>RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army Released on Steam and Switch 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Xyh3SciAM

>Raidou Remastered World Spotlight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIr3mDfEAlo

>VV has a demo now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Br8Pt11f0

>SMT VV patch 1.0.3 is out. includes 6 new navigators, one new quest and demon

>Atlus 2025 Aspirations Tease Upcoming Announcement from Shin Megami Tensei Team, New Experience from Persona Team:
https://personacentral.com/atlus-2025-aspirations-tease/

>Giten Megami Tensei's partial translation patch for PC-98
https://www.romhacking.net/translations/7343/

>Vengeance OST scans
https://imgur.com/a/smtvv-ost-liner-notes-cNN28YJ

>Shin Megami Tensei The Board Game Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smtboardgame/shin-megami-tensei-board-game

>Megaten Fusion Tools [For real fusion autists!]
https://aqiu384.github.io/megaten-fusion-tool/home

>Archive of 3DS Texture Packs
https://reddit.com/r/Megaten/comments/1b6v86u/3ds_games_hd_texture_packs_are_gone/

>Digital Devil Saga 1 & 2 soundtracks are now available on digital streaming services

>Old neocities site containing info and useful links (no longer updated)
https://smtgen.neocities.org/#original-post

>SMT TTRPG Campaign PDF:
https://files.catbox.moe/rdqfh3.pdf

>20XX rereleased on April 24th for the Nintendo Switch. Steam on May 8th
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3652460/GMODE_20XX/

Last cycle: >>530128259

Hey Vfags, it's been more than a month since the Switch 2 release and there hasn't been any DLC. How are you coping?

>>530815413
Is Shiva in the Vengance route? I couldn't seem to find the quest to beat him up, I kind of assumed demi-fiend took his role as the 'superboss'.

I LOVE LILIM!

Raidou is gay.

>>530815645
Yes, he's in the spot where you fought Beelzebub. His quest doesn't activate until you trigger the boss fight, it just exists for tracking purposes.

Also make sure to save your clear file after defeating Super Lucifer in a seperate spot and Reload the game. The actual Super Boss of Vengeance route is Satan (who is harder than Demifiend). He only unlocks when you have a game clear file so I'd go Shiva->True Lucifer->Satan/Demifiend

>>530815590
Eying the demon expansion mod despite its infinite jank (not of it being bug-ridden but more being very incongruent with SMTVV design and the skills being made be an Dx2 crack addict). Playing other games. Coping you seemingly can't personally mod emulated versions of the game.

>>530815645
Technically Shiva only has a quest in the log once you first find him regardless of CoC or CoV, you find him in the purple leyline near where you fought Beelzebub (or Vasuki in CoC).

I never played the original Raidou, only Raidou 2 (couldn't find Raidou 1 in the store so I just started with 2). Playing remake, on the final dungeon and I have to say, I always heard 1 had the better story. That's bullshit, 2 is way better story wise and actually feels like an occult mystery game.

My name is Ronde

>When the neutral rep lets (you) watch

>>530816010
>>530816123
Save game after mechalucifer 3000 and reload to face Satan, gotcha. I had no idea Satan was in the game, that's kind of based and a genuine, nice surprise for me.
I also beat Beelzebub yesterday on CoV and didn't see Shiva, but I guess I just have to return there. Or maybe I don't even have the quest yet, I'll check later.Thanks anons, time to grind and kill Satan

I don't give a fuck about V or VV.

>>530817735
Based and same

>>530816374
While Remaster didn't change the story TOO much I still found the time traveling shenanigans to be great with the SMT1 and 2 references sprinkled in the OG's Corridor. The remaster kinda makes it meh and whatever with it's references to V, the confirmation of this loose continuity/multiverse with I and II is what made Raidou 1's story cooler to me, even if 2 in places is much better story-wise.

>>530817814
what's your brand of MegaTen, my man

>>530816374
I prefer 2 too, but they did change quite a lot of things in the remake. The antagonist felt kinda half-assed in the remake, like they wanted to make him (or her now I guess, whatever) a victim of circumstances instead of a manipulator.
>>530817936
It's a real treat for those who played SMT1-2. Was this one changed too? I can't quite remember.

>>530817814
>>530817735
And yet, you played them far more than your favourite SMTs.

>>530817735
>>530817814
Me too.

>>530817814
>>530817735
I beat V, now beating VV and I don't think I'll replay it again, when normally that wasn't an issue for me and I have a few runs of IV, Nocturne and SJ but these I found interesting in one way or the other. I have nothing really to complain about in V:V (beisdes the UI) and the gameplay is good, but even then walking around the desert for another million hours would feel like a chore. Nocturne's desert seemed much more unique and felt less copy-pasted, even if some areas in V were really cool. Once I'm done with it I'm likely going to forgot and give 0 more fucks about it as well and I'm not surprised someone might feel like that way towards V or VV. Best I could describe the games as would be good but bland.
>>530818718
I either somehow missed this or they replaced it, yes. It's been a long while since I played OG 1 but truthfully I didn't recognize most of the time travel prompts, so they were either all changed, rewritten or I'm retarded

From previous thread, maybe we need fantasy mc with gun toting heroine

>>530819078
I never played VV because the mid game of V was so shit despite looking slightly interesting.
I would literally rather play Persona than V, and the only Person's game I ever played for 10+ hours was P3P

>>530820865
>>530734264

>>530815590
Waiting for nintendo direct.

>>530815770
We know human bf bro

Lilim and her human bf trying to enjoy a romantic comedy movie together but the experience is ruined by Principality sitting in front of them with his big head, laughing like an asshole and smoking a cigar like Robert De Niro in Cape Fear

>>530820865
Isn't this Nozomi's sprite from IV? Apocalypse was a mistake.

>>530824341
MASSIVE copium

>>530820865
>>530822627
Realizing I am subconsciously projecting the goddamn Dresden files that is exactly this idea. I’m a dumbass

>>530825619
>But what about that tattoo on your chest, Principality? Doesn't it say Die Lilim Die?
>No! Its German for The Lilim The.

>>530825962
Not really. That won't announce it out of the blue.

>>530820501
Thanks anon. I know that anything about the Center is removed, but I can't quite remember if they replaced that one or not.

>>530825897
>>530820865
>Isn't that Nozomi's sprite from IV?
Sure is. I will never forgive apoc for character assasinating Nozomi like this. Turned into a forgettable retarded fucking clown.

>>530827517
More like a forgettable retarded clown made for fucking

>>530827604
I don't like the slut aesthetic Apoc nozomi has and the only way I see myself doing that to her is gagging her so there's no homeslice bananacakes incidents.

>>530827734
Is like to homeslice her bananacakes if you know what I'm saying
But I'm all seriousness, I agree, they ruined her and I consider the booty shorts wearing traitor from IVA to be a completely different character

>>530827398
We need some modautist to just mod that shit back in, at least on PC. It's just text, so surely it can't be that hard.

>>530806931
All of these games are infinitely better than V. Especially FFX.

>>530828574
yeah but why ain't Nocturne on this list? Shit, those ATLUS games on there wouldn't exist without it

>>530828574
Nah, VV is better than all those games, especially FFX

>>530828574
imagine being an FFX babby

how do i get to the glory on the wrecked arena?

>>530828574
>FF7 AND FF7 rebirth
Disgusting.

>>530829980
Can you jump from across the roof of the other building? Or maybe it's a rail you're missing.

AAAAAAH I NEED TO GOON

Flopdou

>>530834390
S-Shin Megami Tensei...?

>>530831085
I can't get to the top of the building east of it, the quest marker is from within the building

Is anyone else giving up on this series if SMTVI is underwhelming and gay?

>>530834583
SEX WITH MEGAMIS, TENSAY

>>530837794
Nah I still have so many Shin Megamis to Tensei.

I know SMT is a niche series, but anyone find the community kinda....well sheepish/NPC?
It always boils down to the same opinions about each of the game everytime you ask about one. There's barely any nuance, it's just depending is it like nocturne it's based if it's not like nocturne, it's cringe. It really doesn't feel like most of the people who talk about the games even played them. Hate me if you must but I try to find SMT youtubers were more varied opinions but even they get stuck in SMT X GAME IS BAD SMT Y GAME IS GOOD!

>>530837794
V will be the only unironically gay game. They can't do the same gimmick twice. They will just milk V for every dime fujos are willing to pay in the meantime.

Is Matador's crippling blow good enough to dump a bunch of grimoire on him? I wanna keep using him and Hell Biker but they've dropped off hard in levels

>>530840947
Don't keep a demon for gameplay reasons.
Keep them because you like them.

>>530841560
Power is everything.

>>530842101
Grimoire exist for a reason.

>>530842795
They exist to be used on the powerful.

>>530840687
You are right. A lot of people seem to be in it just for the memes, vibes and essay videos and thus they parrot.
You even get it on this website, a lof of posters who talk shit about certain games don't have the passionate autism to back up their hate, they just parrot or shitpost.

>>530843428
marsh is probably the only okay smttuber i like but he raised a shit ton of secondaries

>>530843828
Marsh makes extremely long videos basically to transcribe a game into english that will only ever be in Japanese because no one even wants to fan translate it. He contributes nothing else and has generally bad opinions about the series over all. He's purely a gameplay fag and can't be assed to do much else.

What’s the best version to play of SMT 1? I think I gotten good enough at Japanese to give it a try and some later versions had some nice extras.

>>530844102
>He contributes nothing else and has generally bad opinions about the series over all.
I think his opinions are exceedingly tame, I don't think he has any particularly bad opinions. If anything sometimes he seems like he can't bring himself to criticise a game enough, he was way too soft on last bible 2 for how big a piece of shit that game is.

