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TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #4 - You'll Never See It Coming! (Spoilers)
tcaz2
04/25/17 8:23:13 PM
#204
Oh and I'd move Ann up to the 'bros before hos' rank too

Because she's the real bro character of the game
TopicSo, I finally got Virtue's Last Reward! [playthrough] [rabbits]
tcaz2
04/25/17 8:21:49 PM
#260
Luna best VLR girl
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #4 - You'll Never See It Coming! (Spoilers)
tcaz2
04/25/17 8:13:59 PM
#202
swordz9 posted...
I don't see how she's worse than ... Futaba


It's not hard to be worse than Futaba considering Futaba is the best character

Also really the Fuuka ranking is the only bit of Ange's ranking that is suspect. Otherwise it's great.
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #4 - You'll Never See It Coming! (Spoilers)
tcaz2
04/25/17 12:14:59 AM
#169
You know I think my biggest take away from P5 is I apparently really need to start grinding and brewing fresh coffee, and pairing it with curry every morning



Good life lessons learned
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #4 - You'll Never See It Coming! (Spoilers)
tcaz2
04/24/17 7:48:31 PM
#152
Yeah the 'punishment' scene is no where near as painful as it was in P4G. If anything it might even be more enjoyable than just going with one because its kind of funny.
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #4 - You'll Never See It Coming! (Spoilers)
tcaz2
04/24/17 7:36:53 PM
#148
Go for all of them at once like a real man would do
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #4 - You'll Never See It Coming! (Spoilers)
tcaz2
04/24/17 11:19:56 AM
#104
Regaro posted...
The only problem with Margaret is that people mistake mature, refined and serious for dull and lifeless

Well that's because they're the same thing
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #4 - You'll Never See It Coming! (Spoilers)
tcaz2
04/24/17 11:12:55 AM
#101
Endgame spoilers
I really want more Lavenza tbqh
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #4 - You'll Never See It Coming! (Spoilers)
tcaz2
04/24/17 12:05:08 AM
#71
Yeah Haru was only behind Ryuji and Ann in the damage department for me.

Yusuke was no slouch either

Makoto was the real meh damage dealer but she had rakukaja and dekunda so she was in almost every boss fight anyway
TopicSo, I finally got Virtue's Last Reward! [playthrough] [rabbits]
tcaz2
04/23/17 5:42:14 PM
#242
Giggsalot posted...
Sigma goes off on a fairly ridiculous tangent where he decides that staying here would be great because he's the only virile male capable of repopulating our potentially barren planet.


Ridiculous, or genius?

...Yeah, ridiculous

BUT I LIKE HIS MOXY FOR THINKING OF IT
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #4 - You'll Never See It Coming! (Spoilers)
tcaz2
04/23/17 5:39:45 PM
#23
Dark Silvergun posted...
The Swimsuit DLC should be out Tuesday, and going by Atlus's website, this one will be free to download.

Too bad I already finished the game :(

Oh well I can just make my NG+ run sometime in the future 'female party members swimsuits only'


:D
TopicArria played Umineko again (blind) (play/readthrough) SPOILERS WELCOME
tcaz2
04/23/17 2:09:24 PM
#26
Glad to see other readers that appreciate Natsuhi!

There are a lot of people that really don't like her.
TopicWhat is your favorite part of a girl's body?
tcaz2
04/22/17 5:10:48 PM
#32
Face

Best part of gril is seeing their expressions to things imo
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #3 - It's Almost Scary how good I am [spoil?]
tcaz2
04/22/17 1:09:10 PM
#432
SupremeZero posted...
Oh jeeze, she's even younger than I thought. I thought she was like 8 or 9, but she's fucking 6. She's still in Elementary at P5.

She'd be 7 by the end of P4. It takes place over a year, remember. She'd be 13 by the end of P5. Which makes her older than Ken in P3 (who was 11)

So she could easily be a playable character in a spinoff.
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #3 - It's Almost Scary how good I am [spoil?]
tcaz2
04/22/17 12:23:31 PM
#426
SupremeZero posted...
And yet the calendar matches that of 2016.

