What games are you currently playing?

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: What games are you currently playing?

Its actually rather amazing to me how much less daunting the EXP totals are in SMT IV compared to their predecessors. Right now my TNL is like 70k whereas in Nocturne and Digital Devil Saga and even the persona games the worst it got was 40kish I believe.

Even with the higher TNLs you have Quest EXP, Challenge Quest EXP (sometimes repeatable). EXP for doing Demon fusions (and the higher level the demon, the more EXP, did I mention there's an app that adds and EXP modifier?) and there's also an app that adds a modifier for engaging in demon conversations, too. Whether you're shaking them down for items or money or recruiting them to join your party, so long as you engage in the conversation - successful results or not - the modifier is applied.

There were fights that might have fetched me 5k EXP due to two or three waves of enemies, but so long as I got that conversation in, I walked away with like 7500 EXP. .

It begs the question why they even thought they had to make another modifier available in DLC. And I've already fused more demons that Nocturne actually had. I think Nocturne capped out at 147 demons and I'm already past 150... of the 400+ that are in here.

Also despite some of the Kamen Rider artists being involved, I do have to say many of the new demons stand beside Kazuma Kaneko's work quite well... except Medusa, who looks well...



Yeah, she's a bit over-the-top next to the Kaneko demons. Still, once you can make her in fusion she's not bad for the level you can get her at. Kept her around for a few bosses.

[Icemage]

Re: What games are you currently playing?

Am I the only one whose eyes glaze over any time I see BBQ post about SMT? I swear I haven't read anything past the first line in any of his posts in the last couple of pages because they're just full of pointless minutiae that mean basically nothing if you aren't actively playing the game.


Icemage

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: What games are you currently playing?

Am I the only one whose eyes glaze over any time I see BBQ post about SMT? I swear I haven't read anything past the first line in any of his posts in the last couple of pages because they're just full of pointless minutiae that mean basically nothing if you aren't actively playing the game.


Icemage

Then here's the short version just for you: Main series SMT's challenge is as steep as ever in SMT IV (which is to say, its "Normal" is Persona's "Hard"), but they managed to find a load of ways to make it less of a grind than even Persona 4 Golden. They added EXP bonuses to the usual Fusion and Negotiation mechanics (i.e. how you obtain demons in everything but P3 and P4), but also threw in western-style quest EXP and oodles of sidequests/hunts to play around with.

If you thought the Search function for Fusion in P4G was nifty, they expanded the system even further. Kinda like how we have a forum search and then an advanced forum search - SMT IV has the advanced options. It makes what you want to find or may need that much easier. Better still, since Demon Fusion is an app you can do fusion anywhere on the field rather than a special room. You can even upgrade the app so you can do more rudimentary fusions (classic/Velvet Room style) during battle.

SMT IV takes everything I already loved about the gameplay of series and improves on it a great deal. You can expect to see some of these features integrated into Persona 5. Is that less anecdotal for you?

[Feba]

Re: What games are you currently playing?

BBQ has interesting opinions on games I don't play

[Icemage]

Re: What games are you currently playing?

SMT IV takes everything I already loved about the gameplay of series and improves on it a great deal.

You could have saved yourself about 500 words of typing in the last few pages by just typing this. The topic of conversation is "What games are you currently playing?", not "Dear Diary, this is what I did today."

And good heavens at that "short" version. Even when you're TRYING to be brief you still post a small fortress of text.


Icemage

[cidbahamut]

Re: What games are you currently playing?

Am I the only one whose eyes glaze over any time I see BBQ post about SMT? I swear I haven't read anything past the first line in any of his posts in the last couple of pages because they're just full of pointless minutiae that mean basically nothing if you aren't actively playing the game.


Icemage

To be fair I tend to do that with any lengthy post in this thread that's about a game I don't care about.

[Icemage]

Re: What games are you currently playing?

To be fair I tend to do that with any lengthy post in this thread that's about a game I don't care about.

Sure, but most of us don't make a habit of droning on ad infinitum about a game when no one else is interacting with what we're posting. We give J-9 a ton of crap for doing the same thing, why does BBQ get a pass?


Icemage

[cidbahamut]

Re: What games are you currently playing?

Because BBQ's not a sub-human? I dunno.

[Malacite]

Re: What games are you currently playing?

Are you sure about that? :3

On topic, I got my ass handed to me in the 1st round of a tournament last night -_-'


Just my luck too, there were other lower-league SC2 players entered but no, I had to get paired against Root Gaming's Kane (Grand Master Zerg) and so yeah, was pretty 1-sided ; ~ ;

No $5k prize for me

[Yellow Mage]

Re: What games are you currently playing?

UnderTale.

Objective

Gonna get me some more fluffy white monster hugs.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: What games are you currently playing?

Sure, but most of us don't make a habit of droning on ad infinitum about a game when no one else is interacting with what we're posting.

Do you honestly think anyone has ever considered your platinum trophy updates an icebreaker for conversation? [Game no one else is playing] is generally for more interesting than that, no matter who's doing it. I didn't know anything about Little Inferno until Cid's post and now it has my interest. You became interested in Dynasty Warriors 8 because Firewind went into the minutiae to express why it was the best entry in several years.

The whole point of this thread is talking about what we're currently playing not "talk about games Icemage cares about."

[cidbahamut]

Re: What games are you currently playing?

Yeah, but you're overly verbose and repetitive. I didn't drone on about Little Inferno at length, I gave a short digestible summary of my experiences and moved on.

How many play-by-play posts have you made about SMT without anyone joining the conversation?

I don't mean to discourage you from posting, but I do kind of see where Icemage is coming from on this.

[Nandito]

Re: What games are you currently playing?

UnderTale.

Objective

Gonna get me some more fluffy white monster hugs.

I want to kill that flower so bad.

[Firewind]

Re: What games are you currently playing?

I'll admit I've been skipping over the SMT posts purely because I want to avoid spoilers, and not because I am not interested in what BBQ has to say about a game I am very interested in.

[Icemage]

Re: What games are you currently playing?

Do you honestly think anyone has ever considered your platinum trophy updates an icebreaker for conversation? [Game no one else is playing] is generally for more interesting than that, no matter who's doing it. I didn't know anything about Little Inferno until Cid's post and now it has my interest. You became interested in Dynasty Warriors 8 because Firewind went into the minutiae to express why it was the best entry in several years.

See, the difference here is that Firewind posted a short blurb about playing Dynasty Warriors, and I asked him for details. He didn't just spew them out hoping someone would find it interesting. As far as I can tell, no one has asked you about SMT in this topic.


Icemage