I've been playing Monster Hunter 2 / Dos on a PS2 with a network adapter with some random drunk Japanese salarymen who don't speak a lick of English for the past couple of months.
It's been a very pleasant experience, every evening I join them in a lobby and we just grind stuff together, they've been teaching me a bit of Japanese in chat. (mostly about beer, they drink like 10 cans of beer a night it's wild)

Has monster hunter always been this fun?
I never played any other one besides this one before and while I'm probably not planning on stopping doing this any time soon I was thinking of playing a different one (like maybe 1 or 3? or a newer one, I think it's called wilds?) during daytime while I don't have those dudes to grind with.
Maybe it'll help me improve a bit more too so I don't always eat shit and get tailspinned and knocked out at least once per session with them.