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Persona Community Thread: The Butterfly Effect
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Apparently there's a ten-hour difference in our time zones.
Also, my only headset is my 360 headset...
ScraftyDevil
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Complete Theo's quest to defeat The Reaper and you'll gain access to Monad, the basement of Tartarus. Every enemy there is level 85+, with the highest being 97.
You'll be able to grind your way to 90 in no time flat, provided you can survive the mind-melting intensity.
TurnipFritters
Member
You all sound like PALs to me.
cj_iwakura
Member
You shouldn't have to, you should be able to continue from certain branches to pursue the true ending.
Hint:
I believe you need to have collected every character's soul.
SloaneRisette
Member
For a while I assumed that ~80% of the people in the steam chat frequently were from Europe, lol.
CrazyTank940
Member
All them bizzles be crazy yo
ooooh, that makes sense
i tried to ground on the regularly tartarus enemies, but i can't pull it off >_>
thank you
Nah, just Omi and Dantis usually. >_>;
buddha0991
Member
Do Bizzles belong in Ballertown?
To be fair, those two account for a big chunk of the steam chat anyways.
Yeah they're a little bit over 50% of it, and me and you are around 40% of it....
CrazyTank940
Member
Depends on if they can divekick.
Me and Omi are the best 50%.
Well I won't deny that, seeing as how lively it gets whenever you show up. =P
buddha0991
Member
who is the 1%
CrazyTank940
Member
You guys better not get too lively without me there, I believe I'll be back in about 4 hours give or take. Ballertown isn't the same without me
I am.
buddha0991
Member
I got an internal error on Giant Bomb and a pile of text showed up and under it was this:
SloaneRisette
Member
How much percent am I?
You're somewhere in that 40% that makes up me and buddha. I'll get back to you on that.
SloaneRisette
Member
They've been using the P4-ified Luchadeer since the site relaunch. The franchise list link has been broken ever since.I got an internal error on Giant Bomb and a pile of text showed up and under it was this:
But that must be pretty cool as a fan to get something you made in the full thing.
I got an internal error on Giant Bomb and a pile of text showed up and under it was this:
TAKE YOU VITAMINS
SAY YOUR PRAYERS
AND GIMMIE ALL YO YENS YIP YIP YAP
BROTHER
CrazyTank940
Member
What percent do I get?
As time passes, the more I start to dislike Persona 4 Arena's story. Problems I've always had with it aside (like reducing the characters to stereotypes or its fragmented and contradictory nature), I just don't think it's a good thing that the story served to raise more questions than it answered.
Origins of the Dark Hour are further explained along with what a few P3 characters have been up to and the whole Labrys thing is wrapped up, sure, but that doesn't make up for all of the things that go unexplained.
You can't just drop shit like this:
to whip fans into a speculative frenzy and then go absolutely nowhere with it. I'm good with P4A being a collection of pure fanservice, but I'm not okay with the fanservice then devolving into a bunch of unresolved story beats that are not even assured to be resolved anytime soon, if ever. This is especially egregious when it's a game that touts itself to be the canon sequel of Persona 4. What, is there some final game in the P4 trilogy that we should be waiting for that will explain everything?
Ugh.
Origins of the Dark Hour are further explained along with what a few P3 characters have been up to and the whole Labrys thing is wrapped up, sure, but that doesn't make up for all of the things that go unexplained.
You can't just drop shit like this:
to whip fans into a speculative frenzy and then go absolutely nowhere with it. I'm good with P4A being a collection of pure fanservice, but I'm not okay with the fanservice then devolving into a bunch of unresolved story beats that are not even assured to be resolved anytime soon, if ever. This is especially egregious when it's a game that touts itself to be the canon sequel of Persona 4. What, is there some final game in the P4 trilogy that we should be waiting for that will explain everything?
Ugh.
Who knows? Lord knows they set up enough dangling plot points on purpose, that if they don't do anything with them then we'll know they're out of their damn minds.
Only bad thing is to release that, then go a long time without saying anything at all about Persona anything for a year. Hard at work? Probably, but we don't know what on. Arena 2 to continue that story? 5 with a whole new cast? 5 with a combo of the cast from 3 and 4 continuing the arena story? A non numbered persona game that does that instead?
Only bad thing is to release that, then go a long time without saying anything at all about Persona anything for a year. Hard at work? Probably, but we don't know what on. Arena 2 to continue that story? 5 with a whole new cast? 5 with a combo of the cast from 3 and 4 continuing the arena story? A non numbered persona game that does that instead?
EvilKatarn
Member
I did exactly that some time ago. It's pretty easy if you have a strong lineup of instakill skills and can pick your battles.
Big Papa Husker
Member
I think I'm finally going to start a Persona game. Which version of 3 should I play? I have all 3 versions.
FES first. Then Portable for a female run.
FES is what most recommend and the one I prefer, even though you might dislike not being able to give party memebers direct commands like P3P. P3P is fine if you don't mind a visual novel presentation and no anime cutscenes.
I would say start with FES, but play P3P for the FeMC (or as I like to call it, BestMC) branch.
You can if you planned on releasing a sequel to begin with.
See: Arcsys' BlazBlue story
Big Papa Husker
Member
I think I'll settle on FES for Persona 3. My next questions is should I start the series in the order it was released or just skip the first 2?
cj_iwakura
Member
You should play them, but 1 isn't mandatory, just a good idea. 2 is essential.
BlazBlue isn't the same because we knew there would be a sequel pretty soon after the first one was released or in development or whatever (I don't follow the series closely).
If it was assured a P4A sequel was going to be made on the same time frame as Calamity Trigger to Continuum Shift, there'd already have been a Persona 4 Arena 2 playable in Japanese arcades for a month now. However, even if they plan the story to continue in a P4A2, we have no idea when that's going to happen (it could be years), and I still don't think it's appropriate for cliffhangers to last that long without any assurance that they plan to continue with them in a meaningful manner.
buddha0991
Member
If the make an rpg titled Persona: Shadow Operatives, that is or is not Persona 5, I would be ok with it. I either want Persona 5 to connect to all of this directly, or absolutely not at all, no half assing it.
Pretty much what I want, and what I'm afraid of.
They could easily have 5 by it's own game with it's own cast, and then relate to the other personas via hard optional boss like they've done in 4, but I wouldn't mind them doing a 5, and then instead of a 6 being announced within a year like they kind of did with 3 and 4, announce a new rpg that continues arena's story or something. Still say have a Shadow Operative or whatever you call it game featuring people from the casts of 3 and 4, and that can be our college based game(have it take place a few years later).
I liked arena's story, but honestly it would've worked way better if it was added to the end of Golden or something instead of the Marie nonsense. The structure of that whole fighting game could've easily been a part of persona 4.
I'd love Hashino to head up a character action game. I think they'd do it well.
No Labrys though. Leave her in the scrap-heap.
If they were to do a character action game, even you can't deny it would work best with the robots.
If we were talking persona, robots.
SMT, Raidou all the way. God I wish he'd come back. He needs his own show or something.
I wouldn't mind a game around Aigis (P3 Aigis, not minigun, rocket and bazooka Aigis from Arena), but Labrys would be a no-go. I think she'd need a serious redesign to be an appealing protagonist.
Labrysdissaprovingface.jpg
She would be perfect with that giant axe.
I just want to hear her talk more, I love her accent.
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