I really love its soundtrack.

Never played it. How does the PSP version stand up?

>>88020
PSP version seems to be considerably easier in several regards, and has a part of the game I enjoyed(overworld exploring) completely removed. It also has a few typos, and apparently even a couple of untranslated lines.

But the general consensus is "It's Persona 3 on the go, I'll take twelve."

>>88016
Seconding.

I'm still busy with Peace Walker.

I picked up FES used and tried it, but it felt bogged down in a lot of bullshit. I did like the writing though. I probably shouldn't have tried to go for ALL the Social Links.

I prefer the SMT games to Persona, but both are good.

Persona is my cocaine.

...But I can't stop, they make me feel like I have friends... ;A;

I only played 4, but I did read that legendary LP of 3.

Sad ending is sad.

Better storyline than 4 but more obnoxious characters. Infinitely more difficult than 4 except I heard that P3PSP is easymodo. Hrm. Still love the game and have an enormous crush on Aegis and the ending made me cry like a bitch. Just fountains of tears. Great big body shaking sobs, the whole deal. It was messy.

But seriously SHUT UP FUUKA.

>>88045
>Fuuka
*GASP* THE ENEMY!

>>88069
FUUKA, QUICK, TELL ME HOW MANY THERE ARE! I'M DYING TO KNOW!

>>88071
THERE ARE FIVE ENEMIES, BUT THEY SEEM DISTRESSED! BE CAREFUUUL!
Seriously though, I'm seconding the Aigis-crush.

>Aegis
>The best
OH U SILLY PEOPLE

>Implying these aren't the best waifus.

>>88077
You posted the wrong picture.

>>88069

Been debating giving it a shot myself, but I lose patience with turn-based battle systems easily and I hear the final boss takes 2 hours to beat.

>>88079
AIGIS IS BEST WAIFU EVER GODDAMN.

>>88077
Chihiro is kind of creepy. She totally has a wet dream about you.

>>88080
Hnnng Elizabeth. A narrow second. After Aigis.

>>88080
Elizabeth struck me as a bit mental, but then again I never DID do all her date sidequests so I dunno.

Robot girls have always been my secret weakness.

P3 is infinite sadness if you contemplate the plot longer then you should, P4 is like some ray of sun shine that came out of nowhere in a SMT game and the best thing about it is it’s a happy ending well earned.

>>88038
They are the same series.

>>88079
>>Rise
>>best
NO.

>>Infinitely more difficult than 4 except I heard that P3PSP is easymodo.
If P3P is easier, it's probably because they give you complete control of your party...

>>88107
Fuck no. Naoto would be better if she had some time to actually be in the damn game and hang out with the rest of the crew, but she comes around so much later that you barely get a chance to know her. I've never played through her S.Link ever because I never have any goddamn time to do it. She joins the party and almost immediately after, shit gets real. She's cool, but I was never as attached to her as everyone else.

Plus, she is Miss fucking Exposition. God fucking damn. The game is wordy enough as it is.

>>88108
Don't you hate on my reverse trap detective girl. Without her exposition would fall in big random gaps in the story that they would stumble around thinking they figured something out without thinking about how this fits in the case. Those kids pretty much ran into the TV grasping at straws without pinning the MO on anyone before Naoto.

>>88110
I don't hate Naoto! Like I said, we don't get enough TIME with Naoto to really learn to like her. She only gets to "hang out" with the group once or twice, I believe. I wish she had been introduced to hanging out with the Scoobies sooner. And her S.Link becomes available way, WAY too late in the game AND you have to have max'd courage to start said S.Link. It's just not enough time, gamewise, to really form a solid opinion on her.

But seriously I love reverse traps and I think she's cute as a motherfucker, so it's not like I dislike her.

(But seriously, I know her exposition is important but ho-lee-shit. So much talking goddamn especially right there at the ass end of the game. This is why I hate silent Protagonists. Just listening to, basically, one person talk AT LENGTH is so frustrating sometimes. ESPECIALLY WHEN SHE IS SAYING SHIT I ALREADY FIGURED OUT ARRRRGH)

Pic semi-related. It makes me want a P4 anime so hard I could die.

>>88120
But P4 is already an anime, it just has grinding elements.

>>88122
oh u

>>88108
Usually, you get Naoto maxed in the second playthrough, when you have every stat at five.

>>88120
And now you know that each waifu has their own strengths and weaknesses.
...
BUT RISE IS THE BEST

Also, this comic is why I am terrified to actually play P3. I don't trust you, AI...

  >>88069

>>88163

Which is why they implemented controllable allies for P4 and P3P.

If Persona 5 deals with Persona-weilding gangsters, then my JoJo theory will be validated.

>>88196
There are rumors that the main character for 5 will be a hikikomori or something, personally I don't care as long as they mix up the beginning with the MC not being a transfer student but just someone no one noticed and the promotional images have the characters extend their hands. But Gangsters have always been in persona though, what the hell do you think the Nanjo group or Kirijo company were? “Legitimate businessmen”?

>>88163
It's really just Mitsuru who is a FUCKING IDIOT AJKGNJKAGJK.
Funny, because she claims to fight strategically, and is renowned for being some sort of genius.

