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― Will M., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
GAMER'S FUN RUINED (WELL, DELAYED) BY USELESS CRAP FOR UBER-NERDS: http://www.siliconera.com/2007/07/23/persona-3-knocked-down-by-a-delay/
― marmotwolof, Monday, 23 July 2007 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link
this sucks because I ended up preordering it, too
― marmotwolof, Monday, 23 July 2007 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Heh, same. Thankfully I couldn't afford it this paycheck because power/rent/cable/ps2 repair wiped my bank acct.
I don't see why they didn't just include a little "mail this in for a free copy of the art book" coupon or something. Ah well.
― Will M., Tuesday, 24 July 2007 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
August 14. http://www.siliconera.com/2007/07/24/shin-megami-tensei-persona-3-coming-in-august/
― marmotwolof, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 22:53 (sixteen years ago) link
And August 28th for Growlanser V. This is lame. I was looking forward to playing a shitload of RPGs during the ENTIRE MONTH that I have the house to myself (gf going to Europe from August 4th through 26th or something). Oh well, I can probably find a game to play during that time.
― Will M., Wednesday, 25 July 2007 14:50 (sixteen years ago) link
between this and bioshock i think i am well stocked up on the disturbing imagery.
― adam, Friday, 17 August 2007 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
also the art book is pretty cool as far as stupid ass art book crap goes.
― adam, Friday, 17 August 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Mine's on the way,
― marmotwolof, Friday, 17 August 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
but I'd much rather have been playing it the past few weeks than have that fucking book, obv.
― marmotwolof, Friday, 17 August 2007 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I bought my copy, haven't played it yet though-- the gf wants to see it, so I am saving it. It's painful. What game can I play for the next 10 days so I don't think about it?
― Will M., Sunday, 19 August 2007 03:55 (sixteen years ago) link
You ever pick up Odin Sphere? Tomb Raider Anniversary? GrimGrimoire? Those are the best recent PS2 games, IMO.
― marmotwolof, Sunday, 19 August 2007 05:45 (sixteen years ago) link
persona 3 is light years better than odin sphere or tomb raider. classy presentation, no random encounters, cool soundtrack. i'm sure that it like all megaten games will get incredibly frustrating and pointless but until then it is really cool. of course bioshock comes out tomorrow which means i will prob not pick up p3 again for a little while.
― adam, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I've got Odin Sphere and GrimGrimoire ready to play... Odin Sphere was pretty fun but I put it down and forgot to continue playing, I started playing GrimGrimoire last night and I'm not yet sure how I feel about it.
― Will M., Monday, 20 August 2007 15:39 (sixteen years ago) link
anybody play http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e7/SMTRaidou.jpg/250px-SMTRaidou.jpg this one? would that be a good entry point to the series, or should I try something else? Because I personally have watched a fool play Persona 2 and am not the least bit interested in THAT.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 20 August 2007 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
No.
If anything, Persona 3 is probably the best entry point. Devil Summoner is... weird. Another good one might be Digital Devil Saga, if you can find it.
― Will M., Monday, 20 August 2007 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
that said, though, DDS really isn't like the rest of the series, and neither is Persona 3. I'd honestly say that they're similar only in that they're different from all the other jPRG tripe out there.
― Will M., Monday, 20 August 2007 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
jRPG tripe seriously needs to be defined in this context. I mean Persona 2 looked like the tripe ramen championship, some .hack kind of wanksterism.
Maybe I should just see if I can pick up some other SMT bidness cheap used
― El Tomboto, Monday, 20 August 2007 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
hahahaha good luck w/that. oh, and Nocturne was the last game in the main SMT series, FYI.
― marmotwolof, Monday, 20 August 2007 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
It'd be cheaper to get your PS2 'backup-friendly,' I reckon.
― Will M., Monday, 20 August 2007 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I've only played for a couple hours, but Persona 3 rules. Tombot, don't be such a...Tombot. Check it out.
― marmotwolof, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 06:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll buy one of y'alls copies when you're done. I still have over 100+ hours of jRPG tripe at my house I've yet to work through. Getting ahead of myself.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
devil summoner kind of sucks. i played persona 3 all fucking day yesterday--it is really lame and frustrating but still really cool. best of the megaten games that i've played and probably the best rpg for the ps2 that i've played.
