Someone needs to shop Persona 5 onto this.
He's beary agrrrressive!
Persona 5 also launching on PS4, releasing 2015 ["waifu"/"husbando" crap = ban]
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He's beary agrrrressive!
Aquamarine
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http://gematsu.com/2013/11/persona-5-has-a-high-school-setting-but-different-atmosphere
"This week’s Dengeki PlayStation has first details on the Sunday-announced Persona 5.
The chairs and chains shown in the announcement teaser are located at a senior high school, according to the magazine. These make up the theme of Persona 5.
It’s described as an RPG that contains a message like a cathartic yell to overcome trials and break free from your chains.
The game will continue to adapt the series’ juvenile high school setting, but the atmosphere will be completely different.
Atlus promises the game will offer a sense of realism, including life-sized characters and a story built from a new world and values."
Tales of Zestiria is coming out next year in the west (I hope). So there is that.
MiguelMexMIstery
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Because high school nostalgia is a huge thing in Japan. And College/University isn't regarded in the same was as it is in the west.
Vire
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Sounds good to me.
Nah, it's okay. I enjoy hearing why fans like the series.
ehh it was alright.
Scrooge McDuck
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I am honestly rather confused about the dissonance between what people say the Persona community topic is like and what it actually is like. Did some egregious things happen in the past?
You'll find us talking about the game?
Nope, it's just generalizations because of the whole "waifu" thing which again, is just a very small minority and doesn't make up all of the fanbase.
And I'd guess most of those are just kids anyway.
It's what make Persona....well.. Persona.
There aren't a lot of JRPGs in modern HS anyway (well good ones at least).
It is a major part of the series along with finding your true self and whatnot.
The community topic is not like that. Honestly the only time it pops up is when some creates a P4 thread on gaming side or someone new joins the topic. Waifu/husbando wars get kind of old.
You mean your "first spinoff Persona game".
Persona Q will only give you a rough idea of what to expect in an actual mainline one.
MiguelMexMIstery
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People stupidly just assume every crazy Persona fan that is obsessed with waifus = Persona community. Those kind of things only happen in thread in the Gaming side.
Go for it! I'm excited Q is opening the gates of Persona to the audience of 3DS.
We're the fall guy.
Whenever a Persona thread derails into a creepy waifu wars, we'll be invariably tied to it, even when we're not responsible (which is most of the time). Folks just like to paint us with a broad brush, it seems.
buddha0991
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We're the fall guy.
Whenever a Persona thread derails into a creepy waifu wars, we'll be invariably tied to it, even when we're not responsible (which is most of the time). Folks just like to paint us with a broad brush, it seems.
Also, the 2011-2012 PSP ports of the Persona 2 duology didn't do so hot sales-wise compared to 3 and 4, if memory serves. While the first game (Innocent Sin) stars high schoolers, the vast majority of the focus is unrelated to high school. (The second game, Eternal Punishment, has a playable cast that is 6/7ths adults with full-time jobs.)
I've heard it suggested that the ports were a way for Atlus to test the water for moving back to that sort of storyline. I don't know if that's true, but it doesn't seem to be the direction they want to take with P5.
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Jotamide
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Nice teaser but I wanted a female MC. 
Asking Alus to have P Studio move to a new IP would be like asking Square to move on from Final Fantasy. It's their breadwinner. They'll branch out occasionally with games like Catherine, but Persona is likely going to be around for a long time at this point.That sounds kind of silly, no way it's true.
I'm still bummed they decided to keep the high school setting. Hopefully they will move on with a new IP or something, that would be cool
Nice teaser but I wanted a female MC.
It'll happen in the inevitable remake for a handheld system in the future. Persona 5: Crimson edition. It'll happen.
Yep, like that female Persona 4 Golden protagonist.
Damn straight.
Yeah, I'm hoping for a "branch out" kind of game from them (in, like, ten years, lol) I loved Catherine, I want to see more games with that kind of setting.
Not really the case at all but point still stands XD!
I would have paid a king's fortune for a Sukeban protagonist.
Crash Station
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It's a bit different in Japan where high school culture is similar to college culture in the west, aka the last time you can do shit before becoming a slave to corporations and whatnot. Or so I've heard.
tiggerkiddo
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Alas I wish the trailer showed us more, there isn't much to go on. Protagonist, if that truly is him, looks all right to me.
orthodoxy1095
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I could be wrong, but I would guess that there are more people that have generally fond memories of high school than those who have absolutely negative knee-jerk responses to the setting. High-school wasn't the greatest thing ever, but a game like P4G sure made me introspective and a little bit nostalgic.
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
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So Japan first in 2015? Wonder how long the west has to wait?
Aquamarine
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I'm sure that the sudden announcement of the PS4 port is the cause for the delay.
The localisation is already being produced in tandem with the delayed development, so if anything, I think the delay will minimise the Japan / USA split on Persona 5 releases.
Maybe they can even get it down to a worldwide release.
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
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Didn't know this was delayed. A worldwide release would be great!
Worldwide release would mean Europe too. And i very much doubt it.
Aquamarine
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Well, a worldwide release in this context would be North America + Japan because we all know Atlus really doesn't care about Europe in the slightest.
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
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It's Sega now so I think it can happen.
davepoobond
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Cross gen???? FUCK
just kidding. this is cool. i might buy it on ps4 then
just kidding. this is cool. i might buy it on ps4 then
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Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Even if they use the Catherine engine, its still gonna be colorful as fuck and will look great, Catherine's art style lent itself really well to a clean non-jagged presentation. It should look fantastic either way.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
Sad to say I haven't played Catherine yet.
But I'm really curious how they'll outdo 4. I really liked the murder mystery (still haven't beaten it since I lost my late game save )
eyeball_kid
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Agreed. I was really hoping the success of Catherine would lead them towards an adult setting for P5. When you think about it, an adult Persona game would basically be a videogame version of a Murakami novel. And that would be amazing.
But alas, high school it is again. At least the tone from the teaser seems a bit more serious this time.
TheBryanJZX90
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No, college in Japan is where you go to have a good time and the last time you can be free before becoming a corporate wage slave. That's actually a much bigger part of college in Japan than it is in America, because Japanese colleges are a lot less rigorous than American colleges, and even then when applying for jobs after graduating the name of your college is all that's important, not your grades there. American universities are way more competitive and your grades actually matter for a lot more.
It's not the Catherine engine. They've said it's a brand new engine.
Psycho_Mantis
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Going on about the P5 music.....we heard from the initial tease a bit of it. Sounds like the OST might have a bit of electronic music....I don;t know its hard to explain.
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