The series of the gods. Whoever the person is who came up with the series is a genius. Basically it's quite simple, all you do is go do a bunch of quests to hunt different kinds of monsters, slay them, take their remains, and then make them into armor and weapons. Basically it was the same thing over and over until you faced more powerful monsters, simple and easy to understand............................. EXCEPT THE MONSTERS MAKE YOUR STATS LOOK LIKE PUNY ANTS.

In fact early on in the series MH was far to difficult for some to get ready and started with it, but later games such as Monster Hunter Freedom 2 fixed all this by making the experience much more satisfying. In the original Monster Hunter for PS2, basically everything seen in the modern games was absent. The highest sharpness was Green as opposed to Unite and Tri's purple sharpness, the storage boxes were small sized, and pacing was incredibly slow.

As mentioned above Freedom 2 fixed all the mistakes of the original, G, and the original Freedom (Basically a port of G for the PSP). Freedom 2 also introduced the powerful "pseudowyverns" which have upgraded movesets from Bird Wyverns and regular Wyverns. Tigrex was the first to demonstrate this, as it could bite twice in a row and even do a 180 degrees spin in it's charge to come running on back to you. Pretty freaky when the latter happens. o-o;;;

Frontier is notable for adding some brand new kinds of monsters for each category, such as 2 giant wolf pelagus as opposed to most of that kind being apes and even the first carapaceon not to be some kind of crab in the form of a crystal scorpian called Akura Vashimu. Frontier currently lacks all of the monsters introduced in Unite and Tri so far.

And then there was Tri... Tri was originally planned to be a PS3 game early in developement but budget reasons caused it to be moved to another console. They completely ignored the 360 and went right to the Wii for developing Tri (They DID port Frontier to the 360 about a few months ago though, but it was not enhanced for the 360's hardware and thus Tri is still the most graphically rich game in the series). Tri also has it's exclusive underwater areas which allowed the new monsters known as Leviathans to be fought in the game. While Tri lacks some of the weapons used in Unite, Tri offers a greater experience with highly detailed graphics for the Wii's hardware plus realistic animations and AI (The alpha raptors would normally team up with the other boss monster in the area in past games, in Tri they attack the other boss monster instead, as seen with Great Jagii).

Like MH and MH2, Tri features an online mode and probably the most infamous one yet. The reason is due to EVERY hunter rank 31+ quest featuring an extremely powerful brute wyvern known as Deviljho who you don't get the quest for until hunter rank 51+, basically after the final boss Alatreon is beaten.

And as I mentioned above the monsters are TOUGH. In fact they're so tough they give other hack and slash RPGs a run for their money to the point those who turn down Monster Hunter are complete and total wimps because they mostly stick to turn based RPGs are those with more simplified real time combat. If you can't handle MH, you have shame to own a 360 and PS3 and you'd see that because of Tri the Wii has the single greatest hardcore game in the world on any home console (It'll be rivaled only by Frontier depending on weither the PC version if released in the US or if the 360 version is or if any version is released stateside period).

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It does sound like an interesting series. I've only ever seen one of the games in action perhaps once though, and that was probably on a YouTube link here. I probably wouldn't be buying any of them anytime soon, as I don't do a whole lot of gaming anymore, but I might consider renting one sometime.

Ooh yeah i got that first game for the PS2. The character you are using look so small next to those monsters

O-o You have the original? Have you been online anytime before the servers were shut down?

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Sadly no as my PS2 is way too far away from the computer

Wow..... That must suck...... But since I heard you say you have a PSP you could probably get Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. It's alot more easier and satisfying to play than the original.

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