>>530844102
he has safe takes about every game. nothing controversial.
>>530844541
konnichiwa, onii-chan. PSX version datte bayo.

>>530844940
>nothing controversial
He shat all over V recently and started a fight with V fags on twitter.

>>530829980
If I remember you can either jump on the ceiling to that ledge from the other side (it loops around) or it's from exploring inside going into the upper levels.

>>530840947
Matador's good for two roles
>Mobbing/random encounters
Crippling Blow + Yabasume Shot (late game essences) = dead Mitamas; stack with Loa (Taboo Innate) for better odds. Theoretically luck incenses too but those are hard to come buy in a normal playthrough.
>Andalucia
The floor is Mortal Jihad with increased crit rate because you have 3 hits and if you want to explore Omagatoki:Dance (multi-hits deal max # of hits, even on single target) it's still pretty strong until late game (only outclassed by Madness Nails/Rampage (if it lands) during Dance).
>Grimoires
Something to also remember is that mitama spawns are fixed, depending on how you are with exploration/side quests and gaming sessions but you might've noticed this in Minato with the one rail area that spawns Peallaidhs.
>Hell Rider
Do not look him up on the fusion calc, you'll fucking cry. Why is he the way that he is?

>>530845149
Based

>>530844102
>>530844725
He has extremely normie takes and cannot recognize a lot of the mythology and occult in the games but at least he plays them and that's better than being Nocturne's biggest fan who's excited to play it for the first time in his life.
Also I would hope that since he shows the games more people have been inspired to play them. He actually is the reason why I played If..., cause I liked his videos on it and wanted to try it for myself.

>>530840854
V isn't a gay game.

>>530845149
"Vanilla V was an unfinished mess" isn't particularly controversial. Yeah lots of people loved the game, thats absolutely true, but people here need to stop pretending like it didn't also get a ton of pushback for its issues at the time too. Its not just evil contrarian boegyman who didn't like it, I mean the overworld and exploration is so insanely different to what came before its only natural some people just wouldn't like the changes.
Its an especially uncontroversial take now that VV is out and any incentive for honeymooning the original release is over. Like I don't really value their opinions, but if (you) are treating twitter opinions as the end all be all, I'm looking at that exact tweet now and its literally 90% people agreeing with him in the quote and replies saying it was VV that actually made it good. He unironically, and I say this without any artifice, got more shit and pushback for calling soulless hacks 2 the piece of shit that it is than he did for calling vanilla V bad.

>>530846193
IV is honestly more unfinished than vanilla V.

>>530846318
? fuck you for saying that.

>>530846480
That's not a controversial statement either. Vanilla V is mechanically complete, it has a cut plot thread and some backstory is relegated to NPC dialogue. IV uses half it's script, none of the mechanics work correctly, none of the demons and bosses are properly stat'd, the game abruptly ends and sells the final boss Masakados as DLC, etc.

VV is still V. IVA is an entirely seperate game.

>>530846480
Nigga, the balancing alone is a dead giveaway.

>>530845467
Well that's why I said he's just a gameplay fag. I'm not sure that makes him a worthwhile youtuber at all. He basically just makes games digestible for people who will never ever play them.

>>530845940
Yah, it's extremely gay.

>>530846480
I like IV more and its completely true.

>>530840687

>>530837794
I just hope Yamai doesn't get involved, I'm sick of this multiverse nonsense.

>>530840687
It probably is because they don't really play the games, especially the older ones. No matter which series, you'll rarely find people willing to play even games made only 10 years ago. 30 year old games are out of the question for them.

How do I grind to 99 in V:Vengeance without the stupid mitama DLC? Do I even need 99 on Hard to fight Demi-Fiend and Satan?

>>530849021
Yamai is incapable of writing something that doesn't go balls to the walls with this shit and make it more grounded, even SMT II, a game where you kill YHVH, feels more believable with the spaceship and the Center manufacturing deities while the real YHVH was still in there scheming from behind the scenes.
Yamai is like: No, we need the alternate universe bullshit to make this work!
He is no different from MCU writers in that regard.

>>530846193
>game is different from previous ones
>that means it was unfinished
Komori even said V was a completely finished game, mechanically and story wise. Not having a proper snake antagonist and cutting Yoko was because they didn't know how to fit her in and the snake in the story anymore after the rewrites. So calling the original game unfinished is just factually false. Also Marsh has a rabid fanbase that agrees with most everything he says somehow.

>>530851082
You didn't have enough Gospels stored from the regular Mitama battles? I usually have like 10-15 sitting for the end.

Anyway, the best way to grind is doing multi-battles then using the Genma Magatsuhi skill on the final turn. The AI rematches is great for this too.

DF you can probably do sub 99 but Satan is a ball buster.

>>530853823
The statement that the game is radically different so its natural that some people would dislike it was a secondary statement, I'm not saying its THE reason for vanilla v being unfinished.
The reasons for V seeming blatantly unfinished to people such as myself are
>In chaos route you're randomly given hayataro at level 40 when you're like level 80??? hayataro in general is just sort of a big obvious leftover of a previous stage of story development just sorta straggling into the current version of the game extremely conspicuously
>level jump between 3rd area and 4th area that had both western and japanese fans speculating about a cut da'at area in-between them since the start, way before VV was even announced
>copy pasted the four devas quest from nocturne but it randomly just ends with no real conclusion
>the temple of eternity evokes lost izalith with the "beta draft" vibes and the way the demons are sorta just copy pasted in lines throughout (honestly, INSANELY surprised VV did not overhaul this dungeon, I would have bet money they would have with how shit the original draft was)
>the general sloppiness of several plotpoints like khonsus questline and its lack of connection to yuzuru despite the obvious connection that should be there (not helped by the fact in vanilla hes quite possibly the most lacking alignment rep in the series, a veritable plank of wood with glasses), the lack of elaboration on tao, the random amanozako possession near the end that goes unexplained etc
The devs can yap all they want that it was a totally finished game, but I played the game at launch and have never felt more like I was punked and paid for a beta release from atlus, and I'm not close to alone in thinking this in the slightest. Like its frankly fucking insane that what ended up being revealed to be a core facet of the structure of the V world was previously limited to a few lines of dialogue in a single quest chain in vanilla .

>>530854485
>You didn't have enough Gospels stored from the regular Mitama battles?
I... I used them all when I got them... I didn't think I'd start getting so little exp in Taito at 70s.

>>530851482
Yamai was more involved in Apocalypse and we all saw how that turned out.

>>530851082
>Grind to 99?
Genma omagatoki + ambushes = lots of exp (they stack, if you get mitamas ambushes even fucking better)
>Optimal setup
Yatsubume Shot Matador with Loa (Taboo) + Genma demon; have Ippon Datara as your navigator (Minato diet building in the back)
>Mitamas
While the Gospel ones are a long respawn, they are fixed spawn locations (so the one in Minato if you explored to where Zhuque spawns for Huang Long's quest will try to spawn there). Note you could also use a navigator on the Egypt bridge since the fight encounters there are mitamas (and thus you should get Grimoires/Gospels).

>>530853823
And I doubt Komori's word considering the insane level banding that was in the end game. Unless you mean to tell me that fighting Zeus for Demeter or recruiting Chi You invalidating all empyrean boss encounters was part of the intended design vision.

>>530853823
If they truly felt it was finished Vengeance would not exist.

>>530856916
Why Ippon Datara in particular? The navigators actually do different things besides looking different?
Despite playing on hard my party is good enough to destroy pretty much anything my level and a bit above, only lvl 74 Nahobino and beat Mephisto lvl 79 just now. Though maybe I'm just proud of it because of old V scaling, but anyways I don't think I should need the matador, but thanks for the detailed tips.
Do the Virtual Trainer battles give any good exp or should I look for big groups of demons in Da'at?

>>530848383
Based and same

who is Snappy

>>530857854
a friendly dolphin who speaks truths

>>530858179
Fuck off Snappy you lying fuck, not even worth the dolphin jelly

>>530857156
Rerealease have been a staple for Atlus for years.

>>530857378
Different rates for things, Ippon Datara is the navi with the highest rate of ambush but you can use others if you like (and I sure did, he's noisy as fuck, it was funny at first but it get old fast), he's just the fastest one to get fights.

is Tayama the Jeffrey Epstein of Megami Tensei?

>>530857854
Tomoko's husband

>>530858417
I noticed I get quite a lot of ambushes with nahobeeho, and wouldn't get any with Alice, but I figured it'd be a coincidence. Huh.

>>530857378
>Navigators
First I'll post a video because this is where I got my information from back when I was curious. Yes, different navigators do different things, no the game won't tell you how because fuck you I guess.
https://youtu.be/lep067BIow0 (only the first 9 minutes matter)
>Why Ippon
He has the worst modifier on getting items in his pool which has the inverse affect of making him the most likely to get into ambushes (and from there extra encounters to farm EXP multipliers). Note if you don't have him, Mara in theory should also work since he's also tied with the worst modifiers but has a better pool of items and that you can't bring a navigator to the Temple of Empyrean so all of this is in Taito or Egypt Bridge in Minato.
>Virtual trainers
If you can manage challenge mode level 100 fights (Atlus totally knows how to do NG+ and the bosses don't just have the same moves as before, like Nuwa having Mazio), it could be a good place to get EXP just note that normal mode will be as you fought them in the story (and if you didn't fight them, still do it once anyways because you get balms for the first time you complete each consecutive fight, free stats for the beano).

