Talk:Monster Hunter Tri

Release in the US
The wait is over my brothers, Monster Hunter 3 is upon us. Very soon (as in months) Monster Hunter 3 is coming out. So today I thought I'd take a stroll on down to the Gamestop in Durant OK. I thought to myself, "There's no hamr in just checking to see if the game will be coming soon." so I walkede over to the book that contains all the listings for games to become available to buy in the next year. Slowly, I flip the pages, turning toward the Wii games section. And there I saw it, in plain day. The words, "Monster Hunter 3....................3-30-10". I was so excited that I almost crapped myself right there. I'm a veteren of Monster Hunter Freedom and every game they've made up until now. I'm HR9 on Unite. Me and my bros in Oklahoma owned Unkanlos several times at the end of last summer. I've been waiting ever since Monster Hunter Freedom 2 came for this game to come out and now it's nearly, finally here. I'm positive I (or any of you) will be dissapointed in the least with this game. I have taken down a Fatalis (piece o' cake) but as for a White Fatalis......I have yet to accomplish. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.65.125.20 (talk) 04:16, 9 November 2009 (UTC)


 * This isn't a discussion forum, this is a discussion for the actual page... and the release date isn't from a reliable source, especially since Capcom have said they're pushing it back. 77.96.95.251 (talk) 03:32, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Game title
According to IGN, the English title of the game is just Monster Hunter 3. The tri~ should be dropped, as that is just for the Japanese logo. 150.101.144.161 13:37, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Actually, in the official Capcom press release, it's spelled tri- (dash) instead of tri~ (tilde). Richiekim 14:34, 14 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Already taken care of, and it's actually "(tri-)" with the brackets as well as the dash. Hero of legend 02:52, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

will it be for the psp —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.101.153.144 (talk) 20:26, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Does it matter if there are dashes or - just say monster hunter 3 and this pointless discussion.69.249.195.159 (talk) 01:01, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Official titles matter. And it’s a hyphen. —Frungi (talk) 04:34, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Friend Codes?
I've read somewhor (cannot remember source) that the online component of Monster Hunter 3 will not use Friend Codes (Hey, it's possible; Medal of Honor Heroes 2 doesn't use them). Can anyone confirm or deny this? --BPM (talk) 22:15, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

There is no mention of friend codes nessecary for online play for the Wii. Although there may be a monthly fee of Wii points to play.Check this site for more details.
 * It's been confirmed that online will be free in Western Regions: What about Europe? How can it be fair to make us have to pay when the US are getting online free? http://www.hardgame2.com/nwii/noticia-48275.html Also, I have a reliable source that states that there will be no friend codes: http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/impressionsArt.cfm?artid=20044 --LostOverThere (talk) 11:16, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

About release to NA
There is a line in this article: The game is set to be released in both Japan and North America, in early 2009.

Is there a quotation for this? There's no reason to give people in NA false hopes unless there is an official source for this note.Polantaris (talk) 02:30, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Capcom said if North America wants it to shout it and they would release, which is the reason for the petition for monster hunter 3 to be released in NA. So if you want it sign the petition just google it (Moster hunter 3 petition it will come up).69.249.195.159 (talk) 00:59, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

It's free in the U.S. because almost nobody in the U.S. plays the game so they hope this will draw more people in. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.129.175.59 (talk) 19:41, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

PSP Release?
IGN Says there will be one, notable enough to put on article? link 96.42.42.54 (talk) 01:06, 11 March 2009 (UTC)


 * No, because the link confirms that Monster Hunter Freedom 3 will be on the PSP; this article is for Monster Hunter 3 (the Freedom sub-series is exclusive to the PSP). Kraid (talk) 01:23, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

There is an expansion pack for monster hunter freedom 2, though, monster hunter freedom unite. Coming out 26 June 2009 in Europe.

actually there is leaks of a mhf3 for psp, but i dont know if its just specualtion because i cant translate japanese text on the image. however the site took it down 72.220.125.86 (talk) 02:45, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Wouldn't it be cool if..
-you had to travel through some dungeon/outside areas to get to other towns/dungeons/outside areas? Kiflaam (talk) 20:24, 6 May 2009 (UTC)