Meanwhile, Junpei, the slapstick idiot, can always be counted on to back you up in battle, and use just the right moves at just the right time.
Except for his tendency to use Giant Fist on the Reaper. That move has like 30% accuracy, Junpei. Brave Blade plz.

>>88163
>Final Boss
>Charms Yukari
>Yukari uses Diahran on boss, healing every last bit of his health

ALL MY HATE

>>88163
I always did well with the NPC's, though from what I hear, I was the exception.

>>88199
Personally, I don't care so long as I get a gay option. No, matter how many homoerotic undertones Yosuke's S.Link had, it isn't the same.

>>88236
Same has happened to me, but I don't think I'm that far enough in the game yet, so it might be because they don't have enough options to fuck up yet.

>>88120
What they should've done was flipped Naoto's and Kubo's dungeons.

So my laptop is on the fritz, meaning all I have to do until some holds come in at the library is try Persona 3 and Devil May Cry again.

Picking up Persona 3, I find myself having a LOT more fun now that I'm not trying to go for all the social links. Also I met the monk, who is awesome.

Did anyone else laugh when they found out the Hermit Social link was an MMO?

>>88308
A Persona 2 MMO no less.

>>88308
A mostly dead P2 MMO if I remember the setting right. I was more surprised to learn how much of a booze hound the teacher was. I mean I know public education is hell but I guess this explains why she only teaches homeroom.

Here's an upgraded version of Fuuka.

DO YOU RIKE IT?

>>88319
Not really.

>>88308
I certainly did.
But then, if you know what each Arcana represents, it makes sense and then it only kinda looks like they're going for a pun.

(also, there's not enough Ms. Toriumi 34. And by not enough, I mean I don't think there's any)

>>88327
I've yet to meet Aegis, but so far Chihiro, Toriumi, and Elizabeth are my favorites.

Actually, playing this makes me wonder if there's any SMT Penny Arcade comics.

>>88337
Just this one, I think.

So I just beat Hermit, but the main plot has fuck all to do with what I'm about to bitch about:

The lack of real options never used to bother me with JRPGs. It kept things on a focused storyline, and I was fine with that. But now, as I'm doing some of these Social Links, I find these places where I'm going "oh, looks like the creators forgot to add that dialogue option here, must have been an oversight."

For example:
Chihiro takes Protag to the bookstore, and she finds this 3 Volume set she wants. She talks about how she'd have to save until graduation to meet the 18,000 yen prince, and how much she wants it. After that she comments on this businessman and his gold-digger, then the social link rises and runs off.

During all this, Protag is hauling around about 500,000 yen and often finds briefcases of 40,000 and up. I just find myself going "okay game, give me the optinon to buy them" but it never happens.

Similarly, you never get the option to confront or comment on the teacher being your MMO partner, even when she tells Protag's character that she is trying to seduce Protag himself.

I think part of my problem is that Protag is just a brick wall. He very rarely says anything of note, and when he does get the choice for a line that would actually imply personality, said line is usually just a dick option that seems like it would lock you out of content.

I guess I just think it would be better with
A: a more WRPGish dialogue system
or, since it's a JRPG,
B: AN ACTUAL FUCKING CHARACTER FOR A PROTAGONIST

...Sheesh, if I'm reacting this badly over Persona, I think I'm going to go nuts when Golden Sun DS finally comes out and we literally have nothing but inconsequential yes/no options for whatever silent protagonist Earth Adept they march out.

>>88484
I might actually die if someone made a Persona game with a few more western elements. Silent protags stopped being fun aaaaages ago. Give us some sort of personality or let us make our own goddamn.

>>88484
>Similarly, you never get the option to confront or comment on the teacher being your MMO partner, even when she tells Protag's character that she is trying to seduce Protag himself.
Patience, child, patience.

>>88487
Well I did the whole Social Link. Unless you mean that they actually integrate that into the storyline, in which case I've underestimated Atlus, because so far they Social Links seem entirely removed from the storyline.

They do however, give me the impression that, if Protag DID have a personality, it'd be of a snide playboy who manipulates people for food, sex, and crazy Persona powers.

>>88489
They actually integrate every social link into the storyline.

Don't worry about it, everyone underestimates Atlus.

And I agree about MC's personality, it kinda bugs me how he's such a manwhore.

>>88490
...I honestly can't imagine how most of those would fit into the storyline (aside of Death and Fool of course). I've been spoiled for most of it this include who Pharos is, that the Chairmen is a villain, what the relationship between Shinji and Ken is and how it ends, what Aigis did to Protag, what happens to the Strega members, and a fair bit about The Answer, but I guess I'll see.

Really, the businessman alone would be worth it to see. I don't like him (and how could anyone really), but damn if he isn't the funniest thing in the game so far.

I'm giving this game a shot. Is there anything major I should know before making any real progress? I've kinda fucked up already a few times with that student asking me questions the teacher asks him and giving him the wrong answers, but figure I can make it up later or something.

>>88502
Finish all the dungeons as soon as possible so you can spend plenty of time leveling up your S. Links.

