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The press turn system combat is decent and the dungeon crawler elements are great. But the dating simulator has always been trash.

>>15306713

>the dungeon crawler elements are great

I've only played 3 and 4 and those were awful, just a dozen floors of randomly generated bland hallways. The combat was better than your average JRPG but just barely and it can't carry the game. I found myself trudging through the dungeons just to get to more of the life sim bit but even that wore out its welcome pretty fast.

>>15306720

I'm not mad, and I like plenty of JRPGs. My problem is why would anyone like Persona.

>>15306743

>I'm not mad, and I like plenty of JRPGs

Your taste is highly questionable as well, OP. This thread is pointless.

>>15306774

It's an antiquated game genre that has no place in the 21st century, just like Pong.

>>15306783

Nowhere did I say that.

>>15306761

>Getting hung up on spacing

Oh no look I'm doing it again, are you getting triggered by my use of the enter key?

>>15306743

>just a dozen floors of randomly generated bland hallways

That was my least favorite part when playing 4, but to be fair 5 does have its own unique dungeons to go through; don't get me wrong they're not exactly challenging dungeons but at least every room is unique and I actually enjoyed playing through them.

I overall enjoyed playing through 5, even though the combat was pretty basic (even on hard) and the padding got pretty annoying when you could easily clear dungeons in one day, but to be honest I was a sucker for its soundtrack and that's probably what I enjoyed the most from my playthrough.

>>15306713

>press turn

I don't think any of them have the press turn system à la Nocturne; sure you can get extra turns by exploiting weaknesses but that's basically it, you can't use up two turns by missing or use up half a turn and so on.

>>15306864

I'm thinking of giving them a try after I finish with Nocturne, but do you get full control of all the characters during the combat? Or is that just Persona 3, cause if so that would be pretty annoying and was part of the reason I never bothered with 3.

I don't understand why anyone likes the Persona games.

The plot and characters are worse than your average anime, the gameplay isn't anything to write home about either, I guess if you like the music it's pretty good but apart from that I'm struggling to find a reason why anyone dumps 200 hours of their life into these piss poor dating sims/school simulators.

>>15306686

YOU'LL NEVER SEE IT COMIIIIIING

>>15306686

1 and 2 are straightup dark, good, and classic. 3 is stylish with a tint of its predecessors and draws some religion theme as well (the MC died for humanitys sin). 4 is heartwarming and comfy and it deals with the coming of age subplot of characters. Also friendship and that comfy as fuck Nippon countryside.

Soundtrack wise, 3 is the best with 4 coming in really close.

5 is dumpster fire story-wise. Edgy wannabe modern animu trash. Their phantom thief gimmicks and costumes? Really? Also autistic super hacker girl mary sue bullshit. Underlying theme is pretty much we are good kids punishing bad adults durr and its subplots are bland. Soundtracks are servicable but nothing compared to 3/4.

We have a thread already so take it here >>15252182

>>15306921

You'll be confused if you go into Persona expecting a game. It's popular as a hand-holding waifu sim with lots of high school and stories like in the annie-mays. To save you further disappointment, grand strategy games similarly have no gameplay of value and are just alt-history wank.

>>15307067

How about you fuck off?

>>15306686

So, you played a game you do not like then you are mad that people like the game?

Well, what I personally liked about the game is that it's a nice game you can chill around to, it's not too heavy on a subject it has a silly plot that has like 2 twists or more.

It's what one would expect from a sequel to persona 4 which was also waifub8 and a mini mystery game which you did not need to actually think, just enjoy the ride.

Some people actually like to just let the story unfold and just chill for the ride they went on.

>>15307173

Why do we need two threads on Persona when there is one already?

>plot and characters worse than your average anime

haven't seen much anime have ya?

tell you what OP, recommend us some better games to play, how about 5 or so

>>15306891

3 and 3 FES are the only games that do that, even P3P actually lets you control each party member so if you want to try 3 play that one, and just play on a higher difficulty to compensate

Could be worse it could have been a "realistic" EA WW2 shooter with cyborg lesbians.

I've tried to finish 5 half a dozen times but the same thing keeps happening.

>finally pick game up again, forget everything

>get halfway through a dungeon

>wipe to some random seemingly overpowered demon

>"fuck this"

>quit out and play serious sam, don't touch persona for another three months

I just don't really like the combat system and the story is boring.

>>15306864

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>>15307358

>being bad at persona 5

I understand maybe being bad at 3 or something but with 5 the general rule is that you don't need to die as long as you're not being retarded

>>15307361

Dating Sim element is completely optional and you could technically ignore the social links too if you really hate them that much.

>>15307385

I've been chugging along fine and then had my entire party wiped out of nowhere. It doesn't help that the gameplay just isn't fun enough to make me care.

>>15306686

Because the people who play them were all the fat kid in highschool who didn't have friends and was completely ignored, but he still longed for a normalfag high school life so he settled for the next best thing; a shit series full of anime tropes, retarded story and endless grindan.