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U.T. Raptor
May 11, 2010

Are you a pack of imbeciles!?

Alteisen posted:

Someone posted this ranking list from Japan from the Persona games.



About as awful as I expected, I disagree with pretty much everything.

And I'm dropping the P4 anime, they've completely butchered Kanji.
The only problem with this list is that Yousuke is as high as he is :colbert:. Thought Naoto would be higher than Chie though, given the former seems to have more fanart than the latter (if the listings on Danbooru are representative, anyway).

Radish posted:

Honestly Yosuke's popularity is what intrigues me the most since he doesn't fit any of the usual stereotypes for Japanese fan popularity.
:ssh: The fans like to pair him with the MC.

Policenaut posted:

Shinjiro is up there pretty high, and he's threatening and not very effeminate at all.
Fangirls love the Fem!C/Shinjiro pairing too.

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Freak Futanari
Apr 11, 2008

TurnipFritter posted:

Anyway, here's the Persona rankings:
1. Izanagi
2. Thanatos
3. Alice
4. Jack Frost
5. Orpheus (tied)
5. Mara (tied)
7. Yoshitsune
8. Jiraiya
9. Konohana Sakuya
10. Black Frost (tied)
10. Jack Lantern (tied)
10. Scathach (tied)
10. Beelzebub (tied)
14. Cu Chulainn (tied)
14. Lucifel (tied) (This is sparkly angel Lucifer, right?)
16. Cerberus
17. Koryuu (tied)
17. Takamikazuchi (tied)
17. Messiah (tied)
20. Lucifer


These aren't getting enough love.

Really surprised that Izanagi is in first, considering how... boring it is. At least Mara is pretty high up. :v: Otherwise it's pretty much how i'd imagine it to be, really.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


U.T. Raptor posted:

:ssh: The fans like to pair him with the MC.


I guess they are just that desperate for that with the P4 cast lacking in pretty/cool guys they have to settle for Yosuke to satiate their need for boy love. I'm surprised there's no Main character x Gender Swapped Naoto for that (maybe there is I don't want to look).

U.T. Raptor posted:


Fangirls love the Fem!C/Shinjiro pairing too.

At least that one was in the game. He's the best male character and female protagonist fits the game better than the male one in my opinion.


The Persona list is terrible that most of those are just demons from Nocturne and not any of the Kaneko designed stylized ones that were redrawn specifically for the Persona series.

Catalina
May 20, 2008



I think the real travesty of the list is that Junpei is nowhere in the top characters.

Radish posted:

I guess they are just that desperate for that with the P4 cast lacking in pretty/cool guys they have to settle for Yosuke to satiate their need for boy love.

:colbert: Well, if they make a remake of Persona 4 with a female protagonist, there would be no need for that, would there?

Policenaut
Jul 11, 2008

On the moon... they don't make Neo Kobe Pizza.

U.T. Raptor posted:

Fangirls love the Fem!C/Shinjiro pairing too.

Yeah, okay I'll accept that. When I played the Female path in P3P I went with Shinjiro before his month was up.

drat it, Shinjiro you needed to be in the game longer.

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008

Catalina posted:

I think the real travesty of the list is that Junpei is nowhere in the top characters.

but Junpei was only important to the plot as a satellite character of Chidori, who actually made it on because she's an awesome character and a bro

Turncoat Mommy
Oct 3, 2010

I believe in you.
There's a silver lining to every story, Ken isn't on that list.

Fred is on
Dec 25, 2007

Riders...
IN SPACE!
This list makes more sense to me if I imagine that the poll had every P4 character a selectable answer and every other character was a write-in vote.

I'm surprised that there's a P2 character in there at all, to be honest.

Catalina
May 20, 2008



Pornographic Memory posted:

but Junpei was only important to the plot as a satellite character of Chidori, who actually made it on because she's an awesome character and a bro

I know you're joking, but for a second there, I actually wanted to punch you through the internet. :sassargh:

U.T. Raptor
May 11, 2010

Are you a pack of imbeciles!?

I've seen stupider polls, like that one Naruto poll soon after the timeskip where the main character was down at #4 :v:

Or pretty much any of the Gundam ones.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


I recall the One Piece fan polls always had Ace at the top even though he appeared in like one chapter until he got his rear end caught and executed.

