Be honest: Would you buy the next Persona game if it didn't have dating elements?

Be honest: Would you buy the next Persona game if it didn't have dating elements?

No.

Yeah, I already have Fuuka

Sure
The "dating" in persona games is the most shallow shit ever

If it's still boils down to Pokemon: Demon Edition, yes.

Fuck yes
More gameplay please and SL not romance garbage but good sidequest.

Yes. I never dated anyone in persona anyway. Well. i did dated Tae but quickly lost interest in her.

>date one of the party members
>no even acknowledges it around the other members, including you and the girl.
>never speak to each other outside of dates or when the party is together

I prefer the dungeon crawling half of the game, so yeah.

Yes, my favorite Persona title is P1 Portable.

Yes it's pointless as pointed out.

I unironically prefer Persona dating than any "romance" in other games. Fite me.
It's better than your usual "choose this option to fuck" bullshit in wRPGs. You actually have to spend time with girls and develop a bond with them.

That's just regular SMT then

Basically, but those don't sell as well, I'm willing to bet.

I always saw S Links as side stories or a view into other peoples lives as you get to know them better. The dating felt tacked on but it was nice hearing sweat words from my favourite girls. And being able to reject them feels even more amazing.

>sweat words

yes i would because I'm not that into self inserting and I enjoy the RPG side. HOWEVER if they kept dating, but had a bara option i will buy the collectors edition first day it's available to preorder.

The dating is nice, I'd like a gay dating choice. But also, what draws me to the games is the friendship, artstyle, game play and aesthetics.

This.
>lv 10 confident gf
>don't even go for dates because I had other stuff to do

Literally no impact in the game.

Savage

Outside of fusion, it really sucks that maxing out S Links doesn't get you anything past that. They should make it where the next day after you go out with your girl, your personas of that arcana do extra damage or have autobuffs.

>Have to hang out with some reporter I don't give a shit about so I can use my favorite demon

man fuck this

Yes, I really wouldn't mind, the people that play these games on very easy would flip the fuck out though.

Yeah probably.
I mean I enjoy waifus, but they're not the only thing I like about the series.

Yeah the SoL stuff is better than the dating cause they never make it noticed by any other characters in the story anyway.

>Mayor McCheese

I chuckled

Removing dating? Sure, as long as it's replaced with another time management mechanic. I couldn't care less about the actual dating aspect of it, but having to plan out non-dungeon time to get bonuses in the dungeon is what made me like the series in the first place.
If it just removed the mechanic entirely, then I don't really see the point of playing a watered down SMT game when I could just play an actual SMT game instead

Yeah I would. I like it because of the gameplay and because it makes me feel like I have friends :(

You think you're funny, OP? That's an instant quality boost to me.

>man fuck this

5 is worse than 4 cause of this and many other reasons. It takes well over 40hrs of play your first time to unlock your party member roster. Then as you pointed out, have to go far into a person's social link to get their associated monster. The final villain is blatantly obvious, so obvious other anons though it was a just a red herring for the real baddy but NOPE. I still don't know how to feel about Persona 5, it's in the middle ground between good and great. I dunno, I was expecting a gaming renaissance with Persona 5, cause I retro actively played Persona 4 two years ago and missed the hype when it was new. Persona 5 is a disappointment, cause it didn't surpass 4, but it's still really damn good.

I'm just mostly tush tickled that I couldn't get to fug my waifu right at the start. I held out but all those thirsty sluts around me broke down my will. Then I just couldn't even complete a second play through, got too boring.

Of course. I play Persona for the cast and story, SL romance options are pointless since they are so fucking shallow.

The entire Kamoshida arc is godly, it's probably my favorite start to a Persona game. But that's it, none of the other arcs in the game even come close to that.

It's called Shin Megami Tensei V and it's exclusively on Switch, PS4 cucks need not apply

The point of the game was never really a dating sim. It's really more of a friendship sim with turn based RPG elements later on. You do get nice moments if you are with somebody but you could just replace them with normal moments.

wrong

>favorite demon
>he's a chaosfag

Depends how squeezy the triggers are.

hoy

I hope LJ comes back, his recent stuff is pretty great.

With no dating elements, nothing would actually change. Instead of discussing tastes, people would engage in naval warfare, if you get me.

you just summoned the hoy god

P3 FES intro is goat

I buy SMT don't I?

Yes, it would be an improvement

Yes, although I would be disappointed.

If you don't like it yourself I have no problem with that but you know so many of the dishonest little pussies here where the same people here who where on the abundant waifu threads talking about there favorite girl.

I have a waifu so probably.

