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Persona 4 Golden |OT| Love is the only gold.
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Bump down that difficulty and it's not!
ErinIsADrunk
Member
Really? I find that if you make sure to fight every enemy of the floor as you come across them that you should generally be a good level for all of the bosses minus the 1st boss and the 1st extra boss.
Ok so just cussing? Im cool with that, i generally avoid sexual stuff.
buddha0991
Member
the rating is too high in the us
"Fuck" isn't in, I'm pretty sure. "Shit", I've heard quite a few times. It's my first time playing, but if this game's gonna drop the F-bomb, it's taking it's sweet time.
Moreso than that, the M is warranted for the subject matter and sexual material in particular. We were just talking about how you can tell a girl you've dreamt about banging her behind the school bleachers, haha
And that is optional?
we.are.the.armada
Member
Fuck is in.
It is, but it's hardly the only example. I mean, it's a game about high schoolers and it's pretty damn well representative of the high school experience and mind set. I don't think any of it's too bad and certainly not explicit, but I don't know you're level of sensitivity.
Ah, didn't do that S. Link.
^I stand corrected.
Because some personas look like women with nearly no clothes on and there is also a persona that looks like a penis. So it's a typical M rating for the US.
In other countries it's rated ages 12 and up.
WrenchNinja
Member
Seriously? Where?
I always figured that P4 was M because P3 was M, but P3 also had blood all over the place in Tartarus, and had kids shooting themselves in the head, none of which is in P4. P4G does have the "bonus" (if you want to call it that) of some bathhouse cutscenes where there is a bunch of steam covering up the naughty bits though, so I understand why it is rated M though.
I don't recall it.
Conflict NZ
Member
I have never grinded, only explored each floor fully, I'm playing on hard and I got to level 37 before fighting the shadow in the third dungeon, you get less XP on hard as well. Some people are saying they are at the 4th dungeon boss fight and are level 35 which blows my mind, do you guys just run through floors to fight the boss?
What you're offended by sexual stuff but not violence or gore?
Americans are too inhibited.
Also, leveling up does not require much grinding. When going for rescues and real missions, you should change the parties settings to follow your commands to conserve SP.
Using regular attacks on regular enemies conserves SP for harder battles.
When venturing into the dungeon for random leveling sessions, change the rest of your party to "Act freely" to level up faster.
Americans are too inhibited.
Also, leveling up does not require much grinding. When going for rescues and real missions, you should change the parties settings to follow your commands to conserve SP.
Using regular attacks on regular enemies conserves SP for harder battles.
When venturing into the dungeon for random leveling sessions, change the rest of your party to "Act freely" to level up faster.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
That's how America works. Explosive, graphic blood and gore is fine - but as soon as a tit pops out you're getting into "adult" territory.
Both actually, but i just figured it wouldnt be violent.
Why would you assume i wasnt btw?
I may be american, but i definitely dont like violence. If a game gives me a blood off option i use it.
I dont play GOW or GOW (lol) becuase of that, and overlysexual stuff is too much for me too.
Tribes of Trusty
Member
Which is kind of a perplexing thing for us Europeans, as we find sexualized content and rude words less shocking than violence and graphic stuff. P4 was a 16+ when released in Europe, whereas it's Mature in the US (it's more or less the same, but still, I find the amount of warnings on the US cover (Alcohol reference - Animated Blood - Language - Partial Nudity - Sexual themes - Violence) hilarious)
It's also funny how P3 has never created a controversy, considering the whole "teenagers shoot themselves in the head to mimic suicide in order to summon Satan
That apart, this game is so awesome. I already beat it on PS2, and yet it feels so fresh and fun...that's the mark of great games.
Yes, you can. Doesn't mean you should. Go play Persona 3 Portable (I suppose you have a Vita) ASAP.
ThingontheFloor
Member
For sure, they are basically standalone minus a few threads here and there connecting them but that's basically fanservice, nothing you would notice if you just played one.
Sure can.
ErinIsADrunk
Member
If you are trying to clear the dungeons in a single day then you really don't have enough SP to fight every monster AND fight the two bosses if you are fighting every single enemy. This is assuming you don't just spam the SOS feature then maybe its possible to fight every enemy and clear a dungeon in a day.
SiegfriedFM
Member
Just got my copy. It's gonna be great to have this portable for quick runs now and then.
