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Persona 5: Will I get bored of it after 30 hours?
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NoctisVsStar
Member
P5 estimates.
https://howlongtobeat.com/game.php?id=15221
https://howlongtobeat.com/game.php?id=15221
opticalmace
Member
Not randomly generated? Oh damn, now I'm hyped. I loved P4G but found the dungeons boring. Not to even talk about P3P's dungeons.... made the game drag on for me.
Love the stuff outside the dungeons though, particularly in P4G.
NoctisVsStar
Member
I'm at the first one, its unique and no more bs surprises so you can learn the layout and such.
Jawmuncher
Member
I played both Persona 3 and 4 on easy. Which I felt was just the right difficulty. The battles still needed some work. But I didn't have to overly out-stay my welcome in dungeons to make sure I was at a good level for what lied ahead. It worked really well it streamlining the game in a sense, and letting me focus on the story and social links. Plan to do it with Person 5 as well.
Yeah, for sure. P4G I played for an hour or two every night and the majority of those nights wasn't even in a dungeon. It's all about how much you enjoy what you're doing.
AcademicSaucer
Member
I played Persona 4 on the Vita and I hated it, I couldnt give less of a fuck about the characters and the dungeons were shit.
I burned out on P3P around December but played P5 to the end without any significant gaps.
P5's improved QOL and presentation make it a lot easier to stick with imo. Overall structure of school->plot->dungeon is still there though, and the story can be painfully slow at times.
No, P5 doesn't pull that.
P5's improved QOL and presentation make it a lot easier to stick with imo. Overall structure of school->plot->dungeon is still there though, and the story can be painfully slow at times.
No, P5 doesn't pull that.
Dangerous1992
Member
this, try them OP, they don't have stellar combat, it hasnt aged that well, but the dungeons have an interesting theming and the most important point characters and story are simply amazing!
KiefbladeMaster
Member
I have the same concern, based on responses I'm probably not picking it up now though.
Deft Beck
Member
I didn't beat Persona 3 FES because I was underleveled at one of the bosses and I didn't have enough time to get back up there due to the stamina system.
I didn't beat Persona 4 Golden because the RPG dungeon is tedious and I'm underleveled again.
I hope this doesn't happen with P5. I just want to beat at least one of these games.
When did that happen?
I didn't beat Persona 4 Golden because the RPG dungeon is tedious and I'm underleveled again.
I hope this doesn't happen with P5. I just want to beat at least one of these games.
When did that happen?
Trigonometrize.
Member
I don't know if P3 and P4 has this option, but in P5 you can change the difficulty at any time, so getting permanently stuck is not an issue with the easier difficulties. Also, dungeons are so much more fun. I think you can do it!
In P4G, I think there are some rules about when you need to interact with that horrible character so you can unlock the ski trip + her dungeon. Maybe.
Deft Beck
Member
I wanted to beat 3 or 4 by the time the new one came out.
Now what's going to happen is that I'll get the game and it'll sit in the shrinkwrap.
I wish you could just skip everything involving Marie. She felt like a self-insert tsundere who didn't add anything meaningful to the story or setting.
The n00b Avenger
Member
I know not doing the Marie stuff makes it so you won't get her dungeon and the added epilogue but pretty sure you still get the ski trip(though not the extra scene) and the Christmas and Valentine's events will still occur so I'm not sure what he's referring to.
blankslatenator
Banned
Well, I have to admit Tokyo Mirage Sessions had boob's, and I managed to crush that game in a week. I finished P4 during barracks transitioning on an emulator when I had no car and a hole in my roof, lol. I still haven't finished 3, I tried playing it on PSP and that got stolen, and then my PS3 DIED ON ME 
. EXTREME SADNESS!
I'm pretty sure the only way I finished 4 over 3 is cause I emulated it instead of on the shitty console systems.
Thinking of picking both up for PlayStation TV though, probably my favorite console since Super Nintendo. I step on it everyday and it doesn't care, and that's quality in my lifestyle.
. EXTREME SADNESS!I'm pretty sure the only way I finished 4 over 3 is cause I emulated it instead of on the shitty console systems.
Thinking of picking both up for PlayStation TV though, probably my favorite console since Super Nintendo. I step on it everyday and it doesn't care, and that's quality in my lifestyle.
