The 3DS C-Stick is not an improvement over PSP/Vita's Claw method. Not even close.
The dpad positioning on PSP/Vita allows players to control the camera while attacking monsters or gathering.
...What?
That claw
hurt. Physically. How could one even prefer that over a second stick?
I can still move the camera while attacking. It's just a different method. You move it while in your animations since this is Monster Hunter, and animations are long and deliberate. Though, truth be told, I don't find myself moving it much while attacking, anyways. The camera is typically just in the right position..
Edit: What on eeeeaaarrrth I didn't even read your last reply. "Factually"? "Monster Hunter players use claw on CCPro/Dualshock"? What even makes one say these things with such firm beliefs? I played
four hundred hours of Tri, and it was the most comfortable game to play in the series because I had the CCPro and it's right stick.
Then there was when I bought P3rd HD JUST to have a right stick, because P3rd was where the claw actually started to hurt my hand outside of the game. That was fun.
Maybe we're both crazy ones out here.