Dark Soldier wrote:

Bollockoff wrote:

@DarkBrooksSoldier JRPG where a your party members fight using various different monsters attuned to them (Personas) and a big part of the game is basically making friends with all kinds of different people to improve specific kinds of Personas you can create. Add in contemporary drama and waifus.

Cheers mukka. That's me out.

I actually think you'd like it. Persona 4/Golden is one of the greatest games ever.

It is a bit shit, even when energetically stylised as per this instance.

Bollockoff wrote:

Also, simultaneous PS3/PS4 July 2015 release in both US and Japan. Nay a worry for us Euros as both console are region free.

Source?

Curtis wrote:

Out this year on PS4 in the US, so at least we get to play an English language version soon-ish. Enjoy the teaser...

Curtis wrote:

Source?

Other people's conjecture I took for blog translation at the time. Sorry!

Over 2 million views within one week!

P4's dungeons got less boring with P4G, I'd argue, due to the ability to pick up and play at your own pace without having to worry about saves...but it's a fair criticism.

If I'm truly honest, though, I enjoyed them a lot, but I'll admit that maybe I'm not too objective when it comes to that game. The only dungeon I wasn't a fan of was...

I just found it tiresome, and didn't like the muzak.

I really liked tartarus. Was really repetitive but just liked teh dungeon crawling and the fact death chased you if you took too long. Got stressful when you're trying to uncover every single corner of every floor.

Must be what it's like to play an MMO. Just grinding through floors leveling up new personas and doing odd fetch missions was quite therapeutic. Especially on the train and at work on PSP. I wish P5 would come to vita.

Mr Morooka so should have been the Devil S.Link in P4.

Bad Bogard, bad! If it makes you feel any better, it's not a massive thing, you haven't ruined the story for yourself. Just avoid P4 spoilers from now on, k? Mwah!

*hugs*

Cinty, I feel like I should apologise for

OP needs this in it btw.

http://gematsu.com/2015/02/dengeki-playstation-shares-persona-5-details-full-scans

Started playing Persona 3...

Like P4, the main protagonist is very much a avatar and less of a character. 
That said, your dialogue choices are constrained. And in both games, the artists clearly put a lot of thought into the look of the character (for a start, you play a male in both games), so your thoughts about your character, and his effect on the gameworld are still very strongly guided. 

P5 does look a lot different in this regard... Making him a cat burglar (or whatever), is clearly going to colour your perception of the guy, and looking at the trailer, this aspect of the character does not look like a player option.

Perhaps this theft 'aspect' is the hook into the 'other realm'...

The use of the TV set motif in P4 was remarkable. It was the lynchpin to the entire experience.
As post modern illustrations of mental illness go, it's an absolute masterpiece, and I think they're going to find it hard to top that in P5.

Again, looking at P3, the Tartarus is a mess by comparison, but to be fair, I really am at the very beginning of that game.

But I digress...

My objection (though it's not much of an objection, cause' I'm salivating for this game), is that the vocation of a burglar/thief has a very specific mental connotation.

Throughout the course of the Persona games, you're asked to make a series of small choices which over time, develop key personality traits of your blank slate character. In time these character traits eventually serve as keys to certain areas of the game map and help you to develop certain social links.

This premise is a huge component of the game.

Does this 'filling out' of the character not break that illusion slightly?