Thread 720290917

Why does no one talk Metaphor anymore?

Is it free on PC yet? Because otherwise the threads are unusable as "that sort" will just shit up the thread.

Because it sucked

Progressivism and Liberalism are for faggots.

>>720290917 (OP)
I'm waiting for the updated re-release.

>>720291517
this lol

fool me once

>one good dungeon in the entire game
>because they ripped it directly out of Etrian Odyssey

>>720290917 (OP)
>no romance option with Brigitta
That's why

>>720290917 (OP)
I wanted to fuck her so badly. Game wouldn't let me.

>>720291517
Yeah this is holding me back too.

It was a big mistake not having romance options in the game. I was disappointed when I first heard romance wouldn't be included and I think many people were. We wanted fantasy Persona and it's just not that.

>>720290917 (OP)
It's a boring game about current politics that will get outdated soon.

ITT:

>>720291950
>romance with a manlet jeet as mc
eh gross

>>720290917 (OP)
The anti-localizer people still talk about it.

>>720290917 (OP)
>Why does no one talk Metaphor anymore?
This is why. Simple as. Notice people still talk about Persona 3, 4 and 5 for fuck's sake. Fuck, people still talk about 3 Houses and Unicorn Overlord.

>>720290917 (OP)
Boring setting, boring characters, boring design.

The only reason to play this is if youre desperate for a new Persona and already played through the whole franchise.

>>720292649
Turn him white then but all these relantionship going nowhere is not fun.

>>720290917 (OP)
It’s a bad game

The main character looks like a dork lmao

>>720291132
yeah actually it has been since the beginning because of the denuvo-less demo exe. I think it requires some different steps than a typical pirated game installation but i imagine it's not too complicated for anyone who isn't retarded

>>720290917 (OP)
It's woke, the off site brigadiers trying to gaslight people on this are gone so now with nobody left legitimately interested discussion dried up

>>720293285
>It's woke
you didn't play it, faggot. fuck off with your out of context faggotry. the game shits on leftoid ideology.

>>720290917 (OP)
Because atlus slop are all just glorify dating sim for manchild and metaphor has no dating

>>720290917 (OP)
I liked it, but I don't find it has any replay value. I tried doing a solo run of it like I did in the Persona games but about a dungeon or two in I just felt like I was forcing myself to do it and stopped. And this is coming from someone who's done multiple "challenge" runs of Personas 3-5 each.

Plus it's a single player game with no DLC or any hint of an "update" version, which ironically Metaphor is one of their games that actually would benefit from one, everyone who wanted to play the game has done so and discussed it, and there's not really much else to talk about.

>>720293510
refer to
>fuck off with your out of context faggotry
you didn't play the game.

>>720293510
I thought this game didn't have romance

>>720293367
>racism…IS LE BAD
riveting story telling

Woke = preachy faggotry
Metaphor = preachy faggotry

Is Metaphor Refantazio the most critically panned RPG since Xenoblade Chronicles 3? I haven’t heard a single good thing about it on here. Why did Atlus think it was okay to publish this? Aren’t the shareholders mad?

>>720292764
Did it get a pozzed translation?

>>720293572
yeah when we're talking about fantasy races that have no equivalent to the subhuman races we hate irl there is nothing wrong with racism bad plotline.

>>720290917 (OP)
Played it, talked about it when it came out, and waiting for the next game. Not all games need nonstop threads. That just attracts crazy people

>>720293367
t. didnt play the game longer than 20 hours

>>720293794
I beat the game on launch. you must have missed the parts where we get a literal "you're one of the good ones" from the racist party member at the end of the game, catherinas entire social link, and them ultimately admitting such a utopia they describe is impossible

>>720293696
No really. Just an incompetent one. Like, the translation team clearly don't japanese incompetent. And zero proofreading occurred. They misunderstand Japanese 101 stuff like 力になる, they get stunlocked anytime a line has って, Any slightly complicated scene they have make-up shit because they don't know what's going on. Games references Utopia a lot but clearly no one on the team knows what a book is so basically all that is lost. The best part is that the further you get into the game the worse the translation gets. Also the obviously japanese character is Welsh for some reason. It's not a professional translation.

