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Persona 5 Review Thread
- Thread starter BRSxIgnition
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ChuChuRocket
Member
Playstation is a beast
If I didn't quote you then there is no reason for you to assume I'm talking about you, unless you're feeling guilty.
There were people who were saying, verbatim, that someone should not be able to dock points for one thing or another. I was responding to that.
Didn't realize that. Keep up the good work.
It's more likely to go down to 93 I think
Yu Narukami
Member
John Kowalski
Banned
woeful times
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
This was the plan all along.
BRSxIgnition
Member
To be safe though, when does talking about the romance options & characters in the game devolve into "waifu shit"?
When it's reduced to simply 1-line posts of "Makoto is best Waifu" or before then?
It'd be nice to know where the line is.
Tinfoilhatsron
Banned
Ah. Sorry about then. My bad.
molnizzle
Member
dedicated waifu thread then? Like a spoiler thread, but for waifus.
klabautermann
Member
Oh yeah, I agree that the school grading system is why people see it this way, myself included. Of course I wouldn't give a game I like lower than a 7, but that's because of the current scoring system we're used to. I think it just makes more sense for 5/10 to be neutral rather than bad. I'm just saying that it seems that the review system basically starting at a decent majority as just okay and then anything lower is bad is an imperfect system and it should be changed. But I also currently see it this way, because thats the way it currently is.
A game getting this much hype and in it's 5th installment, with the elite devs behind it. It's a AAA game. Period... Being an AAA game is also not only decided by the budget. It's also marketing and projected sales. I don't even want to imagine how well this did in Japan. If you don't think this is AAA, I don't know what is....
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
Member
Unbelievably high scores <3 CAN'T WAIT!!!!!
Son Of Sparda
Member
Okay. I'll eat that delicious crow now.
The plan is to have a separate companion thread to the OT for people to put all of their waifu and relationship stuff. Trying to stamp out the conversation entirely isn't going to work when we have a membership this large, anyway, so we're just recommending that people keep it out of the OT where a lot of people would prefer not to deal with it.
Those never last long.
Then I guess they weren't that serious about their waifus then.
Iva Demilcol
Member
I don't think it can get any awards tbh. The story is great but it won't be recognized, the music, voice acting, battle system, all of it is amazing but music's not orchestrated, there are no "big" actors, it's a turn-based battle system. The only thing they may get an award for is art-style or something related to that. Persona 5 is like the anti-AAA game tendencies. It really can't get any awards.
manueldelalas
Time Traveler
I mean... His username is Tinfoilhatsron...
BRSxIgnition
Member
Safe to assume that someone is already working on this or has it ready?
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
If you're discussing the actual characters and events of the game I think youre OK.
If the post is gonna boil down to how much you love one character over another and proceed to proclaim your unconditional love for a digital character while shitting on another, thats probably not gonna be acceptable.
We're all grown ups here (I think?), surely you can differentiate between game talk and waifu talk.
Hades Hotgun
Banned
You don't understand how these numbers work.
Seriously, I don't mean that as a snarky comment and I agree with much of the sentiment you express in the rest of your post. But as far as the numbers thing, you straight up don't get it.
What about the "7 is average" system sucks? Why should it be thrown out?
Give me a single example of how a system that forces the distribution of review scores to match the even distribution of numbers in a sequence would benefit anyone in any way at any time.
Actually give an example wherein saying 5 is average would be somehow better than saying 7 is average.
If your example is essentially, "a game I like would then be seen as better because lower scores would be okay," then you don't actually believe that the system is broken, you are just angry about a review score a game got.
5 is only average in a completely equal distribution of the numbers 1 through 10. As soon as you apply those numbers as a scale, you will find that the average can skew up or down.
The reason the average is closer to 6 or 7 is because most games meet a basic level of competence in design and because they are often products made by professionals with a desire to create something worthwhile.
The reason the 7-10 scores are seen as so important is because that is the zone within which most games which meet the basic threshold of "good" compete. If you force the "5 must be avg" rule, then you will just be changing the scale of numbers to a different, no less arbitrary, standard.
As in, they were so serious mods nuked the thread.
You can patch the dub to Japanese,yes but he/she was talking about localisation: The game isn't subbed in German, Italian, French, Spanish, or other languages that are common in Europe.
I think people should stop being so lazy and learn English instead of looking for mostly bad localisations in games. English is a rather easy language and back in my prime gaming days with the NES and SNES no one localized anything for us in Europe. Everything was in English, yet I still managed to play those games and had fun with them. I'd also like to think that playing games in English helped me a lot in understanding the language better.
ShadowSoldier89
Member
I've been curious to how this will turn out...I've always enjoyed discussing romance and character relationships in stories without shipping, waifu wars, and best girls whatever. However if I cant discuss that in the main thread, is it just stuck in a thread dedicated mostly to the other shit I'm trying to avoid?
Considering I probably wont be posting much about the game until I actually complete, maybe I'll see a place that fits my discussion by the time I hit that point.
No outlet should ever be grading games like they do tests. They're totally different things.
BRSxIgnition
Member
Good post, sums up my thoughts on it.
My heart wouldn't be able to handle that.
Domstercool
Member
I play plenty of games, and I've beat games that I'd give a 6 (or some even lower, such as Berserk and the Band of the Hawk, which I'd give a 5). Why did I play them? Because I like the source material, but just because I do, doesn't mean I can't see what is wrong with it.
I'd understand people with limited time, like you say, but everyone is different. I only have work to commit to, so after that, I am free to play many, many games.
Son Of Sparda
Member
Wait, talking about female characters in Persona 5's OT will get you banned?
Okay, I guess that's one thread that I have to avoid then.
Okay, I guess that's one thread that I have to avoid then.
Tinfoilhatsron
Banned
There's a difference between deciding which COOP SL is the best and discussing why that is, and deciding which girl in a video game is the best 'wife material', a pretty big difference. And some people don't want to deal with that in a main OT.
Guilty as charged. I'm always guilty and paranoid for future crimes I'll commit.
NinjaCoachZ
Member
God bless you.
There's an issue if one thinks "talking about female characters" is equivalent to "waifu discussion."
Lifejumper
Member
Europe version doesnt include Japanese VO?
You're primarily buttoning through menus anyways, it's turn based. I'm a firm believer that 60fps is always better but I actually don't care at all for this one
Vault Dweller 111
Member
The perfection of the open world and JRPG genres in the span of a month. Thank you for blessing us Japan.
It's not a split-second action-heavy game, so 30FPS will be more than fine.
And I too am super-excited at the prospect of remote-playing this game everywhere. The minimal latency would have zero impact on a game like this.
No lies detected.
It's not an AAA game, did you see how many employees Atlus has, they are a very small company compared to the big players. Mass Effect Andromeda is a classic AAA game and we all know how that turned out, don't we? Even Nintendo hasn't produced an AAA game other than Breath of the Wild perhaps.
AAA stands for a very high production cost and a very high advertising budget, funny enough the advertising can cost more than the development of the game. Wikipedia has the perfect description for it:
wiki said:
The fun part is, all that money they push into ads is also the reason why those games are so risky...
Very few games reached such MC and above since this gen has started, 3 actually (including Zelda), it's an incredible score.