[25 years of 真・女神転生/Persona] SMTIV out! Gaians wanted, see Lucy for details.

cj iwakura

And now, some history, thanks to Jucksalbe & HG101.



Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei (September 11th, 1987)

• Released for: Famicom, Super Famicom (Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei), PC88, MSX
• No English release available!
• Fan translation: http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=megaten1 (Famicom, Not finished)
• Screenshots by HardcoreGaming101

Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II (April 6th, 1990)

• Released for: Famicom, Super Famicom (Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei)
• No English release available!
• Screenshots by HardcoreGaming101

Shin Megami Tensei (October 30th, 1992)

• Released for: Super Famicom, PC Engine Super CD, Mega CD, PlayStation, GBA, iOS
• English fan translation available! (Super Famicom)
• Fan translation: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/988/ (fixed version of the Aeon Genesis translation)
• Music: Palace of the Four Heavenly Kings, Ginza
• Screenshots by HardcoreGaming101 and Aeana.

Shin Megami Tensei II (March 18th, 1994)

• Released for: Super Famicom, PlayStation, GBA, iOS
• English fan translation available! (Super Famicom)
• Fan translation: http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=smt2
• Music: 3D Devil's World, Messian Boogie
• Screenshots by HardcoreGaming101 and Aeana.

Shin Megami Tensei if... (October 28th, 1994)

• Released for: Super Famicom, PlayStation
• No English release available!
• Fan translation: http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=smtif (SFC, not finished)
• Screenshots by HardcoreGaming101

Shin Megami Tensei (III): Nocturne / Lucifer's Call (February 20th, 2003)

• Released for: PlayStation 2
• English version available (NA and PAL region)!
• Music: Labyrinth of Amala, Mystery, Cathedral of Shadows (Cursed), Reason Battle
• Screenshots by HardcoreGaming101

Shin Megami Tensei IV

• Released for: 3DS (JP: 2013)
• English release not yet announced

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (October 8th, 2009)

• Released for: Nintendo DS
• English version available (NA only!)!
• Music: Theme of Chaos, A Land Controlling Roads, Furious Wrath
• Screenshots by perfect free.

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner (December 25th, 1995)

• Released for: Sega Saturn, PSP
• No English release available!
• Screenshots by Saint35.

Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers (December 13th, 1997)

• Released for: Sega Saturn, PlayStation, 3DS
• 3DS release dates: August 30th (JP), Spring 2013 US!
• Music: Tenkai Airport (Reality), Spookies

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army (March 2nd, 2006)

• Released for: PlayStation 2
• English release available (NA and PAL region)!
• Music: Battle

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon (October 23rd, 2008)

• Released for: PlayStation 2
• English release available (NA only!)!
• Music: Adventure

Revelations: Persona (September 20th, 1996)

• Released for: PlayStation, Windows PC, PSP
• English release available (PSX: NA only, PSP: NA and PAL region)!
• Best version: PSP
• Music: A Lone Prayer (PSP), Deva Yuga (PSX), Pandora's Den (Deepmost Area) (PSX), Satomi Tadashi Drugstore Song, City 2 Accident (PSX)
• Note: randomkid wrote a great post about the music in Persona here and here.

Persona 2: Innocent Sin (June 24th, 1999)

• Released for: PlayStation, PSP
• English release available (PSP only, NA and PAL region)!
• Fan translation (PSX version)

Persona 2: Eternal Punishment (June 29th, 2000)

• Released for: PlayStation, PSP
• English release available (PSX: NA only, PSP: )
• Music: Kasugayama High School, Holy Spear Knights

Persona 3 / Persona 3 FES (July 13th, 2006)

• Released for: PlayStation 2, PSP, PSN (FES version)
• English release available (PSN version only in NA, every other version released everywhere)
• Best version: FES on consoles, P3P on the go
• Music: Want to Be Close, Danger Zone (PSP only), Battle Hymn for the Soul

Persona 4 (July 10th, 2008)

• Released for: PlayStation 2, PS Vita
• English release available
• Music: Heaven, Heartbeat, Heartbreak

Persona 4: The Arena (March 1st, 2012)

