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I'm currently doing a NG+ max S.Link run, and I've got my EXP gains cranked all the way up so I can easily blow through dungeons in a single day without having to worry at all. So I was sitting here thinking "I wish this game had multiple save slots so I could do a regular run at the same time, I feel like playing with actual challenge." and I suddenly realized that my desire to save in multiple slots has reached such a point that I've started to consider all 16 save slots as just one.
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Can't really blame you, especially sith all the new things they added in January and they have you make a snowman with Nanako and greet everyone on neww year and Teddie crashing on your couch why wasn't it in the original game 
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Oct 24, 2013 08:08
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DarkHamsterlord posted:I'm currently doing a NG+ max S.Link run, and I've got my EXP gains cranked all the way up so I can easily blow through dungeons in a single day without having to worry at all. Get a new memory card for every play-through. 
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Oct 24, 2013 11:15
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Bought a Vita to play this after loving the anime adaptation so god drat much and playing P3 some, and I have to say that the art and music direction is phenomenal. It seems like a strange thing to pick up on but I really like the way the text in the menus and so on are displayed, it's very... hard to describe but cool. Also the "let's wreck poo poo" song that plays when you have player advantage just gets my blood going even after a few dungeons of fighting mooks that way.
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Nov 12, 2013 19:48
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Yeah, they really integrated the "pop art" style into every pore, which is probably why I'm one of the insane ones who prefers this to 3.
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Nov 12, 2013 20:09
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Most everyone prefers 4 to 3 though?
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Nov 12, 2013 20:12
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Sorta. It used to be a point of contention, but nowadays, especially with Golden, it seems like consensus has tipped in favor of 4.
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Nov 12, 2013 20:16
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I still prefer vanilla 4 to 3 FES, and have never successfully gotten very far into 3. It's the Shining Force 2 problem, in that since I played 4 first, all the QoL improvements they made over 3 are much harder to go without.
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Nov 12, 2013 20:25
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Yeah I played P3P after beating 4 and even with 4's gameplay I just couldn't get into the game as I much as I tried and I dropped it after getting Akihiko.
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Nov 12, 2013 21:23
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I can't even go back to P4 vanilla after playing Golden, so I can't even imagine trying to play P3, especially if (like me) you've never played it at all.
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Nov 12, 2013 21:34
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Besides the gameplay improvements I liked the story better and find the characters WAY more likeable in Persona 4. Though Persona 3 does have Koromaru which is a huge point in its favor.
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Nov 12, 2013 21:40
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I was able to play P3P just fine after Golden  , I don't remember it being particularly annoying or anything
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Nov 12, 2013 22:17
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I'd probably have played more of P3P if it weren't for the whole 'everything is one single massive dungeon which occasionally changes colour' thing.
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Nov 12, 2013 22:18
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To be fair, it's not like the P4 dungeon design was much more interesting - though the aesthetics did at least change more often and more drastically.
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Nov 12, 2013 22:18
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Endorph posted:To be fair, it's not like the P4 dungeon design was much more interesting - though the aesthetics did at least change more often and more drastically. There's just a lot more to them. Even if you take the TV world as one big dungeon there's so much more to it, plot-wise and character wise, so that it doesn't feel like such a grind. I want to go into the dungeon to save someone or move the story forward in some exciting way, not to get to floor 57 and reach the orange bit.
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Nov 12, 2013 22:20
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Honestly I prefer P4 mostly due to the social links being interesting. The ones in P3 were pretty interchangeable and I didn't find many compelling characters besides Punchmaster McGee. P4 seems like the characters are more... human? Which is kind of key in a friend-having simulator
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Nov 12, 2013 22:41
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Yeah, I guess before the "Year of Persona 4" (Golden, The Animation, Arena, the two spinoffs nobody talks about) it was definitely more of an active fandom war. But then everyone realized that nobody says no to Narukami.
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Nov 12, 2013 22:58
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404GoonNotFound posted:Yeah, I guess before the "Year of Persona 4" (Golden, The Animation, Arena, the two spinoffs nobody talks about) Two? I can only think of the novel about Naoto and the transforming cyborg motorcycle dude. There was another one?
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Nov 12, 2013 23:01
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I think there was a manga starring Yosuke. Unless 404 means the stage play and the musical. Or the porno. I like P3 a little better than P4, because I like the style a little more. I also like the villain more, since I feel there was more buildup, on top of a rival Persona group fighting you. In 4, the only villain with buildup is quickly taken out and replaced by another antagonist. Then that antagonist is replaced by another villain. You could argue that there are signs that point to the true villain, but a first time player probably wouldn't catch them until the end. To be fair, that is a surprising twist. Also, I'm biased towards P3 a little since it popped my persona cherry. Hell, it popped my SMT cherry. Snix fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Nov 12, 2013 |
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Nov 12, 2013 23:33
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Snix posted:Or the porno.  I mean, I'm no stranger to internet, but, what the hell? Is this really a thing?quote:on top of a rival Persona group fighting you.
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Nov 13, 2013 00:10
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Snix posted:on top of a rival Persona group fighting you. You're seriously calling Strega a point in Persona 3's favor?
