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UltimateUnknown on 13 January 2013
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pokoko said:
UltimateUnknown said:
BlowoverKing said:
*Puts evoker to head*

PER-SON-A

*Pulls Triger and awesomeness ensues*

Was never really into RPG's in general besides the Pokemon games but since that fatefull day i decided to give Persona 3 FES a shot when I saw it on PSN i'm hooked on RPG's! I voted JRPG because i haven't played a WRPG yet but yesterday i went out and bought Oblivion so i'll try that out. However along with Oblivion i bought FFXIII (I know people said it as meh), FFXII (Gamestop actually had the collector's edition so yay me!), FFVII (on my Vita), 3D Dot Heroes (I think its an RPG lol if not it still looks good!), and Kingdom Hearts. So it looks like I'll be alone in my room for about 2 years!

*clap* *clap* *clap*

Well done on that purchase of P3 FES. It is indeed once of the best among JRPGs. Although many people say P4 is the best in the series (and it is definitely amazing so you should try it), I still think P3 is the absolute best in the Persona series and one of the best games ever made period.

And yes with that massive back catalog of games to go through you'll definitely be busy lol.

I haven't played P3 FES.  How does it hold up?  If I bought it today, would it feel awfully dated?  Going to buy P4G eventually, but maybe I should start with FES.

It holds up with any other top of the line game you can imagine. Story, characters, premise, gameplay and pretty much everything else holds up better than most other games in the genre to date. Only the visuals are going to be lacking by today's standard since it's PS2, but even then the art style is very stylistic.

Also P3 and P4 are pretty much standalone games with very little connections between them. You can play them in any order you like. There are a few minor gameplay changes from P3 to P4 (most of those changes are improvements), but other than that the main difference is in the settings and characters. While some may argue P4 has a better story, P3 to me just seemed a lot more epic but that's just personal taste and both are great games. If you like one, you'll very likely enjoy the other.

Getting P3 FES is probably the best option since it has the complete story (an extra important segment called the answer is added), but P3 Portable is also a great experience which holds up to the one game and makes great gameplay improvements (taken from P4) but doesn't have the extra segment from FES.