>>720290917 (OP)
There is nothing to talk about. The cast was weak, the story was pretty generic, the gameplay was okay. It felt like Persona 5-2, even ran on the same engine.
I enjoyed it, but there is literally nothing to talk about, it's a 6/10 mediocre game. The fat that it costs 70 fucking bucks is outrageous, because it's a 30 dollar game at the very most.

>>720290917 (OP)
I played it I liked it what is there to talk about

No one here played it

>>720294219
>the translation team clearly don't japanese

>>720291697
Honestly with the extreme amount of sexual tension you have with Brigitta you don't even need explicit scenes. You can't tell me she's not addicted to elda shota cock after seeing her bond scenes.

>>720291365
As if that's ever stopped /v/ from liking Atlus games before

>>720294325
It's not typos actually. They see 上部屋 and translate it as upper rooms. They saw 化けの皮をはいでやる and translated it as flay alive. 話せる男 as "man who knows what to say". They were taught Japanese wrong as a joke. And then the punchline was having them translate a massive RPG. They also work on the newer Yakuza games iirc. So their overlord finds their failure very entertaining.

>>720293016
Yeah at the end of the day nothing keeps fanbases breathing quite like waifufag autism, shipping is a good 2nd place but the lack of romance made everyone feel so aromantic.

>>720290917 (OP)
Buy ad

>>720293163
>>720293510
did they add antialiasing into the game?

>>720292110
The politics was the only interesting part and then the dialogue was kinda meh.
And Louis made no sense. Very SMT ending.

>>720294924
(2/1)
It's actually really funny that people always worry about "pozzed translations". The default assumption is that they know Japanese. So they must be rewriting shit because of personal beliefs and not because they're functionally illiterate. The reality is that they have zero comprehension. Sometimes negative comprehension actually.

>>720290917 (OP)
It's a CCP-funded game. It barely sold a million copies. Nobody outside of China played it.

>>720296645
Their political beliefs and being functionally illiterate are two sides of the same coin.

>>720296839
NTA, but no. Fucking up a translation because you can't actually read the language doesn't automatically lead to GamerGate references and trans rights shit leaking into your localization.

>>720296949
How did that anon even think to conflate the two will forever be a fucking mystery to everyone in this thread.

>>720290917 (OP)
I liked the combat system, and I played it mostly for the Devil Summoner class, but to be honest I dislike Persona and how they limit the gameplay with the caledar system. I didn't even finish the game, and I was basically at the end. I just wanted to have a good team, but the time restriction makes it really hard to level up and to create a good team.

>>720297270
I understand not liking the system but at least metaphor is the most lenient atlus calendar game by far, I had almost a month of extra days at the end

I don't care about it, SMT, or most every other Atlus game. Just give me a new Etrian already.

>>720297510
NTA but for me the calendar system just kills the sense of adventure and good pacing you get in other SMT games. It also makes doing repeat playthroughs a chore.

combat is worse than smt and social elements are worse than persona
its just a bland mix of both, weak story, weak characters, (mostly) weak soundtrack, bland generic fantasy

>>720296839
Sometimes the dialogue actually plays into those "pozzed" political beliefs. Happens a good few times in the debate segments. But they're too dump to translate it properly. So they downplay it. This happens all the time in games outside of Metaphor, because they don't actually have opinions. They only know pop culture references so everything gets filtered through that lens.
>>720296949
Gamergate references are a symptom of this. They don't actually have opinions. They just know buzzwords. There's a really funny example.
https://youtu.be/5kFi4RlpfO8?t=637
This scene. "Living Wage". It's a scene about inhumane experimentation. And extremely dangerous jobs. And they add "living wage". In the context of fucking child labor.
>Oh the worker being mistreated
>Livable wage livable wage
They don't know what words mean. They're on the level of a chat bot. They're just trying to predict what word should come next.

nuke southeast asia

>>720290917 (OP)
>Promote it as a new thing, not SMT or Persona
>Its literally just Persona

>>720290917 (OP)
It gets a "LE FORGOTTEN" thread every week. Same with Rebirth

>>720299072
And guess who makes those threads literally every single time lmao
This board is a joke, but not as much of a joke as all of SEA

>>720298705
in case you're curious, the reason why none of this has caught on unlike what happened with P5 at launch is because the english words don't really mean what you think they mean
You're confusing someone describing a livable wage with the term "living wage" which means something entirely different. But a native English speaker would not make this mistake, because the sentence says "below living wages" which informs the distinction.
I think I remember you specifically saying something like this about dialogue from very early in the game also because it wasn't a completely literal translation, but it's really the same thing. You'd literally have to be an ESL to think this was someone injecting woke into the game

>>720294301
can you elaborate on this picture?