>>88486
If they tried to give him a personality they might as well let you choose and shape your "main" persona. The point of making him devoid of any traits before the game is to allow the player a better sense of making some all experienced messiah out of some random teenager. I don't know if it would work if you took out the slient MC.

>>88512
Suddenly, MASS EFFECT WITH DEMONS AND TEENAGERS.

>>88502
The only thing you are losing with those exchanges is an opportunity to level your charm. Social Links are something else entirely.

So yeah I played Persona 3 FES the incorrect way when I first tried it. Trying to balance out all the Social Links instead of just going for whoever I liked was just a road to madness.

>>88513
i would play the FUCK out of that you have no fucking clue. it is all i would play from now until the day i died.

>>88600
And the sad part is... so would I. ;A;

>>88513
SOMEONE DRAW GARRUS SUMMONING HIS PERSONA

>>88614
That's why it wouldn't work. No one would want to play anything else Altus makes. Death from success is far more painful than of failure.

So guys I just got Persona 4 a few days back and I'm up to Yukiko's Shadow. Are there any interesting side quests, Social Links, or even some general tips? I've never really been too good at JRPGs that aren't Nintendo related.

>>88635
The best time to grind is on rainy days. If you don't have anything for the fox that's the only thing you can do besides study or waste money.

>>88625
Here you go.

Someone explain the appeal of Yukari to me. She's pretty bitchy.

>>88666
She's a healer.

>>88666
Nice 666, dude.

As for Yukari? She stops being bitchy eventually. It's all about getting to know the cast. They're pretty obnoxious stereotypical characters during the game's plot, but their personality and stuff really shines during their S.Links. well, the girls anyways. I haven't had a chance to play P3P so i don't know about the guys.

>>88666
Like other bros said, she gets less bitchy. Less bitchy Yukari is my...third favorite female.

But the top 2 are Aigis and Elizabeth, who share ALL OF MY LOVE, so third place is still pretty damned impressive.

Is the series still considered an experiment between Philemon and Nyarlathotep in 3 and 4? The continued presence of the butterfly motif, Igor, and the Velvet room leads me to believe that Philemon is still around I guess, but we've not seen Nyarlathotep since Persona 2.

>>88666
Persona 3 is a game where everyone hates each other for a number of reasons. Without the MC dating and keeping them together SEES would probably kill each...oh wait never mind.
>>88686
Philemon is referenced only as his signature butterfly that you save with but I'm hoping 5's plot centers on the absence of one while the other is around particularly Nyarlathotep waking up without his opposite and freaking out. Each of their actions has to counterbalance the other if I remember the original 3 games right so I'm thinking a Lucifer without a God.

>>88712
I'm actually kind of curious as to what their relationship to Nyx and Izanami is, or how they measure up to them.

That, or I'd like a crossover between the main SMT series and the Persona series.

Nyarlathotep, God, and Lucifer trying to out-bastard each other would be glorious. And then Philemon wins just because the Protagonists bulldoze the others while he has the sense to sit things out.

>Protag literally sells himself to Elizabeth for a Persona

>No one will ever be able to make a cute Fuuka
>;_;

>>88730
That's because Fuuka isn't cute to begin with.

I TOLD YOU ABOUT TARTARUS MAN

>Beating down The Reaper
Also I've pretty much finished all the Social Links and shit that I actually care about. All that's left is Aigis and screwing around with Mamoru, other than that I'm pretty much set to fight Nyx and finish The Journey.

So I was about to do a bit of extra grinding in Tartarus when suddenly:

>Well I put the endgame armor on everyone, time for some-
>Oh hey, how long has that door been behind the stairs?
>Oh, a bonus dungeon. Well at this stage I should-
>OH GOD I WAS SO WRONG FUCK WHY ARE THE SNAKES RAPING ME

Look, goddammit, Atlus. Just make P4PSP already and get on with it. I want to be in a loveless relationship predicated on lies with Adachi and i want to make horribly inappropriate passes at Hunkle Dojima. Or just PRETEND I am making passes at him. I would like to fuck Daisuke if you don't mind kthnx.

But seriously I would actually kill every last one of you for an Adachi S.Link

>>88863
EVERY
LAST
ONE OF YOU.

>>88782
>>88832
What the fuck? Am I tripfagging in my sleep or something?
That's exactly what's going on in my current playthrough...

Did you use cheap tricks on the Reaper or best him in the ring of honor?

>>88883
Considering I don't know any cheap tricks, all I could do was keep hitting him until he died. By far the hardest fight in the game for me.


ANYWAY, I've officially finished the Journey, so it's time for a long fucking wall of reactions, nitpicks, and other crap.

First off, on the final boss:
I've been listening to Battle For Everyone's Souls since before I really even knew exactly what Persona was about. It's SO FUCKING GLORIOUS to actually fight the battle it comes from, even ifbecause of said battle is really long and involves the fusion of your own True Arcana and an Eldritch Abomination blathering on about the Arcana.

