Persona 4 Arena

[Indigo]

So is anyone else here looking forward to this game? Maybe it's a little soon to judge, but I think this just may be my favorite fighter...

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Grg! You beat me to making this topic! I would have done it eventually... I am looking forward to it more than anything else in the entire universe, because it combines my favorite game series with one of my favorite fighting games. It's going to be so awesome that I'll die of a heart attack while I put in the disk.

[Stove]

^blatant overreaction.

I've seen this on gameFAQs several times. I'm just gonna say it's a game made for money, will probably be crappy, and puts a bad game into an awesome series.

But that's just my thoughts.

[Indigo]

I liked Persona 3 Portable a lot, but never got to play P4. It's on my list of games for whichever year I buy a Vita, though. I love the whole modern style, and personified beings from your soul. Also the great upbeat soundtracks, making bonds... And the super-streamlined and sleek menus. Arc System + Persona? Sold before I even looked at the game...

I started watching the P4 anime because I read it's a great and accurate summary of the game, plan to finish it the night before the game release. Getting up to speed, as P4A has a huge story mode continuing from P4.

So are you planning to main anyone yet? I think I'm pretty set on Yosuke because of his really stylish attacks and headphones!, and it's convenient that he's my favorite of the P4 cast. But honestly, this is the first fighting game where I would use the random button and not be disappointed with any result, except Teddie...

I've been looking at a lot of polls, and character usage is all pretty balanced for the most part. With a cast of many appealing characters, we won't be seeing 'Ragnas/Jins' 80% of the time.

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^ @steve your precognitive powers usually suck my lad. I've seen gameplay videos, in fact I've already seen skilled arc system works players playing the japaese arcades, and it looks like- no, IS the skeleton of BlazBlue (A game series I love) with persona characters fleshing it out including game mechanics. Minor things keep the gameplay from being completely the same such as the persona break system and the awakening system, player characters are constantly being added (more likely than not there will be unlock able characters and DLC) and the story mode is going to be humungous, about 40 hours long and judging by Elizabeths appearance with Thanatos... some serious stuff is going to go down, and apparently the story is going to be grander than BlazBlue and THAT is saying something. My only concern is that Minato and the remaining persona 3 cast will be excluded, and that like BlazBlue, the story wont present it's self very well. My concerns are story issues which doesn't actually intervene with the actual gameplay which is provably stuff I already like.
Furthermore, you haven't played either games. So a game combining the two is really out of your league, plus Atlus and Arcsystems are small time companies that have to make good games to stand out, the only money grabs being made by arcsystems with their dodgy DLC distribution and remakes of BB continuum shift which isn't really vital to the experience.
So please, stop using that brain of yours to predict whats going to happen. I know you have an opinion but it's clear that you have a lack of research on the subject and your ignorance makes me want to just bang my head against a wall. Save your judgements until you actually play the game.
In conclusion, I was not over reacting a bit. Except maybe for the heartattack part, as I'm pretty sure suspense will kill me before I actually get myself a copy.

In response to someone whose an actual fan, Claxus.
I am having troubles deciding on a main. I'll probably use Yu at first then move onto Elizabeth. If Minato or Shinji are in the game though I may main those two instead.
Persona 3 and persona 4 (persona 3 portable to be specfic) are y favorite games ever in the history of life, and BlazBlue is my second favorite fighting game, SSB is my favorite. If BlazBlue improves, by making the third games story excellent and adding cool characters like Jubei, it may even beat brawl.
I am instant sold on this game.

[Indigo]

@steve: How much of the game did you really look into? You know this game has a story lasting 30~ hours? Do you know all of the new things this game offers as a fighter? I mean, of course, the only reason people make games is for money, but that doesn't mean this isn't gonna be a good game. Seriously, this game has so many unique gameplay mechanics and balance.

If you really want, I can list a bunch of reasons why this game is appearing to be so great. Hype is not the reason alone.

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Aug 5, 2012 0:35:41 GMT Indigo said:

@steve: How much of the game did you really look into? You know this game has a story lasting 30~ hours? Do you know all of the new things this game offers as a fighter? I mean, of course, the only reason people make games is for money, but that doesn't mean this isn't gonna be a good game. Seriously, this game has so many unique gameplay mechanics and balance.

If you really want, I can list a bunch of reasons why this game is appearing to be so great. Hype is not the reason alone.

I did it for you, and he'll be mad at me instead. Not like it matters to me anymore.

Hey do you have BlazBlue extend on Xbox360?

[M.C.MastaAustin]

I think this game is going to be a really nice fighter. I have seen a lot of gameplay and it looks decent enough. My only problem is that the main cast is of persona 4 my least favorite persona. I really want more persona 3 chars in there insted of just Akihiko, Mitsuru, and Agisi. Like I dunno, Junpei (I freaking love Junpei). However even though the chars of persona 4 are my least favorite of the persona series, I will buy and play the game anyway cause I like the persona series.

