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Persona 4 Golden |OT| Love is the only gold.
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Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
I disagree with *tons* of content and *completely different game* of your statement.
If what you want is the best experience possible to experience P3 then P3FES is the best answer, no questions asked.
P3P should be kept as the last "damn it I can't play P3 unless in this version" option.
I can appreciate Rise because she's the ONLY girl in the entire game who basically puts it right out there with Yu, she wants the d. She doesn't do the blush teehee whoops i said something flirty.
That said, I still always end up with Chie or Naoto. Part of the problem.
I also bring Kanji to all parties because he compliments all my costumes. Thank you, Kanji. I do work out.
It is definitely a compromised game. The downgrade to the visual novel style cutscenes really hurts, and a lot of scenes lose their impact (The final boss battle being the biggest one.)
I felt like
Shinji's death
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Is emulation not a viable option for you?
I honestly believe paying a gigantic amount of money for P3P is something that you would definitely regret on the long run, especially when there's a really much superior version around.
Yeah, if the option is available to you, go with emulating Persona 3 FES. You can use the widescreen hack too.
If your only option is the PSN version of FES, go with Portable instead.
Nyx's descent
Auron_Kale
Member
D'aaawww Ayane is super-cute in the anime...
Auron_Kale
Member
Gotta love "Miss" Yasogami animated...
"Hot, right?"
"Hot, right?"
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Buyer's justification
Well regardless, enjoy. I played the P3P for quite a long while too; the only real complaint I could say towards it was the missing animated cutscenes. It seriously dampens the emotional impacts of many, many important scenes, but I guess if you haven't played the P3 original you wouldn't know the difference anyways.
Auron_Kale
Member
Someone needs to make a toaster that burns an image of Teddie on toast.
The feels man... Also, I'd buy that toaster in a heartbeat.
I've always considered P3P to be the definitive version, but then again I'm a gameplay over aesthetics kinda guy. I much prefer the non-walking around and quick-access to locations and tweaks to the battle system that P3P brought over what was replaced to make it fit.
That and Maniac is really fun.
That and Maniac is really fun.
Only thing I really miss are the animated cutscenes in P3P. The VN-style presentation is actually neat, and the day-to-day social linking is far more convenient.
FemC is a revelation but I doubt a new player would appreciate her as much, without prior knowledge of what Minato is like.
FemC is a revelation but I doubt a new player would appreciate her as much, without prior knowledge of what Minato is like.
And the Square button for quick travel!
Yeah, especially when you take Elizabeth out. Those scenes are wonderful, they just don't have the same effect in P3P.
At some point, dungeon crawling became my least favourite part of Persona 3 Portable. Persona 3 in general. I'd just equip Alice, find the staircase as soon as possible and spam Die For Me when I ran into a Shadow. It's basically my biggest roadblock to starting it up again, because as much as I adore the changes the FeMC adds, it's really hard to justify going back in and fighting my way through the grinder that is Tartarus. Persona 4 did a very good thing unifying each dungeon by a specific, identifiable theme, and breaking them up into chunks of ten or eleven to make it feel less like a slog. At the very least, you felt like you were making some honest progress. It's a very different feeling from constantly chipping away at more of a huge tower.
Still, Wiping All Out is easily my favourite SMT battle theme ever.
Still, Wiping All Out is easily my favourite SMT battle theme ever.
The soundtrack is great. SO much more atmospheric.
Yeah, he's dumb. I think I chose him when I did my FemMC run. Doesn't really have that same flavor Liz has, even if it is the same dialogue.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Is that official art?
The fact that Yukiko stood next to the MC made my heart melt, hahaha. As is the pic where all of them laying down on the ground staring up, the position clearly indicates that Yukiko and MC's legs are criscrossing one another <3
Gah, 3rd playthrough I need to go back to Yukiko. I feel awful rejecting her in this playthrough for Rise.
Yeah, not watching Elizabeth pouring the coins or her dancing around really decrease the charm of those scenes so much.
Anyone picking that male attendant is a sinner! Elizabeth is the best. Not to mention she canonically
defeat Eberus on her own and actually trying tp do something to help P3's MC final fate...
I always go for the stairs in P3 and never actually explore each floors for the sake of exploring. Just go to the boss floor, go back, heal, go back up, try to defeat boss.
As I said before, the atmosphere in P3 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> P4. God I love the atmosphere of P3 so much.
And P3 MC is a lot cooler than P4 MC anyways.
They need to add Marge in P4A2.
The trick is to lead them. Run away from them until you can't see their dot on the mini map (they stop after a set distance). After all, they'll turn the opposite way and leave themselves vulnerable for an easy Player Advantage. They're much easier to sneak up on to make up for their insane speed, in contrast to P4G's Shadows which are impossible to surprise (without Hermit, obviously) but have really slow reaction times.
...unless you've already figured that part out.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
It's sad that this thread seem to have ran out of steam.
I... I don't want to part with you folks just yet
I... I don't want to part with you folks just yet
toastyToast
Member
They're also quicker to turn their backs. A lot easier to get the initiative unlike P4G where they turn like cruise ships
buddha0991
Member
I'd recommend settin that Vita down and lookin for a way to play P3FEs if you can deal with AI party control :B
Is there any major difference between Golden and the original? Don't got a Vita, so I'm playing the original.
Right now I'm on the 3rd boss
and holy shit I failed horribly. I was severely under leveled and I was on the last day I could do it. I had to go back a week and lost like 4 hours of progress.
and holy shit I played this game for almost 9 hours straight...
Right now I'm on the 3rd boss
shadow yukiko
and holy shit I played this game for almost 9 hours straight...
I already bought the game okay
buddha0991
Member
Chill man, it was a joke! Anyways, what difficulty and gender and such? I don't remember te beginning stages of P3 that well...
's just normal. I'm just more interested in, like, what I should be doing. Where I am now there seems to be no pressing reason to explore Tartarus other than 'it's what we do', which I don't find very compelling, especially when the boss at this level is wiping the floor with me but standard mooks I completely steamroll.
buddha0991
Member
welcome to one of my primary complaints against P3. I get if people like the story, atmosphere, characters, etc over P4, but people who say it's an overall better game are loco, bro. The way the game works is, hey you have this 200+ sized tower to climb and every full moon you got another boss to deal with. You will have to totally climb the tower by the end, but until then, the tower is there to level you for the full moon bosses, which makes no sense since the Tararus Tower bosses are for the most part, much tougher.