>>530858835
>no the game won't tell you how because fuck you I guess.
Used to it, with how severe damage could mean nothing and a lot. WHERE ARE MY FUCKING NUMBERS
Challenge mode? I only saw Normal and Consecutive battles, was it a different NPC?
For now I'm finishing the few quests I can before doing the grind, I'm pretty sure I got Ippon as a navigator... somewhere.
Pic related is my current Bino, might replace some passives but it works for now. I get enough crits to where critical eye isn't really needed, at least at this point. Could probably use a Charge though.

>>530859391
forgot pic

>>530858835
>video
I was told Decarabia was the best navi for gems because he was the only paid one.
Turns out he's actually the worst lmao.
Also the faggot who made the vid used the censored version of Lilim artwork from P5X.

>>530859391
>Ippon (where)
Its at the leyline outside the Tokyo Diet Building if you got him, otherwise you have to explore the roof of the building to find him.
>Challenge mode
When you select a fight, you'll have an option for normal (as you fought in story, free balms if completed for the first time) or challenge mode (starts at level 100 but each win raises level by 100, where you find level 999 enemies if you want for Godborn). Normal battles are 1v1s, mostly for the fights the researchers give you outside (SMTV and VV dlcs, Dagda/Cleopatra/etc.), while Consecutive battles are pitting you in a boss rush.
>Charge
Will warn that you can't stack it with Omnipotent Succession if you are relying on it.

>>530859596
Not a half-bad build even if unfocused. I went pure phys and it worked until superbosses called (the aogami essence with Wrath Tempest was such a huge powerspike, kept Aramasa until then even if it sucked because 8 hits = crits and I'm a sucker for dopamine).

>>530861113
>Will warn that you can't stack it with Omnipotent Succession if you are relying on it.
Most likely the reason I got rid of it and I just forgot, huh. I stopped playing a while ago and just started playing my Taito save again. Omnipotent succession is goated, and It's pretty much my crutch. I wasted a lot of balms but yeah, I kind of figured on Hard all of the stats except Magic would be useful to me. The luck really helps, with Glees I crit very often.
Thanks for the tips, after I'll try the Egypt farm and the normal battles for balms once I'm done bashing my head against Marici.

>>530834390
Might I interest you in some 442472

>>530862956
Thanks brother. I will now enjoy it until the last drop...

I've been thinking of a concept today.
Might commission it if I can find a good artist.
Noncon face fucking a heroine hard, she doesn't want to look but the pov char is literally forcing the heroines eyelids up with their thumbs to force them to look directly at them with a traumatised wide eyed expression. I think I saw something like this in a BSDM video once and it randomly resurfaced in my subconcious today while thinking about megaten whores.
Which heroine fits well for this, and do you have suggestions for good nsfw artists who have drawn megaten art?

Is this the same Freikugel as Demi-fiend? Is it better than Murakumo? I thought I'd need to whoop his ass to get it but I just noticed this little beast has it

>>530864019
Nevermind, just read it's high chance of crits, not high damage when crit. Murakumo's probably better if I crit alot, sorry for flooding the thread because I can't read

>>530863675
Scary…
https://skeb.jp/@maruto
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https://skeb.jp/@drive_like_gesu
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>>530862956
wait asahi actually has a doujin out? oh is it the compilation one it's kinda meh or is it the grape one? kinda meh on that too

>>530866903
It’s the rape one

if... was an unfinished mess

>>530867517
if what?

>>530863675
Either Tamaki, Beth, Asahi or Dx2 F!MC

>>530863675
yuuka from giten

>>530867634
if smt was based

>>530867668
>spoiler
>>530734264

>>530866903
If you provide an artist that has commissions open for a doujin project, I will get one of asahi

>>530869228
mimonel? meh i kinda prefer old mimonel compared to preggers mimonel i'd chip in too with a steam card LOL

>>530815309 (OP)
Why is he such chud?

>>530868873
The weird thing about chaos = punks is that, don’t most punks favour socialism or more law-aligned version of anarchy?

If SMT IVA was just you + Asahi, I think it would've been significantly better. I don't even know why they made it so they added like 5 other literal whos and Isabelle. man I said it I don't care much for Toki at all, forced party members my ass.

>>530845149
Honestly it sounds like you're a bitch made V fan who can't accept that it sucked. I would kill myself immediately

I really like V.
But I also can't really feel like playing it more than once. I mean I technically did for OG and VV but I can't see myself playing another playthrough. Not really much in the story like at all and not enough variance to even try another go around.

>>530845149
Basedyne

>>530871081
I'm guessing the devs wanted to expend the partner system and everyone specializes in something special but support is way more important then mediocre damage, it's why everyone uses Asahi, Navarre, and Isabeau. While shitters like Gaston are an active detriment
>>530871372
Honestly I couldn't bother with demi and satan, I should attempt them atleast once but having to grind enduring soul sounds annoying

>>530855658
>NG+
>You can do quests to cover that level jump if you're playing on normal. For whatever reason, in the original game, forcing you to grind meant difficulty. Purely a dumb gameplay decision.
>You find out how Masakado died in the war. VV didn't change the quest.
>They didn't overhaul the dungeon, correct. That is your indication that they believe it's complete as is.
>Khonsu's quest makes complete sense and you have to talk to Miyazu about Yuzuru in the fairy village in order to activate it. You just forgot that or didn't care about it.
>Amanozako was there to explain how Tao was being possessed by a goddess of creation. You were supposed to notice the obvious overlap in their situation when they get possessed.

Also thinking your complaints are right just because you aren't alone in thinking them doesn't justify it or make it fact. The original game was not unfinished.

>>530871907
Sorry but I'm not here to relitigate 3 and a half year old arguments I've already wasted my life on over a 10+ post back and forth on each individual issue and whether subtext is a substitute for a satisfying narrative. 3.6 years after the fact I'm not going to convince you that your experience with the game was wrong and you should dislike it, and you're not going to convince me what I experienced of the game was wrong and I should like it. I'm simply laying out the facts that a conglomeration of those specific issues (give or take some based on individual preferences) were what lead to a not all that uncommon perception that the game is unfinished, thus the opinion is not all that controversial (particularly in a post VV climate).

>>530872309
Cute picrel

>>530872309
And my point is that interviews and VV itself have shown V wasn't released unfinished. So continuing to have the opinion is ignorant. Continuing to push the argument in a public space is also just to start shit.

>>530871862
yes but consider just you and asahi. it would've been BASED. a cute naive demon hunter girl slowly getting more confident thanks to her zombie childhood friend and then FUCKING DIES saving her childhood friend, and zombie childhood friend goes ballistic and goes FUCK THE WORLD AHHH MY WAIFU . seriously I've been plotting how they can write bonds/anarchy better and it's just have it so you can't bring asahi back from the dead in bonds but secretly she comes back with the power of friendship but no memories somehow some magic idk and anarchy lets you have her back still a brainwashed drone and not really all there but at least gives more motivation for nanashi to pick anarchy over bonds. you know the whole fuck the world, nothing means anything without my cute childhood friend ahhhhh

>>530874121
so to make anarchy better they should've made it revolve around the bond with asahi?

>>530873990
The devs can say whatever they want but if the quality of the game reflects otherwise in the eyes of enough people, theres really nothing you can do about it. And I absolutely do not think VV shows otherwise lmaodyne, it actually shows just how gaping the holes were in the original product after most of them are filled. Particually when they actually filled the narrative with an actual interesting through line.
>nooo you're only saying it to be mean and start shit aiiieeeeeeee you can't possibly think it to be truly evident based on the quality of the game
Genuinely so fragile about this videogame its kind of insane
I couldn't give a shit about riling up people who were gonna get mad that I didn't like their favourite game regardless of the nature of my complaints, I'll talk about the games for my own satisfaction because I'm an autist for megaten and it occupies my brain 24/7. Don't flatter yourself into thinking I'm doing this because I'm secretly tsun and want to bring your kind out or some shit.
I don't know if you're still the original guy who started this retarded chain but this started because of the idea that the vanilla game being unfinished was some sort of faux pas controversial statement uttered by marsh. But literally 90% of the quotes and replies to that statement were agreeing with him. That is a fact you cannot change. It is not a particularly controversial opinion in this climate, I and others will continue to have it.

>>530871372
What I like about replaying VV is doing completely different demons and themed teams.

new /smtg/ plays when?

>>530876534
What would you be up for? SMT 4A?

>>530875204
YES the world is too fucked to be FIXED

>>530876724
that's fine

>>530870881
So I can fix him.

Me falling to my death but Hathor saves me as she flies by using her ass jetpack

>>530876534
>>530878631
Newfag what's smtg plays?

>>530881430
Everyone plays the same game and report about it and have fun together.

>>530875221
>wall of text
>high horse smug reply
I was literally just stating a fact.

>>530882727
Alright thanks

>>530876534
How when we don't have a website to record those participating and who finishes the game anymore? That's what made it fun.

>>530882864
It's not a fact that there is secretly a hidden agenda to incite anger behind my opinion on a game, your inability to understand that is probably why you percieve a high horse where there is none

>>530883105
Now you're just making assumptions.

>>530883179

I want PM Koshimizu to fill my holes

laidou

>>530881430
a week or two to finish playing a megaten or atlus game, we played maken once. people would give suggestions and someone would make a poll with them to decide what we should play. during the event there was an anchor post and people could report to it and have the names they choose for the protagonist recorded in the old neocities site. you can probably still find it there.
it was good cause it prevented people from being stuck in the same old loop of discussions, but less and less people participated in them and we halted for a bit. there was even a little discussion of playing an EO game jointly with /eog/, but since the guy who held them (Neocities kun) left this general we haven't had one in a while.

