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uncreativename
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That one ^ must be some sort of early concept art, right? That's waaay below their usual standards for what you see in the games
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Seomel
Member
Could be just some side character, since looks like all art etc leaked so far are for anime scenes
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Goalus
Member
The Sony customer support is already here in this thread, good to see.
HRK69
Member
Imagine being interested in Persona 6, seeing an Xbox logo for three seconds and deciding not to buy the game
Marketing doesn't change the product. If anything, Xbox paying for promotion just gives Atlus more visibility and money
DEAD ORIGINAL
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Werewolf Jones
Member
Dudes in their 40s wanting the high school JRPG series to be about adults. Just go play Expedition 33 or whatever games you people worship.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
lol nah. More like dudes in their 30s and 40s who can't admit they want to play a high school life sim, so they hide behind excuses like "that's just the series' identity" and "this is their target demographic"
Gaiff
SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
I wouldn't say I want it to be about "adults". To me, 18 to 20 year-olds are still teenagers, but at least they are adults by law and there's none of that borderline impossible dynamic where you gotta live with a grown up, be taken care of by them, and have to respect being back home at x or y hour. It also makes more possible relationships legal.
If Joker was an 18-year-old living on his own, it wouldn't be anywhere near as off putting as him living in the Leblanc attic having adult women over.
Playing as a minor is fine in my books so long as they keep the relationships strictly between minors (or at least not involve much older people) and don't try to make you behave like an adult while keeping you a teenager. If you're gonna do this, just give them the legal age of majority and stop being coy with it.
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Angry_Megalodon
Member
Besides age, Persona 5's MC is too much of a self-insert blank character for me to believe that he's some kind of chad sleeping around with hot mammas. I wish the series had a proper MC with a consistent personality even though it reduces your romance options.
semiconscious
Member
i also really enjoyed world ends with you, but it's a game with it's own identity, &, other than featuring young people, not really all that similar to persona. p5 had some very good aspects, particularly the dungeons, but, especially following the laid-back charm of p4, it just came off as being jarringly 'cool'/flashy/edgy, & felt hollow by comparison. exhibit a:I liked it up til then, but yeah that ending wasn't done so wellsemiconscious . The World Ends With You actually did a pretty similar concept, but waaay better.
Not that they're a major part of these games anyway imo, but the romances are pretty silly and bad, too lol, but they were also like that in 4 too, so whatever. Idunno about the other P3 romances, but Liam O'Brien actually did a really good job with the romance lines he was given in P3P so I guess Persona 3 wins for best story in every area of these three games.
I still think that P5's a good game overall, though. It's really relaxing and nice to play and the art and music are great.
think of the previous games' casts. i mean,'high schoolers'? i don't think so...
all i really remember about the game (it was 10 years ago) was that it went on too long & i was relieved to be done with it (which's basically exactly as i felt when i finished metaphor refantasio). i made an attempt to try persona 5 royale a few months back, & just couldn't do it. i find the whole glam thing just too self-indulgent & off-putting, despite any positives (dungeons, combat mechanics, music). glad you managed to get past the crap & enjoyed what's good...
Pasta la Vista
Member
Gonna hold off on totally shitting on the design (it is bad) until I see the game in action.
Anyhow, last chance for Atlus to prove they still got it after the trash the was Metaphor, Soul Hackers 2 and (to a lesser extent) SMT V.
Persona is basically their flagship IP so im expecting them to bringbtheir A game.
Anyhow, last chance for Atlus to prove they still got it after the trash the was Metaphor, Soul Hackers 2 and (to a lesser extent) SMT V.
Persona is basically their flagship IP so im expecting them to bringbtheir A game.
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Pasta la Vista
Member
Persona 2 already had main characters that were not in High School. And in P2 Eternal Punishment, the main protagonist is an Adult.Personally I think something like a "Salaryman Persona" would be awesome. Could be some young graduate joining the workforce.
Like Zoom 100 before the zombies:
It would offer a nice change of setting, some new themes they could tackle and it would still work well with the calendar system since you still have to go to work, have deadlines, meetings, office flings, other activities you can do after work or on weekends, etc.
But to be honest I don't think Persona will ever leave High School. The Japanaese audience (and weebs) absolutely adore the Highschool setting and seemingly can't get enough of it. Expecting Persona to leave highschool behind is like expecting The Elder Scrolls to leave medieval fantasy behind. The best we can hope is that someday they make a new franchise or spinoff like Metaphor that changes things up.
Yeah I know.
I'm just saying that I understand why you'd insist on a specific design if your character actually has a personality and dialogue and backstory, etc. I get why FFXVI or Xenoblade go with a specific MC design.
But a game like Persona or Dragon Quest? If the whole point of having a mute main character is for them to serve as a blank slate avatar for the player, then it doesn't make sense to me why you wouldn't let the player create their own character. Maybe back in the day it was more of a technical limitation, but these days that's hardly the case.
Some of you really need to play both Persona 2 games. Like really, you are missing out on the best story in the series.
Edit: There is an English translated ISO for Eternal Punishment.
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StereoVsn
Gold Member
I would love to see P2 remake with both parts combined into single game and with combat and QoL improvements.
It's not going to happen because for modern Atlus, Persona started at 3.
Pasta la Vista
Member
Play the originals, theres no chance modern Atlus will remake the games and even less chance they do them justice.
Edit: Well the PSP versions I mean, which obviously aren't the originals but best for its QoL updates to the games.
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Pasta la Vista
Member
Modern Atlus fans like you have no fucking clue.
Werewolf Jones
Member
I don't play Fatlus games? lmao.
Life Diff
Member
Yes