― adam, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 15:14 (sixteen years ago) link
i can't stress how much i like the no random encounters thing.
― adam, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah you know Tombot I am not at all kidding when I say this makes Rogue Galaxy look like a complete piece of shit. FFXII and DQVIII...better watch their back depending on how good this thing is going to get. I'm four hours in, and "probably the best RPG for the PS2" has already gone through my head as well.
― marmotwolof, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.destructoid.com/elephant//ul/36188-persona3.jpg
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha yeah but at least that emo kid puts a gun to his head and pulls the trigger multiple times in every battle! That's your mute DQ style hero that you can name whatever you want, and the other dudes in my party so far are a ponytail/baseball cap gamer dude and a jock boxer. There's absolutely none of emo hair Main Character whining about his feelings, he never says a word.
― marmotwolof, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Correction, baseball cap dude doesn't even have a ponytail, for some reason I thought he did. In any case, none of the other characters so far are the least bit emo if that's what you're worried about. :D
― marmotwolof, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link
No I'm just worried about my usual antipathy for any and all JJhighschool + Supernatural Bullshit storylines, though a few reviews have allayed a lot of my qualms in this regard
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
junpei is a total douche. i think what i like about this game so much (so far) is the lack of tediousness. healing is easy, getting around is easy, and stamina points (equivalent to magic points) are not impossible/$$$ to restore so cool powers and combinations can be used frequently/all the time instead of just mashing the basic physical attack button. also the soundtrack is as good as jet set radio future.
― adam, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 22:52 (sixteen years ago) link
A nice touch that it comes packaged with the soundtrack. Although the program I used to use to rip CDs is apparently no longer free. And I fucking hate iTunes/iPod/AAC. Any sugg's? I guess that's off topic... I still can't talk about the game proper until the 27th/28th when I can start playing it, eeeeeagh. Which is when Growlanser 5 comes out.
― Will M., Wednesday, 22 August 2007 13:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Growlanser is 9/18 according to Gamestop. Wild Arms 5 comes out at the end of August though, and it's supposed to be really great. All these RPGs...
― marmotwolof, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 21:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, I never picked up Persona 3 and was kind of regretting it recently as I looked around for a copy and saw how much they were already going for. However...!
IRVINE, CALIFORNIA — FEBRUARY 25, 2008 — Atlus U.S.A., Inc., the vanguard of role-playing games, today announced Persona 3 FES for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, the highly-anticipated definitive cut of 2007’s RPG of the Year, Persona 3. With two games on one disc–a brand new chapter featuring 30+ hours of gameplay and an enhanced version of the original game loaded with new content and features–Persona 3 FES is the comprehensive version of one of the most acclaimed RPGs of 2007.
Persona 3 FES is a stand-alone product and does not require the original Persona 3 to play. However, players with save files from the original game will be able to transfer some of their saved data, such as their Persona compendium, to be used in the enhanced main story. The new story is accessible from the start and does not require players to finish the original game beforehand.
Persona 3 FES is scheduled for release on April 22nd for an MSRP of $29.99.
― Jeff LeVine, Monday, 25 February 2008 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Just in from Gamefly. Looking to devote the better part of my weekend to it.
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Except now I'm reading I should really get the special edition instead...
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
... which i promptly bought, like a good consumer.
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link
oh my gawwwwwwwwd, I spent two and a half hours playing this last night and i am not yet past the opening sequence!
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 1 May 2008 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
i may buy FES today. if i can find it. i think i only got through the first term in Persona 3 (then I got a 360...) but once I am living alone and have a ot more games time I intend to revisit w/ FES.
― Will M., Friday, 2 May 2008 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
fucking love persona 3, can i just say. I stopped playing it a couple of months ago to wait FES.
― Dy, Friday, 2 May 2008 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Does this game have a day limit? If you get to the end of the school year and still have stuff to do, what happens?
― abanana, Saturday, 3 May 2008 00:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I think you get a less good ending or something.
I picked up FES even though I got nowhere in P3 when I got it... I will tackle this once I am living on my own without a girlfriend, like a true JRPG fan
― Will M., Monday, 5 May 2008 16:22 (fifteen years ago) link
just dropped through the mail box
nggggggggggggh
― cozwn, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 12:07 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm about 30 hours into this. i want to see what happens next, but playing for 60+ hours more? uhhhhhhhh....
