Since it's reveal it's been my most hyped Persona game, but then again five chairs and a racing logo does nothing to excite me.
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Persona Community Thread |OT6| Where 6 Comes Before 5 (No PQ or P4U spoilers!)
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Since it's reveal it's been my most hyped Persona game, but then again five chairs and a racing logo does nothing to excite me.
Thanks to a certain someone providing me with the log: Some special choice quotes from the IRC madness.
11:09:33: <Solivagant> wtf is this shit
11:09:33: <BuddhaWITHPOWER> this is bad
11:09:34: <frozenprince> I'm serious.
11:09:36: <mib_ek6zfe> please be fake
11:09:37: <bruce> IM DYING NOW
11:09:38: <PKGaming> .............................
11:09:38: <FluxWaveZ> This... this can't be how it happens
11:09:12: <EMT0> This isn't canon
11:09:14: <LeMoN> pls no
11:09:15: <Marche90> I feel like we were trolled hard
11:09:16: <PKGaming> ..........................................
11:08:41: <EMT0> Fuck everything
11:08:49: <EMT0> This is on the 3DS?
11:07:38: <PoeticInjustice> nooooooooooooooo
11:07:41: <PoeticInjustice> 3DS
11:07:41: <PoeticInjustice>
11:09:05: <Marche90> TROLOLOLOLOLOLO
11:09:05: <cjkeats> HOLY SHIT
11:09:05: <FluxWaveZ> OH GOD NOOOOOOO
11:07:59: <frozenprince> Fuck you Atlus.
11:07:59: <frozenprince> Fuck you
11:08:54: <Dresden> 3ds lololol
11:09:03: <Levito> I can't belive this
11:09:05: <mib_ek6zfe> this looks....awful
11:11:38: <BuddhaWITHPOWER> persona is over
11:11:41: <BuddhaWITHPOWER> rip
11:09:49: <EMT0> Fuck everything
11:09:50: <Marche90> salt as far as the eye can see
All of these were just the Persona Q reveal, I might add!
names2hard4you
Member
Not me, I've actually been pretty hyped for it since they announced it in Japan. Not too much for Ultimax because of the P4 overload and me not being so great, nor having the time to better myself in fighting games, or P4D, since rhythm games aren't really my thing (and we really know nothing about the plot or how it even makes sense that they are all dancing lmfao).
Persona Q was the only one that, with the tidbits of info given in the announcement, had everything that, for me hit the right spot:
EO first person dungeon crawling with FOEs, turn based combat with Personas (and the new subpersonas) and map sketching? Yup.
Persona fusing (and arguably the best one yet from what I hear?) Yup.
Makoto and the P3 gang in an all new story in their high school years? Yup.
P3FemMC. FUCKING NOPE. :'(
New characters added in? Yup.
I don't quite remember hearing anything negative, but if there was any negative talk, it certainly did not come from me
IRC, never change. Neverrr.
buddha0991
Member
I plead the fifth...as in I thought it was Persona 5.
I wish I joined you guys before this stream happened. The madness in the IRC must have been fun to see in real time lol.
Which amendment is the "it was 4 am" one? That's the one I plead.
Also the character limit for PQ makes me sad, because I was going to name the protags Kazuma Kaneko and Shinegori Soejima. >.>
It was an emotional rollercoaster let me tell you.
Petrock123
Member
I really wish I was there to witness this, I only heard about the aftermath. Sure, I might have been just as sad as everyone else on there. But for some reason it's far more enjoyable if we're all suffering together
Yep
I just don't like the fact it's on 3DS. Just because it's not something I own, not because the 3DS is bad (though admittedly I'm not a big fan of 3D).
My favorite part was the mysterious old lady taking us for a ride at the start.
............................
There were a lot of factors coming together as to why PQ was met the way it was right at the moment it was revealed. Emotions were on edge with each person having certain expectations as to what they would see, it was late, the stream was legitimately trolling its viewers, we couldn't understand what the heck was going on in it, a P4 dancing game was in the process of being leaked before it appeared on stream, word of Persona 5 not being announced was going around with people who had seen it locally not having received the announcement, and all of that after a countdown leading to what a lot of people thought was going to be P5.
It was pretty much a crucial moment in terms of how I took Persona's future: as them really just taking the easy route and milking their fans for all they could from the P3 and P4 brand (and diluting the original games in the process), or continuing towards a fresh future with the Persona IP. It's why there was some collective catharsis going on when P5 was announced at the end (hey, I guess that's kind of in line with their goals with that game, heh).
In the end, I guess they are milking P3 and P4 pretty strongly, but they're also not doing it recklessly without regards to quality, which I think was the fear back then. Quality spin-offs combined with the actual continuation of the mainline series through P5 made the series' future promising.
It was pretty much a crucial moment in terms of how I took Persona's future: as them really just taking the easy route and milking their fans for all they could from the P3 and P4 brand (and diluting the original games in the process), or continuing towards a fresh future with the Persona IP. It's why there was some collective catharsis going on when P5 was announced at the end (hey, I guess that's kind of in line with their goals with that game, heh).
In the end, I guess they are milking P3 and P4 pretty strongly, but they're also not doing it recklessly without regards to quality, which I think was the fear back then. Quality spin-offs combined with the actual continuation of the mainline series through P5 made the series' future promising.
I cherry picked examples from the log, instead of posting the whole thing, because emotions were pretty high. There's a lot of funny stuff in there, but there's also things people probably wouldn't want posted in retrospect. On the whole tho it was pretty amusing to see people's reactions, and I still have that night's moment clearly in my head. Between the thousands of people watching on my stream, IRC, and the forums, it was nuts.
