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Persona 5 Won't Be Out In North America Until February 2017

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Kindekuma

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SolidSnakeUS said:
Probably one of the better comedic slice of life animes ever.
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I dunno man. Nichijou is my favorite comedic slice of life show.

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The principle is Atlus fans trying to get P5 in this scenario.
 
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Robert at Zeboyd Games

Banned
Reallink said:
In case the differences weren't obvious enough, Golden was a relatively low budget Vita port for a super niche platform that long predates the SJW/Outrage culture/movement that has scared so many dev/pubs into changing (or straight up not releasing) their games. P5 is a flagship JRPG on one of the fastest selling consoles in history with a significant marketing/localization investment. If that still seems nonsensical, I don't know what to tell you.
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Can we please save the censorship complaints for when there's news of censorship and not try to start angry mobs over nothing? Other than their Nintendo published game & games that would otherwise be rated AO, neither of which applies to Persona 5, censorship isn't really something that Atlus does.
 
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TheMrPliskin

Member
Reallink said:
In case the differences weren't obvious enough, Golden was a relatively low budget Vita port for a super niche platform that long predates the SJW/Outrage culture/movement that has scared so many dev/pubs into changing (or straight up not releasing) their games. P5 is a flagship JRPG on one of the fastest selling consoles in history with a significant marketing/localization investment. If that still seems nonsensical, I don't know what to tell you.
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I knew that you was going to say this and I'm still laughing, thank you.
 
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Phu

Banned
Reallink said:
In case the differences weren't obvious enough, Golden was a relatively low budget Vita port for a super niche platform that long predates the SJW/Outrage culture/movement that has scared so many dev/pubs into changing (or straight up not releasing) their games. P5 is a flagship JRPG on one of the fastest selling consoles in history with a significant marketing/localization investment. If that still seems nonsensical, I don't know what to tell you.
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One would hope Atlus understands why Persona has grown as much as it has, especially in relation to all the other SMT series. P3 and P4 have set P5 up for a slam dunk so they should at least give it a chance to land the points before trying to change what has brought them to this spot.
 
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Sumio Mondo

Member
Look forward to this in 2018, then. (Third class Euro citizen here). And 5 months of avoiding spoilers and no dual audio, thanks Atlus.
 
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Anarky

Banned
Reallink said:
In case the differences weren't obvious enough, Golden was a relatively low budget Vita port for a super niche platform that long predates the SJW/Outrage culture/movement that has scared so many dev/pubs into changing (or straight up not releasing) their games. P5 is a flagship JRPG on one of the fastest selling consoles in history with a significant marketing/localization investment. If that still seems nonsensical, I don't know what to tell you.
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Kindekuma

Banned
Robert at Zeboyd Games said:
Can we please save the censorship complaints for when there's news of censorship and not try to start angry mobs over nothing? Other than their Nintendo published game & games that would otherwise be rated AO, neither of which applies to Persona 5, censorship isn't really something that Atlus does.
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Woah, woah, woah are you implying that TMS FE would be rated AO? Or are we talking about SMT IV?
Anyway I'm gonna hold out my reservations on any major censorship changes for P5. The box art thing is a tad odd, but I don't think the game as a whole will be changed as extreme as TMS.
 
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neoemonk

Member
Saw some stuff on Twitter about the Special Edition already being sold out on Amazon, searched for it myself, saw they were taking preorders, so I jumped on it. Don't know what was going on before or how long it will stay up but now is a good time to look I guess.
 
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mollipen

Member
Reallink said:
In case the differences weren't obvious enough, Golden was a relatively low budget Vita port for a super niche platform that long predates the SJW/Outrage culture/movement that has scared so many dev/pubs into changing (or straight up not releasing) their games. P5 is a flagship JRPG on one of the fastest selling consoles in history with a significant marketing/localization investment. If that still seems nonsensical, I don't know what to tell you.
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Would you like to point out how many Japanese games have been censored/changed due to "SWJ/Outrage culture/movement" that wouldn't already have been censored/changed given the company releasing the game or the content contained within the game?

Because I'd love to see that list.
 
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DNAbro

Member
Kindekuma said:
Woah, woah, woah are you implying that TMS FE would be rated AO? Or are we talking about SMT IV?
Anyway I'm gonna hold out my reservations on any major censorship changes for P5. The box art thing is a tad odd, but I don't think the game as a whole will be changed as extreme as TMS.
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Box art is cause esrb logo for Morgana. AO game would probably be Dungeon Travellers 2(I think this is the one) that had child characters is very suggestive situations.
 
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Robert at Zeboyd Games

Banned
Kindekuma said:
Woah, woah, woah are you implying that TMS FE would be rated AO?
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No, I'm saying there are two situations where Atlus has censored games in the past.

1) Tokyo Mirage Sessions because their publisher is Nintendo and they're really picky about such stuff.
2) Games that would otherwise be AO like Dungeon Travelers 2.

Just being real, series obviously has a lot sexual humor/innuendo. Had they rushed a WW release most stuff would have a good chance of slipping through
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It's not like they stick the Japanese script in Babelfish and then go back through and check the result. Any sexual humor/innuendo that was in the English version of the game would have been written by the English localization staff so of course it wouldn't "slip through." If anything, a rushed localization would be more likely to omit sexual innuendo & jokes because they might not realize at first that a line was meant to have that meaning.
 
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NinjaCoachZ

Member
Kindekuma said:
Woah, woah, woah are you implying that TMS FE would be rated AO? Or are we talking about SMT IV?
Anyway I'm gonna hold out my reservations on any major censorship changes for P5. The box art thing is a tad odd, but I don't think the game as a whole will be changed as extreme as TMS.
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"their Nintendo-published game & games that would otherwise be rated AO"

Two different things, implication is TMS is the former.

