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PSP Persona games 75% off ($5 each).

Man, that is a good deal :D!

With that, are the other Persona games good? I'm sure they are but are they as good as Persona 4 Golden? Been really enjoying that so far and considering it is a sequel to the past ones, they must be like P4G...right?

Considering all three of these cost about as much as I paid for P4G (15 bucks), I'm wondering if they are a good deal or not. Any advice would be nice :).
 
The other ones have no social links and you have to negotiate in order to get things for fusing. Much more old school RPG feel than the newer games.

Are they like the FF games (1-6) or Chrono Trigger then? Outside of (recently) Chrono Trigger, P4G, the M&L games, Paper Mario 1, Super Mario RPG and the KH Series, I really don't play much RPGs.
 
$36. Shameful. I'll be hanging in Pandora until a sale or something.
Hope they do a better job with Freedom Wars and Oreshika (not that the bar is very high...).
I don't know what SCEJA are expecting in terms of sales, but that horrible price combined with almost nonexistent marketing probably won't do SSD any favors. Hopefully Freedom Wars stays at the $30 price that many retailers have it as now.
 
dynamic camera? I thought it was a VN? Post screens pls
Kinda sort of dynamic. As in, when there's dialog, it'll switch between characters faces as they talk, show the back their head, do a wide shot, etc. Pretty much, it's got a crap-ton of sprites and unique art for lots of different possible angles.

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I don't know what SCEJA are expecting in terms of sales, but that horrible price combined with almost nonexistent marketing probably won't do SSD any favors. Hopefully Freedom Wars stays at the $30 price that many retailers have it as now.

I guess they figure it is a 'new' game (a 1.5 version + DLC more or less + better presentation), so charging it as such makes 'sense' to SCEA... Besides, I think that Sony figures that people getting Soul Sacrifice via PS+ (which they did last week and a few months back) justifies the game costing so much; many didn't play for SS full price (or any price a all), so now they 'have' to pay in full...

I don't know, but considering I got SS for free with PS+ last November (and really enjoy it :D), I have no problems paying for that price...much latter on; my backlog is gigantic at this point XD.
 
Lightning Returns is already $25. Hmmm
Hmmmmmm
Serious Sam BFG looks interesting as well. Any word on the PS3 version?
 
I guess they figure it is a 'new' game (a 1.5 version + DLC more or less + better presentation), so charging it as such makes 'sense' to SCEA... Besides, I think that Sony figures that people getting Soul Sacrifice via PS+ (which they did last week and a few months back) justifies the game costing so much; many didn't play for SS full price (or any price a all), so now they 'have' to pay in full...

I don't know, but considering I got SS for free with PS+ last November (and really enjoy it :D), I have no problems paying for that price...much latter on; my backlog is gigantic at this point XD.
I bought the game because I really like Soul Sacrifice, but it's going to be difficult for more "casual" fans to drop $36 for a digital-only game that takes up 3+ GB. It doesn't make sense that we have to pay basically full price when Japanese players can get it for cheaper and on retail.
 
I bought the game because I really like Soul Sacrifice, but it's going to be difficult for more "casual" fans to drop $36 for a digital-only game that takes up 3+ GB. It doesn't make sense that we have to pay basically full price when Japanese players can get it for cheaper and on retail.

Japanese digital was 3700 yen so basically the same price.


am not defending the price
 
I bought the game because I really like Soul Sacrifice, but it's going to be difficult for more "casual" fans to drop $36 for a digital-only game that takes up 3+ GB. It doesn't make sense that we have to pay basically full price when Japanese players can get it for cheaper and on retail.

it makes perfect sense. The only reason we even have it in the west is for fans like us. They already put enough money toward the launch and their target audience, Japan. With minimal funds and effort they are appeasing the fans in the west and picking up whatever "extra" sales we're considered as icing on the cake, so to speak.

at least that's how I see it from their perspective

i am surprised there is no upgrade discount though... that's discouraging to so many potential sales.
 
Japanese digital was 3700 yen so basically the same price.

am not defending the price
Cheaper compared to the price of the original in Japan.

it makes perfect sense. The only reason we even have it in the west is for fans like us. They already put enough money toward the launch and their target audience, Japan. With minimal funds and effort they are appeasing the fans in the west and picking up whatever "extra" sales we're considered as icing on the cake, so to speak.

at least that's how I see it from their perspective

i am surprised there is no upgrade discount though... that's discouraging to so many potential sales.
I hope you're right. I have a bad feeling about May's top-selling PSN game list.
 
i guess i should buy the PSP Persona games that aren't 3, even though i have no intention of ever playing them... probably Growlanser too. I wish Class of Heroes 2 was in this sale

i'll have to throw in a different card just to DL them and extradite them to the HDD immediately

if any of you like isometric strategy RPG's and don't have Gungnir, DO NOT pass on this $4.99 sale... it's such a rock solid game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOth6EFowts
 
Bought Valhalla Knights 1 + 2 thinking they were in fact Valkyrie Chronicles.

*facepalm

Tell me i'm not going to regret buying these games?
 
why Sony why...
that SSD price :(

Disappointing. I actually have $25 in my wallet right now. I thought I could buy it earlier. Spent my 5 on Odin Sphere instead.

Couple this with the fact that the game wasn't marketed at all, I don't think SSD will do well.

I'll buy it when it goes under $30.

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Quick question.

When does Shinovi Versus release? Does it have an online mode?
 
Fast is a relative term. Soul sac was fast. Tearaway was faster.
True, but Tearaway was particularly bad. I can't think of another game that had ever gone to 50% as quickly as that did both digitally and retail.

Where's Digimon?

Just got P3P for my vita. Couldn't pass up for $5. How does it compare to FES?
Better battle system, superior FeMC, no cutscenes, and no Answer.

did XSEED clarify whether a online pass will be needed for online mp?
The Japanese version did, but XSEED confirmed in the other thread that there will be no online pass in the localized version.
 
True, but Tearaway was particularly bad. I can't think of another game that had ever gone to 50% as quickly as that did both digitally and retail.


Where's Digimon?


Better battle system, superior FeMC, no cutscenes, and no Answer.

So you don't walk around the world anymore right?
 
Where's Digimon?

The Japanese version did, but XSEED confirmed in the other thread that there will be no online pass in the localized version.

Let's hope it's the next one.

Very nice. Will the game be digital only?

So you don't walk around the world anymore right?

No. You are a moving dot on a static portrait of the map. Only in the city though. In Tartarus you have a 3d body ala P4.
 
True, but Tearaway was particularly bad. I can't think of another game that had ever gone to 50% as quickly as that did both digitally and retail.

That wasn't really the case. Last year I bought Battlefield 4, Assassin's Creed 4 and Batman Arkham Origins all at 50% off (or more) on Black Friday, the first two hadn't been out for a month yet. Tearaway just sticks out to most people as a bomb because creamsugar leaked that it sold poorly at retail, but that's the norm for Vita games at retail anyway.
 
Not much to buy this week. Will try Stick it to the Man on PS4.

I'm about ready to go to hell in God of War 1 on PSV. Should be ... not ... very fun.

The PSV should get the other two HD God of War games... especially Ghost of Sparta.
 
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