MH Oldschool

I picked up MHG today and am excited to try it for the first time. I don’t know the differences between MH-Jp and MH-Eng and MHG … why is MH-Jp more popular than the other two? My impression from reading old MH promotional material in English was that the translators made it a real passion project b...

So how do you all hold your PSPs/Controllers? Edit: I'm also interested on how the fuck you're supposed to play on 3DS On 3DS I’ve switched from using the touch-screen camera control to just using the left hand controls. I decided I prefer playing when the camera isn’t moving all the time so I can ...

Adam - I totally agree about items and hunter arts. But then again I don't think anybody should be buying or farming items anyway. All monster hunter games are better when the player engages with the world through hunter/gathering rather than menuing. Just hunt and gather and make everything yoursel...

Hey, Stephan, thanks for the replies. So do you think the "portable boss-rush" or the "work-simulator" ideas, as ways to understand and evaluate the series, have any merit? How to explain the relative crash of the Japanese monster hunter market? Rise was very popular with kids on...

Original hardware if possible, is fantastic. This really hit me when playing Tri (though "emulated" on the WiiU) and the controller was so much better than playing emulated on the Steamdeck. Controllers is something I don't see too much focus on but old Sony/Nintendo controllers can be of ...

I'm sure everyone here has enjoyed Jakob's Dos video. I have watched it several times since it first came out and if you haven't seen it I recommend it! Jakob's thesis is that there are two types of Monster Hunter games, games true to the original vision and the portable game design that took over t...

Not anti-PS2MH but… I think they’re (and Dos in particular) the best and most influential games ever made. Graphically and aesthetically PS2MH surpasses all other games. 5th gen MH is unbearably ugly and unplayable because of it. Gameplay, sound & music, atmosphere, the weight of decisions and t...

Hello all, it’s a pleasure to find a community that appreciates the vastly superior 4:3 aspect ratio hunting games and php boards. I arrived here because I just found about the remarkable work done on reverse engineering the Dos servers so we can play online with unmodded games. This is amazing, it ...