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Shin Megami Tensei IV |OT| The Dark Souls of Persona
- Thread starter Volcynika
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Knux-Future
Banned
Yeah the Demon Negotiations are going poorly lol.
The little gerbil thing is hilliariously a sociopath in that no mater my answer he wants to fuck my shit up.
"hi old man"
"oh you are old?"
" I've always wanted to beat up an old guy..."
the only times I have died have been due to failed negotiations.
why are they so meeeeaaan? I just wanna go on an adventure guys.
;_;
The little gerbil thing is hilliariously a sociopath in that no mater my answer he wants to fuck my shit up.
"hi old man"
"oh you are old?"
" I've always wanted to beat up an old guy..."
the only times I have died have been due to failed negotiations.
why are they so meeeeaaan? I just wanna go on an adventure guys.
;_;
Yeah, that's how I feel about digital. I really do love it. It's also awesome literally having a system with all your games on the go.
But I can't justify digital for $49. Just seems dumb.
PlanetSmasher
Banned
Just claimed my eShop credit. This is the first time I've ever had excess money on my 3DS eShop account...I guess it should be obvious, but it will stay in my account even if I turn the system off, right?
The whole lack of an account system has me a little worried.
The whole lack of an account system has me a little worried.
Fuck those guys, so much macca and life stones wasted trying to recruit them. The challenge mission where you
hunt five of them
You'll be fine. Your money is stored on their servers like your download history. As long as you log in from the same, not-reformated, 3DS, the cash will be there.
Now, my dumb question. Redeemed cash never expires, right? Planning to save it until Pokemon comes in October, but just want to be sure that's an option.
Edit: Looked at the promotion page, once it's in your account, it's your's forever. Nice. Huge discount on Pokemon Y for me, then!
Lumpy Onion
Member
HahahahaSorry. Gotta keep the system on until you spend it.
decoyplatypus
Member
I tend to agree. It's nice that they've got a "recommended fusions" page, but I'd rather have my own roster on the front page so that I can experiment. It's nice that they've got a detailed search function, but again, I don't think I should have to go through it just to reach my basic list of ingredients or results.
Despite all the thoughtful additions, it actually takes longer for me to evaluate my fusion options in SMT4 than it did in Nocturne.
Community Forum
Member
Damn the beginning is so brutal! I'm going to have a lot of fun with this game.
PlanetSmasher
Banned
Sorry. Gotta keep the system on until you spend it.
NOOOOOOOOOOO~!
I realize it was a silly question, but I had to ask.
Great. I'm saving my $30 for Ace Attorney 5, wanted to be sure.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Demon negotiation is all about luck, not skill.
It can be so bloody unfair at times.
Thank goodness for save everywhere feature though.
It can be so bloody unfair at times.
Thank goodness for save everywhere feature though.
He's not serious. You can turn the system off.
I don't utilize it enough! Because I didn't save for a while I have to deal with a 1000 mecca tab now T_T
PlanetSmasher
Banned
Oh, I know. I was being silly.
EscapingJail
Member
Sorry. Gotta keep the system on until you spend it.
Ice cold bro, Ice cold.
Oh ok I thought you genuinely believed him.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
I mean how the fuck should I know about the personality of a talking chicken the 1st time I met him/her/it. And then lo and behold, all of the press turns immediately gone if I fail and then that fucking talking chicken launch an attack that caps 80 HP out of my 90 HP.
Bloody hell.
Now you see, this is why I kind of hesitating of going physical with my MC, because when situation like this arose I can just Bufu'ed his ass.
Just bring a bunch of dudes who can use bufu and win~
PlanetSmasher
Banned
God no. If I did, my reaction would've been a bit more bitter.
The Mikado Sand armor resists fire. Buy it.
I actually did that and he never used a fire attack in the next fight. Finding/fusing demons with bufu is the better choice.
decoyplatypus
Member
I would have loved to have seen someone live streaming that part. The player and the comments section would have all gone ballistic at once.
Yeah that's what I was thinking.
Annoyingly I had my first demon replace bufu with poisma. As a result, even the Angel I fused has poisma instead of bufu.
I really need to fix that.
decoyplatypus
Member
That sucks. But you should keep in mind that by posting what was originally untagged, you're tipping everyone else off to watch for that sort of twist.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Anybody here going physical for their MC?
