Why is Monster Hunter games rated so low in U.S. yet hits in Japan?

[ryne candy]

it's sort of an rpg/adventure game I guess. if i recall there isnt much character development, just equipment upgrading.

You'll get task like bring me 5 cooked meat. So you have to go out hunt down a dinosaur, cut him up into meat, and then you have to do a little "minigame" i guess to cook the meat, tho its really just a timing issue. Theres also like mining of minerals and searching grass piles.

Some monsters are tougher and you'll have to set up traps to try and take them down, or use different tactics for special monsters.

It was an interesting game that I played for a bit but at times it can be either just a bit too repetitive, or sometimes just overwhelming.

I was thinking that it could become repetitive. If I end up liking this game alot, I can see myself getting the new one in June.

[PP]

Weren't these games on PS1/PS2? I recall a game like this where you could put in a random CD and it would give u a new monster or something.

[PP]

That would be the Monster Rancher series, not monster hunter. Monster hunter is you running around killing stuff. Monster rancher is you creating monsters and fighting them against things and building them up, kinda like a precursor(i think) to pokemon type games

I did love me some Monster Rancher though, id go through all my cds and roommates cds trying to see what i could make. I actually was tempted to put in monster rancher 3 into my ps2 the other day just because i was looking for some old skool fun

Yeah thats the one. Japs loved that game too.