― zappi, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 16:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I picked up P3: FES & 4 over the holidays. Haven't started either though (maybe after I finish Chrono Trigger?). Can't decide which one I want to play first - I hear 4 is an improvement gameplay-wise?
― Jeff LeVine, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link
if you play 4 first it'll be hard to play your copy of 3.
― Everyone is a Jedi (Will M.), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link
OK so this game is AMAZING
only about an hour and a half into it at the moment and it doesn't really feel like I'm playing as much as I'm pressing X now and again but hott damn is the artwork and style and atmosphere really something
― cozwn, Thursday, 8 January 2009 11:23 (fifteen years ago) link
which game?
― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 8 January 2009 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
oh sorry yeah, P3: FES : D
― ur bisexual btw (cozwn), Thursday, 8 January 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.dokuganryu.com/scans/megaten/p3/
― ur bisexual btw (cozwn), Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link
http://bulk.destructoid.com/ul/user/3/31671-122223-DSCF2272JPG-468x.jpg
― cozwn, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
waht
― Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
is that
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 22:19 (fifteen years ago) link
first dungeon in this game: a sentient bearsuit is helping my party navigate a world inside a television. he issues us all unflattering emo glasses. we are attacked by monsters and my character realises he has superpowers, at which point some heavy metal occurs. one of my companions comes face to face with his id and drives it berserk by refusing to acknowledge it as a part of himself, and so my character has to beat it into submission with a golf club.
― thomp, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 23:58 (fifteen years ago) link
just finished P4 today! don't really understand how people can play it for 100+ hours, took me half that. i guess if you were an OCD completist you could play for another 50 hours+? anyway really enjoyed it, almost every aspect of P3 was changed for the better.
― zappi, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 00:12 (fifteen years ago) link
^^ wow, I'd really like to play these someday...
― Nhex, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 01:15 (fifteen years ago) link
who wants to sell/lend me their copy of p4/p3:expanded edition or whatever
― kingfish, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 06:30 (fifteen years ago) link
where are you? i could lend u either i doubt ill replay either soon.
just finished P4 today! don't really understand how people can play it for 100+ hours, took me half that. i guess if you were an OCD completist you could play for another 50 hours+?
asked and answered - its 100+ for ppl that fucked with stat-maxing and getting "perfect" characters. and replaying to get certain ending/situations i think ~~~ my p3 save file is 100+ hours. of course im also the type of person that has maxed items in disgaea 2
howd you like it? theres some other thread where i was salivating over p4 but its not quite as good as p3. p3 is my fave ps2 rpg so thats not a criticism but i just wasnt as into it
― Lamp, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
jesus christ, I need this game
― Wes HI DEREson (HI DERE), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
i think P3 was 60 hours for me, P4 about 50. yeh i can't be bothered with stat maxing, i like to fight things knowing there's a chance i can be beaten! a lot of the improvements in P4 were functional (eg. the square button shortcuts, control over all characters) and as a whole i think its a better game, but i must admit to liking the characters & the dungeon layouts in P3 a lot more. and Riise was loads more annoying than Fuuka, but that's more down to the voice acting than anything in the original game.
xpost dan thats just the start, wait till you get to the teen biker with potty mouth who has to face up to his suppressed homosexuality in a sauna
― zappi, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link
i didnt like the functional improvements! i had a weird love/hate with how terrible the battle controls in p3 were, they made combat more interesting and forced you to slow down and focus on your choices. p4 was too easy to run a script on
― Lamp, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link
i just found out there's an extra dungeon & ending to P4. must. fight. urge. to. keep. playing.
― zappi, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
bah wish I could play this on my PS3
― Wes HI DEREson (HI DERE), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
issues with backward functionality are a major sticking point in me not buying a ps3Also, i don't want one.
― WOOKIE JOHNSON (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
in fairness, mine was a gift
― Wes HI DEREson (HI DERE), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 17:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm in Portland, west coast
― kingfish, Thursday, 19 March 2009 09:31 (fifteen years ago) link
other side of the country :(
― min (Lamp), Thursday, 19 March 2009 13:02 (fifteen years ago) link
*sigh*
ive been really halfheartedly playing star ocean 4 and thinking about how much it sucks compared to persona 3. i mean do p3/4 look 10000% times better on my old ps2 than any fukken xbox rpg has looked yet????
youd think that more ppl wouldve taken notes for real
― Lamp, Thursday, 2 April 2009 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
"Why has that 16 year old girl got such a deep voice? And why has that twelve year old boy got such a high-pitched voice?"