As long as it keeps the great stories, fun characters, bangin' music and slick style, I couldn't care less if they dropped social links.

They have to supplement in something else that will allow for tons of character interaction though.

Is my P4 rom bugged? I go to school on Saturdays and theres only 1 month of summer vacation. What kind of sick joke is this?

It's the same sick joke Japan plays on their students

Yes. I dont care about the dates.
The best slinks/confidants are usually males like some autistic friend like Yusuke. Or older men like that old monk in P3, Tanaka, Iwai, Sojiro or Yoshida(MAKE JAPAN GREAT AGAIN). Or shit like GETSMOKED, or that sun one in P3.

To be fair I did enjoyed Tae, but that's it. I dont recall much of the females in P3 and P4 were meh.
Now that i think of, the P4 were really forgettable except for the sport one and Kanji.

Persona 6 is actually going to have to make some significant changes to the daily life and social aspects if I'm going to be interested again.

This shit was fun and novel in P3 and P4, but now it's really starting to feel trite and you can see the cogs turning. It's pretty annoying that Social Links are still so incredibly disconnected from the main story, and that new party members are STILL introduced in succession with each dungeon back to back. P5 threw some curveballs like Futuba's palace but overall the structure feels too predictable now.

This. I described to a friend P5 is one of the best games I never want to play again ever. I personally think it's better than the the last 2 in terms of execution of its different systems but god damn does it feel like a well oiled machine. Too much so.

>without faqs or visiting Sup Forums
>play the game casually knowing there will be "slinks", school and raise stats on daily basis
>actually you need to read books to unlock places
>actually you can also fishing, baseball, videogames
>and make coffee and curry
>and you know that magazine on Leblanc's? guess what bitch, you probably never bothered to try that table because people were there or you were doing other shit but damn Sojiro's coffee hints were for that magazine, a damn crossword puzzle
>oh the tv has quiz
>and

There is probably more shit i dont recall right now, but game was packed as hell

i would actually play it if that happened

i only dont play persona games because of muh relationships

I would and they are called SMT

I played the exact same way yet quickly fell into an optimized routine while planning ahead the incredibly obvious SLinks (except Haru needing max Proficiency like what the fuck) to make the most out of every single day which ended up making like 70% of the content worthless.

Everything's so fucking predictable and gamey, it really detracts from the atmosphere. Why not reduce the number of SLinks? Or give us ample time to max them out while also being able to fuck around? Or rewarding diligent planning with a few more free days where you can do whatever?

These are probably petty complaints to the average player but to me they're starting to really get on my tits.

Considering the dating part is just 3 cutscenes, yeah I think I would

>I dont recall much of the females in P3 and P4 were meh.
Best SLink coming through.

Yes, 100%. Persona needs to go back to how it was in 1/2. The social sim garbage is exactly that: garbage. It bogs down the pace and the majority of your game time involves doing things other than dungeon crawling.

You mean literally the worst
Followed by P3 moon and P5 moon

Next game should have:
More free time slots during the day.
More side stuff that has nothing to do with links or dungeons but that have some kind of progression/cool reward.
Sex scenes like in Witcher 3.
Better interaction between characters (for example you fuck 2 girls at the same time and so they become enemies and bitch about it or even better they become rivals and make fucking you a competition).
A more interactive loli that is for protecting her smile only!
A morality/personality system where you define your character better during the game (shy - some girls might find it cute and others will ignore you, fuckboy - most girls will want to fuck you etc.).

MADMAN

Yes. The dating sim part of Persona is so minor and so overblown that it shocks me that people latch onto it at all. I can only assume it's just a case of ironic weebs jumping at the opportunity to say waifu as many times as they can.

Persona games would benfit if it was boys only. I don't mind if girls where in the game, but having them central was and will always be a mistake.

Girls would never save the world.

Yes, I never cared about most Persona characters in the first place, talk about super bland and generic writing.

I'm sure Sup Forums could easily predict how the Persona 6 characters will look and behave.

Yes, but only if they improve other key elements of the game.

>this thread

Makes me glad that Atlus doesn't give two shits about the west's opinion on anything.

I must have missed the calendar system, S. Links, One More system, non-apocalyptic setting and S. Links in the SMT games I've played

Of course not. That’s the whole appeal of the series.

>tfw no Embryon costumes in P5

Looks like you got friendzoned

The dating sim elements in this weren't even good, I don't get the fuss over it. After finishing a Confidant you had no reason to ever talk to that character again unless it was a shop character or a party character who you interact with in the plot anyway. The recent Yakuza games had more interactive and enjoyable dates in them too and it's a complete afterthought in those games.

