Shame. It's a great game once it clicks. It's a long grind tho.I've been playing the game a bit and I don't feel it's really for me. Everything is so slow and tedious. You need to sharpen weapon all the time, monsters runs away often, you can't run very far without running out of stamina and you need to grind a lot to make any progress. It doesn't help that the online seems to be broken and your character's armor really look hideous and low res in cutscenes even on max setting.
Monster Hunter is like a fighting game it's very good to have someone already familiar with it on your side.
Like these issues you have arent that big of a deal and have even been way worse in the past.
Let me try to cover this alittle.
Pick different weapons for speed. It's a game about grinding so ofc things will be slow and you'll fight the same monsters over and over again
Weapon sharpening isn't bad and before you had limited whetstones even. Later on you get weapons with better and better sharpness lvls
There's ways to stop monsters from fleeing. traps and slingshot ammos. The ammos is all over the ground and stops em from running. If they fly you can flash them and they'll fall for a free beatdown
You play videogames so stamina management isn't something new
Online seems worse for me compared to console so i get it.
They've been using PS2 assets for over a decade things do indeed look like doodoo