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  Click the meat for the latest update Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate is the ninth release in Capcom's Monster Hunter series of "Hunting Action" games. The game is largely about beating up various types of dragon and making hats out of them, which, as it turns out, is extremely my poo poo. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate is an updated rerelease of Monster Hunter Tri with a bunch of added content, new monsters, and more cats than you possibly have room for, but not as many cats as the games that followed it, unfortunately. In this LP, I'm going to be largely gushing about Monster Hunter. It's a great series. You should play it. Thread Guidelines
 Monster Hunter is a huge game. Like, hundreds and hundreds of hours huge. There's tons of missions, and DLC has added even more on top of the already ludicrous number of quests. There's hundreds of items with unique descriptions, tons of armor and weapons to look through, and lots and lots of little things that make the whole game tick. The game can be played in a multitude of ways, all of which are perfectly valid and fun and often, you'll find yourself changing the way you play radically to tackle new challenges. So I'm not doing a 100% LP. If I showed every quest, crafted every weapon and armor set, combined every item, et cetera, we'd be here for the rest of eternity. I am going to show every monster, all of the story, and a good bit of multiplayer, as well as a little bit of extra stuff from a game similar to Monster Hunter just to show how "Hunting Action" has emerged as a genre. I also intend to stream the occasional grinding session every so often, and when I do, I'll link the stream here. With me for the ride is DoubleNegative who, as far as I'm aware, hasn't played a Monster Hunter game beyond one of the atrociously bad demos. Of course, when multiplayer rolls around, we'll have some fresh faces then, as well. So let's get right into it with  Update 1: The Great Big Tutorial Video.
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I am prepared to be laid low by the desire sensor for the rest of eternity.
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Skippy Granola posted:I love the sam hell out of monster hunter. I got 3 for the WiiU but I played it after MH4 and I can't not have a charge blade. Definitely will be showing off Multiplayer, but it'll probably be after we've seen a good few of the large monsters in the game.
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Aug 1, 2016 16:52
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Hunting Horn is great and once we get the appropriate armor skill, it'll go from great to nonsensical. Next update will be on Wednesday, then I'll be updating either once or twice a week. I'm just super pumped to show off all of this hunting action.
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Aug 1, 2016 20:09
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Shlapintogan posted:Next update will be on Wednesday  I LIED! We're doing it nowUPDATE: The Greatest Jaggi
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Aug 2, 2016 21:28
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It's important.
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Unfortunately, the PC port for Toukiden isn't too good. A lot of powerful hardware can't seem to keep it at 30 frames per second, and the keyboard and mouse controls are abysmal. It's unfortunate, but hey, we've got God Eater 2 coming out on PC at the end of this month, so hopefully that'll be good.
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Yes, please do!
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Skippy Granola posted:If you edit an egg-straction in the same way you're dead to me though. Cowboy up and carry egg Wish granted. Monkey's paw wish.
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Aug 5, 2016 05:23
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Look, I'm already leaving an egg quest unedited, that's torment enough. There won't be eggs in the next video.
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UPDATE We've got three videos lined up today. Start yourself off with this brief explanation of skill points and armor skills. They're super important to know about early on, and even more crucial as the game goes on, so we're going to start looking right away for some skills to complement our incredibly fashionable hunting style. But, we can't just talk about that and not hunt something with our nice new armor, so let's capture a bear and absolutely not mess it up at all. Capturing monsters is a great way to get yourself some rarer materials from them and can also make hunts a little easier to finish once you get it down. Finally, here's an explanation of charm tables and harvest tours. Charm tables are an important part of Monster Hunter, since they determine which charms you can get, but due to a bug in 3U, you only get one when you make your character instead of being put on a different one each time you load the game. Knowing about that and trying to influence which one you get can negatively impact the game for you so maybe consider starting here if you want to just get to the bit about harvest tours.Updates are going to start being anywhere from monday to wednesday each week, depending on if I have everything ready. Definitely will continue updating weekly, but my work schedule is a little all over the place right now, so who knows! E: Here's the fish finder tool. Doctor Hospital fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Aug 9, 2016 |
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For real, if you're having fun with the game and think you're gonna be okay not knowing, you're almost certainly better off not knowing. Thankfully the bug doesn't exist in 4U and Generations, so you can completely forget about it in those games.
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Aug 9, 2016 01:42
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I'd actually say it would be best to start with 3U, then when you feel like it's starting to wear, switch to 4U with some Generations on the side. 4U is the best game in the series, and if you play it first, it may make the other games less appealing, which is not to say that 3U or Generations are bad by comparison, just that 4U is so monumentally good that 3U or Generations just won't be able to stand up to it. I've been playing a lot of Generations recently, though, and it's pretty neat, although I feel it makes the player too strong relative to the monsters. It's especially weird coming from 4U, which just feels so well balanced.
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Aug 14, 2016 06:45
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UPDATE The (Intentionally) Bad Hunt So far I've been pretty good about going on hunts with everything I needed, but what if I was doing this blind? In this update we take a look at what a hunt might look like if you don't keep on top of your equipment and items.
