Oblique One: An Anecdote

October/2007 - I was on another forum and someone brought up a game called Monster Hunter 3, I decided to google it and found a few screen shots, I quickly put my resources together and hunted a copy down of a prequel. It was during this hunt I learned that the original Monster Hunter wasn’t well received by critics in Europe and America, both regions claimed the game was archaic to the times ruled by the likes of MMORPGS. It was hard finding a copy, but I was sad to learn that more recent versions were never localized to the US.

November/2007 – Giving up my search, I bumped into a trailer and wanted the game again, I got lucky around here and found a copy of the first one, only to find that the online play had been discontinued, I lobbied myself to enjoying the offline play till it became too difficult to continue. (The first wyvern fight.)

Oblique Two: Effervescent Mind

October/2007 – I looked back at what I could have been doing when this amazing game came out, why didn’t I know it existed how could I have missed something this amazing and it hit me, “Monster Rancher!”(I don’t like the series). I wondered about the reviews and thought; “did the western world miss out on something?” (Similar to how the eastern world missed out on FPS genre and now suffer motion sickness in turn when playing those games; which leads to lack of sales for FPS’s in Japan) Is this what lead to America & Europe’s lack of interest in this game or was it just a bad game?

Oblique Three: “Lost in translation”

March/2008 – I paid as close attention as possible to Monster Hunter 3, but little to no news has been released, at this point I wondered if the game would be released in the US at all. The interviews I did read were leading no where definitive on this matter, but I wondered, would America/Europe even want this game, was advertising too little too late; was the PS2 group more ‘core’ than the Wii group which would hurt the sales of this Monster Hunter?

Oblique Four: “ Indifference & Indecision or not?”

Now - Using forums and experience I think I can determine the status of sales before hand. On the Wii in particular when a topic is heavily discussed where as official threads are made and those threads contain tons of pages, the game has achieved the ‘core’ gamer populations attention, good or bad. But not a single thread has been made for this game that would demand it being stickied.

• Every gaming forum has at least 1 or has had an Official Brawl topic maybe two for after the game came out.
• No More Heroes didn’t even get one of these, neither did Zack n Wiki, PES, SSX Blur and a whole list of viable games, look at the sales on those.
• Everyone’s on the anti-third party trend this week and it seems that even games like Spyborg’s is getting looked at with some real doubt, with all of this FUD everyone seems to forget the great games coming. Were we spoiled by the 3 months of goodness? (Brawl, Mario Kart, Wiiware)

For the Record: Monster Hunter 3 will probably be released in the US as the Capcom reps that were talking about it are of COA which means they were marketing it for America: The issue is; would it sell in America, specially on the Wii platform.

I edited the heck out of this to make it shorter, also I’ll slap FFCC:CB within this context and pose the same group of questions.

Your arguement reminds me of a quote for some reason.

"In the special olympics it doesn't matter if your win the race or not; your still retarded."

What does that have to do with the correct use of that word?

BTW, I'm not even sure this is a paradigm, as much as simply recounting some point on the game you think are relevant. Then again, paradigm is often an abstract concept anyway. It's a joke that it's thrown around a lot in the business world.

As for the game, all I know is that the series was very helpful in getting the PSP its second wind.

Monster Hunter 3 will most likely be localized and come out in the states.

That said, it won't sell that much, as previous itenerations don't really sell here, so expect it to be moderately hard to find (Not readily available in a Best Buy for example, but GameStop would have some in).

You lost on the first Wyvern? Was it the Yian Kut-Ku?

Anyhoo, this game series is awesome, if not extremely challenging and rewarding, and you'd do yourself a favor to pick up Monster Hunter Freedom 2 if you have a PSP, or try to find Monster Hunter 2 for the PS2, but if you have a PSP, MHF2 is twenty bucks at GameStop for the month of June, when the MSRP is really forty bucks.

It's an awesome game, the sole reason I will own a Wii when it comes out.

@DJMeister

Yea the one in the forest, I couldn't afford the next armor, and just got tired of digging for that machalite ore.

@LordTheNightKnight

I try not to argue with people who have nothing inciteful to add to topics, unless I just want to see where the arguement goes, in this case it won't lead anywhere but a stupid forum arguement that we will both forget in a few months and use as a resource to make the other look stupid within that time. No thanks.

@DJMeister again:

It's an amazing game, though (the first one) for me; I mean you felt like you were in the jungle, but getting the right ores to survive certain fights was a pain, and investing in traps always seemed like a gamble.

Keep in mind I played it offline.

Capcom is supposed to be doing some massive marketing campaign for Monster Hunter 3 in the west to bring it more attention and actually make it a force this time around.

I've only played it offline too (damn you CAPCOM, for not having infrastructure in the States ;_;), but you should have still been able to take the Kut-Ku down.  

I assume you were doing a village quest.  

But if you held out, and mined for that ore, you would have taken him out.

@DJMeister

Dude, I tried man, but I got so annoyed, I mined the desert place with 3 dig spots in 1 location so many times, then Wyvern egg runs while digging became a chore, creeping through jungles and collecting honey, herbs, and mushrooms got annoying when those cat things would steal your crap, specially when they stole my map of the location.