This is false. Monster Hunter's camera is 100% manual, so there is no automatic adjusting of your viewpoint whatsoever. With fast monsters like the Barrioth you can't afford not constantly adjusting the camera. When you use a bowgun, you need to aim constantly with the camera controls. When you swim underwater, you use the camera to change direction.

Camera control is one of the most important things of Monster Hunter.

Never bothered to use the bowgun, but i did forget that that was how underwater worked.

You should! Bowguns are awesome online (and incredibly useless offline).

Too little defense for my liking. I built my entire run of armor design around my weapon of choice (lance) and its ability to turtle, then picked up armor that could block everything except being bucked by Jhen or steamrolled by Uragaan, all of which stems from my abysmal dodging skills

How would one do that with a dual analog controller hrm? Magically sprout a second thumb on your right hand?

"how one would control the camera and use the buttons for actions simultaneously."

One thumb on the camera analog, one thumb on  the face buttons?

By that logic:

"how one would control the camera and use the buttons for actions simultaneously."

One thumb on the touch screen, one thumb on  the face buttons?

Except that is a completely unergonomic and downright horrible system for Monster hunters and 99% (probably 100%) other types of games.

Plus, It would also require the user to be left handed to even make considerable sense for games specifically designed for that style. (action and trigger buttons are situated on right side of 3ds, right handed people hold stylist with right hand... the issue is obvious)

Traditional controllers such as the duelshock and 360 controller are refined gaming devices for playing in 3D environments. The NGP echos their deign perfectly if initial handling reports from the gaming industry are to be believed. Hell, one of the biggest complaints about the PSP was poor/difficult control in 3d games. From my understanding (I have not personally handled the NGP) this has been aptly remedied.

The 3DS on the other hand will have some mighty difficulties to overcome with its monster hunter game. Overcoming them is not impossible though. It will require innovation and not a copy/pasta of the PSP's version. But to play off  3ds control ease as comparable to what the NGP has with little discrepancy is garbage. 

tl:dr- read it Maxwell, don't be lazy this time

I love these discussions ^^ when it's not "RAWR my console is better than urs my exclusave is are teh greetist!" or people perpetuating hype for a game that's just plain meh, no two people discussing a game they've both clearly played and discussing aspects of said game, good job.

But you left out one part, switch axes for life bitches! That is all.

Come here soulmate

Also, what about Longswords? They're pretty awesome as well, but not for the quicker monsters. Underwater it's useful, and for the slower leviathons...

And Lances have their uses...never got into bowguns, no matter how hard I tried...