>>720294301
That is woke though, liberals only believe in democracy as a buzzword, a political talking point, liberals get their power by inserting themselves into positions of power rather than by the will of the people and there is little position more powerful than having the ear of the king.

>>720300483
that's massive coping tbqh

>>720290917 (OP)
Because it was dogshit

The one thing I've consistently noticed is that there isn't a single intelligent person on earth that dislikes this game, 100% are dumbasses

>>720294659
She absolutely pays Will to attend to her for the night.

>>720291640
>rip off the only good thing EO has
smartest move they've made after killing the series

>>720299886
I've never talked about early game dialogue. Unless you mean that Junah scene I basically ritual post but that's after the scene I'm mentioning. Also I have no idea what you're talking about with
>livable wage with the term "living wage"
Google
>A living wage is defined as the minimum income necessary for a worker to meet their basic needs
livable wage doesn't even have a a top search result and directs to "living wage". I don't think it would even matter because it makes no sense to bring up whether wages are livable or living in the context of inhumane shit.
>You'd literally have to be an ESL to think this was someone injecting woke into the game
>You'd literally have to be an ESL to think this was someone injecting woke into the game
I was non-specific but the example was of them only knowing buzzwords. It wasn't actually related to "pozzed" or "woke". My argument is the opposite because they would need a basic level of intelligence to even have political beliefs and force them into a game. Which they lack.

It was a bad game.

>>720290917 (OP)
metaphor is overrated as fuckkkkkkkkkkkk.
Only reason why woke slop journalists love it is because one of the main themes of the game was about racism. If it wasn't for that, nobody would glaze it.

Wait I just pirated it, is it pozzed garbage?

>>720296645
What always gets me is when the sheer gravity of a statement doesn't make them stop and double check their work, a few chapters ago Ruri Dragon a manga about a half dragon hybrid had a character make the bombshell statement of having met a dragon, turns out she was actually just asking Ruri if she had met one, why didn't the total lack of reaction make the translator double check
In the translators defence though I do know at least one jap in the discussions of it made the same misreading and was confused about the lack of reaction >>720296839
But also this, a liberal is often going to have personality flaws that make them overestimate their own abilities

>>720290917 (OP)
Because it isn't the trendy game anymore, normalfags have no reason to care about it

>>720300672
>Also I have no idea what you're talking about
That is obvious, but now it's clearer that you just have no idea what a living wage actually is in any context. When libtards say they want a living wage they are asking for wages that scale yearly by a certain factor regardless of their performance to account for a rise in living expenses. When you say "below living wages" it's instantly implied that you aren't talking about that because the term is about something dynamic and there's no such thing as being "below" a living wage. There is having a living wage and not having a living wage.
It also makes perfect sense to talk about how the paripus kids weren't getting a LIVABLE wage, because they were signing up for the experiments in the first place because they were poor as shit. The paripus especially were exploited because it was easy work and it got them off the streets, so they would sign up not realizing that they would be getting experimented on.

>>720291950
You sound like a fag who watches days of our lives.
>Baaaawww I really need to see the MC who isn't me date a girl!

>>720296274
Only the demo looked like shit for some reason. The actual game looks fine.

>>720301640
>only liberals want a wage high enough to afford basic necessities
Huh? I have a full time job and can't afford a place to live.

Kek
Stay mad

>>720302147
>Chinese game beats Chinese game
Good job. I'm sure all the CCP shills that bought both are happy.

>>720302024
You're asking for enough money to live on. This is what is actually in the game's script. That is not being paid a living wage. This critical lack of context is why no one talks about any of this shit, because most people don't lack this context (just ESLs)

>>720291132
The demo lead to it getting cracked. Don't know if it's just that older build.

>>720302415
That's not in game's script.