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At least in 4U and Generations we still get Yian Kut Ku, who is indisputably the best.
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Did you know Rhenoplos become magnetically attracted to you the nanosecond you start using an item? It's true!
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Aug 17, 2016 03:38
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Ideally I'll have the next update up for Monday, but it may have to be Tuesday. I hope you are ready for the triumphant return of the hunting horn.
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Aug 22, 2016 03:09
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UPDATE First up we have Ludroth 2: Ludroth Harder, the much anticipated sequel to Ludroth 1: Water Assholes. Following that we have a fight with our first brute wyvern. Brute Wyverns are sacks of HP that take forever to kill if you aren't properly set up. Thankfully, this fight also marks the triumphant return of the bagpipe so we are honestly the most prepared.
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DoubleNegative posted:This thread is now a Kenny Rogers Appreciation Station. No. MachuPikacchu posted:If you're playing Monster Hunter, looking stuff up on Kiranico is almost mandatory. Once you're well into the game and you have to grind/scavenge for specific things it helps a ton. By the way, here's the Kiranico hub for MH3U in case you're playing along with the LP! HOOLY BOOLY posted:3U was my first Monster Hunter and i remember at the time Barroth was considered a pretty big wall for most new players. Qurupeco is a Key Quest, so I'd have to do that to unlock the 3-star Urgent Quest. Barroth and Royal Ludroth were also Key, so I would've had to do all three of them even if I wasn't showing off every monster for the LP. I did Qurupeco first when I first played through the game, and I was an idiot and thought to myself "I'm going to make a hammer out of this Barroth thing so I can come back with a green sharpness weapon and really give this bird the business", so I can sympathize with trying to literally hammer out a Barroth with yellow sharpness. Doctor Hospital fucked around with this message at 08:46 on Aug 24, 2016 |
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MachuPikacchu posted:I would just like to add that I came across this Twitter account yesterday. This is a good-rear end twitter.
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UPDATE: I hate underwater fighting. Skippy Granola posted:We all do, Shlap I'm glad we agree. Doctor Hospital fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Aug 30, 2016 |
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Aug 30, 2016 00:35
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Hunting Horn or Switch Axe probably would've been a better option for Gobul when I was fighting him. They have lots of reach and good underwater movesets, but I wanted to show off the hammer because I love it so much.
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I'm getting geared up to get STEAK into Multiplayer soon. With what I have recorded now, I could probably go ahead and get through HR1 and part of HR2.
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UPDATE Today we hunt some variations on monsters we've already hunted but with some extra gimmicks that make them stand out. Also, we're really good at math.
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Iodrome is pretty eh to fight, yeah. You know what isn't eh to fight?UPDATE Let's fight a Lagiacrus
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Sep 13, 2016 20:34
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Heads up, but depending on how tomorrow goes, the next episode may be a little later than usual. There definitely will be some Monster Hunting Action this week, though.
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UPDATE Today we're going to change locales, play some tunes, forget what difficulties are available in Resident Evil 4 for the sake of an analogy, and do a little thing called MULTIPLAYER. This episode features Miijhal as my hunting partner. She's super cool!
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The poke is a really quick way to get out a second heavy note, which is usually followed by a performance/encore combo, so it's not entirely useless.
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Next update will be Wednesday. I got the commentary and everything recorded but thanks to work I haven't really had time to get it all set in. Next week there will probably be a stream to get Lagiacrus armor, so expect some degree of suffering as I grind for a plate.
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UPDATE I hate Gigginox almost as much as I hate underwater fighting. Also, let's take a quick look at Hunting Action through the lens of Musou games in Toukiden Kiwami, a stylish game about killing oni to make hats out of them. Unrelated, but DoubleNegative also started an LP recently. It unfortunately involves 100% less prancing. Doctor Hospital fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Sep 28, 2016 |
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Look, I don't have time for optimal strategies, I work for a living!  (I just didn't feel like grinding Wroggi, is all)
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STREAM TIME I got lucky and got the Lagiacrus plate I needed, but I figure I should also probably go for the Duramboros armor as well. Come watch me suffer at Edit: Had to switch to Twitch, hitbox was having problems. Edit2: Done. Got the Lagiacrus armor finished off, looked wholly incompetent the entire time. Doctor Hospital fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Oct 6, 2016 |
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If you missed the stream last night, you can watch me being incredibly bad at this game I try hard to make myself look good in here.
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Oct 6, 2016 21:47
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UPDATE Nibelsnarf. There you go.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:I dont wuite like this point of the monster hunter games. The fortunate thing is that we're not too far out from High Rank, so at least soon we'll be getting the big upgrades we need. I'm debating grinding out the Lagiacrus plate for the Bolt Axe+, because that should carry us the rest of the way, but god drat if I don't hate grinding Lagiacrus.
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Oct 12, 2016 22:56
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UPDATE We have this sick new armor and this awesome new hammer, we may as well use it on something round and Arzuros-like.
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I, for one, cannot wait to hear the measurements.
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Double post butUPDATE
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