― thomp, Friday, 3 April 2009 06:38 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.decisionproblem.com/persona3-1.gif
― Vormärz Heart, Our Youth is Broken (Lamp), Monday, 6 April 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i feel like i've been playing persona 4 for ages and ages and ages all the time and i have had it three weeks and have twenty hours on my save file. i think time spent playing videogames passes differently to how it did when i was fourteen
― thomp, Monday, 6 April 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
the emphasis on the quotidian in persona 4 is fantastic. i think my summary of the first dungeon above made the game sound way more kinetic + eventful than it actually is
there's a kind of actual emotional weight in e.g. the game making you come home every day and see your 8yo cousin sat in exactly the same place watching the same tv shows because her father's too devoted to his work
this is also the first game in which i have attempted to ask a character for her phone number right out, been told my courage stat is too low, and had to find an excuse to make it look like i need it instead
― thomp, Monday, 6 April 2009 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
i have basically the exact opposite problem like oh wow wtf happened to saturday
ha maybe thats why i couldnt vibe p4 as hard? it is a quotidian as a game about using elaborate anime guardians to battle shadow monsters can be, i guess? thats actually one of my fave things about p3/4 tho the fact that you can easily spend a week in gameplay terms just going to school, hanging with friends, going back to the dorm, running track, playing games at the arcade and studying for exams and all of these have equal weight to the times where u and yr crew have to stand tall cause the shadows are long and the moon is full
i guess its natural because im playing it now but i keep comparing persona to star ocean 4 and its interesting - the combat in SO4 is way deeper and more challenging on a strategic level than persona but the game is way less satisfying. persona has to be one of the first rpgs to make me realize how much a strong, involving story can do for a game and now im annoyed when developers try to pass off retardo-twee cliches and stilted exposition as "moving" "cinematic" ideas to hang a game on
haha i was considering doing a max your s.link/100% completion guide to this and was wondering like: i get why ppl read/want walkthroughs and to know what the best answers are, how to boost academics &c but what do the ppl following my 100% single playthrough guides getting out of the game?
― Vormärz Heart, Our Youth is Broken (Lamp), Monday, 6 April 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Got P3:fes used for $20 today. Did they leave the japanese language track on here or must I suffer bad Anglo voice actors?
― kingfish, Monday, 13 April 2009 01:54 (fourteen years ago) link
no japanese language track, unfortunately. fans have made "undub" discs with the japanese audio & english subtitles, but you'll need to have swap magic or something to make it work.
i gave in and played the extra bit in P4.
― zappi, Monday, 13 April 2009 02:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Can you even turn the voice acting off? Persona IV is much better for having found the option to do that. ALthough it is a little odd when the new guy in the party starts talking in battles and I find myself going "WHat? He doesn't sound like that"
― thomp, Monday, 13 April 2009 11:08 (fourteen years ago) link
have come back to this after an ill-thought-out diversion into playing fahrenheit and silent hill 2 and reading poetry and shit
q.: i have reached the summer holidays. does the game calendar run into the next term, or is that it, for the going to school bit? will i have to reload an old save if i decide i want to see the end of the annoying drama chick's plotline?
― thomp, Thursday, 11 June 2009 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah. u can check the calendar in game to see what day is back 2 school for planning s.links
― ho hum i'm having a fantasy (Lamp), Thursday, 11 June 2009 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't like the overly structured day periods.
― kingfish, Thursday, 11 June 2009 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, that's what put me off the game.
