Persona 5

megaten

megaten wrote: »

Just about to start the first dungeon proper and the hearing of having to do multiple trips is going to irritate me since Persona 4 has me conditioned to go through dungeons in one go.

Ended up only needing two trips for the first dungeon which wasn't too bad. I'm liking the cast a lot so far too. Morgana is leagues above teddie in terms of mascot characters

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Had to cancel my game order from Amazon.fr, boo.
Thankfully I was away all weekend so I didn't miss it too much.
I got it new from graingergames.co.uk for £38.99 on PS3 new. I've a 10% off from buying it that I won't use if anyone wants it let me know. (It's for pre owned games)

Paleblood

Really enjoying this on Remote Play. Lying in bed with the electric blanket on. Nerd heaven.

ironictoaster

Any tips on how to best the second boss battle? It's doing my head in! .

struggling against Madarames second round of being a painting (what an odd sentence to type!) .

He keeps restoring himself and I have don't have a persona that deal multiple physical damage to take out two sections at once.

Paleblood

Just got an answer wrong in class. It's as bad as I remember it being in real life.

sniper_samurai

Paleblood wrote: »

Just got an answer wrong in class. It's as bad as I remember it being in real life.

You can check the internets answers by pressing the touch pad, quite a few obscure Japanese questions in there.

Sephiroth_dude

How often should you be fusing personas?

megaten

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

How often should you be fusing personas?

You should always be trying to get Persona's with the strongest stats since they define your characters stats not your level. Just make sure you always have spells you find the most useful.

Retr0gamer

In Shin Megami Tensei games you should always be fusing. This isn't pokemon. Demon's level up very slowly and usually top out on skills after a few levels. Keep fussing to get higher level demons.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Graingergames cancelled my order and I've not found the PS3 version in stock anywhere, I want a physical copy.
Just wanted to check if anyone had see it in stock before I order one that I've to wait a week to ship.
Thanks in advance

Sephiroth_dude

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy wrote: »

Graingergames cancelled my order and I've not found the PS3 version in stock anywhere, I want a physical copy.
Just wanted to check if anyone had see it in stock before I order one that I've to wait a week to ship.
Thanks in advance

GameStop have it but its 50 Bob's unfortunately, too much for a PS3 game in this day and age, have you tried Argos or Smyth's? If you have either near you.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

GameStop have it but its 50 Bob's unfortunately, too much for a PS3 game in this day and age, have you tried Argos or Smyth's? If you have either near you.

I haven't seen it under e50 yet, with postage or DPD it's ending up around 50 anyway.
I'm not seeing anything on the sites Argos just has PS4, Smyths or GS. Argos and Gamestop I'd be close to but not til tomorrow.

Paleblood

This will sound like sacrilege to some of you but I'm thinking of knocking the difficulty down to easy. I'm enjoying the combat and watching my party get stronger but ultimately I'm only really here for the story and the social links, management stuff, etc.

My only concern is that it will become a total cake walk. I still want it be necessary to use my personas, to have to fuse to keep up with the bosses. I'd hate to be able to melee my way through the game.

This will be the first JRPG that I finished, as well as my first turn-based combat game. Priority number 1 is finishing it because I love the world. I'm just at risk of pushing it aside if I'm 50 hours in and still grinding for bosses.

Anyone else in the same boat? Have you tried it on easy?

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Paleblood wrote: »

Anyone else in the same boat? Have you tried it on easy?

I'm always afraid of being too easy so I never did. Could you make a new save slot on easy and test it out?

nix

Paleblood wrote: »

This will sound like sacrilege to some of you but I'm thinking of knocking the difficulty down to easy. I'm enjoying the combat and watching my party get stronger but ultimately I'm only really here for the story and the social links, management stuff, etc.

My only concern is that it will become a total cake walk. I still want it be necessary to use my personas, to have to fuse to keep up with the bosses. I'd hate to be able to melee my way through the game.

This will be the first JRPG that I finished, as well as my first turn-based combat game. Priority number 1 is finishing it because I love the world. I'm just at risk of pushing it aside if I'm 50 hours in and still grinding for bosses.

Anyone else in the same boat? Have you tried it on easy?

I'm over 50 hours in and havent "grinded" at all for bosses, you do end up leveling up a decent amount just by doing the side quests in mementos. So if you dont plan on doing them, then i can see you might end up a bit under leveled. I started the 4th dungeon and got lucky off the bat figuring out enemy weaknesses and have been destroying mobs.

