Sort of. In Monster Hunter 4, the story was basically whole the time: 'Oh no, there's a dangerous monster out there, so now we can't do what we have to do. Kill that monster so that we can continue with what we're doing.'

Very impressed by the beta.
While I wouldn't say it's much more beginner friendly, especially seeing some odd tutorial timing, it's at its core Monster Hunter with a ton of money thrown at it
Ain't nothing wrong with that xD

I'm so surprised!

I downloaded it yesterday, haven't had a chance to play it yet, hopefully will at least find an hour.

Hmmm... not sure. I've played the beta today, and having played every MH since MH3, I'm not actually really surprised or blown away by the beta. I'll probably buy it anyway, I just can't help myself since I love the franchise XD.

Considering this is a BETA and they need the statistics it is quite obvious you need to be online.  Most probably that wont be the case when the game releases.

I feel like this entry in the franchise is more focused on the hunting aspect of the game thus they probably reduced the Quest time from ~45 min to 20 min so the player is more focused on hunting his objective instead of exploring, material gathering and item crafting, which makes the whole quest more linear.
And honestly, this 20min mark is ruining my MH experience, I mean I don’t even have enough time to hunt the other big sized-non-objective monster in the respective quests.

This is the exact reason it became not purchasable game for me at this stage. I was going to get a copy day 1 (and either buy two of my friends a copy, or convince them) but now have shifted to Black Friday of 2018. 

It took too long to set up things with friends, and you constantly have to do it for each mission. This is like friends codes but for missions, in fact it is worse than friend codes, since it requires letters (lower case and upper case) and numbers. Even the Wii version of the franchise was easier to set up. This is a game I heavily play with my real life friends, and it requires too much effort to set up anything. 

My honest impressions of the gameplay it self, is that while annoyance above has jaded me, I do think it is solid. Some of the controller mapping options is questionable, but when you get the hang of it, it is pretty much monster hunter you love. 

Huh, I thought it stated replay mission, not different mission. Maybe bad translation? That does help, still have to convince the other two, they really did not like the system setting it up. Hopefully I can get a deal on the game like I did Call of Duty/Battlefront.

Tell me if it selects new mission. If it does that helps loads. 

Been wanting to get into monster hunter because of how much people seem to enjoy playing, but i really just couldn't find any interest in the beta. everything was to slow, and the monster to me weren't as interactive and responsive as i imagined they would be.