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Persona Community Thread |OT7| P5 is nyaow. (Mark all PQ and P4U spoilers!)
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Chet Rippo
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This game is gonna be smooth baby, can ya dig it?
I like how Soejima's comment in the P4U2 artbook can be summed up with "Creating additional characters for an existing cast is hard, but it gives us the chance to do things we couldn't do in an RPG". It's reassuring to know that Arena's visual craziness won't seep into the mainline series.
MiguelMexMIstery
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1) What is your favorite persona character? Yosuke and Yukari 
Love P3MC as well.
2) favorite persona game? Persona Q
3) favorite persona song? Hmm, probably the full versions of Maxe of Life and Shadow World.
4) favorite persona scene? 5) favorite persona? 6) favorite s.link?
Can't choose. lol
7) What are your thoughts on the Kanamin trailer?
Welp, already expressed it.
Love P3MC as well.2) favorite persona game? Persona Q
3) favorite persona song? Hmm, probably the full versions of Maxe of Life and Shadow World.
4) favorite persona scene? 5) favorite persona? 6) favorite s.link?
Can't choose. lol
7) What are your thoughts on the Kanamin trailer?
Welp, already expressed it.
Still, just ugggh
Auron_Kale
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I chose free shipping so I'm expecting it whenever lol.
Didn't feel like expediting it since I'm already paying for the LE version.
MudoSkills
Volcano High Alumnus (Cum Laude)
That tutorial vid is my most prolonged exposure to Teddie's Japanese VA.
Suddenly, ours seems much more bearable (hohohohohoho).
Those scratch notes look like they could be a little hard to read.
Suddenly, ours seems much more bearable (hohohohohoho).
Those scratch notes look like they could be a little hard to read.
CrimsonFist
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I just went back to Yu's trailer and I didn't even notice them there before now.
At least you don't have to hit them, the're just for bonus points.
Woah. I love this.So I'm creating a custom watch face for my LG G Watch R, still a WIP, but figured I share it with you guys:
I need those bonus points, though.
When the game comes out, I should set up some weekly, in-community P4D competitions.
Edit: Oh man, trying to play along with the end of tutorial segment in the second video, and the scratch aura is definitely going to take some getting used to. If you focus too much on the incoming notes, the circle completely fades into existence from out of nowhere, and you're likely to miss it.
When the game comes out, I should set up some weekly, in-community P4D competitions.
Edit: Oh man, trying to play along with the end of tutorial segment in the second video, and the scratch aura is definitely going to take some getting used to. If you focus too much on the incoming notes, the circle completely fades into existence from out of nowhere, and you're likely to miss it.
MudoSkills
Volcano High Alumnus (Cum Laude)
They add to the combo count as well as triggering fever. You're going to have to hit them for FCs as well as higher scoring.
Hopefully we can switch to an alternative input that doesn't require touch. F2nd did well to offer stick inputs instead. If P4D is to be VTV compatible, then it would have to have something like that.
I wonder what, if any, use the > or [] buttons have.
Reanimatoin
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I really hope you can swap out the touch controls.
I'd rather have the 'scratch' mechanic used on the LR buttons. Practicing with that feels so much more natural to me.
What touch controls? The default input for the scratch system is a flick of the analog stick.
Reanimatoin
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I guess the word scratch just implied touch controls to me.
Still, my point still stands that the LR should be used for it. Just feels better that way.
Actually, going back to teddies tutorial, it does mention the sticks.
This is odd, because I swear from some interview somewhere it mentioned making use of the touchscreen, and I just assumed it would be this because they were calling it scratch like Diva does.
Edit: looks like this was confusing me:
http://gematsu.com/2015/02/persona-4-dancing-all-night-official-japanese-site-relaunches
Touch is probably for menus or for some other unknown feature. I'm fine with sticks as scratch input.
MudoSkills
Volcano High Alumnus (Cum Laude)
Glad to hear it's on the sticks rather than touch control.
Control mechanism aside, like I said, I think they might be hard to read. Would be nice to see sustained gameplay footage rather than the jump cuts you get in the character trailers to get a better idea how it looks on a moving background.
