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Persona 4 Golden is now the most concurrently played non-MMO JRPG of all-time on Steam
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Can't say anything about Golden since I didn't play it enough on Vita, but Persona 5 is one of the best games this gen.
The more hype this series gets the better
The more hype this series gets the better
I have this conspiracy theory that those polls are just so fans feel like they're taking their opinion into account but won't actually do jackshit about the results
I agree. When someone says JRPG I think of turn-based combat. No one describes Dark Souls as JRPG in general when describing the game's genre.
Pft, like Atlus gives a shit about money. They thrive on the tears of their fans.Sega Europe : "See?! See?! IT MAKES MONEY"
Atlus :
Persona 4 is now the most concurrently played game about a group of high schoolers banding together to solve a mystery that uses the color yellow as one of the primary colors in all aspects of the game including its menus on Steam
Who would have thought that a dungeon crawler/life sim(both PC centric genres) would do well on PC...... Hopefully sega starts chin checking Atlus and port all their games from now on to PC regardless of what Atlus says.
Nobody could have predicted this, probably a fluke.
Atlus are right to not release their hugely popular back library on more platforms.
Atlus are right to not release their hugely popular back library on more platforms.
Soul being JRPGs is a discussion we can have, but if even Monster Hunter is a JRPG, then this genre is absolutely useless and we should stop using the name altogether. It means absolutely nothing.
Hopefully the game continues to sell well on Steam; I'm loving seeing the super-high concurrent numbers for the game on Steam and the Overwhelmingly positive reviews.
term has always been worthless, country of origin tells basically nothing and its pretty clear that games like souls and games like Persona have very little in common. Their gameplay alone is completely different genres.
More platforms = more money from said series
Its like AA exclusivity doesn't make sense for games like Persona and SMT.
Who would of thought, but seriously though I hope this opens Atlus up to porting their games to more platforms. There's no reason for Persona 5 and SMT 5 to be exclusive.
Its like AA exclusivity doesn't make sense for games like Persona and SMT.
Who would of thought, but seriously though I hope this opens Atlus up to porting their games to more platforms. There's no reason for Persona 5 and SMT 5 to be exclusive.
Depends on who you ask.
wrong people say no
JRPG was always a dumb genre moniker. Even things commonly considered JRPGs can vary wildly from one another to the point where it's not really helpful.
Since this is a thread about Steam, why not ask them?
Same I said regarding releasing modern FF games (I'll probably repeat it with Kingdom Hearts), Monster Hunter or the Yakuza series:
Took too long and even still they're making cash now.
Here's hoping the rest of the series + Megaten follow, too. Not so sure about Vanillaware, even if it makes sense to do it.
Took too long and even still they're making cash now.
Here's hoping the rest of the series + Megaten follow, too. Not so sure about Vanillaware, even if it makes sense to do it.
I agree. You can have an FPS horror game and an FPS RPG as well. Doesn't make it not a JRPG, it's just one of many genres and titles it fits under.
Imagine arguing that Code Vein is a JRPG but not Souls. lol. It's literally just "is this anime?"Since this is a thread about Steam, why not ask them?
P4G is going to be at the top of just about every PC gaming recommendation list, at least in the RPG section if not a general list, as is the case with PS2 and Vita lists.
It's never going to stop selling
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Pretty decent for the most part. There are a few issues (stuttering in the animated scenes is the biggest one), but otherwise, it's solid.
Here's Durante's analysis:
Persona 4 Golden PC Port Analysis - IGN
We take a deep dive into the the PC port of Persona 4 Golden.
Durante said:
the point is you can do a 'technically it is in this genre' all day but its not actually representative of anything else in it. theres a lot more defining features and baggage that comes with it aside from fitting the title and everyone involved knows it
if someone asks for a crpg no one is going to recommend dark souls and the person asking that would just be annoyed if you did
I think more Atlus ports is guaranteed but I'm not so sure about when we'll get PS2 ports. Those are going to take a lot more work than HD games (even though the Vita wasn't HD but it was close enough). I think Royal will probably be next. Persona 3 kind of needs an in-house solution direct from Atlus because the differences between FES and Portable.
Dude, if all you want to define JRPG as is "RPG made in Japan", then we might as well ditch that genre entirely. What is the Witcher then, ERPG, PRPG? It's silly.
Souls games are not JRPGs, no matter what Wikipedia might say.
Anyway, I enjoyed it a lot on Vita, but it's great that it was freed from the shackles of exclusivity.
Souls games are not JRPGs, no matter what Wikipedia might say.
Anyway, I enjoyed it a lot on Vita, but it's great that it was freed from the shackles of exclusivity.
It's not a genre. It's why I'm in favour of saying Japanese-style RPGs as it's a design philosophy instead of an actual genre. There is no good enough definition of JRPG as a genre. There are turn based RPGs made by western developers. Divinity Original Sin is turn-based but it is very much a Western-style RPG.
The genre is already a stupid category and should be ditched. It seems to literally only mean "does it look like anime and have levels?" now a days.
This is basically what everyone already means anyway. The only people that don't understand this (or pretend not to) are hair splitting pedants.
Ok.
So Here me out.
Pllars of Eternity is a CRPG
Dark Souls 3 is a JRPG.
I don't think I need to even explain why calling Dark Souls 3 a JRPG is absolutely useless. You know exactly what type of game Pillars of Eternity is when I say it's a CRPG. You have no idea at all what type of game Dark Souls 3 is if you call it a JRPG.
Hence why calling any RPG from Japan a JRPG is useless.
Awesome stuff, you love to see it. Hopefully this gives Atlus the much needed shove to put more Persona titles on Steam.
If kh3 and SMT are JRPGs commonly referred to as JRPGs than so is DS. IDC.
Japanese style RPG's is even more obscure than JRPG. If you declare Witcher, Diablo and Baldurs Gate as Western-style RPG's the classification is meaningless.
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