Also I get that the protag is silent so that everyone can self-insert into him but it results in you just sitting there silently watch while everyone else talks and decides everything, I think the game is supposed to be some sort of friend simulator but doesn't what I just described make those people looking for that feel sort of pathetic?

I want female protag and dating elements

>Sex scenes like in Witcher 3
The romance in Persona is supposed to be nice and sweet, showing sex scenes would betray what they're supposed to be. Besides that, if they were going to make changes to the romance system, there are changes they could make that would actually add to it rather than that which would be a lateral movement at the absolute best.

>I want good things

Never ever

You have Raidou costumes which are the only ones you'll ever need, or at least they would be if they had more variety and weren't just Raidou's outfit for the guys and the school outfit for the girls.

play p3

I would since i play the other Megatens. As long as the protagonist is silent the relationship elements are just a plus.

Same with Fire Emblem.

Like, night confidants come in small packs, you start with Yoshida, Tae and Sojiro is locked around level 3(and then you realize you were wasting time and the son of the gun wouldnt raise), then you get the teacher and the fortune teller if you have the money, devil is later and Iwai is locked by a few months, this makes you go around even with them and at least Yoshida done in august or so and the pace is completely fine. But day ones are mostly your teammates that either locked by plot except for Ryuji and Ann and others because of mementos. Because of this I had some empty night days compared to day which had a strict schedule(more with the fucking vacations+hawaii). Nights i had to either study at the diner, that sauna thing or read since you cannot go into dungeons at night, just afterschool.
And yeah reading, thank god i left the read in one go for last which meant i could read a bunch of them in a row because i already unlocked the spots before hand.

>i like pretty looking expensive things
>because i was fat and wanted to be pretty and stuffs

Meh. That's what i remember, but it is my fault since the last time i played P4 was like 6 years ago or so

P3's moon was that fat version of Protag that liked food?

The dating elements are the entire reason I've never touched a Persona game. If they removed it, I'd probably pick it up.

Kamoshida was what made me love this fucking game. Everything about it was absolutely fucking perfection. It made you really fucking hate them.

I remember being super pumped when I got the second arc, and was thinking he would've been some sort of sick child predator or worse, but nope, he just fucking plagerized. The thing with Yusuke where he finds out that he basically killed his mother well kinda flat because, it was just kinda "WHOOPS LOOK I LET UR MUM DIE WHATEVERS", it was so poorly done.

The bit inbetween then and the next were good. The little subplot with Makoto was cute.

Futaba was also incredibly well done, definitely the next best after Kamoshida. The suicide theme probably hit close to a lot of anons (I mean you're playing a weeb game and you're on Sup Forums you've probably considered suicide more than enough times). When she wasn't being a cringey weeb, her entire arc was incredibly well done, especially as you learn more and more about her past and her other family members. Also definitely one of the best bosses in the game, especially WITH THAT FUCKING THEME UNF

>FES
>Not P3P

Hell yeah. Honestly, that's why I enjoyed Digital Devil Saga so much. Very little got in the way of actual gameplay and it just felt like a more focus game overall and I liked it for that.

Sure, I never cared about the "dating" aspect anyway.

I want to a female protag
And dating elements

Yes, that would actually make me buy one. SL and waifu autism is why I skipped out on P3-5.

Somoone told me how her romance route worked and thats when I knew she belonged in the trash

Yes, the fat scamer

As for the OP question, why not? Is not bad but far from good, it doesnt take that much content of the game and it doesnt even influence the main story.
They need to make it even more relevant or just remove it, like giving you a reason to hang out with your confidants for real reasons and not for hearing " I love you" again.Some kind of bonus to the personas of that arcana beyond that extra XP or something like that.

no dating, sure
no social links, no

Forehead-chan sure likes to be dramatic

Unironically kys

No because the dungeons were even worse than the shitty VN parts.

Makoto is the peak of perfection so I totally wouldn't mind bringing Persona before the dating sim elements.

>tfw no Tae skin, or Narumi skin

Without romance?

Yes.

Without slice of life?

No.

Yes. That's basically the part I always ignore. I want comfy adventures with my new friends, not some waifu bullshit.

Sex scenes in Persona are impossible.

In Japan that would be adult only because of porn.

And we all know what American and cUK media would do with sex scenes between minors, Ann is 17 for example.

Yes, I don't even like girls and Atlus is clearly never going to let me fuck the boys anyway.

Seriously, won't even add a girl player option if they're pussy to make the boys gay.

Probably. I like social links but they aren't what I play the game for.

in fact, I hope so