As requested by gundamalpha, I'll post the procedures to go online of MHG according to my experience. I can't do much at the moment since I'm at work but I'll try my best to put it in words. I do not guarantee that it will be the same for MH3 but this is to give you a taste of what you will encounter on MH3's release.
First of all, like all other home console MH games, MH3 will have 2 options on where to go when you load your character which are Village and Town. Choosing Town will take you to online mode. After that, you'll see a series of loading screens (make sure your wii is connected to your wireless router or your lan cable is plugged into your wii).
When you're connected, you'll be presented with a ToS agreement which of course you'll have to choose yes to proceed (note that playing the game from outside japan is against ToS so you know what to do).
After you've agreed to follow their ToS, you can now create your online account, it's very straight forward and it doesn't ask for email confirmations whatsoever but you do need to put in a username and password. Note that you can only create 3 accounts per console and if you're banned 3 times, you're screwed. I'm not sure if deleting your entire MH data will reset it as I've never done that myself but you're welcome to do it at your own risk. If this is your first time registering for an online account, you will be given 20 days free so you'd better put online registration on hold if you want to complete offline first. Don't worry about securing online names first because identical names are allowed because MH uses PLAYER ID to distinguish between different players. Once all that is done, you'll be issued a game ID and you can enter your username and password to access the online world. You may choose to save the password so that next time you can just select which PLAYER ID you want to go online with and it won't prompt you to type in your password.
If your 20 days has expired and you want to purchase tickets to continue playing online, you must first buy points from Wii Shopping channel. When you have the points, access online mode up till the part where you have to select which PLAYER ID you want to play, there will be an option to purchase tickets. Select it and you will be prompted to choose which package you want (30, 60, 90 days). Choose one and capcom will deduct the shown amount of wii points from your account and you're good to go.
That is all for now. Enjoy your wall of text.
This post has been edited by TenSou: Jul 29 2009, 01:06 PM
I'm not going online until tomorrow. Today will be very crowded because its the first day and its a saturday. Sundays usually have less people, yes its true. If it was anything like MH1jp 5 years ago, it'll be so full you can't even log in.
So how's online TenSou? How similar is the ranking system to PSP?
How does the events go? Fixed like PSP or random like PS2?
As expected from MH3 screens from famitsu that I have seen prior to release, they have adopted Frontier's style of online. This may confuse the new players who have never played Frontier before.
Hunter Rank is the same as all home console MH games meaning, you gain HR like levels and completing quests gives you HR Points or "experience points" to HR up.
I don't really understand what you mean by random like PS2 since all event quests are pretty much fixed as the schedule for the entire month is posted on MH3's official website but once you miss the time duration of the quests, you have to wait for the event quest to come back another day.
What I really hate about online mode is the chat system. The chat window is extremely small (4 lines) and to make the chat window appear you have to press "-" twice! Try chatting while hunting, which was possible in previous games until this one. I can't believe they took something that was perfect since the first game and screw it up entirely in MH3. They could have at least used the other 2 shoulder buttons on the classic controller to make the chat window appear but no, both ZL and ZR are completely useless. If this paragraph makes me sound frustrated, I AM!! Chatting has never been such a pain in the ass until MH3.
Offline experience: The game is pretty refreshing so far because of the monsters' roster. But it feels underwhelmed to some extend to be honest. The roster is too small, too little maps variety, and no matter what others say, taking out 4 weapon types is always a downer. If I were to put content volume in figures, MHP2 would be 100, MHP2G is 130, and MH3 only have 70 at most.
I love it, but doesn't mean it couldn't be better. If you have a Wii then you should give it a try, but not to the extend you'd want to get a Wii just for this unless you are a MH freak.
If you started from MHP2, of course you'll think the map varieties are less because MHP2G only recycled MH1's maps to increase the number. Home console MH games never lets you access all monsters, equips and maps in offline modes. If you want more, you'll have to go online because if they give you everything offline, a lot of people won't be going online and capcom won't be raking in the profit for online fees. MH3 is restarting the entire franchise by introducing an almost all new cast of monsters and weapons so there will be less stuff compared to the previous "expansions" (all MH2 games are considered expansions of the first MH). In my opinion, other than the horrible water controls and online system, this game definitely lives up to the MH franchise.
Made my gunner armor finally after hunting over 40 Evil Jaws for 2 jewels. I'll be aiming for event weapons this month such as Inuyasha's Tetsusaiga and Pirate J series.
How much HR to join Joe's quests? And any idea where to get G Rank Moran?
Evil Jaw is HR51 and above. There are no G rank quests in MH3, just normal and hard aka lower or upper level quests. The only way to fight an upper level Jien Mouran is the weekend event but it's over for now.
Jul 29 2009, 01:04 PM
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