>>530883332
This general is hardly a public space. Sorry if you thought I meant you. We're one very small corner of Megaten discussion on the internet. The only way it could get more private is if it were an invite only chat group. Public space means anywhere with actual traffic like Twitter or even the subreddit.

>>530884473
I'm good with doing it again but where will we record who's participating and who finishes?

>>530884914
I don't think it's a must but it would keep track of the number of people who were playing

>>530631868
Need a quick bit of advice from someone who's played MT1.
I've secured the statue with not much fuss, and am currently looking for someone in Daedalus who I was told by a rando that I should talk to in the event I actually find the statue. All I can find that matches the description is some shlub who gives me some lore on the statue about how it's an effigy of someone Medusa feared.
That the guy in question or do I need to keep looking? Am I just on a wild goose chase?

>>530884473
Is there any way to host these without paying for a service? I think having to pay for a server for the booru while according to him being unemployed was what eventually broke neokuns brain. That and the general responsibility of being sole host for events like this.
I'm thinking something more casual like a google docs/slide/sheets (whichever) that hosts the participants and important progress updates, and group polls deciding played games and playthrough dates
The group playthroughs were really fun honestly, I think they'd reinvigorate game discussion in a positive way at least a little
>>530884708
Even if you claim you're not talking about me, someone with the exact same opinion you're critiquing in your post that is responding to me, but actually a nebulous group of other irrelevant people who will never see your comment, you're still ultimately falling back to the classic
>if you don't like my favorite media content you got it from a youtuber or you just wanna seem different for clout or you don't have product franchise literacy or you're ragebaiting or you're just trying to make money with hateclicks or you're being paid by the deepstate-
Like, what are you even saying? It doesn't matter that the response to marshs take was agreement because they're all just trying to start something so its not a real opinion? Or if its not related to even that did your post have no point or relation to the topic of conversation whatsoever?

>>530884914
>>530885089
I'd be up to play
>t.newfag

>>530885089
I think it's a must honestly. Otherwise everyone is just going to forget. Having a sign up list keeps everyone accountable. You don't want to sign up and then your name isn't up on the finish line. Some people did but most didn't.

>>530885481
what made him leave was probably the cost and moderation of booru, I agree. I would too. it was simply too much money and I do believe he simply made a mistake when he deleted the storage. but the question is if we should or can make a whole new neocities or if we should make one just to keep track of the events.
we can make a neocities page with a free account it just has storage limitations
>>530886008
yeah creating specific pages for each event made them more an occasion to care about. but being honest I cared about them cause they made people post and focus on a specific game. talking about a game you played years ago vs playing it like collectively makes for really different discussions.

>>530885889
okay throw in your suggestions

>>530886746
Smt 4a?

>>530887167
I'd rather do IV then IVA

>>530887606
I'm up for 4 also

debisama...

>>530886746
Are we against the idea of repeating games we'd covered previously?
I think SMT1 would be a great first game to group play through for this new era. I get the impression the population of the general has changed enough with the onset of recent releases to say the majority probably weren't here when we did those old playthroughs, and I certainly think a decent portion of people in here haven't played anything pre nocturne.
The autist in me thinks we should start with NES MT1 and go through all (translated) titles in release order, but I have a feeling the events would be DOA due to the admittedly lesser star power of pre shin megaten and archaisms of the game. SMT1 being a bit newer, mainline, and even having the updated QOL PSX version makes it a much safer option.

>>530885437
You’re supposed to talk to a dude that tells you that you don’t get turned to stone now and you can proceed to beat Medusa’s ass. I think you need a key to unlock boss room first? Dunno if you grabbed it first or not. Either way, you should be able to find medusa and kill her

>>530886637
neokun left because he lost passion for megaten after seeing it wouldn't be creative anymore.
i do also think him deleting the booru was an accident.

>>530887932
>>530887606
i can go for smt iv again

>>530888784
Understood. Hopefully it goes better than the Minotaur.

>>530886746
i'm fine with 4 or 4a as others suggested.
can't promise i'll participate for 4 though but it's not a big deal. i'd still appreciate the discussion for it.
i started a playthrough of 4a some time ago and it's still at the beginning so it would give me a bigger reason to finish it.

aside from those:
>mt1
>smt1
are good starting points.
>gmode games
might be fun since i'm pretty sure barely anyone played them.
>raidou/raidou 2
good follow up after the remaster if you go with raidou 2.
or just raidou 1 for anyone who hasn't played it yet.
>giten
maybe. but i'm not sure if the translations are still buggy.

>>530876534
I'd only really do it for Dembissa, maybe DeSu2 to force me to play it. I'm mostly complete with this series. Also Giten, but I want to leave Giten for last.
>>530890329
The Gmode games kinda suck ass outside the Last Bible one.

I got some leftover shekels from the sale. Am I gonna enjoy Vengeance if I enjoyed Strange Journey and IV?

>>530890830
I think VV is worse than those 2 but it's not the worst gameplay wise, isn't it like 20$ rn? I would say yeah

>>530891119
well, worst case, it ends up in my big file of unfinished games. I mostly get my steam shekels from dirty old men.

>>530890830
It's one of my least favorite games in the series but yeah it's fine if you get it cheap

>>530886746
call it 真/smtg/ plays

>>530890830
VV is very good and better than IV. But the dungeon structure is completely different. Depends on what drew you to those games.

>>530876534
Because I am someone who is terrible at time managing skills, I would actually appreciate more guided /smtg/ plays. Like instructions that say we are doing this section on this day, and then moving on to this section tomorrow. I genuinely have a problem deciding how much I can dedicate in a day to gaming

if we're doing /smtg/ plays again, are we just going to play through games normally or do specific kinds of runs like challenge runs or something or leave it up to the player?

>>530893852
Leave it up to the player

>>530893852
We always left it up to the person playing if they wanted their own rules.

>>530893852
Maybe we can let people do whatever but have a suggested hard mode challenge? Idk what it would be, but I never played IVA on Apocalypse before so if we played that I might at least do that.

>>530899621
I hate the beginning of IV and hard will only make me hate it more. So I wouldn't want to do a hard run of IV. I'll happily play it on normal. No I don't care about how much the difficulty drops off when you get to Tokyo. I just want to get the beginning over with.

Unlike the Minotaur disaster, we absolutely stomped Medusa despite the fact that I completely forgot to set up a proper demon squad beforehand.
Dildonix dumped holy magic on her until she was barely alive then Kwancha and Cubix poked out what remaining functional organs she had.
The mayor was so grateful that he gave us a metric fuckton of cash plus a teleport item and a new save room.
Back to exploring Valhalla, our only quest hook right now is word of a prisoner locked in it's basement levels, who seems to have been tight with a powerful mage who almost managed to beat Loki.

>>530899830
It could be something other than hard mode, like no using items or some other challenge.

>>530900584
I mean I liked it when people came up with their own personal rules if they wanted to. Everyone plays through the game the way they want.

let's play last bible 3

>>530901426
As long as it's not 2

>>530899998
Congrats! Now for the fun bit next (I think)

>>530890830
You will come to see why VV saved SMT and pulled Atlus out of debt

>>530827517
She was kind of retarted in SMTIV too, always bungling her quests. But there she was presented as a young character who deferred to Flynn, while in IVA she's the "veteran" party member who acts like a leader in spite of still being an idiot... which isn't a good combination.

>>530846861
>>530846318

IV mostly had bad balancing. The whole "strength being mostly for normal attacks" isn't a bug unlike some people claim.

Also, the demons and bosses were meant to die quick since it was their idea for making a more appealing handheld focused game. Although after the complaints they dumped that idea in IVA.

>it has a cut plot thread and some backstory is relegated to NPC dialogue.

I mean, whatever the reason, you had vast areas of nothing happening in V. And we know they cut proto-Yoko and several demons from V at least, although we don't have any info on what her story was originally meant to be.

>IV uses half it's script

The original Kaneko script had two eras. They decided to just focus on the 2nd one, reducing the first to backstory. It's not like it was a random cut late into the game's development.

And, yeah, the end-game is barebones and feels rushed compared to the rest... but, like, that's base V's ENTIRE GAME, not just the end game.

Why isn't this bitch joining my party even though i'm the same alignment and higher level

>>530904630
you are coping brother, IV's gameplay is horrendous and obviously broken
t. IV enjoyer

>>530904782
I said it had bad balancing. My point is that it isn't due to bugs or rushed development. It was the balancing they intended for whatever reason.

>>530904691
I can't tell what that demon is but in older entries I thought "dark" allignment demons never joined you, alongside light allignment
>>530904782
NTA but I wouldn't call it horrendous, but it is broken and you can strong demons very easily

Does anyone have the dlc (especially dlc demons) for the raidou remastered nsp? It seems all the copies online don't have it (also checked in the archives and that gofile has now been removed)

>>530905027
>I can't tell what that demon is but in older entries I thought "dark" allignment demons never joined you, alongside light allignment
It's neutral according to the game. I'll just chalk it up to some jank mechanic i'm not aware of i guess

I never played MT1/2, would it be a bad idea to play the originals instead of KMT
I kinda prefer the visuals of them and a more hardcore dungeon crawling experience sounds intriguing

>>530905534
It doesn't say in game but wilder is considered dark neutral in most games. No idea why it doesn't say so in-game but you can't recruit certain demon races, like for an example I know you can't recruit angels through negotiation because they are considered light law in SMT 1

>>530905650
I prefer Kyuuyaku if only for the more qol stuff but you can definitely enjoy the originals regardless. Music is much better too so go nuts on it. The files for both are pretty easy, but be careful not to burn out too quickly from playing them.

