what is the appeal of persona

>>376023837
We can go back to school. Its like redemption.

If you don't understand it then it's probably not for you. Why is this not enough for you? Not everything on this planet has to cater to you. People have different tastes.

>>376023892
This.

It's high school slice-of-life where you're the badass.

>>376023837
It caters to the weeb losers that populate this piece of shit website

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Waifus mainly. Plus people like turn-based RPG's, reminds them of the good old days.

>>376023837
great music
great characters and fun events
provides a lengthy game with a balance of real life simulation and jrpg
its enjoyable in a lot of aspects and a variety of people can like the series for a number of different reasons

>>376023954
I couldn't care less about the wish fullfillment, I just like the modern setting and SMT demon/battle mechanics.

The best thing Persona 5 ever did was attaching technical benefits to social link ranks.

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>>376023965
>newfags are now beginning to understand this place isn't for them
There may be hope after all

>>376023837
I find the concept of an RPG set in modern times to be very interesting which is my main reason for playing. I don't care for the JRPG combat or the dungeon aspects. (p5 does a really good job at it though)

I want to see a game take the daily life/social aspects of persona and make it the main focus of the game.

only weebs love persona

>>376023837
I don't fucking know. Got a little over 2 hours in the first one, it's SHIT. The concept of moving in 3D hallways is fun, but battles just aren't fun, and that's most of the god damn game. Same for the sequel.

>>376024794
Is this bait? Cause it can work as pretty good bait yo.

>>376025084
I played it on PSP, does that make a difference? 1 and 1.2
battles just weren't engaging, they knew it so you could set it to auto battle.

>>376024415
This place was never for you, weeb. Go back fapping to underage pornography and making your father ashamed.

>>376025204
No one likes the first one except Japs

>>376025309
Hi guys, first time to this site, is this called baiting :o?

>>376025309
>posting on a Taiwanese cat wrestling board
>it was never for weebs

Open your eyes

>>376023837
Good music
Good plot
Good characters
Monster collecting
Linear but with a lot of freedom in how you spend your time
Actually requires some strategy on hard and above

>>376025204
In case you don't know, the first 3 Persona games (P1, P2 IS and P2 EP) are very different from the other 3 (P3, 4 and 5, the popular ones). People usually skip the first 3 because the social aspect is missing and the dungeon crawling isn't fun enough to carry the game.

>>376023837
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seNMCgcc0Kw

>Because I have no friends in real life

He's right about Rise, though.

neptunia > persona
prove me wrong weebs

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>>376027189
> neptunia >


no

>>376023837
It's just wish-fulfillment. Pretty waifus, you're the hot guy.
The games, at least as of 3, have themes centered around identity (that's why PERSONA!).
It's a game for teenagers who don't understand life yet.

Seriously. I played 3 and I'm in my mid 20s now. I thought that it was very boring. 4's theme is kind of better to me, as the thing of accepting who you isn't something that I've come to terms with that long ago.

Their take on such matters isn't really that great, but teens can take whatever. Most of my friends that are Personafags have played it when they were younger.

>>376023837
Social Sim/Dungeon Crawler. Unique mix not seen in many games.

>>376023837
Who or what is Igor?

>>376025497
>Taiwanese cat wrestling board
I thought this was a Siamese cat fencing board?

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>>376023837
>why is it so popular
It's not. The whole series sold what.. less than 4 million? 5 million?

And that's good. If you don't care about it then don't, move on to another game please.

>>376028332
Phil's puppet

>>376027189
I actually agree. I enjoyed the remake of nep 1 more than p3. Farming was more satisfying and you could skip the shitty plot.

>>376027810
You understand Vert is shitting on nedditors there, right?

>>376025589
>Good music
>Good plot
>Good characters

???

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>>376026229
>Louisa Ferre is objectively the best waifu in the entire series
>Chaosfags actually believe this

>>376028745
Persona 3: .45m
Persona 3: FES: .63m
Persona 4: .82m
Persona 4 the golden: 1.16m
Persona 5: Somewhere over 1.5m
So like 4.5, still that's good growth.
>>376027189
Naw.
>>376028063
Naw.

>>376029167
So I guess the cringe I feel is ironic cringe right now.

