Every time it goes on sale, I think about picking it up, but then I remember…
It takes me long enough to finish 10-hour games I already own…
I highly recommend the game, but I totally get you. I didn’t buy it for years for the exact same reason. Eventually it was on a good sale when I was between games so I got a chance to play it. If you’re an anime fan you will probably love the game. And if you’re not, it may be cringy as fuck on occasion but you’ll probably still love the game after getting sucked in. But if you end up never playing it, that’s totally fine too. I’ve found in life that you don’t need to watch every movie and play every video that are highly praised. I still haven’t played the Mass Effect games even after owning all of them for 5 or so years.
I’ve found in life that you don’t need to watch every movie and play every video that are highly praised.
You’re absolutely right and I’m glad I reread that sentence: at first I somehow missed the “don’t” and was gearing up for a long and pointless rebuttal of what I THOUGHT I just read 😄
Those numbers would be awesome, if it wasn’t a Persona game. My friend tried getting me into it on the PS1 and I bounced right off.
If it’s not for you it’s not for you, but I will say the Persona series took a big turn for the better around Persona 3. The modern ones don’t have a whole lot in common with the first couple beyond some basic play structure. If the last one you played was on the PS1 and you’re at all interested in an anime JRPG then P5 is worth a second look.
142h completionist : LOL
I’ve tried P4G and I just can’t stand the required grind, nor the 3h bossfights, otherwise good game
lol 3h boss fights wtf game were you playing
Persona 4 Golden, though it may have been a result of me just pushing through the dungeon without any grind
Like most JRPGs, the Persona and mainline SMT series have a battle system that resembles a complex game of rock/paper/scissors. You’re either strong, weak, or neutral against a foe depending on what Persona/Demon you have out. You generally don’t have to grind for levels ever in JRPGs outside of the battles you invariably encounter on your way to objective x.
I have to object - to this day I’ve played a few turn based jRPGs - FF X, EBF 5, aforementioned P4G, and Trails in the Sky 1 come to my mind, maybe there was one or two more - and some bosses and areas pose a level gap too wide to ignore with just strategy and consumables
Watch a speedrun. They avoid almost all encounters and still nuke bosses in a few turns.
Then skill issue, I guess
the required grind
JRPG moment 😭
I can’t think of a single remotely modern JRPG with required grinding. It’s usually that you have the choice between learning how the game works or overleveling to brute force everything. People then do the latter and don’t even realize the former was an option.
It’s one of those games with a fun grind. With how snappy the UI and everything is, nothing ever really feels like a chore. I played Xenoblade Chronicles recently and I think it took my 50lbs to beat, but those 50lbs felt longer than Persona’s 100+ hours.
I like Xenoblade more personally anyway, but just wanted to share my experience.
Measuring games by weight? Neat.
Not sure if tired or autocorrect, but I’ll leave it as is
Personally, I’m a sucker for long completion time. I only like specific types of games that don’t get released that often, so I’m always in danger of running out of games I haven’t replayed to death yet 😁
Most of it being cutscenes is a huge negative if not an outright dealbreaker to me, though.
I do feel like some of these games lose their premise if they grind on for too long. I think Haru Okumura’s dungeon is one of the more inspired, but by the time you get there, the game loop has gotten stale. Then the finale is just an interminably long series of hallways.
They could have compressed that game by half (especially towards the back end), keyed up on the drama, and maybe fleshed out the daytime normal-life content a bit more.
But I say that within the context of a game with a truly captivating story, some solid twists and top 10 anime betrayals, and a charming romance system that draws you into the characters. Had a great experience on my playthrough. Can’t imagine ever trying to play it again, but it was a wild ride the first time.
I don’t have time for games that long
plays Factorio for the 274th hour
A friend of mine tried to convince me to get Factorio a couple days ago. Couldn’t help but feel like he was a junky trying to get me to try just a little bit of heroin.
It’s more like crack or meth. You start a gamenin the early evening and suddenly it dawn’s outside. I hate myself for loving a game which basically simulates the job of “process optimization”
wait until you find out about Shapez 2
I always describe it as a puzzle game where all the puzzles are designed by an idiot and that idiot is you.
The spaghetti must grow
As a chef, the spaghetti can fuck off. I want to build lasagna.