>>530905786
Ah, I see.. Thanks for letting me know

what's your favorite boss fight in megaten?

>>530907775
Krishna

>>530907775
Lucifer in Nocturne, namely on hard/chronicles.
Really does feel like the ultimate fight to prove yourself worthy of being Lucifer's general.

Stooooopp meeeeeee...

the Sempiternal mod is so fucking good bros

i heard u liek kodama

>>530905786
It's listed as dark-neutral... in the manual, that is. Old games are just like that.

let me Mazan you, kid.

probably the biggest thing the ps1 version of if... over the snes version is nemesis/old enemy.
and maybe the easy difficulty to make sloth quicker.
and item descriptions in stores.
the visuals are a toss-up. some look nice. nova looks way better in the ps1 version for instance. and then others, like the mental world dungeon, look pretty bad.

Fan games bros lets go
https://youtu.be/elqkgp9vcEo

I want Taisho-era PM Koshimizu to fill that one Anon's holes!!

I want to fill Yuzuru's holes

>>530921979
what is it with people being completely incapable of creating good looking ui's`?

>>530922820
I think this TMS UI is just placeholder.

>>530922820
Programmers make absolutely horrible artists and vice versa. Think of it like putting all your skill points in one stat and usually the good artists and coders are that good because they have being doing it since they were children

>>530922954
What if we fused them?

though to be honest, it’s not like the programmer types have a fantastic taste in art or literature etc., or even an ability to read them well

>>530923542
The opposite is actually more true: math-type people can into art but with great effort but art-type people can't into math at all.
It's also something you can see in History:
Great scientists have a chance of being decent/good philosophers but philosophers will never be great at sciences.

>>530923542
I think in the past it was a lot more common for people to specialise in multiple areas when the rich peeps didn't have to wageslave

>>530923794
There is a league of difference between someone like Richard Stallman and Lewis Carroll

>>530924472
In what domain?
I have no doubt Stallman fucking sucks at art but Carroll only knew "basic" math and formal logic, that he tried to taught with the books that made him famous.

>>530904630
Yoko wasn't cut like the story was gutted. They rewrote the story and didn't know where to put her anymore. That's not the same thing. It's why VV is a new story all together.

>>530905534
Neutral there is referring to the Law/Chaos spectrum, not the Light/Dark one. The mid point on both of those is called Neutral, confusingly. Beasts for example are Neutral in both spectrums, so they are Neutral-Neutral.
SMT1 doesn't tell you I guess (I forgot about is cause SMT2 does thankfully) but Wilder race demons are Neutral-Dark, so no recruitment.

>>530907775
Xi Wangmu in IV is one of them, maybe it’s because it was one of the boss fights in that game that felt like the wall after cruising through after Medusa in the tower. Shit, Minotaur and Medusa are up there as well. They just feel like down and out life and death struggles for both sides.

>>530907775
I like IV-A Odin. The interactions between Gaston and Odin are really cool, with Odin bartering off Gungnir to Gaston if his party wins. Overall I found the mechanics of talking mid-bossfight really cool in both IV and IV-A and I wish they'd come back.

we're reaching levels of dead general previously thought impossible

>>530943138
SMT VV honeymoon's phase is over and everyone went back to their respective generals/discord servers. There's nobody left besides like, 5-7 anons here at best.

>>530815309 (OP)
>Total drama
Could Jack Frost win total drama island?

SMT x Dungeon Crawler

>>530899998
We encountered the prisoner, who wasn't the person we were looking for but still requested rescue nonetheless. After pondering my options I decided to help him and after passing a strength check he was unchained.
He gave us a bracelet (that's not showing up in my inventory so I assume it's a key item) and revealed himself as the Creature from the Black Lagoon as he requested to join our ragtag band of demonic misfits.
I forgot this was from the days where vidya devs didn't give a fuck about your copyrights.

>>530949390
Or will he melt under the pressure? Find out next time on TOTAL DRAMA ISLAND!!!

Doll Joints? in MY SMT???

>>530953421
desu

>>530907775
SMT V Shiva, Lilith, Satan, Nocturne Baal, and Finnegan

I love boss fights where the enemy is a Summoner and uses their own demon entourage.

who is more of a baddie: Chiaki or Yoko?

>>530960934
Chiaki. Yoko acts like an alternative, counter culture bad girl but once he got one taste of the cutesy school girl life with Tao she wanted it so bad she went mental. Chiaki is just naturally cruel and uncaring.

>>530840687
but adding to this, is there really any SMTtuber that's kinda chill to watch? I swear it either goes from overanalysis of 5 fucking hours of nothing and it's the DARK SOULS OF JRPGS or "oh i hate this game so much it's stupid! like why is SP even a thing?"

>>530960934
Chiaki.

>>530961251
marsh

>>530961509
....other than marsh lol

>>530961509
>asks for no long form analysis videos
>suggests Marsh
That's the only kind of video he makes.

>>530840687
It's a sheepish fanbase because of retards who get all their opinions from fucking YouTubers. Think for yourself dumbass

>>530840687
It is. It became more apparent a while ago, but most ideas for the series for the fandom are controlled by the same few people. Persona is much worse in this regard

>>530962505
That's why I like this general because we're always throwing around crazy ideas and better over analysis here. I think the real reason you see people parrot the same opinions is because most people don't play the games so they repeat the opinions of others and if they do play them, they don't understand any of the references or mythology used so they parrot the ideas of someone else who seemingly knows more than them.

>>530962036
i don't mind long form analysis (marsh is more summary though) but it really feels like these fuckers have nothing to say and it's 5 hours long

>>530962036
it's more like let's plays/summaries barring his more recent horror game vids

>>530962945
>5 hours long
5 hours of what?
who were you watching?

>>530961556
iceraptor?

>>530964585
simplydad

>>530966289
he had 5 hour videos?

>>530953236
Uh oh. What pick?
The only thing I know about any of these is that some rando told me Ares's necklace is heavy as fuck.

Is Soul Hackers considered good? Not feeling it at all, except for the music which I could just listen to on youtube

When is /smtsg/?

>>530968062
Huh?

>>530967818
It's mid, 2 was a big improvement desu

I cant move my arm...

>>530969542
losarm?

>>530967818
>Is Soul Hackers considered good?
By normalfags? No
By YouTube kiddy posers? Yes.
By true SMT fans? No. It's flawed and has questionable design decisions. However, it is stylish and unique and deserves a playthrough.

>avery woke up again
yep, i'm leaving the general for now.

>>530969391
>>530969739
samefag

>>530969963
>>530969904
>>530969391
Samenigger

>>530970471
?

Raidou Demastered is to blame for the current state of this general.

>>530970591
>says he's leaving
>doesn't leave

>>530970762
i will be leaving after seeing your bitchass post. goodbye.

>>530970591
SAME. NIGGER.

>>530970824
Wrong. Also talk about Shin Megami Tensei. You're off-topic posting right now, Avery-kun.

>>530970659

>>530970968
>t. Avery

>>530971957
>t.avery

>>530968062
/psg/ includes anything megaten related, or you could go to /dft/ or /ftt/ like a normal gooner.

I have nothing MegaTen related to post

>>530972791
Dft and ftt have been unusable for the past decade and psg is mostly dead aside from like one guy schizoposting.

>>530967248
I eventually took the amulet since it's the only one I know jack shit about.
Meanwhile as I was finishing up mapping out Valhalla I was caught completely off guard when I was jumped by Loki, one of the three major antagonists hyped up by the intro.
I was mortified since I hadn't saved in a while but we kicked his ass pretty hard. Fairly certain it was just luck on my part since we had just leveled up from the last mob and he had an apparent instakill move that only landed 1(one) time on my Salamander.

stop fighting guys, it makes me sad :(

>>530975404
HAHA FUCK YOU

>>530967818
It's too easy but it has some soulful choices. Particularly the way the internet is portrayed with you logging into it like a SMT dungeon

VV DLC never

>>530978362
Beach DLC is coming

What's your favorite SMT background character?

Wow, I think most oldfags pre-V left this general. Just look at all these latest posts man. What a fall from grace.

>>530981146
you're just now realizing this

>>530981017
Gay Man

>>530981146
I've been here many years but mainly shitpost at this point. This series is fucked

>>530981950
Aleph is so lucky bros

>>530981921
I've been dead for 36 years. But today is the day I live.

>>530982886
What did he mean by this?

>>530981146
how come we get a handful of posts like this every thread

>>530975304
Hey man, when you get past the sea of flames can you post your save file here? That’s where I was before I lost my save file.

>>530984020
I'll try, I've actually never bothered to upload shit before. You wouldn't happen to know where they'd be stored on Retroarch files in linux would you?

>>530982598
Most protags are lucky. Most get fate mandated lovers that are loyal and caring.

>>530985084
Or you can take them for yourself

>STR only affects basic attacks
why the fuck would they do this

>>530975304
>Fly to Mazurka
>massive 5-8 stack mobs of demons, almost none of whom can be reasoned with.
>safe zone isn't even safe and also has random encounters
>About a third of the enemies spam marin karin for panic
>Another third spam para
>And the rest are damage sponges resistant to everything I have
Sure feels Wizardry in here. All I need is some level draining enemies and I'll be at maximum suffering.