 * This is not the place. This is to discuss the page and what needs to be added/removed. Go to a game forum if you want to discuss things like "how cool it would be". 77.96.95.251 (talk) 03:36, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Not coming to America
A Capcom employee on the Capcom-Unity board confirmed that Monster Hunter 3 (Tri) will not be released in America. Furthermore, the source for the US release date even says that it was not confirmed for America by Capcom in any way. I have no clue why it was even listed. I am removing it.72.198.120.49 (talk) 23:32, 22 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Uh that's funny because according to Capcom-Unity, a North American release is absolutely being planned, but the developer is withholding the news until they establish the IP (Link 1, Link 2). Digitelle (talk) 20:31, 7 July 2009 (UTC)


 * No, that is not a valid source. That is just a random poster. Although that person has mod status, that does not mean that they work at Capcom. Various other people have that too.72.198.120.49 (talk) 20:41, 1 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Then there you go, Capcom-Unity isn't a proper source. Forums go against Wikipedia's citation policies anyways. Digitelle (talk) 21:27, 1 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Then why did you bring it up? People like Sven and S-Kill do work at Capcom and are moderators. Some that work there are not moderators. Either way, I don't need a source saying that it is not coming to America when the one that said it was coming to America was not valid.72.198.120.49 (talk) 11:00, 2 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I brought it up because you mentioned Capcom-Unity first. It doesn't really matter, it's not as if the article makes any unsourced claims to expect a worldwide release. I just find it odd that both Capcom's Japanese and North American markets would mention the game if it was intended to be exclusive to Japan. We'll see in the coming months if Capcom goes through with localizing it. Digitelle (talk) 19:41, 2 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Press Release of Western localization announcement 165.20.108.30 (talk) 15:40, 3 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the info! I also decided to rewrite the article, because of readability issues. Digitelle (talk) 19:36, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

okay any point to keeping this section? we know its not true. plus its just some guy trying to troll on wikipedia? idk he defeats his own point on credibility. haha lamest argument ever " don't need a source saying that it is not coming to America when the one that said it was coming to America was not valid"72.220.125.86 (talk) 02:46, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Wii Speak Compatibility?
If this game supports online multiplayer, are they going to allow Wii Speak to be used? Or would you have to somehow type to each other? It doesn't mention anything about it so I'm guessing it doesn't have that function? 77.96.95.251 (talk) 02:15, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Wii Speak will be supported in Western releases of the game. Online will be free and no friend codes will be used. Sources: http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/impressionsArt.cfm?artid=20044 --LostOverThere (talk) 11:16, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

MH3 Delayed
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6244574.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;2

truly depressing everyone, apparently its been delayed until there is less competition in the market internationally. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.220.125.86 (talk) 04:43, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Sections missing
Or does it have no plot or gameplay? Ingolfson (talk) 06:08, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, the article is missing some major sections. Feel free to add them. --LostOverThere (talk) 10:14, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
 * This is the English Wikipedia. The game's only been available in English for a few hours. Give people some time to decipher the plot and gameplay. Digitelle (talk) 15:39, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I will begin the Gameplay, however I do not have access to any sites from work that I can make reference to and it is all directly from the game. Please don't crucify me for mistakes in grammer and stuff like that just fix them.  I'll provide the base block for other people to build off of.


 * Also I'm not gonna post it because I don't feel it's relevant but the basic plot for anyone who does wanna look it up and post it is (in single player) a small fishing town is ravaged by an earthquake which is later detailed to be a giant monster. --  Grimbear13  ►Talk  15:17, 22 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Agreed, the single player campaign's storyline is so easily explained that it doesn't really need its own section of the article. A few sentences saying how Lagiacrus is causing trouble for Moga Village and your hunter arrives to stop it can go in the lead of the article, but if the plot is given its own section, it'll just be a stub with little area for expansion. Digitelle (talk) 22:43, 22 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Not to be a spoiler, but it's not the Lagiacrus who's causing the damages. But please build off what I've started on the gameplay section.  If I find other differences as I play through the online I'll add them.  I'd like to see this get raised on the Quality Scale since it is such a great game it deserves a great article. --   Grimbear13  ►Talk  13:13, 23 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Ah, I haven't had as much time as I'd like to play through the game, but I picked it up on launch date and am slowly progressing through it. The article's pretty good so far. When I had the Internet I was on top of it, trying to keep it as fine-tuned as possible, but doing so is a little difficult for me at the moment. Digitelle (talk) 15:47, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Release Date
The first paragraph says:

"Monster Hunter Tri was released on April 20, 2010 in North America, Europe, and Australia."