Robert at Zeboyd Games said:
Can we please save the censorship complaints for when there's news of censorship and not try to start angry mobs over nothing? Other than their Nintendo published game & games that would otherwise be rated AO, neither of which applies to Persona 5, censorship isn't really something that Atlus does.
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Nahh, don't you get it, the censors are coming to take away all of our games, so we're going to raise our pitchforks in anticipation of the nonexistent backlash.
 
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Kyrios

Member
Ugh was afraid of that. Welp, between Horizon and now P5 confirmed for next February, my hype for E3 next week just shot down to zero.
 
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Wagram

Member
Sub_Level said:
There is no possible way I can avoid spoilers for 5 months. It's over.
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I avoided TLOU spoilers for two and a half years. You can do it, but if you're going out of your way to constantly search everything Persona. Yeah, you're going to spoil the entire thing for yourself.
 
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eyeball_kid

Member
neoemonk said:
Saw some stuff on Twitter about the Special Edition already being sold out on Amazon, searched for it myself, saw they were taking preorders, so I jumped on it. Don't know what was going on before or how long it will stay up but now is a good time to look I guess.
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Yeah it's still up there last I checked. My guess is it's not going to be too limited, given that it's the only edition that actually has extra stuff. (I don't consider a steelbook to be an extra worth mentioning)

My biggest complaint is that for the first time Atlus is not including a soundtrack disc with the normal retail preorders. I don't know whether this is Sega's involvement or Atlus just wanting to maximize profits, but I'm not about that plushie life so I won't have access to the songs. edit: To be clear, I know that the soundtrack inclusions were always "for the fans" gestures. I'd be fine paying a little more for an edition with a soundtrack, but don't want to be forced into the super-deluxe edition.
 
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Aters

Member
Cipher Peon said:
I expected it to be 2017 the earliest, so I'm pleasantly surprised!

What I'm NOT that happy about is its February 14th release date. I planned on buying Persona 5 and sinking an entire day into it. But... they picked Valentine's Day.... The ONE day where I'm going to have all day long plans. Because you know, it's Valentine's Day!! Who doesn't have plans on Valentine's Day?!

God dammit.
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Crtical Hit. I'm dead
 
artsi

artsi

Member
silva1991 said:
Yup, the real final boss and references pics will be everywhere after a month let alone 5 months.
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YouTube video suggestions is the worst.

"You wanted to see a trailer? Well I have even better, here's the ending cutscene with a thumbnail of the final boss for you!"
 
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Modest Mauser

Member
Kyrios said:
Ugh was afraid of that. Welp, between Horizon and now P5 confirmed for next February, my hype for E3 next week just shot down to zero.
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Why? We're sure to see new stuff from both those games at E3, unless the only thing you were looking forward to was a release date.
 
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Zafir

Member
How early do VG+ ship out ATLUS pre-orders(for importers)?

I know they shipped out Trails of Cold Steel like 5 days early to me.
 
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Kyrios

Member
eyeball_kid said:
Yeah it's still up there last I checked. My guess is it's not going to be too limited, given that it's the only edition that actually has extra stuff. (I don't consider a steelbook to be an extra worth mentioning)

My biggest complaint is that for the first time Atlus is not including a soundtrack disc with the normal retail preorders. I don't know whether this is Sega's involvement or Atlus just wanted to maximize profits, but I'm not about that plushie life so I won't have access to the songs.
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I was just able to preorder my special edition, phew.
 
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Robert at Zeboyd Games

Banned
On the plus side, if Persona 4 is any indication, having endgame content in Persona 5 spoiled is not going to be much of a loss.

"The villain is... that one guy who was holding the buckets of water as a punishment in the hallway on the first day of school and then never seen again!"
 
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Lunar15

Member
Robert at Zeboyd Games said:
On the plus side, if Persona 4 is any indication, having endgame content in Persona 5 spoiled is not going to be much of a loss.

"The villain is... that one guy who was holding the buckets of water as a punishment in the hallway on the first day of school and then never seen again!"
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Yeah, I agree with this. I'm gonna do my best to avoid spoilers since I'd like to go in as fresh as possible at this point, but I'm prepped for the highly likely case that I'm going to see some stuff I don't want to.

Also, This game isn't really a "mystery" as much as P4 was. Spoilers aren't going to be as obvious because it's not like we know they're looking for a killer or anything. Context is a little less clear here.
 
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Kyrios

Member
Modest Mauser said:
Why? We're sure to see new stuff from both those games at E3, unless the only thing you were looking forward to was a release date.
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Kinda was but yeah I'm still probably going to enjoy new announcements and stuff from the conferences, but my enthusiasm is shot haha.

It's my fault though for actually believing the game would be localized this year.
 
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Tribes of Trusty

Member
hemo memo said:
Imagine the ourtage from the people who imported not knowing and European fans wanting to import.
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It better fucking not be because I preordered for import the Special Edition for a grand total of 110€. Yeah, it's a hell lot of money but this is the kind of game I wanted for like yesterday.
 
SoulUnison

SoulUnison

Banned
At least they reconfirmed the PS3 version is coming west - I haven't gotten a PS4 and have held onto my PS3 SOLELY for this game.

Then again, an extra 5 month wait gives me time to get a PS4, and I expected to have one by September for Final Fantasy XV, anyway...

This was much more of a dilemma when this was expected for Winter 2014.
 
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