Monster Hunter Generations (Ultimate) (3DS/Switch) Catch-all

This past weekend I finally beat all of Village. Took me about five to ten tries to finish off The Fated Four. Gammoth, Astalos, and Mizutsune all went down fairly easy. But Glavenus always gives me problems, always.
But that felt really good when I finally saw him fall. It was a hell of a task, for me at least. I feel like I finally graduated to big kid school and can move onto Guild.

Of course, the first even I try is Flames of Savagery at USJ (Glavenus). Which, turns out, is extra hard because he has a ton more HP. Going to have to do some more farming and upgrade my equipment somehow. Probably do the Guild quests for a while.

Knocked out some villager requests tonight. I'm procrastinating truth be told...I hate capture quests, and I have to do one to get out of 4* village.

Ugh.

Dyni wrote:

Even though I'm super stoked for Worlds, I hope XX makes it over at some point. I want to play around with Brave and Alchemy style.

I mean, WTF even is this? Makes me want to main hammer again.

Has using normal attacks been completely abandoned in the 3DS MH games? I know hammer users love to charge up and get a full charge off but "back in my day" players used to use the triple pound as often as possible as it did the highest DPS.

Gimpy_Butzke wrote:

Has using normal attacks been completely abandoned in the 3DS MH games? I know hammer users love to charge up and get a full charge off but "back in my day" players used to use the triple pound as often as possible as it did the highest DPS.

That's pretty much Brave style. Take all the charge/special attacks and make it so straight aggression amps that up to 11. From what I'm seeing in the video, it looks like Brave style hammer adds a super quick charge pound, which has high KO, and hard stops the Fire Chicken in flight like a charge attack would.

MHXX is out in Japan now.

Apex is doing a livestream of it.

I am *this* close to hopping onto the JP eShop and buying this.

I've played the switch demo in Japanese, I thought maybe I could try to work around the language but I didn't realize how much text is actually in the game. Importing would have been great but now I'll just keep hoping for an English release

Ooh I didn't remember there being a demo. Definitely should try that.

Been meaning to learn Japanese anyway right?

The last time I did an import game I just found a guide which translated all of it. That was Jump Ultimate Stars on DS, and the biggest issue there was it had menus that were about 5 or 6 levels deep. The rest was pretty easy to get a grasp on.

For this game, I could see all the item names being a problem, but again I bet there are translation guides out there that will help.

Stele wrote:

Ooh I didn't remember there being a demo. Definitely should try that.

Been meaning to learn Japanese anyway right? ;)

It's worth getting it has every weapon type available to try I believe and three different boss monster types to hunt. I'd wager there is atleast a couple of hours of fun to be had with just the demo if you're just into wanting to try the combat.

I tried using google translate on my phone but the real time scan just wasn't picking up to well for me. I'm also really slow at writing out kanji so that was an unusable process as well :p

Wish I could learn some Japanese though with how easy it is to import games this gen it would have come in handy. I'd love to be play Dragon Quest 11 now.

I picked up MHXX JP edition for switch, but I have no idea how compatible it is for multiplayer or anything. I got through 1 Star Village which was a hilarious and challenging time.

Would be cool if you could transfer 3ds save and not have to start over. Oh well

You can from MHX, not MH Generations, sadly

drdoak wrote:

You can from MHX, not MH Generations, sadly

Damn, I was afraid of this. Still on the fence, it'd be nice to have MH when I go to Switzerland in a few weeks, but new character...

It is an opportunity to go whole hog into a new weapon though, maybe something ranged since those take totally different armor sets as well.

Bow in gen was OP

Downside is ranged requires more resources to make ammo, which means more reading of item names.

True enough but you just buy coatings after the beginning. I was admittedly spoiled by having people who handled statuses for me though.

This may have just sold me on buying the JP version of XX. Breath of the Wild SNS and Bow? Oh heck yeah.

@drdoak - Where did you buy eshop points from? I don't see them on play-asia anymore, and don't really trust the sellers on Amazon.

ahrezmendi wrote:

This may have just sold me on buying the JP version of XX. Breath of the Wild SNS and Bow? Oh heck yeah.

@drdoak - Where did you buy eshop points from? I don't see them on play-asia anymore, and don't really trust the sellers on Amazon.

I got a digital code from amazon.co.jp. As long as your shipping address is in Japan, your billing address can be wherever.

I'm on the fence about the japanese version. I bought the JPN version of Generations on 3DS and I didn't get very far at all. I think I'll probably wait for the Western version, or not at all.

Using the mobile Google Translate app helps a ton. I tried it on the demo and it's accurate enough that you can pretty quickly grasp what you need. It also has an AR style mode for immediate translation, so you can just hover your phone over the Switch to see the translated text.

The only reason I'm even considering this (and I haven't bought it yet) is I'm convinced we won't get a translation of XX. World is too close to release and is worldwide, so my bet is they're going all in on that release and just making this a gimmie for the fans in Japan.

Well I got the Japanese account created and demo downloaded at least.

Figure I should give that an hour or two before I try to figure out how to buy eshop points and whether I can really play the game for many hours.

Can't you buy the game directly from the eShop, or does it require a Japanese credit card?

bobbywatson wrote:

Can't you buy the game directly from the eShop, or does it require a Japanese credit card?

Yes but I might need to check the fees on my credit cards or exchange rate and figure out which one to use first. Or maybe setting up a PayPal Japan account, since the eshop accepts PayPal now. Don't know which way will be best and cost me the least in extra fees, exchange rates, etc.

Hopefully Amazon JP is better about eShop points than Play-Asia is with their PSN card, they charge something like a 50% markup or something ridiculous like that.

It was $55 USD to buy from amazon.co.jp

Well did a demo hunt and that was pretty fun. Looks gorgeous on Switch, and so fun on big screen. Pro controller is very nice.

Google translate app did help some for menus. I realized partway through hunt that I needed to change my camera settings ( y-axis) but figured the demo didn't save that anyway, so didn't try to sort through the menus. Might attempt that tomorrow.

Can't decide how worth it this is. I mean it's really cool, and having it still portable but also big screen sometimes is so amazing. Disappointed they didn't just port this.

2 more weapon styles than X had, plus I assume a full set of G-rank hunts and weapons? That's a pretty good value.

I bought it, and can confirm what doak says - buy a code straight through amazon.co.jp. PayPal won't work on the eShop, I tried it and they detect that you're buying in the US and block it. eShop point cards are sold out everywhere. But if you make an amazon.co.jp account with a fake shipping address, you can pay with any old credit card you want. It takes a few hours for the order to process, but it worked for me just last night.

Gonna start going through village 1* right now, get my BujaBujaBu set built up again. I'm starting SnS this time, and probably gonna try Bow later.

You are all making me question my life choices.

gamerparent wrote:

You are all making me question my life choices.

If one of those choices is "not import MHXX" then you should question it!

I'm just through 1* Village, and the language barrier has been nigh non existent. The menus are all identical, so in many cases my muscle memory from Gen just kicks in and I know where to go. The only tricky part so far has been managing my cats, but Google Translate has covered that. If you're at all worried that the language will be a problem then I say don't be, unless if you've never played MH before in your life.