I wasn't born yet in 2006, was Persona 3 a big deal when it came out or was it more of a cult classic at the time?

>>712947921 (OP)
Really riding the line of underageb&, anon

You must be born in 1976 or prior to post here

>>712947921 (OP)
outside of forums i dont think it was that big of a deal when it came out

>>712947921 (OP)
It was a big deal online with nerdy teens, which was the group that went on to be influential as the internet became mainstream. It wasn't popular with normies.

>>712949636
is that why they made FES? To get more hype for the re-release?

>>712947921 (OP)
persona didn't exist in the west until p4 anime

>>712947921 (OP)
I saw someone talking about it on /a/ when it got a western release which made me check /v/ out for the first time, and over the next few weeks I'd read the P3 threads and when I finally played it myself I was instantly hooked. I had just finished high school so I must've spent some 8 hours on this game everyday. So yeah to me it was a big deal, and I want to thank the anons of both /a/ and /v/ for introducing the game and the franchise to my teenaged self

It was popular in Japan, pretty niche in the west
P4 put Persona on the map in the west, but even then just in terms of JRPGs

>>712947921 (OP)
Persona started being noticed by the mainstream after P4, but P3 still was major success for ATLUS and pretty much saved the company.

>>712949853
DLC wasnt really a thing back then, so usually if a game did well companies would release the same game with refinements + an expansion at some point after release. i remember FES came out a little bit before Persona 4, so it was probably also done to keep people interested.

>>712947921 (OP)
Hardly anyone knew about it outside of Japan until Persona 4 Golden.

>>712947921 (OP)
>I wasn't born yet in 2006
MOOODS

>>712947921 (OP)
It came out when everyone was looking forward to 7th gen. Back then it was just any normal jrpg from Atlus. The entire SMT franchise was a literal who until they were ported to other systems.

>2006 was 19 years ago

>>712947921 (OP)
I remember so many posts back then shitting on Persona. It's why people started doing the Fatlus ms paint comics. The cult classic fans were obnoxious and anyone liking Persona was mocked.

>>712947921 (OP)
Persona 4 was big at the time, but even back then if you were a westerner you needed to be on the internet to really know anything about it, I picked it up on launch but I didn't know a single soul at my high-school who knew anything about it, being a high schooler and playing persona 4 was kino, feels a bit different playing them now as an adult, God damn do I miss my big titted Spanish and black mixed mutt highschool gf

>>712947921 (OP)
>I wasn't born yet in 2006
Dear lord...
>was Persona 3 a big deal when it came out
Yes, it was.
Up until that point, Final Fantasy and Pokemon were the unironical kings of JRPGs.
Persona / SMT had really never hit through in the West, and DQ was still a niche thing here as well.

But here comes this new game, with a cool, weird art style, a banger soundtrack, a "real world" setting, with some philosophical and psychological themes, combined with time and team management + dating aspects.

Shit was whacky, and fitter perfectly the 00s' internet-emo era's vibe.
But it was also soon after the NORMALFAGS started pouring online with their iPhones and whatnot, making MySpace accounts and shitposting cat videos, so the "anti weeb" mentality also started spreading.

This "It's like I'm really Japanese!" meme was born out of this, here on /v/, around that time.
Sure, it was later twisted into some actually fun stuff (ie. STALKER = "it's like I'm really Ukrainian farmer!!"), but it kinda shows the big split between the OG oldfags and the nufag / cancer-gen Anons.

>>712947921 (OP)
i was too busy being in actual high school and dating girls in 2006
never heard of persona until seeing persona 5 on my friend's ps4 in 2017

>>712953349
except that happened with P4, not P3
anyone who knew about P3 also generally knew about the older persona games, and wasn't all that impressed

>>712953473
>except that happened with P4, not P3
Incorrect. P4 got big solely because P3 pawed the way.

>anyone who knew about P3
3 was literally like the FF7 of the series:
many westoid's first Persona game.

The butchered, censored, poorly translated (and in EU's case, never officially released) past games weren't anything more than a footnote when the P3 dropped.

>>712953648
lmao
P4 would obviously be the FF7

>>712947921 (OP)
It wasn't then and it still isn't now

>>712953859
Incorrect. P4 is the FF8 of the franchise:
overrated as fuck by literal normies.