So i would advise continuing on normal, and if you start struggling in your ventures, then consider dropping the difficulty.

megaten

I played P3P on easy and I do think it made the game more boring than I thought it would.

Xenji

Paleblood wrote: »

This will sound like sacrilege to some of you but I'm thinking of knocking the difficulty down to easy. I'm enjoying the combat and watching my party get stronger but ultimately I'm only really here for the story and the social links, management stuff, etc.

My only concern is that it will become a total cake walk. I still want it be necessary to use my personas, to have to fuse to keep up with the bosses. I'd hate to be able to melee my way through the game.

This will be the first JRPG that I finished, as well as my first turn-based combat game. Priority number 1 is finishing it because I love the world. I'm just at risk of pushing it aside if I'm 50 hours in and still grinding for bosses.

Anyone else in the same boat? Have you tried it on easy?

Quite a few people play on easy and just want to enjoy the story, your gonna be putting a minimum of 100 hours into the game regardless of the difficulty anyway and till players get the hang of weaknesses and buffing/debuffing even normal can be a challenge.

That said I have been playing it on hard and have been really enjoying the battles, the mode is well balanced and nothing cheap has come up yet, plus the grind is fairly understated at the moment.

Sephiroth_dude

I'm playing on easy.

Retr0gamer

SMT games can be tough but more than manageable and there should be no need to do any grinding as long as you fight smart.

As I said before unlike other jrpg ganes stat buffs and debuffs are incredibly powerful in these games especially if you can stack them. There might even be abilities like fog breath that stack by 2 with one use. Abuse these and you will have no problems with bosses. Agility is probably the most powerful stat as it makes enemies miss and give you free turns.

ERG89

I want a Persona like game but with just going to school & socialising.

Retr0gamer

ERG89 wrote: »

I want a Persona like game but with just going to school & socialising.

Here's your panacea: http://store.steampowered.com/app/214610/

megaten

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Here's your panacea: http://store.steampowered.com/app/214610/

I played that years ago and while it's short it's pretty good and got updated with a new translation since.

gryfothegreat

You can change difficulties at any time so if you drop down to Easy but feel bored you can go back to Normal. If you choose Safety you're stuck with it so avoid it unless you don't care about dungeoning.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

sniper_samurai

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy wrote: »

Plenty of these going around atm, think the best one is Moe with his shotgun.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

sniper_samurai wrote: »

Plenty of these going around atm, think the best one is Moe with his shotgun.

I saw that one! One of the lads had it up on Facebook :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fPff61eIoc

Sephiroth_dude

Ahahaha that's brilliant

ERG89

Seinfeld and Persona 5....yeah :D:D :cool:

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

ERG89 wrote: »

Seinfeld and Persona 5....yeah :D:D :cool:

That's brilliant!
I saw a Seinfeld visual novel all about George not being noticed by senpai.
One of the lads then sent Evangelion Seinfeld :pac: :pac:
https://youtu.be/cpnNakMdvXk

Paleblood

Cheers for the replies. I'm gonna stick to normal for now. I don't mind getting my assed whooped every now and then but if I feel like things are coming to a standstill I'll switch to easy.

By the way, I just realised I have access to Izanagi and Izanagi Picaro. Can I use them straight away? Are they not ridiculously overpowered? I was under the impression that you can only wield personas that are the same level as you.

nix

Paleblood wrote: »

Cheers for the replies. I'm gonna stick to normal for now. I don't mind getting my assed whooped every now and then but if I feel like things are coming to a standstill I'll switch to easy.

By the way, I just realised I have access to Izanagi and Izanagi Picaro. Can I use them straight away? Are they not ridiculously overpowered? I was under the impression that you can only wield personas that are the same level as you.

Aye, same level and below, anything over and you cant fuse or capture.

J. Marston

How lost would a newcomer to Persona be if they jumped in now? Seen a few videos and love the style of it but I like stories in games and don't want everything going over my head.

sniper_samurai

J. Marston wrote: »

How lost would a newcomer to Persona be if they jumped in now? Seen a few videos and love the style of it but I like stories in games and don't want everything going over my head.

You should be fine, they're all separate stories. If you want to try a Persona game without spending too much pick up Persona 4, its €5 on the Vita atm and also available as ps2 classic on the ps3(US account required).

Xenji

J. Marston wrote: »

How lost would a newcomer to Persona be if they jumped in now? Seen a few videos and love the style of it but I like stories in games and don't want everything going over my head.

