My wife and I recently started our first playthrough. We’re mostly interested in the story and style and I don’t want to deal with any bullshit difficulty spikes, so we set it to Safe Mode and are absolutely here for the 120-hour push-button anime experience. So far, it rules.
“120 hour anime series” is fair, but “occasionally click a button” is not. If P5 qualifies for that, then every turn-based JRPG ever does.
I refuse to play games that I can’t quit within 2 minutes of starting it. Persona series is one of those that I refuse to play. My time is way to valuable to commit an hour or more to 1 activity.
So do you just play on Xbox where you can jump between titles and have it save your game state?
So you won’t watch an hr+ movie?
That’s not valuing your time, friendo. That’s undiagnosed ADD.
I get that, however before getting on meds I had no problem playing RuneScape for hours straight with YouTube on the side. No idea why I was fine with literally running in circles for 6 hours straight but making eye contact for 2 minutes was painful.
You’re joking, right ?
I think you’ll miss out on a lot of great games thinking that way! Sometimes needing to commit time into a game is where a lot of the value comes from in its experience, and persona is one of those series.
Game is okay I guess.
Persona 5 is the only game in my life I ever played and made my eyes hirt, it just felt nauseating
I don’t have time for games that long
plays Factorio for the 274th hour
A friend of mine tried to convince me to get Factorio a couple days ago. Couldn’t help but feel like he was a junky trying to get me to try just a little bit of heroin.
It’s more like crack or meth. You start a gamenin the early evening and suddenly it dawn’s outside. I hate myself for loving a game which basically simulates the job of “process optimization”
I always describe it as a puzzle game where all the puzzles are designed by an idiot and that idiot is you.
The spaghetti must grow
Hey if your actual job is process optimization, you get to enjoy it twice as much 🥲
I’ve never played factorio, but I am an industrial engineer and my builds in the minecraft mod create make my wife sad
Do not even come close to Factorio or it will be your Ex Wife. Trust me Bro!
Satisfactory, however, will be 100% totally safe and good for that marriage. Trust me bro!
Whatever you do, don’t install clockwork and valkerien skies. You maybe become but a memory to your wife
God I wish I could play this game again with a fresh slate and no knowledge of anything again. Story, style, soundtrack, and gameplay all in an endearing package.
I’ve never played it
Me neither but Winter is coming and my pile of shame recently got Space Marine 2 added …
But one day I will be old and retired. I will only die when I played them all!
That’s what I’m hanging on too. On the upside though my pile doesn’t grow so much now days since so much that is released is a steaming pile of trash
looks at 300hr nocturne save
Metal Gear 4 lol
If you played all of the games up to 4, you were invested in the story, and therefore the cutscenes were welcome.
Not necessarily, I for one hated it, and I was a big MGS fan until then. I was so frustrated not getting to play.
That’s true!
MGS5 did it very well! (That’s if you made it passed the long intro)
It’s chapter based. So you get 1-2 minutes of introduction, then tossed into the field. Story follows more gameplay like cassette tapes or walkie talkies while you explore, with cutscenes when you hit certain points.
After MGS5, I find it hard to play the older ones with its 10-30 minute cutscenes.
It’s funny you praise 5 for that, but as a huge fan of the series I think the best description I read of mg5 was: “it’s simultaneously the best stealth action game out there and the worst metal gear game in the series.” Lol
I think the open world kinda ruined the pacing of the story and it all felt kind of disjointed in comparison to the linear games. That’s coming from someone who LOVES open world games too. Still lots of fun though
They didn’t make it to the first dungeon XD
In Persona 4, it took me something like 5 hours before I got to my first combat scene. Then another few hours before I got into a dungeon.
Well yeah. The dungeons are in the TV world, you’re a high schooler in the real world. They needed to introduce you to your party and provide the context in which you’ll be adventuring. Most JRPGs provide very scant gameplay in the first few hours. Sounds like OOP just isn’t into JRPGs, which is totally fine.
Every time it goes on sale, I think about picking it up, but then I remember…
It takes me long enough to finish 10-hour games I already own…
142h completionist : LOL
Those numbers would be awesome, if it wasn’t a Persona game. My friend tried getting me into it on the PS1 and I bounced right off.