Just so I know, how far into the game is the fanservice stuff? I'd rather not get to it while I'm on the bus or something
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Just so I know, how far into the game is the fanservice stuff? I'd rather not get to it while I'm on the bus or something
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Infinite_Daremo
Member
Anyone in the UK not received their order from Play Asia yet?
Anyone who has?
Anyone who has?
If you're on normal I don't think you should ever need to grind.
I'm on Very hard and I have done most floors twice, nothing crazy.
QUOTE=ErinIsADrunk;45027894]If you are trying to clear the dungeons in a single day then you really don't have enough SP to fight every monster AND fight the two bosses if you are fighting every single enemy. This is assuming you don't just spam the SOS feature then maybe its possible to fight every enemy and clear a dungeon in a day.[/QUOTE]
SOS+ some taps/random Sp items from chests/sp cards/invigorates (have a lamia with invigorate 1 2 and 3, so she gets 15 sp per turn) and maybe one fox trip has made it easy to clear very hard dungeons in one da
Someone pointed this out on the Giant Bomb forums, which kinda ruined "new" Kanji's voice for me.
Troy Baker seems to have forgotten what Kanji sounded like, because in the new recorded dialogue, he's less harsh in his tone, and he sounds more like...Troy Baker than Kanji. Since someone brought that up, I can't help but notice it now. ><
So now I'm potentially ruining it for you guys.
I played Saint's Row 3 with a character that looked and sounded like Kanji.
Was pretty great even if in the new lines he sounds like the same voice.
lastflowers
Banned
I fought every monster on every floor, and for the 2nd-4th dungeons I needed to heavily grind before I could take on the bosses.
Wait, so are you saying you played the whole game with the initial persona? If so, then what's the point of collecting/fusing? I've been led to believe it was necessary to fuse in order to level up personas enough to win.
I've beaten the PS2 original about 4 times, lol. Using one persona was more of a persona challenge for this playthrough since you can only hold so many skills on one persona (and because I like Izanagi's design). It's viable to just find a persona you like and stick with it, but for a newbie that's a very boring and time consuming option.
Maybe I'll do a black frost only run in New Game +.
Really? Oh well I'm sure it will be "quality" no matter how it looks like.
we.are.the.armada
Member
I'm not sure if that has even been quoted - if so, I'd like to see where/when.
It definitely is not.
pelicansurf
Needs a Holiday on Gallifrey
Yeah, if I forced myself to play with one persona I'd probably cry. You might get attached to some of your persona, but it does to get a bit samey near end game. It's kinda like Pokemon at the end. Some personas can learn some skills, but not others, some can learn everything. You can make any persona into a god with enough skill cards and patience.
Well, there you go, straight from the horses mouth.
lolez2matt
Member
I love the lectures about Jung and the explanation of where Personas and Shadows come..
Nice Atlus!
Nice Atlus!
Infinite_Daremo
Member
Oh fuck I didn't get any warning or anything that I noticed.. but my PSV just turned off presumably from the battery running down. I won't be able to plug it in for awhile (2-3 hours). What are the odds I can salvage my play time?
Last time that happened to me the game just booted where it left off.
I hope that happens for me. I'm on Kanji's dungeon.. just got to the 6th floor after maybe about an hour or so or more. Would hate to lose all those new persona and the items I received.
Ah crap, my vita just crashed. I was browsing neogaf on it with Persona also running and it just froze up. After 5 mins it woke up and let me quit the browser, then it completely crashed before I could go into P4 to save. This sucks ass, I lost hours in a whole dungeon and finishing a boss.
I will never use the browser while playing a game ever again on the Vita.
I will never use the browser while playing a game ever again on the Vita.
Tiu Neo
Member
Happened to me too, lost a few floors. I also almost opened the browser from the live area a few times, with the game hybernating, and closed as fast as i could, so it wouldn't happen again.
I guess it would be safe with a autosaving game, but an RPG like persona, be careful!
SatelliteOfLove
Member
Grinding is both mercy and negative reinforcement in a good JRPG like this one.
So, this will probably be the first time I really get into a JRPG and give it my best to complete it over the course of many months. I get gameplay mechanics and will probably make decent guesses at what I should be doing when the game isn't providing me with enough information, but are there things I need to know in advance when it comes to picking cards, personas, and fusing them? I don't really care too much about seeing everything or min/maxing, just not my cup of tea. This is on normal difficulty.