>>720300483
Liberals =/= leftists
There's a clear distinction between the two and i hate retards blurring the lines between the two

>>720292628
>Only 33 reviews
FFVII is the most overrated shit ever nobody actually played, but DAMN

>>720302339
Literally one game is French and the other Japanese. You're retarded.

>>720302508
That is literally what saying below living wages means

>>720302539
>Liberals equals divided by equals leftists
I see.
>>720302614
Those are both Chinese.

>>720302614
It's French (Chinese) and Japanese actually
But he's just another SEA having a melty

>>720302698
I'm a burger. I'm not having a jubbly wubbly melty welty, bongistan loser.

>SEA schizos want to make threads about wokeshit and don't know what a living wage is in that sense
Did the only wokeshit that made it over the culture barrier have to do with censoring anime girls or something

>>720290917 (OP)
Shit game

>>720290917 (OP)
>Why does no one talk Metaphor anymore?
Because you cant marry her though...

I don't know a single person that played Metaphor. I know 8 people who played Ride to Hell: Retribution. Let that sink in.

>>720291517
This

Not falling for Fatlus old tricks no sir.

>>720294219
>welsh for some reason
It was for the best, the dub quality was massively improved this time

>>720290917 (OP)
I haven't even scrolled down yet and i just KNOW it's a brown waifu thread.

>>720304012
>>720291697
Yup fucking knew it

>>720303492
her nipples aren't dark enough

>>720303957
I know, its jarring specially with his katana, but i believe the cast in this is the best we had for a long time, both ENG and JP

>>720304278
It's not jarring, it's insulting.

>>720302625
Yeah, that's not in the script. As in the JP script. Because the JP writers are actual sapient human being. And understand that child labor is wrong even if you pay the children enough to live on.

>>720304443
Maybe for the autistic

>>720304771
Your Nikes were sewn by a 6 year old Vietnamese girl who worked 70 hours that week.

>>720290917 (OP)
Because current atlus writing is boring childish turd, and without romance options for the lonely manchilds literally nobody gave a shit

>>720305401
I always trust someone that can barely speak English to comment on writing

Can you romance Maria?

>>720290917 (OP)
Because it wasn't that great, and the final act was rushed as fuck.
Still think about Hulky, though.

>>720305638
amerishart speking I gud betters you than

Same reason nobody talks about SMT VV, Raidou Remaster, Soul Hackers 2, etc.

Persona has relevance because of its branding and how e-celebs embraced it. Nothing else matters to the vast majority of people who buy Atlus games.

>>720291640
The way level design has decayed over the decades is tragic.

>>720305839
>Because it wasn't that great
Yes it was
The best way to tell is how easily recognizable the dissenters are on an anonymous basket weaving forum

>>720297529
It's gonna be full 3D with animated, voice acted party members and social links.

>>720302539
leftists aren't relevamt enough in most countries for that distinction to be necessary

>>720290917 (OP)
Not to be a damp squib, but I guess you could say my tongue is tied.

Perhaps my spring of knowledge is all dried up.

Maybe this little piggie went to market.

After all.... err... a bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

>>720306269
Persona is one of its kind actually
There is current Zero franchise that also let you larp as a japanese highschool boy, literally living the anime dream and having anime waifu
VNs arent count as games in the west,

>>720302024
Idk what anon is going on about either.

>>720306817
Caligula Effect is right there.

>>720305638
Different anon.
Atlus scripts over the last several years have been plagued with condescending recaps and daft dialogue. They cater the scripts to the mentally handicapped, allowing even the stupidest motherfuckers to follow along.

There's only one woman for me.

>>720307147
The themes and characters in their game are very one dimensional
It would be ok if the themes are sth simple but no, they just have to use complex, heavy stuffs then wrote them all like it was for children

>>720307447
I mean yeah, kinda. It's a very intentional choice. Their sales numbers prove doing that works out better, so fuck people with functioning brains I guess.

>>720290917 (OP)
Because it fucking sucked, next thread

>>720293705
Nothing wrong if you love repetitive, vapid slop that is.

>>720305751
Yeah you can get a harem ending with every single female character
Go play the game now anon!!!

>>720307520
I actually dont know much about their other franchise’s sales, only that Persona was selling like crazy, and SMT sales was decent or sth

E33 will always be a worse game than metaphor in every way

Nice to see /v/'s a Hulk board.