Nessa
Dec 15, 2008

Alteisen posted:

And I'm dropping the P4 anime, they've completely butchered Kanji.

Huh? How have the butchered Kanji? I think they've been handling Kanji just fine. :confused:

MechaX
Nov 19, 2011

"Let's be positive! Let's start a fire!"

U.T. Raptor posted:

I've seen stupider polls, like that one Naruto poll soon after the timeskip where the main character was down at #4 :v:

Or pretty much any of the Gundam ones.

I think some of the Tales Of Series Polls eclipse both of them in sheer stupidity a majority of the time.

I also find it strange that Tatsuya is just randomly in the list. Don't people know it's supposed to be his super suave big brother Dirty Harry-dressing Police Officer at the top of the list? Katsuya never gets any love.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


MechaX posted:

I think some of the Tales Of Series Polls eclipse both of them in sheer stupidity a majority of the time.

I also find it strange that Tatsuya is just randomly in the list. Don't people know it's supposed to be his super suave big brother Dirty Harry-dressing Police Officer at the top of the list? Katsuya never gets any love.

Except from "Lovestruck Woman."

Beartaco
Apr 10, 2007

by sebmojo

Policenaut posted:

Yeah, okay I'll accept that. When I played the Female path in P3P I went with Shinjiro before his month was up.

drat it, Shinjiro you needed to be in the game longer.

I actually restarted the drat game just because I missed his final social link by one day. :blush:

Tae
Oct 24, 2010

Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!

Nessa posted:

Huh? How have the butchered Kanji? I think they've been handling Kanji just fine. :confused:

Seconding this. He's been the same as where he was at the game point.

Catalina posted:

I know you're joking, but for a second there, I actually wanted to punch you through the internet. :sassargh:

We have...christmas-themed smilies?

Policenaut
Jul 11, 2008

On the moon... they don't make Neo Kobe Pizza.

Persona 4 The Golden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOkiOmBFPlA&hd=1

God drat it Atlus, announce this for localization so I can get hype! GET HYPE!

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?
Just found this in my mailbox.



No way it's Growlanser. Presumably it has to be an established brand...

GOLDEN EDITION PERSONA 4?

Meowjesty
Oct 23, 2009

Friends depend on each other.
Gpersona 5.

Could be their Game of Thrones game but I thought that was already announced.

Policenaut
Jul 11, 2008

On the moon... they don't make Neo Kobe Pizza.

It's probably going to be Gungnir (or Gloria Union)

A humdrum SRPG from Sting for the PSP in 2012?! How could Atlus resist?!

wait I think Gloria Union is the game from Sting drat it i'm getting my niche japanese srpg developers confused

Policenaut fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Dec 13, 2011

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?

Policenaut posted:

It's probably going to be Gungnir (or Gloria Union)

A humdrum SRPG from Sting for the PSP in 2012?! How could Atlus resist?!

Yeah, you're probably right. They've localized all the other PSP Sting games (e:the main Dept. Heaven games anyway), maybe out of a contractual obligation since Sting's Atlus owned. It would make little sense otherwise.

Rinkles fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Dec 13, 2011

Policenaut
Jul 11, 2008

On the moon... they don't make Neo Kobe Pizza.

Realtalk if Atlus is doing a game with "G" as the first letter then I really hope it's Growlanser 4: Over Reloaded.

Allarion
May 16, 2009

がんばルビ!
They skipped Blaze Union though. It's probably Gungnir or Growlanser IV.

Rangpur
Dec 31, 2008

After playing Nocturne off and on for like, two years, I'm almost finished. The Labyrinth of Amala, a complete compendium, all of it. I have no idea why I thought it would be a good idea to do all that plus the TDE at the same time but here we are.

While I work my way through the burial chambers, I was hoping for party suggestions to take on Lucifer. MC is easy--Focus, Freikugel, Pierce, 40s across the board, etc. I'm still having trouble putting together a group of demons with the right combination of stats, skills and immunities. Neither Metatron nor Beezlebub has sufficient damage output. I'd like to use Black Frost but getting him to level 99 would take ages. Is Dante worth it at all?

Help me, goonmind. I love the game but I'd like to beat it before I'm 40.

