buddha0991
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On very hard, the drain on my wallet is physically painful
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Persona 4 Golden |OT| Love is the only gold.
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On very hard, the drain on my wallet is physically painful
You on the boss yet? That one gave me more trouble than any other in the game.
I meant in real money, but yeah, game money too.
It's cool though, I'm loaded because of Very Easy.
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
I think Yosuke is horrible. (Besides the fact he's played by one of my favorite voice actors),but to each his own. Not a big fan of kanji either.
harriet the spy
Member
Beginner's question: is this like persona 3 portable, where it's better to do as much of the 'dungeons' as possible until blocked by something, so that you maximize your 'social time'?
(my understanding is that you started getting tired during the tartarus runs in Persona 3, so you had an incentive to go home early, but in the portable version, tiredness only hit you after you came back, so it was better to just go as far as possible and wait till the next part of the dungeon would unlock. I am not sure if I am making any sense).
Voice acting is pretty hilariously bad but entertaining.
(my understanding is that you started getting tired during the tartarus runs in Persona 3, so you had an incentive to go home early, but in the portable version, tiredness only hit you after you came back, so it was better to just go as far as possible and wait till the next part of the dungeon would unlock. I am not sure if I am making any sense).
Voice acting is pretty hilariously bad but entertaining.
buddha0991
Member
I like everyone in Persona 4, except Void Quest Man
enoirmeplz
Member
P4G will be here today and I just realized I only have two weeks left in the semester. No study time.
buddha0991
Member
Except the times you need to study in P4G
Sorry, what?
SpaceBridge
Member
Maybe my memory is off but werent there save points before each boss battle?
Yes, which was removed this outing.
There were, but now there are not.
I preferred it that way, but in this game you get TONS of Goho-M's, I'm assuming to make up for the lack of saves before bosses.
Xenoblade also does this and I love it there too.
I feel the same way, they made the game so much more convenient (fusions/spell picking etc) in so many ways and then just got rid of save points that just made grinding the level before a boss more inconvenient but not harder.
Oh well.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Picked this up, need to start it today. It'll be my first Persona game. Played about 2 hours of 3, but that's it.
buddha0991
Member
This game has an even longer start up, be patient and the game will open up and come alive.
Reminds me, when I get my computer I have to try and get that working on Dolphin.
buddha0991
Member
P3P happened, if you chose the Female MC, you would have gotten a different cameo.
I just hope for her sake that it isn't King Moron.
buddha0991
Member
Do you want to know?
I don't think I will play a female MC run any time soon with P4G arriving here in a week or so, so go ahead. Tell me.
edit: I've only played P4 up until
King Moron gets killed
buddha0991
Member
You go to the Amagi Inn and meet young Yukiko
That's pretty cool. How many years are P3 and P4 separated from each other?
buddha0991
Member
3 or 4?
From the end of P3 to the start of P4 is around 2 years. Hence why
Chihiro
buddha0991
Member
The Horror the horror
Banned
Just got the Vita bundle off Amazon, and I've been looking at this game.
Love RPGs, but I've never played the Persona games. Persona 4 doesn't look like your conventional FF/DQ fanfare.
As someone who prefers a minimalist approach to story-telling with heavy action and grind-fests, is Persona 4 for me?
Love RPGs, but I've never played the Persona games. Persona 4 doesn't look like your conventional FF/DQ fanfare.
As someone who prefers a minimalist approach to story-telling with heavy action and grind-fests, is Persona 4 for me?
a shame that Fo' Sho' was not delivered as well as the original
Haha, yeah it wasn't quite as good, but still wasn't bad. I do miss Wittenberg's Teddie, but Riegel's is pretty damn close. He probably won't have the same delivery for some of the battle support line, such as "Yukiko's out to lunch!".
Not at all. This is very story heavy, and has some great character interactions and development. It may be a bit grindy on Risky difficulty, but it seems Golden is quite a step down from the original difficulty-wise. You actually don't have to spend much time at all in the dungeons, and most of the game is spent living a day to day life, interacting with many unique characters.
buddha0991
Member
He is mostly fine, but his lines when scanning enemies, the worst being YIKES, this is one tough enemy!, sound god awful.
This enemy is beaaaaaary weak to <insert attribute>.
