This is a community for Megami Tensei, a series of JRPGs developed by Atlus. Games included under the MegaTen umbrella are the mainline Shin Megami Tensei games and its sub-series of Persona, Devil Summoner, Devil Survivor, Digital Devil Saga, and Raidou Kuzunoha (among others).
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You've play more than me, OP!
I still need to play the second P2 game and all the the Raido Kuzunoha games. Actually, I need to replay some ps2 Atlus classics, since it's been so long! I'm not into Majin Tensei or Demikids either. I jumped over some of the Persona spin-offs as well.
I haven't bought SH2 yet, does it feel like a Megaten game? I heard mixed opinions...
I haven’t bought SH2 yet, does it feel like a Megaten game? I heard mixed opinions…
feels like a megaten game with a severe lack of polish. lots of repeated dungeon. on launch the combat was slow as FUCK but they've patched in run buttons and animation skips. my biggest gripe beyond that though was the fact that the characters were absolutely fucking terrible. maybe one member of the only cast had any semblance of a personality
I had a feeling something like this happened. I'll still probably buy it on discount tho. Thanks for the answers.
SH2 was slow in both dungeons and combat at launch, which was my main gripe, but the first and especially the second were sped up in a patch, so it should be great now.
I really liked the combat, it's one of the best ones in the series. The main thing that makes Persona a bit less appealing for me its that the preset party members feel like they drag down this series' potential, and SH2 making everyone a "wild card" makes it more like the main series. Maybe even more so, since you have not 3, but at least 4 demons to keep up-to-speed. And you can actually switch out without losing buffs, which I used a lot.
That, and the bosses are generally designed to be dps races, which I thought was actually good and challenging since you couldn't stack buffs or abuse Press Turns. Even if lazily implemented in the optional bosses (it's just a party wipe after X turns the game doesn't tell you about)
The main problem of speed though means I didn't feel like doing random battles, which means I didn't have resources for cool upgrades, and also meant spending relatively more time in the boring dungeons. I hope the patch brought it at least to Nocturne-like standards.
This's a really interesting take on the battle system, that I like on paper! Thank you!
I'd recommend both Raidou Kuzunohas, all of Digital Devil Saga, and both Devil Survivors.
I think the only Devil Summoner which wasn't translated officially is the first one. There is a 3DS version of Soul Hackers and apparently Soul Hackers 2 came out last year? I'll have to look into that one, I missed it completely.
For not I'm focusing on mainline post 3 and the personas post 3, not sure if I'll move on to the older games lol
Devil Summoner 1 is not translated, the rest are though.
no mention of nine? weak.
I was only mentioning games that are actually good
i say again
no mention of nine? weak
See, Nine is on the very brink of "Do I want to play this?", so this discussion here has more consequences than you think.
(Probably will at least try it out of curiosity)
NINE has different battle themes for different alignments, that alone makes it worthwhile experience in my opinion lol
played persona 2-5, smt 1, 3, sj, 4/a and a chunk of 5, dds1/2 and soul hackers.
pretty much have made my rounds. i'll do smt2 when the ps1 version gets its inevitable translation and i'd like to get to the raidou series eventually. maybe i'll play majin tensei, maybe persona 1, maybe the obscure gameboy shit, maybe kmt, maybe devil survivor, maybe tokyo mirage sessions - but that aside i've got it all covered
oh and maybe i'll finish my playthrough of smtv before the new year after next. i like what i've played a lot but i'm a bitch about dropping a game and picking it up some five years later. i also may or may not finish soul hackers 2, but the big distinguishing factor there is that i think that game pretty much sucks
the games i'm most interested in aren't translated. notably giten megami tensei and nine (which prolly sucks ass but still)
I'll second Digital Devil Saga, its one of my favorites to play and the voice acting is excellent.
So lemmy won't let me reply to @a_mac_and_con after like 4 tries. For clarity, anything PS2, or probably even PS1 and above is an obvious play for me (which, I guess includes NINE too)
This topic was more about the obscure\unpopular titles and "How much megaten is enough?" because there's like, 5-10 "must-play games" in this series to recommend, and then like double that for "games to play once you're a fan". How many of us here and back at r\megaten actually played all this? Like, I'm enjoying it, but it's been multiple years (and I didn't even see all the endings, I'm replaying DeSu now to see more paths since I'm done with the 3DS library of SMT and I'm considering just pulling up a YT video), and I'm still a student without a full time job lol
Also, I didn't directly think about this while posting, but a friend of mine has literally been playing Persona 4 for like a year, and the others seemed to stop after P3-5. Yeah, I know we meme about Persona fans not knowing SMT, but one of them does have SMT Nocturne and IV ready to play. It's just he has other series to play like Yakuza or Dark Souls, and won't start them. And I've been trying to cram those between my Megaten games too, so, for him I played Yakuza 0-Kiwami 2 and just dipped as I was about to play Y3.
I imagine it loses impact when I tell him "you must really play Strange Journey, and the Devil Survivor games, and I heard DDS is also top tier, and..."