>>530991017
I think it was a shortsighted way of balancing phys skills costing MP. Most phys focused demons have higher str at the cost of lower MP pools so they'll be slightly less useless than magic demons after running out of fun juice. Having two separate damage dealing stats to manage would have also discouraged players from just mindlessly dumping most of their points into mag/dex and nuking everything in a few turns if str was actually worth investing in and MP management was an actual concern by endgame.

>>530984462
Thanks, apparently it’s ~/.var/app/org.libretro.RetroArch/config/retroarch/saves

>>530998848
Righto, I'll keep that in mind.

>>530989560
How? None of them are real....

>>531004035
Use your imagination of course. Or play eraten

>>530975031

Black Maria Posterior...

>>530993570
>level draining enemies

oh god you have no idea

>>531012530
one piece has made it impossible to find art of her

https://files.catbox.moe/opqzq5.jpg
https://files.catbox.moe/kc9xw6.jpg

IP grabber

alice using freikugel ex is carrying my luck maxxed dumbass nahobino

>>530993570
Fuck these cunts and their 7/8 stack bullshit.
Oh what's that? you wanted to explore? Fuck you go back to the healer.

how do you think tao cums

Please don't lews my alter-ego. Thank you.

>>531016076
Immaculately conceiving in Maria!

I want to fuck and impregnate asahi

>>531014937
No one is going to tell you, Yoko you sicko.

Two in the HEE
One in the HO

>>531020141
Which Jack would say this?

Love my girlfriend

>>531019648
well she'll have to find out another way...

how good is profaned land with 0 points into max and 60% of them into luck

>>531017354
I would impregnate her and stay with her to raise our children and die at an old age together holding hands

>>531025214
She would leave you for BOC (Big Oni Cock)

>>531023826
In theory it should be a reliable poison button but that's depending on your Dark Potential (up to 1.6x proc rate if at +9), and if you have Poison Adept/Master to boost its damage. It has a 100% base chance to proc poison which puts it at the highest proc chances for and can activate ailment-matters demons like Eisheth (Voracious Salvation nukes), Hydra (everyone's magic can crit though Lahmu's best for that for being an actual mage and just caring about positive skill potential), or Deadly Affliction demons (allies have 1.5x Accuracy/Crit Rate against a demon with ailment, stack Glees and you should start seeing results).

>>531027235
mamudo

what is the most middle quality SMT game

>>531028062
IV

>>531028218
True...

i legit think there's a schizo here that hates on IV. it's objectively the best SMT game yet it gets trashed here all the time. maybe avery? i'm not sure.

>>531031223
No, people are just very tired of IV fags and it's by no means the best game. You can see very reasonable arguments explaining why. Avery can barely form correct sentences.

>>531031223
It's not just one guy, it's a whole group of freaks. They've even been following me in public and driving past my house all day, I don't know what to do.

>>531031606
You know what you have to do.

boing boing boing

We will never get Genghis Khan as a demon in SMT because there is a schizo theory that Genghis Khan was Yoshitsune.

prove that you are an SMT fan

>>531033389
i played persona 5.

>>531033389
I have physical copies of the games and didn't just pirate or play roms on an emulator.

>>531033389
I guess?

>>531033546
true fan, Persona is technically SMT but many forget that

>>531033570
fake fan, stop giving money to Atlus or people who have previously given money to Atlus

>>531033838
For all those copies of Vengeance you bought, you could have gotten 14 fujo keychains!

>>531034068
Why are they so fucking expensive?

>>531034235
The only way to get the fujo keychain and the portrait that goes with it is if you buy the entire set of pic related. It's not sold separately.
They know exactly what they're doing.

>>531033838
buy it for me

SMTVV mods are absolutely fire

>>531033389

>saves your game

>>531039670
>game pushes Tao and Yoko
>CoV law ends with Sahori winning the Tao bowl

>>531038713
Post some recommendations.

i feel like only a dozen of the raidou demon models were actually remade and will be used in other games and others were quick hackjobs and won't reappear outside of Raidou 2
it is a nice roster and there's a lot of demons in it i'd be glad to see become recurring (Kudan as UMA/Rumor would be fun).

>>531033838
Based.
>refunded the 2 crapcom games
King.

>>531043309
I still hate they didn't use the better Nezha design VV has. Its a remake for god's sake.

>>531038713
>Sempiternal difficulty mod
>all the subtle lewd mods for the female Demons
>Free camera + Pause

This game is a heaven for taking screenshots.

>>531044808
>>531041081
was meant for

>>531036196
only RPGCodex members are eligible for such a boon.

yuzuru

>>531040003
>game pushes Tao and Yoko

Only in Fujo headspaces

>>531044695
>Red Recolored Qinglong instead of SMT2 Vritra
>Frankenezha instead of SH Nezha
>blue cerberus instead of SH Fenrir
Vritra is especially funny because there's not a lot of recolor demons in the game (Tam Lin is in but Cu Chulainn isn't, there's no Cockatrice, etc). the only other exception I can think of are Abihiko and Nagasunehiko and their entire gimmick is being an old Devil Summoner design + their made-up twin from the Tsugaru Soto Sangunshi

>>531044808
I thought that was my nigga Camazotz

>>530922256
Meiji era PM Koshimizu
Taisho era PM Koshimizu
Showa era PM Koshimizu
Heisei era PM Koshimizu
PM Koshimizu must now be featured in every atlus product!

>>530888173
>>530890329
>>530887167
>>530887606
okay but let's think of something for Neocities, should it be for the events only or something else? do we really need a dedicated Neocities?
give ideas for making lists of players

the characters in raidou make perfect sense for the taisho era
gouto is especially fitting.
the taisho era mixed japanese traditionalism with western modernity.
gouto, as the first raidou kuzunoha, serves as a symbol of the past that mixes with the present with the 14th raidou kuzunoha in the current era ingame, the taisho era.
and he uses 汝/うぬ sometimes to refer to others which is an archaeic term.

>demon mod has a glitch that causes matador to occasionally use blossoming sakura for FREE if you null his attacks
Was crippling blow not enough lmao

>>531044808
Thanks, I assume all of this is on gamebanana?

>>531049025
>Sempiternal
Yes
>Lewd demons Yes + Nexus

https://www.nexusmods.com/shinmegamitenseivengeance/mods/5

>Free camera + Pause
https://github.com/Lyall/SMTVFix

I’m going spears with Raidou because one of the end spears is Longinus

>>531046251
Absolute retard.

my h orrible sons with too many heads. i love them

I want to go to istanbul

How do I force myself to replay SMT VV?
i feel like the plot is such wasted potential it actually hurts to play

Koshimizu is a Mahjong machine.

>>531049221
Thanks again.

>>531053138
NG+ add another branch of upgrade including the strongest weapon of the game which is also a spear btw.

who did you send up to space?
i sent up okuninushi in the original and i did the same here. i didn't resummon him this time, though.

>>531057746
S E M P I T E R N A L
M O D S

>>531057746
It's a good thing it isn't.

for what purpose did they make remake angela so fuckable

>>531057746
I can't think of anything outside a self-imposed challenge, like restricting yourself from using certain demons, but in my opinion I don't think you should force yourself to reply a game you don't absolutely love anon.

>>531057746
Could mess around with the randomizer

>>531060564
Arahabaki.
Just give him phys resist and even that is optionnal, he's literally the best demon for the job.

best boss

So are we doing smtg plays or what?

>you will never get Megaton-pressed by a cute dog girl

>>531062587
>>531047290

>>531047290
i'm not sure we need another neocities.
people joining will post a display name and a screenshot of their game to enter.
we'll put that information somewhere and when/if they finish the game, they'll post their display name again and a screenshot of their game at the end.
then we'll update our list of players and their completed games.

>>531064307
Use https://rentry.org/ to make a page for the playthrough. You can imbed images, make headers, etc. The guide on how is right there so no knowledge required. If you can write a wiki page, you can do this.

I am the only who got jumpscared by Isabelle's dying sprite while playing SMT IV's Law Route?

poll for /smtg/ plays
https://strawpoll.com/XmZRQvMv6gd

>>531068419
i wasn't the one asking about neocities but maybe i will do a page for our playthroughs. idk. anyone can feel free to do it.
i went ahead with making the poll.

I don't hate the idea οf having a "possessed" MC like Nanashi, especially if the demon is likeable.
How do you guys feel about it?

why the fuck did they remaster the mid ass raidou games instead of digital devil saga

>>531074883
raidou was high on the poll for remakws/remasters.
dds was on it too so expect it sometime as well.

what are sοme licensed songs you like to see an SMT adaptation?
>HEAD LIKE A HOLE
>BLACK AS YOUR SOUL
>I'D RATHER DIE
>THAN GIVE YOU CONTROL

>>531074862
pick SMT IV you fuckers or im megidoloaning you all into oblivion
"Hey, you! You're finally awake."

>>531074883
tbf I think DDS plays significantly better than Raidou so it makes sense.

>>531074868
I ended up enjoying Okage Shadow King and that's a main idea of the game with the MC with Stan.

maybe ATLUS fears remastering DDS because Metaphor's leveling and combat is toο similar

>>531013752
I'm BROKE.
I'm DESTITUTE.
I'm LIVING IN A BOX.
While exploring Mazurka I stumbled upon a dude who was getting chased by Hecate and wanted me to buy a macguffin off of him for all of my cash. Me being an impulsive moron did so despite knowing nothing about it other than that it was stolen from Hecate. I also figured the game wouldn't ACTUALLY take all of my money right?
It did.