Baller. PhD
Banned
God damn Chie's voice actor is t-e-r-r-i-b-l-e. Most annoying voice ever. UGH
Not so much. P4 is about "relationships", as your advancing character/story elements makes you stronger in battle. If any game might convert you over from a minimalist approach it would be P4. Ragnarok Odyssey sounds more what you are describing you would like.
Almost 15 hours in. I love just about everything about this game.
I love that the dungeons, though random and mazelike, aren't just some giant grind-tower like in P3. Also, I love that they all have a theme that goes with the character occupying it. Like
Similarly, I love how the shadows themselves have an actual meaning in the context of the game and its characters.
Speaking of which, I love the characters. Yosuke, Chie, Yukiko, and Teddie are all hilarious, and they're especially so when interacting with each other. I'm particularly fond of the conversations between Yosuke and Chie.
I love how streamlined the systems have become. Every RPG ever should have the option to sell a piece of equipment after you've just purchased and equipped a superior one. Also, the battle system finally lets you control your other party characters. This was probably my biggest problem with P3.
So, yeah. Game of the year so far for me (though I haven't played as many as I would have liked; still need to check out Dishonored, XCOM, and even Mass Effect 3). Still, I fucking love this game, and can't wait to play more. Why am I not playing now?
I love that the dungeons, though random and mazelike, aren't just some giant grind-tower like in P3. Also, I love that they all have a theme that goes with the character occupying it. Like
Kanji's bathhouse reflecting his latent homosexual feelings (at least that's what it seems like, though his shadow is pretty flamboyant and the introduction said "Men Only", so it's kind of obvious what they're doing. Regardless, I haven't fought the shadow yet, so maybe it's something deeper).
Similarly, I love how the shadows themselves have an actual meaning in the context of the game and its characters.
I love how they show these other sides of the characters that you can sort of see when talking to them but then come out in full. My favorite so far was Yukiko's shadow recreating the TV interview by just saying, "Go away!" and "Leave me alone!" If only that were voiced.
Speaking of which, I love the characters. Yosuke, Chie, Yukiko, and Teddie are all hilarious, and they're especially so when interacting with each other. I'm particularly fond of the conversations between Yosuke and Chie.
I love how streamlined the systems have become. Every RPG ever should have the option to sell a piece of equipment after you've just purchased and equipped a superior one. Also, the battle system finally lets you control your other party characters. This was probably my biggest problem with P3.
So, yeah. Game of the year so far for me (though I haven't played as many as I would have liked; still need to check out Dishonored, XCOM, and even Mass Effect 3). Still, I fucking love this game, and can't wait to play more. Why am I not playing now?
colormage1
Neo Member
Hey, did anyone's face cover have scratches on it? Because mine did and is unusable.
=(
I contacted Atlus about getting another one, but I don't think it's going to do anything.
Anyone not using the one they bought? Because I'll gladly take it and use it and love it or even possibly buy it.
=(
I contacted Atlus about getting another one, but I don't think it's going to do anything.
Anyone not using the one they bought? Because I'll gladly take it and use it and love it or even possibly buy it.
No, mine was perfectly fine. Odd how that happened, since it's packed inside the hard case.
It's OK, it just went into standby mode. Just plug it in, and wait for the light to stop flashing, and you can turn it on and continue where you left off.
Really? That's great I was so sad I would've had to do all that again.
Anyone beat the boss in the castle of you save
Yukiko
brettchalupa
Member
This game has quite the slow start. It's interesting, but just slow.
Yeah, same thing happened to me while playing VLR, and I hadn't saved for a long time. I plugged it in, and just hoped for the best that it went into stand-by. I was relieved to see it start up right where it shut off on me.
One thing I forgot: the music for this game is fantastic. I'm hardly into this sort of music usually (mostly rock and metal for me) but goddamn if the school/town theme and the main battle theme (sorry, don't know the names of the songs) aren't catchy as hell and fun to listen to. Persona 3 had a similar effect, but I think this game has even better music.
Speaking of which, am I a bad person for watching the opening video every time just to see Rise dancing?
Speaking of which, am I a bad person for watching the opening video every time just to see Rise dancing?
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
I'm like 22 hours in so far and I can't put the fucking game down. Shit is ridiculous because I just got it 3 days ago.
This is what happened to me with Persona 3 Portable. I couldn't put the thing down, but I had more free time. Same is happening here, but my time has been limited since I picked it up. Come next week though, I'll have much more free time, and I'll marathon this shit!