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[Girlinhat]

I'm on Steam, can throw a group up if you want.

[Knirisk]

I'd love to play with you guys, too, but I think I might've just gotten my bowgunner to high rank. If not, she's still like HR29 or so.
My other character is pretty much everything not-bowgunner and is past HR51.

Although, I can probably downgrade my equipment if necessary.

[Hawkfrost]

I'm on Steam, can throw a group up if you want.

That would make it easier, aye.

It's been months, but I, too, have the power of the hammer. You're surprisingly mobile if you play it right.

Hammer is all about mobility. Constantly circling, baiting, waiting for the opportunity to strike. Or at least that's how I play it, like a patient wolf slowly working away at the prey.

[Denzi]

I'm on Steam, can throw a group up if you want.

Toss me a message on steam whenever you get this going. Should have no trouble finding me as [DFC] Denzi, especially if you know what the GDI emblem looks like.

[Hawkfrost]

Hammer and GS are quite similar in that respect, only you can move while/after charging the hammer. GS has to foresee the monster's movements and commit to a single strong attack, like an angry octopus ensnapturing its prey in its deadly jaws.

Okay, I have no idea what it's like, but it's cool too, okay! >=[

Yeah, GS has some incredible damage ability when in the right hands, but it takes a lot of practice and knowledge of the movements and patterns of the monsters to really bring out the true potential of the weapon.
Hammer trades in the ability to sever and a bit of damage for the capability to KO monsters and some added mobility.

I would say GS is like a lion, takes time to prepare and get into position but delivers a single mighty blow to fell the foe.

[Denzi]

Honestly think I used to main Hammer or SnS. Kind of sad that SnS didn't really seem to have much use back then besides allowing you to use items w/o sheathing. Are there any weapons I should focus on skilling up learning for you guys? Thinking of giving the Switch Axe a shot again whenever I finally get to one but I think that it was a good few hours into the games story before that popped up, right?

[Denzi]

Looks fine to me, I'll hop into it tomorrow when I start up Tri and get to grinding on Jaggi.

[Astral]

I'm tempted to get an emulator and run this, but I do not touch current generation games with emulators.

I just have a real big urge to play Monster Hunter on PC. Sad that the only official PC version is in Japan and Korea, Monster Hunter Frontier. I probably remember enough Japanese to get by, but only if I was speaking it, not typing it. Too much of a hassle for my Monster Hunter fix.

[Denzi]

I'm tempted to get an emulator and run this, but I do not touch current generation games with emulators.

I just have a real big urge to play Monster Hunter on PC. Sad that the only official PC version is in Japan and Korea, Monster Hunter Frontier. I probably remember enough Japanese to get by, but only if I was speaking it, not typing it. Too much of a hassle for my Monster Hunter fix.

Risking being yelled at for mentioning it again but there is a rather decent Monster Hunter MMO clone for PC that goes by the name of HunterBlade. I played it for a week or two but I kind of stopped because I both had no one to play it with and it seemed to be taking too long for difficulty to ramp up. Felt really close to MH to me though, so maybe if you can power through the easy stuff you'll get. Part of the issue I had was that the early game was basically 'Hey here is a new monster for you to fight' and I'd gather some stuff from the monster, start making the gear, then suddenly 'Hey have a set of gear from that monster'. I only really ever got two armor sets or so into the game so again, might become more difficult when you get to a high 'level'. Oh yeah it also uses an 'energy' system, but when I played it was a really big limit, and you had a bonus weekly limit you could dip into during any single week.

[Astral]

I'm downloading out of boredom, but it seems to be badly translated and slow as all hell. After a fairly quick trip to one of the high speed mirrors for a 2 GB split installer, it has more to download despite being the most recent version. And it is excruciatingly, painfully slow to update within the launcher. Site loads kinda weird too, and the launcher hasn't bothered renaming its process descriptions to something other than Chinese. But I'll give it a shot, assuming I don't delete it out of frustration for not working at some level of fast.

Edit: According to a browse through the forums, it takes only 2-3 days to level max, but I suppose it is a more equipment based game. Here's hoping, because it almost doesn't seem worth the time to download.

Edit2: Not downloading it. Taking too long, see bad things about the game, and it looks like a pay to win knockoff of Monster Hunter. Might just dust off the Wii, as much as I dislike the damn thing.

[Girlinhat]

Main thing about Monster Hunter Tri is that you don't play the Wii.  You use the classic controller.  It feels a lot more like a traditional console game than your average Wii "whacky waving arms inflatable tube man" situation.

[Knirisk]

Honestly think I used to main Hammer or SnS. Kind of sad that SnS didn't really seem to have much use back then besides allowing you to use items w/o sheathing. Are there any weapons I should focus on skilling up learning for you guys? Thinking of giving the Switch Axe a shot again whenever I finally get to one but I think that it was a good few hours into the games story before that popped up, right?

I would disagree with your judgment of SnS. Its power lies in its elemental ability and its ability to just keep attacking. With Evasion +1, you can pretty much nonstop attack. The Rathalos and Barioth SnS's are especially good. With that puny little weapon, I've definitely done more damage than a lot of GS users. Just because it isn't visibly effective does not mean it's not...well... actually effective. The major problem is grinding for rare parts because you need multiple elemental SnS's. It works really well with evasion sets, though.

I'd consider the SnS to be an easy weapon, but effective without much skill necessary. The most effective use of the GS is with critical draw, but that relies on a lot of sheathing and unsheathing, which just feels like a pain. Although, the SnS relies a lot on elemental, so it probably doesn't do all that much damage until you get to the Tundra/Volcano areas.

As for weapons to learn? I'd say hammer. Hammer users never go amiss...usually. I've learned to stay away from the head, though. Status effects are amazing in multiplayer, although the not-bowgun status weapons are usually considered to be bad (disregarding the poison GS Rathlinde, or however you spell it).

[Girlinhat]

Hammers and GS make you a dick in multiplayer though.

[Knirisk]

Hammers and GS make you a dick in multiplayer though.

Not GS so much as the longsword. It's mostly the upswing on the GS/Switch Axe. The spirit combo on the longsword should be avoided in most cases. Nobody really has much to complain about the Hammer unless the hammerer is superpounding the monster's leg for some reason that he shouldn't be. The GS does massive damage to stunned/paralyzed/sleeping enemies. Just don't use the charge on the hammer for any other area than the head and don't use the upswing on the GS. And the longsword...well, don't use the longsword in multiplayer.

[Girlinhat]

Actually it was longsword, not GS.  Yeah, played a few matches where the only DPS came from the longsword man.  Because every damn swing would stagger EVERY other player.  I'm using a fuckin' bowgun and he's still staggering me somehow!