Kids, shoot yourself in the head and gain super powers! The SMT / Megaten / Persona thread

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

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.

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.

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...

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.

Just in from Gamefly. Looking to devote the better part of my weekend to it.

Except now I'm reading I should really get the special edition instead...

... which i promptly bought, like a good consumer.

oh my gawwwwwwwwd, I spent two and a half hours playing this last night and i am not yet past the opening sequence!

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.

fucking love persona 3, can i just say. I stopped playing it a couple of months ago to wait FES.

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?

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

just dropped through the mail box

nggggggggggggh

i'm about 30 hours into this. i want to see what happens next, but playing for 60+ hours more? uhhhhhhhh....

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?

if you play 4 first it'll be hard to play your copy of 3.

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

which game?

oh sorry yeah, P3: FES : D

http://www.dokuganryu.com/scans/megaten/p3/

http://bulk.destructoid.com/ul/user/3/31671-122223-DSCF2272JPG-468x.jpg

waht

is that

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.

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.

^^ wow, I'd really like to play these someday...

who wants to sell/lend me their copy of p4/p3:expanded edition or whatever

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

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.

jesus christ, I need this game

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

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

i just found out there's an extra dungeon & ending to P4.
must. fight. urge. to. keep. playing.

bah wish I could play this on my PS3

issues with backward functionality are a major sticking point in me not buying a ps3
Also, i don't want one.

in fairness, mine was a gift

I'm in Portland, west coast

other side of the country :(

*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

"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?"

"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?"

http://www.decisionproblem.com/persona3-1.gif

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

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

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?

Got P3:fes used for $20 today. Did they leave the japanese language track on here or must I suffer bad Anglo voice actors?

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.

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"

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?

yeah. u can check the calendar in game to see what day is back 2 school for planning s.links

I don't like the overly structured day periods.

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

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

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 sigh
also no kids shooting themselves in the head in the trailer? disgusting

this looks like a fun time though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoZA6YA7YYQ

Heard someone call it last Bible iv and now I'm like why aren't they calling this last Bible iv

They being atlus

hey, there were persona games on the ps2, let's poll that generation