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Marie playable in Persona 4 Arena Ultimax.

Bring back Makoto ffs, just don't have him appear anywhere in story mode if your precious canon won't allow him in the game.
 
Bring back Makoto ffs, just don't have him appear anywhere in story mode if your precious canon won't allow him in the game.

The thing about ASW—especially combined with Atlus' emphasis on narrative in P4A's case—is that canon pervades into the playable cast. Doesn't mean there aren't ways to make him playable in some form within those limitations, however.
 
On the bright side, there's only two more characters Atlus could possibly shoehorn into this game before having no choice but to use P1/P2 characters. Right?
 
Bring back Makoto ffs, just don't have him appear anywhere in story mode if your precious canon won't allow him in the game.

Bu bu he's not alive :(((

He'll be back....hopefully....actually I don;t know if I want him to come back or not since P3's ending was just perfect.
 
When I got P4A, I hadn't played P4 or P3. I watched the P4 anime in order to understand what the fuck was going on in sotry mode. Since then, I've gotten into SMT games and was thinking in playing P3P (which I bought on sale). Should I also give P4 Golden a try? Like, is the added content worth the 100+ hrs playthrough? Cause I already know the true ending of vanilla Persona 4.
 
Having not played Golden yet, I don't know much about Marie except that she is like one of Soejima's worst character designs in the series.
 
They should've made Margret playable by now if they're adding Marie.
While they're at it they can also add Igor too.

I don't think igor is going to be used much anymore now that the japanese voice actor passed away. Isn't one of the main reasons Marie is in the game to replace Igor?
 
When I got P4A, I hadn't played P4 or P3. I watched the P4 anime in order to understand what the fuck was going on in sotry mode. Since then, I've gotten into SMT games and was thinking in playing P3P (which I bought on sale). Should I also give P4 Golden a try? Like, is the added content worth the 100+ hrs playthrough? Cause I already know the true ending of vanilla Persona 4.

The additional content and gameplay changes are substantial. I'd say it's worth it. The game will go quicker since you've played through the original version before.
 
The additional content and gameplay changes are substantial. I'd say it's worth it. The game will go quicker since you've played through the original version before.

I watched the anime only. I never played P4...
 
When I got P4A, I hadn't played P4 or P3. I watched the P4 anime in order to understand what the fuck was going on in sotry mode. Since then, I've gotten into SMT games and was thinking in playing P3P (which I bought on sale). Should I also give P4 Golden a try? Like, is the added content worth the 100+ hrs playthrough? Cause I already know the true ending of vanilla Persona 4.

It's a really good game, and many people bought Golden having already played P4, so I'd say go for it.

Unless of course you don't want to play it, and would just force yourself through it for the Golden story content. In that case, you should probably just watch the Golden anime that's airing right now. It's on Crunchyroll.
 
Well, we already got my homie Adachi to be in, so this is like an awesome party where there's always that one guy (or girl) trying to be a party-pooper.

Marie is worstgirl.
 
I'm indifferent to Marie, but if Makoto doesn't end up being playable i'll be seriously disappointed.

Yes I am aware of how Persona 3 ended. No I do not want them to revive him.
 
Having not played Golden yet, I don't know much about Marie except that she is like one of Soejima's worst character designs in the series.

Agreed. It's not like she's the worst character ever or anything, but she falls so far short of the impeccable standard set by the series. Just grossly overdesigned and she sticks out like a sore thumb.
 
Marie isn't worth hating, much in the same way she isn't deserving of any attention or capable of eliciting any emotions. She's a character oscillating between subpar and average for the entire game, but in a cast of generally-well-liked characters who have pretty tight integration into the story, never moving beyond the "tolerable" stage essentially means you're weak. Her poems are intentionally cringe-worthy, sure, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm wasting my time sitting through them, with no real payoff in the end.

The only thing that leaves as much to be desired in terms of her personality is her fashion sense, but both Eden Riegel and Kaguya are pretty cool.