The games all have standalone stories, so you would not need to play the previous entries to enjoy this, it has no connection to past games.

nix

J. Marston wrote: »

How lost would a newcomer to Persona be if they jumped in now? Seen a few videos and love the style of it but I like stories in games and don't want everything going over my head.

This is my first persona game and im in no way lost, its bloody great!

YOU MUST BUY!

I'm on the hunt for a cheapish PS vita now so i can dive into other persona games after :P

sniper_samurai

nix wrote: »

This is my first persona game and im in no way lost, its bloody great!

YOU MUST BUY!

I'm on the hunt for a cheapish PS vita now so i can dive into other persona games after :P

All of the Persona games available on the Vita, Persona(psp), Persona 2: Innocent Sin(part 1, psp), Persona 2: Eternal Punishment(part 2, ps1 classic US only), Persona 3: Portable and Persona 4: Golden are also playable on a PSTV(€40 in CEX).

nix

Whats a PSTV? Have you got a CEX link?

I think id prefer playing them on handheld device though, i prefer playing dated games on handheld as the dated graphics dont bug me as much

sniper_samurai

nix wrote: »

Whats a PSTV? Have you got a CEX link?

I think id prefer playing them on handheld device though, i prefer playing dated games on handheld as the dated graphics dont bug me as much

A PSTV is the innards of a PS Vita placed into a very small set top box for your tv that can be controlled with a Dual Shock 3 or 4 controller. It has all the functionality of a Vita, but is incompatible with games that require touch controls such as Little Big Planet.

https://ie.webuy.com/product.php?sku=711719818236#.WO7ZZY-cFhE

Paleblood

nix wrote: »

Aye, same level and below, anything over and you cant fuse or capture.

I'm level 10 and I've been using a level 20 Izangani? It's taking a huge amount of of HP/SP to wield so it's not practical, but I've being using it successfully to get out of tight spots.

Again, I thought I couldn't use a higher level persona. What am I not understanding? Is it just the two DLC personas that I can use?

Retr0gamer

You can't use of fuse persona that are higher than your own level except the DLC ones. The exception are persona that fuse and level beyond your level from the social link exp bonus. And that's why social links are so important!

nix

Id say if thats the case its because theyre DLC personas? not sure

I had no idea they existed, where/how did you get a DLC persona?

sniper_samurai

nix wrote: »

Id say if thats the case its because theyre DLC personas? not sure

I had no idea they existed, where/how did you get a DLC persona?

Think they come with the costume sets.

nix

sniper_samurai wrote: »

Think they come with the costume sets.

Was this from a certain edition of the game?

sniper_samurai

nix wrote: »

Was this from a certain edition of the game?

2 dlc Persona packs available at €2.99 each on the store, one for Orpheus(P3 protagonists starter persona) and Izanagi(P4 protagonists starter persona).

https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-ie/search/q=persona%205

Paleblood

nix wrote: »

I had no idea they existed, where/how did you get a DLC persona?

I'm not sure really.

I bought the digital version of the game. I downloaded everything that came with it, such as Japanese audio, theme, etc. I guess they were in there somewhere.

I'd say if you were a competent player they'd leave you way overpowered. Fortunately I absolutely suck at the game (so far!) so I'm happy using them from time to time.

Paleblood

I have my PS4 over two years and I've only now just realised that (a) you can wake up the PS4 from Remote Play and that (b) you can suspend games while you're in rest mode.

So I've got my Vita in rest mode, my PS4 in rest mode and Persona 5 suspended in the background. It takes about 30 seconds to wake everything up and start playing in Remote Play. Nice.

I love how the game looks on my 48" Samsung but it looks fantastic on my OLED Vita. It shows up less of the jaggies and just feel 'right' as a handheld title.

Zapp Brannigan

Best game of the year so far for me.

4 dungeons down and I'm loving every second spent playing it!

Glico Man

I didn't realise skill cards can be given to any persona. I don't remember P4 being like that at least. I've now got a level 19 Orobas with garu, agi, zio and bufu. If I get some hama and mudo skill cards I'll be well set.

Retr0gamer

Doubling down on elemental magic instead of stat buffs/debuffs.

SMT baptism of fire incoming.

Glico Man

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Doubling down on elemental magic instead of stat buffs/debuffs.

SMT baptism of fire incoming.

I'm well versed in the SMT methods, but thanks for the concern