That said: fuck how Nyx likes to raise that Moon veil every other turn. It's like I'm fighting Vayne in FF12 and he would raise that invincibility barrier for 10 minutes at a time because my party was 3 times his level. ...Okay so maybe it wasn't THAT bad. Otherwise, pretty straightforward fight. I was severely over-leveled due to fucking around in the Bonus Dungeon (I beat the Reaper before I even noticed said dungeon existed though).

Also, Social Link endings!
>Tower
>Star
>Magician
Both pretty straightforward, not much to say.

>Strength
>Justice
Both pretty much act like they did in the 10th Level. Fair enough.

>Hanged Man
He Mad.

>Moon
>Devil
Shine on your crazy fucking diamonds. Especially President Tanaka. He seems to have risen to the level of "Walking Coolface."

>Sun
You know, I didn't think anything in Persona 3 was going to be more depressing than the Sun Social Link. Apparently I hadn't considered that the ending would be talking to his mother. ;_;

>Hermit
THIS IS THE BEST SCENE IN THE GAME.

Other than that:

Death, Judgment, Fool, and Aeon already have the main storyline.

I never finished Chariot, Emperor, or Fortune. I will NEVER finish Temperance because I LOATHE Bebe's English/Japanese/French mashup. Yes, I know it's a necessary evil, but it's also one I'm allowed to avoid.

I didn't ever actually start Empress or Priestess. I've no idea who Lovers is, so I'm just going to say Issac and Miria are in this game because that amuses me.


My only real complaint I hate that Protag is mostly silent. Either make him a character, or let me roleplay. I do admit that they did eventually take care of most of my initial complaints about this though. Other than that, the Persona Fusion could use some streamlining here and there so that it doesn't require a goddamn encyclopedia and a shitload of cash to figure out the right fusions and more time could be used for Social Links so that scheduling is less insane. Oh and I wish I could have the option control my part directly. I like that it tries to make you feel like part of a team instead of a puppet master, but considering that you spend the game manipulating the lives of people to increase your wealth and Persona power, all it really does is make you feel like a different KIND of puppet master. Also sometimes the AI just plain does stupid shit (but less often than AI usually does).

Other than that, it's just Protag sleeping in Aigis' lap... well apparently that's how the original Persona 3 ended, and then The Answer just [spoiler]kills him[spoiler]. That, plus general negative reaction to it, makes me wonder if I really want to spend the 30 hours on The Answer.

>>88902
All your complaints are fixed in P4.

And no, you shouldn't play The Answer, it really does RUIN Persona 3.

>>88902
PLAY PERSONA 4 YOU RATFUCKER

Also:
>Isaac and Miria
>the Lovers

...fucking awesome.

>>88905
Funny story: I actually considered handpainting a set of Baccano tarot cards once. Never did get around to doing that.

>>88904
>>88905
Well to be honest, if I were to pick up another Persona game right now (I'm not, I have to finish other games and finally read AND ANOTHER THING), then I would pick up both Persona 2 titles.

Persona 1 is not really worth bothering with, or so I'm told.

>>88906

Why you gotta be such a ballbuster?

>>88902
Lovers is Yukari.

I'm curious: since there's no way I'll be playing the P4 game anytime soon, is the manga an acceptable substitute?

>>88914
No, but the Hiimdaisy comic is.

A shame that it's never going to be finished.

>>88966
Oh ye of little faith.

>>88967
The last time she put out anything was what, April? And that was just Miles Edgeworth.

>>88970
And? She never updates regularly.

I need my MGS4 comics badly.

P1/P2: Lovecraft Mythos

P3: Greek Mythos (sort of)

P4: Japanese Mythos

P5: Hopefully Norse or Celtic Mythology, and maybe tie up the overarching story arc.

I heard the protagonist of P5 is actually going to be a hikki.

If that's so, then apparently Atlus is making Yume Nikki: Social Link Edition.

I think it would be neat to explore more of Teddy's sort. As I understand it, Teddy from P4 is a friendly shadow, so it would be interesting to have the whole cast aside of the Protagonist, Igor, and his Assistant (who could be a proper social link) be sentient shadows.

You could do it like Silent Hill 4 and have portals to the various dungeons and "safe" areas in the Protag's room itself.

>>89090

>>89090
I would give just about anything, besides my chances for a P4PSP with S.Link-able Adachi goodness, for that rumor to be true. I'd love to be the hikkikomori who no one at school ever noticed and all that stat building and friend-making is like your character turning some kind of new leaf and changing their life forever.

Oh, and I want to be able to pick my gender from the start. None of this "wait two years to get the PSP version where I can finally have a vagina." No. Fuck that. I KNOW how Atlus operates. Their games will be packed to bursting with sinfully attractive menfolk and I want to get all up in their britches. The only reason I didn't fuck Yosuke in P4 is because there was no "Be Really Gay" option for anyone but Kanji. And Kanji isn't even that gay because Naoto gives him The Boner.

But now I'm on a tangent. A sexy tangent, but a tangent regardless. I want to be a girl and I want Atlus to take even a small page from BioWare's book and let me roleplay a little. S.Link'an is awesome, but less so when you need a guidebook for your conversations to maximize the fucking effectiveness of said conversation. Let all of them be effective! Or do like ME2 and let me earn the ability to unlock "Charm" or "Intimidate" speech options.

