this dude named Sonsaru said this from gamespot...this guy is awsome on the info.

* This time the article is based around the offline village. There are numerous facilities in the village. Those listed are - Bar, central square, ship builders, forge, your own house and a dock.

* You take on Free Quests from the Bar. You can select the field, monster you want to fight and time of day (and maybe season?), and check which monsters and items are present under which circumstances. Expanding the Bar (see below) seems to be the way to open up more options to select?

* You can also take on quests from the villagers. Villagers sometimes have a mark above their head (like a speech bubble) that indicates they want to talk to you. Completing quests for villagers raises the villagers trust in you.

* You can also expand facilities using items gathered during quests, just like powering up armor or weapons. Larger facilities also mean more advantages for the player, although the exact details are not mentioned.

*When making weapons or armor you get to see the item before you commit to creating it.

* The heavy bow gun can now be fitted with a shield on the front, giving it the auto-guard ability, or with a barrel that increases its power. You can't use both at once.

* Although no details are given armor also has a "level" stat now. Does this mean you can spend money to increase armor levels, like bowguns?

* The guy who looks a bit like a catfish (you can see him in the production drawings on the official site, I think) is the head of the ship builders. Looks like you can arm wrestle him.

* Although the text does not mention it, the clock in the top corner is present whilst walking around the village and appears to have segments for the three seasons. I guess this is related to time passing differently on / offline.

* MHP is going to have an approx. 3 minute video of Dos viewable from as soon as you start up the game, which is supposedly going to clear up a lot of as of yet unexplained details and really get the whole world across. So I'm looking forward to P even more now!

Firstly, the Hammer weapon. It is actually a "Hunting Horn." That's right, it can be blown into (!!) and a variety of different tunes played. These effect your companions in a variety of ways - attack up, resistance to wind etc. Obviously you can also swing it like a hammer too, to attack. Sounds useful when used well!

That brings the total number of weapon types to 11, including Light / Heavy Bowguns and Gunlance as their own types. The Gunlance and this Hunting Horn will only be useful for a limited period if they are one-off weapons, so I should think there will be a few types of each?

Then we have the new Accessories system.

Armor and apparent weapons as well have slots into which accessories can be inserted. A max of three, the number of slots sometimes increase when armor is upgraded.

Accessories have to be made and then fitted into the these slots. They basically give extra + to the skill system for that armor (the system is basically the same as G /　P).

The accessories can be removed again to free slots up, buy they break when removed so can't be used again. Also upgrading the armor to the next type up removes and breaks all accessories attached. This doesn't really matter so much, though, as the skill set of the upgraded suits is normally different.

Anyway, another interesting new system. The thing I'm loving about the armor stuff now is that before, you would fight a load of Furufuru or whatever, finally make the suit, and then you're done. You get one big burst of progress and then its back to a long series of fights before you make another set. With this system, you can constantly customize and improve yourself, over a much more rewarding and gradual arch.

A few new skills also appeared, but as with these things just the name doesn't give a very good idea what they do. One sounds like it powers you up when you have only a little life left, and the other may stop you being affected by the ground shaking.

(this is bahaumut now) "ORGASMIC ISNT IT!!!!!!!" and yeah i didn't come up with the info. Sonsaru did and daaaaaaaaaam he did a good job.

yeah, thx for the info. cant friggin wait.

omg u dint start another mh2 tread....post of some of the other 1million

quote sirpaladin

omg u dint start another mh2 tread....post of some of the other 1million

Dang I can't wait now.

got more info (been digging)
of course there will be the gunlance and their seems to be a mace, not a hammer, but a mace.
There also seems to be at least 1 more prey and that their is a octopus looking monster. (trippy snit, no)
then more hr ranks. well mhg had up to rank 30 (asked a dude who had MHG online, dont know if its true but theres hope and it will most likely happen) so there may be even higher ranks. also heard more storage space but in mhg u had to "pay" for the extra pages. hopefully they'll take that out. I'll kep on searching, asking, and questioning..... then searching again to c if its true. Oh and dont think the main japanese MH2 page will update all this info.They r not gonna to want all the info leaked just like that.

ps: dont be a douche and go "where r u getting all this info," or " your a lieing peace of snit, i hate u forever." if so then u r a douche like everybody else in this god forsaken world and we welcome u....xcept for me, i hope u go deeper in hell.

UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!
new minigames such as a crap shooting gallery(ones u c in crap advertising flashes) and arm wrestling(saw it with another hunter but it could have been a npc hunter). new wyvern has been seen. seems to be a crossbreed of a lion and rathalos in the volcanic area (khamira yo). The "villages" blacksmith is a short old lady...poor lady (sniff), "town's" black smith is like a bulky ff7 Cid with the mustache of the ff9 cid's mustache (the oglope or bug, the king of....dam i forgot the kingdom..statrs with a L) hair cuts r now available but with a fee....and the fact that u c a cat pull out steel claws like Wolverine and that it climbs on your head and start cutting (shivers).
U can also get that weird knight outfit that u c when u unlock the town of hunters movie and u c 2 guys wearing the same outfit that was blue and holding onto a spear. Well i'll continue searching and all that good stuff. Also check out the japanese MH2 main page. shows the extended cg opening with the monkey in the snow (kicks ass, grabs a gs from a hunter man) and the music is peacefull...reminds me of ChronoCross. If u have problems looking for it then u lack common sense....and i can find it cuz i know "some" japanese..

ps: i was trying to not double post so dont criticize me or u will die....somehow.....ph33r the azn!!!!

BRIEF UPDATE(probably didnt need to mention)

Incase u havent noticed there will be exactly 10 dif weapons. Each having a counterpart;Ex: gs & katana, hammer & mace, lance & gunlance, etc. The gunlance is still a mystery to me and so will the mace, dont really know how different their functions will be to their counterpart. And the knight outfit i mentioned earlier is uncertain for players.

This message was edited by BahaumutZero on Jan 23 2006.

lol.. you claim you're better than I am but know nothing about the gun lance...

Weapons have guage abilities in MH2. The gunlance starts with a set number of shots and you get no more of them until the next quest.

Guage abilities apply when you hit a monster enough... it slowly fills.

well u still dont have to be a freakin douche bag about it u dam faggot. u could have simply stated that without acting like an ass. and yes i dont know everything about it but im trying to gain info and spread out the facts that i do know. so act like a normal human being or stfu.

Just in case you didn't know here is a website [in japanese] on Monster Hunter 2

http://www.capcom.co.jp/monsterhunter/2/

Does anyone know what new types of element will there be?

Probably Ice or Earth perhaps, I'll look into it...

Yay 400th....I think, if not ah well I best go now I've got a lession 3 minutes ago, gotta run

yeah i know about the site. but i also search in the reports and statements scattered all over the place.

NEW INFO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(sry for double post but this has nothing to do with my last post)

The mace I stated earlier is actually a hunting horn that is used as a flute. So its like a combo of a giant hammer and a flute. And there really is a tentacle monter that floats in the air and there are "2" monkey type monters. The other ape thing seems to be addicted to shrooms (I'm serious. It clutches a shroom with its tail.)

im not sure but have u mentioned the bow&arrow yet withen all that gibberish

yep. I also saw the bow have a lightning element and a 6 shot horizontel spread of arrows (as in 1 shot made 6 arrow fly out). And i thought i saw a quick glimpse of its melee hit. It being that the chr. pulls out an arrow and slashes with it.