In article <1601032399302201277.628752andyk-nospam.lofi-gaming.org.invalid.uk@news.individual.net>,
deKay <andyk@nospam.lofi-gaming.org.invalid.uk> wrote:
>Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io> wrote:
>
>> What, specifically, are you lost about? I think between myself and Paul,
>> we can get you pointed in the right direction. If you're playing offline,
>> the chief's son provides the most comprehensive tutorial of any Monster
>> Hunter game.
>
>I should just read the manual 
I hope our Lord Buchanan remembered to include that when he sold you the
game.
>It's getting easier, after a few more hours today. There's just so much
>to take in - resources, hunting, quests, combining items, upgrading
>items, and now I find there's farming!?
Monster Hunter is, in many ways, much more of an OCD wonderland than PSO
was. Every game of this stripe has you collecting things, but very few do
what Monster Hunter does by teasing you into playing another hour so you
can have enough parts. Worse still, you'll see that in order to make a
particular sword, you need one very rare item that's only available in the
next area after you beat a particular boss, so instead of another hour
you've played another ten.
And yes, there's a farm. In the previous game, the farm was a place you
could cultivate the uncommon resources. Instead of dodging dinosaurs to
bring back small amounts of honey and spices, you could just have your
trusty cats produce barrels of them. This is less of a problem in Tri,
where the farm becomes more of an exercise in min-maxing your money. Take
something that commands a high trade price, produce fifty of them and sell
at a profit.
It's a shame the online servers are segregated geopgrahically, else I'd
run home and shepherd you through the online system. The social aspect of
the game is incredibly appealing as well.
-KKC, who wonders when the music player function of the PSP Monster Hunter
game gets unlocked.
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