>>376025309
you will never be THIS new

From what little I know it's like someone mashed together Pokémon and a dating Sim

>>376029313
>Persona 5: Somewhere over 1.5m
you wish
keep dreaming weebs

>>376029313
Good counterargument fag

>>376023837
>why is it so popular

Lonely virgins can now simulate what it's like to have friends.

It has cool style, provides an imitation of social interaction with cute girls that nerds desperately crave, and is easy to clear.

>>376023837
It's a friend simulator, just like let's plays. They represent a sickness in society and why the modern white male is rightfully seen as a joke.

>>376029847
http://gematsu.com/2017/04/persona-5-worldwide-shipments-top-1-5-million

>>376029584
Megaten predates Pokémon.

>>376029876
I don't need to counter-argue nepheads. The games are boring grinding in flat textured ps2 esque environments broken up by only mildly humorous asides that read like the most bland moe anime to ever exist.
T. played the games.
>>376029847
Weeb means nothing now a days.

>>376025084
The only "bait" you need for the Persona series is insomnia.ac's review of the third one, which shows exactly why it's bad. And every Persona game since then has been bad for the same reasons.

http://insomnia.ac/reviews/playstation2/persona3/

>Beyond its undeniable stylistic allure, Persona 3 is no more than a piss-poor social life simulator ineptly grafted onto a shoddy dungeon crawler. I found every moment playing this game to be unbelievably boring, and I attribute this not only to its shallowness and lack of difficulty, but also to the unreasonable amount of time wasted on loading screens and redundant conversations. Celebrated by journlolists and animu kids as a "breath of fresh air", or even as some kind of a savior to an overall lackluster and fast degenerating genre, Persona 3 serves at best as a reminder that JRPG fans are better off getting into SRPGs instead.

>>376030072
>shipments
kek

>>376023837
A lot of people go for the waifus and the slice of life feel but personally I like the story and the themes, Persona usually has a "change yourself, change the world" theme that I enjoy and how it developes.

>>376029239
Sure.

>good music/characters
Just look at how successful the rhythm and fighting game were

>good plot
it's better than mainline Megaten and modern Final Fantasy

>>376023837
Is the easy/casual/cuasi-normie version of a better game (SMT)

>>376023837
I can ditch my imaginary friends to hang out with fake friends

>>376023837

This board and much of the internet is full of people who are stuck in an arrested state of development. For that reason, they always long to go back to high school.

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>>376030204
>Literally who
>Animu kids
>journlolists
>JRPG fans are better off getting into SRPG's instead
ebin

>>376023837
i get to feel young again

>>376023837
A JRPG with with role playing that extends beyond what you do in combat. With most other JRPGs dry-humping the anime cliches (including Persona), a JRPG with some degree of role playing is a breath of fresh air, even if you role play as a school kid.
A Persona game that borrows from Nocturne is an added bonus. That game was great. I miss the classic Press-Turn, buff/debuff stacking system, though.

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>>376030204
http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-2/shin-megami-tensei-persona-3

>>376030219
Retailers need to pay for a copies of the game they don't get it for free. And if that doesn't convince you, then this should.

>>376030204
The review is ass

>piss-poor social life simulator
Name a better one released before P3
>ineptly grafted onto a
Except for the fact that it isn't. The decisions you make in the VN effect the dungeon crawling. P3 was the first game to do this, and the link ahs just gotten stornger in each iteration.
>shoddy dungeon crawler
It has typical Megaten dungeon crawling, what is "shoddy" about it?
>lack of difficulty
It has variable difficulties. The hardest difficulties are not easy.
>redundant conversations
What? name one
>Celebrated by journlolists and animu kids
ebin

>>376031029
The dungeon crawling is shoddy though. boring random labyrinths.

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It's one of the only remaining examples of a high-budget turn-based JRPG.

Waifus are just icing on the cake.

>>376027189
Play a Neptunia game and prove it yourself

I started playing P4 via PCX. I've only played 2-3 hours, just defeated Chie's shadow. I assume the game opens up at some point? It seems pretty liner so far.

>>376031135
That's P3 and P4
P5's dungeons are handcrafted. Lack of variety in puzzles, but it's an improvement

>>376032378
You're just about there.