>>531033389
I played and beat Shin Megami Tensei, and Shin Megami Tensei II, and Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne and Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey, and Shin Megami Tensei IV, and Shin Megami Tensei IVA, and Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey:Redux, and Shin Megami Tensei V, and Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance!
Oh, but I never finished If....and never played NINE. Sorry, I'm a fraud.

>>531074862
aren't all the normies here just gonna vote IV cuz popular? sigh.

I'd rather see /smtg/ play MT2 desu

>>531076753
>normies
>IV
IVfags may be retarded but they aren't normalfags

>>531076769
i'll put it on the poll next time if i do the poll again.
you don't really need to play mt1 to play mt2.

>>531076753
i'm fine with 4.
i played it a lot so idk if i'll do a full playthough again though.
maybe i could try to get neutral. idk. we'll see.

>>531076753
Vfags are the normalfags retardo

>>531076753
>>531077035
MT as in megmai tensei or majin tensei? we already did a megami tensei 2 playthrough before. my name is cemented there on the neocities site :)

How are they going to censor Digital Devil Saga, /smtg/?

>>531076753
FUCK OFF! IV IS KINO @_@

>>531077492
They'll remove the Jenna self impregnation scene

>>531077492
cover up argilla's thigh and give her a burka

>>531077492
they will make Jenna trans instead of intersex

>>531077492
oh yeah isn't the mc transgender later on in the second game?

>>531077895
off-topic but I find it funny how the alphabet mafia never brings up intersex people, the ones who would actually struggle with identity issues the most

i think we can finally get away from the schizo postings when we do the playthrough. yippe

Does anyone know how to use the SMTVV Editor Tool on Ryujinx or is just not compatible with the switch version? Really tempted to try the Demon Expansion Mod for a new playthrough but I want to do so some cleanups and also confirm if you can't get modded essences.

>>531077492
Redo the dialogue, cut some cutscenes or edit them to look more tame and mainstream the dungeons
Also picrel is the type of shit I’d want to wear In a demon apocalypse

>>531078487
fat chance lmao

>>531074839
Yes because I’ve never seen that cursed sprite and never will

>>531077252
megami tensei

>>531079083
neutralcuck...

>>531074862
I'm not going to be that enthusiastic about doing it unless someone puts up a page. If you're making the poll you should make the page too. It's not that much more effort.

>>531074883
Raidou is mostly known because of Raidou himself, despite appearing in Nocturne.
Meanwhile, DDS is mostly known for the Demifiend super boss fight in the first game.
Raidou is just the safer bet.

>>531079703
i'll make it fancier later
https://rentry.org/pgex3u4h

>>531080758
ip grabber

>>531080758
macca grabber

>>531081209
>>531081317
level drainer

1-2 weeks for a playthough?
what are you guys thinking?

>>531077492
>heat: your head is mine!

>>531033838
my... my knees... holy shit... that report of atlus clearing their debt... all makes sense now...

>>531082472
dude, i have work and family to tend to. i can’t finish it that fast.

>>531085864
how long are you thinking?

>>531086157
3 weeks

>>531074862
I don't have as much time to play vidya as I used to, I hope this goes on for a month at least. I would have voted Giten if it was fully translated.

>>531080758
Nice, thanks anon.

>>531076614
Hecate: RETIRED
Turns out the macguffin was the missing piece needed to get into Hecate's secret lair, and a statue I found ages ago allowed us to see through her second layer of defensive illusions.
Kicking her ass got us another orb when I was hoping for Izanami's Cape which I was informed would render me immune to the sea of flame's passive damage.
Before stepping into hell I'm parking the flying city over at Infini to see if I can't find the cape somewhere around there. No luck there yet but I did find weapons and armor shops with stupid good stuff and stupid high prices. Time to grind.

>>531086397
>>531087851
we'll see how it goes.
3 weeks is probably fine. it also probably depends on the game a bit.
but i don't want to hang on too long if most people are already done by then.

>>531074883
I like Raidou's games way more than DDS.

Raidou 2> Raidou 1>>>DDS1>>>DDS2

>>530981017
Anthony is a real one.

>>531077492
Thier more likely to shove V/VV references in game.

SMT VV dlc status?

>>531095560
Cancelled to focus on more Raidou games

>>531095560
Next nintendo direct. If nothing then we hit cope status. And/or they are working on something bigger which means an even longer wait for news.

>>531096325
GET READY FOR THE DECADE OF RAIDOU

>>531098372

>>531098372
OK, sounds good.

When are we getting another SMT game?

>>531101171
After King Abaddon remaster

>>531101171
MOOOOOOOOOODS

>>531101171
Sauce?

>All these Chinese names in the credits for Raidou Remastered
No wonder stuff got censored.

>>531101756
https://baraag.net/@TheEvilFallenOne/112327144218309728

>>531101171
I think the one with madame is better

Would you?

>>531107387
Why is his mom okinawan?

>>531089207
I poked my head into the burning hells just to see if I could grind cash more easily there, and instead I stepped on a portal trap that launched me to a village in hell rendering my escape plan of warping back up to Mazurka moot. It wouldn't be so much of an issue except demons down here are really stingy with their MAG, meaning if I can't find a way out of here pronto I'm losing half my team and just plain fucked.

>>531077492
Heat will molest Serph instead of Sara

>>531107387
Needs more art so I can use them for references. I want to give futsuo a sibling

>>531107387
I don't think I'd have a choice.

This series is fucking dead, I'm going back to pokemon

This series is fucking dead, I'm going back to eating shit

>>531101171
There's something about pixel art porn that gets me going like nothing else, why is that? I don't consider myself a deviant.

This series is so alive I love Raidou so much lads

>>531098473
I also like Gouto a lot

It's actually very important for our understanding of a megaten protagonist to be able to see the woman who's pussy they came out of
SMT1, 2 and NINE understood this

>>531112358
explain how 1 and NINE to this

>>531110995
Pokemon Romhacks aren't THAT bad
>>531111086
Nostalgia?

>>531112564
The mothers of the protagonists appear in those games

>>531112564
never mind I misread the post...

>Yu hashisume(souless hacker dev and The answer director)
>Masayoshi (Vengeance assistant codirector)
Knowing Atlus and Yamai retardness I can see one of them directing SMT6 while SMTV team go back to work on EO6 and he is busy with Raidou 2

>>531113542
Good, put those resources into a good series instead of this kusoge.

after complaining in a previous thread about the lack of SMT2 QoL features I basically just got over it and have been playing it pretty often, game is pretty fun despite the lack of map markers for most things. Just had Hiroko abducted by the anti-messiah (I named him DINGUS not knowing what role he played in the story, so I'm BOZO and he's DINGUS as rival messiahs which is very silly) in Shinjuku, not a huge loss though because I guess I got an unlucky roll with her starting stats because she's a luck Heroine, so she has like no HP so I've needed to pump it so she isn't getting two shot in mob fights, stunting her magical growths so she isn't even a decent healer yet. been relying almost entirely on demons/beads for heals, just fused another Nadja after getting the plot one in the factory which has been very useful.

Hey replaying smt 4 with a dex build but I feel like I'm not critting enough. I'm guessing I'm supposed to level 2 dex, 1 agl, and 2 luck? Because I'm been going 3 dex, 1 agl, and 1 luck. Still pretty early in the game and got done with xi wangmu

>>531107760
>Stumbling around the sea of flames as my supplies are slowly dwindling
>Meet old man who spouts a bunch of cryptic shit like how malice must go into the head first, and how there's a white dragon orb on either the first or second floor of the sea of flames, but probably the second, he's not sure.
>continue stumbling until I find this room
>It's Izanami
>I have to put the three orbs I have in the right slots in the correct order or I get launched out of the room, probably somewhere far away because fuck me.
>Thanks to the old man I know Malice in Forehead is first but the other two are unknown leaving me with roughly a 25% chance not to fuck this up and get yeeted.
>Luckshit my way through regardless
My asshole is still puckered.

>>531080758
https://rentry.org/shin-smtg-plays

Yumiko says:

>>531116993
I love and support the LBGTQ+ community.

guys, /smtg/ is laughing at us again...

>>531107387
That’s it. Going to commission a few comic pages of her. Artist might be iffy but god damn it I want her bred. /smtg/ I ask if you-give me ideas!

>>531118587
Pascal

guys, the demon emperor is laughing at us again...

>>531118678
Kill yourself

>>531118786
You just know

guys, the great will is laughing at us again...

>>531118587
Thor × Mom × Gotou

>>531118587
her x me

>>531120179
I meant positions, composition, and story. Is it a secret affair with an anonymous male, is it actually with Futsuo, or perhaps some other male that’s charmed her. I need something to work with. I need plot

>>531120624
Futsuo comes home to find her possessed by a demon, and there's only one way to fix her...

Grab the wine bottles /smtg/, we're celebrating tonight.

>>531120624
She pays a male prostitute to have sex with her while her son is out for class. Said male prostitute is actually Loki (Megami Tensei) and he will have her soul after her death.
Pose: 71.

>>531101171
>People whine about vore posting
>But yet beastiality posting is completely fine
Fuck off

>>531121549
What went wrong?

>>531121549
>there's a chance that P5X global will actually reach EoS before Dx2
lol
lmao

>>531121256
>>531121737
Meh. Was thinking of it being Louis Cypher, with the face shaded out. Something along the lines of Futsuo’s mom getting lonely and getting entranced by her new lover. Couple of panels or perhaps just a page that acts as a montage for a date and then beginning to have sex. Starts out as a kiss and then a blowjob before becoming more intimate with different positions. Something along those lines. But I need a fair bit more to work with I guess. Also would need a name for Futsuo’s mom. Does she even have a proper name in extra material?