While the info box says:

"JP August 1, 2009 NA April 20, 2010[1] EU April 23, 2010[2] AUS April 29, 2010[3]"

Which is correct? 86.170.153.122 (talk) 19:20, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

The Infobox. Digitelle (talk) 02:13, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Boat Level 4
Its rare, but it can happen at random when your boat is level 3 so it may be possible to upgrade it again. Also, boats can be sent out to hunt monsters as opposed to just fish and treasure, not sure how though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.129.175.59 (talk) 18:01, 4 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Both of those are random chances. The same as when they report that they predict a large haul from location X, they will announce that they have made temporary upgrades to the ships and "Are feeling good, maybe even good enough to take on a monster."  From the vast amount of hours I've put into the game I have yet to see a permanent way to upgrade to allow these.  If either I come across it in the game or find documentation that it can be done then I will post it on the page. --   Grimbear13  ►Talk  19:19, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Gameplay Section in need of help
A brief look-over of the Gameplay section for this game reveals some glaring flaws. It appears that it's just a collection of fragments left over from edit after edit as the page was undergoing updates. It has horrible flow while reading, inconsistant capitolization, reduntant information, etc.. I think the whole section, and possibly more, might need a whole facelift. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wrel (talk • contribs) 20:30, 4 May 2010 (UTC)


 * As I stated before I wrote it I would add my knowledge of the gameplay to it, but I knew that it would need grammatical work. I have the knowledge of the game and have put it out there, my grammatical skills are below par therefore I need someone else to go through and weed out the errors. --   Grimbear13  ►Talk  16:51, 6 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Hey, no problem there. I can't knock you for something that you admit, and I would be willing to make the changes myself, but I am new to the game and can't in all good conscious make the changes when I'm not 100% sure of what I was writing. In all honesty, I don't think it was so much as any one person's lack of grammatical skill, it just appeared that as the section grew, reduntant and fragmented information got all tangled up in the section. The changes done to it make it much more readable. Wrel (talk) 20:45, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Edits by 63.167.114.204
I was the one who did the editing under the user name 63.167.114.204. I didn't realize I was logged out. --  Grimbear13  ►Talk  16:54, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

More details
There should be more information like other games have. If you look at something like oblivion theres info on everything. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.129.175.59 (talk) 17:59, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Split tag
Someone added a split tag on the Monster Hunter Tri G section, without creating discussion. I personally think the section should remain as-is, until long enough to meet notability. Currently it's a remake of Tri, with only one paragraph of description. I'm removing the tag for now - feel free to discuss here if anyone disagrees. Mamyles (talk) 00:55, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

I feel that Monster Hunter Tri G is not simply a remake of Tri. It is for a different console, adds new monsters as well as changes the online hub area. It can be compared to the difference between Monster Hunter 2 and Monster Hunter Freedom 2.213.67.17.243 (talk) 22:30, 23 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Monster Hunter Tri G is an expansion of Monster Hunter Tri. They are comparable to Monster Hunter and Monster Hunter G (described in single article), or Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (Monster Hunter Freedom 2) and Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (Monster Hunter Freedom Unite) (described separately). --Kusunose 03:11, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Most-played game?
I really doubt the reliability of Coffeewithgames, as 1 - it's not a reliable source as it is a self-published source, 2 - Wii users don't really tend to use Internet or other networking features, 3 - the data does not support this claim.--Jasper Deng (talk) 00:05, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