Also its stated she's 20 on one of the TV interviews
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #3 - It's Almost Scary how good I am [spoil?]
tcaz2
04/22/17 12:22:01 PM
#424
swordz9 posted...
I just had a possibly sad thought. P5 is set like 5~ years or so after P4. I forget how old he was, but this means Koromaru is probably pretty old if he's even still alive :(


Its anime they could BS it really easily

Like "Oh Koromaru's Persona powers give him a longer life than a normal dog"
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #3 - It's Almost Scary how good I am [spoil?]
tcaz2
04/22/17 10:02:19 AM
#415
Okay finished the game after having to take a few days break for IRL reasons. Full thoughts as follows:

[MAJOR SPOILERS FOR ENTIRE GAME]
First of all, I LOVED this game from start to finish. This may be my new favorite game, period. It's at least in my top 3, if not. The story, combat, cast, gameplay, everything came together so well. I really enjoyed them playing on your expectations from previous Persona games with Igor, too.

However, that doesn't mean the game is 100% absolutely perfect in so far as no game truly is. The first and biggest problem is that, despite the incredibly strong cast of characters, barely have any really fun bonding moments. In fact, the game seems to go out of its way to sabotage anything it sets up regarding this, and it kind of baffles me. The celebration events and Hawaii are the biggest culprits of this. Fireworks festival? Sorry, gets rained out. Beach trip? You only get a montage with no dialogue of this games Operation Babe Hunt. Destinyland? It skips the whole thing and you only see them eating afterward as they get the bad news. Hawaii? They don't show anyone actually doing anything, you just kinda go there, have a kind of nice talk with girl of choice, then leave.
It's such a weird thing because it's not even like the game doesn't have some great moments with the characters, because there are (Ann having to pretend to pose nude for Yusuke, Makoto getting scared by Futaba, etc).

Akechi's plot I feel also should have had more to it. He was such a strong presence over the rest of the game,
and then he feels the need to protect a bunch of shadows from you murdering them and 'dies' off screen (if he's actually dead and doesn't come back in some fashion in the future I'll eat my computer).

Other than that though it's really just minor gameplay balance issues I have a problem with (and its still probably better than P4G in that regard even with those), and I think all of this is very easy to fix in the inevitable enhanced remake that will come out in the future (Because lets be real, its Atlus, they do it for every game).

Also, Futaba best girl. But to be fair, this is the only Persona where I'd say the majority of girls are EXTREMELY close behind, and not even just one or a couple like P4. The only one I wasn't so hot on was Ichiko but even then she wasn't that bad.


Overall, am extremely sad its over. It will be hard to get over not being able to play this game and see this cast anymore, just as it was with P3 and P4.
TopicPersona 5: Phantoms of Translation
tcaz2
04/20/17 6:51:51 PM
#22
I mean there are definitely some mistakes, but you literally cannot escape having mistakes in a translation in some form or another, ESPECIALLY in a script this big. You can fine-tooth-comb it 20 times and you're still going to miss things. That's just how translation works.

Furthermore, while I agree with the sentiment of 'you have to convey the original intent as if it was written originally in that language' as a principal, that does NOT mean every line has to have perfect grammar. That's completely misconstruing what that adage means. It needs to get the same character development, scene mood, and plot points across as the creator intended.

Hell, most of those examples on the site aren't even strictly translation examples, and are stuff you find in purely English works that only people seriously scrutinizing something catches because the average person reading it 'auto corrects' the mistake because they're so familiar with the language and get what its trying to convey through context. That doesn't mean the mistake isn't there and if this were an English test it'd probably not do very well, but it IS being incredibly pedantic about it.

Frankly I think whoever made the site is just, well

The Mana Sword posted...
very up it's own ass.


Basically that, yeah.


