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[Jack Bros./Shin Megami Tensei] - P4G is out! Have you Social Linked yet?

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  • LoveIsUnityLoveIsUnity Registered User regular
    The only character in P3 or P4 I could have seen myself dating in high school is Mitsuru. Of course, if P4 had let me date Kanji, that would have made two people I would have dated.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    I love Yuko's personality, but I would've more likely run into people like Chihiro.

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  • CantidoCantido Registered User regular
    edited November 2012
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    I think Yu and Yukiko(zing) make the best couple, aesthetically speaking.

    Both are quiet, family oriented, like cooking, and probably closet freaks, yeah I'd think that work.

    I like one of the villains much much more. I've never liked P4's villains, now one is more believable.

    Massive fucking spoilers
    No seriously, go away
    The murderer is more believable. His new dialog, from the S.Links to when you get the scooter, paint him as an absolute slug of a man who shuns life, responsibility and reality itself. As if he thinks everyone being Shadows is better because having to eat food and drink water is too much work.

    The true final boss is still ridiculous. A Truth Lazor? Realllly?

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  • ShenShen Registered User regular
    Whooops, forgot about the trigger for that last social link. Not sure if I've got enough time to max it in November, hmm.

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  • Alucard6986Alucard6986 xbox: Ubeltanzer swtor: UbelRegistered User regular
    Cantido wrote: »
    Cantido wrote: »
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    I think Yu and Yukiko(zing) make the best couple, aesthetically speaking.

    Both are quiet, family oriented, like cooking, and probably closet freaks, yeah I'd think that work.

    I like one of the villains much much more. I've never liked P4's villains, now one is more believable.

    Massive fucking spoilers
    No seriously, go away
    The murderer is more believable. His new dialog, from the S.Links to when you get the scooter, paint him as an absolute slug of a man who shuns life, responsibility and reality itself. As if he thinks everyone being Shadows is better because having to eat food and drink water is too much work.

    The true final boss is still ridiculous. A Truth Lazor? Realllly?

    Hrrmmm

    More big spoilers:
    I kept putting off adachi and Marie as far as social links go, and didn't get very far in either. Maybe I'll start that second playthrough sooner than I planned.

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    Chie's voice is growing on me. I guess Midori's did too, after awhile.

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  • Alucard6986Alucard6986 xbox: Ubeltanzer swtor: UbelRegistered User regular
    I started with arena and p4g, and only went back and listened to chie's old voice after the fact.

    It seems a lot more generic and girlish. New Chie just seems more like a natural fit for the character.

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  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    I started with arena and p4g, and only went back and listened to chie's old voice after the fact.

    It seems a lot more generic and girlish. New Chie just seems more like a natural fit for the character.

    That's my main problem with it; it turns her into a character rather then a believable girl, and an annoying character at that.

  • Andy JoeAndy Joe We claim the land for the highlord! The AdirondacksRegistered User regular
    I've suffered through plenty of King Morons in my time.

    Majority of them were women. No, that didn't make things better.

    Why would that have made it better? Why do you think anyone else would think that?

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  • GrundlestiltskinGrundlestiltskin Behind you!Registered User regular
    Shen wrote: »
    Had about 15 minutes to play this morning so I started the Rise shadow fight. I uh...was late for work :?
    Does Teddie end up filling out again? Because wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing Teddie is visually irritating.

    In more ways than one.

    OK, wtf just happened?
    Does he ever get back into the suit? Because I much prefer him in chibi bear form.

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  • ShenShen Registered User regular
    edited November 2012
    Shen wrote: »
    Had about 15 minutes to play this morning so I started the Rise shadow fight. I uh...was late for work :?
    Does Teddie end up filling out again? Because wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing Teddie is visually irritating.

    In more ways than one.

    OK, wtf just happened?
    Does he ever get back into the suit? Because I much prefer him in chibi bear form.

