For MH Tri my screen name is Sakuya. I’ll be on tonight Eastern time, before and after Supernatural. Not sure what days I’ll play this game on average with SSF4 coming out soon, I’ll figure it out next week. Anyway, me experience so far copy and pasted from the Wii thread IE laziness - 
I was only able to put in 3 hours on Wednesday and I was barely home last night. Most def will put in some hours tonight if sleep doesn’t get the better of me heh.
I’ve only played the first MH game on the PSP so that’s why I got the bundle, since I didn’t have a classic controller and I wanted similar controls. The classic joystick is black and the best way to explain it is imagine if a Gamecube controller and a PS2 controller got married and had a baby, that’s kind of what it is like. Anyway the controls felt exactly the same as playing on the PSP so I was right at home.
So I created a female character in the beginning and tried to make her look as close as Chun-Li as possible since I am shooting to get that Chun-Li armor in the game. While I was creating the character I noticed that you can put a scar on their left cheek if you want to and it looks EXACTLY like the scar Cammy has! You can’t make Cammy’s hair in the game though, you can get sort of close with Chun-Li’s hair at best.
Another SF thing that was pretty strange was near the town you start out in there’s an old man who has a little pig. I don’t know why but you have the option to name the pig and “Rose” is one of the choices. And you can dress up the pig and one of the choices looks like Cody’s SFA3 jail outfit! I have no idea what the purpose of this is because that pig doesn’t follow me on my quest or anything but I thought this was pretty funny.
As for the first quest, it’s different than the first PSP game to say the least. The PSP game had little quests for every ittle thing in the game at first - one for cooking meat, another for gathering, etc. - before you started playing the real thing. This one in the first quest, tells you about cooking meat and gathering even though they are not essential to the first quest. So if you are new to the series you can process information a lot faster. If you are not new then these tutorials don’t really matter if you already know how to gather and cook meat (unless you are using the Wii-mote) I guess. So I’m not sure if this is better or worse if you are new to the franchise. I guess it depends on how you process information. And it is still early for me so I have no idea if further quests will flesh out more details on little things like that, but chances are they will.
Oh and if you know how to play MH already, if you want you can probably give the Story Mode the finger and after the initial set up jump right into Arena mode to start fighting monsters. There’s 3 missions available at the start. I’m assuming more will unlock the more you play.
And there’s the ONLINE! IT’S HUGE! Even though most of the cities seem to look the same more or less there are lots of them and lots of places where people can meet up to arrange games. You can even buy weapons there which is another way to give the Story Mode the finger if you already know how to play LOL! So when I played it was pretty late. There were like 20 people playing in Pro but I don’t think I’m ready for that just yet. So I went to one town in the Rookie section and some guy with a Japanese name ran away from me and another character disappeeared. Guess I gotta try this later!
I was really surprised at how massive the online was environment was. In the PSP game, it’s just a small tent where you meet people and that’s it. Not freaking cities! You can walk up to people and chat with them. Joint is almost like a massive MMORPG. Someone is going to lose their job playing this game I’m calling it!
A lot of fun so far. I hope I can have an online quest today even if I get seriously owned by a monster. I want to try it out and stuff.
