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It's probably for the best they don't acknowledge Ai. I know the other main characters interact with the Tower kid, so there's that.
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I always felt a little bad for the basketball guy, since usually by the time I got far enough into those links to learn he had a crush on Chie, I was already dating her.
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Mar 31, 2014 23:03
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None of the Social Links interact with the main plot; it's just that some of them happen to involve the people who are there for all your teen comedy hijinks and TV Land invasions.
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Mar 31, 2014 23:04
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TurnipFritter posted:It's probably for the best they don't acknowledge Ai. See this is exactly the sort of thing I am talking about, this should be in the games. Either a scene like this if you want to spend the resources for it, or even just a little entry in the database that if your Ai link is above, like 4, or whatever, it adds a "Hey you should stay away from that Ebihara girl she's bad news" line to, say, Chie and Yukiko's "talk to them when they are standing around school/in a dungeon" line options.
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Mar 31, 2014 23:16
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Man I feel like the odd person out by saying I liked that some of the SL were with dude's that werent directly involved with all the crazy going on with the TV world. I'd like it if there was more dialogue or interactions that could be affected by your SL level, but its nice that not everything in the protagonist's life revolves around the TV.
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Mar 31, 2014 23:30
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During the fireworks if you date a non team member and take them to the festival, the entire female cast gets suspicious when you say it's different going with someone. Marie's Social Link drags in all the player characters at some point or another then they give some text referring to the events in that Slink before you can interact with them. They're experimenting with it, but vanilla didn't have it.
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Mar 31, 2014 23:36
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TurnipFritter posted:I think it will be neat to see where they go with it. Ick. Maybe this is a kneejerk reaction to change, but the old logo was just as simple but had a lot more style. VVV By simple I mean that the letters and colors and design are basically the same, if you blur your vision a bit. It's still one word made up of four blue letters and one red. V  V
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Mar 31, 2014 23:55
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Strange Quark posted:Ick. Maybe this is a kneejerk reaction to change, but the old logo was just as simple but had a lot more style. It was a little less simple, actually. More borders, cuts in some of the letters. And I dont think it's just change or simplicity that makes that logo look worse, the letter spacing or width or something actually seems off, like it's a work in progress or a mistake. Particularly the U and the space around it.
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Mar 31, 2014 23:57
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Blhue posted:I always felt a little bad for the basketball guy, since usually by the time I got far enough into those links to learn he had a crush on Chie, I was already dating her. If you're taking that stuff into account you'd probably just be left with Yukiko, Rise and the Sun link. Alteisen posted:I always picked the MC's girlfriend based off the Christmas gift, it was always Rise cause 50% extra SP is bonkers whereas everyone else would just give you some junk that gave you high res against the girls element. It's the best option of those but it's not like it really matters since there's pretty much no reason to use that over other accesories. Your party wants those element damage buffs or the chakra ring way more (Chie with the chakra ring is amazing. So much Dragon Hustle  ).
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Apr 1, 2014 00:23
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Manatee Cannon posted:If you're taking that stuff into account you'd probably just be left with Yukiko, Rise and the Sun link. Well Mitsuo has a crush on Yukiko, so Rise, Ai and the Sun link, then. Also agreeing that some of the best SLs were non-related to the plot. Dojima, Koromaru, Junpei and Chie were all great, but I've always liked Akinari, Ai and Daisuke (never choosing Kou). Besides, if we got more SLs that were plot-related we might get another Marie.
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Apr 1, 2014 00:33
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Ai has a crush on the Strength arcana of your choice, so you wouldn't even get that far in the link before giving up.  I didn't really mind Marie. She was like a half step away from fan fiction self-insert Mary-Sue but eh, she was fun. Except for the amnesia thing but what're you gonna do.