    Hahaha :P
    He mixes it up between the two, though in battle he rocks the bear suit (unless there are some costumes where he's out of it, which is highly possible).

    Black Frost's replacement, y'all already know:

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  • LockedOnTargetLockedOnTarget Registered User regular
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    I started with arena and p4g, and only went back and listened to chie's old voice after the fact.

    It seems a lot more generic and girlish. New Chie just seems more like a natural fit for the character.

    That's my main problem with it; it turns her into a character rather then a believable girl, and an annoying character at that.

    I find new Chie to be a more believable girl than old, and don't find her annoying at all.

  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    Generally the extent to which one is a good character is measured by that character's believability as a person. So I'm not sure that's the best phrasing, Magic.

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  • Gigazombie CybermageGigazombie Cybermage Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Yeah, I could definitely buy the
    Shen wrote: »
    Shen wrote: »
    Had about 15 minutes to play this morning so I started the Rise shadow fight. I uh...was late for work :?
    Does Teddie end up filling out again? Because wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing Teddie is visually irritating.

    In more ways than one.

    OK, wtf just happened?
    Does he ever get back into the suit? Because I much prefer him in chibi bear form.

    Hahaha :P
    He mixes it up between the two, though in battle he rocks the bear suit (unless there are some costumes where he's out of it, which is highly possible).

    Black Frost's replacement, y'all already know:

    XLyZe.jpg?1

    Holy shit.

    Nitsua
  • Gigazombie CybermageGigazombie Cybermage Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Does anyone know if you can actually register Izanagi-no-Okami this time?

  • RentRent I'm always right Fuckin' deal with itRegistered User regular
    Andy Joe wrote: »
    I've suffered through plenty of King Morons in my time.

    Majority of them were women. No, that didn't make things better.

    Why would that have made it better? Why do you think anyone else would think that?

    You have to understand that ol' Snuggles is very, very sexist and very, very creepy, and he constantly makes posts like that where he's subconsciously sexist and dismissive of women all the time

    so yeah

    there's really no point in engaging him on any higher level before he accuse you of...whatever it is he accuses other people who out his creepy, sexist posts so he can continue his campaign of victimization and self-pity some more

  • ShenShen Registered User regular
    Huh, did they increase the number of days Naoto's S Link is available? It would make sense considering the additions; looking at the Bike skills I've apparently missed out on getting more than 4 for most of the team :P

    Naoto's moveset really got a massive buff though - all 8 attack types, Mind Charge and Heat Riser? Dang.

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  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    I'm not sure if I'm prepared to live in a world where Naoto is useful

    What is this sorcery

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  • Maz-Maz- 飛べ Registered User regular
    :shock: That..sounds like a lot of skills.
    Do you get to choose which old skills get replaced when your party members learn new ones or does the game still decide for you?

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  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    I started with arena and p4g, and only went back and listened to chie's old voice after the fact.

    It seems a lot more generic and girlish. New Chie just seems more like a natural fit for the character.

    That's my main problem with it; it turns her into a character rather then a believable girl, and an annoying character at that.

    I find new Chie to be a more believable girl than old, and don't find her annoying at all.
    You know what, I think we may be two different people.

  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    Maz- wrote: »
    Maz- wrote: »
    :shock: That..sounds like a lot of skills.
    Do you get to choose which old skills get replaced when your party members learn new ones or does the game still decide for you?
    You always got to choose in Persona 4.

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  • ShenShen Registered User regular
    You get to choose, and you can relearn forgotten ones (though that takes an additional scooter trip). I guess I'll be using her as Yukiko doesn't learn Mind Charge until your fifth bike trip and I'm past the cutoff for that :(

    Basically you should hit them all up early on, they start on August 26th at the gas station in the Shopping District. The dates for all the party members (obviously contains game length spoilers):
    Yosuke
    26 Aug Fri
    20 Sep Tue
    27 Sep Tue
    26 Oct Wed
    01 Nov Tue
    15 Nov Tue
    25 Nov Fri
    17 Jan Tue
    27 Jan Fri
    01 Feb Wed

