Head up for anyone that bothers to read, this is more for Monster Hunter fans as pretty much people not into that won't understand whack at some parts
I've been pretty bored lately, nothing important to do at all really, it's starting to get annoyingly hot outside so I stay indoors, life's been shitty as usual, so all I've been doing (besides personal stuff) is watching anime and playing video games. Sure it was fun at first, but after you have watched every anime you wanted, then rewatched everything again and also played every game you felt like, it gets so boring it's tiring! Not enough money to waste of things like going out often and stuff, so those two things basically are the only hobbies I can do at this time...
Anyway, lately, I've been playing almost exclusively Pokemon Omega Ruby (just to chat with people) and Monster Hunter. For Monster Hunter, I've actually quit XX because it was a literal joke of a game (WAY too easy with the HA and styles, plus a terrible roster of monsters), same for Generations (only that this is worse than XX AND I have it as a cartridge, so I'm too bored and lazy to bother switching between Pokemon OR and Gen. That leaves mostly 4U, which is averagely good, still plenty easy, but at least it's more fun than Gen or XX. Thing is, there is only so much you can do after you have 100%ed the game and helped over 100 people go from HR1 all the way to Gold G3 Special Permit in the span of 4 months... Lately I had just been dropping by different halls helping out newbies and testing out drunken armor sets I made (may make a blog with different drunken sets to give you an idea of what I mean, but, for now, imagine something like Bow KO build). However, that got old pretty quick as the research alone to make the sets took a while, even with armor builders (because it was too crazy sets), so I ended up quitting that too...
Then I thought to myself, what if I went even further back and played MH3U again as I haven't touched it in almost a year? Sure I have an insanely high playtime on a single save alone, but it's at least more challenging... or so I thought... I even decided to spruce things up a bit and start using a different weapon (literally played only GS in 3U with extremely rare times when I used lance if I needed a certain part break that was hard to get with GS), so I go with Bow. I crafted a couple armors I liked the looks and skills of, then when it came to the Bows themselves, I liked a LOT of them and ended up making almost half the Bows in the game!
Moving on after going way too overboard with the crafting, I go and finish all sets, then it's time to try them out...
I literally didn't remember how Bows worked in 3U, reason I went with that instead of a different weapon, so I start casually with stuff like low rank Lagiacrus, then moved on to high rank Azure Rathalos, then G rank pickle, lame (aka Green) Nargacuga, even Black Diablos... I realized that 3U doesn't have 4U's power shots and only has arc shots instead, something I'm not used to at all, as in 4U I've been using power shots 99% of the time, so that was a nice change of pace! However, I also remembered why the third generation of MH is considered the best one for gunners (ranged weapons), they are broken AF! Sure, power shots can do a mountain of damage, but after just 3-4 arc shots (that do considerably less damage) the monsters wouldn't even bother moving from the exhaust side effect arc shots have, making them all a literal joke! Besides a single case where Black Diablos in G rank started spamming her dash all across the desert, they would all just sit there letting me shoot them to death, making the hunts way too easy...
So I end up deciding to hunt stuff that either don't get exhausted or to not use arc shots at all during the quests, but thing is, I got used to 3U's Bow mechanics by that time and the intervals between it's moves that it was still a joke to hunt anything other than Dire Miralis, even without any armor on at all! Here's the moral, you know what's worse than being bored and only having games and anime to resort to? Being bored and resorting to games but being far too good at them to enjoy them enough to not be bored!
Anyway, that's it for my miserably failed effort of the day at making myself less bored... Only thing I got out of it was that nice music from 3U, so I guess while still bored, it's better than nothing, Ceadeus's theme is just too good!