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Blhue posted:I always felt a little bad for the basketball guy, since usually by the time I got far enough into those links to learn he had a crush on Chie, I was already dating her. Honestly, this is something I'd actually like to see in the next game. If you're not at the point where you've activated the romance option (or you went down the non-romantic path), why can't they hook up with someone else? At some point, maybe Kou actually does ask out Chie, and the romantic path gets (temporarily) closed off to you. As long as you could override them by pursuing the romantic path yourself, I feel like it would make your party feel more like actual people with their own lives, and less robots who serve no purpose other than to be your friend and contribute in battle.
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P4 does at least kind of pair off your party members. Like one of the study group things you can do has them talk about how Chie and Yosuke would be good together, and the same for Kanji and Naoto right after. That's as far as they'll likely ever go, I doubt the games will ever explicitly do anything to make any one set of fans upset about ~my anime waifu~. All of the ladies in P4 will probably always act like they have a crush on the main character in every P4 thing so it doesn't leave anyone out.
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Manatee Cannon posted:P4 does at least kind of pair off your party members. Like one of the study group things you can do has them talk about how Chie and Yosuke would be good together, and the same for Kanji and Naoto right after. That's as far as they'll likely ever go, I doubt the games will ever explicitly do anything to make any one set of fans upset about ~my anime waifu~. All of the ladies in P4 will probably always act like they have a crush on the main character in every P4 thing so it doesn't leave anyone out. Tali in Mass Effect was the waifu-est of waifus and I don't recall any outrage about her getting together with Garrus if Shepard chooses not to romance her.
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Tarezax posted:Tali in Mass Effect was the waifu-est of waifus and I don't recall any outrage about her getting together with Garrus if Shepard chooses not to romance her. Though it does have some people hilariously making fun of them. quote:I'm commander shepard and only I'm allowed to have sex. Anyway, people who are weird and creepy will be weird and creepy regardless of what you do. Atlus does cater to that crowd a bit, but I don't think they devote every waking moment of their existence to bending backwards for them.
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Endorph posted:Anyway, people who are weird and creepy will be weird and creepy regardless of what you do. Atlus does cater to that crowd a bit, but I don't think they devote every waking moment of their existence to bending backwards for them. They localized Conception 2.
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Endorph posted:Here's a thread if you want gamer.txt fodder. Hahaha I should have known. Goddamn Talimancers.
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I'm getting tired of posting the Yamato and Hibiki hug pillows. Atlus USA protects us from the super creepy stuff produced by the japanese branch. Even Etrian Odyssey has hug pillows for sale on the Atlus Japan Store. Conception II, even with the concept being unsettling for some really doesn't go beyond what you would see in anime; and I'm not talking about the 18+ ones either.
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Apr 1, 2014 03:29
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At least from the demo, Conception 2 is eyerolling and stupid but people really oversell how weird explicit it is. It was about as creepy as the romantic s links from persona
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It's very odd that Japan can culturally condemn and vilify people who buy that kind of crap with one hand, while enabling them with poo poo like this with the other.
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The Leper Colon V posted:It's very odd that Japan can culturally condemn and vilify people who buy that kind of crap with one hand, while enabling them with poo poo like this with the other. Its quite simple you see, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrsfJHLx5YA
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The Leper Colon V posted:It's very odd that Japan can culturally condemn and vilify people who buy that kind of crap with one hand, while enabling them with poo poo like this with the other. Endorph fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Apr 1, 2014 |
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Apr 1, 2014 03:47
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The Leper Colon V posted:It's very odd that Japan can culturally condemn and vilify people who buy that kind of crap with one hand, while enabling them with poo poo like this with the other. Kinda like how people here condemn and vilify people who buy that kind of crap, while others make it easily available for purchase. It's almost as if different groups of people with different viewpoints can live in the same country as one another.
