Red The Hunter
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I would add Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight, which kinda gives off this Fate/Zero feel. With how the Rider War works. And is a pretty good show to watch, that is if you can find it.
Plus, the theme song is badass.
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Persona Community Thread |OT4| The Golden Number
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Plus, the theme song is badass.
Chet Rippo
Member
Might as well post my picture.
I absolutely love this picture by the way. Its done really well. Just wish her one arm didn't just end right there.
Love Deterrence
Member
This may honestly be the best Naoto you've drawn to date as far as face goes. I could almost mistake that for official art tbh.
SloaneRisette
Member
Dantis's art is really good, just needs more variation sometimes 
Not quite official art. There's something about the eyes that's different from official art. I can't place my finger on it tho. It is however very close.
It is on sale. Currently $4.99 instead of it's usual $9.99.
Weird that this says otherwise, haha.
So what about P4AU?
EDIT: Nevermind that's 15 bucks. Sold and Sold. I'm paying less for 2 games than I would for a used copy of P4A. Done and done.
Makoto Yuki
Banned
5 bucks for FES on my PS3? What a steal. Can I use my PS2 saves? I have then on my PS3 using one of those PS2 Memory card ---to---> PS3 adapters.
That says $4.99 on my end too, but usually you want to check the store directly on the device.
The digital version of P4A is region-locked, too. Do you know if it'll work on your console?
Whelp. Shoulda looked at the fine print, I guess.
The one I bought was rated by the ESRB and I live the God Blessed United States of A, so I guess it probably will?
For that, it's better to double check your PS3 box. My PS3 is under R3, that's why I got a R3 copy of P4A. You could live in the USA, but your PS3 might be imported from somewhere else...it's always better to check.
Well I don't have my PS3, but it was bought locally, so I can't imagine it was imported from somewhere? It would take a whole lot of magical unfortunate circumstances for it not to be a US model playing a US game, but there isn't any real way for me to be OCD certain until April at the soonest, so whatevs. I'm just going to assume it plays all US games the same as it always has.
I'm just saying that there are some stores that DO import their PS3 sets in order to sell it at a cheaper price. (E.g my local shop can sell anything from R1 to R4 region stuff.) Checking the box that the PS3 came in (if you still have it) is the most fool-proof way for ensuring that you are buying the right version of Persona 4 Arena. If you believe that you brought a NA PS3, well...by all means then.
There's no downside to it really. Gets some folks thinking about the series. Since it's digital, all losses have already been realized so now it's just about possible revenue.
They should just have a permanent "sale".
Lord Scrambles
Member
If it's limited-time people are going to be more likely to jump on the chance.
It's not new since it was from the #Re:birth magazine available on December 5th, 2013. It's just now been translated, but posting a thread for an old, translated magazine article scan sounds dubious at best.
Hm, maybe. But a lot of the social links in Persona 3 and Persona 4 already have to do with the main characters resolving someone's problems. Perhaps it's as Hashino might imply and you say and that it's what the nature of the problems will be that will differ.
Every time they do, we get more LTTP threads, and then more people buy Persona. It's genius!
Can you imagine the step?
Why did it take so long for it to be translated? Anyway there's still a good amount of new info.
With how often Atlus has these sales I wonder how many people do an impulse buy anymore. They know another sale is around the corner.
With how often Atlus has these sales I wonder how many people do an impulse buy anymore. They know another sale is around the corner.
Nope, it's all just apart of the downward spiral. People are turning a blind eye to tr00 demon gotta fuse 'em all goodness. #savemegaten
Mostly just wondering why they don't permanently lower the price, given how often they're on sale. heh
Because practically no one cares about translating this stuff except for Pepsiman, and there are probably just a few more people who even care to read the translations. Probably close to the same reason there are no clear new character theme rips from P4A2.
^ Permanently reducing the price gets people to jump, but not always right away. And they can afford to price these lower in the case of most games as they're long past the point where they're making a loss by doing so.
Studies show that frequent sales actually increases purchases more than permanently lowering the price.
It makes sense: People go "Oh, I should get it while it's on sale!", plus you get the added buzz every time it goes on sale.
Valve did significant research on the impact on non discounted prices after a sale and they found that the uptick in purchases after a sale usually stays on pace even after the price goes back to normal.
Super special bonus sale! DVDs discounted to only $13.50 per episode!
Love it, Dantis. You continue to put out fantastic pieces!
Hot damn! It's beautiful. Seriously, that's amazing!!
Thanks! I'm climbing the staircase to animu.
I'll settle for 'very close'.
My art will probably never look exactly like Soejima's, because I'm drawing original stuff, rather than using a Soejima image as a base and altering it. I actually think that's fine though. Perhaps even a good thing.
More like the psychology of everyone. It's the plot of P6.
Thanks! I'm climbing the staircase to animu.
