Persona 3: Emancipation, Mortality, One day you will die, so Cherish what moments you do have

Persona 3: Emancipation, Mortality, One day you will die, so Cherish what moments you do have
Persona 4: POWER OF FRIENDSHIP LOL
Persona 5: LOL WE ARE PHANTOM THIEVES
Admit it, Persona 3 is the best one.

but gameplay is shit.

Yeah its the best but P5 comes pretty damn close

It has the best boss designs because it's SMT lite at this point still

Its definitely the best, but it could have been even better.

>It has the best boss designs
>Giant, evil table

why nobody mention p1 and p2?
are really that bad?

i like ken

No, p2 has the best story in the series, they're just old and have none of the qualities that people associate with persona today.

Best story and theme of nuPersona, but far and away the worst actual game.

Go to bed FeMC.

I meant gameplay wise. Almost every story boss comes down to strong phys and NUL light and dark. Plus "Giant evil table" shows up in 4 too in the last dungeon.

You realise all the Tartar Sauce bosses are just bigger versions of the regular enemies right?

And you can;t tell me Robots in DIsguise Tank wasn't the best shit.

Persona 3: DUDE DEATH LMAO MEMENTO MORI
Whoa, that sure was hard!

P3 was about life, congrats you completely missed the point.

Its always this same retarded argument to shit on P3

I'm going to finally play p3p soon. Who should I romance?

Legalise euthanasia

But P5 can be accurately described by "PHANTOM THIEVES LOL", right?

Or maybe you missed the point of my post, Einstein.

>Persona 4: POWER OF FRIENDSHIP LOL
It really is sad when P4 is too much for people to understand.
P1 is pretty poor. Story is rather bland with only a couple of worthwhile characters (but it has some good ideas).
IS has the best story in the series, some great characters, and has the benefit of being much shorter than EP - which means you can get through the game without getting sick of the incredibly slow (and basic) combat.
EP has a much weaker story (a lot of it is a rehash on purpose, but it's still a rehash; when it gets 'original' it doesn't make sense and the reason it didn't get 'original' sooner is just ignored), it has a fantastic character (Baofu) but that's it really. EP is much longer than IS (I put almost as much time as P3 into it) but that makes it suffer because the combat is basic, slow and piss easy.
If you have the time then they're worth playing. IS is my 2nd favourite Persona game, and you'd probably feel compelled to play EP afterwards.
They're not talked about because they're older.

P4 is the POWER OF TRUTH AND ACCEPTING YOURSELF

>Persona 3: Emancipation
are you retarded

Persona 3: CARPE DIEM LOL

Persona 3: MEMENTO MORI CARPE DIEM LOREM IPSUM DIES IRAE ET TU BRUTUS
Really makes you think

Unless you're Mitsuo.

I love Fuuka!

>3 SHADOWS ARE WEREWOLVES LOL
>Tfw Junpei was right

persona 3 is garbage. I seriously don't know why I decided to beat it with since it had such a retarded gameplay ""feature"".

Oh let me guess, you didn't play the PSP version? Nice one, tard.

P4: Don't believe in fake news that tells you what you want to hear.
P5: Don't conform to a society that the bad guys can take advantage off.

>psp version
>good
Retard.

>having a psp
huh, thats pretty sad

>Persona 3: muh waifus!
>Persona 4: muh waifus!
>Persona 5: muh waifus!

FTFY

To me, the persona series as a whole feels pretty consistent in quality. Each game has aspects where it excels and fails, which are different between each game. I wouldn't say any of them are objectively better or worse than others, and which you prefer is probably just going to come down to what you value in the series (which is often, but not always, linked to the entry you played first)

The PSP version solves the game's main problem by letting you control your party members, which in turn removes a lot of the need to grind since the game wasn't rebalanced and it becomes super easy to beat while severely underleveled.

And what do you miss out on? Oh yeah, a few terribly animated 3D models flapping their arms around in between every other line of dialog. Well, that's an integral part of the experience, I'm afraid. Looks like P3P is a no go!

P3P simplifies the combat system, in a way that the enemies weren't designed for.

