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What are the chances we'll see something new on SMT5 today? I don't see anyone talking about it.
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The announcement tweet for the Direct said that it's focusing on games coming out in the first half of 2021, and since I assume SMTV is coming later than that, I'm not really expecting to see anything. I'd really, really like to, though. I'm at least hoping for a western release date for the Nocturne remaster.
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Feb 17, 2021 20:20
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Since we didn't get any SMT V news in the direct today, i'm gonna share this tweet instead https://twitter.com/Kamo_Pasta/status/1362119159560085505
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Feb 17, 2021 23:48
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i didn't really expect SMTV news but a 3HD date would have been nice one more Direct rejected
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Feb 18, 2021 00:14
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Homora Gaykemi posted:one more Direct rejected when the thousand years have expired smt 5 will be released judgement has come to you!
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Feb 18, 2021 01:44
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OMG Haru drives as crazy as she fights, hah
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Feb 18, 2021 04:55
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Junpei posted:OMG Haru drives as crazy as she fights, hah So the Mona Bus almost running the team over wasn't spite, it was just Haru being physically incapable of comprehending speeds below 85 mph.
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Feb 18, 2021 05:22
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Homora Gaykemi posted:i didn't really expect SMTV news but a 3HD date would have been nice Oh yeah I completely forgot this was not announced Given how JRPG heavy the direct was that's extremely odd
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Feb 18, 2021 11:50
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Strikers is good.
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Feb 19, 2021 16:59
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Strikers is real good yes. Gold bar.
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Feb 20, 2021 08:37
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YoshiOfYellow posted:Strikers is real good yes. senditback
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Feb 20, 2021 08:40
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Natsume's dungeon is sending me. Everyone is so done with all the cliche JRPG/light novel stuff and nobody has any respect for anything in it, and it's great
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Feb 20, 2021 08:44
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So this is a neat video that dropped into my Youtube recommends. A professional dancer ranking all the characters in the Persona dancing games based on how hard their routines are to perform. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlA2yiSwMd8 I just thought it was really neat, since I always kinda just dismissed those games as pointless cash-grabs with decent remixes. But apparently, the actual performances are pretty legit, they work really well for the characters, as well as being solid dances in their own right. Some of them deceptively so; I thought Adachi's looked easy, but his routine is entirely based around being really good at something extremely difficult. And also that Junpei loving MURDERS people on the dance floor, holy poo poo.
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Feb 20, 2021 14:55
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Yeah, the Persona Dancing games are pretty fun rhythm games and reasonably high-effort. Persona 4 Dancing even has an actual plot. It's a very dumb plot in which the Investigation Team have to dance to calm down angry shadows who want to kill the members of an idol group headed up by Rise's rival/friend Kanami, but it's an actual plot. And it's canon. Each dance ends with the character summoning their persona, who plays a rad instrumental solo over Reach Out to the Truth. They dropped that for the 3 and 5 Dancing games but I always enjoyed it. Persona 3 and 5 Dancing don't have a plot at all. Their stories are, without any joking or oversimplification: Margaret won't stop bragging about how her Velvet Room guest defeated a god by dancing, which pisses off Elizabeth, Caroline, and Justine. Each one goes "actually our Velvet Room guest would be the best dancer" so Elizabeth and Caroline/Justine decide to have a competition to see whose guest is, in Elizabeth's actual words, "a swag and dope baller." This is also canon (though they also take place in a dream and the characters don't remember them after waking up so, like, it doesn't actually matter that they're canon). They do have social link-type scenes, though, with characters actually interacting with each other and not just with the protagonist. Gonna have to watch that video later. I've watched some of her edited playthrough videos that were recommended on Youtube and she's pretty chill. I know she's actually learned and performed some of the dances from the games herself, too. Harrow fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Feb 20, 2021 |
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Feb 20, 2021 15:25
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Looking at Strikers (3 more days before it releases here) and is it basically Persona Musou? Does it have Fusion or an equivalent system?
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Artelier posted:Looking at Strikers (3 more days before it releases here) and is it basically Persona Musou? Does it have Fusion or an equivalent system? It does. It's not really a traditional musou though, it has a linear story presentation and flows like a normal persona game just without the daily life segments.