(don't take the comment the wrong way, I don't hate P4's chars at all, I just thought the others had better chars.)

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Aug 5, 2012 0:38:13 GMT M.C.MastaAustin said:

I think this game is going to be a really nice fighter. I have seen a lot of gameplay and it looks decent enough. My only problem is that the main cast is of persona 4 my least favorite persona. I really want more persona 3 chars in there insted of just Akihiko, Mitsuru, and Agisi. Like I dunno, Junpie (I freaking love Junpei). However even though the chars of persona 4 are my least favorite of the persona series, I will buy and play the game anyway cause I like the persona series.

(don't take the comment the wrong way, I don't hate P4's chars at all, I just thought the others had better chars.)

Yeah I also prefer persona 3. Of course I haven't played persona 1 and 2.
Elizabeth is also in the game, and I am predicating Minato's revival. In persona 4 it's stated she left the velvet room to try and retrieve him from Nyx, and she's using thanatos as a persona, so I imagine that persona 4 arena will focus on her plans in that regard.
I would love to see every single persona user from at LEAST persona 3 and 4, including the dead characters, strega, and the villainous persona user from persona 4. (Hiding name for Claxus' sake)

[Indigo]

Yeah, it's a downside that there aren't many P3 characters. Minato should have been included, really, he's an iconic character and would be a shortsword user which P4A doesn't have. Lots of missed opportunities for unique characters, but their exclusions are reasonable. Hopefully we'll get DLC characters...

Well, I actually do have Extend on 360. I generally use Bang or sometimes Jin, but as much as I love the series, I don't play much because I can't get the combos down online because a lot of combos have frame-tight precision. Never really find anyone online that's not some guy who knows crazy combos with like 5+ character, so I just could never really get into it. That's not to say I wouldn't play.

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^ ah, well I'm only good with Relius but I can pull off some serious combos with him. Although you may find that I'm more fun to play against when I'm using other characters, like, say, Hazama, who I'm so bad with it feels like he's trying to troll me in every single way he can get away with. (Namely kicking my *** online and in game and not working for me whenever I try to use him)
So yeah my XBL name is 'Zylanda' so if you ever want a fight... yeah.

On the subject of minato in arena, I predict his appearance being in a smilar vain to Mu-12. Namely you'll unlock him after fighting him in arcade/completing story mode, without any prior mention of him existing in the roster. New characters may turn up in console release and I'm also predicting a lot of DLC.

[M.C.MastaAustin]

Well in my opinion persona's 1 and 2 had really cool chars and in my opinion they were cooler then chars in 3 (except for Junpei of course, case well, I freaking love Junpei!). I don't really see them releaseing too many new chars as DLC even if they do DLC. I mean P3's MC is the most likely to come out, but for others it seems gloomy. I doubt any P1 or 2 chars will come out cause when thouse games came out Persona wasent popular and no body would know of them, so nobody would download them, which means no profit. Also because this takes place in the P4 timeline and all the P1 and 2 protagonists are grown up (Which can be confirmed as some of them appear in P3 as cameos on a T.V. Talk show.). I would really like to see Junpei appear, but I don't know if they are going to add another sword char. I am atleast hopeing for Ken.

If any char from persona 2 should be in it, it should be Eikichi Mishina. The blue haired rocker who used a guitar case with a gun in it as a weapon and whos ultimate persona is none other then Hades.

[Stove]

Just stating my opinion, jeez. No need to throw freaking walls of text at me, you're wasting your time.
And I have watched gameplay videos.

[Indigo]

Sure, I'll get on tomorrow and play some Blazblue, and we'll see when we can play. Gotta get back into the fighting spirit. My GT is Claxus.

Well, you did a good job explaining the surface of the game. But I'll list some of the new gameplay mechanics:

Every character has:
• an universal unblockable anti-air attack
• reversal dash
• sweep attack
• all-out attack (launch, groundbounce, wallbounce, or fatal counter setups)
• AAAAA combo (decent for new players and good for building special meter)
• short hop
• and air turn (change direction midair)
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• All characters have some sort of 'dragon punch,' some with different properties.
• Every character except Akihiko has projectiles.
• Characters can cause different status effects (7 effects)
• All characters can spend special meter to use upgraded versions of their specials.
• All characters have an 'awakening' that boosts different abilities
• Personas act something like built-in assist characters and can be hit.
• You can guard with 1hp left, so you can't die from projectiles/supers/spam/anything as long as you block properly.

Maybe characters are a bit less unique, but they still have completely unique movesets, and there is no exceptionally better character that can do things others can't. No rigged/counter matchups, etc... And there's some new features not in other fighting games.