― Want some guap-a-mole or salsa with your chips? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 June 2009 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
wusses
also, thank you, i have now ceased wondering if i have had my last chance to talk to an annoying drama chick. this is a little too much like my actual high school experience oh well
― thomp, Thursday, 11 June 2009 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
2 things
1. mitsuo's dungeon is fantastic on a good two and a half levels2. becoming kind of apparent that the animated cut scene stuff went to more than one studio — some of it is really slick but the occasional shot (one of the first ones after teddie shows up in the real word, e.g.) is on some kind of 70s hannah-barbera tip
― thomp, Thursday, 11 June 2009 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
p3 cut scenes were better than p4 i think. tbf i totally loved the structured nature of the game it gave the ocd/superorganized side of me pleasure actually
haha here's the s.link calendar i made for p3:
http://i622.photobucket.com/albums/tt305/a-zA-Z0-9-/persona3calendar.jpg
see i loved planning that stuff out but its not for everyone
― ho hum i'm having a fantasy (Lamp), Thursday, 11 June 2009 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
holy shit
― Want some guap-a-mole or salsa with your chips? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 June 2009 04:29 (fourteen years ago) link
tht is next level :D
I love this game and really need to get back to it but damn if ps2 games not look horrible on hd sets
― cozwn, Friday, 12 June 2009 09:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i also like the structured days but i haven't made any spreadsheets
it kind of helps to get rid of the typical videogame time impasse, where you get the feeling that the entire world is waiting for you to do your next notable action and things will not change until then
this can only work 'cause the game's world is so small, i guess
i looked at an faq and saw there are several months of game time left
i just found out i'm losing my job, otoh i may actually have time to finish this game now
― thomp, Friday, 12 June 2009 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Today's random jrpg observation is from playing Suikoden IV: I always like games where you get a stronghold, to hold all your shit and/or people you pick up along the way. The thing I dig about this game is that your stronghold is your ride. Instead of the usual FF-style airship, you actually get a boat w/ which you need to defend tactically.
― kingfish, Monday, 15 June 2009 07:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know if I should be put off by the fact that I enjoy the jrpg mechanic WAY too much. Then again, rpgs have been my favorite kind of game since playing Ultima: Exodus or Ultima V 20 years ago.
I mean, shit, I get bored with one jrpg, there's always 3 more to try, and there's like God knows how many such games for the snes/sega/GBA/etc
On a related note, on a whim I've started playing Secret of Mana, since I always wondered what the deal was with people reffing Seiken Densetsu 3 alla time.
― kingfish, Monday, 15 June 2009 07:40 (fourteen years ago) link
SoM is great for a lot of reasons, but a good portion of the magic is that it allowed 2-3 player CO-OP(!) RPG play in the SNES era which was wonderful. I always mean to play SD3, though, only touched it for maybe an hour.
― Nhex, Monday, 15 June 2009 08:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Can we have a general random jrpg observations thread? I see myself spending a lot of time on such things in the weeks to follow :|
― thomp, Monday, 15 June 2009 12:24 (fourteen years ago) link
TOTALLY agree w/ this, which is why the Suikoden games are pretty much the only "genre" games I still enjoy!
― Aieritating vowele syndroume (Will M.), Monday, 15 June 2009 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Have we posted this yet? http://megaten.aeriagames.com/
SMT the MMO
― kingfish, Saturday, 19 September 2009 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB4WyHe-HRM
― andrew g. vajna (cozen), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
dammit, strange journey has way too much grinding. i got to the end boss and it killed me in one hit. i spent 5 hours grinding and now it kills me in 2. this would have been great as a 20 hour game + bonus quests but at 60+ hours it is way too long.
― Mosquepanik at Ground Zero (abanana), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
At 18 hours in (and with P3P on its way to take up my time!) that is not what I wanted to hear.
― if, Thursday, 29 July 2010 07:04 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, have to admit that I've stalled out on strange journey as well.
― original bgm, Thursday, 29 July 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i didnt mind but its p much the only game ive played all year so
― TEEN LESBIAN (Lamp), Thursday, 29 July 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, same here actually.
I got frustrated by the dark rooms in delphinus (sp?) that also had conveyor belts. didn't realize I had to go back to the ship and build an app and got hella lost/frustrated.
prob due for a second wind by now.
― original bgm, Friday, 30 July 2010 13:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I've just done that bit and thought they made it almost too obvious that you had to go back! Maybe I just happened to stumble across the right people to talk to.
― if, Friday, 30 July 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
haha it probably was really obvious. my playtime had gotten very fragmented at that point, so I would boot the game up after two weeks and be like, "umm... I think I'm supposed to do this now..."
― original bgm, Friday, 30 July 2010 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Persona 4 remake announced for Vita with "new characters, movie events, animated scenes, and more. It will include 1.5 times the amount of voice-overs seen in the PS2 version. Marie, voiced by Kana Hanazawa, is one of the new characters."
also .... a 2D fighter(!) for 360/PS3/Arcade "has a new story that takes place two years after the events of Persona 4. Characters from Persona 4 and Persona 3 will feature in the game."
and finally basic prep has finished for Persona 5, no platform details though.