• Released for: Arcade, PlayStation 3, XBox 360
• English release available (released in NA, PAL region: someday)
  
  
  
  Digital Devil Saga (Avatar Tuner) (July 15th, 2004)
  
  
  • Released for: PlayStation 2
  • English release available (NA + PAL region)!
  • Music: Muladhara, Sahasrara, Hunting - Comrades
  
  
  Digital Devil Saga 2 (Avatar Tuner 2) (January 27th, 2005)
  
  
  • Released for: PlayStation 2
  • English release available (NA + PAL region)!
  • Note: Part 2 continues right after part 1. If you don't know the games, play them in order!
  • Music: Underground City, Divine Identity, Battle for Survival
  
  
  Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor (Overclocked) (January 15th, 2009)
  
  
  • Released for: Nintendo DS, 3DS
  • English release available (DS: NA only, 3DS: released (NA), 2012 (PAL))
  
  
  Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 (July 28th, 2011)
  
  
  • Released for: Nintendo DS
  • English release available (released (NA), 2012 (PAL))
  
  
  
  Oh, and one more thing.
  
  

Dusda

Holy crap, there are a lot more Megami Tensei games than I was aware of. Also, Persona 4: Golden is generally considered the best version of P4 (aside from weird people who think Chie's original voice actress was better), yes? I am certainly enjoying it.

Razia

Question.

I've been playing Persona 4: Golden, and every so often in a dungeon I hear rattling chains. What is up with that?

Also, is it me or does Rise cheering you on during all-out attacks cause them to do much less damage?

cj iwakura

Razia wrote: »

Question.

I've been playing Persona 4: Golden, and every so often in a dungeon I hear rattling chains. What is up with that?

You've been on a floor too long. Death is coming. Run.

@Dusda: Yes, it does add a lot of content, but I'm satisfied with the PS2 version for now. The core version was already a fantastic game(even if NG+ draaaags).

Darth_Mogs

Razia wrote: »

Question.

I've been playing Persona 4: Golden, and every so often in a dungeon I hear rattling chains. What is up with that?

Also, is it me or does Rise cheering you on during all-out attacks cause them to do much less damage?

You are about to be eaten by a grue.

I'm only half-kidding, that is the sound of the Reaper and it is a thing that will wreck you and everything you hold dear.

For the Rise Cheer thing, I have been keeping an eye on that, but it's been doing more damage for me. Only a marginal amount, but more nonetheless.

Also ffffffuuuuuuuuuuuck yoooooooou Void Quest.

Fought Mitsuo for a good fifteen, twenty minutes basically whittling him down because I didn't want to grind anymore and I figured my level 41 party with my main using a pimped King Frost would manage. I was...mostly right since I had him whittled to completely out of health. I guess his shell prevents him from fully dying, though? Anyway, I knocked him off of it once, he attacks my protag (only character left alive) and then uses Fear Touch. "Donthitdonthitdonthitgoddamnit" Main character is too afraid to use the last turn that would be necessary to kill the fucking thing and GUESS WHAT GASTLY WAIL.

Fuck you, Mitsuo.

cj iwakura

Yosuke has forever ruined Ryoji for me.

Dehumanized

cj iwakura wrote: »

Razia wrote: »

Question.

I've been playing Persona 4: Golden, and every so often in a dungeon I hear rattling chains. What is up with that?

You've been on a floor too long. Death is coming. Run.

@Dusda: Yes, it does add a lot of content, but I'm satisfied with the PS2 version for now. The core version was already a fantastic game(even if NG+ draaaags).

They changed things in P4 Golden. Death is coming, but he doesn't chase you anymore. He'll just inhabit a regular chest on the level. If you start to open a chest and get a really bad feeling about it (the game makes it abundantly clear when this happens), just say no.

I'm pretty sure even if you dislike Chie's new VA, there will be enough new stuff in P4G to make it the best version of the game for you. They've improved the fuck out of the game, somehow, even though the original was amazing.

Delphinidaes

I always hear about this Persona thing. And it reminds me I need to watch the anime, and probably play one of them one of these days....

cj iwakura

Dehumanized wrote: »

cj iwakura wrote: »

Razia wrote: »

Question.