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Endorph posted:It isn't 'odd' at all that A group of people in a specific country can think something is stupid while B group of people indulges in it without shame or self-awareness. Hell, most of P4's Social Link endings can be summarized as "And now that all the issues in my life have been resolved forever, I can go back to acting exactly how our culture says I'm supposed to". (Kanji being the glorious exception.) girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Apr 1, 2014 |
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The Leper Colon V posted:I know. It's just a bit stranger when said groups have both had "different is bad" pounded into their head by their culture fit decades. EDIT: v Yukiko's link isn't even like that, considering it ends with her standing up for herself and deciding to stay at the inn because she wants to, not because her parents want her to. Endorph fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Apr 1, 2014 |
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The Leper Colon V posted:I know. It's just a bit stranger when said groups have both had "different is bad" pounded into their head by their culture fit decades. The only person with that kind of link is yukiko, and nobody likes her
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Apr 1, 2014 06:46
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Yukiko and Rise both kinda end where they begin, just with a different perspective on what it means to be there.
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Manatee Cannon posted:Yukiko and Rise both kinda end where they begin, just with a different perspective on what it means to be there. Which frankly, I rather liked. In fact, I really like Yukiko in general. She appears to be the sort of mild-mannered, mumbling meek maiden of Every Japanese Thing Ever, but she's got a lot of personality underneath it. She's got anger, resentment, a sense of humor, she's apparently quite a party girl, or would be, if the Club Scene is any indication--she's got actual depth, and at the very least doesn't remain a stereotype the whole game, but acts very believable and relatable. I liked too that her whole S-link is about her resenting her family and work life, but it clearly demonstrates the support and nurturing environment she has at home, and it is her maturing that enables her to see what was already right there in front of her. Rise too, considering she never really faced her Shadow self, gets to come to terms with the fact that, yeah, she actually wants to be a pop star, and that's not something about her that is artificial, but something about herself that never had a chance to shine offstage.
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Tarezax posted:Tali in Mass Effect was the waifu-est of waifus and I don't recall any outrage about her getting together with Garrus if Shepard chooses not to romance her. That's because Garrus is awesome. I told my sister about the Tali/ Garrus pairing and she nodded her head in complete understanding.
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uncleKitchener posted:Any news on the SMTIV EU side of things? A semi-official statement from John Hardin (Atlus PR Manager) in response to the endless tweets at him was "It's not cancelled." and "It's not as simple as checking an EU box." E: I'm of the belief Old Index made a deal with a European publisher and Sega/Atlus is trying to release it without the publisher and they're having a legal battle behind the scenes.
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I liked Yukiko, and her S-Link arc was pretty good with her all growing up and maturing and whatnot, but it was weird when those hack journalists showed up and were like "you know what would improve our travelogue? A spot of the old child pornography. Good thing we literally have no consequences for this!". It sorta creeped me out a bit, had some of that cultural dissonance I guess.
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http://gematsu.com/2014/04/persona-q-adds-velvet-room-characters Even considering the day, those characters have already been confirmed. Elizabeth handling healing items and Theo handling weapons. I guess that leaves Margaret for Persona fusion, and Marie will probably be a shop as well.
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I figure Marie will be spell cards again, and might also handle the ally Persona customization thing as well.
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Persona 4 probably coming out as a PS2 Classic. This is a link to the esrb, so it's not an April Fool's Joke.
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TurnipFritter posted:Persona 4 probably coming out as a PS2 Classic. This is a link to the esrb, so it's not an April Fool's Joke. Took em long enough. Just out of curiosity, when a game is re-released on another system unchanged, does it need to be re-rated?
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ChaosArgate posted:Took em long enough. Just out of curiosity, when a game is re-released on another system unchanged, does it need to be re-rated? I think it needs to be classified or have a renewed classification as it technically counts as a "new release" of the game.
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Technically the emulator/abstraction layer on the new platform is new code. Hell, it'd probably trigger a new submission to the ESRB for PS3 interface art alone even if the PS3 had been a superset of the PS2. ^ ^ ^ Or just being labeled for a new platform. I guess the real test would be finding out if PSN PSP titles had to be resubmitted for the Vita, given that only the generated-per-user license files are different until the target device gets to it. dont be mean to me fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Apr 1, 2014 |
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I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the PS2 games suddenly start appearing on PS2 Classics. Atlus probably had the resources to fix and release it, but perhaps Index didn't want to pay the Japanese developers to fix it.
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