Atlus Starting Work on Persona 5
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I hope this will be on the "new" consoles, PS3, xbox360 etc. I don't want to have to dig out my ps2 again. 
Oh man! Finally! Here's hoping it's on PS3 and I'm guessing a purple-y color theme.
College students would be so much more preferable.John Funk said:
ready for a new Persona, and if it's on PS3, that will be the
push to get me to buy one (PS3, that is...)
push to get me to buy one (PS3, that is...)
Ninja'd. I could NOT figure out how to get anything besides the bad ending in P4, when THAT happened... Anyone who played knows what I mean.Dudeakoff said:
Anyway, I'd like to see a less obvious bad guy in the next game. The killer in P4 was kinda obvious from the beginning if you followed the clues.
You have played the Shin Megami games outside the Persona series right i'm 99.9999999999999% sure they ain't changing the formula that dramatically. most likely a new story type or maybe a different country.Therumancer said:
Agreed, however ........... it never was about the graphical power........ maybe they'll do full voice acting.... we can only hopeGrayjack said:
while were wishing..............The DSM said:
please someone bring over Chaos Head for the 360 or Idolmaster
Excellent prediction there, I think that's very plausible. Did your incredible foresight also predict that Modern Warfare 2 would have guns in it, be set during a modern day conflict and involve shooting people?John Funk said:
I think this is great news. Persona 3 was one of the best JRPGs on the Playstation 2 when it was released. Then they released Persona 3 FES which was considerably better. Then Persona 4, which was a LOT better.
What I want to see most in this sequel is for them to give you more than two actions per day (one in the afternoon, one at night). I want different actions to take different amounts of time so if you plan properly you can do several quick actions rather than it taking the same time to stop for a bowl of ramen as it does to work at a part time job all afternoon. Also, although Persona 4 had already taken steps in this direction, I want them to turn up the complexity of how the social links interrelate. On Sunday dates with your links you could already run into people from other links (I was impressed when while on a date with Ai Ebihara I ran into Yukiko, Ai got annoyed and left and I ended up spending time with Yukiko instead- but also a little annoyed as I'd already maxed Yukiko's link). I want entire links to actually work together, with the overall events of the link changing depending on the choices you make not only within the link but also within OTHER links. Really, I couldn't care what changes they make to the combat/dungeon system, as long as they update the Persona models (which are the same ones they've been using since Shin Megami Tensei 3).
They already did, it was called "Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs The Soulless Army/King Abbadon". Don't worry, they won't be messing with Persona when they already have a SMT subseries for action.Therumancer said:
I'd like to see P3/4's progression-through-time and dating sim stuff, snazzed up and made less linear, combined with a return to the everyone-in-your-party-can-switch-personas systems of 1 and 2 (and maybe demon-conversation wouldn't be too much to ask for, if they could make it a separate system from the dating sim stuff?). And elements of the more complex battle systems of 1 and 2. And yeah, college students instead of highschool students would be a plus. Time to incorporate the best of the old and the new!.. I hope. I'm sure I'll still buy it regardless. Also exciting would be some news of new work on the main SMT franchise, which has been idling since Nocturne/Lucifer's Call.. unless that DS game "Strange Journey" is supposed to fill that role. Haven't played it. Is it good?
Yes I have. I've played Nocture, Digital Devil Saga, The Devil Summoner games, Devil Survivor (DS), and just got "Strange Journey" from Amazon, which means I'll probably be abandoning my flirtation with Pokemon before too long.Gamegodtre said:
I am concerned mostly because of the Devil Summoner games, which are an action-RPG hybrid type thing, which so far seems to mostly be stat based, but I have been concerned is going to form the foundation for more work in the series. I mean it was pretty good, but I wouldn't want it to get any more action oriented, and in the end I prefer the good old fashioned stat-heavy, turn based combat... especially in the games that let me form my own party of demons (like Nocturne).
I admit my wariness is also due to the fact that we got the "Devil Summoner" series translated, but games I was more interested in like "Soul Hackers" wound up getting their port deep sixed right before release.
They already did, it was called "Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs The Soulless Army/King Abbadon". Don't worry, they won't be messing with Persona when they already have a SMT subseries for action.[/quote]Therumancer said:
I've played just about every SMT release into the US except for Demi-Kids. That includes the "Devil Summoner" games (I have both, including the version of the second game that was packed with a plushie). It's actually the "Devil Summoner" games that have me concerned along with "Demon's Souls" even though the latter was not a SMT game (it was however brought over by Atlus).
Strictly speaking I prefer good old fashioned, stat heavy, turn based RPGs. However in making desicians about what gets sent to the US I've noticed they seem a lot quicker to bring over the more twitch oriented titles. "Devil Summoner" was still pretty stat based for the most part, but compared to other games with the SMT label I wasn't quite as impressed with it for that reason. I also notice that with all the RPGs released for "Japan Only" release the one we got was "Demon's Souls", which was a truely awesome action RPG (heavy on action, low on RPG) but probably wouldn't have been my first choice on the "OMG I want to play that RPG" list.
Probably a false alarm, but understand that while someone who could loosely be considered one of the "Atlus Faithful" I am still miffed over how we never got "Soul Hackers" or an official release of "Innocent Sin" in the USA despite everything. Now granted that goes back many years, but what can I say? Like an elephant, I tend not to forget about things like that. I simply do not trust Atlus' desician making process all that much.
I liked the Persona games when I first played them, but looking back, they must have been the most linear and repetitive experience I've seen in a JRPG. Sometimes it felt like all I was doing was filling up countless meters (exp, friendship, stats, etc.) while sitting through tons of dialogue with no consecuence in my actions, rather than increasing the time I had to spend with "classmates". It wasn't until I played Dragon Age (the first non-japanese RPG I played) that I realized how flawed the concept was. Plus, the combat system in P3 was broken beyond repair.
I don't see why not...The 360, of all things, is the home of JRPGs this generation.The DSM said:
your insane, i hope you know that, Persona has always been a PS game, it wont do what Final fantasy did (Sadley, would love to see Persona with achievements) and hop around to another system.misteromar said:
OT: YES! god i have already lost a total of 500 hours to both 3 and 4, might as well add another 100 to 200 hours depending on how good this one is!