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Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Ibram Gaunt posted:

Not really surprised

they named the painter dude after a rl painter who was famously into dudes, so that's kind of :lol:

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Saagonsa
Dec 29, 2012

Endorph posted:

no gay options is what people are reporting

that isn't a plot element so im not spoilering it

That's pretty disappointing but not unexpected.

Luna Was Here
Mar 21, 2013

Lipstick Apathy
the only way to get gay options is by completing the game then doing a Hard run ng+, getting the bad ending, then going and getting true ending on Easy. Then shall the path to dudes open for you

The GIG
Jun 28, 2011

Yeah, I say "Shit" a shit-ton of times. What of it, shithead?
Let me kiss the guys atlus.

Captain Baal
Oct 23, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
Yeah that's to be expected

Erg
Oct 31, 2010

The GIG posted:

Let me kiss the guys atlus.

Unlucky7
Jul 11, 2006

Fallen Rib
So, what do I need to know from SMTIV going into Apocolypse? Because my Street Date breaking store apparently just got copies in and I am going to try to grab a copy (Though if they have DQVII 3DS too I may just get that for the time being).

cuntman.net
Mar 1, 2013

tatsuya is rolling in his space grave

Luna Was Here
Mar 21, 2013

Lipstick Apathy

Unlucky7 posted:

So, what do I need to know from SMTIV going into Apocolypse? Because my Street Date breaking store apparently just got copies in and I am going to try to grab a copy (Though if they have DQVII 3DS too I may just get that for the time being).

I believe you need to know the ending from the Neutral Route of the game, which I do not know, but is googleable

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Unlucky7 posted:

So, what do I need to know from SMTIV going into Apocolypse? Because my Street Date breaking store apparently just got copies in and I am going to try to grab a copy (Though if they have DQVII 3DS too I may just get that for the time being).

From what I understand what you need to know is:

There was an apoclypse. Tokyo was sealed off from the rest of the world. Above Tokyo there is a samurai kingdom run by angels. The Samurai came down to Tokyo and hosed poo poo up. Now demons and angels are fighting with Tokyo stuck in the middle.

Justin_Brett
Oct 23, 2012

GAMERDOME put down LOSER
I think it fills you in as long as you don't mind spoilers for most of the original IV.

Junpei Hyde
Mar 15, 2013




Endorph posted:

no gay options is what people are reporting

that isn't a plot element so im not spoilering it

I'm not mad, just disappointed.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

My protagonist is going to be named Kaito Eizou. (影藏快人)

快人 has characters meaning "cheerful person," a reference to his mild-mannered public persona, and is a homophone for the word for phantom thief.

影 means shadow, a reference to his shadowy true self as a thief.

藏 means to hide or to possess, referring to not only his stealth tactics, but his taking of what he feels belongs to him.

In true Gyakuten Saiban fashion, this would probably never be a real name, but it sounds cool and has thematic significance, so gently caress it.

DalaranJ
Apr 15, 2008

Yosuke will now die for you.

Endorph posted:

no gay options is what people are reporting

that isn't a plot element so im not spoilering it

So are you saying there's only one date-able guy, or that dating guys is mandatory?

Genpei Turtle
Jul 20, 2007

Justin_Brett posted:

I think it fills you in as long as you don't mind spoilers for most of the original IV.

It actually is pretty bad about filling you in, but the story is self-contained enough that you don't really need to know the backstory of IV to figure out what's going on. The constant callbacks to IV will probably be pretty weird though since they're not usually explained.

Tired Moritz
Mar 25, 2012

wish Lowtax would get tired of YOUR POSTS

(n o i c e)
when are they gonna remake p3 so I can play as a dude without being a manwhore and being able to social link with my team bros.

mandatory lesbian
Dec 18, 2012

Endorph posted:

no gay options is what people are reporting

that isn't a plot element so im not spoilering it

good, i have no reason to play it now

yep, thats certainly the reason and not bc i dont have a ps4 or a tv

mandatory lesbian
Dec 18, 2012

Justin_Brett posted:

I think it fills you in as long as you don't mind spoilers for most of the original IV.

i'm not sure i wanna meet the kind of person who would play a sequel before the original and then get mad when said original gets spoiled in-game

NieR Occomata
Jan 18, 2009

Glory to Mankind.

Every time I watch Aliens I get super pissed at Ripley for dropping mad spoilers. Thanks a lot Sigourney Weaver.

Tired Moritz
Mar 25, 2012

wish Lowtax would get tired of YOUR POSTS

(n o i c e)
as long as they don't force Jun Fukuyama to kiss girls, that's okay.

epenthesis
Jan 12, 2008

I'M TAKIN' YOU PUNKS DOWN!
While the gay thing is in all probability true, what's being reported is also in all probability a guess. I'm skeptical that this fact would be discovered and reported before any details of the S-Links or whatever they're called now; the credible spoilers seem to be based on image and movie files.

A Sometimes Food
Dec 8, 2010

Endorph posted:

they named the painter dude after a rl painter who was famously into dudes, so that's kind of :lol:

Maybe the painter guy is gay even if you can't date him?