>>712953985
except FF7 is way more overrated than FF8
Just like P4

>>712954030
Not by a long shot.
It just shows that you weren't even born back in the 20th century.

You can see for yourself
https://old.sage.moe/v/search/text/%22Persona%203%22/order/asc/page/1/

People seemed pretty hyped
It seems it got delayed by like 7 months in the west, just kept getting pushed back and back

>>712954408
No, it shows that I was.
FF7 is more overrated than FF8.
If you disagree with this, you're completely insane.
Or maybe you're a brownoid ESL who thinks this discussion is about actual quality.

>>712954651
>FF7 is more overrated than FF8.
It is not.
>If you disagree with this, you're completely insane.
Says who?
FF8 is by far one of the absolutely worst games in the franchise.
>random racism
Not an argument, tranny negro.

>>712954728
>one of the worst games in the franchise
So you are a retarded brown person who thinks this has anything to do with quality.
FF7 is the more overrated game.
Get over it.

>FFtranny takeover
Why can't you guys just get along with each other?
FF entire sucks dick and you both have shit taste

>>712955134
still not a discussion of quality
FF7 remains the most overrated game in the series

What did people think of the protagonist fucking dying at the end of it in 2006?

I played Reload, and everything about the Social Links in P3 seemed so offensively pointless. They mostly aren't super likeable, the only gameplay benefit they give you is the very mediocre Arcana burst, a couple are downright annoying, a lot of them disappear after you reach Rank 10 for whatever stupid reason, and the guy dies anyway at the end. I really doubt I'll ever play any version of P3 ever again because I'll be asking myself what is even the point of talking to these people? Oh, and plus, it's basically impossible to complete every Social Link and made even harder in Reload. I heard New Game+ makes it easier somehow, but I don't know the details.

Whose idea was it to have the teacher have a crush on him, and then have literally nothing happen?

I am so, so, thankful I played P5R first, because I imagine I would have been left with disgust if I played P3 first.

>>712954651
Nah 7 fully deserves the praise it gets

>>712955260
lmao
brown skin

>>712954896
>FF7 is the more overrated game.
Incorrect. It's rated just fine.

>>712955474
saar

Thoughts on this art?

>>712955256
You need to kind of look at P3 as a beta version of what was later done in P4 and then P5. Hashino was still figuring out everything that would later become main stays.

>>712947921 (OP)
>I wasn't born yet in 2006

>>712955525
>he's afraid of saying the Nigger word
Found the tourist.

i was a sophomore in high school in 06. i didn't know about or really even give a shit about this kind of game at the time, was too busy playing runescape and guild wars i think, plus i'm pretty sure if you asked me at that age, i'd have said no single player RPG would ever top FFX anyway so who cares about some lame anime shit.... or something. that being said, i do have a very vague memory of hearing about this controversial video game that "glorifies suicide" because of all the gun-to-head stuff. that was briefly a thing among the anti-GTA, vidya-is-the-devil crowd at that time but it didn't really develop THAT level of infamy, iirc.

>>712955256
as soneone who played P4, P5 and Metaphor prior to playing P3R (was my first experience with any version of that game) and had this idea in my head of how these games are supposed to end, i found it absolutely soul-crushing. never had post-game depression that bad, and it wasn't made any better by that waste-of-time known as the answer. god i fucking hate metis. pls come back door-kun, i'll even take you in a new spin-off game at this point

>>712957287
>P3R (was my first experience with any version of that game)
My condolences, brother.
That DEmake is THE absolutely most butchered way of experiencing the P3.
Woke as fuck, censored Unreal Engine slop, with shitton of cuts, raped soundtrack, babyfied gameplay, and terrible, ruined cinematography.

>>712958406
oh i loved it, and from what i've seen i'd never be able to enjoy FES anyway. shit looks way too dated.

>>712958662
>oh i loved it
Of course you did. You don't know what was missing, or what was raped.

>i'd never be able to enjoy FES anyway. shit looks way too dated.
It's not. And of course ADHD zoomies like (You) would be prejudiced pricks who make up scenarios and narratives without even playing the game.

>>712958845
>And of course ADHD zoomies like (You)
>>712957287
>i was a sophomore in high school in 06.

???

>>712947921 (OP)
>There are zoomers born after 2000 posting with you on this board