Am I the Hunter of the game? Or is it Olivia?

[Vangor]

That huntress is in the forefront of almost every single dialogue and cut-scene. Like where am I during most this stuff? I apparently am content watching on the sidelines.

[Null Winter]

You. There are far more cutscenes where Olivia simply doesn't appear at all and you're doing everything solo. With that said, she does tend to be given the spotlight when she's present at the start of a fight; I think it's a consequence of how those cutscenes were storyboarded, requiring a hammer or other blunt weapon for their animations to make sense. So the customizable main character is swapped out in case they're using a weapon that wouldn't make sense for the motions used.

[Kompa]

This is getting really annoying for me too, this game is supposed to revolve around our hunter, yet she constantly takes action and leads my hunter as if my hunter isnt the one doing all the hard work. My hunter really needed her to tell me to shoot terrain down on the big dragon? Like seriously?

[Mister Magician]

Originally posted by Vangor:

That huntress is in the forefront of almost every single dialogue and cut-scene. Like where am I during most this stuff? I apparently am content watching on the sidelines.

the story is that she is the "ace," the veteran and ranking officer when the guild master is not present.

in other words, she is what you were in every other monster hunter game.

[The Debauchery]

Originally posted by Vangor:

Am I the Hunter of the game? Or is it Olivia?

Olivia is the protagonist. You're just there to be Alma's pet dog.

[Devilish Dave]

Oliver?

[Kiririn]

Looks like we need to not only wait for optimization patches but also mods to auto-skip all story cutscenes.

[Mechanique]

Originally posted by Kiririn:

Looks like we need to not only wait for optimization patches but also mods to auto-skip all story cutscenes.

Who "we"? You don't even have the game

[Kiririn]

Originally posted by Mechanique:

Originally posted by Kiririn:

Looks like we need to not only wait for optimization patches but also mods to auto-skip all story cutscenes.

Who "we"? You don't even have the game

The non FOMO gamers.

[FoxyBox]

Originally posted by Kompa:

This is getting really annoying for me too, this game is supposed to revolve around our hunter, yet she constantly takes action and leads my hunter as if my hunter isnt the one doing all the hard work. My hunter really needed her to tell me to shoot terrain down on the big dragon? Like seriously?

Welcome to Monster Hunter. It has literally always been more or less like this.

A big part of MH storytelling is that you're part of a wider team/village where everyone does their part. Olivia and her team are "aces" that are specially picked to fulfil higher objectives than the main mission. You may be the team lead but you also need to rely on your allies. Power of friendship and all that anime crap. MH is anime. If you don't like it, collect your refund and find another franchise. It has literally always been this way.

[FoxyBox]

Originally posted by Vangor:

That huntress is in the forefront of almost every single dialogue and cut-scene. Like where am I during most this stuff? I apparently am content watching on the sidelines.

She's an ace. There are quantifiably more cutscenes revolving around you the player than Olivia. Sorry to burst your bubble but MH is not a world in which you are The Special and better than everybody else at all times. Heaven forbid Capcom include characters with specialist experience and capabilities on par with or even surpassing the MC.

[ExecutiveOdin]

Nata is the hunter and the main character and is the most important person in the world and is also smart and loved.

[Oku]

Originally posted by Kompa:

This is getting really annoying for me too, this game is supposed to revolve around our hunter, yet she constantly takes action and leads my hunter as if my hunter isnt the one doing all the hard work. My hunter really needed her to tell me to shoot terrain down on the big dragon? Like seriously?

It is not supposed to revolve around your Hunter, and it never has. You are one of many in an organization dedicated to ecological preservation and defending people against the giant monsters that inhabit the world and go berserk when the ecosystem is disrupted. There are hunters that are better than you. There are hunters that are worse than you. The player hunter is always counted amount the A-listers, but you are not the protagonist of the game, you are just a dude who's good at their job.

Olivia is in a small fraction of the cutscenes and only does a few things action wise at which point you, the player, takes over and does 99% of the work, after which you are constantly told how great you are and how you surpass everybody's expectations.

[Kiririn]

Originally posted by Red Fox:

Heaven forbid Capcom include characters with specialist experience and capabilities on par with or even surpassing the MC.

Then why don't they just do everything?

[Evensong]

Average gamer when they aren't worshiped as the hero of the world who was chosen by jeff bazos himself to single handily solve every problem in the story as all the npcs fall over in shock at our sheer sigma energy, helpless without us.

But seriously, I think an entire section of the story was all about "you can't do it on your own" the mission is a team of people, including multiple hunters. The story is just that... a story, Olivia is shown and explained to be an ace and defacto leader of their group, if not the mission as a whole, so the story showcases that. And its not like we dont get our own moments to shine so eh.

[Oku]

Originally posted by Kiririn:

Originally posted by Red Fox:

Heaven forbid Capcom include characters with specialist experience and capabilities on par with or even surpassing the MC.

Then why don't they just do everything?

Because you are also there and you are also an A-list hunter being paid to be there and do your job.