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Artelier posted:Looking at Strikers (3 more days before it releases here) and is it basically Persona Musou? Does it have Fusion or an equivalent system? It's got some musou DNA, but structurally it's more Persona than musou. The combat is definitely "fight big hordes of enemies in action combat" but it has dungeon-like maps rather than area control and things like that. It's a Persona action-RPG with musou elements, is maybe the best way to describe it. And yes, it has fusion for Joker's personas.
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Feb 20, 2021 16:07
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Artelier posted:Looking at Strikers (3 more days before it releases here) and is it basically Persona Musou? Does it have Fusion or an equivalent system? The musou regulars hate it because it's *not* musou, if that's your tipping point.
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Thanks everyone, I'm in! Musou's progression is a bit too "aimless" for me, so hearing about the linear structure is great! And I looooooooooove Fusion EDIT: Oof just saw the price, maaaaaaybe I'll wait for a sale. But I'm definitely playing it at some point! Artelier fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Feb 20, 2021 |
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Feb 20, 2021 16:12
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Tae posted:The musou regulars hate it because it's *not* musou, if that's your tipping point. This isn't my tipping point, but I think you just convinced me to go PS vs Switch. I LOVED having musou on the go with FE Warriors, so I was hoping for more of the same. Everything I've seen in trailers/reviews looks amazing, so I think I'll enjoy it whatever platform I get it on.
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Artelier posted:EDIT: Oof just saw the price, maaaaaaybe I'll wait for a sale. But I'm definitely playing it at some point! But also,  , same.
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Feb 20, 2021 16:20
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That's for the digital deluxe edition, the normal one comes out next week because they wanted to fleece people who couldn't wait five days. Well unless everyone is ing at it being $60 I guess.
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Feb 20, 2021 16:22
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PMush Perfect posted:You might be waiting a long time. Non-nintendo games go on sale more often, and there's a PC version of Strikers so steam sales eventually.
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Feb 20, 2021 16:31
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Something throwing me off in P5S is for some reason interacting with NPCs is bound to the circle button but every other confirm prompt is on X.
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Feb 20, 2021 17:01
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I just realized that the scene in Persona 3 where Mitsuru called the cops because she thought someone had broken in and ransacked Junpei's dorm room only to bump into him and learn that, no, he's just a slob is basically the platonic ideal of the "drat, you live like this?" meme. 
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W.T. Fits posted:I just realized that the scene in Persona 3 where Mitsuru called the cops because she thought someone had broken in and ransacked Junpei's dorm room only to bump into him and learn that, no, he's just a slob is basically the platonic ideal of the "drat, you live like this?" meme. This was very good. I appreciate that the “they’re bad dancers but you will never be this cute” tier consisted of Nanako and Fuuka.
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Feb 20, 2021 20:35
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Strikers is good but it is very dumb that they made leaving the dungeon have absolutely no negative effects and full restore your party without just going ahead and adding a “restore your party” button at checkpoints to save you going through those loading screens. I’m happy it’s an option because oh boy is SP scarce as gently caress right now but if they know it’s a mechanic and they don’t penalise you for using it then just make it a button and build it in properly. People who want a ~TrUe GaMeR cHaLlEnGe~ could just not press the button and the rest of us would save a few minutes of our lives.
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There is technically an incredibly minor negative consequence to leaving the dungeon in that the random encounters respawn, but... Yeah I agree with you there should've just been a button you press to fully recover.
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Feb 20, 2021 22:38
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Infinity Gaia posted:There is technically an incredibly minor negative consequence to leaving the dungeon in that the random encounters respawn, but... Yeah I agree with you there should've just been a button you press to fully recover.
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FYI, there is now a Persona-specific megathread here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3959827 It seemed like a good time to make one, with this being a big anniversary year for the Persona series, and with a couple of big SMT releases coming this year as well. If you want to talk a bunch specifically about Persona and its spinoffs, please come and post! There's also a separate Persona 5 Strikers thread here, for when that game's full release comes: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3959499
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Just as a FYI the better comparison for Strikers isn't musou but Tales of (x). It has a lot more in common with those then with a Musou game.
