Quote from: Mint on September 11, 2017, 11:30:59 PM

I think you'd really like Persona 3.

I wouldn't draw that conclusion from just playing Persona 1. They are two different beasts; it does have some neat concepts like memento mori, but the gameplay and story are so far apart from P1 and P2.

I think you'd like Persona 2

you mean me?

maybe, that was the first one recommended to me anyway

Honestly. I think you'd like the first two over P3 and onward. Way more weebier.

the art of the original 2 does turn me off a great deal

also P3 really ain't that weeby

shut up slutty ass ho

They all look... displeased and constipated. Bottom right, wtf.

well, displeased kinda makes sense given their circumstances

but yeah, it's just an off-putting style

death spells

because losing 3 out of 5 of your party members instantly after one failed escape attempt is so much fun

literally like

>everyone's at full health
>fresh random encounter
>don't really feel like fighting four toilets right now
>try to run
>fail
>they all use mudoon and steamroll everyone
>two members left at very low health, one of them is charmed
>pretty much useless to try to fight, so try to run again
>fail
>game over

someone find the cunt who came up with that spell

fucking bring him to me

That`s why you don`t ignore your urge to (go to) toilet

Quote from: MarKhan on September 14, 2017, 03:47:45 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on September 14, 2017, 03:44:38 PM

literally like

>everyone's at full health
>fresh random encounter
>don't really feel like fighting four toilets right now
>try to run
>fail
>they all use mudoon and steamroll everyone
>two members left at very low health, one of them is charmed
>pretty much useless to try to fight, so try to run again
>fail
>game over

someone find the cunt who came up with that spell

fucking bring him to me

That`s why you don`t ignore your urge to (go to) toilet

or, even better:

>get ambushed by four toilets
>they all use mudoon
>instant game over

good shit, 10/10, best game, flawless design

It seems like it is actually a good game, I need to give it a shot someday

This has gone from low priority to middle priority really quick

>get ambushed by four toilets
>they all use mudoon
>instant game over

it

keeps

happening

i literally cannot progress, because this just keeps happening

how does anybody play this

on a positive note, even though it's convoluted and weird as shit, i actually enjoy negotiating with enemies

some of the dialogue is hilarious, and i like how if you already have an enemy's spell card, you can basically use them to get out of jail free if you don't particularly want to fight a certain enemy

and fusing them together to make personas, and all the nuance that goes into it, seems fun and interesting, even though i've only actually done it once so far

but fuck me running, losing all those spell cards to a bullshit dice roll just because i thought i could go one more battle before retreating back to the save tree is SOOOOO anti-fun

"why don't you just make a persona that resists death spells"

so i could spend literal hours of my life experimenting with personas to find ONE that resists death, and do the same thing for all five members of my party, or i could keep trying to roll the dice and brute force my way through the area

yeah i'm starting to see why this isn't the favorite among persona fans

Optimizating Personas/Demons is always a big part of the series (it's the only way to progress without being underleveled in most games, actually), but P1 is the most rough in terms of how it's handled (it's basically just the SMT demon fusion system but shit). It gets better in P2, but tbh it gets the most definitive improvement in P3.

Quote from: Aria on September 14, 2017, 10:26:26 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on September 14, 2017, 10:19:26 PM

"why don't you just make a persona that resists death spells"

so i could spend literal hours of my life experimenting with personas to find ONE that resists death, and do the same thing for all five members of my party, or i could keep trying to roll the dice and brute force my way through the area

yeah i'm starting to see why this isn't the favorite among persona fans

Optimizating Personas/Demons is always a big part of the series (it's the only way to progress without being underleveled in most games, actually), but P1 is the most rough in terms of how it's handled (it's basically just the SMT demon fusion system but shit). It gets better in P2, but tbh it gets the most definitive improvement in P3.

the trouble is, i don't even know if the demons in this area are capable of producing a death-resistant persona

i'm better off just trying to brute force it, i think, but it's gonna be very frustrating—i have a spell that can induce mute, but it doesn't seem to work on the toilets whatsoever

at least in DDS, demons didn't start using mudoon until way later, i'm still early on—maybe this is just a beginner's trap

It's a PS1-era dungeon crawler. the PSP port fixed a lot about the game, but it's still incredibly rough. Only some /vr/ fag with a hard-on for their childhood would say that P1 belongs anywhere but the bottom of the list (gameplay, anyways).