― zappi, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 10:23 (twelve years ago) link
lol, had to look up what a "vita" even is
― original bgm, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
lol me too
― am/sand (Lamp), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
you can watch 1st episode of P4 anime here http://www.theanimenetwork.com/Anime/Persona-4/Episode-1/Watchits pretty much a straight retelling with english subs - supposed to be another 20+ episodes?!
― zappi, Thursday, 6 October 2011 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
persona 4 arena, who's gonna get it for ps3 and fight with me?
― adam, Thursday, 9 August 2012 12:52 (eleven years ago) link
i was hoping someone would be posting something about strange journey to motivate me to pick it up again
― thomp, Thursday, 9 August 2012 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
haha me too
― zappi, Thursday, 9 August 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
should i buy strange journey or devil survivor (or radiant historia)
― adam, Monday, 20 August 2012 13:22 (eleven years ago) link
devil survivor's story manages to be at the same time embarrassingly animu~/awful and, like, actually kind of fucked uppedly depressing. the game parts of it are pretty amazing though, sort of ff tactics + pokemon + each unit is 3 units so you get some crazy tag teams running around.
haven't played strange journey but i kinda want to. never really gotten into that FPS dungeon style though.
― #1 Thwartstop Prospect (Will M.), Monday, 20 August 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
Read this whole thread again and now I basically need to find a way to play Persona 4 again, I never got very far and now I realize it is basically the only video game I want to play right now. Soooo any MTLers have a not-broken PS2/that game? :(
― #1 Thwartstop Prospect (Will M.), Monday, 20 August 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
animu like persona animu or animu like eternal sonata animu?
most relatively recent pcs should be able to run pcsx2, which is way easier to set up than its ps1 predecessor.
― adam, Monday, 20 August 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
yet to play eternal sonata. it is pretty persona-ish in that it minute-to-minute manages to jump between "god this is some dumb atlus boobs and giggles stuff" and "oh man this is actually kind of depressing" but the nadirs are nadirier and the peaks aren't as peaky.
it doesn't matter though because the SRPG + persona blending (What do they call it again? splicing or whatever?) = maximum enjoyment.
― #1 Thwartstop Prospect (Will M.), Monday, 20 August 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
persona 4 vita is so good. i am going to play it for 1000 hours this weekend.
― adam, Friday, 15 February 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
don't think there's a midnight channel irl
― abanana, Friday, 15 February 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
how much extra stuff was added to P4V? on the fence about buying it, already played through P4 on PS2 twice, but 3 years ago now.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 15 February 2013 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
per the somethingawful thread:
-Improved Graphics-Choose which skills Personas inherit-Two new Social Links: Marie and Adachi-New Personas, as well as third tier Personas for party members (Unlocked by reaching Rank 10, then spending time with them again after 1/10)-New difficulty levels (Very easy, easy, normal, hard, very hard)-More Voice acting-New animated cutscenes-New areas (Beach and a ski resort, Okina City, increased access to Inaba at night)-New events (Halloween, Skiing!)-BIKES! (You can get around town on motorbikes, and your party members learn new skills by going on Bike dates with you)-Tag Team attacks-Wi-Fi features. Use SOS to connect to other players, gaining HP and SP depending on how many you connect with. Furthermore, you can also see what other players are doing at the same time of the game you’re at.-Gardening! (Which gets you items that can do things like cast Makarakarn)-Bug Catching Mini-game (Use them as bait for the Fishing Mini-game!)-A Quiz show mini-game-Scene Skip-The game is extended to February 24th (so long as you avoid the bad endings)
― adam, Saturday, 16 February 2013 02:02 (eleven years ago) link
just murdering dudes in mitsuo's dungeon right now. those tag team attacks are great--sometimes after an all-out attack (in my party) chie and yukiko will automatically do a decent bit of damage to all enemies, usually wiping them out. and they're like "yukiko, it's time!" "okay chie!" and it makes me think of "computer blue" off purple rain
― adam, Saturday, 16 February 2013 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
thanks for that, even more indecisive now! can you run about town or is it all menus like P3P? that was a bit of a turnoff for me.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 16 February 2013 02:08 (eleven years ago) link
you can run around, the vita's got a little more juice than the psp.
while we're on this topic, is it worth playing through p3: FES? i put way too much time into the original p3 but bought FES off the psn store anyway.
