I love Monster Hunter, it is easily my favorite game of all time, but I think the player base is retarded.

For starters, most of them have a "main" in a game that has 14 very different weapon classes with different gameplans, strengths, and weaknesses that make it so not a single class is universally the best in 100% of all situations, requiring you to learn them all to be proficient at the game. But the fact that not everyone has learned how to effectively play all the classes, means that those players don't know what makes those classes weak. This leads to situations where people usually hammer mains will frequently bitch about other classes being overpowered.

It also doesn't help that the majority of the player base gets all of their opinions about the game and strategies from popular youtubers. /mhg/ spends more time talking about Youtubers than the actual game. It doesn't help that with some very minor exceptions most of the time what these Youtubers say are blatantly wrong, encourage infective "meta" loadouts, or start up artificial drama for the sole purpose of getting more Youtube ad revenue and having a little miniature crisis around it, (like World vs. Rise, Wilds vs. World, Dos vs. Everyone else). The worst part is that these kinds of players only repeat what the Youtubers say verbatim and never show an original thought of their own that dissents from what their favorite Youtuber says.

Also, with the recolor crisis. So fucking many people who have played for years do not know the difference between a subspecies, a rare species, and an origin species. I swear you have people who think the number of large monsters in this series is around 400 even though its actually closer to 150 different monsters, and about 250 nearly identical reskins thereof

Also, so many fucking MH players are bronies, trannies, furries, pedophiles, or FFXIVtrannies. It's so fucking tiresome to see the same types of creeps and weirdos in every other lobby.

Woah...