Hey if your actual job is process optimization, you get to enjoy it twice as much 🥲
I started playing Satisfactory with a friend a couple weeks ago.
I realized yesterday that it’s basically my job if it was fun.
I’ve never played factorio, but I am an industrial engineer and my builds in the minecraft mod create make my wife sad
Do not even come close to Factorio or it will be your Ex Wife. Trust me Bro!
Satisfactory, however, will be 100% totally safe and good for that marriage. Trust me bro!
Dyson Sphere Project is exactly what that marriage needs! There’s a multiplayer mod so the wife can show him good optimization.
Whatever you do, don’t install clockwork and valkerien skies. You maybe become but a memory to your wife
274? In Germany, we call that ausbaufähig. The factory must grow.
Is that a single save, or your total playtime?
looks at all the games I played for over 300 hours
Oh no.
“Wait, it’s all visual novels?”
Game is okay I guess.
My wife and I recently started our first playthrough. We’re mostly interested in the story and style and I don’t want to deal with any bullshit difficulty spikes, so we set it to Safe Mode and are absolutely here for the 120-hour push-button anime experience. So far, it rules.
“120 hour anime series” is fair, but “occasionally click a button” is not. If P5 qualifies for that, then every turn-based JRPG ever does.
I was gonna say, that sounds like the first 50 hours or so of FFXIII
God I wish I could play this game again with a fresh slate and no knowledge of anything again. Story, style, soundtrack, and gameplay all in an endearing package.
I’ve never played it
Me neither but Winter is coming and my pile of shame recently got Space Marine 2 added …
But one day I will be old and retired. I will only die when I played them all!
That’s what I’m hanging on too. On the upside though my pile doesn’t grow so much now days since so much that is released is a steaming pile of trash
Telltale
This is me and Persona 4.
There’s a lot of good game elements. But it’s SOOOOO MUCH. It’s like a damn visual novel with bits of game.
And I’m sure the payoff is great, since the Persona games are very well received. But after a long day, I don’t want to think. I just want to mash buttons until the pain stops.
If you like monster collection games. Check out shin megami tensei. More rpg than graphic novel. Same overall concepts but none of the daily dating sim like aspect.
I feel like the people looking for a JRPG, having been guided to Persona, that wind up hating Persona, were probably looking for one of the mainline SMT games instead!
Make him play Digital Devil Saga if he wants a game
Peak isn’t it? The expansion for the remake of 3 launched too, go play it!
Persona 5 is the only game in my life I ever played and made my eyes hirt, it just felt nauseating
Try playing Dark Forces, or the original Doom or Quake. You’ll get motion sickness really quick because of the frame rate of those games. Somehow I managed to acclimate to them back in the day, but I attempted to replay the originals of those games in the last decade, and got extremely nauseous.
i played my fair share, of them and more, never once in my life had a problem, literally only persona 5
probably doesnt help i never liked the direction of the game, or the characters
I will admit that I’m susceptible to motion sickness, but damn. Those games fucked me up as an adult.
dang, unfortunate
They didn’t make it to the first dungeon XD
In Persona 4, it took me something like 5 hours before I got to my first combat scene. Then another few hours before I got into a dungeon.
Well yeah. The dungeons are in the TV world, you’re a high schooler in the real world. They needed to introduce you to your party and provide the context in which you’ll be adventuring. Most JRPGs provide very scant gameplay in the first few hours. Sounds like OOP just isn’t into JRPGs, which is totally fine.
You’ll never see it coming~~
You’ll see that my mind is too fast for eyes
Metal Gear 4 lol
MGS5 did it very well! (That’s if you made it passed the long intro)
It’s chapter based. So you get 1-2 minutes of introduction, then tossed into the field. Story follows more gameplay like cassette tapes or walkie talkies while you explore, with cutscenes when you hit certain points.
After MGS5, I find it hard to play the older ones with its 10-30 minute cutscenes.
It’s funny you praise 5 for that, but as a huge fan of the series I think the best description I read of mg5 was: “it’s simultaneously the best stealth action game out there and the worst metal gear game in the series.” Lol
I think the open world kinda ruined the pacing of the story and it all felt kind of disjointed in comparison to the linear games. That’s coming from someone who LOVES open world games too. Still lots of fun though
If you played all of the games up to 4, you were invested in the story, and therefore the cutscenes were welcome.
