/jp/ - Otaku Culture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHp9PnuUtg0

>>11287356
>>11287377

Pretty cool songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9E3VR8Fnj0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omEQ4bn4KQg

niggerdeath

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hicykrzDJ_Q

>>11287647

I had no idea SMT IV was even released yet, yet alone in the states.
I've been really out of it lately

>>11287356
thats a pretty woman

>>11287647
SMT IV has some seriously great music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyMbiaUfUc0
I still think Nocturne is the best of the main games, though.

>>11287936
If you ever play SMT IV, just know that the neutral path > chaos and law.

>>11288226
I got mad because i want neutral but i fucking got law. only the neutral path explains anything.

>>11288237
Yes, Chaos and Law are like two sides of a bad ending. Neutral is like the true ending.

post your favorite demon

I bought SMT IV, but it's too hard, so I went back to playing Project X Zone.

>>11288469
It's really fucking tough at the beginning, just make sure to not advance without preparing first, fuse a lot and heal a lot.

>>11288469
it's pretty bullshit in the beginning. once you gain some momentum in skills it becomes more manageable.

>>11288469
SMTIV is a bit of a dick early on, but after medusa the game is incredibly easy IMO. Try to build parties that cover as much resistances as possible, so you're practically guaranteed enemy turn break and/or smirk.

>>11288172
Agreed, the OST has a lot of gems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-JH9BuLYVg
I remember sitting in the first store for at least 5 minutes, just to listen to this for a while.

>>11288226

I will. I'll be venturing outside of my home tomorrow to pick it up. Wish me luck!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR6pHaeRV3w

>>11288572
Good luck. Magic build best build.

>>11288572
Normally I dont post outside the animefriend thread but you can do it I believe in you

>>11288557
>>11288485
>>11288482
Okay, I'll stick with it then.

Jonathan is really cute. I kind of want to see what happens with him anyway.

hee-ho

>>11288469
I hope you aren't wearing Gamestop billboard costume! You will definitely die if you work for Gamestop!

SMT IV is pretty cool. Fucking demons keep running off with my shit after I try recruit them though.

>>11288241
>>11288237
>>11288226
No one told me /jp/ was full of neutralfags!
Disgusting! It's like you all hate peace and happiness!

>>11289102
>happiness
>law

>>11289102
yhwh pls

>>11289092
Fucking Nekomata in Nocturne. I end up paying them around 600 macca and she says "Sorry, it really sucks, but I can't join you!" I get especially mad when they ask for beads, revival beads or chakra drops.

/jp/s

>>11288145

Yeah

>>11289213

Oh oops. Meant to post this

>>11288467
This dude is mine.

>>11289092
After a demon asks for two items, end negotiations.
Keep giving in to their demands and they're guaranteed to run off with your shit.

>>11288467

Oh man yeah? Sj what a strange journey yes. So scary, feeling the pressure, that huge snake like woah (but I didn't even play those games before so it was like woah). Then theres four. Wow get the demonica ?? Wow... Haha. Thank

>>11289385

>>11288467

>>11288467
I would die for her.

>>11288467
In P3 I used her the entire game without switching her out.

The final boss of the Chaos route has an elemental attack are you fucking kidding me.

Fire drain that shit and the fight's a joke.

I just beat it.

>>11288467

Pixies are always cute but this is the best design.

>>11289496
The whole game is a joke difficulty wise.

>>11289733
I too was disappointed by the lack of dekunda/silient prayer in a lot of the bosses. Since the game straight away tells you how to get Alice you can start fusing a team of debilitators that take the threat out of pretty much any boss in the game in three turns. Not Mastema though, that fight was worthy in every single way. I wish he was a little less fragile so he could be a useful summon. We'll see if he maintains his place in my stock for my Neutral run.

SMTIV was pretty disappointing. Are the rest of the mainline SMT games like that?

>>11290605
Depends on what you're looking for in games. SMT II has a great story but I and II have very outdated mechanics and interfaces (I especially). Also very masochistic dungeons where everything looks the same.

III has a lot of atmosphere and arguably the best battle system in the entire franchise but has a very minimalistic plot. Also the most difficult game, especially on hard. No alignments but instead "reasons".

IV is very easy and has a ton of handholding It also doesn't really have dungeons.

What did you not like about IV exactly?

>>11290628
The story in IV was rather rubbish.
The characters felt as though the only reason they existed was for you to align to, they had no depth to them.
The gameplay was kind of boring as it is essentially just about exploiting the enemies skills and weaknesses, which once you figure it out, is not hard.
The game was essentially just a series of quests, and I never felt importance to what I was doing, and was disconnected from everything.
Navigating the world map was not fun.

The things I did like was the music and talking to the NPCs.

>>11290657
Definitely play Nocturne. It's definitely a more immersive game.

>>11291089
Oops, I say definitely twice. Fanboy much?

>>11291097
Definitely.

Such is a samurai's skill.

>>11290657
The thing about characters and gameplay is standard SMT fare. Persona is the spinoff that is more focused on character development and relations.

And I agree that there were way too many side quests. So much padding. It really hurt the pacing of the game, especially on the neutral route.

>>11291309
I see, that's too bad.
Persona is just such a much better game it's not even funny. I'd even say the Devil Survivor games are better. I'm just not sure I understand the appeal of SMTIV. People who like it seem to really like it, some even going as far to say it is the best game on the 3DS. But to me it just seems like a mediocre RPG, with Pokemon-esque party building. I'm glad the game sold well though, because I'm sure Atlus could use the money, and hopefully they will make a bigger budget, more fleshed out game for SMTV.

