Also if you play P4 on a PS3 I think you don't ever see area location names. It's nothing major, but that's what I've heard. You're also going to have a really hard time catching a fish for a side-quest if you don't have rumble.
Personally though I'd say go with Nocturne or the two DDS games. They're really the best.
The location titles don't show on the 80GB PS3, and the no rumble is in the way of the fishing minigame.
Nocturne does look really nice upscaled though, thanks to it's clean art style
Also if you play P4 on a PS3 I think you don't ever see area location names. It's nothing major, but that's what I've heard. You're also going to have a really hard time catching a fish for a side-quest if you don't have rumble.
Location names don't show up on the 80gb/software emulation. They show up on the 60gb/hardware emulation.
I wonder if anyone could help me out with some advice. I started a new playthrough of Persona 3 and I'm four days away from the second Full Moon bosses, the Emperor and Empress. I'm not sure though if I've got the right Personas for the fight despite covering the bases with the basic attack spells. Here's who I've got so far on my Lv16 self.
Orpheus (yeah, I know, but for some reason he kept finding a way back on my team due to his fusion-heal spell with Apsaras)
Yomotsu Shikome
Oberon
Jack Frost
Pyro Jack
Omoikane
Nigi Mitama
Chimera
I've been trying to keep my hands on a Hermit, Emperor, Magician, Hierophant and Chariot due to the related Social Links I've been working on, though I'm willing to sacrifice one of them temporarily if just to keep from lousing up the fight. If anyone here can suggest what I oughta have by now, I'd really appreciate it.
You can basically solo Emperor and Empress without taking any damage.
Set Akihiko and Junpei to Wait, hit Emperor with a magic attack, and Empress with a physical attack; cancel the all-out, they'll spend their turn getting up from knock-down status
So, I can't seem to make Yoshitsune. I can't get the Tower Persona needed for his fusion. Actually, I can't seem to get any Tower Persona. I've got like two.
So, I can't seem to make Yoshitsune. I can't get the Tower Persona needed for his fusion. Actually, I can't seem to get any Tower Persona. I've got like two.
So, I can't seem to make Yoshitsune. I can't get the Tower Persona needed for his fusion. Actually, I can't seem to get any Tower Persona. I've got like two.
If you don't mind me putting forward a different question, I'm curious. How did most of you get interested/get introduced to the SMT series? Did a friend suggest it? Reviews? Forums like these?
I got interested about 5 years ago. I had purchased a PS2 for the first time a few months earlier and was bumming around in a Gamestop looking for RPGs. The clerk there started listing off games (I thank him for Dark Cloud 2 too, to this day the clerks in that Gamestop are amazingly knowledgeable and helpful), and lo and behold, this game called "Nocturne"
Yeah, talk about trial by fire. I started playing it. The story was nuts, and I was confused, then I started fighting battles and died. And died. And died more. And damn did I ever love that. Difficulty in an RPG again! And dark humor! And other awesome things! Went and got DDS a bit later and the rest is history...
Which is why I know and understand that each and every one of us in this thread are masochists :P
Amusing side note...after learning more about the games, I realized that years earlier I played on the GBA the Demikids game...and I recall going "wtf is this crap".
I started with the first Persona game. I thought it was the coolest thing ever and spent countless hours trying to get Chris & unlock alternate paths (only later finding out that the big alternate path in the game had been taken out in the US version). Persona 1 was followed by Persona 2, Soul Hackers (imported on my Saturn), and all the PS2 SMT titles we got here.
I randomly impulse bought Persona 3 because it had a shiny cover and I remembered seeing a thread about it on these forums. I literally knew nothing about the game other than the fact that it was a long JRPG, and since I was looking for a time sink and it was a payday I figured why not take a risk on the crazy looking Japanese thing?
I was hooked 3 seconds into the pre-title screen intro. The game just oozed style, and once I started actually playing it I fell in love with the gameplay, story, characters, just about everything really. 2 years later I've tracked down and played every SMT game released stateside and a few that never made it over here. I've easily spent $400+ on this series and don't regret a dime.
The first Persona. And then basically every single one that came out since even the really crappy GBC one.
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edited December 2009
Persona 1, took notice in the early PS1 days. Students with guns? Modern-day? In an RPG? Even then I knew it was something special.