Control mechanism aside, like I said, I think they might be hard to read. Would be nice to see sustained gameplay footage rather than the jump cuts you get in the character trailers to get a better idea how it looks on a moving background.
TheMrPliskin
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This would be great, I haven't come across a game where I've wanted to chase scores for a while and P4D seems like a good fit.
So I'm creating a custom watch face for my LG G Watch R, still a WIP, but figured I share it with you guys:
I want this.
Sorry, my sentence was a little confused. I was talking about codifying the release date.
Oh, and I forgot to do this:
- Kanji, with Shinji, Junpei, and Rise tied for second.
- Persona Q for dungeon design; none of them really for combat; Persona 4 Golden for the best overall package
- The Almighty; School Days is a close second, even if I think it doesn't fit Persona 1
- The true ending sequence for Persona 4 (not talking about the Golden epilogue)
- Apollo for the uniques; Asura for the generics
- Ai's easily
- She seems more spunky and spirited than I thought she would be, so at least she won't be typical otaku bait.
I don't know if that runs a unique version of Android, but I think someone already beat you to the punch:So I'm creating a custom watch face for my LG G Watch R, still a WIP, but figured I share it with you guys:
Yeah, mine is a free Watch Maker watch face, that one is a paid regular Play Store one. Meaning mine gets loaded through that (very popular) app and I can put it on a website to share with others. (I'll put it here once I'm done, could be a little while).
Unfortunately the guy that made that one never updated it after the release 5 months ago. It doesn't work with my watch (and some others), so it doesn't update the weather and most importantly it doesn't work with 24h clocks, at noon it told me it was midnight.
I can deal with bugs, but I need my clock to tell me the actual time
Thank god for the Play Store's "delete within 15 minutes and get your money refunded" option
Shame though, that design is great.Red The Hunter
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It's my birthday today, 21 baby!
I do really like the gameplay UI design of P4D, not too busy or overly complicated. I really like it compared to the Dingo version of it.
Alas my dreams crushed and it looked so sexy as well. Best of luck on your design, looking toward to how it ends up. I should probably get a smart watch first before i get ahead of myself...and an android phone to go with it
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MudoSkills
Volcano High Alumnus (Cum Laude)
Quick Persona Q question. I'm on the third floor of Inaba Pride and near the entrance to the floor there's a dead end with an event. I've labelled it as 'moaning corner' on the map.
Do you get anything for visiting with each of the people who ask to get rotated in? When the third different character popped up I felt like I was wasting my time. Just want to make sure I'm not missing anything good as a reward.
Also, fused a Nebrios with Poison Circle, Mahamaon and Mamudoon on top of the Impure Reach he has by default - which is currently sitting with Mitsuru. Win mode. Now I get why everyone said Naoto is the best character to use in this.
Do you get anything for visiting with each of the people who ask to get rotated in? When the third different character popped up I felt like I was wasting my time. Just want to make sure I'm not missing anything good as a reward.
Also, fused a Nebrios with Poison Circle, Mahamaon and Mamudoon on top of the Impure Reach he has by default - which is currently sitting with Mitsuru. Win mode. Now I get why everyone said Naoto is the best character to use in this.
Reanimatoin
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Happy Birthday dude!
I couldnt figure that out either, people were complaining that they weren't getting enough action, despite the fact that all of my characters were the same level. I did the same as you, after the 3rd switch, I just gave up on that spot.
TheMrPliskin
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This reminds me that I need to set aside some time for my yearly run of P4, I also need to decide if I want to kick the difficulty up a level.
Mobile Suit Gooch
Grundle: The Awakening
So those who seen the movie; how would you rate it?
cj_iwakura
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Go after Lizzie while you're at it. I can't be the only one crazy enough.
If you aren't playing on Hard/Expert, can you really say you've played Persona 4 at all? >
It's a brand new save from the beginning, as all my old saves are on the PS2, not on the Playstation Classics version.
Also, I don't even like the Elizabeth fight, as I've said before. I'd rather fight the Demi-Fiend.
cj_iwakura
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If you aren't playing on Hard/Expert, can you really say you've played Persona 4 at all? >
It's a brand new save from the beginning, as all my old saves are on the PS2, not on the Playstation Classics version.