>>720291517
this. would be a shame if it's not planned.

>every time one of these threads pops up its always the third worlders that can barely type shitting on the game
Really makes you think

>>720290917 (OP)
Because we were expecting a lot more than a some how even more casualized Persona game.

>>720308636
I bet her dumb ears are really sensitive

>>720309020
AI generated post

>>720309157
Not true, the AI would know somehow is one word unlike this ESL shitstain who thinks no one can tell he's replying to OP multiple times lmao

>>720290917 (OP)
It's too easy to have consistent gameplay discussion, and it can't sustain off of waifu wars like the Persona games could.

>>720290917 (OP)
>>720291697
>>720291950
>>720303492
So BUILT for it

>>720290917 (OP)
Is Brigitta canonically kinky or into BDSM or something? never played the games but she's always talking about putting someone on a leash or something

>>720309331
Persona threads don't live on this board anymore either. Too much of /v/ doesn't play video games now

>>720309487
She's domineering, wealthy, and has powerful connections. Her first thought when she thought she was harmed by radical activists was to have them killed.

>>720290917 (OP)
It was my favorite game last year but its been talked to death. What else is there to talk about? Only reason would be it getting a Switch release and getting tons of first time players. Or a rerelease or a sequel.

>>720301189
The MTL SEAmonkeys that do manga didn't even read it once let alone twice.

>>720309487
Brigitta is clearly a sub if you take her last 2 social link events into account

>>720306418
Now include Hexer as party member again and I'm sold. Fuck landsharks.

>>720290917 (OP)
ending ruined any meaningful discussion
theres no dating sim aspect like other persona games so theres no waifu threads

>>720294301
I thought UO was funny too because the message was "Monarchy is based". Is it just a Japan thing to worship monarchies? like why wouldnt you want a democratic republic?

>>720306817
>There is current Zero franchise that also let you larp as a japanese highschool boy, literally living the anime dream and having anime waifu
not a franchise but Varlet just came out its just okay

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3406620/VARLET/

It took them 8 years to make a shitty p5 clone. No wonder these retards got bought out by sega.

>>720291950
Shut the fuck up you persona brain rotted negroid. I don't need romance in my adventure games, it's okay if it's there but it's not "needed".

>>720311396
Sandfall Interactive got bought out by SEGA?

>>720311161
Democracy is particularly recent and consistently non-functional in Japan.

>>720290917 (OP)
lacks the sex appeal that persona had

>>720311161
They're both retarded.
Democracy gives you the most individual freedom, as you're functionally participating in government. Shit just never gets done because nobody can agree (and usually nonsensically. Look at the USA right now. People will want to boil kittens alive if someone from the other party pets a kitten, just out of spite).
Monarchies are efficient. Decisions can be made by one person with no opposition. The obvious downside is that the people routinely get fucked in the process.

>>720290917 (OP)
It was a pretty forgettable game. Looking like an upscaled vita game also didn't do it any favors.

>>720301794
>>720312925
not that anon but he's right, it was a failed experiment on their part of not leaning into what made every persona game popular, romance

the book fiction industry has known this for decades, women are the majority of the fiction market and it's because they are looking for romance in the medium
men refuse to purchase books that are fiction irregardless, they'd rather buy biographies about some guy that lives in the woods and rejects the world

this transfers over to fictional stories in video games, if romance is not an aspect of your story game, you shouldn't have made a story game, you should have just made some kind of shooter, which can still be improved by hints of romance, like gears of war and halo

>>720290917 (OP)
>brownoid protagonist
lmao
i would never play this trash

>>720313203
US's separation of powers Republic is literally intended to make Government retarded. That it is still recognizes as uniquely slow means it is (at least by comparison) still somehow working as intended.

>>720307235
>>720308636
eat the bugs

>>720290917 (OP)
No romance

>>720290917 (OP)
I'm waiting for the usual updated version, I won't be fooled by Atlus anymore.

>bumping your dead shitpost thread off of page 10
Embarrassing
>>720313570
>he's right
>I will write something just as patently retarded to show why
I don't know what else I expect from current /v/

>>720290917 (OP)
Fucked up by not adding romance.