Ah, Persona 4: amazing new title, or complete rehash of the sublime Persona 3? It's hard to say for sure, but since the recent trailer surfaced on the nets fans have been atwitter about this upcoming Atlus release. Skeptical or not, I can tell you that the day P4 comes out I'm going to rush and buy it and then tear it open in the car like a 5 year old. It might be the equivalent of Persona 3.5, but even if so it's likely to be more unique than most JRPGs I'll come across this year.
The gallery contains the first direct-feed screenshots from the game, which definitely look a little bit more streamlined that Persona 3 did as far as graphical quality. Still no word on an actual release date yet, but as soon as more info squeaks through the cracks we'll bring it to the table.
[Via Akayuki - Thanks, Ram]
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8:12 AM on 03.23.2008
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Is a "view next" button so much to ask?!?!?
Awesome! I dunno about anyone else, but unending frustration there.
On topic, P3 was easily one of my top 5 PS2 games - I'll buy P4 sight unseen.
not to discredit the first game, I enjoyed it. but still..
i sort of share the sentiment... P4 does look and sound an awful lot like P3... but isn't that what a sequel is SUPPOSED to be? maybe we're referring to the latest sequels as .5 of the last ones because we've got sequelitis?
P3 was my favorite game of 2007. i'll be picking P4 up as soon as it arrives on our shores.
It did, but, it took a while for it to reach the US. At one point, I had thought Atlus wasn't going to release it since no updates came out after a long period of time.
Seeing how the last game was a bit successful, I would assume P4 will come out faster.
Maybe it's just me and I've just so happened to miss the funny stuff. Then again maybe your genius lay in the fact that you don't try to be funny, you just are....sometimes.
Happy Easter and thanks for the screens!
I'm definitely going to admit that I will be disappointed if it's Persona 3.5, and there's a good chance it might be (seeing how the Japanese market fears change)
Whaaa!
Gosh, just on PS2 alone I have a ton of games on my backlog. Xenosaga, FF X, X-2, XII, GTA Trilogy, Yakuza, SotC, and now P3....
Also, apparently cool kids fight evil with glasses these days. Here I was hoping Persona 4 would feature self-decapitation. Each sequel needs to up the ante, you know.
A follow-up to the trailer explaining some things
Second follow-up, explaining the TV theme. Has to do with an old urban legend.
Some info on a few party members. Colette, I mean Satonaka, is very popular. She also kills monsters by kicking.
you are awesome.
Maybe there is too much good stuff that Colette is commenting about, and just not enough rubbish to take the piss out of.
Yes, this does look hot, but nothing I haven't seen from the videos.
Ok, now that I've got that out of my system, this game looks fucking awesome. I want so bad it hurts.
@Cheeburga: Most likely not. None of the Persona games are connected to each other at all.
It looks like Nocturne, sounds like Nocturne, acts like Nocturne. But they insist it's DDS, so it's Nocturne 1.5.
Atlus is pretty famous for making games that look thematically similar but aren't even close to being the same in any tangible way. I just don't want people to start passing up on P4 because "they've already played it when it was called P3". Like Shinu is suggesting in his post.
It looks like Nocturne, sounds like Nocturne, acts like Nocturne. But they insist it's DDS, so it's Nocturne 1.5.
Atlus is pretty famous for making games that look thematically similar but aren't even close to being the same in any tangible way. I just don't want people to start passing up on P4 because "they've already played it when it was called P3". Like Shinu is suggesting in his post.
There's little point in Atlus whipping up a whole new graphic engine for PS2, when they may be soon moving onto new systems. PS2 development is cheaper so its more cost effective for them and a lot of japanese gamers still have PS2 also.
Lastly, I hope if Persona 4 does well, Atlus will look to expand into some new series.
Except for Persona 2: Innocent Sin and Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, that is.
Im OK: I never played the first Persona because it was too backwards ass even for me, but I don't recall ever reading anything that playable characters from the first game showed up in the second. If so, well, then there you have it.
The characters being mentioned in P3 was just a fan reference, like how the Grim Fandango guy shows up in Monkey Island 3 and 4. Their names could have been replaced with any other generic name and they would have had an equal impact on the story.
When I said "at all" I meant in the sense that their storylines don't interconnect at all and nothing that happened in previous games is used as important plot devices in the newer games. Yeah, you get fun old game references like Maya showing up in a newscast, but it's not like you won't know who Ikutski is because you didn't play an older game in the series.
And yeah, Igor is like the Persona series mascot. He just shows up in each game, but he's never the same "Igor" and isn't really tied to the games in any successive order. Like you said, he's like FF's Chocobos or Cless Alvein showing up in pretty much every Tales game ever.
And yes, Igor's in P4. He's in the videos.
yes
Gen Eric Gui,
he is in the anime series too
I'm going to buy persona 4 regardless because I enjoyed persona 3 :)
Another thing I enjoy about Persona, is the delivery. You never know how things may unfold. Only if you've made a good / bad decision, the interaction with friends or enemies change.
Then again it hasn't had too many female leads, so it may be a different viewpoint. A year later? hmm wonder.
I get a bit annoyed hearing the 'it looks the same' comments. Seems to happen more with RPGs than any other genre to, and I blame Squeenix for this. Not every good RPG series has to follow the 'Final Fantasy Formula' and be completely different every single time (for the most part).
The game is an indirect sequel, so it makes sense for the game to look similar. It's in the same timeline in Japan except two years later and in a different, rural area. Aside from that the story, characters, persona, and setting are different. They even tweaked the battle system and S.Link system even though they didn't have to. They did a lot to the game in two years, and I'm not about to complain.
THIS GAME LOOKS FUCKING EPIC!!!!!!!!! I can't wait seriously persona 3 is one of my favorite games on the ps2. Now I can look forward to FES later this month and I will be able to play Baroque while I'm waiting for it. Seriously I love Atlus, granted I sound like a huge fanboy, but thanks to them they are keeping the ps2 alive for me.