Also, I don't even like the Elizabeth fight, as I've said before. I'd rather fight the Demi-Fiend.
I must have missed that. I had FUN fighting Elizabeth. There's a method to her madness.
Demi-Fiend is just plain mean. You can easily die before the fight even starts. Elizabeth at least gives you a chance.
I bumped it from normal to hard on my first new game + of golden. If you play though it once a year do you try to improve your runs? Max all S.Links complete the compedium and such? (Although I'd wage your compendium is already complete from all the new game +'s)
Mobile Suit Gooch
Grundle: The Awakening
When?
TheMrPliskin
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If you aren't playing on Hard/Expert, can you really say you've played Persona 4 at all? >
Welp, the gauntlet has been thrown down so I guess I have no choice. Now I need to decide on hard or very hard.
I only played P4 for the first time in 2013 so I've not exactly played it a ton overall, this year will be my fourth playthrough. I maxed out all the S links and completed the compendium on my second playthrough so my third was just a regular playthrough where I did the S links I enjoyed, looks like I'll be playing on a higher difficulty this playthrough and for future playthroughs I'll probably start coming up with limitations to place on myself. I certainly don't want to do an all S link run again anytime soon, it was fun to see all that stuff but I like to have a bit more freedom in what I decide to do on each day.
Go with Hard. Very Hard in P4G is pointless, as it doesn't actually make the game any harder. It just makes it more tedious.
I'd be all for Very Hard too if it actually adjusted the difficulty. But all it does is reduce the XP and money gains, so you have to fight more fights.
cj_iwakura
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It's a damn shame P4 has no Elizabeth or Satan equivalent. Margaret was a joke.
Epic backdrop aside.
Epic backdrop aside.
TheMrPliskin
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Well that sounds terrible, I hate when games use methods like that as an attempt to increase difficulty. Hard mode it is!
cj_iwakura
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Oh boy would you hate Raidou 1 Devil. I wonder how many people besides me were crazy enough to finish that damn mode. Raidou does half damage, enemies do double. Costs go through the roof. Escape is nigh impossible.
Yeah, you can tell that Very Easy/Safety and Very Hard/Risky were new additions to Persona 4 Golden. The game isn't balanced around them at all.
For what it's worth, half player damage/double enemy damage is far better than P4G's Very Hard. It's still a lazy way of increasing the difficulty, but at least the difficulty actually DOES increase.
Yep. Artificial difficulty is the worst.
I mean, I guess I get what they were going for, as you're meant to be underleveled for every fight(so you do less damage and take more damage all the time), but it doesn't work that well in a game where if one specific character dies you Game Over. The tedium aspect comes in when you try to break this idea of "difficulty" by doing twice the grinding to make up for it. Overall, a hard difficulty should feel like a challenge, not cheap.
I like difficulty settings that actively change the mechanics of fights around. Persona Q's Risky is a good example of this. You have to approach many fights in the game differently due to the classic "Hero dies = game over" MegaTen rule being in play.
I hope Persona 5 goes a step further with stuff like that and actively changes bosses and mechanics around like that. It's more effort on the developer's part, but it makes for a far more exciting game.
I hope Persona 5 goes a step further with stuff like that and actively changes bosses and mechanics around like that. It's more effort on the developer's part, but it makes for a far more exciting game.
cj_iwakura
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Demon's Souls Pure Black was the best method I've ever seen. More enemies, more twisted AI.
And wow, that P4 difficulty sounds dull. I'd sooner try a solo run or something.
And wow, that P4 difficulty sounds dull. I'd sooner try a solo run or something.
Green Mamba
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I'd settle for a Normal mode that wasn't hilariously unbalanced.
TheMrPliskin
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I didn't know PQ's difficulty settings would change that stuff, that's really cool. I'm all for games handling difficulty like this, games like Bayonetta and Devil May Cry also do similar things by changing the enemy spawns on higher difficulty levels so you're dealing with late game enemies from the start. I also hope that P5 goes further with the difficulty stuff, introducing new skills to a boss or even adding a new element to the actual fight would make those higher difficulties more fun and rewarding.
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