Also, as egotistical as this may seem, I do feel kind of proud of myself for keeping my emotions relatively in check. Reading over the log, my opinions on the spinoff games did not significantly shift from what I initially said a year ago.
Also, as egotistical as this may seem, I do feel kind of proud of myself for keeping my emotions relatively in check. Reading over the log, my opinions on the spinoff games did not significantly shift from what I initially said a year ago.
TurnipFritters
Member
Remember 1 year ago when we all thought that "Winter 2014" meant the release date for Persona 5 and not the date when we'd get our first look at the actual game? (this is making the big assumption that Atlus is showing P5 off at the Sony event next month)
A Dead Diehard
Member
Going through P4G for the first time.
King's Game is still fucking hilarious.
That night was certainly... something to remember :lol
If anyone stayed up for that one (and were actually expecting Persona 5), they were truly crazy people because the stream was at night in Japan—in the morning in North America (10:30 AM EST)—and we had already come to the conclusion it was related to anime since it was being advertised through an anime related source.
Heh, yeah
Though to be honest, I had a good time. I feel like a got a little closer to everyone. It was fun seeing even the most stoic users lose their cool.
buddha0991
Member
Having read that log again, I said a thing or two that I regret saying.
I expect less than nothing
Persona 5 and Persona QQ canceled.
We were lost in the heat / terror of the moment.
Persona 5 and Persona QQ canceled.
We were lost in the heat / terror of the moment.
Funny thing about PQ, well not directly anyway.
I remember Erin Fitzgerald tweeting something about being in a recording session with Karen Strassman. I jokingly sent her a tweet along the lines of "I hope it's a game where Chie and Aigis team up" This was long before anything about PQ even surfaced.
I don't remember the time frame, but it was at least 5-6 months later the game is announced.
Thing is though, Atlus USA had no idea about PQ until that stream, just like everyone else.
I remember Erin Fitzgerald tweeting something about being in a recording session with Karen Strassman. I jokingly sent her a tweet along the lines of "I hope it's a game where Chie and Aigis team up" This was long before anything about PQ even surfaced.
I don't remember the time frame, but it was at least 5-6 months later the game is announced.
Thing is though, Atlus USA had no idea about PQ until that stream, just like everyone else.
Ganzlinger
Member
Oh, the true face of despair... lol
ScraftyDevil
Banned
Haven't really had much to say here for a while...
Getting pretty excited for Persona Q though! Going to skip the Pokemon remake for now so I can get it on Tuesday.
I did the opposite. Persona is friggin' fantastic, but my all-time favourite game series (and the one from which my namesake originates) shall forever top my list of priorities.
DryEyeRelief
Member
I'm a nonconformist.
buddha0991
Member
Makoto Yuki and...Souji Seta.
Pokemon's probably my favorite series too, but... I'm starting to get burnt out on it, and it's a remake of a game I've already played. I'll get it another time.
Pretty sure the character limit is 6, so that won't work
Eh, well, I have till Christmas Morning to edit it up.Pretty sure the character limit is 6, so that won't work
A Dead Diehard
Member
I'm thinking of forgoing calling Yu 'N-kami' and just going with 'N-dog'.
That's not weird, is it?
That's not weird, is it?
Petrock123
Member
Nah it's cool. I actually called him Swag Master in a playthrough. Though I don't quite know where dog comes from? Unless your intention was just to make him sound like a rapper or something like that.
If you go with that you need to at least add another G at the end.
RIP Nate Dogg.
Haven't really had much to say here for a while...
Getting pretty excited for Persona Q though! Going to skip the Pokemon remake for now so I can get it on Tuesday.
Same. I was ready to pick up Smash Bros Wii U and Pokemon Alpha Sapphire last Friday, but remembered PQ was next week. I would definitely stop playing Pokemon for Persona, so might as well just wait until I'm done with Persona.
(Smash Bros. is still pretty great though)
I'm a little worried about PQ being here on time, I did express/release date delivery from Best Buy but it still hasn't shipped yet.
That is an extremely good question. It is a bit odd it's not at least eight now that one protagonist actually has a canonical name with eight characters.
Actually, now that I think about it, almost every last name that belongs to a P4 cast member wouldn't fit.... o_o
Considering that Nich said that the random name generator in PQ never generates Yu Narukami or Makoto Yuki, I'd assume it's another attempt at trolling their fanbase. Or it's simply laziness.
Xenoflare
Member
I really really doubt that. If anything it's probably a programming issue or an oversight on the part of the Japanese team.
No. The Japanese version of all(?) Megami Tensei games from Soul Hackers onward has been three characters for first and last name, respectively. This includes Persona Q, as I just checked a video of it.
Atlus games have a rather interesting name entry screen in the Japanese version. They expect you to write the name in kanji, and have a system in place for writing specific words. Not unlike typing on a Japanese keyboard. It's pretty awesome.
names2hard4you
Member
Could be because of the font size for the character dialog you know. Maybe anything over 12 characters (which would also have 3 spaces, one before the first name, one after and another after the last name, so 15 when in the middle of a sentence) would make the letters go off screen or something like that. I'm going to say they had to do it for coding purposes just like Sophia said, rather than just something that the US branch wanted to put on people.
I thought this is the case for every time there is a character limit in a game (see Harvest Moon series), that's why I never complained about them; although they can be annoying at times.
names2hard4you
Member
Yeah specially when it's a localization. Character space and size is quite a lot of times hard coded even, and the developers need to not only localize the text as close to the original as possible, but also make it fit in all of the textboxes that they have available to them. I never complain either, because as a software development student, I know how hard things like this can be. You need to stick to the script, but you also have limitations to consider.
Lollipop Dave
Member
I don't think the log from that day will ever disappear. Too much usable content.