Funny how MH fans treats the new players coming

Sorry, I’m on mobile and I don’t know how to quote. So you just said: “I would be a complete idiot to not ask for this before looking elsewhere ...” That’s precisely the opposite you should do, the opposite of what Reddit rules say and the opposite of what almost everyone here is saying.

It feels like you’re bitching around because you haven’t found someone who introduced you to the game series step by step, slowly introducing concepts one after one.

MH is a difficult game because there’s a lot of stuff to know and understand. DS is a difficult game because you have to build extremely fast reflexes to survive each fight. The difficulty lies in very different aspects of those games. So if you just go to MH wiki, kiranico, gamefaqs and sites alike, you can learn everything that makes MH games difficult (well, say 90% of that) in a few hours.

Having a strong community here, on Discord and in organized play sites is a plus, but it shouldn’t become an excuse to laziness. If you want someone to teach you the game, maybe helping you in-game to grasp basic concepts, the best thing you can do is politely ask someone if their willing to do while voice chatting on Discord. If you simply ask “what’s all the fuss with cats?” (for example), what you get is a thread where 98% of the comments are jokes about cats in the game. If you want a serious answer (well, sort of) you need to expand a little more than just posting an empty message where all you write is in the title.

Talking about the request for images with overlays of menus: I found the thread that was linked to you with those images in about 1 minute and a half just by searching this subreddit with the keywords “MHXX” and “translation”. If you get iffy every time someone points out that you should search a bit more before posting the same quqestions and then bitching because you get “rude” answers, I feel like the problem is you, not a rude community. BTW, as someone already said, the menus have been quite identical since forever. You say you played MHGen, so menu structure is identical. The only thing that changes are the two added hunting styles and added hunter arts, but you can easily find them listed on kiranico so that you can cross reference the kanji with what appears in game. Generations is just 1 year old, so if you still have access to it on the 3DS, you can just boot it up and scroll through the menus side by side with the Switch until you can easily remember where all the relevant stuff is. Then it just becomes muscle memory and visual memory recognizing the katakana/kanji.

Anyway, I still feel like if you spent the time into looking for the info you were looking for instead of writing how rude the community is to new players, I bet you’d have plenty to read and learn by now, but I’m sure I’m falling in the “rude” side of the community by just saying this.

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