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ImpAtom posted:Just as a FYI the better comparison for Strikers isn't musou but Tales of (x). It has a lot more in common with those then with a Musou game. I think this is actually the first thing I've read about the game that makes me really want to play it honestly I like a good musou game sometimes, but I LOVE the tails series
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Feb 21, 2021 14:02
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without watching a 30 minute video - P3 and 5 dancing are bad rhythm games, the choreography is not great and honestly even remixed the songs don't translate well to something you'd dance to, though the few bangers that are there are enough to justify the soundtracks at least. Haru's the best dancer and it's not even close, but that's almost unfair because it's ballet/contemporary vs everything else. so the real winners are Futaba because she can actually follow a beat, Morgana because how the gently caress am i supposed to grade a cartoon cat with two inch limbs against other dancers, and Junpei cause he just slays (though one of his songs is just the worst by far and he air guitars through a bunch of it. in fairness, if that track played at a club i'd change clubs altogether.)
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Ryuji is ironically the best dancer because I think he actually doesn't know how to dance. Poor kid just grabbed whatever white boy moves from whatever media he saw and tried to mix them up. I'm not even sure he has the beat down. Which is probably more realistic than believing that Junpei actually has moves.
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ApplesandOranges posted:Ryuji is ironically the best dancer because I think he actually doesn't know how to dance. Poor kid just grabbed whatever white boy moves from whatever media he saw and tried to mix them up. I'm not even sure he has the beat down. In all honesty, I feel like Junpei's the only one that dances better than it seems he should, but even with him I can imagine him secretly having some moves that he's practiced because it'd TOTALLY get him to score at the club, just you wait. Ryuji, Kanji, and Shinjiro all definitely have the vibe of 'can't dance for poo poo but that's not gonna stop 'em trying'. Which fits them all in different ways. Ryuji is definitely just trying to replicate moves he only kinda remembers from music videos, Kanji has a self-made routine of what he assumes 'slam dancing' is without actually checking, and Shinjiro is just mixing some fighting moves and dramatics to look like he knows what he's doing until people stop watching. As an aside, honorable mention to Akihiko for exactly the right amount of enthusiasm mixed with technique. His whole routine, with the constant defaulting back to the boxing stance, definitely gives the idea that he only sorta knows what he's doing, and only sorta wants to dance. It feels like he's just trying to wait out the song, which is exactly how I imagine Akihiko would respond when someone tries to get him to dance.
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The P4 cast are all apparently trained by Rise who incorporated their personal styles with whatever dance skills they already knew. Kanji apparently did sumo stomps or something when he showers, so Rise tried her best. Same with Naoto apparently having taken a little ballet as a kid. I feel like the P3 cast just blends in the background the most; aside from Akihiko, I couldn't really tell you anything interesting about the way most of them dance. P4 all have their specific style, and P5 just has enough individual charm between the cast members. Makoto is probably the most generic dancer but even then she does okay.
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Finished Devil Survivor 2 yesterday (the Septictantrum arc at least, I'll come back for Triangulum later). I think my feelings are very much the same as what I've already read in the thread. A huge improvement in all areas over the original, except the story. I didn't hate the story, Polaris was a nice change from the regular SMT big-bads if a little thematically vague, but it just wasn't anywhere near as tight as the first game and the character roster was a little bloated. I think Daichi was probably my favorite character just for how real he was. Fumi in a definite close second for being the complete antithesis of Daichi and yet every bit as real. Keita in hard last, because go to hell Keita, I regret saving you.
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I personally thought that the plot, or at least the pacing, was better in 2, because in 1 you spend like 3-4 days just wandering around surviving, and the actual plot is very backloaded, whereas in 2 they have JP's as a vehicle to drip feed plot to the player so you get things a bit more evenly over the seven-day period. Like, the first you even hear about the whole thing with the Bel demons fighting is on Day 3, right before you go fight Beldr, right? You find out about the Septentriones at the end of Day 1 in 2, right after you've killed the first one.
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I like the characters in 2 more but there's definitely a couple who just kinda exist. im pretty sure keita only exists to explain how saving people works.
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Finished my rerun of SMT Apocalypse. Final boss Vishnu Flynn was way harder than I remembered, so many status effects. What a great spot to end the game with, a battle between two chosen Godslayers.
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