AND STOP MAKING ME SILENT, ATLUS. throw me a fucking bone here goddamn.

>>88914
It would be, if it were finished. It's not even past the first dungeon yet (in translated form, at least)

>>89095
Well if they're making him/her a hikki, the odds of him being an established character are higher. This would leave roleplaying in the dust still, but if we get a real character I'm not going to complain about that.

Anyway, assuming my scenario, all that stat-building and social link making would be with SHADOWS, so I'm not entirely sure it would make sense for our intrepid hero to suddenly turn over a new leaf. Unless it's a "my friends on the other side convinced me to change myself here" thing. Which I guess it would be come to think of it.

Also interesting (at least to me) in this scenario would to have another rival group of Persona users like STREGA, only this time they're trying to prevent the end of the world, but by killing all shadows. They could act more like the heroes in 3 (and presumably 4) do, and you could even encounter them level grinding in special encounters. Or something else like that.

>>88914
Do like I did and get a PS2 emulator. It's perfectly stable except for a drop in framerate when lots of stuff is happening on screen.

>>89114
>Running a PS2 emulator on my shitty laptop
I don't think that's going to fly anon.

http://twitter.com/P3_Protagonist

I thought this was fairly entertaining.

>>89163
These are enjoyable when done right. God_Damn_Batman is another good one.

>>89164
But they are still hurt by Twitter's terrible formatting.

>>89114
Emulating SMT games are we?

>>89211
sweet christ, how are you doing that. i can't even make a DS emulator run properly for fuck's sake.

>>89211
What the fuck kind of supercomputer do you have?

>>89095
So what you're saying is you want ATLUS to SAY WHATEVER YOU WANT TO HEAR about dating male characters and yet you want bioware trivial choices. Your erratic fan girlism is going to be the death of you one of these days.
>>89103
P3 characters were used and P4 were just trying to stop murders caused by a whiny little bitch and someone who gave him power to do so. They were still taking out shadows that more often or not attacked them first or were going to hurt people who had no ability to defend themselves. A good hikimori angle would be for the MC to start caring about going outside just to save I guess both shadows and humans for each other and try to stop the various groups in motion trying to tear the fragile balance apart for some ideal. Like various Big Bads toying with several other groups or something and to fit in Nurse's ideas have a chance to date/befriend all of them if you play your cards right.

Opinions on Persona 2?
I gave it a shot a while ago. I really liked the themes and design. The game is slow as fuck though, couldn't stand it for long.

Also heard it was highly butchered by localization.

>>89245
Why were you playing Eternal Punishment before Innocent Sin?

>>89247
I don't think the patch was out when I played it

Actually you know what I want? A male support character who is also batshit insane. For example, if the enemy is weak to fire:
>The flames... IT FEARS THEM. BURN IT! BURRRRRRN IT!

And his support dialogue can change as you increase his social link. At max he'd say things like this:
>The enemy dares to approach you my liege, CRUSH THEM FOR THEIR IMPUDENCE!

>>89252

Actually I've got your P5 right here.

>>89254

Having two old men doing a Statler and Waldorf routine would also be great.

>>89252
That would be awesome.
>>89254
That IS awesome.

>>89238
> Your erratic fan girlism is going to be the death of you one of these days.
I don't see why dating whoever the fuck I want (well not whoever because Dojima is related to me and also 42 god dammit) and being more of my own character cannot peacefully coexist. In fact, to me, it seems like the two would go hand in hand.

(That said, yeah, my fangirlism is probably going to be the death of me. A sexy death, but yeah no someone is going to shoot me in the face just to put me out of my studly misery.)

I wonder what would happen if the next Persona game actually punished your for infidelity.

No, not this "oh you can move right on to the next one once the Link is maxed" business, that pretty much just makes you seem more like an asshole that keeps getting away with it than a hero. No, I mean some REAL punishment. Seeing the look on a neckbeard's face when his attempt to move right on to the next chick only to find that not only does she get angry, the last one's Social Link drops from Max to 2 would be priceless.

This would also force more replays and alternate builds instead of just having the Protag be the lord of all Arcana.

Or maybe they did that in Persona 4, I don't know because I didn't play it.

>>89341
Well, you weren't punished in 4 for being a pimp (in fact, there weren't any punishments for having multiple girlfriends, iirc), but you could max out a girl's S.Link without tapping that. Which was nice because Chie was my bro, not my girlfriend.

>>89342
Not even the "you can only date one at a time" thing that 3 had? Wow.

>>89343
It doesn't really matter when both games only have you stay around for most of a year. If anything the next one should allow you to play an entire stay in high school. Let those bonds and S links change some things in the next year and who or what you can do.

>>89252
>The flames... IT FEARS THEM. BURN IT! BURRRRRRN IT!
I...I want this. A lot.
But how would it work for the other elements, aside from the physical ones and Dark?
"Wind lashes its flesh...RENDER IT FROM THE BONE, TEAR IT TO RIBBONS WITH GARU!"?

>>89348
>This enemy is so pathetic, a gentle breeze shall destroy it! USE GARU TO SCATTER IT TO THE WINDS!
A bit wordy, but oh well.

