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The tired status becomes a non-issue after the first few bosses since your tolerance builds very quickly.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChaoofNee
You can either run away for the first few floors or just fight through the status. Remember, your dudes will only leave the party when you return to the bottom floor. The fights are very easy at the beginning so you can probably get away with it.
Also: In FES, your status will always return to Good on the night of a full moon.
I'm playing through FES after playing P3P. I kind of want to murder my computer-controlled allies! If Mitsuru tries Marin Karin one more time, I swear to YHWH...
Sometimes I leave the game running the intro on a loop so I can hear the amazing music.
wait, aren't you playing Nocturne too?
That's too much MegaTen at one time!
I'm doing it all.
I never beat Nocturne because I'm not a masochist like Mzo.
ROYAL FLUSH AND I'M THE ACE
You should take a couple weeks to clear those out and then we should play some Digital Devil Saga at the same time. I want to give that game another shot but I originally gave up because the amount of random battles was too ridiculous.
The DDS games are the only two US megaten games I haven't bought in the past two months.
But I will do it for you.
I started playing Persona 3 on my PSP. It's kind of neat! Didn't they also release Persona 2? How is that?
Persona 2: Innocent Sin came out a few months ago on PSP.
Seems ok but I haven't really played much of it. I have a huuuuge SMT backlog at the moment. I want to finish Devil Survivor Overclocked before I even look at another SMT game.
Persona 2 is really slow, it's good, but finding the balance of talking to demons and fighting them (without grinding) is kinda irritating. It's A LOT different though' seriously 2-3 the series changes drastically. 1 and 2 are closer to the SMT games with demon negotiation etc; but they all have the premise of being based around school children and being an interjection into real life.
I still need to finish Nocturne and P4.
I'm probably just gonna skip it, especially since I have P3P and Tactics Ogre on this piece.
Someday I need to go back to P3P, I put about 35 hours into it and set it aside when another PSP rpg came out and just never went back.
Yeah, Persona 2 is awesome if you came into the series back in the day, but if your exposure to Persona has come from Persona 3/4, it can be really, really hard to get into. I really enjoy playing it (as well as the origin), but it's hard for me to recommend at this point unless you're hardcore into the MegaTen stuff.
I heard a rumor that everyone who doesn't think Persona 2 is the best game(s) in the series is going to get a note...
And that they'll respond to this message with things like "Shut up".
Shut up
IT CAME TRUE.
Like many old school RPGs, the Persona 2 games are better in an emulator where you can fast forward during battles. Great game, though, but old school in terms of gameplay.
Persona 1/2 and 3/4 are really two different series.
This is like the 5th time I've tried getting into P3, but only the second time it's been FES. I really didn't care for the stripped down PSP version. I wish I could marry the openness and production values of P3FES with the gameplay improvements of P3P. I really miss being able to control my dudes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finch
Anyway, I'm farther now that I ever got before.
I'm about to throw this game out the window.
I've always hated games that give you lots of characters, but don't spread exp out evenly among them unless they're "in play." I've got a Persona that I need to level up two levels to get a spell I need. But of course since it has an elemental weakness, just about every enemy I encounter is strong against this dude's attack and also has an attack it's weak to. I just lost an hour of grinding because an encounter in which the 4 enemies got a bullshit first attack, spammed my weakness and killed me.
Oh yeah, I also hate rpgs that make it game over if the protaganist falls in a fight regardless of other characters being alive that could bring him back before the fight ends.
edit: and another "oh yeah." Fuck the stupid "tired" gimmick. Especially since there doesn't seem to be a warning that your dudes are about to fall victim to it, thus burning another day that you can't grind out.
Persona 4 shits all over this thing. (as it should, but still.)
I finished P3P a couple months ago -- P4G won me over, and I'm working my way backwards in the series.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
The stripped down point-and-click format was infuriating, but I'm glad I experienced it. Still prefer the laid-back vibe of Inaba, though.
Point and click worked with the system it was on and made it feel more like a VN, which I think they were going for. I actually preferred it in P3.
I didn't hate the gameplay, just the characters and the repetition, not even the gameplay repetition. I honestly think it was the music that destroyed any affection I had for it. It's good the first twenty or so times, fine the next fifty, soul-crushing the next five thousand times you hear "wangle" rhymed with "rectangle".
I had no idea that bitch was supposed to be saying miserable until I saw a lyric video.