Prediction: The only reason she's a thing is Igor's Japanese VA died, and not only is in this but will be the Velvet Room attendant in 5.

Quite why it's her instead of Margaret and/or Theodore is beyond me.
But Igor already got replaced before in Japanese, so I wouldn't say things are necessarily set in stone. If it's not Elizabeth, though, they really messed up.
 
That's cool Marie is playable; her Persona was really great to use in P4G (it has lots of great magic attacks and some good stats :D). Not to mention to a new character added to a huge story-based game, Altus did a great job making Marie fit within the existing story of Persona 4.

As for her being the DLC fighter....I think its a bit odd :l. With the P4G Animation happening, I would think Altus would want her to be included in the to pushed both sales of P4G and viewers of P4G Animation.... Either way if she has her own story mode (
like how Adatchi has in his DLC)
and is a fun character to use, the price for her won't be that bad :).

I just wish Altus and Ark System Works would just at Minato/Minkato already X(. Yes, I know they wouldn't fit within the story, but they don't HAVE to; they could just be some fun DLC that doesn't have a story mode (and if they were going to add both the Male and Female P3 Main characters, they could be well worth the 8 bucks for the DLC; they could have there own move-sets while sharing a good amount of the same moves).
 
But Igor already got replaced before in Japanese, so I wouldn't say things are necessarily set in stone. If it's not Elizabeth, though, they really messed up.

Recasting a character after the current voice actor has died is considered disrespectful in Japan.

In cases where this does happen there end up being plot excuses like in MGS4 when Ocelots VA died they cast Liquids original VA with the excuse that Liquid had completely taken over Ocelots body.
 
How are people coming to the conclusion that Marie is replacing Igor? Didn't P4G ending pretty much
show her as a weather forecaster and hanging out in the Human World?

I could see them bringing back Philemon to fill in Igors role instead.
 
Still though, what happened to secret character unlocks in fighting games? That's like the best motivation for me to continue playing and get better... now it's all DLC this and that...
 
Recasting a character after the current voice actor has died is considered disrespectful in Japan.

In cases where this does happen there end up being plot excuses like in MGS4 when Ocelots VA died they cast Liquids original VA with the excuse that Liquid had completely taken over Ocelots body.
Igor has had other JPN VA in the past (only once though).
Takeshi Aono played Igor in the Persona 2 drama CD's (although he also passed away from a heart attack in 2012).

But I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility for them to find a new VA for him, even if it's considered disrespectful.
 
Can't we just all agree she is worst? I mean some P4 waifus are pretty bad, but Marie is worst than fanfiction.
What's even funnier than people trying to act like their opinion is closer to fact than other's is when they ask for others to validate that, lol

Marie is fine. Her Social Link certainly could have used some work, but the hate us overblown.
 
What's even funnier than people trying to act like their opinion is closer to fact than other's is when they ask for others to validate that, lol

Marie is fine. Her Social Link certainly could have used some work, but the hate us overblown.

I like Kenji more than Marie.

That's an accomplishment.
 
How are people coming to the conclusion that Marie is replacing Igor? Didn't P4G ending pretty much
show her as a weather forecaster and hanging out in the Human World?

I could see them bringing back Philemon to fill in Igors role instead.

Phil would make much more sense than any of the P3 and 4 ones, especially if 5 is trying to be its own thing rather than a direct continuation.

I'm not sure that they'll recast considering that they haven't so far and he doesn't appear to be in Q.
 
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*snrk*
 
I'm...intrigued? I never played Golden, so I don't really know a huge amount about her apart from the general hate she gets on gaf and some spoilers I read a while back. Kind of like her design, though. Now I'm wondering if I should wait and play Golden, watch the new scenes on youtube, or watch the new anime.

Mostly I'm just curious about how she plays. I wonder if we'll get screenshots and/or video footage soon.


Oh you.
 
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