Actually BATSHIT SUPPORT doesn't have to be male, I just said that because, as far as I know, there have been no male support characters.

You could always just get a different one depending on your gender.

You know come to think of it, it's odd that Persona 3 FES has an M rating while the worst things that are in it are implied sex and a world destroying god, two things which are in the average E game these days.

Meanwhile Soul Nomad and the World Eaters, featuring prostitution, rape, genocide, and slavery (of the regular, child, sex, and CHILD SEX varieties), MOST OF WHICH YOU YOURSELF DO IN THE SECOND STORYLINE skates through with a T.

>>89358
>You know come to think of it, it's odd that Persona 3 FES has an M rating while the worst things that are in it are implied sex and a world destroying god,

And shooting yourself in the head a lot.

>>89350
Eh, it kinda comes of as Yandere-ish, so it'd be a nice change of pace to have a guy do it rather than some cute girl.
'Course it would also be funny if the guy was like a big D&D head or something. A typical basement dweller who's given all the magic powers he wants and he goes absolutely nuts with it.
>>89358
It might be because of the religious overtones and they're afraid of soccer-moms going batshit over a game aimed at adolescents with stuff like that, but that's just me pulling excuses out of my ass.
A little off-topic here, I've never been able to find Soul Nomad ANYWHERE around me. I'm a big NIS fan and this is supposed to be one of their best, but nobody's ever even heard of it when I go to a store.

>>89361
You know, I honestly got so used to it that I forgot about it.

>>89362
Have you played Disgaea Infinite? It's so rare that a Visual Novel that's not just some random sex thing gets an official release, I wondered if it was actually good.

Also it seems you can't even buy Soul Nomad (or indeed, much of anything) from NIS America's official story, so that sucks.


But yeah I did picture the female version being a yandere. The male would just be bloodthirsty (in as much as Shadows can be said to have blood).

>>89358
Persona 3 has a T-rating, though, funny enough.
Know what one of the special Personas added to FES that wasn't in P3 was?
Mara.
Google it.

>>89366
>Does so
Uh.... OKAY. Fair enough I guess.

>>89383
You can imply all that stuff as much as you want and get away with it. NIS doesn't technically show any of it because they only have barebones anime characters switching expression slides and general RTS grinding. But when you show Mara, particularly Kazuma Kaneko's Mara in his entire chariot riding glory, well that's too Japanese to not be M outside of there.

>>89388
>>89383
I would give just about anything to see the look on the faces of the rating's board when they were presented with MARA.

"Okay yeah so we have this game and it's about teenagers shooting themselves in the head to summon their poke--er, personas in order to fight monsters."
"...Okay, that's weird, but that's not so bad, I guess."
"Also this is one of the persona."
Cue Mara in all it's TENTACLES AND DICKS glory.
"._. oh. um. is that."
"a giant penis, yes."

And that's why Atlus isn't invited to the Christmas party any more.

>>89403
One of the best things I've ever read was the ratings board's review of Cho Aniki Zero. Seriously, check that shit out.

>>89403
>summon their poke--er, personas
>Megami Tensei: 11 September 1987
>Pokemon Red and Greed: February 27, 1996
IF I SEE THIS NONSENSE AGAIN, THERE WILL BE MAD IN THE WATER

>Playing the Answer
JESUS, WHEN THEY SAY IT'S HARDER, THEY FUCKING MEAN IT.

I mean granted, it seems to just be the usual case of difficulty in an RPG where "harder" just means "more grind" which isn't helped by the apparent lack of social links, but still.

>>89349
>>89252
>>89348
I demand this mad support character.

>>89403
A giant penis that ejaculates fire.
You know that's how it works.
He's giving all of your enemies facials. Of fire.

>>89365
>Disgaea Infinite

Isn't it available on the PS3 network? That's how I got Fate Unlimited Codes.

If we are still talking about Mara, did you know that in p3, they gave him the best Fire spell in the game. I'm not kidding. He got an AoE Ragnarok that no one else could get. It was the only AoE Fourth tier spell in the game.

>>89403
Is there anything you wouldn't give everything to accomplish? Nurse you need to stop living in so many extremes.
>>89454
Well Buddhism has more cultural background to Japan outside of a fat man statue and self righteous hippies. Mara isn’t some regular demon, to some schools of doctrine he is a fucking corrupter and Master of Evil there to basically reverse everything Buddhism strives to teach by making people only care about immediate and earthly thrills like wanton sex. He didn’t try to tempt any Budda, he almost got Siddhattha Gotama himself. Kaneko was brilliant in basically making him a demonic phallus as he is half literal entity and half symbolism and nothing is more symbolic of wasted potential, spiritual or otherwise, like a giant fire spewing dick.

It fits with 3’s great enemy Apathy and in several senses death of the self or striving to achieve anything greater in life. And it makes sense to put him in the devil arcana, not simply that he is temptation but that he temptation of the very thing you’re trying to ultimately fight against and summoning him is literally using fire to combat fire.

>>89454
What does it say about Minato's psyche when his most powerful Persona is a penis in a chariot?

