I just learned about SMP looping with Naoto earlier today. Really wish I had looked into it earlier.
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Persona 4 Arena |EU OT| Heartbeat, Heartbreak
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The game will fill you in on the important story stuff. It'll spoil Persona 4 (and I guess 3), but if you don't intend to ever play Persona 4 (and I guess 3) it doesn't really matter.
Nope. Have fun! IMO, it's better than BlazBlue.
His baseball bat rules all
I have a quick (and probably dumb) question: is there a way of getting out of combos if I don't have a burst ready?
Whenever I play online and get matched up with someone playing Yosuke I always get wrecked by that air combo where he flips around slashing you. I can use the burst to get out of it once, but then they can just do it again and again and the burst meter takes ages to charge. Is there anything else I can do to get out of it, or is it just a case where the only way to stop it is to avoid getting in that combo in the first place.
Whenever I play online and get matched up with someone playing Yosuke I always get wrecked by that air combo where he flips around slashing you. I can use the burst to get out of it once, but then they can just do it again and again and the burst meter takes ages to charge. Is there anything else I can do to get out of it, or is it just a case where the only way to stop it is to avoid getting in that combo in the first place.
No. Understand that other fighting games don't even have a "Burst" mechanic to save your ass so you have to sit there and take it when you get caught in a huge combo.
Chie has a new way to set up oki on Teddie involving JCing her sweep into 5C j.D. At this point in the game, Chie doesn't have any bad matchups. Narukami can't set up his vortex but his other tools are still useful. A month or so ago I had my friend ask LK who wins between Mitsuru and Teddie, LK said Mitsuru wins it.
Chie has no problems getting in with her speed, just requires good footsies. Even if someone like Mitsuru whiffs, Chie gets in and Mitsuru's slow start up leaves her vulnerable (and 5A being +1 is just too good). And Aigis is good but I wouldn't say top 3 because of having to use resources.
Lots of Japanese players put Chie and Yu as top 2 as well. The game has been changing lately. Naoto's SMP helps her, but I don't think it bumps her up far enough. The other characters have been gaining new possibilities, but Naoto stays pretty stagnant.
Your list feels closer to what the majority thought of the game last year, but Japan's been figuring things out.
Are they doing a reset with Moonsault after Dash Spring? You can roll away or air throw Yosuke if he's going for a crossup Moonsault.
Well, I wouldn't say it's necessarily died down. It's one of the main games at EVO, after all. But it's an anime, air dasher for one (inherently unpopular competitively compared to other games); seen too simplistic/dumb by some and the developers have done absolutely nothing to support it post release except for a singular patch that fixed a few glitches.
I wouldn't be too concerned about the lack of post-release support from Arc (again, looking at their ideas on rebalancing their fighters, I kind of prefer it this way, and think it's only a matter of time until they fix BBCP until it breaks just like they did with BBCS by Extend). I would think the number of people who stuck around for the fighter not being as high as the amount of Persona fans who came specifically for the story is likely another factor.
R_thanatos
Member
I don't think it was at any time one of the main game at EVO.
Sure it had some tourney "on the side" but it wasn't a main game like "SSF4, KOF13, UMvC, MK & Tekken"
Unless i've missed all those events during last year coverage ( who know it might have happenned )
P4A had a nice small event and that's it
Uh... what? Persona 4 Arena wasn't released during the time of EVO 2012. Persona 4 Arena is LITERALLY one of the main games at EVO 2013 alongside others such as UMvC3, SSFIV, SSBM and MK9. It was announced by Mr. Wizard himself during the stream when the main games were being announced.
R_thanatos
Member
We might talk about different things.
For me a main game at EVO or a game with an "EVO spot" is a game that has his tournament at EVO and stay there.
For all we know it will do the same as Street x tekken and disapear.
In my previous post i was indeed referencing to last year as i didn't knew that at that time P4A was for this year.
Great then.
Let's hope it will not have the same path & destiny as blazblue, SxT and others..
This is a strangely specific definition for "main game". In the rhetorical Final EVO, are there no main games because none return the next year?
SFxT never went anywhere (they said it wasn't coming back last year, yet it's still a main game as of this year anyway). Either way, disqualifying something as a "main game" for not being included indefinitely is rather silly.
I don't know anything about this, but it probably will be replaced by BBCP next year, since the console release will be out by then.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Eh, I remember MrWizard was shitting on this last year, so I'm surprised it's even an Evo game this year. I honestly expect it to get dropped next year for like BlazBlue or something.
If Persona 4 Arena does not have a good showing at this year's EVO, no anime airdasher will ever be a main game at EVO again, such was the implication given by Mr. Wizard on the stream.
R_thanatos
Member
Not indefinitly ... Just more than a year.
I'm not asking for a 3rd strike for example.. but it was there during multiple years.
Anyway this is semantics.
Sorry if i offended any fan of one serie ..but to exist , you have to stay there at EVO , now just gain momentum and disapear. That's what i honnestly believe
I only did 6 of the stories before I got bored. Is this normal? A lot of them seemed very samey and I after the Labrys story there wasn't much else that looked like it would be as interesting.
The game is fun though, I even recorded a mini tournament with my mates. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttba79oDbr4
The game is fun though, I even recorded a mini tournament with my mates. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttba79oDbr4
Well, bought this game a week ago and I think I can give a few impressions. The gameplay itself is great, despite the limited number of characters. It also looks great.
But the story, it was awful. Dantis was right, the characters really felt like caricatures of hteir former selves at times.
But the story, it was awful. Dantis was right, the characters really felt like caricatures of hteir former selves at times.
Tizoc
Member
Couldn't wait any longer and popped the game into the PS3 XP.
Wow, I know Kanji's supposed to be the 'heavy guy', but that dash of his is ridiculous.
I'm really enjoying Kanji so far, and might learn Chie. Is Kanji's main super good for anything? Seems to get heavily scaled in long combos >_>;
Gonna redo his trial combos since I am able to do them easily for the most part, and for it to give me an idea on how his combos work.
The control scheme confused me at first mainly since I interpreted it as the typical 3-attack button scheme, now I'm just treating it as it being like KoF's control scheme.
Wow, I know Kanji's supposed to be the 'heavy guy', but that dash of his is ridiculous.
I'm really enjoying Kanji so far, and might learn Chie. Is Kanji's main super good for anything? Seems to get heavily scaled in long combos >_>;
Gonna redo his trial combos since I am able to do them easily for the most part, and for it to give me an idea on how his combos work.
The control scheme confused me at first mainly since I interpreted it as the typical 3-attack button scheme, now I'm just treating it as it being like KoF's control scheme.
THe game is viewed by some as a bit simple, but I think that helps it get tourney numbers at majors- it's a low maintenance game.
I see P4A as Arc figuring out stuff and getting back to being good again. They've had a bit of a rough gen in terms of game quality.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Yup they literally took everything they learned from this and AC+R to improve BBCP it's extremely noticeable.
Is there a way to call them?
I don't think so. Online form and email address only.