So play on a harder difficulty

>P3P simplifies the combat system
No it doesn't

>in a way that the enemies weren't designed for
True, but that means that you can skip all the enemies while rushing to the top of each Tartarus block and not have to go back and grind. The game becomes harder again when you're 20 levels below every boss you fight, but it's still doable because they weren't balanced around you being able to keep buffs and debuffs up while healing HP and ailments perfectly.

I don't see how it matters since on the hardest difficulties you either get on shot by mid-bosses or break the knockdown mechanic till it's nothing but a tedious grind. Combine that with the shoddy story and mediocre characters and you get one of the worst rpg's on the ps2

>on shot by mid-bosses
>ever getting one shot when tarunda and rakukaja exist
Wew

Yeah it does simplify it, the knock down and multi target spell mechanics were changed from how they were in p3 to how they were in p4, which is much more simplified.

P3: Doing all you can with the short time you have
P4: Expanding your horizons, strengthening your bonds, and accepting the dark that exists in all of us
P5: Having the courage to strike back against the systems/forces keeping us down

Was that so hard, OP?

I feel like P3 is the most pants on head retarded. Later parts are 'group of normal kids with magical powers in secret other world of human collective unconcious'. In P3 you get a dog with a knife skills, high tech android who wants your dick, company that tried to bring end of the world through human psychology, overall edginess, drugs, murder and bullshit asspulls. I still like it alot, but, fuck, people give it too much credit.

In 5 the answer to everything is hacking and the mole is defeated by his achilles heel of talking about pancakes around a talking cat.

They're good, but it's pretty much different series. Like, even fundamental rules of Persona are different. Every party member can change their Persona at will, not only the Fool Protagonist.

P5 is its own brand of mess, no one's arguing that. But to be fair, a good few of those themes existed in P1, 2, and the Devil Summoner games.

>the mole is defeated by his achilles heel of talking about pancakes around a talking cat
I don't understand what point you're trying to make here.

>the answer to everything is hacking
The hacking is used in the same way as every other game/movie/story ever, it's an omnipotent "spy on everyone and hack every screen by mashing a keyboard really fast" magic skill that's only ever tangentially useful.

Is it so bad that I just want a game where the MC is a tough, brutish son of a bitch who mocks the BBEG while taking shots to the chin like a champ?

>You can't kill me in a single shot, so you're going to have to listen to me LECTURE YOU!
>ABOUT!
>THE POWER!
>OF FRIENDSHIP!

P6: ?
What should it be about?

The pleasure of being cummed inside.

...

yummy

>someone says why they think P3 is retarded
>instinct is to bring up why another game entirely is also retarded, as if that makes P3 not retarded

Part of me thinks that a mild rebuke to the ideas of P5 would be best, like how there has to be some manner of order/control to act as the boundary line of society, otherwise everything goes to shit.

You have to figure out who the traitor on you team is
It was Hitler again
MC is Hitler's shadow

Neutralfags are just the worst, and it's only made worse by the fact that Atlus decided to start pandering to them in every mainline game. Chaos or nothing, fuckneck.

As those games are aimed at the teens/young adults, I would go along lines of growing up and failed dreams - as kind of warning that you can't always get what you want. Some dream world seeps into reality or something.

>Nyarly reforms himself as an MC so he can get on that Power of Friendship bullshit

FUND IT

You forgot your Hoy, you filthy casualry.

Admittedly, I probably should have made sure I wasn't posting in a Persona/SMT thread when making such a comment.

>p3mc comes back
>it's really just nyarlathotep

Enjoy your deathbringing destruction, Chaosfag.

I honestly think they’ve covered most of the bases for modern times. Time for a medieval persona with black magic and religious wars.

>START pandering to them
Look at this little Noctrurnefag. Neutral has always been the true route.

>But muh TDE!
Enjoy being Lucy's cocksleeve and getting wrecked by YHVH off-screen.