>>11291346
I actually really like the simple mechanics and focus on the game with a streamlined story

My issues with it were more minor execution issues, it takes too fucking long to move around, the Tokyo overworld is a blurry confusing piece of shit, and the game REALLY needs an instant "reset directly to start screen" button instead of making me quit and reload from the 3ds menu every time shit hits the fan

I want to fuck Jonathan.

>>11291403
I'd like if they at the very least said what was where on the map for Tokyo overworld. Like, if I've been to Shinjuku, then write Shinjuku on the map, and not just a little dot. End up having to use a guide just for maps of places.

>>11291346
People tend to prefer Persona. The appeal of mainline is the whole mythology aspect, the alignment system, and dungeon crawling (although that was lost in 4, one of the reasons it was a disappointment). I'd say it is the best game on 3ds, but that's not really saying much, as the 3ds library is pretty bare bones if you're like me and don't care for Nintendo games. All of Atlus's efforts on it have been pretty underwhelming.

>>11291419
What is the appeal of the alignment system though? In SMTIV it doesn't really make any difference aside from which route you take at the end, and the routes are pretty similar regardless. I remember in Strange Journey it played a role in battle at least. As for best game on the 3DS, Bravely Default is a FAR better RPG on the system than SMTIV is.

>>11291419
You didn't like EO4? Personally my favorite game so far on the 3DS.

>>11291428
Different ending, different story tidbits, things like that. Used to be different demons and such but demons may as well have not had alignments in 4. In other SMT games the alignment heroes have much more interesting fates, as well. It's also nice because it's not just your typical good or evil choice system.

>>11291436
I did, but I think it's the worst EO (not saying that's bad though, just underwhelming).

>>11291408
Anybody has that picture of Jonathan blushing and smiling?

>>11291346
>I'm sure Atlus could use the money, and hopefully they will make a bigger budget, more fleshed out game for SMTV.
wasn't atlus on the verge of bankrupcy and selling out to nintendo?

>>11291973
Atlus parent company is and the latter is unlikely and unfavorable.

>>11291973
I wish. At least Nintendo would have them focus on making games. It'll probably be some Jewish company that buys them, or a company that makes them do mobage for the rest of their life. But anyway, Index, Atlus' parent company, filed for bankruptcy, and is being sold. Atlus itself doesn't really have any control over the matter. But having IP that sells strong, like SMTIV and Persona, should hopefully influence in a good way what company ends up winning them, and how they use them.

>>11291973
Every future SMT game would be on a Nintendo console. Just imagine the rage.

>>11291994
I half wish Nintendo would win, just so Persona 5 could be announced as a Wii U exclusive. The responses would be so fun to read.

>>11292005
I agree. I shouldn't, but it'd be hilarious.

>>11291994
For good reason. They make terrible hardware.

>>11291993
Why doesn't Atlus buy itself, doesn't that happen a lot?

>>11292028
which is kind of good. the worse their hardware is spec wise, the easier it is to emulate it on current gen pcs and get full speed.

i hear 3ds firmware was decrypted sometime earlier.

>>11291994
>>11292005
>>11292015
That's very immature and frankly I'm disappointed in you. You should want a company that lets them keep making good games that get localized not a company just to cause "rage".

>>11292005
>>11292015
Please no.

>>11292041
I don't think that is possible. The bidding I believe, is for Index, which includes Atlus, not just Atlus alone. I doubt Atlus could buy it's parent company, and even if they could, I last read the bidding was at 200 million dollars, which I seriously doubt Atlus has any where close to that. Though to be fair I don't really understand how all that stuff works. All I want is for Persona 5 to come out in a timely matter and be good. Atlus is a good company, and I don't want to see them get screwed over.

>>11292053
Nintendo localises games and would let them keep making games. After all, Atlus already makes most of their recent games for Nintendo anyway. Frankly I don't care about localisation though because I import them any way.

>>11292055
>and would let them keep making games
Eh I don't know. They threatened IS to shut them down if their next game wouldn't sell as well as they expected it to sell which forced IS to include as much waifu faggotry as possible to reach a big audience, which in turn resulted in a very sub par sequel.

>>11292073
Atlus has a number of strong, core IPs, that already perform strong on Nintendo systems. If I was Nintendo, I would love to get Atlus on board, and have some of their big titles, such as Persona, on the Wii U, to help drive some sales. They already have SMT x FE in the works. I don't see Nintendo spending a quarter billion dollars on Atlus, and then shutting them down shortly after because their games aren't selling enough, that wouldn't make much sense. But I also just simply don't see Nintendo spending a quarter billion dollars, so I highly doubt they will end up picking up Atlus.

Sega Sammy is probably going to get Atlus anyways

>>11292108
Hopefully not. They're just a company that was leaked among the bidders, not the one most likely to get it.

>>11292108
I'm not sure about that. It could be another company like Index. Or Gungho. We don't even know all the companies bidding.

>>11292108
fuck sega. they're like one of the worst companies to own ip. see the shining series and what happened to them. or, phantasy star.

many games never reach english side because they're not sonic. not to mention ps's recent trend to use mmorpg progressing style. go do some random fetch quests, maybe you'll see some storyline along the way.

>>11292164
Or their best series

>>11292108
I hope Marvelous AQL buys them.

>>11292191
Marvelous, TK and GungHo would all be great.

GungHo will get them, and it's really the best option.

Persona 4 had a lot of potential.

>>11298787
With more sugar and goofy antics.

>>11298773
Too bad it was just a lazy palette swap of P3.

>>11298787
Pretty much.

>>11298773
power of friendship will overcome all obstacles!

>>11298773
At least JoJo's Part 4 was good
just read that and pretend