Interesting to hear about your experiences.
Interesting to hear about your experiences.
InsaneElite
Member
Eight hours in and stopping for the night. It's been a very long time since I've played a game nearly all day; this is definitely going to be something special.
Made it up to Ueno and got the quests there. Spent a lot of time stuck on Medusa and the sidequest for killing the Calamity Hordes and David, though.
Finally ready to tear into it after I get something in my belly after a torturous day at work. Like many others here, my outer box was damaged in the bubble wrap envelope packaging, but in my case it's the top part of the case, so it won't bother me when sitting on the shelf.
Can't wait to fuse/recruit my own Jack Frost, Alice, and Tam Lin again, always a highlight.
cj_iwakura
Member
The Cathedral app is sheer perfection.
Still too early to tell, but after four hours my mc is going strong. Split evenly between str/dex/agi (although I'll start maxing out Dex soon).
Ok edited that post to be a bit more vague. Still I hope what I saw was not as important as I think it was.
Ended up playing for about six hours and just met
I have really been enjoying the game so far. I'm really likeing the world building they are doing with East Mikado and showing how backwards the place is. Little things like how they refer to Burroughs as a sprite and how Hope refers to communicating through the Gauntlet as "scrying" are really great touches. I'm really looking forward to the culture shock the characters are gonna get when they get to Tokyo.
Ended up playing for about six hours and just met
the Black Samurai.
InsaneElite
Member
I love the death animations. Riddling demons with bloody bullet holes makes playing a gunner pretty damn satisfying.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
I meant interested not interesting *smacks head*
Anyways, how do you split the stat for every level up? 2/2/1?
You don't touch Luck at all? Considering that it ups the critical chance (IIRC). Any notable difficulty so far?
I am also around 3-4 hours but I made a mistake in splitting my level up on MAG/DEX/AGI. Gonna restart from the very beginning and I want to make my MC physical.
You planning to go physical?
Hmmmmmmmm. Everywhere I go people seem to recommend Magic but to tell you the truth I want to go physical first.
Are you far in the game already? Alright, I will reset my game and go physical too. I am planning to go 2 Dex/2 Agi/1 Str. If we can compare notes as to how we proceed through the game I think it would be interesting
Yours should be the stronger build. I just want to
get the supposedly best sword in the game by having 100str
Chance Hale
Member
Going to pick this up on the way home from school tomorrow. How is the general tone of the game's story and characters?
Yeah, physical usually serves me well in MegaTen whereas the demons can handle all the magic stuff. Did some buffing though just in case, especially if this DOES work differently... though I'm doubting it: usually enemies are hurt by physical attacks, whereas magic depends on whichever ones are available, nevermind the chance for criticals.
Enemies that reflect, nullify, or absorb physical attacks are not a rarity in SMT. Particularly at the end of 3. Perhaps that's not as much of an issue in 4, I don't know.
That's true (though there IS pierce...) but it always seemed like a more reliable area to bet on, nevermind how great some of those skills got: even if you never actually got pierce there was one attack with its properties to wreck things entirely. Maybe if I could freely exchange them, but this isn't DDS, though it certainly comes closer and I don't know if I get a second chance at demon whispering from re-leveling a demon from scratch or not. That could really change things, though it'd be kind of annoyingly grindy too.
For the most part you are going to be relying on weapons and skill effects if you want crits. There are weapons with high crit rate but low hit rate for example. Stacking up on AGI is a way to mitigate that (since it increases physical hit rate).
No notable difficulty so far, asides from the feeling that it'd be easier with a mag-focused character. I went gun-focused for that bullet-hole effect on kills, though.
As for stat distribution, dex > str and that's that, even on physical skills. But str does boost regular attack damage and opens up some equipment later on (apparently), so I've been putting points into it. We'll see if I messed up by not going pure dex.
PlanetSmasher
Banned
Does Charon seriously raise the cost for resurrection every time you die, even if you don't use his services? He bumped my play coin cost from 4 to 12. :[
Given that you can't pass passive skills I don't know if you can get pierce.
FrenchMovieTheme
Member
Holy tits what am I doing wrong? I got destroyed twice in the first tutorial dungeon! Is it this god damn amazon preorder coat?!