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Persona 4 Golden |OT| Love is the only gold.
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meltingparappa
Member
Watch the anime.
Play P4 Arena.
Play P3P if you haven't yet.
And realize none of these will fill the void.
Young Magus
Junior Member
All good things must come to an end right?
I just made myself sad 
Oh and what does exactly carries over in new game plus? I know social stats carry over but do levels also?
All good things must come to an end right?I just made myself sad
Oh and what does exactly carries over in new game plus? I know social stats carry over but do levels also?
No levels.
Your money carries over, and the compendium and the weapons you've forged, I know that. So you can pretty much go into a new game with really strong armor/weapons and a strong persona as well.
Young Magus
Junior Member
This includes you own level right?
No, you have to level up still, but you can buy a high-level persona from the compendium so it doesn't matter too much.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
No, you start off at level 1. So fuse your high level stuff before you finish the game.
I plan on doing all 3. They might not be p4g but I need something!
I was literally all misty eyed during the credits. This is an amazing game. Game of the year. The reason to own a Vita. Whatever you want to call it. Just an outstanding experience from beginning to end.
I sound like a babbling fanboy but everything I say is true. Not an opinion. The truth!
I think this is a perfect plan! FWIW: I say uni students if they feel they absolutely need to go older, but I totally prefer a high school setting if I can get that.
we.are.the.armada
Member
There are time when I wish that I could lose all memory of this game just to enjoy it again, for the first time.
Welcome to the other side
buddha0991
Member
I want a rational continuation of what happened in P4A that ties all the series together, but most of you people here dont want that.
Hey, I want that too myself. :S
meltingparappa
Member
I want it to! And I feel like it's inevitable, even if (at worst) only as a fighting game sequel.
They're not just going to go "Oh, all that stuff we went out of our way to set up? Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh whatever, maybe we'll get someone to do an iOS light novel someday."
You're playing on V. Hard, right? What was your level when you fight him?.
buddha0991
Member
Robert Downey Jr pls
Shining Sunshine
Banned
Why must this happen to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?
Oh... makes me feel marginally better then.
(I'm level 21 fighting Shadow
Teddie
I lost to a nerfed Shadow Youske the first time I played Golden.... because I had a brain fart and was too overconfident.
Oh and I once killed myself with a hama spell that reflected off an enemy. XD
Oh... makes me feel marginally better then.
(I'm level 21 fighting Shadowand getting my ass kicked. I was level 14-15 at Shadow Kanji. ;_Teddie
In the offhand chance that I had lost, I would have leveled to 25 or so.
I did that too actually, losing to Shadow Yosuke, it's a few pages back. XD
buddha0991
Member
Im curious. Have any of you guys tried any of the other megatens that aren't Persona? How did you feel about them? Just curious.
Played Nocturne, Digital Devil Saga 1, Devil Survivor, and Soul Hackers. They were all pretty awesome, but most of them were rentals. :S
buddha0991
Member
Oh you got in before I corrected it, I'm ashamed
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe. Do you want me to take a picture?
I think I have all the others except the Raidou games. Only haven't beaten Nocturne. That one scares me, like I know I'll fuck something up and lose about 30-40 hours of gameplay and have to start over, kinda hate that.
But, I've beaten SJ, DS1 & 2, DDS1 & 2, I'm probably forgetting one. I dunno, I play vidya way too much.
I corrected it myself. XD
I've never played the Raidou games. No place around here has ever had them, and I had a hard time justifying gas to a two hour drive to a Gamestop for something I may not like.
I've beaten Raidou Summoner 1 and Nocturne, own and started Raidou Summoner 2 and Strange Journey, and own but have not played DDS 1 and 2. Was interested in Devil Survivor, but I really don't like the art style for it. Yet to play a Megaten that I've not enjoyed outside of Persona 1 though.
P4G on V. Hard has treated me way more harshly than Nocturne on Hard ever did, and that was going for a True Demon ending run on my first playthrough.
buddha0991
Member
You three, I like you three. That's awesome. You're awesome.
Would it also please you to know that I have also bought DS:Overclocked as well?
which should be here Monday
buddha0991
Member
Would it also please you to know that I have also bought DS:Overclocked as well?
which should be here Monday
OG Devil Survivor here, that game was pretty damn good, a shame 2 was dissapointing to me.
buddha0991
Member
Never played Overclocked or 2.
2 is liked more than 1 by some, less than 1 by others. I'd say still give it a shot. As for Overclocked, did you play normal 1 a lot?
Not really, I played it as a rental once. I enjoyed what I played tho.
meltingparappa
Member
DS 2 and 1 feel like very different games, tonally.
1 is essentially classic SMT but with kids, but still an apocalyptic scenario.
2 is an Eva-ish demons vs aliens thing going on, and has fewer difficulty spikes (but the gameplay isn't as silky smooth as Overclocked).
Both are pretty neat, and arguably just plain more fun than Strange Journey with it's labyrinthine tunnels and minimal story.
Reach out to it, baby
buddha0991
Member
Mainline smt fans would disagree with you there...but I find that the beauty of Megaten. They try so many different styles and types of game within a similar framework. It's interesting how the fanbase splits a thousand ways.
Young Magus
Junior Member
Yeah, 1 was great, hell, I beat it with an all strength MC build too, even though I rage quitted at one part where a minion managed to full heal a boss. God damn I nearly flung my DS.
2 fell a little flat but had some very nice improvements. The compendium being #1.
Love that gameplay.
This is why you're a cool guy unlike some other SMT fans.
buddha0991
Member
Yeah, 1 was great, hell, I beat it with an all strength MC build too, even though I rage quitted at one part where a minion managed to full heal a boss. God damn I nearly flung my DS.
2 fell a little flat but had some very nice improvements. The compendium being #1.
Love that gameplay.
This is why you're a cool guy unlike some other SMT fans.
All magic, holy danced my way through the game. I imagined my dude wearing a pope outfit doing the carlton dance from the Fresh Prince.
A long, long time ago, I was one of those who damned Persona 3. Since then, I have learned to be more open with...well everything, and now my 3 fab Megaten games are Nocturne, Persona 2 Duology and Persona 4.
meltingparappa
Member
Hard to be a snob when all the games are really good in vastly different ways!
Well.... there's.... Maken X....
I should add some other Megaten game I've played and recommend:
Devil Summoner 2 is a fantastic action-rpg that fixed all the clunkiness from the first game. The setting isn't quite as interesting, but the story structurally feels like a whole season of a classic Japanese action show. Like... if Zatoichi was a demon-summoning, gun-toting, cat-carrying detective instead of a blind swordsman.
Nocturne - If every SMT game can be amalgamated into "normal mode", this is definitely "hard mode". The difficulty is exaggerated a little bit because the first boss will DESTROY you if you're not used to the null/reflect battle system (which was pretty novel at the time). The designs are gorgeous, the settings wonderfully creepy and the choice of morally ambiguous branching endings unfolds in a really interesting way. However, to get the "TRUE" (optional) ending, you have to do an incredible amount of backbreaking work, but you get Dante along the way.
Here's an AWESOME clip from the Japanese version with Raidou instead of Dante, to give you a sense of the atmosphere.
buddha0991
Member
Hey now, Maken X was a very interesting experience and experiment....but an fps on the dreamcast controller......
Young Magus
Junior Member
First boss? You mean the first fiend? The first boss is Forneus and I don't think he's gonna destroy anyone, even on hard. >_>;
buddha0991
Member
The same can be said about almost every other game under the Megaten banner. Atlus has a talented stable of musicians over there.
Demikids is the worst Megaten game, and is also balls hard, but it's supposed to be a kids game.