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Anonymous Thu 24 Oct 2019 21:38:56 No.40510275 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>40510299 >>40510319 >>40510340

Is it just me, or have the past 3 persona games paralleled gens 3-5 with pokemon?
>3 is where nu-pokemon and nu-persona started and where the series really started to change into modern versions of the series
>4 only improved on what 3 introduced as well as introducing new mechanics itself, people often get pissed at how much persona 4 was milked, akin to how modern gamefreak is pandering to gen 4 nostalgia in present day
>5 was well-received by newer players, but is vastly considered to be worse than the past 2 games by veterans (with people who like 3 and 4 looking down with particular contempt), making 5 popular but also the most divisive game
Thoughts? Which gen/persona game do you like the best?

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Anonymous Thu 24 Oct 2019 21:40:57 No.40510299 Report

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>>40510275
Yeah pretty much. Although I'd say gen 4 was where "new" pokemon started

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Anonymous Thu 24 Oct 2019 21:43:01 No.40510319 Report

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>>40510275
Persona 5 is far and away the most popular Persona (and really SMT in general) game
This is sadly not true for Gen 5

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Anonymous Thu 24 Oct 2019 21:44:05 No.40510330 Report

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p3fags are like genwunners. they're blinded by nostalgia, they refuse to admit their game is the shittiest in the series, they get the most shilling by far but try to pretend that p4 does (much like how genwunners try to pretend that sinnoh gets pandered to more), etc.
gen 5 is p2-tier in relative quality compared to the rest of its series and p5-tier in getting hated and blamed for the pettiest reasons.

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Anonymous Thu 24 Oct 2019 21:44:22 No.40510340 Report

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>>40510275
not even remotely comparable, pokemon has no fucking vision

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Anonymous Thu 24 Oct 2019 21:44:43 No.40510344 Report

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>>40510299
I disagree. I'd say that between the graphics, the addition of abilities and natures, the animation of the pokemon sprites, and several other features, the change from generation 2 to 3 was bigger than that of 3 to 4. I can see where you're coming from, but I feel like there was just much more of a divide with 3.

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Anonymous Thu 24 Oct 2019 21:57:06 No.40510489 Report

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Best Pokemon gen is 2 best persona game is 2 eternal punishment.

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Anonymous Thu 24 Oct 2019 21:58:54 No.40510509 Report

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As a 1999-let I only really got into pokemon with Gens 3 and 4 (first game was Fire Red), so I'm probably inherently biased towards those two generations, but....

I agree with your statement on 3 pokemon wise, and can see why it matches Persona 3 (I've only played a very tiny amount of F.E.S). Held items, abilities, 'upped the stakes' when it came to the story, so to speak, with Team Aqua and Magma and the box legends.

Gen 4's my favorite gen, barely edging out Gen 3 due to the Phys/Special split and slightly less shit movepools without TMs. Persona 4's also my favorite Persona game due to how fucking comfy it is. The setting, the gang's chemistry, the social links, all great.

Gen 5...hm. When I first played through it as a kid I didn't really care at all about 'no old pokemon until post-game' thing. Lots of pokemon designs that I liked, though I didn't really think much about the story. Was also the first gen I joined in on the pre-release hype cycle. The feeling I had with Zoroark and the starter silhouettes is still clear in my mind, and it was great. Hell, I even remember being super amazed, for some reason, at Castelia City looking the way it was. Looking back I think I view black/white less fondly than I did as a kid, but B/W2 are still fantastic games and make up for it. Persona 5's better than P4 from a strictly gameplay point of view, probably, but I feel like it takes a step back in a lot of other aspects. Location wasn't comfy as fuck, didn't really care for the main cast, the story was 'meh' (though P4's wasn't the pinnacle of excellence either), and overall just don't really care for it as much as I do P4.

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Anonymous Thu 24 Oct 2019 22:08:18 No.40510619 Report

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Because I'm dumb and realized I should probably expand on my gen 3 and 4 statements a bit... Fire Red was my first ever pokemon game, was recommended it by a friend who's super into the series (and she still is, I believe). Picked Charmander, swept through the entire game with just that, typical kid stuff. I've revisited it time and time again over the years and I still really like it, and my mind was fucking blown when I realized that there were more Sevii Islands than just the first 3, and you had to register 60 pokemon in order to access the rest, which then opened up a bunch more pokemon options, elite four rematches, great stuff. I got Emerald a few years later and loved it a ton, must've restarted it start to finish over a dozen times by now. Again, my only gripe with the gen is that it doesn't have the phys/spe split and that, TMs aside, Gen 3 still had some really crappy movepools.

Gen 4's my favorite not entirely due to the original games (I started with Pearl), but because of the mainline games, HGSS (my only experience with gen 2 by that point was because a friend of mine had the guidebook to Gold/Silver), and spinoffs. Ranger games and Mystery Dungeon in specific. Looking back my go to choice for replaying Gen 4 is and will always be Platinum and I don't expect that to change since it's such a step up from the original D/P, but I've never disliked D/P specifically. Looking forward to the Gen 4 remakes, actually, even if my opinion with the series has gotten a bit sour as of Gen 7 (and now 8).

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