Persona Series (New P4: DAN trailer!)

[Jae]

I know there's a Shin Megami Tensei thread already, but that seemed to be more about the main series rather than its spin-offs, so Persona thread!

Videos of Interest:
Persona 4 - Dancing All Night:
Persona 4: Dancing All Night Trailer (Yosuke, Chie and Kanji)

Persona Q:
Persona Q (EN P4 Protagonist Trailer)
Persona Q (EN P3 Protagonist Trailer)

Persona 5:
Persona 5 First Teaser
Persona 5 9/1 Teaser

 

[Booster]

It's coming to PS4 too which is a mixed bag:

It's a PS3 game, doesn't belong on PS4, but at the same time developers are now quarter assing on PS3 game development and people are selling their PS3s

 

[SomewhatMystia]

I love how relatively normal this guy looks compared to Yu and Minato. Definitely looking forward to seeing what particular mythology we're getting for the main character's party's personae this time around.

 

[Lythium]

I'm pretty excited for this!

New protag's design is interesting. Looks like we're back in a city for this as well, that's neat.

 

[Jae]

Protagonist's design looks good. He looks like he came out from some kind of Japanese/Korean drama, imo.

I'm looking forward to the city environment again.
Can't say Tatsumi Port Island was the most exciting location, but this looks promising.

I wonder if there will be a "free angle camera" as opposed to fixed camera angles.

 

[radio silent]

MC design looks great, and I'm also excited about it being set in a city again. It also seems like this'll have a more serious tone than 4, which is great. I liked 4, but it was essentially an episode of Scooby-Doo.

 

[finalark]

We do have a horribly underutilized Shin Megami Tensei thread, which Persona would fall under here: http://smashboards.com/threads/shin-megami-tensei-discussion.339562/

Anyway, I've been getting pretty into this series. I finish a play through of P4 over the summer and I'm currently playing P3FES. After I finish that I'm planning on playing through P2EP.

 

[Jam Stunna]

How bad is it that I actually considered getting a Playstation TV just to play Persona 4 Golden?

 

[LivewiresXe]

Not bad at all. Though, I'm waiting until I can find like a Vita at a reasonable price/get money for that. I'm just really looking forward to seeing some gameplay. And if they'll do something as a cool bonus, like make The Reaper some bonus Persona you can fuse on a New Game+ or something.

 

[Minato]

How bad is it that I actually considered getting a Playstation TV just to play Persona 4 Golden?

Get one for P4G and both Danganronpa games. You won't regret it.

 

[finalark]

I'm planning on getting a PlayStation TV to use it as a Persona box. Since IS and an improved version of P1 are only on PSP. Plus there's also P3P to consider.

 

[DJCrinkleCut]

I mean, I bought a Vita to play Persona 4 Golden.
Totally worth it, buy the way, even considering I haven't played a single other game on the system.

 

[SomewhatMystia]

I plan on getting a Vita sometime for non-Persona reasons, but would you recommend picking up Golden even if I've beaten P4? I know there's an extra boss (or so) and some more story stuff, but is there anything else of importance that'd make it kinda like the difference between P3 and P3: FES?

 

[Minato]

I plan on getting a Vita sometime for non-Persona reasons, but would you recommend picking up Golden even if I've beaten P4? I know there's an extra boss (or so) and some more story stuff, but is there anything else of importance that'd make it kinda like the difference between P3 and P3: FES?

If you don't mind playing it again, I'd say it's worth it to get Golden. It's great to play on the go. Also you get to restart floors if you ever die, making it easy to play. If you like fusing really good personas, it's even more fun because of various changes.

Basically shuffle time changes, skill cards, 2 new social links, new personas, new ultimate persona forms for the cast, new dungeon with boss, two new endings, and new story events sprinkled throughout the game. I'd say it's a bigger than P3 to FES.

 

[SomewhatMystia]

If you like fusing really good personas, it's even more fun because of various changes.

Welp, I'm sold! Fusing nice stuff is like 70% of my playtime and fun in those things.

 

[Jae]

I went out of my way to go and buy a Vita along with that super expensive memory card, all so I could play P4G. I've only played P3FES at that point, so I didn't know what was new, changed, etc from vanilla P4.

After drowning myself with 160+ hours on three playthroughs, I've pretty much exhausted my ability to play the game.
I was trying to get the last couple of trophies but looks like I had too much fun with playing the game, that I got tired of it. Still love it though, definitely one of my top favorite games. ^^''

 

[SomewhatMystia]

That's the only real bad thing about super long JRPGs (or anything, really). No matter how much I love it at first and even in the end, it's something I'll never want to play again for a few years at least.

 

[Minato]

Welp, I'm sold! Fusing nice stuff is like 70% of my playtime and fun in those things.

It's pretty nice. During Shuffle Time, it's possible to get one where it will level up any one of your current Persona's skills. So you can easily get stuff like Megidolaon or other strong skills fairly early on. One of the best additions is that you get to choose which skills you want to pass on when you fuse instead of being random.

 

[Jae]

That's the only real bad thing about super long JRPGs (or anything, really). No matter how much I love it at first and even in the end, it's something I'll never want to play again for a few years at least.

Yes, agreed entirely. One playthrough in itself is already a huge investment in time. Myself however sacrificed precious sleep time to play Golden while laying down. For all cutscenes, Social Links, etc., even on my subsequent runs, I actually read/watch through them without skipping anything, somehow.

I must say though, that I really appreciate all of the additional events they've added into the game. Love the "Operation Babe Hunt, Part 2".

 

[DJCrinkleCut]

I think I've lost my last shred of masculinity.