The information is 100% reliable, and if you looked at the image provided in the link, you can see that. If you read the post, you can see other information as well. Wii users don't use the Internet or networking features? Mario Kart Wii, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Call of Duty: World at War, Modern Warfare, Black Ops, and Modern Warfare 3, Excitebots: Trick Racing, Animal Crossing, Endless Ocean, to name some Wii games with online multiplayer. If you don't have a Wii, you are changing an edit based on your opinion, not based on facts? If you didn't read the information posted, you are editing based on your opinion, not the provided facts? The image shows the play-time for both Monster Hunter Tri and for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, that supports this claim 100%. What am I missing? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnjdoyle (talk • contribs) 00:56, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Please address the fact that the blog is a self-published source (I was referring to the Wii console itself), and the fact that you have no other sources. "Most-played" is subjective, after all. --Jasper Deng (talk) 01:05, 21 October 2012 (UTC)


 * The information in the blog posts comes from the official Wii Nintendo Channel. Kotaku, Capcom, GoNintendo, Destructoid, GameInformer, etc., have all linked to stories from the blog, some sites to multiple stories, one to all data stories. The most played is clearly stated as "Per person" which the image in the linked report shows. It clearly shows the time for Super Smash Bros. Brawl and for Monster Hunter Tri. Monster Hunter Tri is above Super Smash Bros. Brawl (and still is). Directly from the link you keep removing, and "In the 154 days since Monster Hunter Tri released, its average play-time per person has now passed that of Super Smash Bros. Brawl's." and "Monster Hunter Tri currently has a 24 minute higher game-play average "per person", than Super Smash Bros. Brawl does." Please read, and look at the information provided, before removing.
 * Then re-write it with the actual cites and not to your website. Your website is not a WP:RS NathanWubs (talk) 19:09, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

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sad news
Monster hunter is now only offline. So no more online blah blah. I suggest that u play skyrim. We need to get online back by asking. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.105.70.78 (talk) 03:34, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

Article consistency for Capcom Games
I don't quite get why Monster Hunter expansion games do not get their own Article in Wikipedia, while the likes of Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds gets their own Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 page. 121.54.29.72 (talk) 13:14, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Merge proprosal
I am opening discussion on merging Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate into Monster Hunter Tri. Currently the Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate article is just content a user cut and pasted from the Monster Hunter Tri article. I don't see much reason for two separate article as English language websites only really covered the Ultimate version. as there isn't much distinction between the 2 titles. So I propose content on Ultimate is consolidated into Tri and Ultimate is redirected again. The1337gamer (talk) 18:26, 4 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Support merge. Effective the same game with a bit more expanded content. --M ASEM (t) 18:37, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Question - If the "english language websites only really covered the Ultimate version", shouldn't everything on Monster Hunter Tri be moved to Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate to reflect this? Slayer of the Rathalos (talk) 23:14, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * That's seems unintuitive when Monster Hunter Tri is the original game and Ultimate is a expanded version of it. It makes more sense to summarise the expanded content in a section than to summarise content not available in a previous iteration of the game.  Furthermore I was wrong anyway, Tri does have coverage on English sites. I was getting mixed up with MH4 which didn't get released in English territories. Amended my initial proposal. The1337gamer (talk) 23:22, 5 March 2015 (UTC)


 * No - The page should stay as it is. Slayer of the Rathalos (talk) 16:34, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
 * That isn't a very encouraging argument. Do you mind expanding why you think it should stay?  The1337gamer (talk) 16:36, 31 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Support - A section in the Monster Hunter Tri article can cover everything here. AdrianGamer (talk) 04:12, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

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(Wii U) Showing up on Two Lines
Do you happen to know how to incorporate a non-breaking space (or alternative) in Wikipedia so that "(Wii U)" in the infobox will be on one line? Whenever I search, I end up going to the Wikipedia article explaining the non-breaking space... --Bchill53 (talk) 16:48, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Done, there are many ways to do it. See WP:LINEBREAK. TarkusAB talk 17:03, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
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Worldwide release of the Wii U version
For clarity, the initial text should explicitly mention that Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate for Wii U was released worldwide (Japan first and NA/EU/AU later). It's noted in the side-banner, and can be understood by reading the reviews at the bottom, but it makes an incongruent reading experience when it's not explicitly mentioned in the text. 77.238.60.151 (talk) 12:17, 3 July 2022 (UTC)