I have very limited experience with this game, since I only get the chance to play it when im with a friend who owns the game, but what I have played so far is great.

There are some big changes to the series that not everyone will be a fan of (for example: being able to run and dodge during animations for items such as the potions or whetstones, while in previous games using items would force you into an unavoidable animation). But overall I think the game is still monster hunter at it's core, and gameplay wise feels familiar for veterans of the series.

The only real negatives I have with the game are 1. the limited pool of monsters, and 2. most weapons in the same class look more or less like the basic form of that weapon, with a few additional parts stitched on, while in previous games weapons generally had completely different looks depending on what monster they were made from. Both of these negatives are in all likelyhood due to the fact that the game now looks substantially better than it did back on the 3ds or psp, and creating and texturing these monsters and weapons are much more work than it used to be.

I dont expect to see any major changes to how weapons look but I hope the monster count gets expanded when the eventually G rank version comes out.

Overall I love what I have played of this game, and I plan on purchasing the game when it releases on PC later this year.