A friend got me into Monster Hunter ca. 2013 and now I have nearly 5000 hours split across various games, the bastard. I guess I won’t be doing cocaine or gunpla or toy car collecting anytime soon! XD

It’s a really great experience, I often say good MH games (that is, MH games in general: bad games are a rarity in this franchise) bring out my three preferred Ms: music, monsters and marvels, the latter one meaning the landscapes, the maps, the exploration. You haven’t experienced what kind of comfy immersion can game developers go for until you wander about the Sandy Plains at night to bbq up some Aptonoths and Rhenoplos into steak, and you watch the shooting stars in the night sky. And then you get distracted from the bbq serial griller and you end up with 2x Burnt Meat instead…

Started out with 3U. Underwater is great btw, don’t listen to people who say it shouldn’t return. The first time I tried the game I just Didn’t Get It and thought it was not for me… but man the music was so cool (the Sandy Plains battle music!) and the monster designs (Barioth!) insisted that I should make another try. Grabbed it back after a long break, followed the instructions this time, found a weapon that was to my liking (switchaxe, or as we call it, the Swag Axe), and haven’t really stopped much since then. I take good care to backup my saves often as well, juuuuust in case I don’t really like to grind hundreds of hours for the most random rewards on the double.

By this point the only gen I have not played is Gen1, I’ve played Dos, FU, Tri, P3rd, 3U (1400 hrs), 4U, XX, Gen, GU (1200 hrs), Rise, Sunbreak and Stories 2 (800 hrs). Nowadays I can sometimes be found on the LanPlay network on MHGU and MHRS, and I’m waiting to get a better computer so I can try Frontier and maybe Iceborne. When I show up on the net, it’s usually to accompany randoms on quests thanks to the wonders of doot doot.

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 inherited my addiction from a coworker/friend. I was recruited to help him pass a wall he could not solo through in MHFU: the infamous Plesioth hipcheck barrier. He set me up with an LBG, probably the most straight forward weapon for a non-hunter gamer to grasp. From there, things just spiraled as I lost control of my life. Through fortunate timing, Tri was only months from release when I started my MHFU journey, so I developed my habit right as a steady supply of the primo ish was starting to come out, and I haven’t wanted to or been able to shake the habit since.

I’ve bought a used PSP with some games and one of them was Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. The game felt really weird, slow, pretty confusing and most of all quite difficult. Since I couldn’t get any new games I had no choice but to play the ones I got (I’ve had Patapon, Burnout and like two other, can’t remember). I’ve been pretty intrigued by the game, it was unlike anything I’ve ever played and I kinda like the cozy atmosphere of the village, the little farm, had a nice selection of interesting weapons. I kept playing the game in small chunks until it all just kinda clicked and I’ve been a fan of the series ever since (even though I’m still not that good at it).

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!

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

My friends and I got access to the MH:W demo on the PS4. We played it a decent amount leading up to release day and pretty consistently found ourselves coming back to it. By the time Iceborne came out, we were practically veterans with hundreds of hours put in and we made the switch to PC. It’s been tradition ever since. World, Iceborne, Rise (first on Switch, then again on PC) and lastly Sunbreak. We were starting to feel burnout pretty hard by the time Sunbreak rolled around, but I’m sure we’ll get together to hunt in whatever’s coming next in the series!

In World I mained IG then later in Rise I mained LS. Thinking about picking up GS in the next one… 🤔

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.

I heard that Monster Hunter played a lot like Dark Souls. I was still into my Soulsborne binge at the time, so I decided to give Monster Hunter World (as it was the only available Monster Hunter game on PC at the time until Rise came around) a try. Let’s just say that the rest is history.

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!

First off, thanks for setting up this community!

A friend who had played the prior games convinced me to try MH:W on PC, and I really enjoyed it. As my first MH game, I didn’t know what I was doing most of the time. Got Rise and Sunbreak on the Switch. Countless carts and cat puns later, I’m still enjoying the series.