you pretty much sad exactly how i feel on the subject really lol ;/
and MH3 is really fun. but it's really unforgiving. like the mission i've been doing tonight. it's 30 minutes long (on a timer basically). i've done it 6 times and only beat it once.
a few of them failed in the last few minutes lol ;____;
but there's really so much to do. i've got 130 or so hours and still so much left to do. like i can't even describe.
you fight monsters, carve them and get stuff, build armour and weapons.
keep fighting for rarer pieces. you can play online with up to 4 people total, and a lot of the game is only available online. there's a lot of rotating event quests. right now we're doing this fight with jhen mohran (the one i failed lol)
you're on this boat in the desert and shoot at it from the boat with ballistae and cannons. it sometimes comes really close and you can climb on top of it and fight it.
it's REALLY epic.
but like i said, the learning is high.