Nice review! I myself am a Monster Hunter fan, and I've followed it ever since the PSP days just like yourself. I definitely agree that MH3 was the best in terms of the new features in gameplay (underwater and multiplayer are the best).

I've tried MHW betas and although they were pretty easy, it made me all the more excited for the actual release of the game because I've been dying to play it already.

I'm just about to get my pre-order of MHW tomorrow or sometime next week. I've seen from the betas and other reviews that there are noticeably quite a lot of changes in the game. I might even say the developers made it more user-friendly to appeal more to their new market.

Nonetheless I'm still quite excited to try it out for myself, and I'm glad you got to share your experience. Hope we can play sometime as well!