I don't think I got P2 when it came out. I eventually realized it existed after the fact, then tracked it down. I was well into SMT's lore by the time Nocturne came around, and I absolutely had to have it. Bought it on day 1.
DemiKids Dark & Light helped tide me over until then.
In the latest Persona 3 Portable creator’s blog, Katsura Hashino discusses what happened to the Persona team after Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4.
Hashino explains the team was split into to two. One group developed Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable, which available in Japan now. The other group is “nearing completion of an original work.” Both groups are merging together, gradually, to work on a full blown project.
My stepbrother picked up the first Persona way back when I was still a kid. I got to mess around with it a little bit and thought it was pretty neat.
When Persona 3 came out, a gaming buddy was having a lot of fun with it and suddenly actually having a decent amount of money motivated me to finally pick up a PS2. It's been downhill since then.
darunia106J-bob in gamesDeath MountainRegistered Userregular
edited December 2009
My first SMT game was Persona 3 FES I picked it up two weeks ago...
Okay I don't think I'm hooked on the series just yet but after getting my finals done and managing to get up to the first battle tutorials, I'm thinking it's a sure bet.
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edited December 2009
I got into SMT when Schildkrote did a phenomenalLet's Play of Persona 3. I immediately purchased Persona 4 when it came out. And then P3FES. And Devil Summoner 2. And Devil Survivor.
Now I just mail my wallet to Atlus
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Way back in high school, a friend told me about a really difficult RPG that he had picked up, so I borrowed it. It was the original Persona. Played it for awhile before eventually picking up my own copy, and went from there. Played pretty much every Persona or Megaten game that came out in the US afterward.
Fun Fact: The original Persona was also what started me on picking up pretty much every Atlus game ever released in the US, because of this I now have many rare and also some truly horrible PSX games in my collection. Like Hoshigami. I spent money on Hoshigami for the PSX.
Way back in high school, a friend told me about a really difficult RPG that he had picked up, so I borrowed it. It was the original Persona. Played it for awhile before eventually picking up my own copy, and went from there. Played pretty much every Persona or Megaten game that came out in the US afterward.
Fun Fact: The original Persona was also what started me on picking up pretty much every Atlus game ever released in the US, because of this I now have many rare and also some truly horrible PSX games in my collection. Like Hoshigami. I spent money on Hoshigami for the PSX.
Wasn't that the Final Fantasy Tactics clone with really easy permadeath?
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Way back in high school, a friend told me about a really difficult RPG that he had picked up, so I borrowed it. It was the original Persona. Played it for awhile before eventually picking up my own copy, and went from there. Played pretty much every Persona or Megaten game that came out in the US afterward.
Fun Fact: The original Persona was also what started me on picking up pretty much every Atlus game ever released in the US, because of this I now have many rare and also some truly horrible PSX games in my collection. Like Hoshigami. I spent money on Hoshigami for the PSX.
Wasn't that the Final Fantasy Tactics clone with really easy permadeath?
It was a pretty terribly unbalanced FFT clone where all the enemies were stronger than you, always scaled to stay higher level than you, and also I'm pretty certain the game blatently cheated at times.
Really it might have been a good game later on, but the only way to continue past like... chapter two or three was to fuse a million billion coins together to make the strongest spells possible and just ignore anyone that wasn't a mage. I just didn't have the patience.
Way back in high school, a friend told me about a really difficult RPG that he had picked up, so I borrowed it. It was the original Persona. Played it for awhile before eventually picking up my own copy, and went from there. Played pretty much every Persona or Megaten game that came out in the US afterward.
Fun Fact: The original Persona was also what started me on picking up pretty much every Atlus game ever released in the US, because of this I now have many rare and also some truly horrible PSX games in my collection. Like Hoshigami. I spent money on Hoshigami for the PSX.
Well that must mean you have awesome stuff like Ogre Battle and Tactics Ogre along side the unique (and possibly horrible) stuff Atlus brought across the water. Not a bad trade off.
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The location titles don't show on the 80GB PS3, and the no rumble is in the way of the fishing minigame.
Nocturne does look really nice upscaled though, thanks to it's clean art style
Works with a dualshock, or I'd assume it would. It would be lazyness on an epic scale to not send the rumble, since it's the exact same controller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQhgTN7bNH8&feature=related
I happen to have it on my custom playlist in my Xbox, and when I heard those first few notes... the memories came flooding back.