    Chie
    07 Sep Wed
    11 Sep Sun
    21 Sep Wed
    28 Sep Wed
    23 Oct Sun
    09 Nov Wed
    16 Nov Wed
    15 Jan Sun
    18 Jan Wed
    25 Jan Wed
    29 Jan Sun

    Yukiko
    28 Aug Sun
    18 Sep Sun
    24 Sep Sat
    30 Sep Fri
    16 Oct Sun
    02 Nov Wed
    12 Nov Sat
    27 Nov Sun
    14 Jan Sat
    21 Jan Sat
    03 Feb Fri

    Kanji
    05 Sep Mon
    13 Sep Tue
    23 Sep Fri
    03 Oct Mon
    21 Oct Fri
    24 Oct Mon
    08 Nov Tue
    22 Nov Tue
    13 Jan Fri
    24 Jan Tue
    30 Jan Mon

    Teddie
    03 Sep Sat
    25 Sep Sun
    02 Oct Sun
    13 Oct Thur
    07 Nov Mon
    10 Nov Thur
    17 Nov Thur
    24 Nov Thur
    23 Jan Mon
    28 Jan Sat
    04 Feb Sat

    Rise (increases All out Attack damage)
    04 Sep Sun
    12 Sep Mon
    19 Sep Mon
    22 Sep Thur
    29 Sep Thur
    20 Oct Tue
    14 Nov Mon
    23 Nov Wed
    11 Jan Wed
    16 Jan Mon
    31 Jan Tue

    Naoto
    13 Nov Sun
    12 Jan Thur
    19 Jan Thur
    26 Jan Thur
    02 Feb Thur
    05 Feb Sun

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  • Alucard6986Alucard6986 xbox: Ubeltanzer swtor: UbelRegistered User regular
    edited November 2012
    Maz- wrote: »
    Maz- wrote: »
    :shock: That..sounds like a lot of skills.
    Do you get to choose which old skills get replaced when your party members learn new ones or does the game still decide for you?

    Not only do you have full control over what they do or don't inherit, you can also respec them with past or future skills if you go on a bike ride with that respective character.

    Edit: oh, so the future stuff is skills they wouldn't learn otherwise? I didn't even notice that.

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  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    edited November 2012
    Maz- wrote: »
    Maz- wrote: »
    :shock: That..sounds like a lot of skills.
    Do you get to choose which old skills get replaced when your party members learn new ones or does the game still decide for you?

    Not only do you have full control over what they do or don't inherit, you can also respec them with past or future skills if you go on a bike ride with that respective character.

    Which is good, because the new S.Link rewards throw a shitload of spells at your investigation team members.

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  • Maz-Maz- 飛べ Registered User regular
    Blackjack wrote: »
    Blackjack wrote: »
    Maz- wrote: »
    Maz- wrote: »
    :shock: That..sounds like a lot of skills.
    Do you get to choose which old skills get replaced when your party members learn new ones or does the game still decide for you?
    You always got to choose in Persona 4.

    Really? :oops:

    God damn, for a game that is supposedly one of my all-time favorites and one that I've basically played once a year since I bought it, I sure don't know much about it, apparently.

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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    Maybe it's set up so you can't choose if you have them set to auto? Apparently their Follow-Up Attacks are like that so maybe that is too? That could be why.

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  • Maz-Maz- 飛べ Registered User regular
    Blackjack wrote: »
    Maybe it's set up so you can't choose if you have them set to auto? Apparently their Follow-Up Attacks are like that so maybe that is too? That could be why.

    Auto as in "not being able to control what they do in battle"? Nah, I always manually control my party members.

    But then again, there really wasn't much of a choice there in P4, party members only learned, like, 12 skills or so and most of them were direct upgrades. Why would you wanna let Chie keep Bufu and Bufula anyway?