It’s one of those games with a fun grind. With how snappy the UI and everything is, nothing ever really feels like a chore. I played Xenoblade Chronicles recently and I think it took my 50lbs to beat, but those 50lbs felt longer than Persona’s 100+ hours.
I like Xenoblade more personally anyway, but just wanted to share my experience.
Measuring games by weight? Neat.
Not sure if tired or autocorrect, but I’ll leave it as is
As a kid in the 80s with extremely limited funds, I used to buy games based on the swag.
Like damn, this game came with a cloth map? Yes!
I highly recommend the game, but I totally get you. I didn’t buy it for years for the exact same reason. Eventually it was on a good sale when I was between games so I got a chance to play it. If you’re an anime fan you will probably love the game. And if you’re not, it may be cringy as fuck on occasion but you’ll probably still love the game after getting sucked in. But if you end up never playing it, that’s totally fine too. I’ve found in life that you don’t need to watch every movie and play every video that are highly praised. I still haven’t played the Mass Effect games even after owning all of them for 5 or so years.
I’ve found in life that you don’t need to watch every movie and play every video that are highly praised.
You’re absolutely right and I’m glad I reread that sentence: at first I somehow missed the “don’t” and was gearing up for a long and pointless rebuttal of what I THOUGHT I just read 😄
Personally, I’m a sucker for long completion time. I only like specific types of games that don’t get released that often, so I’m always in danger of running out of games I haven’t replayed to death yet 😁
Most of it being cutscenes is a huge negative if not an outright dealbreaker to me, though.
I do feel like some of these games lose their premise if they grind on for too long. I think Haru Okumura’s dungeon is one of the more inspired, but by the time you get there, the game loop has gotten stale. Then the finale is just an interminably long series of hallways.
They could have compressed that game by half (especially towards the back end), keyed up on the drama, and maybe fleshed out the daytime normal-life content a bit more.
But I say that within the context of a game with a truly captivating story, some solid twists and top 10 anime betrayals, and a charming romance system that draws you into the characters. Had a great experience on my playthrough. Can’t imagine ever trying to play it again, but it was a wild ride the first time.
I’ve tried P4G and I just can’t stand the required grind, nor the 3h bossfights, otherwise good game
the required grind
JRPG moment 😭
I can’t think of a single remotely modern JRPG with required grinding. It’s usually that you have the choice between learning how the game works or overleveling to brute force everything. People then do the latter and don’t even realize the former was an option.
lol 3h boss fights wtf game were you playing
Persona 4 Golden, though it may have been a result of me just pushing through the dungeon without any grind
Like most JRPGs, the Persona and mainline SMT series have a battle system that resembles a complex game of rock/paper/scissors. You’re either strong, weak, or neutral against a foe depending on what Persona/Demon you have out. You generally don’t have to grind for levels ever in JRPGs outside of the battles you invariably encounter on your way to objective x.
I have to object - to this day I’ve played a few turn based jRPGs - FF X, EBF 5, aforementioned P4G, and Trails in the Sky 1 come to my mind, maybe there was one or two more - and some bosses and areas pose a level gap too wide to ignore with just strategy and consumables
Watch a speedrun. They avoid almost all encounters and still nuke bosses in a few turns.
Haha yeah must be. Never had fights last that long 😨
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Telltale
This is me and Persona 4.
There’s a lot of good game elements. But it’s SOOOOO MUCH. It’s like a damn visual novel with bits of game.
And I’m sure the payoff is great, since the Persona games are very well received. But after a long day, I don’t want to think. I just want to mash buttons until the pain stops.
If you like monster collection games. Check out shin megami tensei. More rpg than graphic novel. Same overall concepts but none of the daily dating sim like aspect.
I feel like the people looking for a JRPG, having been guided to Persona, that wind up hating Persona, were probably looking for one of the mainline SMT games instead!
Peak isn’t it? The expansion for the remake of 3 launched too, go play it!
You’ll never see it coming~~
You’ll see that my mind is too fast for eyes