― adam, Saturday, 16 February 2013 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah and choosing the inherited skills is MASSIVE. i was getting hosed in the rise boss fight (getting hit with constant agilao/bufula) so i went and fused myself a persona with native null ice and tacked on an inherited null fire. so satisfying.
― adam, Saturday, 16 February 2013 02:17 (eleven years ago) link
persona 2 has been rated again. this probably means it'll be on PSN soon.
― abanana, Monday, 18 February 2013 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah and choosing the inherited skills is MASSIVE
if the PS2 games had had this i think i would've saved a good 10+ hours on my playthroughs
― kill yuppies (Lamp), Monday, 18 February 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
man this game gets hella anime in the back third.
― adam, Monday, 18 February 2013 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
haha yeah
man though i can't imagine looking at the back of this and thinking "yeah, that's what this game needed ... more stuff"
― attempt to look intentionally nerdy, awkward or (thomp), Monday, 18 February 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
I'm currently playing Persona 3 on Easy and I really wish I had set it on normal. There's no challenge once you get into the groove of the game. Ah well, maybe I'll able to beat the final boss in this game (f.u. strange journey).
― abanana, Sunday, 3 March 2013 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
hey look a new Persona game is coming out and Aigis is back! ... er wait a minute ...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9uZMOyqU4Y
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 19:40 (ten years ago) link
Persona 3 FES is on sale for $5 on PSN this week. Might as well as add it to the backlog fire
― Nhex, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link
Is that UK or US?
― UTW, USA, ILX LIFER (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 20:07 (ten years ago) link
huh US. they haven't promoted that in any way that I'm aware of but yeah, that goes right into the pile for me too.
― UTW, USA, ILX LIFER (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 20:13 (ten years ago) link
yeh P3FES isn't on the EU store, Ghostlight were trying to put the Digital Devil Saga games on there but ... well they aren't v competent & fucked it upin better news SMT4 and Soul Hackers are both coming to EU this year
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 20:26 (ten years ago) link
Masterful troll video feed from Atlus today, several announcements and much milking of Persona 4games announced:Persona Q (3DS) - dungeon crawler with chibi P3 & P4 cast made by Etrian Odyssey staffPersona 4 Dancing All Night (Vita) - music rhythm game lolPersona 4 Arena 2 (PS3) - second fighting gameand finally Persona 5 (PS3) coming winter 2014 in Japan, all they gave us was the Engrish text "You are prisoner. Want emancipation?"
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 24 November 2013 11:57 (ten years ago) link
Ok, I think.. I think I'm almost ready to dive into Persona 3 FES. Soon. Soon.I don't think I'll be playing this more than once; understand it's an insane grind.Are there any non-spoiler things/gameplay aspects I should know to make this play-through as good as possible?
― Nhex, Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
Are you playing the PS3 version? I prefer it, but if time is at a premium you might be better off with the PSP version, which is more menu driven and takes a lot less time to complete overall.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 31 July 2014 21:05 (nine years ago) link
(errr PS2, but also available on PS3 obv)
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 31 July 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, PS3/PS2 version
― Nhex, Thursday, 31 July 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
why do you prefer ps2? I actually own both but still haven't played either (lol)
― original bgm, Thursday, 31 July 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
i guess i liked the atmosphere of running around the town listening to the really nice soundtrack and discovering things? in the PSP game it's mostly reduced to "go here or here" menus, which speeds up the game and probably works better for a portable but it just felt less alive as a setting (think they cut out the animated cutscenes for the PSP version as well). PSP also gives you the choice of a female protagonist (the main reason i replayed it), but she doesn't add that much to the story sadly.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
personas 3 and 4 have the best music. even if i found the grind occasionally infuriating i have endless goodwill toward this series just b/c of music and overall presentation. menus so stylish.
― adam, Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:31 (nine years ago) link
i played thro the first hour of ps3 recently and was amazed how much less assured it seemed than the same period of ps4
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
yea I love the music too
thanks for the info!
― original bgm, Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:18 (nine years ago) link
Persona 3 tips:
Don't worry about making all the right dialog choices, or maxing all the social links. It really doesn't matter.
Combining personas is generally better than leveling them.