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Aug 5, 2012 1:14:38 GMT M.C.MastaAustin said:

Well in my opinion persona's 1 and 2 had really cool chars and in my opinion they were cooler then chars in 3 (except for Junpei of course, case well, I freaking love Junpei!). I don't really see them releaseing too many new chars as DLC even if they do DLC. I mean P3's MC is the most likely to come out, but for others it seems gloomy. I doubt any P1 or 2 chars will come out cause when thouse games came out Persona wasent popular and no body would know of them, so nobody would download them, which means no profit. Also because this takes place in the P4 timeline and all the P1 and 2 protagonists are grown up (Which can be confirmed as some of them appear in P3 as cameos on a T.V. Talk show.). I would really like to see Junpei appear, but I don't know if they are going to add another sword char. I am atleast hopeing for Ken.

If any char from persona 2 should be in it, it should be Eikichi Mishina. The blue haired rocker who used a guitar case with a gun in it as a weapon and whos ultimate persona is none other then Hades.

I wouldn't mind characters from persona 1+2, even though I dont know them... larger roster yay!
There will definitely be DLC in the game. There is already DLC, actually, alternate character colours and glasses, nothing special. They may also go for announcers, Fuuka is going to be one, and you dont even have to pay! Nanako also seems fair bet, again, unlock able in game should she turn up. (she was seen in a screenshot) Character DLC is another matter although it would be a bad move if they didn't.
Junpei and Yukari at the very least are probably going to be the next characters to enter the fray.

I didn't know some of that Claxus! I'm glad projectile spammers cant beat me.
Akihiko is looking severely underwhelming. If he can get in, sure, he's probably a good rushdown guy but yeah... no projectiles. He doesn't even look that fun to play as, except maybe Maziodyne.

[M.C.MastaAustin]

Oh man if Junpei enters the fray, oh man I wonder what hes like now that he grew up, still probobly the awesome funny guy as always. He was allways my favorite, I mean his story and just his character is awesome. If he gets in the game, he is the only character I will play. Also he uses a sword like a bat, hes a total BadA**.

Actually Akihiko I have seen looks to me like a rushdown char that you have to keep pressure on your opponant as, and once you land a hit, they are done for.

Kanji looks a little cheap to me, as he can take like half a health bar in one go, but then agian so can others, it just looks easiest to do it with him. He is a grappler so thats cool.

[Indigo]

Oh, I don't want to ruin your hopes, but Minato is pretty much not in the game... The Japanese console release was just over a week ago, and needless to say, some no-lifers who imported it have already 100%'d the story. I believe the only 'unlockables' is different stories and part 2 to the stories.

Junpei would probably work really well as a bat user. Probably good at wallbouncing and smacking people away. You know, "Home run!"

We already have Yukiko as a projectile 'spammer.' I think Yukari would work really well as a more 'direct' projectile shooter. I mean, Hawkeye worked really well in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 with shooting arrows forward, in arcs, and raining down.

And I think Akihiko looks pretty good. Yeah, he's a rushdown character, I read some stuff about being able to cancel almost anything into specials. And that one of his attacks almost makes him a projectile lunging forward.

[M.C.MastaAustin]

Junpei useing his bat like sword style to knock charecters away then useing Trismagistis to combo them back to him, that would be cool.

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Aug 5, 2012 1:28:21 GMT Indigo said:

Oh, I don't want to ruin your hopes, but Minato is pretty much not in the game... The Japanese console release was just over a week ago, and needless to say, some no-lifers who imported it have already 100%'d the story. I believe the only 'unlockables' is different stories and part 2 to the stories.

Junpei would probably work really well as a bat user. Probably good at wallbouncing and smacking people away. You know, "Home run!"

We already have Yukiko as a projectile 'spammer.' I think Yukari would work really well as a more 'direct' projectile shooter. I mean, Hawkeye worked really well in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 with shooting arrows forward, in arcs, and raining down.

And I think Akihiko looks pretty good. Yeah, he's a rushdown character, I read some stuff about being able to cancel almost anything into specials. And that one of his attacks almost makes him a projectile lunging forward.

My life just ended. Oh! The terrible horror... I guess I'll stick to Elizabeth and keep fingers crossed for DLC... mumble mumble...
Kanji is looking like tager, and he's considered low tier in BlazBlue for some reason which is ridiculous because TAGER IS THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE!
Ken would be a great zoning character with that spear of his. Koromaru would be an interesting but incredibly unlikely addition, who could rival Yosuke in speed.
Junpei... I can imagine a combo in which he knocks you away much like Teddie can with his baseball bat then combo you from afar with well placed agidynes in a smilier manner to noel's optic barrels.

[M.C.MastaAustin]

I was thinking maybe Junpei knocks them away then Trismagistis comes back and rushes from far away swooping down like in his physical attack animation then knocks the enemy back at junpei for another knock away or a special in which he homeruns the enemy. I was thinking Tris would be a more physical based persona because it is leaned more toward physical skills and only focused minor on magic in the game.