Persona series

It can be, but it can prove finicky unless your rig is really strong.

In other news- Well, the Accomplice Ending is a hell of a thing in full context. Dang, I feel like a real monster now.

Good thing I made two saves and just did this to get the video in the TV listings, huh?

And geez, the clear save file even has a recorded time of 66 hours 6 minutes. Dang- Jung would be proud of that level of synchronicity.

edited 1st Aug '15 2:26:51 AM by Pulse

Thanks for the pictures Other!

Actually now that I think about it you haven't been on for awhile since I haven't noticed any posts by you.

"And Male C's assclown-ness is extremely accurate to the game, at least."

It's not.

Minato in the games was just sorta angsty and a little bit of a loner.

Makoto however takes that to an extreme that, quite frankly, I have never seen any character in fiction take.

I'm not sure you can really describe a guy who makes friends with everyone from his classmates to small children to the elderly, including forming romantic relationships with a half-dozen different girls. You could certainly call him introverted, given that he listens more than he speaks (even above and beyond what you'd expect from a Heroic Mime) and when he's with a group of people he tends to hang out in the background rather than becoming the center of attention, but loner really isn't the right word.

I'd be hard pressed to describe what actual personality a Silent Protagonist would have.

The Persona games are a bit unique in that your choices for dialog as said mostly-silent main character all carry some color and personality to them. It's subtle, but it's there.

Native Jovian: Hency why I said "a little bit", he is something of one at the beginning but he starts moving on from that around the time Kenji first invites him to hang out and by the middle of the game it's pretty clear that doesn't describes him anymore.

^^^ P3 MC options are all generally quiet, aloof and sometimes antisocial. FeMC options are rather upbeat and friendly and she can be a bit of a tease sometimes. P4 MC is probably the worst when it comes to personality. He's mostly just a bland nice guy. There are almost no opportunities to be mean with him and you can't actually play him like he is in the anime either.

So there's a lot you can do. P3 MC fits the 'silent protagonist' thing the most if that's what you were thinking of given that he already seems to be pretty distant.

edited 1st Aug '15 12:20:28 PM by Arha

If you assume the narration box is the MC thinking, then P4 MC is hella snarky.

Indeed.

He also managed to make "Calm Down" a viable catchphrase.

Makes the last choice in the push towards towards the not-bad endings very satisfying, too.

edited 1st Aug '15 12:27:39 PM by Pulse

In fairness, playing him as presented in the anime would make him an absurd level of Cloudcuckoolander and the straight man at the same time. That would be a nightmare to write dialogue for if you still want that dialogue to be inconsequential to the plot.

There's some minor personality quirks that the P4MC has. Like his apparent fondness for cats and his possibly related ability to always land on his feet.

Does that ever come up outside of the attempt to crowd surf in Golden?

It's a minor thing in Q.

Oh right that one scene in Wonderland...

Over emulation, tinkering with the PS 2 plugins makes it more usable, by rendering the graphics lower. I forgot what I used that didn't risk the graphics so bad that it looks like that they got bald. The recommended is an i2, but I managed to get it to work via Pentium at some point. Try tinkering with the plugins out first.

I think there's a difference as a silent protagonist, especially how in P3 he finds the tune Tanaka's Amazing Commodities annoying, while P4 finds it cheery. In P4 most of the choices are detached, friendly and polite except with some choices. (I don't know why it's possible to mostly use "..." as an option at first. Like, wth. o-O) Over P3, he's more detached and aloof which turns happier as the game progresses, and the other nice to gradually getting down with the negative scenarios.

@Omega: We'd both been busy with real life things.

The one with the spiky boobs is the manager.

Persona Arena and Q are a cross-over, while Dancing All Night sticks to canon.

edited 1st Aug '15 6:26:24 PM by TheTomatoFairy

Golden again- Wait, so people have trouble getting the Hardcore Risette Fan trophy? I got it without particularly trying, I just played the game how I usually do!

Yeah same. I think it's because a lot of people stick to one party setup but in order to get HCRF, you need to use everyone.

I only have a vague idea of what that trophy even requires.

"Hear 250 different navigation lines from Rise."

So when she points out that an enemy's weak to fire, and that's hot, or when she brings up how Senpai is visibly dying, that's one each, and so on.

I really wish Golden was for something other than the Vita. I already have the PS 2 version of the game but I generally prefer to play remakes over the original versions.

You could always get a Playstation TV. It's cheaper than a Vita, and lets you play all Vita and PSP games on your TV. It's what I got, anyway.

I could but I already have a PSP and I only have five games for it. There also aren't a whole lot of Vita games I want so I couldn't really justify buying it just for one game. The original version is good enough for me.

So Playstation TV is basically like the old Game Boy player for Nintendo64 then?

Kinda- Sony worked out that the Vita was not doing so great, so they repackaged the hardware into a microconsole and sell it for around $50 US. It's like an OUYA that isn't a scam, basically.