... probably not.

Tired Moritz
Mar 25, 2012

wish Lowtax would get tired of YOUR POSTS

(n o i c e)
he's not gay, he's just gonna be a professional gay porn artist. that's his story arc.

CharlestonJew
Jul 7, 2011

Illegal Hen
he'll be gay but he'll have no romantic interest in the MC and his social link will involve him struggling to let you down gently

Arbite
Nov 4, 2009





Does the protagonist talk outside of battle?

Golden Goat
Aug 2, 2012

There may be no gay option but I will strive to only ever pick the gay chat options whenever they appear.

Tired Moritz
Mar 25, 2012

wish Lowtax would get tired of YOUR POSTS

(n o i c e)

CharlestonJew posted:

he'll be gay but he'll have no romantic interest in the MC and his social link will involve him struggling to let you down gently

dude no, this game is too real for me

Alder
Sep 24, 2013

Golden Goat posted:

There may be no gay option but I will strive to only ever pick the gay chat options whenever they appear.

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
Prota Gonist

Golden Goat
Aug 2, 2012

I'll name my protag Don'tTrust Futaba

Junpei Hyde
Mar 15, 2013




Golden Goat posted:

There may be no gay option but I will strive to only ever pick the gay chat options whenever they appear.

THE AWESOME GHOST
Oct 21, 2005

Rafza posted:

enjoy your stay, i'm visiting this next summer, but it'll be countryside (nishi-akashi) instead of cool cities :(

Countryside is cool too in a different way! Although it looks like you're 15 mins away from Kobe go to Kobe it's a cool city

boy are my arms tired
May 10, 2012

Ham Wrangler

THE AWESOME GHOST posted:

Countryside is cool too in a different way! Although it looks like you're 15 mins away from Kobe go to Kobe it's a cool city

problem is i've been a billion times and seen all i can see in kobe

i'd love to go to up north to sapporo, or to tokyo since i've only been once, but kobe and osaka are tapped out for us. maybe kyoto...

there is this huge arcade in nishi akashi which is cool though, and a ton of really good restaurants

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters

ImpAtom posted:

From what I understand what you need to know is:

There was an apoclypse. Tokyo was sealed off from the rest of the world. Above Tokyo there is a samurai kingdom run by angels. The Samurai came down to Tokyo and hosed poo poo up. Now demons and angels are fighting with Tokyo stuck in the middle.

Actually since the game takes place three quarters of the way through the original, you need to know the following as well:

(spoilers in case someone still hasn't played SMTIV I guess)
A hero named Flynn came down from the ceiling and hosed poo poo up, taking out the less scrupulous and more aligned groups of humans that were trying to take over. Then he decimated the hold that the angels and demons had on the place, retrieved a powerful sword meant to unseal a great entity, and was on his was to destroy Lucifer and Merkabah, the lord of chaos and emissary to God, respectively.

The game explains this pretty well though, as you're essentially just some guy who has heard a lot about the goings-on.

boy are my arms tired
May 10, 2012

Ham Wrangler
i haven't finished IV, in fact I got to Medusa and had something else grab my attention, but without spoiling anything does IV take place in any of the current universes in SMT or is it a whole new thing

the way it was explained to me is that all these different games are briefly or tangentially connected via the amala network (which explains demi fiend fighting DDS crew), but it was one of those a friend of a friend told me things so idk if its true or not

mandatory lesbian
Dec 18, 2012

Rafza posted:

i haven't finished IV, in fact I got to Medusa and had something else grab my attention, but without spoiling anything does IV take place in any of the current universes in SMT or is it a whole new thing

the way it was explained to me is that all these different games are briefly or tangentially connected via the amala network (which explains demi fiend fighting DDS crew), but it was one of those a friend of a friend told me things so idk if its true or not

it's connected to Strange Journey, kinda sorta, but none of the other games

boy are my arms tired
May 10, 2012

Ham Wrangler

mandatory lesbian posted:

it's connected to Strange Journey, kinda sorta, but none of the other games

strange journey was extremely good so i'm down with this, thanks

e: oh dang i forgot all the demonica suits that were present early on, i'm dumb

boy are my arms tired fucked around with this message at 14:58 on Sep 14, 2016

Genpei Turtle
Jul 20, 2007

mandatory lesbian posted:

it's connected to Strange Journey, kinda sorta, but none of the other games

Only insomuch as there are Demonica suits in both. But the Demonica suits in SJ and IV were developed for different reasons so there's no real connection.

The DLC for Apocalypse actually arguably does connect the other games. Whether it's really canonical or just a paper-thin pretense to let your party tag-team a boss with the heroes of the first four numbered SMT games is debatable though.

Harlock
Jan 15, 2006

Tap "A" to drink!!!

Trying to follow the story in Apocalypse just seems kind of crazy. The game doesn't seem to offer that much different than standard SMTIV so it's pretty much a skip for me. Especially since DQ7 comes out this week.

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The Unholy Ghost
Feb 19, 2011
With a gay and furry option Persona 5 will be the most progressive Persona yet!

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