't interesting until I fought my first boss, so that's why. But I see that as a good thing, not a bad thing. Games that you can pick up and play and that require nothing more than general game knowledge are fine (and in Mario Galaxy 2's case it works out great), but I like getting engrossed in a potential triple-digit-hour experience. Something that someone will look at after walking into the room and go "What the hell is going on?" I spent $40 on it and I've already gotten about 50 hours of play time... and I'm not done by a long shot... nor have I so much as touched the online play yet.

This was basically my point. Even if it only takes about 5 hours to get into it, I'm going to be bored of the game before I can get to the good part, and just stop playing. I don't mind if a game is a big long, epic game, I just don't want to have to wait for it to get interesting.

First off There's a Phantasy Star Online 2 coming out? And I just here of it Now!?

Secondly, no Monster Hunters isn't to my tastes. I loved PSO and PSU, but I've never been more bored with Monster Hunters. The gameplay was a pain, IMO, especially when using ranged weapons (I was always a ranger in PSO), and those fights with the giant monsters were just overly drawn out and boring, and lost their spectacle after the fifth time it got up and flew away, making my start over yet again. The lack of experience points also perturbs me to no end. I wasn't a fan of the general aesthetic, either. It's naturalistic monsters and picturesque scenery with grainy, washed out colors was so boring to look at, and made me miss the vibrant, mechanical locals in my favorite PSO/U areas.

Really, it's just not my kind of game. I recognize that it does what it does well, but it's just not to my tastes.

I used to think like that too. Good that I tossed that part of me asside long ago, or I would've never fully experienced some of the greatest games I've ever played. Just because a game starts out slow to try to get you used to the game doesn't mean the whole game is going to be that boring. That's just judging a book by its cover, and we all know how well that turns out.

Yup. http://www.1up.com/news/phantasy-star-online-2-coming It's not just a rumour, it's been confirmed. There's one trailer, but it doesn't show any gameplay - it basically runs through the history of Phantasy Star online games and then shows the PSO2 logo lol. Still very excited about it anyway.

That works out to five and a half hours a day, everyday, since the game was released. The man likes his MH, it seems.

You have no idea how much he likes MH3 D:

But think about all that wasted time

LOL

A gamer calling playing videogames a waste of time! That's cute lz......

Does anybody take Yahtzee seriously? I love his reviews for the comedy value and the fact that sometimes he'll point things out about a game no one else has mentioned. But my general method of approaching his reviews is that if he doesn't like a game I disregard his review in my purchasing decisions as he's disliked a lot of my favorite games, but in the rare instance where he likes a game it pretty much catapults that game to the top of my buy list, as every game he's liked I've loved.
He's why I picked up Saints Row 2, which is still probably my favorite sandbox game.

You answered your own question, my friend.

I liked his reviews when they were a novelty, and actually intelligently humorous. That was before he was paid to do a regular spot on The Escapist. Now that they're an obligation for him they're almost all just a slew of childish genital references. But this is off-topic and I have no inclination to discuss it further.

@CaptainDingo You just wait until you play online, it's a much better experience than offline.

I'm about 20 hours into the game, and I'm only just now starting to find it remotely entertaining. And even then I can't imagine a point in time where I'm going to love this game. It's just not captivating enough.

And that's the online mode. Offline it's unplayable.

Why do you think its unplayable Waltz?

Because playing it puts me to sleep and then Jaggi eats me.