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Persona 4 Golden |OT| Love is the only gold.
- Thread starter we.are.the.armada
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I think they can only respond when it brings up the actual "Sending SOS" message. I might be wrong though.
You know you can just suspend the game and put your Vita on sleep mode for a while, right? It lasts about 2 weeks in sleepmode or something.
WrenchNinja
Member
Dude, are you Y2Kevbug11 on PSN? I think I just SOS'd you.
Wuthering_Heights
Banned
Mine drains like crazy in sleep mode.
I'd probably go down 1/4 every day if I just left it in Sleep mode.
WrenchNinja
Member
So, skill cards and arcana chance are awesome. I think I might actually be able to keep Izanagi all the way through the game at this rate.
Is your wifi/3g off?Mine drains like crazy in sleep mode.
I'd probably go down 1/4 every day if I just left it in Sleep mode.
I wish I had a chance to mess with that system but I usually have no patience to do that, and 90% of the time when I'm playing I'm not somewhere with wifi.
It definitely makes stuff feel 'easier', but I also enjoy it more. It's more interactive, and chaining Sweep Bonuses is so cool feeling.
No worries. You can always get Izanagi and your other Personas back, up to your carrying limit. You have to buy them back from Margaret.
The game is meant to be played multiple times. P4 has alot of "real life" designed into the game--people to see, places to go, things to do, and not enough time.
That's me! I see no reason not to just hit SOS after every battle. Why not?
I looked at my log in the Velvet Room and one of the guys had requested help something like 235 times.
WrenchNinja
Member
Cool. I'm thewrenchninja. Totally agree, I like to think I am helping people out and it's always nice to see that "you are not alone" phrase show up with the HP/SP recovery at the start of a battle. Really like this mechanic.
I have been trying to go it alone. SP always running low. I'll have to give it a try.
Jugendstil
Member
I have only had about an hour to spend on the game so far thanks to the holiday. Does SOS only work with people on your friends list? If so, I'm going to be adding everyone in the spreadsheet when I get home...
On that note, add me! I'm youngadultnovel on PSN.
On that note, add me! I'm youngadultnovel on PSN.
No, it works for any random players.
This could be a balanced mechanic, really. The boost could be bigger and you should get no EXP for being helped through a battle (or half EXP or something). Otherwise I will just hit this button nonstop!
WrenchNinja
Member
Just play at your own pace. Just do what you think is right.
Well in vanilla P4, Izanagi was kind of useless after you found stronger Persona. He didn't have many attacks and his stat gains weren't that great.
Now with Golden, you can get skill cards which teach Personas new moves as well as the arcana cards which have different effects like boosting stats. So now a weak Persona like Izanagi can actually continue to be useful. He's like my fastest, toughest and luckiest Persona. Just taught him Mazio for the multi-elec damage. I just like using him since he's the Protagonist's main Persona.
The request log shows how many you've answered, not how many times you've asked!
I'm in the third dungeon now on very-hard, and I've responded to ~600 requests
Also, HUGE tip for anyone playing on the higher difficulties where it's nearly impossible to kill multiple packs of Wealth Hands:
Stock up on Ice Cube (or any of the elemental 50 damage items) from the Shiroku store. Although wealth hands resist magical damage, the damage caused by the elemental 50 damage items is NOT mitigated. I bought like 30 of them, and they pay for themselves, not to mention the huge amount of EXP you get from the hands.
Wuthering_Heights
Banned
I used SOS for a little while.
But unless you get 3+ people to rescue you, it's pretty underwhelming.
But unless you get 3+ people to rescue you, it's pretty underwhelming.
Mine drains like crazy in sleep mode.
I'd probably go down 1/4 every day if I just left it in Sleep mode.
I can literally put it in sleep mode and pick it up almost 2 weeks later. But I usually close my games when I put it in sleep mode, so maybe that's why. Still doesn't really matter, 'cause he can just suspend the game, put it in sleep mode and pick it up a couple hours later without a problem.
If you hit the power button to sleep while you're in a game, the battery will still drain pretty fast. If you hit the Home button to return to the vita dashboard, THEN hit the power button, the sleep will last significantly longer. I swear I've left it alone for a month and come back to a half charged battery.