>The year is 1945
>The Ruskies are closing in on the capital
>Hitler decides to use his secret power and summon his persona
>He picks up his evoker, places it at his temple and pulls the trigger
Turns out it wasn't his evoker

I want to assault both Mitsuru's and Yukari's pussy with my 7 inch member and fill all their orifices with buckets of cum of course they'd get pregnant,but I'd continue fucking them until my cock goes limp and afterwards I'd take some Viagra and continue fucking them while filling up their holes with more cum for the rest of my life,I'd also let Fuuka lick my ass instead of wiping after taking a shit while I fuck these 2 beauties.

I think the transfer student idea would work wonders given how much there is to explore with the culture clash and it gives the series a chance to pay direct homage to its inspiration, Twin Peaks.

We got that in P4 - not to mention it wasn't just the MC, Yosuke and Adachi experienced the same culture clash.

Mad P5cuck

Sorry, should have specified transferring to America.

Maybe have a story about accepting the differences in others and not being afraid of the foreign/unknown. I think themes like empathy and understanding would fit Persona and current times.

How do you think the protagonist felt when ATLUS barged into his eternal slumber and told him he had to dance for the peoples' amusement?

>Kotone doesn't have to deal with this bullshit.
>KOTONE DOESN'T EXIST!

lmao dude he's not real man he's a fictional character dude wtf ahaha

Isn’t the new dancing game set before the fall?

Sure. Technically, it doesn't actually have a story mode so it has nothing to do with P3.

P4G > P3P > P4 > P5 > P2IS > P3FES > P1 > P2EP

the theme of persona 4 was the facades that teens put up to cover their own insecurities

persona 5 was something something adults are shitty

>persona 5 was something something adults are shitty
Is it brainlet hour already?

The harder difficulties merely make you miss more and the enemies crit more.

Fuck that, that's bad design, just like The Answer.

>p3 fags pretending that their edgy weebshit simulator is deep
lmao

>mistaking emo with edgy
At least shitpost right

>Persona 3: Emancipation, Mortality, One day you will die, so Cherish what moments you do have
>introduces not one but two immortal characters
Nice desu ne

>edgy
the only reason you'd find the themes of p3 edgy is if you haven't come to terms with your own mortality yet.

>break the knockdown mechanic till it's nothing but a tedious grind.
That's the combat in persona 3,4 and 5 on medium difficulty too.

>introduces not one but two immortal characters
Literally who?

p5 is the edgy one. It's literally teenage angst - the game.

>teenage angst - the game

>dude lets shoot ourself in the head to summons demons and shit also our enemy looks like jesus and le memento mori lets bash together western themes and go to the school

Just because it upsets you doesn't mean it's incorrect.

The fusion spells make it great.

The difference is that FES, P4 and P5 were balanced for their battle systems (even if P5 is pathetically easy).
P3P wasn't balanced for P4's battle system. P3 has battles designed around you knocking down the opponent, which causes them to lose a turn (and vice versa) or you lose a turn because you missed a physical attack (and vice versa). P3P didn't balance the game for the new battle system.

Aigis and Liz who doesn't want to fuck off back to the velvet room.

It really is, and your lack of arguments prove it

I don't know if he was exaggerating, but Chidori (and Shinji in P3P) are perfect examples of shit writing. Their resurrection completely undermine the theme of the game.

>dude lets shoot ourself in the head to summons demons and shit also our enemy looks like jesus and le memento mori lets bash together western themes and go to the school
It's called an Evoker because it's evoking the feelings of danger which helps bring out the Personas
They're Personas, not demons, which actually makes it less edgy than most SMT
The strega douche barely looked like jesus but his role was nothing close to that of a christ-like or anti-christ figure, nor did he act like one
Memento mori isn't edgy you retard
Which western themes?
>going to school is edgy

Aigis isn't immortal.

Elizabeth can probably be killed too.

They're both artificial beings anyways.

I love how easy is to trigger P3cucks

When's it stated Liz is immortal?

This thread is going to turn into a discussion on what defines immortality at this rate, just you watch.

>The strega douche barely looked like jesus
Not him, but this is bullshit.

Also
Shooting yourself in the head to summon 'petsona' is way edgier than using your keyboard to summon Lucifer.

YHVH is immortal and he gets killed all the fucking time.