Quote from: Aria on September 14, 2017, 10:39:32 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on September 14, 2017, 10:32:38 PM

Quote from: Aria on September 14, 2017, 10:26:26 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on September 14, 2017, 10:19:26 PM

"why don't you just make a persona that resists death spells"

so i could spend literal hours of my life experimenting with personas to find ONE that resists death, and do the same thing for all five members of my party, or i could keep trying to roll the dice and brute force my way through the area

yeah i'm starting to see why this isn't the favorite among persona fans

Optimizating Personas/Demons is always a big part of the series (it's the only way to progress without being underleveled in most games, actually), but P1 is the most rough in terms of how it's handled (it's basically just the SMT demon fusion system but shit). It gets better in P2, but tbh it gets the most definitive improvement in P3.

the trouble is, i don't even know if the demons in this area are capable of producing a death-resistant persona

i'm better off just trying to brute force it, i think, but it's gonna be very frustrating—i have a spell that can induce mute, but it doesn't seem to work on the toilets whatsoever

at least in DDS, demons didn't start using mudoon until way later, i'm still early on—maybe this is just a beginner's trap

It's a PS1-era dungeon crawler. the PSP port fixed a lot about the game, but it's still incredibly rough. Only some /vr/ fag with a hard-on for their childhood would say that P1 belongs anywhere but the bottom of the list (gameplay, anyways).

i wonder how the franchise ended up getting as big as it did, then

Persona 3 was basically a reboot in all but name, and was well-received in general. Persona 4 made the franchise popular in the west, especially with the Vita port (since it's still one of the only must-haves for the system).

Quote from: Aria on September 14, 2017, 10:51:15 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on September 14, 2017, 10:46:06 PM

Quote from: Aria on September 14, 2017, 10:39:32 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on September 14, 2017, 10:32:38 PM

Quote from: Aria on September 14, 2017, 10:26:26 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on September 14, 2017, 10:19:26 PM

"why don't you just make a persona that resists death spells"

so i could spend literal hours of my life experimenting with personas to find ONE that resists death, and do the same thing for all five members of my party, or i could keep trying to roll the dice and brute force my way through the area

yeah i'm starting to see why this isn't the favorite among persona fans

Optimizating Personas/Demons is always a big part of the series (it's the only way to progress without being underleveled in most games, actually), but P1 is the most rough in terms of how it's handled (it's basically just the SMT demon fusion system but shit). It gets better in P2, but tbh it gets the most definitive improvement in P3.

the trouble is, i don't even know if the demons in this area are capable of producing a death-resistant persona

i'm better off just trying to brute force it, i think, but it's gonna be very frustrating—i have a spell that can induce mute, but it doesn't seem to work on the toilets whatsoever

at least in DDS, demons didn't start using mudoon until way later, i'm still early on—maybe this is just a beginner's trap

It's a PS1-era dungeon crawler. the PSP port fixed a lot about the game, but it's still incredibly rough. Only some /vr/ fag with a hard-on for their childhood would say that P1 belongs anywhere but the bottom of the list (gameplay, anyways).

i wonder how the franchise ended up getting as big as it did, then

Persona 3 was basically a reboot in all but name, and was well-received in general. Persona 4 made the franchise popular in the west, especially with the Vita port (since it's still one of the only must-haves for the system).

oh, i know about all that

i just mean, enough people must have enjoyed the first few enough for them to even make a 3, right

first installments are often weird and dated, yeah, but rarely do they want to make you pull your hair out

We're talking about the Japanese here.