I've been playing Persona 4: Golden, and every so often in a dungeon I hear rattling chains. What is up with that?

You've been on a floor too long. Death is coming. Run.

@Dusda: Yes, it does add a lot of content, but I'm satisfied with the PS2 version for now. The core version was already a fantastic game(even if NG+ draaaags).

They changed things in P4 Golden. Death is coming, but he doesn't chase you anymore. He'll just inhabit a regular chest on the level. If you start to open a chest and get a really bad feeling about it (the game makes it abundantly clear when this happens), just say no.

I'm pretty sure even if you dislike Chie's new VA, there will be enough new stuff in P4G to make it the best version of the game for you. They've improved the fuck out of the game, somehow, even though the original was amazing.

I'm no fan of the creepy fan service content, but from what I've seen, I'd honestly buy it just for the Jester link.

LoveIsUnity

Hooray for the new thread. I'm glad it's back in your hands cj.

I recently started up a replay of P3:FES, because I grabbed it when it was on sale on the PSN. Does this version still have some horrible glitch that deletes saves?

cj iwakura

I'm finishing up my replay of P3 Vanilla, ideally to kill Elizabeth(in Kyoto now), and then I might do The Answer for kicks.

Wonder if there's some way to make it even harder...

Dehumanized

cj iwakura wrote: »

Dehumanized wrote: »

cj iwakura wrote: »

Razia wrote: »

Question.

I've been playing Persona 4: Golden, and every so often in a dungeon I hear rattling chains. What is up with that?

You've been on a floor too long. Death is coming. Run.

@Dusda: Yes, it does add a lot of content, but I'm satisfied with the PS2 version for now. The core version was already a fantastic game(even if NG+ draaaags).

They changed things in P4 Golden. Death is coming, but he doesn't chase you anymore. He'll just inhabit a regular chest on the level. If you start to open a chest and get a really bad feeling about it (the game makes it abundantly clear when this happens), just say no.

I'm pretty sure even if you dislike Chie's new VA, there will be enough new stuff in P4G to make it the best version of the game for you. They've improved the fuck out of the game, somehow, even though the original was amazing.

I'm no fan of the creepy fan service content, but from what I've seen, I'd honestly buy it just for the Jester link.

I don't want to defend the fan service stuff too vigorously, but it's a pretty small percentage of the additions overall. I'm not saying go buy a Vita just for the game, but if a Vita happened to fall off a truck and into your lap, P4G is one of the first games you should own for the system.

cj iwakura

The first game I'd buy would be DJ MAX Technika. P4G would probably be the second.

Cantido

P3 and P4 are all about hanging out with yo girls and yo bros. With occasional dungeon crawling on the side.

Oh yeah, Golden's fan service-y moments, sexual or not, do angry up the blood, but I found the whole package to be very much worth a Vita.

Rizzi

I really wish that P3P was as awesome as P4G.
I miss animated cutscenes and walking around town.
At least it added the ability to control your party members though, I suppose.

Alucard6986

I dunno, persona fanservice is pretty tame I find

bath towels, swimsuits, and kimonos are not exactly the most scandalous things in the world

It feels more like it's for the characters themselves than the player

Dr. Chaos

Most of it is pretty easy to ignore.

Still creepy though.

NotoriusBEN

old thread discussions:

-Yosuke is the best/worst/good/bad/horrible/teenager/likable/hate-worthy/okay character in P4, but everyone agrees he's a creeper in training.
-Kanji is the bro-est bro there is
-Rise is loved/reviled by everyone, y u no see that?
-Chie's new VA is the best/the worst/actually the best. haters gonna hate. Otakus feel betrayed by Atlus.
-Teddie is awesome if he didnt squeek everytime he walked.

that's most of it, ya'll can fill in the rest :P

Darth_Mogs

I'm honestly not sure if I would like Rise as much as I do if she wasn't voiced by Laura Bailey.

Thankfully, we don't live in a world where I'll have to find that out.

PMAvers

Oh, hey, might as well try out this Janitor job in P4G. Saw a lot of people doing it in the "cloud", so figured might as well.