However, that wicked guitar riff is still pretty nice
They work fine in Persona 3, and Nocturne, and all other text works fine.
Also of note: Keep back up saves, P4 likes to tell you that your saves corrupted
A big thing for me right now is how easy it is to find them, and I know for a fact that my Fry's has P4 right on the shelf, but we'll see.
Location names don't show up on the 80gb/software emulation. They show up on the 60gb/hardware emulation.
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Orpheus (yeah, I know, but for some reason he kept finding a way back on my team due to his fusion-heal spell with Apsaras)
Yomotsu Shikome
Oberon
Jack Frost
Pyro Jack
Omoikane
Nigi Mitama
Chimera
I've been trying to keep my hands on a Hermit, Emperor, Magician, Hierophant and Chariot due to the related Social Links I've been working on, though I'm willing to sacrifice one of them temporarily if just to keep from lousing up the fight. If anyone here can suggest what I oughta have by now, I'd really appreciate it.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
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In my mind, the first few notes of that song are permanently associated with the MC punching some demon in the face.
It just jumps out at me. After doing it for maybe thousands of times I guess that stuff just sticks with you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQLGKydpxt4
Tower Persona come only from Triangular Fusions.
I just used this to get what I needed..
http://persona4.wikidot.com/fusion
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SOMETHING LIKE THIS EXISTS? Wow, didn't know.
Thanks!
I got interested about 5 years ago. I had purchased a PS2 for the first time a few months earlier and was bumming around in a Gamestop looking for RPGs. The clerk there started listing off games (I thank him for Dark Cloud 2 too, to this day the clerks in that Gamestop are amazingly knowledgeable and helpful), and lo and behold, this game called "Nocturne"
Yeah, talk about trial by fire. I started playing it. The story was nuts, and I was confused, then I started fighting battles and died. And died. And died more. And damn did I ever love that. Difficulty in an RPG again! And dark humor! And other awesome things! Went and got DDS a bit later and the rest is history...
Which is why I know and understand that each and every one of us in this thread are masochists :P
Amusing side note...after learning more about the games, I realized that years earlier I played on the GBA the Demikids game...and I recall going "wtf is this crap".
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I was hooked 3 seconds into the pre-title screen intro. The game just oozed style, and once I started actually playing it I fell in love with the gameplay, story, characters, just about everything really. 2 years later I've tracked down and played every SMT game released stateside and a few that never made it over here. I've easily spent $400+ on this series and don't regret a dime.
Matador made me his little bitch.
Sadly, the translation is still stupidly buggy
Never looked back.
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I don't think I got P2 when it came out. I eventually realized it existed after the fact, then tracked it down. I was well into SMT's lore by the time Nocturne came around, and I absolutely had to have it. Bought it on day 1.
DemiKids Dark & Light helped tide me over until then.
http://www.siliconera.com/2009/12/17/persona-3-portable-director-hints-at-new-persona-team-projects/
When Persona 3 came out, a gaming buddy was having a lot of fun with it and suddenly actually having a decent amount of money motivated me to finally pick up a PS2. It's been downhill since then.
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Going though my soundtracks again, and I forgot how much I loved this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULtXtEJP-l8
Okay I don't think I'm hooked on the series just yet but after getting my finals done and managing to get up to the first battle tutorials, I'm thinking it's a sure bet.
Now I just mail my wallet to Atlus
Fun Fact: The original Persona was also what started me on picking up pretty much every Atlus game ever released in the US, because of this I now have many rare and also some truly horrible PSX games in my collection. Like Hoshigami. I spent money on Hoshigami for the PSX.
Wasn't that the Final Fantasy Tactics clone with really easy permadeath?
It was a pretty terribly unbalanced FFT clone where all the enemies were stronger than you, always scaled to stay higher level than you, and also I'm pretty certain the game blatently cheated at times.
Really it might have been a good game later on, but the only way to continue past like... chapter two or three was to fuse a million billion coins together to make the strongest spells possible and just ignore anyone that wasn't a mage. I just didn't have the patience.
It was most certainly not. SMT 2 was better though.
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Don't see any reason they would...except maybe to get people to buy it again ...if the girl aspect alone doesn't appeal to them.
Well that must mean you have awesome stuff like Ogre Battle and Tactics Ogre along side the unique (and possibly horrible) stuff Atlus brought across the water. Not a bad trade off.