Don't go into Tartarus every night. It's not necessary, and it often makes you tired.
When you're tired or sick, go to the nurse. Drinking the concoction will raise your courage.
― alanbatman (abanana), Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
kinda wanna have an out-of-context video game tip thread now
― Neckbread (Will M.), Friday, 1 August 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
ok, i'll keep all that in mind. thanks!
― Nhex, Friday, 1 August 2014 19:35 (nine years ago) link
P5 also coming to PS4, release date just a vague 2015 now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y5U8n4Ie3I
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 1 September 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
Hi, I am late to this series but I just started playing Persona 5 and uh what the hell is this story and why haven’t I been playing these games all along
― castanuts (DJP), Monday, 7 February 2022 04:30 (two years ago) link
As slow as the beginning of P5 is, P4G is even slower, as if it's making room for people who've never played video games before. I'm about two hours in, and the sum of my input has been running down two blocks of a town and being forced to go to bed. Am I close to getting actual gameplay any time soon?
― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Sunday, 20 November 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
yes from what i remember
it's a very vibey game tho, falling in love with that little town is part of the process
― Burnt Norton 360 (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 November 2022 17:24 (one year ago) link
Me, after beating a tough early boss to unlock a new (female) character to add to my party of two dudes: “Whew, barely made it out alive, I’d better leave the dungeon and stock up on more supplies.”
In game dudes: “We’d better leave the dungeon so that Chie doesn’t get too tired!”
― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Sunday, 20 November 2022 23:04 (one year ago) link
What is Shuffle Time? I've read that you can select all cards but I've only ever been able to pick one (or two when I pick a card that changes another card's type). I'm in the second dungeon, if that makes a difference.
― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:46 (one year ago) link
a lot of the cards have a "1 more" option which lets you pick again. If you manage to clear all the cards, you get a guaranteed shuffle time next battle. Otherwise, I think it only happens if you win a battle through an all out attack.
hot take: P4 was boring. P5 was great. P3 (just started) looks like it might take the cake for me though. I wish I liked p4 more than I do. A lot of my frustration probably came from trying to 100% and thus being overleveled pretty early on and not having much of a challenge in the game. But beyond that, ehhhhh the story was good but not fantastic.
― hrep (H.P), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 08:43 (one year ago) link
I'm using a sample size of 2, but this wouldn't be a Persona game if it didn't have at least one awful problematic heteronormative scene (I'm thinking of the fat phobic one with Yosuke). I kind of feel like I can't really recommend the series to others now, at least not without some serious caveats.
― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Sunday, 4 December 2022 22:35 (one year ago) link
*sigh* the fat phobia is not limited to one scene.
I also have to wrestle with some of my minmax impulses because a lot of guides say "beat the dungeon in as few days as possible (preferably one)," but then that really unbalances the gameplay -- a very long grind to get through the dungeon on the one hand, and then the life sim stuff that sometimes involves very limited player interaction.
― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 00:46 (one year ago) link
glad I skipped the crappy PSP port of P3 for this
Atlus messed up. They revealed Persona 3 Remake too early on their instagram pic.twitter.com/xycj3wZZ5d— Faz (@ScrambledFaz) June 8, 2023
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 8 June 2023 23:25 (nine months ago) link
also a P5 tactics game which might be fun?
PERSONA 5 TACTICA TRAILER!!releases 17/11/23 (17th november 2023) pic.twitter.com/sDklynkmaQ— JUNO 👾 (@junoharuto) June 8, 2023
lol i was literally just watching a tweet of P3 Reload
i don't care about already buying the crappy port, Atlus can have all my money in perpetuity
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 June 2023 23:26 (nine months ago) link
so none of the added content from FES/P3P will be in the P3 remake oh I see you Atlus, and like the sucker I am I'll buy the updated version in 3 years sighalso no kids shooting themselves in the head in the trailer? disgusting
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 11 June 2023 20:29 (nine months ago) link
this looks like a fun time though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoZA6YA7YYQ
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 11 June 2023 20:30 (nine months ago) link
Heard someone call it last Bible iv and now I'm like why aren't they calling this last Bible iv
― Ryan seaQuest (Will M.), Monday, 12 June 2023 02:17 (nine months ago) link
They being atlus
hey, there were persona games on the ps2, let's poll that generation
― Ryan seaQuest (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 July 2023 20:09 (eight months ago) link