...oh, hey, someone with a portrait and voiced, they've gotta be important...

oh god I need a adult Can't say I was expecting the Devil link to be THERE...

Rizzi

I really liked Chie's new VA.

Xenogears of Bore

No Jack Bros, no thread.

Also

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li8ZqVGzDXQ

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1N9H1ESXbc

chocobolicious

I see people bitch about it being fanservice-y.

I play it and see nothing out of place and a set of situations that are actually pretty normal and generally come out naturally.

I must be missing these bits people are bitching about. Or these people bitching are wizards who spent their highschool years learning magic.

I am not sure which.

RainbowDespair

You forgot to put Best Version: Vita under Persona 4 Golden.

And the creepy fanservice elements are miniscule. They added like a 40 second bathing scene if you beat the optional dungeon. Sure, it's lame but it's also pretty tame by anime standards (lots of smoke & fog) and represents a tiny part of all the stuff they added and improved. Oh and I guess they added some skimpy optional costumes as well but those were in Persona 3 as well. Ignoring the many hours of new content and the extensive improvements they made to the gameplay just because they threw in a short PG-13 bathing cutscene is ignorant. And hey, if it really bothers you, just skip the cutscene.

Xenogears of Bore

Also it's almost written in stone that the DS 2 anime will produce an overclocked for that game.

Donnicton

The cast of the upcoming Persona 4 live action movie has been confirmed. Produced/directed by Tyler Perry.

Fiaryn

Donnicton wrote: »

Donnicton wrote: »

The cast of the upcoming Persona 4 live action movie has been confirmed. Produced/directed by Tyler Perry.

Yosuke is the best part of this image. And that's some tough competition, given that it is in general a fucking amazing image.

Sterica

As someone who has never played this games, Persona 4 is almost cult-like in its following.

heenato

Dusda wrote: »

Holy crap, there are a lot more Megami Tensei games than I was aware of.

There's TECHNICALLY alot more spinoffs even, but most of them aren't worth mentioning, or are downright bad. (We don't talk about demikids)

RainbowDespair

Rorus Raz wrote: »

As someone who has never played this games, Persona 4 is almost cult-like in its following.

Join us... it's bliss!

Fiaryn

Rorus Raz wrote: »

As someone who has never played this games, Persona 4 is almost cult-like in its following.

It's a pretty good game. I say this as someone who generally loathes JRPGs.

Persona 3, 4, and Radiant Historia are the only JRPGs in the past many years I'd say are just all around good games with no need for qualifying statements.

I'm not counting Zeboyd Games as JRPGs.

Dr. Chaos

Rorus Raz wrote: »

As someone who has never played this games, Persona 4 is almost cult-like in its following.

You really need to do something about that.

These are the best JRPGs money can buy.

Sterica

I don't own a PS2.

The remake is on the Vita...do I need to go further?

Fiaryn

Man how do you not own a PS2

Lacking a Vita...I understand completely. The only reason I'm getting P4G is the Vita is coming out of somebody ELSES money.

vagrant_winds

I don't own a PS2 either, so I can understand.
I have a first gen PS3 instead.

Donnicton

RainbowDespair wrote: »

Rorus Raz wrote: »

As someone who has never played this games, Persona 4 is almost cult-like in its following.

Join us... it's bliss!

(forgive me, I have only MS Paint to work with on this computer.)

RainbowDespair

Rorus Raz wrote: »

I don't own a PS2.

The remake is on the Vita...do I need to go further?

If you have a PS3 or PSP, you can get Persona 3 (either P3:FES or P3:Portable). Persona 3 isn't as good as Persona 4 Golden but it's still a good game.

Dr. Chaos

Got to be honest, I know I'm greatly outnumbered but I still like Persona 3 more than 4 but not by much.

Theres a Junpei and Aigis sized hole in my heart that Yosuke and Teddie just can't fill.

Burn my dread is my musical religion.

PrjctD_Captain

Oh hey, look what was announced.

Gigazombie Cybermage

You are freaking KILLING me Atlus. bring some of those fuckers to the Vita! Or port P4G! One or the other!

Al Baron

PrjctD_Captain wrote: »

Oh hey, look what was announced.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIvMsK9vwFI