Azure_Horizon
Mar 27, 2010

by Reene
I used Beelzebub, Shiva, and Wu Kong. I think I only used Wu Kong because he had all the buff spells. You aren't really using any of them for damage output. You basically want them to keep the MC alive so he can use Focus --> Freikugel.

blankd
Mar 26, 2010
Party was Beezlebub (buff/debuff?? and occassional damage), Metatron (buff or debuff duty) and Shiva (heal/ occasional damage).

It's been a fair while since I remembered what their roles were, but that was certainly the team.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


Sting games are always so "eh" to me. Like they are almost good but something about them always feels cheap or poorly put together.

Gwyrgyn Blood
Dec 17, 2002

Radish posted:

Sting games are always so "eh" to me. Like they are almost good but something about them always feels cheap or poorly put together.

Knights in the Nightmare is the only game of theirs that hasn't felt like this to me. Aside from the voice acting that is, but that's kind of charmingly bad anyway.

Alteisen
Jun 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Rangpur posted:

After playing Nocturne off and on for like, two years, I'm almost finished. The Labyrinth of Amala, a complete compendium, all of it. I have no idea why I thought it would be a good idea to do all that plus the TDE at the same time but here we are.

While I work my way through the burial chambers, I was hoping for party suggestions to take on Lucifer. MC is easy--Focus, Freikugel, Pierce, 40s across the board, etc. I'm still having trouble putting together a group of demons with the right combination of stats, skills and immunities. Neither Metatron nor Beezlebub has sufficient damage output. I'd like to use Black Frost but getting him to level 99 would take ages. Is Dante worth it at all?

Help me, goonmind. I love the game but I'd like to beat it before I'm 40.

Use both Metatron and Beelzebub anyway, the one that's gonna be doing the major damage is there gonna be the MC.

Gwyrgyn Blood
Dec 17, 2002

Rangpur posted:

Is Dante worth it at all?

Help me, goonmind. I love the game but I'd like to beat it before I'm 40.

Dante isn't really worth it because you can't teach him Pierce and he isn't great as a support unit.

Most of your turns will just look like Focus -> Pass -> Buff/Debuff -> Pass -> Attack Skill -> Pass -> Heal, but having another demon around who can pierce can help on off turns (or on the off chance you don't need any more buffs/debuffs).

Sadly one of the problems with the press turn system is that it can make half of your team largely irrelevant.

Alteisen
Jun 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
Makes me wish we had gotten the nocturne where Raidou replaces Dante, he had pierce as one of his default skills when you get him.

Policenaut
Jul 11, 2008

On the moon... they don't make Neo Kobe Pizza.

Alteisen posted:

Makes me wish we had gotten the nocturne where Raidou replaces Dante, he had pierce as one of his default skills when you get him.

Raidou once again proving he's the Best Human in SMT.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


Alteisen posted:

Makes me wish we had gotten the nocturne where Raidou replaces Dante, he had pierce as one of his default skills when you get him.

That would have also made a better bonus with DS2 than the plush we got.

Captain Oblivious
Oct 12, 2007

I'm not like other posters
Their #1-4 is fairly accurate for me, except replace Naoto with Kanji. Do a little shuffling from 2 to 4 and you have mine.

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?
It's pretty much certainly Gungir Gungnir.



(Or Growlanser. Not.)

Rinkles fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Dec 13, 2011

RadicalR
Jan 20, 2008

"Businessmen are the symbol of a free society
---
the symbol of America."

Rinkles posted:

It's pretty much certainly Gungir.



(Or Growlanser. Not.)

Can't seem to find anything on Gungir... What are you talking about?

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?

RadicalR posted:

Can't seem to find anything on Gungir... What are you talking about?

Typo

RadicalR
Jan 20, 2008

"Businessmen are the symbol of a free society
---
the symbol of America."
Looks interesting! I'll buy it.

Opposing Farce
Apr 1, 2010

Ever since our drop-off service, I never read a book.
There's always something else around, plus I owe the library nineteen bucks.

Rinkles posted:

GOLDEN EDITION PERSONA 4?

Technically, this is still on the table :v:

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Policenaut
Jul 11, 2008

On the moon... they don't make Neo Kobe Pizza.

OPERATION BABE HUNT 2: THE RE-BABENING



Check out this and other brand new images of Persona 4 The Golden by clicking the picture!

Rinkles posted:

(Or Growlanser. Not.)

Still really hoping it's Growlanser/Growlanser 4: Over Reloaded.

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