EDIT: It is totally not 'more authentic' or 'more japanese' though, yeah. That's just fanboys fanboying.
TopicRenowned Explorers for ~$6 on Humble Bundle + Other Stuff
tcaz2
04/19/17 12:33:55 PM
#7
Yeah this is a good bundle. Renowned Explorers, Hard West, and Slime Rancher alone make it well worth.

Gods Will Be Watching is... I don't know if I would say it is a good game because it probably isn't, but its an interesting experience.
TopicArria played Umineko again (blind) (play/readthrough) SPOILERS WELCOME
tcaz2
04/18/17 9:25:51 PM
#9
Ugh now I want mackerel sushi too

Or just sushi in general really

But I'm the only one I know that likes it that lives near me and I'm too much of a wuss to go get sushi by myself
TopicBooks you want to see turned into video games
tcaz2
04/18/17 11:14:49 AM
#22
WalkingWiki posted...
-The Bible (The stories of Noah

That already happened

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_3D_Noah%27s_Ark
TopicWhich of the four most populated U.S. states is the best?
tcaz2
04/17/17 5:29:31 PM
#13
The answer is 'not florida'

coming from someone that lives in florida
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #3 - It's Almost Scary how good I am [spoil?]
tcaz2
04/17/17 11:42:34 AM
#26
HeroDelTiempo17 posted...
Well Persona 4 also had the Fox making SP restoration trivial about halfway through the game. I think it's fine in this game too. You can only get the accessories at a reasonable price once you have a specific social link at Rank 7 in a game that emphasizes doing Social Links gets you some really good shit. Coffee takes time and I only one-shot dungeon 3 by blowing my entire stockpile. Even if I didn't, I still have a handful of Snuff Souls I could have burned if I wanted to use them. This game mitigates being able to one-shot dungeons by having Mementos as another time-killer and also making boss fights use two days. It's probably something they did intentionally.


You get the ability to make infinite money in the game at rank 2 for Sun. Price is a complete non-issue after that.

And there are plenty of 'crazy abilities' (not that I'd call EITHER of the problem examples here 'crazy abilities' since one is just more options in a shop and one is 'you get all the money ever') in the game that don't completely break it, like pretty much every one of Hifumi's abilities which are all super useful but don't make the game less interesting.
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #3 - It's Almost Scary how good I am [spoil?]
tcaz2
04/17/17 11:39:06 AM
#25
foolm0r0n posted...
SP and money is very difficult and well balanced in the beginning... I think that's fine. Difficulty isn't as important later in the game since you're likely tired of the grind by then. As long as individual boss fights are difficult, it still feels epic.


If you have to grind in a game you're doing it wrong or the game is (and I would say over 80% of the time, especially in well known companies games past the NES and maybe some SNES era, its the player and not the game doing it wrong)

And if you mean 'you're tired of playing the game by then so who cares' then that's a whole other, much deeper problem that shouldn't be brushed aside because you should never get tired of playing a game to the extent you just want to not play it anymore. That means the game is not well made at all, and I would definitely not say that is the case here.
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #3 - It's Almost Scary how good I am [spoil?]
tcaz2
04/17/17 10:38:31 AM
#18
Also unrelated but I can attest that coffee + curry for breakfast is a great combo
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #3 - It's Almost Scary how good I am [spoil?]
tcaz2
04/17/17 10:31:18 AM
#17
Yeah if there's one gameplay balance change I want them to make its to get rid of the SP adhesives or like, make them way harder to acquire somehow (not by money because money is ridiculously plentiful in this game and should probably be rebalanced too)


The more I think about some things in the game the more I can definitely say 'this really does need to have an enhanced version'. Both for gameplay balance reasons and story reasons.
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/16/17 12:23:07 PM
#441
Because the MC is 85% of your fighting strength due to persona swapping

If you were able to revive him you would almost never lose any battles because TPKs are exceedingly rare and recovery items/healing are so strong in this series. And the game gives you tons of ways to deal with instant death attacks. I've never died to an instant death attack in P5 and I'm at the end of the game, and it was exceedingly rare in P3 and 4 as well once I got used to it being a thing.
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/16/17 10:52:17 AM
#434
qraIB7T

This works even better with Sojiro than it did Dojima
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/16/17 1:04:44 AM
#421
Yeah the dub is fantastic outside of 'Sack-ah-mah-toe' etc

Probably the best I've heard in years
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/15/17 5:15:38 PM
#401
Shadow Dino posted...
6th Palace:

Akechi: Wait, let's hold off on the calling card until this specific day!

