/cog/ - Traditional & Video Gaming

Raidou is SO MUCH FUN. Just finished chapter 2 and have been loving it. I have a few small complaints (the moon phase stuff is never, ever fun Atlus) but overall its got me hooked.

>>187263
He's got a cool hat!

>>187251
Oh I forgot to say that I got Golden during the sale!
Also I hoped that just sort of crossover existed.
Thanks for posting.

How is Shin Megami Tensei IV looking got a new RPG for the Portable

I'll ONLY be okay with P4G the animation

If they ONLY animate the extra bits from Golden. And then the rest of it is just Persona 4 Arena the Animation.

>>187615
Does he have an actual weapon to fight with or is he gonna depend entirely on his Persona to do it all for him?

Still beats goddamn Ken.

>Adachi is DLC
what the fuck man

[Persona 4] Hiimdaisy Comic Du…

>>188976
>It seems to be a dungeon crawler

It's an Etrian Odyssey game with Persona setting and characters. I mean that in a completely literal sense: it's counted as a spinoff for both franchises, it uses the same game engine as EOIV and EO Untold, and most of the non-writing staff are EO developers. Hell, even the title is a pun on how Etrian Odyssey's Japanese name is abbreviated to SQ.

I fucking love EO, so I might get this even though I've not played Persona 3 or 4. Depends on if the story is at all comprehensible to newcomers.

time to break out the graph paper for classic map making action

>>189099
So is this a porn game, then?

I was told to start Persona with 2 becasue 1 is mostly a SMT game and 2 is not connected at all. Then like 15minutes into the game there are characters FROM 2 that show up and directly reffrence 1.

I'm mad

I gave up on Raidou Vs the Soulless Army. I love everything about that game except that I just can't take the part where it's a video game anymore. I started Raidou Vs King Abbadon and am kind of amazed how it immediately feels so much better.

//youtube.com/watch?v=rGfstpS5spc

I've always been on the outside looking in with this series and I've liked what I've seen.

I've just been pondering something for a while. What would happen if the Atlus guys decided that the next Persona game in the future would be set in America? Like a Japanese student has family in Japan and has to live there for a while. Is this an idea worth thinking about? Or that they could pull off?

>>189781
And P1/P2 continue to get left in the dust.

>>189810
>Is this an idea worth thinking about?
Not really.

>>189810
My understanding of the Persona games (which I haven't actually played, just watched P4(G)) is that they're heavy on social interaction, and part of the way that works well is due to general density. Some of our cities might be able to meet larger Japanese cities, but at least according to http://www.citymayors.com/statistics/largest-cities-density-125.html (which is outdated, from 2007, but first hit) our largest is quite a bit beyond Tokyo or Kyoto. Such standard story elements would thus be a bit harder to pull off, especially since in America more dense often means lower class, and the Persona casts seem to be mostly lower-middle to lower-upper class.

Which is not to say they couldn't do it, but there would be some changes and moving it to America without a super-amazing reason would likely alienate a large portion of the Japanese fanbase while gaining little American fanbase (maybe a small boost in other countries because of the change of scenery, but still small.)

>>189810
Why does it matter?

>>189817
It doesn't really. It's just something I was mulling about in my head. I was thinking about how a persona game could approach different cultures and how that affects social interactions. As I understand it(I've only seen incomplete playthorughs and wikis), each of the protagonists are the new kid in town and thought what if they ramped it up to a larger scale, like the new kid on a whole new country. I don't expect it to happen in the future or anything. I just thought it would be an interesting idea.

>>189815
I hope it wouldn't alienate Japanese fans, but if they're afraid it would it could be plausible to have it in both the US and Japan. I don't know.

>>189820
>like the new kid on a whole new country
At last, the Bebe game people have been clamoring for.

>>189822
>Bebe game

I don't get it?

>>189826
The guy from P3?

>>189820
Japanese student goes to an American High School and get's into paranormal shenanigans while trying to figure out a new country?

I'd read about it.

I'm likeing it so far.

Do they ever explain the bunny keychain?

It's so good, you guys.
I'm just a sucker for this crossover suff.
It's challenging on hard. I don't see how anyone can play it on risky mode.

//youtube.com/watch?v=KnLIwC713hU

//youtube.com/watch?v=SHwssbYI9wc

>>193048
Wake me when they are on the New 3DS

Jumping in to the latest entry is a terrible idea because it will make you unable to stand the earlier ones due to mechanical improvements. Play 4 first (I think you'd hate 3 and 1/2 are basically a different series).

That said this is the absolute last thing I was expecting. A phantom thief team and I guess your main dude is Devilman!? I mean that's kickass but this is more something I'd expect from like, a modern day Raidou.

>>193056

Never going to happen.

>>193062
Well there is Q so maybe some more New 3DS centric titles since that one appeared to be a success.

>>193061
If I can run it on my PS2 emulator sure, otherwise fuck it I'll jump in here because I had 0% intention to ever play four, not because it was bad or anything, just cuz it was on every system I didn't have.

>>193064
Well Golden on the Vita, if one has such a thing. I think if Sony hadn't been such a dick about the space and memory cards they maybe could have been a contender in the handheld market, instead of a joke this gen.

>>193064
Well it shouldn't be hard to emulate but what do you mean you don't have any system for it, don't you own a PS3 for Demon's Souls and some other stuff? 4's on PSN as a PS2 classic.

You'll also need a PS3 or PS4 for 5 because I can tell you for sure that's never getting a PC release unless Atlus morphs into a completely different company.

>>193067
I didn't know it was on PSN, cool, still gonna emulate it though cuz I'm super lazy.