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Nov 13, 2013 00:13
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Iceclaw posted:That's actually something that's missing to P3/P4: a fight against another persona group, with equal numbers on each side, each with their own movesets and elemental affinities. And pathetically easy to defeat.
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Nov 13, 2013 00:14
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Iceclaw posted:
Yes sir 
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Nov 13, 2013 00:16
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I mean, it's not an official Persona thing, but TMA made a porn parody called "Perofella." It's based on the anime. This is the opening. Also, hardcore, equal numbers, rival Persona fight will be cool. The closest thing the series had to that was the Shadow fights in Innocent Sin, but I don't recall fighting them as a team. Plus, they're copies, not rivals. alcharagia posted:You're seriously calling Strega a point in Persona 3's favor?
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Nov 13, 2013 00:19
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Wiseblood posted:And pathetically easy to defeat. This should go both ways. Either you make the first move count or the other side will. Or it could be a total drag of a fight as both sides try to desperately cover for each other. It could be a cool idea for a boss fight if done right.
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Nov 13, 2013 00:20
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Snix posted:Was there something wrong with Strega? It's been a while, but I don't remember anything particularly wrong with them.
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Nov 13, 2013 00:57
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Oh, you mean as characters. Eh, yeah, they aren't too interesting, (no, I lied, Takaya is hilariously bizarre design-wise,) but my point was that there was a known force you were fighting against throughout a lot of the game. P4 doesn't really have that until you finger the killer. It great to finally identify who that person is and then track them, but they're gone just as quickly, and then replaced by a few villains who come out of nowhere. I never really felt any sort of payoff. edit: Now that I think about it, Chidori coming back to life was loving bullshit, but that's besides the point. Snix fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Nov 13, 2013 |
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Nov 13, 2013 01:01
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And then a huge anti climax when you one shot them with a mind charged Ragnarok. (Which would technically be two shots I guess...) EDIT: Honestly all the story related bosses (even the final boss) were way too easy in P3. The guardians were the only fights to pose any real challenge. Wiseblood fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Nov 13, 2013 |
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Nov 13, 2013 01:05
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That, and well, they never explain how do they really work (they run a website that's litterally "will kill peeps for food!"), how do they pull people in the Dark Hour, Chidori and Junpei's subplot is way too melodramatic, especially her death, and make Junpei even more annoying than he is already. Oh, and Takaya's gun of Plot Killing +5 is annoying.
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Nov 13, 2013 01:14
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Iceclaw posted:That's actually something that's missing to P3/P4: a fight against another persona group, with equal numbers on each side, each with their own movesets and elemental affinities. The Answer kinda does this with the Arena? Though really any fight between Persona users would likely be stacked in favour of the side with a Wild Card user. Also I really need to finish P3P at some point - is there any point in going after Elizabeth/Theo and Margaret aside from VIDEO GAME ACHIEVEMENTS and how difficult would it be? Most of the cast is sitting around the 80s last I remembered.
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Nov 13, 2013 01:50
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Iceclaw posted:Chidori and Junpei's subplot is way too melodramatic, especially her death, and make Junpei even more annoying than he is already. This is the only point of contention I have with your statement. Chidori is kind of lame as a standalone, but her subplot was the reason Junpei was the only good character in vanilla P3 by virtue of actually being kind of a human being instead of a vehicle for the main character to constantly enable and/or Koromaru who is exempt from any and all judgment.
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The only characters from P3's main cast I didn't like are Ken and Shinjiro. Yukari was alright, Akihiko, Agis, and Mitsuru were cool, Fuuka was okay, and Junpei was a lot of fun. Also, Koromaru is exempt from any and all judgment. But I felt that P4 had a better cast. They're a lot more memorable, at least.
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Nov 13, 2013 01:57
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Shinjiro is excellent in P3P, but P3P still didn't do Ken any favors.
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Oh, the female route? P3P was the first game I played in the series, but I've still never played the female route. I need to do that sometime.
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Nov 13, 2013 02:03
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Snix posted:Oh, the female route? P3P was the first game I played in the series, but I've still never played the female route. I need to do that sometime. You should. Most of the Social Links in the female route aren't horrible people. (Losing out on Maya is a shame, but still.)
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In a break from character-chat, P4G really spoiled me as my first SMT game. Being able to pick skills when fusing in Golden and then going on to play Nocturne made for frustrating times. The ability to warp out of a dungeon and then return to the same floor after getting SP healing from the fox also spoiled me heavily. Now almost all of my demons have Mana Refill and Mana Drain so I can spam magic skills to my heart's content like I did in the late-game of P4G.
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Nov 13, 2013 04:01
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I'm really happy I played through P3P before P4G came out. Also, in Persona 5 news- quote:The site http://persona5.jp/[1] , which was registered by Atlus a while ago, just changed from a placeholder page to "site forbidden." Hopefully it has something to do with this http://p-ch.jp/
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Snix posted:Oh, the female route? P3P was the first game I played in the series, but I've still never played the female route. I need to do that sometime. You should. It's better in every single way. You actually have social links with your party members and can date the boys. Date Akihiko.
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Any good news? 
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Playing through this but unclear on something; how exactly do you get the tag team attacks to happen once you get the ability to have everyone in your party gang attack a enemy? Like Yukiko and Chies is called Rising Dragon or something.
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