>>376025457
I want to now too, how do i upvote this to top comment?

>>376025309
This place was never for you, normie. Go back to fapping to 3DPD pornography and not making your father ashamed by being here.

>>376023837

Because it's about Jewish devils and demons and making a pact with the devil for power.

>>376023837
It appeals directly to the "I WISH I WAS BORN IN JAPAN TO EXPERIENCE ROMANCE AND SCHOOL LIFE AS A TEEN AS A JAPANESE" weeb loser crowd on /v/

Put some waifus in and there you go

>>376023837
It's basically Pokemon for teenagers.

>>376029239
The plot is pretty fun, and I loved the music even if it gets repetitive. Those are both subjective though.

>>376023837
>why is it so popular

It does stuff no Western game developer would dare to do

>>376030204
Holy shit, I haven't seen this pseudo-intellectual shit head's reviews posted in a long ass time.

>>376032440
but hes not reviewing p5 he's reviewing p3.

>>376033257
but all the girls are shit

>>376033665
Oh yeah, I forget

Tartarus is truly boring though. Yeah it's typical MegaTen if you count SMT I and SMT II, but for PS2 MegaTen (Nocturne, DDS, even Strange Journey for the whole generation) it doesn't really compare

>>376024415
I just wanted a place to talk about halo and cod with my bros

>>376023892

Fuck me, you're right.

why does america have so many weebs

>>376023837
i like it cause of the gameplay, the stories that are long and have twists to them and make you like the charactters, and the artstyle is reeally good along with the music

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Reminder that this is the CANON romance for Persona 5 mc

>>376025309
This is like fresh out of the box, open up the plastic bag, and an air puff comes out kind of new

>>376035834
Are you a lolicon, shuujin?

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Because it has examples of women so perfect, that they will literally never exist in real life

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>>376023837
I played Persona 5 recently and it was my first Persona. Initially I played it to see the different demons and see what the gameplay had to offer, very quickly I realized I had more fun pretending to have friends for 100 hours.

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Name a better confidant.
PROTIP: You can't.

>>376030970
P1 sold that much?

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>>376036245
that's not tae

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>>376023837
Unashamed weaboo wish fulfilment fantasy. Does it with a good sense of style and decent writing, so its not as trashy as it sounds.
Gameplay can get repetetive and the pacing can get on your nerves at times, but its still overall worth it. SMT-lite combat is fun.
Give it a whirl if it intrigues you.

>>376036096
I plead the fifth.

>>376023837
JoJo ripoff

>>376030204
He's not completely wrong but he's obviously not interested in the game in the first place.

>>376036607
Welp, I guess we know what Anon's warped desire is.

Let's guess the keywords so we can get into his palace.

>>376036482
Dick status: muh

>>376036861
Daycare

>>376023837
It's Pokémon/virtual novel

>>376036246
Yeah. Ironically P2 was the game that killed the series.

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>>376025309
>This place was never for you, weeb.
lmaoing @ your life

>>376036976
Nope. Got another?
And we still need to guess the where.

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>high budget turn based game with glasscannon mechanics
>hordes of sick as fuck demons
>Fusing a strong demon feels like you earned it
>stylish presentation gives it a handcrafted charm
>a progression that goes from random dude to badass godslayer
>soundtrack that you will instantly recognize even after years
>satisfying game cliches
>In every game there is atleast one character you can relate to

>>376036245
Best part of his confidant is that he deduces that you are a phantom thief without you having to "randomly" ask someone's name for a Mementos target. He figured it out solely through spending time with you. Also he showers you with charm helping you max out best waifu and gives really good abilities too.

>>376025309
JAJAJAJA

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>>376036178
Bingo.

SO WE ROLL THE DICE

Teenage power fantasies + waifus

>>376023892
wut

>>376037679
>spoiler
But you only need kindness for Futaba.

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>>376038181

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SOMEONE POST THAT SCREENSHOT OF JOKER WITH A GUN IN THE END OF THE GAME, YOU KNOW WHICH ONE.

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>>376039525
No. Not everyone has completed it yet.

>>376025309
HUEHUEHUEHUE FUCKO