>>193048
>Those menus
>Those graphics
>That UI/HUD
>Those characters
This game is going to be fucking brilliant. Great to see whatever engine they made for Catherine going to great use.

I am so fucking hyped right now.

Given that the cat's name is Morgana I'm wondering if the mythological theme this time will be Celtic gods? Or maybe it'll be more like Persona 1 and not have any theme at all.

Guys, I don't think you're understanding the potential here:

Make Naoto be the Zenigata to the main character's Lupin III.

>>193085
Better yet, make nothing from Persona 4 show up.

>>193092
Well, now. A little bit of a cameo is inevitable and acceptable. The P3 throwback in P4 wasn't bad at all.

>>193094
Maybe it's just the Persona 4 fatigue setting in. We've already seen a lot more Persona 4 than 3 what with the spin-off games, anime, spin-off books, other anime, and a lot of the Shin Megami Tensei news before this just being "Persona 4, Persona 4, Persona 4, etc."

>>193103
Some will be upset that it isn't more Persona 4 Wank

>>193103

P3 is getting its movie series and a few stage plays, but yeah, lotta P4 was in the works.

I just hope that whatever the team decides for P4's future that it doesn't involve Persona X Detective. I'm not sure how it all went down Japan-side but I kinda hope it didn't do well enough to warrant further consideration and goes the path of Trinity Soul.

I might be being a little too harsh, I've only read a review of what happened in it, but it sounds like it was awful.

>>193105
Hoshino swore up and down for a while that the novel was totally canon, but the reception was so universally poor on both sides of the Pacific that they quietly retconned it with the release of the P4U games (since what happens in those games makes it so the events of PXD are no longer possible).

The new trailer was real SEX!

http://gematsu.com/2015/02/persona-5-protagonist-first-persona-detailed-famitsu

They're really hitting it hard with the thief motif. Neat.

>SMT4
>Minotaur
Every bufu I throw is just delaying the inevitable

also it's a load of shit that reviving someone doesn't slot them back into the party

>>193193

You need to have a whole team of demons with bufu AND some buff or debuff spell. Keep hammering him with bufu and then following up with buffs/debuffs. It's a fucking hard boss battle, though, no mistake.

And yes, that is indeed a crock of shit.

//youtube.com/watch?v=_SIaQtXnOMk

>>193899
Those headphones don't fit Larry at all.

>>196476
That's kinda where any rhythm game goes these days, it shouldn't really be surprising. Not to mention that Golden's already on it.

>>196477
Guess so. Still wish I could get my EBA fix somehow.

>>196480

Literally murders two women, then tries to end the world.*

*Sequel has him help destroy a dark god because he thought the emo kid who summoned it was a poser.*

*Next sequel has DANCING FUN TIMES!*

Adachi has become kind of a limp dick of a villain, hasn't he? I know he doesn't exactly redeem himself at the end of the original game, so much as he just sorta concedes that he's been beat, but still.

I hope that despite all the smiles that he's also complaining and shitting on everything that's going on.

"Fucking dumb. This is so dumb and pointless."

"Careful, Adachi-san, you almost missed a step!"

"Hate you, too..."

//youtube.com/watch?v=wvpOwQaqRXA

>>196490
I can think of no better fitting fate than to make a yearning god a simple commoner.

>>197472

I just barely caught this, but aren't they fighting Demons/Persona? The main character at one points shoots up a two Legion and a Mot. I'm guessing they've brought that back from the older Persona games/other Shin Megami Tensei titles? It looks kinda like you have to fight them to get new Persona.

>>197543
Yes it looks like they are. Kinda makes me happy since it looks a return to the feel of Persona 2 (Jun clone!) or at least an attempt to mark itself out from Persona 3 and 4 which is basically the Wesley Crusher of Atlus games.

>>197545
Except that unlike Wesley, or other Atlus games, 3 and 4 are popular.

>>197546
Okay, then the Final Fantasy 7 of Atlus games.

>>197547
You mean a solid game that while not the best game in the series, deserves far more credit than the exhausting "fuck the mainstream!" assholes in the fandom give it credit for?

>>197548
Dancing All Night has no such excuse.

>>197547
Spongebob is probably a more apt comparison.

>>197548
Sure, but Narukami is still Atlus Lightning.

>>197551
Narukami has moments of personality and entertainment attached to him and doesn't have a producer that is literally I'm love with him.
>>197549
I'm no Vita-Haver but your most popular entry being renowned so much for it's music makes a rhythm game seem like a solid investment.

You're mad that Nocturne or whatever isn't/wasn't isn't the hit P4 is, I get it, but don't do the /v/ thing where that relative success makes P4 poison or something. They still continued work on P5, the P4 spinoffs are done by other studios, they still made SMTIV/SJ/DeSu/etc, and they continued to surface the older stuff on PSN. The only thing that has happened from P3 and particularly 4's success? Atlus getting more money.

>>197953
Lookin' very Corto Maltesse there, Naoto.

Might as well resurrect this since SMT4Final just came out.

>>193899
Speaking of https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9996283/1/A-Different-Kind-of-Truth

>>200482
A: ew TIM
B: who do you think you're going to reach on this website

So, how 'bout them Personas?

I fucking laughed my ass off at Justice Rank 8.

>>201921
So is Doi just redoing all the character art from now on?

>>201938
How about using spoiler tags for that, you fuckwad?

>>201939
Oh gee, sorry for spoiling that 9 year old game.

>>201940
No you dolt, you made an implication about 4 in relation to 5, that was the problem.

>>201941
Yes I know the suggestion, that's not a spoiler.