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USA Pre-Order Chart. The most pre-ordered games in the USA ranked by unit sales: 1 Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (3DS) 2 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D (3DS) 3 The Order 1866 (PS4) 4 Halo 5: Guardians (XOne) 5 Batman: Arkham Knight (PS4)

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GB: The opportunity to slay enormous monsters alongside your friends in stunning 3D isnt a hard sell, especially when it comes with a multitude of customizable weapons supporting a variety of playstyles and strategies. And if it comes with a giant world to explore and get to know and characters who have a metric crap-ton of quests for you, its hard not to ask where to sign up. Monster Hunter 4: Ultimate, which is out Friday for the Nintendo 3DS, is that game. But its also one that will fight you harder than any beast and go out of its way to make everything as difficult as possible. And not in that Dark Souls way thats usually pretty satisfying because youve overcome a challenge. No, this is often more like an annoying kid who runs up while youre playing and starts pressing buttons at random and then laughs when you die.

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EGM: For years and years, Ive been searching for a replacement for Phantasy Star Online. Back before I really knew what MMORPGs were, back before every console had scads of virtual worlds with interconnected online communities, Segas offshoot of their beloved role-playing franchise sucked me into hundreds and hundreds of hours of advancing my personal avatar, teaming up with a bunch of strangers, and venturing off into missions and areas wed already conquered countless times before. There was just something remarkable about how everything came together in PSO, and those ideas would go on to become big business for a wide variety of companies in Japan. At the top of the list of that new generation of upstarts sat Capcoms Monster Hunter, a fantasy RPG where players met up online to try and conquer a host of hulking beasts. In its home country, Monster Hunter has become nothing less than a cultural phenomenon, growing into a juggernaut of a series equal in size and scope to the...

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GN: Monster Hunter is a series I have been interested in for quite a long time, but have never played, other than just a few minutes of Monster Hunter 3. It's a game that sounds nothing less than epic. Centered around hunting large, intimidating monsters, Monster Hunter 4 takes you through many vastly different areas to fight many vastly different monsters, so that you can gather their bones, hide, teeth, and the like, and use them to make new weapons and armor. It's a fairly basic premise, but a good platform for lots of intense fights with assorted behemoths and leviathans. A lot of the game is great and works well, but unfortunately it is massively hindered by the fact that it's damn near unplayable on the 3DS.

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Director writes: Hey everyone, Andrew Alfonso, Localization Director on Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, here again. Were only three days away from the release of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, so make sure your Nintendo 3DS systems are charged and ready to go! Lets talk about even more changes made to the Western version of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate that we hope will make the playing experience better for everyone, especially for new players. The first issue we dealt with was finding a new font to use for the game. Based on feedback from the Monster Hunter community, we made finding a new font a top priority. It took about a month to get everything finalized; the entire process involved not only myself, but the rest of the localization team (including the European translators), and our contacts at Capcom USA and Capcom Europe.

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Digging its claws in

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Gameplay footage from Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

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Explosion:" Gust, the team behind the Japanese role playing game series Atelier, has revealed a limited edition CD box set to celebrate the teams 20th anniversary."

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Rejoice, for Capcom has seen fit to release a new Monster Hunter game in the West. It doesn't always bother, see--that's why we've skipped straight to Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate without stopping to try Monster Hunter 4 first. You can hardly blame Capcom, though. Over here, the series has never enjoyed the same popularity as it has closer to home, and even among its fans it has a reputation for being difficult to get into, thanks to its frankly ludicrous array of deep combat and resource management systems.

Sure enough, Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate isn't without its challenges, but there's a fantastically compelling game at the heart of it all, if you can see past its steep learning curve. For those who don't know, the Monster Hunter games are action-RPGs, where you do battle against dozens of giant monsters, take their body parts, and use them to fashion new weapons and armour with which to do battle against more giant monsters--except it is much more complicated than it sounds, which is why it’s such a brilliant series is so brilliant, and also why so many people struggle with it.

That said, it's likely you'll spend most of your time playing online, this time without first having to link your 3DS to a Wii U. As great as the single-player experience is, taking your skills and knowledge and using them when you’re part of a team is something else entirely. Progression through the multiplayer missions runs entirely separately from the single-player campaign, despite following a similar tier system where later missions are closed off until a certain number of earlier ones are cleared, and you use the same character throughout. However, the difficulty of multiplayer missions scales considerably to take extra players into account. Just because you've taken down a Great Jaggi in single-player without breaking a sweat doesn't mean you can slack off when hunting one as a team.

Previous entries in the series also did this, but scaled the difficulty up for a full team of four at all times, making it incredibly difficult to hunt with just one or two friends. MH4 Ultimate, on the other hand, seems to scale depending on the number of players in the group. I've spent a good few evenings hunting with just one other player, and the difficulty level was spot-on. Finding your friends is also a breeze, because the game seamlessly hooks into your 3DS friends list and allows you to instantly join any of your contacts who are currently playing online. The drama of a good hunt is definitely best shared with friends, and hearing everyone roar in unison upon taking down a particularly ferocious beast is one of the finest experiences videogames have to offer. Unfortunately, to hear those roars you have to use a third-party service like Skype, due to the curious omission of voice chat.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate manages to expand upon the things that people love about the series, while simultaneously making concessions to those getting involved for the first time. It's an absolutely astonishing time-sink, but it rarely feels like a grind; when the game gets its hooks into you, you can expect to find yourself engrossed for at least 80 hours. Those who become truly invested can expect to find their in-game clock running into the hundreds of hours. Sure, Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate isn't without some of the series' time-honoured idiosyncrasies, but it's the most streamlined and accessible game yet, and one that's hard not to truly obsess over.