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Persona Community Thread |OT4| The Golden Number
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CrazyTank940
Member
lol the ending
You guys are so crazy.
The Karen Strassman episode is still one of my favorites. Her vocal range is downright impressive.
The Karen Strassman episode is still one of my favorites. Her vocal range is downright impressive.
animaSerah
Member
I love it when the sim does Marie's "stupidjerkface"-style speech. Gets me every time! XD
Why does that Arena picture not feature the superior Yu ship.
It's funny mainly because it's almost dead-on.
It's funny mainly because it's almost dead-on.
Lollipop Dave
Member
Where are all the fetishes at!?
Holy shit. I just watched the most fantastic review of SMT: Nocturne:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0ol2v_uG1Y
Totally sold me on the game. I've found another Youtube channel to follow!
I love this kind of review style where they contextualise in addition to talking deeply about the game mechanics. Another great example is SuperBunnyHop. Here's their review of Persona 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLTLfFo5xU8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0ol2v_uG1Y
Totally sold me on the game. I've found another Youtube channel to follow!
I love this kind of review style where they contextualise in addition to talking deeply about the game mechanics. Another great example is SuperBunnyHop. Here's their review of Persona 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLTLfFo5xU8
SloaneRisette
Member
They're actually just for show. They don't function.
Lollipop Dave
Member
They just help her get lift when flying.
I've actually never noticed Chie having ears or not :/
A sense of humor.
They kind of fade into her uber-bowl cut.
Heh
It is known
She likes her hair like she likes her noodle bowls!
BUT WHY WOULD WE JOKE ABOUT HER EARS WHEN YOU CAN SEE HER EARS IN EVERY PICTURE SHE'S IN?
She does talk as if she's hard of hearing.
Don't misunderstand: I absolutely adore the style of P3/P4. It all works graphically due to the simplicity and sheer style of how everything fits. They do well with what they've got.
What I'm referring to, specifically, are actual character animations. PQ may be a mess, visually speaking, but the characters at least have a variety of fluid animations. They're able to pull off some interesting dynamic cutscenes like that part where Mitsuru is holding on to Akihiko and Shinji. P4/P3 used a lot of the same static animations, even in important cutscenes. They both had pretty low animation fidelity.
P3/P4 were really the "budget series" for Atlus at the time. They did a stellar job in taking their limited budget and making it work for them, but you can't deny that they skimped on cutscenes and model animation compared to Nocturne and DDS. I'm particularly excited for P5 for this reason: It's going to get the star treatment.
Only in P4G.
Ah. I was referring specifically to the battle animations. The cutscenes in both leave a lot to be desired, but you're right that PQ at least seems to have more variety.
Only in P4G.
So your personal canon now completely excludes Arena, I see.
They probably are. This is Atlus we're talking about.
That's most likely what they're doing. Why bother with creating a new engine when you already have one that perfectly does what you want?
animaSerah
Member
A nice update over the weekend on the P3 Movie site:
I believe this was one of the first key arts for Spring of Birth, but it's nice to see it again. Also, I turned it into an avatar if anyone wants to use it:
I believe this was one of the first key arts for Spring of Birth, but it's nice to see it again. Also, I turned it into an avatar if anyone wants to use it:
That'd be a similar case to elements from P4A transferring over to BB:CP.
Yup, except this time Atlus developers would be directly benefiting.
Glad to hear you're enjoying them! Karen is amazing. Super talented, really lovely. That might be everyone's favorite, honestly.
A nice update over the weekend on the P3 Movie site:
I believe this was one of the first key arts for Spring of Birth, but it's nice to see it again. Also, I turned it into an avatar if anyone wants to use it:
When's the damn BD coming out!? They're already getting the promo material for the second movie ready for May. Surely the BD would be out by then.
I actually wonder what will happen with the EO series, especially if PQ sells more than it.
And I think it will do.
Uh, it'd continue existing?
What if...
I would literally laugh my ass off at the reaction. I'd be ass-less, because I'd have laughed it off!
Personally, I'd be fine with it.
I disagree, to a point, at least.
If PQ does well, I think EO will become lower priority.
How so? The games are made by different internal teams and there's a market for both Persona and Etrian Odyssey.
It's not as though the priority for other ASW games was reduced because Persona 4 Arena was more successful than BlazBlue and the same will go for the dancing game.
First of all, Arena sold less than the first Blazblue, so why would that affect anything? Second of all, Arc aren't Atlus, they're not going to prioritize someone else's game over their own, they're going to say "How can we make our game as good as this?".
Second of all, Etrian Odyssey has never sold well, and Atlus is in the business of making money. If PQ sells better, using a very similar formula, do you really think that won't affect EO? Because I disagree. They clearly believe that EO can be a money maker, so if they see an opportunity to enable that, why would they not act upon it?
Also, PQ is by the Etrian Odyssey team, so what do you mean that they're separate? Are there two Etrian Odyssey teams or something? It's directed by Daisuke Kanada, who directed EO 1 and 4. I had assumed that pretty much the entire EO team would be focused on it.
I remember peeps saying there was no way in hell Arena 2 was ever being done when the new Blazblue was announced.
Ah memories.
Lollipop Dave
Member
Did he develop the first one? I don't remember that.
Either way, I and IV were the only ones to come out in the EU, so I'm liking these odds.
Those are the opening week sales.
The first three Blazblues sold 1.7 million combined.
YES BOSS.
I'm also concerned that you're missing the point of the discussion. Arena's sales next to Blazblue's don't really mean anything anyway, like I said, because Arena isn't Arc's IP.
I stand corrected, then.
I will say that something doesn't add up between those numbers. Fighting games don't strike me as games with particularly large tails, and with the state of the BlazBlue community it sure doesn't seem like that many people bought the game.
They've said they wanted it to succeed as much as their other franchises, but it'd be stupid for them to say otherwise. *shrugs*
SloaneRisette
Member
None of the PSP ones are on sale, are they?
buddha0991
Member
Persona 2: Eternal Punishment