I'll settle for 'very close'.
My art will probably never look exactly like Soejima's, because I'm drawing original stuff, rather than using a Soejima image as a base and altering it. I actually think that's fine though. Perhaps even a good thing.
Oh, I don't think I commented on this one. Awesome work, one of my favorites you've drawn so far.
And more importantly Smed's favorite artist of choice for his anime fix.
I'll be Smedwick's favourite artist once I draw the Dancing All Night OT banner.
Fun fact: Most consumers think something $4.99 is a significant discount from $5.00. I worked at a Wal-mart all throughout high school and saw it happen all the time, ah fun times.
Love Deterrence
Member
Ha! You're work is damn impressive. Seriously, PersonaGAF is rooting for you all the way: climb that staircase!
I was really surprised to see that the interview had apparently gone untranslated for that long considering what sort of content it has. I put out my feelers to make sure I wasn't stepping on anybody's toes since 99% of the time I prefer for my work to be original as long as any existing fan translations for other stuff is sufficiently solid, but as far as I could tell, nobody had even done a text dump. Normally I can expect that much from Persona General over on 4chan, but that doesn't seem to have been the case this time around. Nobody probably really bothered to check those scans since normally the magazine is a pretty brazen marketing rag, as one would expect, pretty to look at though it may be. Just happy I could do my part to unearth some interesting stuff and make it a fun experience to read! The magazine had some similarly interesting reads with people like Meguro during its initial run, though, so I'll probably at least be keeping a closer eye on any subsequent issues they put out moving forward.
Anyway, I saw that you all were discussing what Hashino meant when using terms like "approachable" and whatnot with regards to Persona 5's story, so I thought I'd shed a little bit more light on that part of the interview. That question was actually probably the hardest of the bunch to nail down as a translator, since even in Japanese he's a bit wishy-washy. That follow-up question where the interviewer asks, "Oh, so it's kind of the same as the other games?" is written in such a way that even they want a bit of a clearer answer out of him. Anyway, in the original Japanese, Hashino goes on at length describing Persona 5's story as literally being comparatively ストレート, or "straight," and that word is about as flexible as it is in its native English. It applies as much to a person's hair as it can more abstract things. But in that elaborated answer he follows up with, it's clear that Hashino's intent isn't to really dumb down the story or anything so much as to perhaps change how the game's themes are expressed, so I went with the language that I did because I personally wasn't getting the impression as a translator that he meant "straight" in much of a literal sense. He actually uses that word quite a lot in that part of the interview in the original Japanese, but to avoid redundancy, that's why you see my translation using alternative words like "accessible" and "approachable" and whatnot; I basically used viable synonyms depending on context so as to make it a more enjoyable read in English without sacrificing the core intent of his words. There's a much more literal way to approach that answer, but I think it produces way more semantic problems in English than what I wrote does, but that's just me personally.
So I'd say based on how I interpreted his Japanese personally that I think people like Flux and Sophia are on the right track; it's more about tuning the game's themes and creative intent to be more readily resonant than anything else. I think it's just one of those things that he's deliberately playing close to the chest so as to not let out a whole lot of concrete details spill out about the game just yet.
Lollipop Dave
Member
More cat-suit, less what-ever she's wearing.
cj_iwakura
Member
Heh.
It's true.
It's true.
Love Deterrence
Member
Just followed and reblogged! ^_^
Chet Rippo
Member
That's just how it is. Things you loved working on don't get many notes, then things you didn't like the outcome get notes up the wazoo.
I say just do what you want to do and don't chase after popularity. If you're stuff is genuinely good, you will find an audience.
You're welcome Dantis-chan. But yeah, tumblr is an odd beast which I don't use very much. I found it kind of funny how my Teddie hype gifs seemed to disseminate on there without my having to do anything at the time of the P5 hype train.
100%.
After all, if I was chasing after popularity, I'd be really cut because nobody in this thread is watching my tumblr and reposting to the thread but me!
...not that I update very often, or at all really
...not that I update very often, or at all really
It's like when I put questions posts on r/Megaten for the podcast, and I get like 60 upvotes. Then the actual episode comes out, and it gets like 17 upvotes.
Parents just don't understand.
I had a Tumblr once. I lost the password though.
Just finished Tales of Xilla. I liked it but the stuff you have to do to get a good NG+ is icky.
Also, Real Talk: Rowen>>>>>Jude (no bias here)>Elize=Alvin>Milla>>>>>>Leia
Also Also Persona 4 Golden playthrough #7, Valkyria Chronicles or Vanquish?
Just finished Tales of Xilla. I liked it but the stuff you have to do to get a good NG+ is icky.
Also, Real Talk: Rowen>>>>>Jude (no bias here)>Elize=Alvin>Milla>>>>>>Leia
Also Also Persona 4 Golden playthrough #7, Valkyria Chronicles or Vanquish?