>>89463
NEVER! Go beyond the impossible, kick reason to the curb, row row fight the power, so forth and so on

>>89508
Actually his most powerful Personas are Jesus, Satan, and Lucifer.

>>89511
Satan and Lucifer are the same person.

>>89508
I wouldn't say powerful but more influenced by the situation he's in. Almost all of them can be fused indefinitely to raise their stats to nuke status...unless you're talking about natural and inheritable skills. I always thought Alice was one of his best mainly because of the awesome Die For Me! skill. Roll that into Thanatos with Megidolaon and you create the perfect Death Arcana.
>>89514
Eh, that's debatable.

>>89514
HAHA OH WOW

A few years ago I played P2, and thought Maya was cool, so I joined my school's newspaper staff to be like her. :3

At the time I had been totally confused about what I wanted to do in life, and joining the newspaper staff made me realize how much I loved journalism. Now I'm majoring in it.

/cool story.

Oh lawdy I would play the shit out of this.

I mean come on:
PLAYABLE IGOR.

>>89531
>Playable Akinari
Nobody wants to play the character whose health bar constantly drains.

  GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!

>>89982
Great video!

If you like dudes.

>>89983

So I was thinking of trying Persona 2 (The Answer and a number of other unfinished pieces in my pile can go fuck themselves), but then remembered I have some unfinished business from way back when...

>>89982
Oh thank GOD they replaced Yukiko's voice actress.

>>89993
I thought her old voice was hilarious.

>>89982
I never knew this existed. I died laughing.

>>89991
Play Nocturne. Shit is so cash.

Got back from Scott Pilgrim last night. Had a dream that was some vague combination of Persona 4 and SP.

Woke up, thought about it for a second. Everyone in the game is inexplicably skilled at fighting with a weapon, they use phrases like "I leveled up!", face their Nega-Selves in a sense.

:|

Guess what i found on /v/!

>The game’s premise appears to be about a man who wakes up every night from his dreams. That’s what the text in pink tells us. An info box says Catherine is in development for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Link: http://www.siliconera.com/2010/08/17/introducing-catherine-the-first-hd-game-from-the-persona-team/

>>90293
...What? AND WHY IS MY SISTER IN THIS GAME?

More delicious screen shots.

So... it's a game about a succubus? I'm just guessing here.

THIS WINTER... SPIKE SPIEGEL AND SYLVIA CHRISTEL TEAM UP TO TAKE DOWN THE TARTARUS ONCE AND FOR ALL

>>90326
FUND IT

Also, Mitsuru cheesecake.

>>90329
Now why couldn't the love hotel scene happen with her?

>>90319
Try Lucifer instead. Every time he/she has appeared in SMT he/she has always taken the form of a blond haired blue eyed person.

>>89982
God. This person needs to actually be hired as a writer for games, because I would play any game he wrote.

>>90365
>He

>>90344

This new game isn't an SMT game. At least, that we know of for now.

>>90380
Only the fucking Japanese can make Pizza so sexy.

In real life she'd just get tomato sauce on her tits and some minor burns.

>>90371
What kind of worthless cunt wouldn't know something I do like hiimdaisy's GENDER!?

>>90382
>Taking that seriously.

>Your face when Junpei is going to die alone

>>90390
I mean what kind of person wouldn't saw off their own leg without knowing the glory that is hiimdasy?

This "hiimdasy" if s/he is so named, cannot possibly be female because if she was I would have to dedicate the rest of my life to making her my bride, and I just don't have time for that right now.

>>90422
She's an admitted woman going by the name "Peachifruit".

hiimdaisy is the just the name of her comic journal.
hiimdaisy
hi im daisy
Hi, I'm Daisy!

  So trailer for the new Catherine game, expect mindfucks and a lot of fanservice.

>>90432
If there isn't at least one toothed vagina in this game, I will be most disappoint.

>>90432
PERFECTION.

"OH SHIT, SHE'S A DUDE"

The Sheep are chosen people who have been effectively chosen to die, but it takes time for it to happen, which is why Vincent is only in his boxers and has horns in his dream. All the people who become sheep in the dream will eventually die, and soon. The first person to die is the falling sheep we see at the start, he is also the person who is featured in the news report on the "loney man's death". This game will focus on Vincent trying to escape which will somehow involve Catherine, most likely a deal with the devil sort of scenario, maybe the deal is that if he doesn't want to die Catherine will make his girlfriend into a man.

Catherine of course will somehow be involved, maybe making the whole sheep thing happen. The succubus theory could play in here as well, maybe somewhere in the dream-sheep transformation process she visits the victim, offering the victim the choice of satisfying her until she gets bored of him (Talking sores and absolutely empty balls here) and staying alive or giving him the woman of his dreams but making her a man, hell it's more likely to be both considering Vincent has allready been confirmed to fuck her, unless it's a split story path.

>>90395
>your face when Junpei Iori grows up to be Larry Butz
Seriously. Think about it for a few moments. Then go check their years of birth.

>>90443
What's with all this she's a dude stuff?

>>90458
I assumed it was because we're all dudes.
Picture not related.