EDIT: And a little update, I FINALLY carted for once... had to do Silver Rathalos in G rank without armor on, no items besides Well-Done Steaks, no dodging allows (except for backhops because come on) and high rank Bow... Like seriously, I wish I was worse at this game, I'll have to try Gold and Silver at the same time for some challenge I guess with same setup and I hate those two! I would just try Dire Miralis but it's next to impossible to gun him solo, let alone with Bow;-;
I've been pretty bored lately, nothing important to do at all really, it's starting to get annoyingly hot outside so I stay indoors, life's been shitty as usual, so all I've been doing (besides personal stuff) is watching anime and playing video games. Sure it was fun at first, but after you have watched every anime you wanted, then rewatched everything again and also played every game you felt like, it gets so boring it's tiring! Not enough money to waste of things like going out often and stuff, so those two things basically are the only hobbies I can do at this time...
Anyway, lately, I've been playing almost exclusively Pokemon Omega Ruby (just to chat with people) and Monster Hunter. For Monster Hunter, I've actually quit XX because it was a literal joke of a game (WAY too easy with the HA and styles, plus a terrible roster of monsters), same for Generations (only that this is worse than XX AND I have it as a cartridge, so I'm too bored and lazy to bother switching between Pokemon OR and Gen. That leaves mostly 4U, which is averagely good, still plenty easy, but at least it's more fun than Gen or XX. Thing is, there is only so much you can do after you have 100%ed the game and helped over 100 people go from HR1 all the way to Gold G3 Special Permit in the span of 4 months... Lately I had just been dropping by different halls helping out newbies and testing out drunken armor sets I made (may make a blog with different drunken sets to give you an idea of what I mean, but, for now, imagine something like Bow KO build). However, that got old pretty quick as the research alone to make the sets took a while, even with armor builders (because it was too crazy sets), so I ended up quitting that too...
Then I thought to myself, what if I went even further back and played MH3U again as I haven't touched it in almost a year? Sure I have an insanely high playtime on a single save alone, but it's at least more challenging... or so I thought... I even decided to spruce things up a bit and start using a different weapon (literally played only GS in 3U with extremely rare times when I used lance if I needed a certain part break that was hard to get with GS), so I go with Bow. I crafted a couple armors I liked the looks and skills of, then when it came to the Bows themselves, I liked a LOT of them and ended up making almost half the Bows in the game!
Moving on after going way too overboard with the crafting, I go and finish all sets, then it's time to try them out...I literally didn't remember how Bows worked in 3U, reason I went with that instead of a different weapon, so I start casually with stuff like low rank Lagiacrus, then moved on to high rank Azure Rathalos, then G rank pickle, lame (aka Green) Nargacuga, even Black Diablos... I realized that 3U doesn't have 4U's power shots and only has arc shots instead, something I'm not used to at all, as in 4U I've been using power shots 99% of the time, so that was a nice change of pace! However, I also remembered why the third generation of MH is considered the best one for gunners (ranged weapons), they are broken AF! Sure, power shots can do a mountain of damage, but after just 3-4 arc shots (that do considerably less damage) the monsters wouldn't even bother moving from the exhaust side effect arc shots have, making them all a literal joke! Besides a single case where Black Diablos in G rank started spamming her dash all across the desert, they would all just sit there letting me shoot them to death, making the hunts way too easy...
So I end up deciding to hunt stuff that either don't get exhausted or to not use arc shots at all during the quests, but thing is, I got used to 3U's Bow mechanics by that time and the intervals between it's moves that it was still a joke to hunt anything other than Dire Miralis, even without any armor on at all!
Here's the moral, you know what's worse than being bored and only having games and anime to resort to? Being bored and resorting to games but being far too good at them to enjoy them enough to not be bored!Anyway, that's it for my miserably failed effort of the day at making myself less bored... Only thing I got out of it was that nice music from 3U, so I guess while still bored, it's better than nothing, Ceadeus's theme is just too good!
EDIT: And a little update, I FINALLY carted for once... had to do Silver Rathalos in G rank without armor on, no items besides Well-Done Steaks, no dodging allows (except for backhops because come on) and high rank Bow... Like seriously, I wish I was worse at this game, I'll have to try Gold and Silver at the same time for some challenge I guess with same setup and I hate those two! I would just try Dire Miralis but it's next to impossible to gun him solo, let alone with Bow;-;