I've also been using this Nyko Power Grip - it makes holding it a lot more comfortable and it has a huge battery in addition to the Vita's, so if it's fully charged (which takes a day or something :lol) I can play for 12 hours straight without having to charge it.
And on a sad note, that Power Grip is not compatible with the armor you get from the Solid Gold edition
I've also been using this Nyko Power Grip - it makes holding it a lot more comfortable and it has a huge battery in addition to the Vita's, so if it's fully charged (which takes a day or something :lol) I can play for 12 hours straight without having to charge it.
And on a sad note, that Power Grip is not compatible with the armor you get from the Solid Gold edition
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
has it been established that yuki-chan>>>>>>>>> all?
SpaceBridge
Member
Hey Y2Kev, can I add you too?
Also do we have a spreadsheet with fellow Vita bros PSN IDs for SOS stuff?
Worst character in the party. She has no redeeming qualities beyond her design (Which is, to be fair, quite strong).
WrenchNinja
Member
The cheering is probably my favourite part. Really makes battles feel more active than they are. I don't think I'd like the system as much without it.
sure
Seriously.
Other RPGs need to take note of stuff like that. P3 and P4 do a better job of creating a sense that the characters are actually a group of friends than pretty much anything else out there.
SpaceBridge
Member
I think that's one of the reasons why the games work so well. So much of the narrative is used to develop the characters. P3/4 prove that you don't need to have a sweeping and epic story to tell a great tale.
buddha0991
Member
I barely remember the specifics since I played it in a depression fueled haze of alcoholism and the flu but Tales of Vesperia gave me a slightly similar feeling about the group giving a shit about eachother in battle as well. Not just character X and mage Y etc.
The P3 cast DO become friends by the end. It's just the difference between suddenly being forced to work together rather than how they were already classmates to begin with and had to choice to join in and help in P4.
I'm finding it pretty easy to do on very hard actually.
The key to conserving SP was really going for those status effects that deny your opponent a turn. Dizzy, confused and if you have nothing else, fear (though this one makes them run too...). I rarely use the all-out-attack since it mostly fails to kill enemies at this point. So I just attack them again instead to give me another round. The SOS function is kind of broken too... when ever you seem to get a lot of request use yours and you usually receive a good number of help.
The price increases are just crazy on very hard. Been playing for 14 hours and I still can't afford all the items up sale from just the first dungeon... armor is costing 14,000 already and quiet a big grinding trip only got me 30,000. :/
That extra boss is insane. Rampage is pretty much instant death to everyone except the MC if I have physical resist.
Nailed it!
The one thing I did like about p3p was that for some reason the female protag seemed closer to everyone than the male protag (besides aiges obviously).
I like ahikiko/mitsuru more than Yosuke/Yukiko on a character basis but ended up caring about them more at the end of p4 than the end of p3 because they seemed to actually care about the P4 MC.
buddha0991
Member
Little things such as picking each other Off the ground, removing status effects from each other in hilariously blunt ways, the new team up attacks, and taking hits for each other certainly add to this.
WrenchNinja
Member
Taking hits for each other is one of the coolest things in the game.
MAJOR SPOILER:
Particularly in the final battle. What a fucking amazing finish.
buddha0991
Member
P3 was different because it sort of had cliques. You got mc, Yukari, Junpei and later Fuuka all being friends. Then Mitsuru, Akihiko and Shinjiro. Aigis has her crazed robotic obsession for Mc. Ken likes no one, and finally the real badass who loves everyone and is loved by all, Koromaru.
I always saw Fuuka, Ken and Koromaru as the kind of loner clique.
P3 spoils:
Glad they expanded on Shinjiro in P3P female route. He was a cool character.
Slightly unrelated, but I'm pretty sure I'm the only one ever who actually liked Fuuka's character.
buddha0991
Member
If you want to categorize the other games, P2IS falls under friends, P1 and P2EP fall under co worker/clique
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
void quest is really pissing me off. it's almost enough to make want to put the game down.