Almost ten years later

>Almost ten years later
>Still the GOAT
What went right?

Charlie Tunoku

Persona 5 was my first exposure to the series but I'd like to play this game. Do you think it will get a PS4 port/remaster?

Dethroned by joker

Unlikely, just emulate it. Persona 3 is far better though, imo

>Terrible, one dimensional characters that exist to suck self insert-kuns dick and little else
>Worst gameplay in the series, despite being built so heavily on the same assets as P3 that the entire soundtrack to that game is on the disk, it's missing tons of aspects that made the shallow dungeon crawling of these games a little less shallow for seemingly no reason at all
>Retarded story where 80% of the game is legitimate filler and the rest is the game tripping over itself trying to find an antagonist you have any reason to give a fuck about. The game has tons of potentially interesting ideas that are destroyed by the games general focus on making you/yu narukami the coolest person in the universe

Nanako and her big bro Chad Narukami

P5 was so mediocre it may me appreciated P4 even more despite being not that good. Maybe I'm just growing old of Persona games. Atlus really needs to shake up the formula for the next game.

Not even the best RPG on the PS2.

>Max the slinks of the dojimas
>They get over their issues, forge a bond that can't be broken with you/eachother, everything is great
>A week later the plot happens and all of this is thrown out the window so dojima can act like a stupid asshole for no reason because that's the only way the plot can happen

P3 isn't that much better actually

Persona 4 Golden is the best version,only on Vita though

Tartarus is so exhausting, though. I love the game but I can't convince myself to keep playing because I just want to skip all the grindy nights out in that fucking tower.

I downloaded P3 FES, P4 and SMT Nocturne. What should I play first?

the dungeons in p4 are even more annoying than tartarus unless you're extremely easily fooled, every individual floor is longer and you generally have to do more on each floor, while you can just rush the stairs in under a minute on most tartarus floors

Nocturne.

I beat Persona 4 before starting Persona 5. 5 is better than 4.

I never know what to believe with Persona. Everyone seems to have a different opinion on it.

P4 is better gameplay and little better developed characters, but the plot in p3 is far better paced and better developed imo

>I am average american, I enjoy bad opinion on videogame

I watched giantbomb play Persona 4.

Anime sluts

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>unironically liking scooby doo the jrpg over persona 5

>P4 is better gameplay
controlling teamates isn't worth how much more boring and drawn out the dungeon crawling is in P4, the way worse boss design, the casualized combat or stupid shit like "lol spend several days wasting your time talking to NPC's before we let you enter the next dungeon"

>if I parrot enough memes no one can question my terrible taste

TOP OF THE LINE

In persona 4, chie and yukiko are lifelong friends, so close that their shadows are heavily attached the other, abit in a twisted way.

The number of times they can be seen hanging out together without chad being in the room can be counted on one hand, and except for the school trip they're all in the early game. They don't even hang out together after school while they sit around waiting for chad to talk to them, they're on completely different floors for some reason.

In persona 5, your party members actually interact with each other, with stuff like the text message chains that joker only ads a single line at the end. They act like they're actually friends with eachother, instead of a series of peons that exist swirling around the gravitational pull of chads massive cock.

Every Persona game is better than 4, even Q.

You have definitely not played Persona 1.

So. The Virgin Amamiya vs. The Chad Narukami?

>Even Q
For the folks at home, this is hyperbole for comedic effect
Only smelly anime girls with frizzy hair like persona Q

Really? That's it?

Great characters, addicting gameplay, murder mystery plotline, memorable soundtrack and not super serious, Even though P5 is better P4G will always be my favorite, in fact I have an urge to play it now but I cant due to my backlog

persona 1 is a solid old school dungeon crawler and it has party members with actual agency and character arcs that exist beyond admitting they have some kind of problem and then instantly getting over it in the same scene.

it's easy to be chad when reality is rewritten so that everyone in the world likes you for literally no reason and doesn't behave like an actual self interested human being besides the handful obviously antagonistic characters who are all weird and ugly looking

man P5 was such a fucking let down. i really hope they'd top 4 but i guess not

>with stuff like the text message chains
This was one of the worst parts of P5, it was the same stuff every fucking time.
"Think we'll change his heart."
"I don't know, we'll just have to wait and see."
Repeat that 50 times.

>p5 was mediocre

lmao

No, but it's an example of how the (in theory) main appeal of a persona game (the characters and their interactions with eachother) is a fucking joke in persona 4.

In persona 3 you had stuff like jumpei and yukari hanging out at the shrine together on some sundays. Meanwhile I'm pretty sure rise directly talks to kanji literally once in the entire 80 hour game. It makes the ending (especially the expanded one in golden) where it tries to sell that these guys are super great friends feel extremely fake because everything the game does just makes it look like they're all really just there to hang out with chad

Chad is literally perfect while Potter-kun and Door-kun are massive faggots

>hanging out at the shrine together
Yeah, on some sundays they'd stand around in a different location and repeat the same static 2 lines of dialogue about absolutely nothing, "hanging out" alright

it was. the dungeons were boring, phantom thieves plotline was lame, ost is annoying.

>ost is annoying

Vanilla 4 and Golden are more or less the same
Golden has quality of life improvements with fusing Persona but it also had fucking Marie that annoying cunt

he is right, listening to "beneath the mask" got tiring.

compared to p4 yeah it's pretty bad.

This so much.

And that tiny bit of effort is way more than the literally 0 amount of effort persona 4, a cashgrab game that was made in a year, bothered to do.

Everything about videogames, especially ones that try to get you to care about the characters or the setting like persona, is about tricking the players mind that they aren't as limited as they actually are. You can deconstruct it and go "oh, this isn't actually a big difference" and you may be correct, but when you're trying to sell me that the blinking 2D image and attached crappy 3D model isn't just a bunch of polgyons and pixels but is a person I should on some level relate/empathize with, every minor thing like that helps.

Persona 4 doesn't have anything like this, because it exists entirely to make you feel special by having everyone suck off your self insert. I can't even say it's a dating sim because games like tokimeki memorial or sakura wars have characters with infinitely more depth than the walking blow up dolls that the persona 4 cast is made of.

i only put like 20 hours in each game but I figure they're both good but different, why would you like p4 more? the suspense jingle? heartbeat/heartbreak?

It was. Persona really just has bad writing on general and the gameplay was shit.

You're delusional, the SEES members had basically 0 interaction in the every day life
P4 was at least riddled with cutscenes of them hanging out together, most you got in P3 was some a single line at the school gate in the morning
Rest of the time they were standing around like props in their few predetermined locations
That tiny bit of effort was literally nothing, they weren't hanging out together, there's no context why they're there, they're not doing anything together, they don't interact, they answer in a single line or something if you talk to them, that's it

And your point about P4 trying to make your self insert feel special is pretty funny considering how much the social links in P3 go out of their way to praise you as the next coming of jesus when you've done basically nothing

It's better than literally nothing