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  • Alucard6986Alucard6986 xbox: Ubeltanzer swtor: UbelRegistered User regular
    edited November 2012
    Doesn't she never even get bufudyne?

    Or is that maybe a bike skill in this one?

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  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Maz- wrote: »
    Blackjack wrote: »
    Maybe it's set up so you can't choose if you have them set to auto? Apparently their Follow-Up Attacks are like that so maybe that is too? That could be why.

    Auto as in "not being able to control what they do in battle"? Nah, I always manually control my party members.

    But then again, there really wasn't much of a choice there in P4, party members only learned, like, 12 skills or so and most of them were direct upgrades. Why would you wanna let Chie keep Bufu and Bufula anyway?

    Is Bufu not worth keeping as an SP-cheap weakness hitter?

  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    Maz- wrote: »
    Blackjack wrote: »
    Maybe it's set up so you can't choose if you have them set to auto? Apparently their Follow-Up Attacks are like that so maybe that is too? That could be why.

    Auto as in "not being able to control what they do in battle"? Nah, I always manually control my party members.

    But then again, there really wasn't much of a choice there in P4, party members only learned, like, 12 skills or so and most of them were direct upgrades. Why would you wanna let Chie keep Bufu and Bufula anyway?

    Is Bufu not worth keeping as an SP-cheap weakness hitter?

    I'd say no, especially in Golden. You simply have too many spells thrown at you to warrant having two spells that do the same thing at different intensities.

  • Alucard6986Alucard6986 xbox: Ubeltanzer swtor: UbelRegistered User regular
    Eh, there's enough good stuff fighting for slots that saving sp isn't a real priority, especially since there's plenty of ways to get sp back.

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  • Maz-Maz- 飛べ Registered User regular
    edited November 2012
    Doesn't she never even get bufudyne?

    Or is that maybe a bike skill in this one?

    Nope!
    I don't think she even gets Mabufula.
    She's really all about the physical skills.

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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    In Persona 4 there's no real reason not to leave Bufu(la) on Chie for weaknesses, especially since there are enough enemies that null or reflect Physical toward the end of the game to make it worthwhile (I think there are even ones that null or reflect both Phys and Ice which really sucks for her haha). I don't know what she picks up in P4G but it's probably still true.

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  • Alucard6986Alucard6986 xbox: Ubeltanzer swtor: UbelRegistered User regular
    But she never gets armsmaster (half hp cost for physical?), meaning she has to be healed almost every turn if you're using the big hitting skills. Also, her ultimate final buff skill uses up half her SP. So her kit doesn't seem entirely complete.

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  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    Right, I don't think anyone's advocating completely removing ice skills from her, the question was more slanted towards whether it was worthwhile to keep both Bufu and Bufula at the same time.

  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    She can eventually get Bufudyne in P4G via Bike skills

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  • Maz-Maz- 飛べ Registered User regular
    Right, I don't think anyone's advocating completely removing ice skills from her, the question was more slanted towards whether it was worthwhile to keep both Bufu and Bufula at the same time.

    Yeah, that's what I meant.

    I kept her in my party because I always tend to stick with the first party members you get in RPGs but she definitely was my weakest link.
    I'm not that big a fan of physical attacks anyway, a skill using up like 80 out of 400 HP when enemies can potentially deal loads of damage to you in one turn is pretty scare to me.

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  • Alucard6986Alucard6986 xbox: Ubeltanzer swtor: UbelRegistered User regular
    Physical attacks are pretty strong against a lot of the bosses, though, unless they're specifically resistant to it.

    I think it was

    (Late game spoilers)
    Ameno-sagiri that I burned down faster with physical than elemental.

    And again, armsmaster which you can easily get on say Futsunushi cuts the hp cost in half, at least for you.

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  • ShenShen Registered User regular
    God DAMN new Chie nails the delivery on the 'You Done Fucked Up' ending and the Bad Ending.

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    What happens if you...
    let someone get murdered?

    Do you get a new cycle? Or is it a total GO?

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