Persona 5 announced for PS3, winter 2014

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Damn, looks like I'll be purchasing another PS3 this year after yellow lighting two weeks ago. Thank you based Atlus!!!!

In other news, anyone else getting Battle Royale esque vibes from the announcement?
 
FluxWaveZ said:
http://doragonbaby.blog97.fc2.com/blog-entry-71.html

"Hashino stated that it was happening and that he wanted to add elements in Persona 5 that is to be expected of the series as well as change things within those limitations."
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Thanks. Doesn't read like he's actually going to be taking apart the box, if that's the quote, then... Hmm.

Korigama said:
Anyone honestly thinking this will have anything to do with a prison setting is being entirely too literal-minded...
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Eh, I don't think it's unfounded. While the English suggests that it is more of a metaphor, I personally want a prison setting because it'd be nice to change quite a few of the things up. Otherwise, you get this:

Dresden said:
Probably a regular school, with some new threat appearing that offers an escape out of the ball-and-chain captivity of such a life. Those who indulge this threat disappear. The heroine must investigate... or something like that.
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:P (I don't mind having more post-P3 Persona but something new would be nice!)
 
Probably a regular school, with some new threat appearing that offers an escape out of the ball-and-chain captivity of such a life. Those who indulge this threat disappear. The heroine must investigate... or something like that.
 
Auron_Kale said:
The wait is going to be absolutely painful for this game, but I am so damn excited that we've finally got some form of confirmation of a date.

The chairs with the ball & chains is rather interesting choice for a key image in the teaser, but I love the use of the red. Whether it's set in school or possibly a prison, I'm just excited to see that this game is actually coming out.
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I'm open to the idea, but I really doubt it's prison. It's anyone's guess at this point, but if I had to bet, I would put my money on a high-school/college crowd, with a wider age-range comprising the main group (high school kids up through college grads). The trailer also got me thinking there may be a theme of being a "slave" to corporate company culture, since work culture is so dominant in Japan.

With Atlus striking gold with the high school setting, though, I don't think they will abandon school-age characters unless they're really trying to shake things up
 
Moonlight said:
Okay, so I'm going to clear this up because this misconception is hurting me on the inside. Sho is a character for Persona 4 Arena 2, he has nothing to do with P5. We literally know nothing about P5 yet aside from the teaser they dropped.

Also, Persona 3 and 4 is a very, very, very far cry from 'Disney Channel XD'.
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Ok, I must have misread that guys post then. Thanks for clearing that up.

I'm going to do something I wouldn't normally do, and I'm going to buy P3FES on PSN and give it another chance. I hate the artstyle, but if there's something about the series that I might find appealing that I missed before, it's worth going back to take another look.
 
Dresden said:
Probably a regular school, with some new threat appearing that offers an escape out of the ball-and-chain captivity of such a life. Those who indulge this threat disappear. The heroine must investigate... or something like that.
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oh-you-dog.jpg
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Let's not jump the gun into FeMC territory yet.
 
8bitDevil said:
Ok, I must have misread that guys post then. Thanks for clearing that up.

I'm going to do something I wouldn't normally do, and I'm going to buy P3FES on PSN and give it another chance. I hate the artstyle, but if there's something about the series that I might find appealing that I missed before, it's worth going back to take another look.
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I'll tell you this now, you aren't going to get the dark game that you want until about halfway in (or earlier if you start getting near the end of some of the s-links). Just something to keep in mind.
 
8bitDevil said:
Ok, I must have misread that guys post then. Thanks for clearing that up.

I'm going to do something I wouldn't normally do, and I'm going to buy P3FES on PSN and give it another chance. I hate the artstyle, but if there's something about the series that I might find appealing that I missed before, it's worth going back to take another look.
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Unless you're dead set against P4, I'd say give that a shot instead.
 
7Th said:
Rule of Rose meets Persona would be my dream game.
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This guy knows what's up!

FluxWaveZ said:
Y2Kev guessed correctly again, by the way:

{Y2Kev postt}

Posted that even before the teaser website had gone up. Not bad.
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The Dark Souls of Predictors.


Perfect Cha0s said:
Unless you're dead set against P4, I'd say give that a shot instead.
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Since it seems he is looking for a story with a darker tone, I would definitely suggest 3.
 
8bitDevil said:
Ok, I must have misread that guys post then. Thanks for clearing that up.

