Unofficially Official What are you Playing

[Perversion]

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John Mora? Deep?

[BeeZee]

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I beat the faux-final-boss of Persona 4 last night and am now gearing up my party to take on the Extra final boss.

The "ending" has some really good writing, but I think the story itself loses a lot of its appeal. The game always had a supernatural bent to its plot, but in the early phases, it was grounded more tightly in the whole backwater murder-mystery vibe. Now that the story is abandoning that and trying to provide explanations for all the crazy anime stuff going on, it's nowhere near as satisfying.

Oh well, a couple more hours of grinding and I'll be able to save the world.

[DK]

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Ah, that's a shame. I really love how Persona 4 is playing out right now (I'm in the secret lab dungeon). It's my first Fatlus game but I'll definitely be picking up Persona 3 sometime in the near future.

At first I thought it was typical pavilion response when everyone was all "Man I don't want this game to end"...but now....

...now I understand D:

[Toaster]

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Wait until you play Persona 3.

D:

[DarkwingChuck]

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I was playing Assassin's Creed. I finished it (I think?) so now I guess I'll get back to GTA4. I've also been playing the trial of Golf: Tee it Up over and over. It's just like Hot Shots Golf which I could never grow tired of. I'd get the full game but I don't care to get any MS points.

[BeeZee]

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I'm still really loving it. I think the writing is amazing when the game focuses on the interactions between the characters.

I think the thing is that there's no possible way to explain some mysteries in a satisfying manner. It's initially satisfying to find out who the culprit behind the murders is because it's given context and it's something that makes (some degree of) sense with the characters and their own personalities. It's not as satisfying, for example, to learn the explanation of why the Midnight Channel exists, because it's contrived jRPG supernatural jargon. There's no way to connect it to anything else in the story, and there's no emotional impact in an arbitrary pseudo-science explanation. Making matters worse, once that mystery is "explained," the thrill of the unknown disappears, and the entire concept ceases to be exciting.

At the very least, Persona 4 is smart enough to focus on its more grounded elements for most of the game, and this is why I love it. It's just the very very end that started losing some of its appeal for me, and even then, there's still a fair amount of great dialogue. The events right after all the dumb explanation are really fantastic and heart-wrenching, too.

[marcus]

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I died fifty turns later when I passed out and a bugbear stabbed me.

I was starting off pretty good. Began the game with a cursed scroll of genocide and summoned a kraken.

[Biggie]

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Yeah, I love the music in MadWorld because it's obviously "indie" hip-hop.

im assuming you like flobots and gym class heroes. besides, there are alot of popular artists on the soundtrack doofus.

The tracks actually sound like different songs. :V

BLAH BLAH BLAH ALL RAP SOUNDS THE SAME BLAH BLAH

[John Mora]

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YOU COULD TRAIN TO RESCUE ME, MARCUS

[marcus]

YOU COULD TRAIN TO RESCUE ME, MARCUS

I can't save you because I haven't reached your level yet. Who knows how long it would take to rescue you.

Just start a new adventurer... unless you found some godly weapons or something.

EDIT: Or you could wait a day or two for me to actually get that far. I'm a slow gamer.

[John Mora]

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I'm patient :3

[marcus]

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Fine I'll try my best to rescue you.

EDIT: Ugh, you're on the 17th floor. The 15th floor is the point of no return. Sorry bro, I ain't rescuing your sorry butt!



I had to kill Elijah Wood. It had to be done. I sacrificed his body to my god in a bloody ritual and then prayed to bless my wakizashi.

[marcus]

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Floor 10. Comin' to get ya Mora!

[Magus]

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Floor 10. Comin' to get ya Mora!

[marcus]

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DAMMIT MORA I DIED ON THE 15TH FLOOR TRYING TO SAVE YOUR SORRY ASS I'M QUITTING