TheMinxTail
2010-07-10, 04:21 PM
Hey, don't know if this is quite the right place since these forums usully use tabletops like DnD, but Persona 3 is a JRPG, so there is some Roleplaying to it. I suppose if there is absolute revolt against this discussion's placement, I could move it later. That aside, give me one paragraph of self intro and I'll get to the main topic. Or just skip the next paragraph as it is probably lengthy. Oh, and I'm a swift typer and this is a new keyboard that I'm not quite used to yet, so please excuse the constant mispelling of 'the' and such.
Okay, so I played Persona 4 a few months back and felt it was, without exaggeration or even the faded memory of its competition, the greatest game I've ever played, possibly ever made, possibly in the space-time continuum. I know when it coems to lengthy RPGs, your starting position makes all the difference, and for me I was a little depressed. Not seriously or anything, but just uninspired (not a good mood for an aspiring author to have for months at a time). Then I played it and found myself rejuvenated and actually wanting, for the first time in my life, to go out and make my own circle of friends, having finally been made to truly understand and appreciate the nature of teh human soul. I don't know, I guess I'm just a pessimist, and it broke me out of my rut. I mean, I spend most days philosophising, and that single 70 hour experience was enough to shatter the entire loner-section of my theories, and then some! Hell, near the end I jsut didn't paly the game for a while purely because I ddin't want the damn thing to end! And the whole way through, I was jsut wondering 'why couldn't my high school life be that awesome'? Hell , I'm now enfused enough to make a trilogy (or quadrilogy?) of fantasy novels. In fact, I have resolved to never play teh game again in the foreseeable future. If I did, with my memory, I would come to memorise every aspect of teh game and normalise it, robbing it of everything taht made it so good. I'm saving it for a rainy day to break me out of a similar rut, like, if my house burns down. (But then, won't my copy be burned? And with how hard tehy are to find in Britain.... *Shoots self*)
And with taht set of brackets, we are brought to th butt of every joke in Persona 4, the Evoker. And teh transition into teh discussion of the game itself, for that matter. I looked online after 4 sand found enough people who said, perhaps with the rose-tint glasses of memory in some cases, that Persona 3 was, while different, about as good as, or in some bold places, outright better than Persona 4. So, I borrowed my friend's copy of FES for a while, played it for maybe two hours (when last I played, I killed the first miniboss on floor 4[?]). The stupid menu system and such made the trasition from 4 to 3 a bit jarring, a problem which I hear is addressed in teh Portable release, on the day in North America on the very eve of my 18th birthday. I ordered the game, though seeing as it is a cross-Atlantic delivery, understandably it is still in the post. As I said, I'm not taht far, so please no spoilers. I considered not even borrowing FES for the taster run, because I found taht some of my greatest experiences are blind leaps - going into a game without reading reviews or synopsis or such and just letting the material speak for itself, as I did my best to do in Persona 4.
Well anyway, to spark a debate just to kick of the discussions, which is superior for you, Persona 4 or 3?I'm not offended by fanboyism as some people I've seen in teh likes of Final Fantasy forums are, and the pride one takes their game of choice, as I understand that Persoan 4 fille d aspecific niche for my.... PERSONAlity. (Hey, it's not as bad as Teddie's dialogue - I maintain that Teddie was the disfiguring mole on the face of the beautiful maiden of Persona 4, redeemed only by the cunning use of make up to disguise him as a mere 'beauty spot'.) Well anyway, to spark a debate just to kick of the discussions, which is superior for you, Persona 4, Persona 3 (w or w/o FES), or Persona 3 Portable?
(I have an annoying little sister who admits that while Persona 4 may well be the game that is likewise catered to everything she has ever loved in RPGs, she refuses to play it on the grounds that teh main character is a bot, so perhaps her answer is obvious with teh addition of teh femMC in Portable.)
Okay, so I played Persona 4 a few months back and felt it was, without exaggeration or even the faded memory of its competition, the greatest game I've ever played, possibly ever made, possibly in the space-time continuum. I know when it coems to lengthy RPGs, your starting position makes all the difference, and for me I was a little depressed. Not seriously or anything, but just uninspired (not a good mood for an aspiring author to have for months at a time). Then I played it and found myself rejuvenated and actually wanting, for the first time in my life, to go out and make my own circle of friends, having finally been made to truly understand and appreciate the nature of teh human soul. I don't know, I guess I'm just a pessimist, and it broke me out of my rut. I mean, I spend most days philosophising, and that single 70 hour experience was enough to shatter the entire loner-section of my theories, and then some! Hell, near the end I jsut didn't paly the game for a while purely because I ddin't want the damn thing to end! And the whole way through, I was jsut wondering 'why couldn't my high school life be that awesome'? Hell , I'm now enfused enough to make a trilogy (or quadrilogy?) of fantasy novels. In fact, I have resolved to never play teh game again in the foreseeable future. If I did, with my memory, I would come to memorise every aspect of teh game and normalise it, robbing it of everything taht made it so good. I'm saving it for a rainy day to break me out of a similar rut, like, if my house burns down. (But then, won't my copy be burned? And with how hard tehy are to find in Britain.... *Shoots self*)
And with taht set of brackets, we are brought to th butt of every joke in Persona 4, the Evoker. And teh transition into teh discussion of the game itself, for that matter. I looked online after 4 sand found enough people who said, perhaps with the rose-tint glasses of memory in some cases, that Persona 3 was, while different, about as good as, or in some bold places, outright better than Persona 4. So, I borrowed my friend's copy of FES for a while, played it for maybe two hours (when last I played, I killed the first miniboss on floor 4[?]). The stupid menu system and such made the trasition from 4 to 3 a bit jarring, a problem which I hear is addressed in teh Portable release, on the day in North America on the very eve of my 18th birthday. I ordered the game, though seeing as it is a cross-Atlantic delivery, understandably it is still in the post. As I said, I'm not taht far, so please no spoilers. I considered not even borrowing FES for the taster run, because I found taht some of my greatest experiences are blind leaps - going into a game without reading reviews or synopsis or such and just letting the material speak for itself, as I did my best to do in Persona 4.
Well anyway, to spark a debate just to kick of the discussions, which is superior for you, Persona 4 or 3?I'm not offended by fanboyism as some people I've seen in teh likes of Final Fantasy forums are, and the pride one takes their game of choice, as I understand that Persoan 4 fille d aspecific niche for my.... PERSONAlity. (Hey, it's not as bad as Teddie's dialogue - I maintain that Teddie was the disfiguring mole on the face of the beautiful maiden of Persona 4, redeemed only by the cunning use of make up to disguise him as a mere 'beauty spot'.) Well anyway, to spark a debate just to kick of the discussions, which is superior for you, Persona 4, Persona 3 (w or w/o FES), or Persona 3 Portable?
(I have an annoying little sister who admits that while Persona 4 may well be the game that is likewise catered to everything she has ever loved in RPGs, she refuses to play it on the grounds that teh main character is a bot, so perhaps her answer is obvious with teh addition of teh femMC in Portable.)