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Anon plays Persona 5

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Every time it goes on sale, I think about picking it up, but then I remember...

It takes me long enough to finish 10-hour games I already own...
- I highly recommend the game, but I totally get you. I didn't buy it for years for the exact same reason. Eventually it was on a good sale when I was between games so I got a chance to play it. If you're an anime fan you will probably love the game. And if you're not, it may be cringy as fuck on occasion but you'll probably still love the game after getting sucked in. But if you end up never playing it, that's totally fine too. I've found in life that you don't need to watch every movie and play every video that are highly praised. I still haven't played the Mass Effect games even after owning all of them for 5 or so years.
  
  I've found in life that you don't need to watch every movie and play every video that are highly praised.
  You're absolutely right and I'm glad I reread that sentence: at first I somehow missed the "don't" and was gearing up for a long and pointless rebuttal of what I THOUGHT I just read 😄
- Personally, I'm a sucker for long completion time. I only like specific types of games that don't get released that often, so I'm always in danger of running out of games I haven't replayed to death yet 😁
  Most of it being cutscenes is a huge negative if not an outright dealbreaker to me, though.
  
  I do feel like some of these games lose their premise if they grind on for too long. I think Haru Okumura's dungeon is one of the more inspired, but by the time you get there, the game loop has gotten stale. Then the finale is just an interminably long series of hallways.
  They could have compressed that game by half (especially towards the back end), keyed up on the drama, and maybe fleshed out the daytime normal-life content a bit more.
  But I say that within the context of a game with a truly captivating story, some solid twists and top 10 anime betrayals, and a charming romance system that draws you into the characters. Had a great experience on my playthrough. Can't imagine ever trying to play it again, but it was a wild ride the first time.
  
  This is a different type of RPG, but I've been playing Wrath of the Righteous and it takes forever to complete. There's a specific city dungeon alone that takes real life days to finish if you do everything.
- It’s one of those games with a fun grind. With how snappy the UI and everything is, nothing ever really feels like a chore. I played Xenoblade Chronicles recently and I think it took my 50lbs to beat, but those 50lbs felt longer than Persona’s 100+ hours.
  I like Xenoblade more personally anyway, but just wanted to share my experience.
  
  Measuring games by weight? Neat.
- 142h completionist : LOL
- I've tried P4G and I just can't stand the required grind, nor the 3h bossfights, otherwise good game
  
  lol 3h boss fights wtf game were you playing
  
  the required grind
  JRPG moment 😭
- Those numbers would be awesome, if it wasn't a Persona game. My friend tried getting me into it on the PS1 and I bounced right off.
  
  If it's not for you it's not for you, but I will say the Persona series took a big turn for the better around Persona 3. The modern ones don't have a whole lot in common with the first couple beyond some basic play structure. If the last one you played was on the PS1 and you're at all interested in an anime JRPG then P5 is worth a second look.

I don't have time for games that long
plays Factorio for the 274th hour
- A friend of mine tried to convince me to get Factorio a couple days ago. Couldn't help but feel like he was a junky trying to get me to try just a little bit of heroin.
  
  It's more like crack or meth. You start a gamenin the early evening and suddenly it dawn's outside. I hate myself for loving a game which basically simulates the job of "process optimization"
- 274? In Germany, we call that ausbaufähig. The factory must grow.
- Is that a single save, or your total playtime?

"120 hour anime series" is fair, but "occasionally click a button" is not. If P5 qualifies for that, then every turn-based JRPG ever does.
- I was gonna say, that sounds like the first 50 hours or so of FFXIII

This is me and Persona 4.
There's a lot of good game elements. But it's SOOOOO MUCH. It's like a damn visual novel with bits of game.
And I'm sure the payoff is great, since the Persona games are very well received. But after a long day, I don't want to think. I just want to mash buttons until the pain stops.
- If you like monster collection games. Check out shin megami tensei. More rpg than graphic novel. Same overall concepts but none of the daily dating sim like aspect.

My wife and I recently started our first playthrough. We're mostly interested in the story and style and I don't want to deal with any bullshit difficulty spikes, so we set it to Safe Mode and are absolutely here for the 120-hour push-button anime experience. So far, it rules.

Game is okay I guess.

God I wish I could play this game again with a fresh slate and no knowledge of anything again. Story, style, soundtrack, and gameplay all in an endearing package.
- I've never played it
  
  Me neither but Winter is coming and my pile of shame recently got Space Marine 2 added ....
  But one day I will be old and retired. I will only die when I played them all!

looks at all the games I played for over 300 hours
Oh no.
- "Wait, it's all visual novels?"

Metal Gear 4 lol
- MGS5 did it very well! (That's if you made it passed the long intro)
  It's chapter based. So you get 1-2 minutes of introduction, then tossed into the field. Story follows more gameplay like cassette tapes or walkie talkies while you explore, with cutscenes when you hit certain points.
  After MGS5, I find it hard to play the older ones with its 10-30 minute cutscenes.
  
  It's funny you praise 5 for that, but as a huge fan of the series I think the best description I read of mg5 was: "it's simultaneously the best stealth action game out there and the worst metal gear game in the series." Lol
  I think the open world kinda ruined the pacing of the story and it all felt kind of disjointed in comparison to the linear games. That's coming from someone who LOVES open world games too. Still lots of fun though
  
  I LOVED MGSV... but it was the first Kojima game I'd ever played where I thought "This could use more cutscenes."

You'll never see it coming~~
- You'll see that my mind is too fast for eyes

looks at 300hr nocturne save

Persona 5 is the only game in my life I ever played and made my eyes hirt, it just felt nauseating
- Try playing Dark Forces, or the original Doom or Quake. You'll get motion sickness really quick because of the frame rate of those games. Somehow I managed to acclimate to them back in the day, but I attempted to replay the originals of those games in the last decade, and got extremely nauseous.
  
  i played my fair share, of them and more, never once in my life had a problem, literally only persona 5
  probably doesnt help i never liked the direction of the game, or the characters

Make him play Digital Devil Saga if he wants a game

Telltale

I refuse to play games that I can’t quit within 2 minutes of starting it. Persona series is one of those that I refuse to play. My time is way to valuable to commit an hour or more to 1 activity.
- That's not valuing your time, friendo. That's undiagnosed ADD.
  
  I get that, however before getting on meds I had no problem playing RuneScape for hours straight with YouTube on the side. No idea why I was fine with literally running in circles for 6 hours straight but making eye contact for 2 minutes was painful.
- You're joking, right ?
- I think you'll miss out on a lot of great games thinking that way! Sometimes needing to commit time into a game is where a lot of the value comes from in its experience, and persona is one of those series.
- So no games with words at all I would assume? Shit even a round of Tetris is longer than 2 minutes.
- So you won't watch an hr+ movie?
  
  No i refuse to watch movies. The last movie I’ve seen was Lion King 1/2
- So do you just play on Xbox where you can jump between titles and have it save your game state?
  
  Yes actually. It’s my favorite part about Xbox.
- I still haven't played so many games because of opening cinematics and overly long and boring tutorials for this reason. It sucks because I can get super into a game if I just get over that. Like Baldur's Gate 3 was a chore to get into, but I knew I would absolutely love it and now I think it's probably the best game ever.

Ah, you're back

Peak isn't it? The expansion for the remake of 3 launched too, go play it!

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