Someone added some subs to the trailer, have fun~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZfTlqB-xyc&feature=recentf

I had a dream last night that Catherine was Persona 5, except it had nothing to do with what was advertised. It was about a fat kid who got stuck on the internet in his avatar's form (a la .hack//SIGN), finds out some conspiracy about a girl who's also stuck on the internet, but it turns out she's fat in real life as well.

Also something about a yellow duck he has to retrieve a message from but is unable to because there are a lot of yellow ducks scattered about there.

>replaying Persona 4

You know, Dojima, there are a multitude of reasons Adachi is completely bugfuck insane and you are probably about half of them.

Seriously, dude, it's not even funny at the beginning of the game. You're just sort of a douche to him.

>>91479
>Dojima, pic related

Actually, forget Persona Metalocalypse. HERE'S Persona 5!

Freddie is your support character.

The best part of replaying P4 is the foreshadowing! :D You'd never notice it unless you already knew this big spoiler.

>Yosuke: As if the culprit wore bright yellow clothes at the scene of the crime.

:B

>>91479
It's really fun to play this again and notice all the shit Adachi pulls. He's still almost my favorite.

>>91508
It is, seriously, the most fun fucking thing on the planet. It's so insane when you think about it. I mean, the whole Adachi is the killer thing doesn't come out of nowhere. There are hints and lines ("I'm the smartest guy in the precint!" that should have tipped people off, but all that information is presented so casually that you'd never even NOTICE it.

Seriously, Adachi, you are such an asshole but you are the most awesome asshole on the planet.

My second playthrough, a chill ran down my spine every time Adachi was on the screen.

Adachi isn't an asshole, he was just giving those damn gold-diggers what they deserved.

>>91515
Really? Because I giggle like a faggot every single time. The difference between me and Doc, I guess

>>91517
Everything he says seems so threatening!

Ya know, you'd think that there would be a Jack-in-Irons to go with Jack Frost and Pyro Jack.

I just started playing P3.

Is it sad that I'm much more social IRL because of the game?

The end was retarded
so was the Answer

Still kinda fun but I hope P4 is better

>>91598
General consensus for P4 seems to be "P3 has a better story, but P4 has better characters." And... yeah, that sounds about right to my ears. P4's storyline is still good, but the people in the game are what really make it.

(Also, you know, not-horrible voice acting. No more Fuuka-esque support! :D)

>>91601

The thing about P4's story is that it has a few too many red herrings and plot twists and not all of them really make much sense or are that fulfilling.

There's two "murderers" in the whole of the story. The second one kills a rather unlikable character and he himself isn't that compelling of a character. The guy who you're basically chasing down for most of the game turns out to not be a murderer at all and the REAL killer technically only kills two people at the beginning of the game. Admittedly the fact he's basically playing ya'll for chumps throughout the year is kinda enough reason for you to hate him, but as far as antagonists go he doesn't really do anything throughout the game more than "YOU CAN'T CATCH ME! NEENER NEENER NEEEENER!" at least when you're aware of who he is.

Not to mention the REAL orchestrator of events comes right out of left field, expects us to take her as some terrifying omnipotent force and only really seems to be a passive, destructive force. Not to mention you beat her because of THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP and BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE IN YOURSELF and because of that you can LEVEL UP TO SUPER SAYAN 3 and then defeat her due to deus ex machina beam and- yea it's just real hammey is all I'm saying.

But yea. Characters really save P4.

Yosuke = Kinda annoying at times but nice none the less.
Chie = Again. Kinda annoying but pretty nice.
Yukiko = Meh.
Kanji = Total. Fucking. Bro.
Rise = D'aawwwww
Teddie = He's... definitely something. I mean his voice is pretty good when he's in his bear costume. But then you see his human form and... well you just kinda sit there going "lol whut".
Naoto = HHHNNNNNGGGGGG.

I won't get into the Slinks but I will say they were memorable in their own right for the most part.

>>90443
So what I finally get my Gay option and it's a bad ending. I fucking hate you sometimes Atlus.

>>91607
I think if P4 had ended with Adachi, had made the whole build-up to Ameno Saigiri more climatic, it wouldn't be such an issue. But yeah, the POWER OF FRIENDSHIP bullshit was always hammy, but it just seemed even worse in P4. Izanami herself was never really that threatening either.

Rise is probably one of my favorite SMT characters.

My favorite of all time currently is fucking Raidou.

He's so fucking awesome.

I was all for you fucking the teacher, but come on, dude. You're way too young to get married.

As a matter of fact, I honestly doubt this relationship of yours is actually two-sided.

>>92241
I thought that for awhile, but then he started talking about the school being in an uproar and I thought "oh he was telling the truth after all" but no, he was just an idiot.

>>92241
God... dammit, Kenji. You lovable moron. I just... god dammit.

Also, in other S.Link related news: I continually delight at the fact that the Devil S.Link in Persona 4 is an oversexed, belligerent Nurse. Every time I rank up and see "Nurse" on the screen, I have myself a little giggle.

>>92305
Wow Nurse, who'd you have to shank to get into a video game?

>>92306
Man, I don't even know, but I get to molest the Main Character and be bitchy to everyone and basically be awesome. It's... pretty amazing.