The Monster Hunting Thread

Haha yeah, that bear is a bit too much of a push over for his own good.

In 3u your adventures are contained to Moga and Tanzia when not on a quest, world hub style. You'll never go anywhere besides moga woods in free hunt mode(Though you do quickly unlock certain missions that let you explore maps without a target boss, and later you can go to a night version of the woods with stronger foes as well.) This is partially addressed in the next game with RNG designed mini dungeon maps and more varied hub zones over the story mode.

Free Hunting is only useful for points to use the facilities like farming and fishing, so you'll need to tackle the quests to progress the story enough to fight Lagiacrus. There are a number of quests in each set that are key quests, which upon completion will unlock an urgent quest to advance into new maps and unlock new monsters. You can find out which quests count as progression pretty easily with a quick google.

Hammers are amazing weapons in 3u, as if you couldn't tell. The biggest trick to it though is that the basic attacks are not what you should be using to fight most times. If you want to battle much faster, and you do, Focus on the charge attacks. Each level attacks in a different way depending on whether you're standing still or not as well. The level three standing for example is a heavy hitting two strike super pound, while it's moving counterpart is the spinning whirlwind that is excellent for dealling status effects.

You can get the general idea of how to get sick knockouts with this, just look for the openings and go for the head!

Wow anagalmeshu that's such a productive post.

Also Spindow has a pair of pants finished. Most out of context statement ever.

"When my enemies are pissed, my pants give me power"

The Wii U version of 3u is super old and busted now. It plays perfectly fine and most of us in one manner or another have it so at the very least multiplayer is well covered peerwise. It's the cheaper option as well.

4u on the 3ds is the better game in nearly every way. you get to climb and jump off stuff, the monsters are all a lot more animated and lively, and story wise the game does better than before. I only know of like one of us aside from myself has the game however and it's still full retail.

It boils down to whether you want to play with Kun or the larger community. You can always just play the demo as well to see if you even like the games before you commit.

I'd wager on '17 to '18, depending on whether or not X becomes X Ultimate beforehand. It could be sooner but US and EU usually get their milage in.