I'm going to do something I wouldn't normally do, and I'm going to buy P3FES on PSN and give it another chance. I hate the artstyle, but if there's something about the series that I might find appealing that I missed before, it's worth going back to take another look.
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Persona 3 portable is a lot more playable imo. Not being able to control your characters directly aside from the MC was kinda annoying in FES. The answer definitely has the darkness you're looking for though.
 
Perfect Cha0s said:
I'm open to the idea, but I really doubt it's prison. It's anyone's guess at this point, but if I had to bet, I would put my money on a high-school/college crowd, with a wider age-range comprising the main group (high school kids up through college grads). The trailer also got me thinking there may be a theme of being a "slave" to corporate company culture, since work culture is so dominant in Japan.

With Atlus striking gold with the high school setting, though, I don't think they will abandon school-age characters unless they're really trying to shake things up
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Hence me saying "possibly" with the prison reference as it's truly more of a long shot versus a school setting. Granted, school is often thought of as a prison anyway so in a way, it's basically the same thing. :P

Regardless, I'm excited because of the teaser and can't wait to see more key images released.
 
Sorian said:
There is a lovely vita version of the game.
You won't be getting a PS3 announcement
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Seems like a real missed opportunity. I'm sure if they had put Persona 4 on PSN at the same time as the P5 announcement a ton of people would likely have bought it.
 
Dylan said:
Seems like a real missed opportunity. I'm sure if they had put Persona 4 on PSN at the same time as the P5 announcement a ton of people would likely have bought it.
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I'm going to assume Golden isn't optimized for the big screen and it would be stupid too put vanilla P4 onto the PS3 PSN at this point in the game.
 
Sorian said:
I'm going to assume Golden isn't optimized for the big screen and it would be stupid too put vanilla P4 onto the PS3 PSN at this point in the game.
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I don't think they can put Persona 4 on PSN as a PS2 classic due to licensing issues with two voice actors.
 
This decision is just asking for port begging. They probably dont want to release on a system with a small install base, yet aren't releasing on 360 too which would effectively double the amount of people who might buy this game. Yet they are releasing on a system that is notoriously hard to program for making it harder on themselves and might result in a worse game. They probably could have gotten a game up and running much faster on XB1/PS4, polished the fuck out of it and sold it xmas 2014 on a pretty healthy install base by then.
 
Personally, I think the final year of high school would be cool as a setting. Not too drastic a change for people who like the school aesthetic and the characters are a little more mature than they were in P4 (they got a little grating for me after a while. I found myself missing Mitsuru and Akihiko).

Combine that with an overall theme of societal acceptance and tearing off the metaphorical ball and chain of childhood, mix in a little rebellious tone, and we've got ourselves a Persona 5.
 
Teletraan1 said:
This decision is just asking for port begging. They probably dont want to release on a system with a small install base, yet aren't releasing on 360 too which would effectively double the amount of people who might buy this game. Yet they are releasing on a system that is notoriously hard to program for making it harder on themselves and might result in a worse game. They probably could have gotten a game up and running much faster on XB1/PS4, polished the fuck out of it and sold it xmas 2014 on a pretty healthy install base by then.
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They care about the jp sales not the western sales. The install base of the 360 (or any MS console) is near 0 and the PS4 will not have a larger install base than the PS3 by the time this drops.
 
Sorian said:
"I hope this persona series stops doing what the persona series does"
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Well yeah, its why I never got into the series that much. As an adult playing a high school dating sim/RPG is not appealing at all aestheticly to me and to many people. If persona didnt limit itself to such a niche demographic it could be so much bigger.
 
Teletraan1 said:
This decision is just asking for port begging. They probably dont want to release on a system with a small install base, yet aren't releasing on 360 too which would effectively double the amount of people who might buy this game. Yet they are releasing on a system that is notoriously hard to program for making it harder on themselves and might result in a worse game. They probably could have gotten a game up and running much faster on XB1/PS4, polished the fuck out of it and sold it xmas 2014 on a pretty healthy install base by then.
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There's no JRPG audience for the PS4.

There will probably be no JRPG audience for the PS4 by winter of 2014.
 
Deckard Cain said:
Well yeah, its why I never got into the series that much. As an adult playing a high school dating sim/RPG is not appealing at all aestheticly to me and to many people. If persona didnt limit itself to such a niche demographic it could be so much bigger.
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And smaller in Japan.
 
They have a year or more to decide on or announce news regarding a ps4 port/cross gen/iOS/??/simultaneous release. People need to calm the fuck down.
 
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