Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28740290-20160614213730/@comment-7584137-20160615081707

I am actually not a guy who got into MH by himself. My best friend convinced me to give it a try, and sure enough, I went to his house so he could show it to me. The very first MH I saw in action was Tri, and for me, simply seeing such a cool-looking game with some even cooler beasts was enough to do the trick for me!

Now, naturally, it may not be so simple to everyone. And allow me to be blunt, but MH isn´t a game for everyone. Even if you can convince your friends to try, it´s possible that the difficulty, item farming and other factors may make them ultimately give up. One of your friends is a Dark Souls player, you say? I admit I am no expert on that game, and that I never played it, so I can´t tell you if MH is even harder than it or not. But Dark Souls´s reputation speaks for itself, so I guess that anyone that plays it can´t be a stranger to difficult games. Try to sell the game to him based on that: it gives a genuine challenge, and that the Felynes are there to help you (NOT to make it too easy for you, they are simply companions). After I was sold on MH, I tried to convince a few other of my friends to give it a go as well with these simple arguments: it´s genuinely challenging, the monsters are amazing in terms of design, and the gameplay is quite addictive once you get the hang of it. In both cases, I managed to do it, and the sole reason one of them hasn´t got a MH game yet is because he still doesn´t own a 3DS.

Maybe I´m not the best guy to give you advice on this subject, because I got into MH pretty easily. But those simple arguments (alongside reminding them that this is a good game, but not one everyone can get into) usually made the trick when I tried to get more of my local gamers into it.