Punished_Snake
Member
I love JRPGs and rpgs in general, but persona games are different. For example in a traditional JRPGs, you go to different cities/town and explore different looking regions/dungeons. In P3 and P4, it's about the social link stuff and dungeons that looks samey. That's my problem with the previous games.
wild wild rice
Member
*puke*
Punished_Snake
Member
I played Tokyo Mirage (35 hours) and it's better paced than P3 and P4 (no daily routine stuff and you can do side quests anytime you want) and the combat is more enjoyable. But I stopped playing it because of other games, I will return to it in the near future.
eyeball_kid
Member
Yeah, Persona is definitely not a travel-the-world, hero's tale kind of JRPG. It's set in one city, in one school, but that single city setting is far more fleshed out than cities/towns in more expansive JRPGs. From what I've heard, the dungeons in P5 are more unique than past entries both in aesthetic and content, so that may interest you more. But the social links are just a fundamental mechanic of the series, so if you find that boring, you'll find all of them boring.
Chuck Norris
Banned
Does it have the same menu based over world?
I'd love a Persona game that was slightly more like Yakuza in its over world design
I'd love a Persona game that was slightly more like Yakuza in its over world design
It sounds like it may not be your thing either OP, but that's fine. I've seen so many people end up hating this series because they force themselves to endure parts of the games in order to enjoy the rest... I don't think it's worth it.
Personally I enjoy every part of these games so I'm never doing dull stuff and have fun all the way through... I do wonder if I'm not too old for the high school stuff now, though. We'll see.
Personally I enjoy every part of these games so I'm never doing dull stuff and have fun all the way through... I do wonder if I'm not too old for the high school stuff now, though. We'll see.
If you don't talk to
Adachi
Ahhh man, yeah that's sounding familar. That sucks.
Hope Persona 5 has nothing like that. Persona 4 also had something where the game could end like 60 hours in based on a few dialogue choices, but if you get it right there was like another 20-30 hours there.
Hope that's out too
artsi
Member
It's more connected now. You don't need to use the menu that much.
But it's much faster tho and subway commute gets old just like in real life, lol.
The n00b Avenger
Member
Do you have a source for this? This is the first I've heard of anything like that and I can't find any info on the internet about this.
CrimsonFist
Member
Because it's not accurate. The route locks are a series of choices presented to the player at two points. It's also not possible to save after getting locked into a bad ending, so you can always reload your latest save.
It is possible to miss out on a dungeon by not maxing a certain character's social link by a certain date however if you're playing Golden, as the other posters were saying.
Evilkazzzz
Neo Member
Modern Persona games might not be for you then.
If you enjoy the type of gameplay without the "padding", play the Shin Megami Tensai games.
If you enjoy the type of gameplay without the "padding", play the Shin Megami Tensai games.
Council Pop
Member
Are the high school bits essentially just a visual novel, or is it a bit more interactive, e.g. do you actually walk around the school and stuff, or does it just jump from dialogue scene to dialogue scene?
I'm glad to hear that the real focus of the game is the school and social stuff rather than the dungeon crawling.
Still makes my eyes water to think that this is a 100+ hour long game and it isn't portable, though. Will have to think very hard before buying it.
I'm glad to hear that the real focus of the game is the school and social stuff rather than the dungeon crawling.
Still makes my eyes water to think that this is a 100+ hour long game and it isn't portable, though. Will have to think very hard before buying it.
Yeah, I want to play this but I just got burnt out in both P3 and P4. The "daily life" and such just became too obviously meters to fill and the dungeons were too repetitive and boring for me to keep going even though I liked the characters and story.
I did finish TMS#FE and loved it. My favorite game of last year.
encephalon
Member
The pacing in p5 is much, much better.
In a way, that's just hilarious since it still amounts to a game that takes 100+ hours to beat
you can walk around the school but you only need to like...two or three times for story stuff. otherwise you can just shortcut to where you want to go.
Drillary Clinton
Banned
I would never say this... But for my sanity's sake I hope I get bored fast.
Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
If those are native English speakers giving the estimates, they could be over-inflated due to slower Japanese reading speeds. But I have heard that P5 is longer than P3 & P4 so maybe not.
KojiKnight
Member
I loved p3 and p4... But those games seriously need to be about half or even a third as long and take that content and make the games have more replay value.
i...couldn't finish either of those lol
p3 i stopped early. p4g i stopped at
nanako's dungeon
sorry!
Ehhh, people loved Apocalypse to death, but most still readily admit it's probably two dungeons and 15 hours too long. Let's not oversell it.