Nautilus said:
Yes, my preference is in the minority, so what?Thats the whole point Im trying to prove.I pointed out the game metascore to show that a game that is both linear and turn based can be an amazing experience, not that it would mean greater sales.Linearity and a turn based battle system works in favor of P5 and its the superior choice for the game over an open world game, even if its an "unpopular" choice. Skyrim, while I have never played the game, must be an awesome game.The open world nature works for it most likely because the game was built around it.The design had the open world nature of the game in mind.And thats why it works.The same way that linearity works for P5 because it was built with that in mind.Thats what I meant in the sense that its not a dick measuring contest.Each has its own potential weakness and strenght, and each has its sales target to reach. As for the success, its not measured exclusively in sales.A game can be extremely successful in its own right, and depending on how much its budget is, the sales for it to be considered a success varies greatly.For Skyrim to have been successful, for example, a sales of a minimum of 4 millions would have been needed(just giving a random number to give a point), simply because its budget was way higher(more staff, more time making the game, etc).As for P5, a sales of a minimum of, lets say, 1 million would have been enough to call the game a success, because it has a smaller budget in mind.Its all really relative. |
Once you said you haven't even played Skyrim your opinion went from barely making any sense to not making any sense at all. How can you talk about its story line, etc without playing it? I've actually played both extensively and beaten both. There's no real reason to play Persona after beating it. Where as Skyrim, you can easily play 100 hours without beating the main quest. Skyrim was a blockbuster success. Persona 5 isn't. Face it, the jrpgs market is shrinking outside of Japan. Btw I loved Persona 5 but it's not a game you keep coming back to.







