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This is quite an interesting topic! So here's my experience:

It started all down in 2013, when Monster Hunter was finally getting advertised and Capcom was at least making a minimal effort at selling the game. It managed to catch my eye but I wasn't fully convinced, because I had heard the 3DS version of the game had no online co-op. The game sounded really interesting, given the similarities between Monster Hunter and Kid Icarus Uprising, the last game I had bought for the system. But I decided I wasn't really gonna bother with it until a friend of mine approached me during lunch break in school and told me that he wanted to buy the game. I was pleasantly surprised, as I finally found a hunting comrade and had no more excuses to not purchase the game. What followed was magical. Moster Hunter 3 Ultimate was love at first sight, I loved the different weapon classes and how they were balanced in a way no option was clearly better than the other, I loved how surprisingly satisfying forging equipment from my fallen foes was, and I was hooked. The whole summer 2013 season will always be remembered as my golden hunting age, the days of going out to my friends' house and playing the crap out of 3 Ultimate.

But then, when summer had ended and we all headed to different schools, everything kinda changed for the worse. I had just reached the start of G-rank when my friend lost interest in the game. So there was only one way, doing it solo. It was a hard task, but I eventually managed to get to the endgame. Meanwhile, I had just started my new school. And in there I found a new possible hunting buddy. After weeks of telling him about this incredible game, in which I had sunk well over 600 hours at the time, he decided to buy it for Christmas. And from there on, he was hooked too, just like I had been when I first popped in the cartridge. After having conquered 3U, teaching another person how to hold their own in the Monster Hunter world felt like a mission to me, and after almost a full year of waiting, in the second half of 2014, we finally managed to beat the ultimate test: the G-rank Alatreon.

And then 4U got announced for the west. My excitement levels skyrocketed and when I downloaded the demo, something I had never expect happened: my old hunting buddy, who I didn't see for well over a year, called me and asked me if I wanted to play the demo with him, and that he had managed to get another friend into the game too. So now we were a party of 4. And we spent all the goddamn weekends hunting stuff online, as we're still doing.

So, you can probably tell Monster Hunter means a lot to me, and I couldn't possibly choose a favorite game in the series(even if the only 2 I played are 3U and 4U), because in the end, we know they're all awesome ;)