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phenom08 on 30 July 2012
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Soriku said:
2000cc said:

Having played (and currently owning) both Portable 3rd and 3G, I can say that I disagree entirely with your sources, Portable 3rd is a lot harder than 3G (but neither are as hard as freedom unite imo). Dont get too caught up in the 'g' rank quest addition, they were an addition for MHFU as an expansion rank to the usual quests, in this (freedom unite) they were almost impossible. As 3g's monsters are comparitively easier, its G rank is also.

Plus 3G lacks the more technical weapons, mainly the bow, hunting horn and gunlance. It could just be that I'm a gunlance and hunting horn user mainly (both considered two of the most technical weapon trees) but portable 3rd was leagues more difficult than 3G, and I have friends in Japan (i've lived and worked there for quite a long time previously, hence why I even still like games at all) who think portable 3rd is even harder than Freedom Unite (I disagree, but thats their opinion). I'd say either your sources havent finished the games, or they just find the 3ds controls harder to use than the psp ones. Because my personal, and my main MH infulence groups opinion I dont know a single person who would rate 3g harder than P3rd. While others would rate P3rd the hardest MH ever, and these folks are hardcore MH players (we are talking thousands of hours, with all the armours & weapons like the fatalis & G series, I've even witnessed one do a no armour, hammer (a weapon that cant block) run vs G rank tigrex in MHFU!(a monster so big a dodge roll takes you only from one of its feet to its other and it has massive tail reach with one hit kills in most top level armour)).

...and as for content, portable 3rd has more content than 3g, even though 3g was later, just like freedom unite has more content than tri, even though tri was later. Tri was cut down heavily from what was included in freedom unite, 3g is the expansion of this (cut down version), where portable 3rd is the most content heavy MH in existence.

but it all comes back to the fact MH tri & 3G are barely even the same games as portable 3rd, its like comparing apples with oranges.


You're the only person I've heard say that MHP3 is harder. My sources are people from NeoGAF and GameFAQs and they all say it's easier than Tri and I haven't seen a single person say it was harder or even it's the hardest MH game. Since it comes down to a general consensus vs. single person thing, I'm going to have to believe the other people over you.

Content wise, I've heard MHFU has more content than MHP3 from people asking about the content on GameFAQs for MHP3.

And I know MH3G is more of an expansion over Tri, but it has content from Tri, P3, and includes its own stuff including G Rank. Because of that I have trouble believing that MHP3 is leaps and bounds above it.

Thank you Soriku, you are precisely who i needed to help me in this debate. What you said is true all of those elements could be put in MH4 making the MHP4 pointless. Thats what i was trying to say but i dont know to much about Monster Hunter. I honestly dont see a reason for it on the Vita. It has a much larger potential userbase on the 3ds and its cheaper, so why waste money on porting it day 1 when they could port it later if at all. What i see happening is MH4 coming to 3ds and MH4HD coming to WiiU( that would confirm a moneyhat lol).