User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-1758220-20150210072949

Does anyone else remember the dark days of 2011 and 2012? When Portable 3rd continuously slipped further and further from our grasp until it disappeared forever? When the community became so atrophied and abandoned that any remotely regular user was made into an admin just to make sure things got one? When it got so quiet and dead around here that people began to question if we would ever get another western Monster Hunter game again? Through that whole time, the only thing we heard out of Capcom USA was that "the future is bright" for MH in the west, over and over again. Every time they said that, we all groaned in frustration and cursed the name "Capcom" for keeping our favourite game from us for so long with no real answers.

Fast forward to today, and we've got our second localized game in two years, a western limited edition console bundle, a bunch of localized official merchandise and even a midnight launch. Those are the kinds of things usually reserved for the big AAA heavy-hitters in the gaming world, not our little niche localized game about hitting dragons with hammers. When Yuri kept telling us that the future was bright for Monster Hunter in the west, I don't think I could have anticipated it would be this bright. It's one thing for the community to have come surging back upon the release of MH3U, but now with MH4U garnering more public attention to the series than ever before, I say the sky's the limit.

I think I speak for everyone when I say that I'm excited so see where this boost in western attention to MH will take us, and that I'm relived that we likely won't ever again have to go through a horrible slump like the one we experienced a few years ago.

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