...Really?


Well it wouldn't make sense if you could send it before since Joker gets captured on the heist as shown in the opening, so if you sent it before it would have to time skip
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/15/17 11:16:59 AM
#383
Strife2 posted...
I beat the 5th Palace. Also, what is this whole "diary of daily activities" thing? They've talked a lot about it since day one, but I've never written into a diary. I'm wondering if it is a stat boosting thing, special item, or just an excuse to save often.

It's the save menu <_<
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/15/17 11:07:01 AM
#380
Well if we're giving combat advice the best thing to do is just

Use a persona with an AoE physical move like rampage (or just use Yusuke or Ryuji if they're high enough level), use tarukaja on them, and use it like twice. Will wipe out everything but the mouth, and then the mouth will only be able to rez one which will waste its turn. From there the rest of the battle is cake.
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/15/17 10:46:34 AM
#378
GANON1025 posted...
The second palace boss fight destroyed me at level 18. What level should I be for that fight?

18.

My advice is to consider what the boss can do, what skills can get around it, and then fuse new personas until you find one or two that will help you implement that.
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/15/17 9:23:17 AM
#375
GANON1025 posted...
How do you raise guts?

Books, movies, DVDs, games, Tae S.Link, studying in school or the diner w/ a coffee, big bang burger challenges, crossroads bar job.

Games and the bar job may not be available to you depending on how early you are in the game.
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/15/17 12:55:10 AM
#366
Mac Arrowny posted...
I like that the villain's name was revealed in the Devil Confidant before actually finding it in the game. Or at least, I assume he's the main villain. We'll have to see what twists there are...


(Just replying to you in spoilers so as not to give people more indication of what you mean, not actual spoilers past that) He's mentioned a bunch of times, not just there. Mostly random NPCs that you can run around and talk to, though.



Also if anyone is ACTUALLY blaming Morgana about the sleep thing they're dumb. The point isn't that Morgana is annoying about it, it's that the game makes you go to sleep too much when it literally doesn't make sense ('oh there was a 5 minute scene of everyone talking, clearly you are too tired to do anything else that day despite normal days being much more involved than that'), and that it's way more than P3 and P4 did (and yes I realize P5 has way more active time in general, but it doesn't FEEL like it does because of how often this comes up). Morgana has nothing to do with it, it's a gameplay decision.
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/14/17 9:03:32 PM
#350
LapisLazuli posted...
10/28

Goro is on the box and the splash screen when you boot the game up, why is him becoming a party member such a hush hush super spoiler to some people?


He's not in any trailers or other promo material as a party member, only as a confidant.

I don't really get it either tbqh
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/14/17 8:29:50 PM
#348
11/17 spoilers

I like how this whole story I'm telling Sae is basically going to end with me saying "Yeah and then while we were waiting to pull the heist on your Palace I banged like 5 girls in as many days. Including your sister."

Because that's just how it happened to work out for me.

What a build up to that punchline though man I had you going that whole time huh Sae
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/14/17 12:34:16 PM
#310
swordz9 posted...
So I'm in the 5th Palace and you can avoid fights with certain enemies, but wouldn't it be best to fight them anyways for exp and stuff?

Probably if you have the SP regen items.

