It's honestly fun, but depending on what you are doing,

to start off, the base game before iceborne even came out was really fun and a nice game to enjoy with friends or solo, monsters had a fair challenge if you had the right gear and it would feel amazing beating a monster that took a few trys, and all weapons were nice to try and experiment with.

but iceborne would soon come out, I wasn't around when it came out as i had stop playing, but i did finally buy when all the content had finally come out and went on sale. Its hard to say, i personally had a lot of fun but it is much more harder, it took a semi-big leap in difficulty if you just came out of the base game, but if you already had endgame gear from base you were good for the first few mission until having to make new gear. i would say the story missions are not that hard later on but can be painful due to having to regrind everything.

But the real issue would most likely be endgame. its fun, but at the sametime not, you have a lot of things to do and even a new siege whenever that pops up, but some of these monsters do not make sense for how low of a master rank you have to be to do these missions, some of them are just outright impossible without the "perfect" build that you most likely can't even get until master rank 70-100+ (unless you have people carrying you). there are many huge issue with the DLC, but that why i said, its fun, but it depends on what you are doing.

Despite the massive amount of issue i have with the DLC, i still love it a lot, it is my first monster hunter game so my take on it is very different from people who are veterans to the series. (I'm horrible at reviews too) and i love modding games a lot for some reason, so i tend to mod this game as well if you are into that thing.

Regardless, i say get this game and the DLC when they both go on sale, and try to even get some of your friends to join you as it make the experience even more fun. (playing solo is just pain sometimes lmao)

It's honestly fun, but depending on what you are doing, to start off, the base game before iceborne even came out was really fun and a nice game to enjoy with friends or solo, monsters had a fair challenge if you had the right gear and it would feel amazing beating a monster that took a few trys, and all weapons were nice to try and experiment with. but iceborne would soon come out, I wasn't around when it came out as i had stop playing, but i did finally buy when all the content had finally come out and went on sale. Its hard to say, i personally had a lot of fun but it is much more harder, it took a semi-big leap in difficulty if you just came out of the base game, but if you already had endgame gear from base you were good for the first few mission until having to make new gear. i would say the story missions are not that hard later on but can be painful due to having to regrind everything. But the real issue would most likely be endgame. its fun, but at the sametime not, you have a lot of things to do and even a new siege whenever that pops up, but some of these monsters do not make sense for how low of a master rank you have to be to do these missions, some of them are just outright impossible without the "perfect" build that you most likely can't even get until master rank 70-100+ (unless you have people carrying you). there are many huge issue with the DLC, but that why i said, its fun, but it depends on what you are doing. Despite the massive amount of issue i have with the DLC, i still love it a lot, it is my first monster hunter game so my take on it is very different from people who are veterans to the series. (I'm horrible at reviews too) and i love modding games a lot for some reason, so i tend to mod this game as well if you are into that thing. Regardless, i say get this game and the DLC when they both go on sale, and try to even get some of your friends to join you as it make the experience even more fun. (playing solo is just pain sometimes lmao)