Persona 4 dated in the US! Yes!

I was completely new to the Persona series but after hearing others go on and on about it I picked up the fes edition and have to say I've throughly enjoyed it.

Reserving this is a nobrainer, can't wait.

Darn it! I didn't know that this panel was today. I should have gone but the Mega64 panel was awesome.

@ Projectexodus

>>What type of game is Persona anyway? I've heard so much fuss about these games, but I really dont know...

The Persona games are spinoffs from the core Shin Megami Tensei franchise. The series itself is distinguished by a closer emphasis on the school-life setting so popular in most anime TV shows. Gameplay-wise, the battle system features Persona, which are basically summoned creatures who perform attacks, each with weaknesses and strength. Personae can be switched out, leveled up and fused together to make new ones.

The first two PS1 games were fairly bog-standard jRPGs.

Persona 3 introduced Social Links, which are basically scores representing your relationships to the game's cast and ancillary different characters, each relationship corresponding to a persona's arcana grouping.

Building ranks by spending time with the characters produced stronger personae during fusion, and netted special story events that were like an anime series' various plot arcs.

With P3 the series evolved from a standard cutscene-to-cutscene ride common in the jRPG to a time-management game with an attached dungeon-crawler. Good call on that for ATLUS.

This is the best news I've heard in a while. Gotta have another run through FES soon.

Playing thru FES now, just killed floor 135 boss, that miserable sleeping table! Great game, love the characters, the voices seem like perfect matches for their personalites.

MSRP?

BABYBABYBABYBABYBABYBABYBABYBABYBABYBABYBABYBABY OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

YES! YES! YES! WOOOOHOOOO!

An unrealistic wish of mine to see with the Social Link system is maybe an unlockable party member system. When I first played through P3, I for some reason had a hunch if you maxed out a person's SL maybe your Potential would rub off onto them, and thus I thought maybe later in the game you'd have Yuko and Mamoru as party members.

I don't know why I thought that, and I know it'd be a huge pain in the ass and bit of work for Atlus to even come close to pulling off, but that's one of my dreams for a future Persona game.

Good call, faceless. These games are too damned long.

If I can work it, I will be buying this pre-day one. SO EXCITED.

I believe this calls for a

FUCK YEAH, ATLUS!

Damn... that's fast. I can't wait.

Meh. I hated the P3 and haven't ever liked a damn SMT game, So I'm not going to waste my time this time.

What I played: Persona 3
What I expected: A decent RPG
What I got: A 999 hour long episode of Degrassi

I'm currently about halfway through September in FES right now (which is further than I made it in vanilla P3, back in the day).

So no Euro release date? :-( or should we just change the 08 to 09 like usual?

Arrgh, I'm stuck right now in Persona 3. I can't get past the boss on floor 110 because of it's cheap charm bullshit.

Maybe I'll give it another stab later, but I got kinda burnt out. P4 looks awesome, however, and I will most definately give Atlus my monies.

Five months isn't enough time for me to finish The Answer. They're doing this on purpose.

I'm getting P3 with my b-day money as soon as I get it... That and P4 should hold me over 'till next year when I graduate and get a decent PC.

I think it was Colette who sold me on Persona 3 FES. I bought it last week but i'm on vacation so I can't wait to get home and play it.

I think America will have Persona 4 FES by the time we get Persona 3 FES.

Damn regional encoding.

I'll play it anyway, though. ;)

All I can say is: "YEAAAAAHHHHHH"