But honestly fights don't give you much in terms of items/money without doing hold ups anyway so it'd basically just be trading SP for exp which isn't super great imo
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/14/17 11:33:28 AM
#303
SupremeZero posted...
This needed to be shared.

https://twitter.com/mrfeelswildride/status/852699061522120704


*Cut in*
"Did you use a condom!? DID YOU?"
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/13/17 11:53:51 PM
#284
Mishima is the epitome of lolnerd
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/13/17 10:44:18 PM
#280
It could be time gating

But I've done all of the missions as soon as they've appeared for the most part

And I've definitely, 100% absolutely had scenes where its like 'you spend time with Mishida/Yoshida, you feel your bond will get closer soon...' (though weirdly, neither had actual scenes like most others do)
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/13/17 10:20:36 PM
#276
LapisLazuli posted...
Moon and Sun are auto level ups when you spend time, the points are worthless.

This is definitely not true I've had events where you just hang out because its not able to level up yet with both
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/13/17 9:28:39 PM
#270
LapisLazuli posted...
Is there....a reason to ever get new guns? Does anybody use them for damage?

I use them for damage in tough fights/boss fights if the boss doesn't have a weakness to what that character has and there is nothing better to do.

So not often, but it does happen. They tend to do more damage than a non-resistant spell if you unload the max into them.

And Haru's gun is really great for damage in general.
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/13/17 8:14:19 PM
#265
ElizeLutus posted...
It all makes sense now.

She was just ahead of her time
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/13/17 2:28:56 PM
#236
I thought the 2nd palace was absolutely pathetic compared to the first and the third was much more difficult


If I had to rank palaces in terms of difficulty so far I'd say like

3 > 5 > 1 > 4 > 2
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/12/17 7:59:28 PM
#179
So far

Makoto > Ann => Morgana > Futaba > Yusuke > Haru >>> Ryuji


I haven't done a lot with Futaba or almost anything with Haru yet though (because I just got her) so rankings still very much subject to change
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/12/17 5:53:29 PM
#169
Shadow Dino posted...
I dunno if it's Makoto bias on my part but Ann just feels like more of a friend than a romance option. Fembro fits her so well and I didn't get any kind of lovers vibe out of her Confidant chain.


Br(h)os with benefits
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/12/17 5:21:28 PM
#165
Ann is more of the bro character in this game than Ryuji tbqh

Ryuji is just kind of a jerkwad
[Right before the 5th palace spoilers]
*Everyone realizes they were treating Morgana like crap by accident and resolves to apologize to him, so they do*
Ryuji: "Why do I have to apologize?" *Ann glares at him*
Ryuji: "Fine well I don't really care if you're useless or not a human I guess I'm sorry"
*Morgana rightfully gets angry again because that was the most backhanded 'not an apology' I've ever seen and runs off*
Me: "WTF Ryuji are you actually kidding me? How are you this much of a dumbass?"
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/12/17 4:53:49 PM
#150
Not_an_Owl posted...
How on earth did you afford that? I'm right before sending the calling card for palace 4 and it was all I could do to scrape up the money for 4 Invigorate 1 patches.


Money making spoilers? Go into Mementos with at least rank 2 in the Sun Arcana, and just ask for money from Shadows in hold ups over and over. You can get several tens of thousands of yen from one fight if you get lucky. Even 10 minutes of this should give you around 100k yen where you are quite easily.



Also unrelated to that, I think the P5 cast individually is very strong and has a lot of depth to them, but yeah they really don't have the same chemistry as the P4 cast. I think the #1 thing I want in an improved remake is just 'more scenes of the cast together hanging out' like how they added events in Golden. The #2 thing (possibly to counterbalance the time this would take up) is to stop having Morgana make you go to sleep so often.
TopicPersona 5 General Discussion Topic #2 - Conserve That SP [spoilers?]
tcaz2
04/11/17 8:41:50 PM
#121
masterplum posted...
I missed two locked chests in palace 4

How important are they


I mean even if they were gear you'll just end up replacing it next palace anyway most likely, so not very

Mac Arrowny posted...
You have to ship the guys too though.

Yusuke x Art
Ryuji x Those two gag gay guys
Morgana x Treasure
Mishima x His Hand
Gun guy x Guns
Tora x Bernie Sanders
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