>>531121549
I've been ignoring this as per my usual gacha policy, why do people hate it? I figured gachasloppers would eat up a Persona gacha even it it's objectively trash.

>>531122079
Because vore isn't hot

>>531122783
But it literally is as it's like rape but way more brutal

I wish I had more gay/male focus MegaTen art to post d e s u

>>531124520
>ask Demifiend to bake me cookies
>he burns the absolute shit out of them, probably on purpose
>ask Raido to clean my room
>he just shoves everything under a bed or into a closet
>ask Raidou to make tea
>recieve perfect tea but a demon spills it everywhere to spite him

The only reason I don't fire them is that I get to cuddle with them if I ask nicely enough.

Lilim and her human bf trying to book a flight to Tijuana where they’re next to each other on the plane but can’t because all the middle seats for each row has been purchased by Principality currently wearing sombrero and sunglasses

>>531122140
>>531122715
Based on the steam reviews, sega is mismanaging the game by making it more jewish compared to the chinese version of the game:
- Accelerated pace with no rewards.
- No guaranteed banner
- Less rewards for maintenance
- No sign of adding characters to normal banner

I'd say it's typical behavior of the old nip who still think Japan reign supreme in the gacha industry.

>>531126698
More complete list:
- No guarantee banner at launch
- Horrendous soft pity
- Accelerated schedule with no mention of compensation
- Backloaded rewards for synergies, incentivizing putting money at the start of the game (fomo)
- Level requirements to continue the story (i.e get to lv 30 to beat Palace 1 boss) which was NOT there in other versions of the game. Obviously playing on fomo to get players to buy/use stamina
- Horrendous pop-up ads that were NOT present in the other versions of the game
- Higher prices for the Beginner sale packs, the Puppet one is 5 dollars, but I’m pretty sure it was only 1 dollar in other versions
- CN Servers in new update gives 10 limited character pulls in a 7-day login event, meanwhile global only gets 7 weapon pulls in a 7- day login event instead.
- Many characters pull sources were replaced with weapon pulls or jewels.
- "Limited" Standard units no longer being put in the standard banner after banner ends immediately.
- Marian cognite and Marian's weapon won't be added to Lufel's Business Plan rewards
- Reduced patch release rewards compared to CN servers (600 for CN servers while 100 for Global)
- Lack of communication between players
- Fumbling EN localizations and 1.1 livestream EN translations.

Damn, sega is really trying hard to kill the game.

>>531126698
>>531126981
this is absolutely hilarious, holy shit.
I, for one, do not mind Personafags getting milked out of all their money.

>>531126981
This and Uma musume are like night and day holy shit. I get a lot of gacha currency just from completing daily shit and a career. Sega is just pump and dumping this gacha. Thankfully dx2 isn’t that Jewish

>>531129019
Counterpoint:
Cygames is just as jewish but it really depend on the game and director.
I mean, 2 of their most famous games (RoB and GBF) were designed to milk people dry.
The recently released Shadowverse is also greedy as fuck.

>>531121549
The persona thumbnail guy looks kind of like a low rent version of Tastsuya

My Reason will be creating a world with no gacha

>>531132951
>banks and corporations all fall because accountants use random number generators to determine what’s in the coffers

>>531124520
I have the best gay couple in smt if that counts.

Using a new phone and wanted to get a lowkey SMT styled wallpaper you guys have any recs? I was thinking something based on SMT IV or Strange Journey

>>531135051

>>531135201
i just used earth with Schwarzwelt opening at the south pole. it's pretty lowkey.

>>531115826
My MAG supply issue was given some reprieve by a goblin who gave me a solid chunk of it for dirt cheap and said he'd be around on half moons. Freeing Izanami is nice and all but I still need to find a way out of this burning shithole before I run out of stuff to feed my demons with.
Now that Cubix is tanky as fuck, should I dump speed or luck next?

>>531121549
>all of this not because it's a bad game, but because they're not getting the same rewards a Chinese version of the game got
gacha players really are subhuman

>>531138063
speed

>pussy and religion is all I need
is this the Lawfag mantra

>>531132951
Isn't evolution just pulling from a pool of genetics with mostly redundant junk pulls until you get useful good pulls for the right time and place

>>531138507
>>531122715
It's a huge red flag for gachas when the rewards are different between the original server and other servers. Because it means that they are expecting that the other servers won't make as much money. Most likely you will be missing QoL, events etc and much more likely to EoS earlier as well since whales are incentivised to get another account on another server for more rewards.

>>531141738
That verse describes Dazai to a tee.

>>531144478
It's a huge red flag for something to be a gacha at all. I'm serious when I say that they should be illegal, not for any legitimate legal reason but just because they are a blight upon gaming.

what's his alignment?

>>531145205
Why can't people just hate Israel the country and its citizens, a legitimate complaint given all they do and have to make it about all jews? It's how Israelis continue to virtue signal and get away with shit. Also law fags do this same shit, Shin Megami Tensei.

>>531145205
To be honest, I think jew hate is overblown. They seem pretty chill about stuff like SMT and I never hear about the whack schizo moments unlike the other two main religions.

The only good alignment

Reject alignments. Continue the status quo. Be content.

>>531147551
>Continue the status quo
literally V Law and Nocturne Neutral

>>531138063
We continued our confused rampage through hell as we looked for an exit, slaughtering scores of demons including Set's top lieutenant followed by Set themselves. We also found loads of relics and items and finally, FINALLY, found a fucking statue to evac to Bien. I still need to go back to find that white dragon gem the old man was talking about but for now I'm just happy to be out.
A demon I rescued from the Cum Jar also said he could reveal secret passages which is how I found Set. As a Wiz/M&M veteran Bien's basement and top floors were suspicious as fuck with their layout and sure enough there was a secret passage there followed by a great many pitfall and teleport mazes that I am currently navigating. We've also become so powerful even without our demons that the meat wall in charge of guarding it is getting dog walked every time we fail and have to come back, netting us a cool 1000 exp each time with no MAG required.

>>531147032
I was making a big post to explain to your ignorant ass why you are just clueless but for the sake of helping you but my browser reset and ate it. So now I will just direct you to simply look it up yourself: please look up Zionism and Zionists.
Jews as both a religious group and generally as people (so this is true even for atheist jews) are also very good at being perceived as low-key and making sure the media does not speak ill of them and this is in part true because they control it.

Zionism is also the basis for the plot of Shin Megami Tensei 1 and 2 so if you are a fan it'd do you good to learn about it. Messians are clearly expies of Zionists even if they use the cross as a symbol. Mastema is also basically written to be the typical manipulating cultist jew stereotype.

>>531103540
Absolute fucking dire. Same situation with Dead Rising 1 Remake.

>>531147551
this is atlus's actual alignment. even their most progressive director's morals amount to "things arent THAT bad" and "we can make small amounts of progress over time"

>>531145205
Divine Powers

Atlus commisioned another one of these stupid goose videos again but for Raidou. The VV one was amusing and this one looks to be just the same. It's just the trailer though, the full version of the whole game is coming soon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-52ABVc-1o

>>531151729
Based goose enjoyers

>>531123363
Fuck you rape is hot.

>>531151729
How the fuck is this supposed to convince me to purchase their product? No wonder why the Raidou remaster is selling badly when they're wasting budget on this dumb this like this.

>>531152536
Flynn is a dogfucker....

nu-smt be like
>gameplaymaxxing
>ostmaxxing
>dump art and narrative stat
>pandering to the otaku culture but without fully embracing it
this is why nu-smt games sell like shit

How was the Raidou remaster censored

>>531157513
There's too many issues with nu-SMT. But I think the most notable ones are:
>Being too jewish to give you tons of macca, as to force you to buy the money DLC
>The dungeons are getting worse and worse to the point they're mostly a afterthought
>The clear bias towards demons that were designed by Doi, given all the cool abilities they have
>The overuse of nostalgia bait and the lack of originality
>Appealing to a worldwide audience means they're not allowed to do anything remotely dark anymore since SMT is popular with teenagers

is code breaker worth a shit for making money in SMT2? I need macca for the SPAS

>>531156914
*monkeyfucker

>>531157979
>Preta got nullification surgery
>put bras on a few female demons like Undine and Lamia
>no rising sun flags
>the really important guy from the Navy was changed to some Yatagarasu god named Lord Takagi because of implications that it was possibly the Emperor that was cursed
>not really censorship per se, but some story rewrites removes references to SMT I and SMT II and there's also some leftover weirdness in the script i.e. an NPC mentioning elemental bullets and another talking about the cursed navy guy

I think that's most of it. The remaster is otherwise basically the same game but with vastly improved gameplay, 3D environments, QOL, and more demons.

>"Let's see....monkey, hoy, concept art. Monkey, hoy, concept art. Monkey, hoy, concept art. Monkey, hoy, concept art."
>"Ugh....you've only got three things to say about SMT IV!"

>>531151729
omg little Gouto...

holy shit fuck off avery.

holy shit fuck off avery.

>>531149537
We've finally recovered the White Dragon Gem after looking all over the fucking place, and are now ready to begin a proper incursion into Infini.
For the anon who wanted that post sea of flames save file, I've made a copy of it for you, but I've never uploaded a file for download before despite being an ancient vidya grognard. Anyone know a no fuss no muss service where I can put something up without needing an account or some shit? Won't do it tonight but will try tomorrow after I get home from wageslavery.

>>531161514
>service for file hosting
Shouldn't it be small enough to just post on catbox.moe?

So which part was Merkahbah offended by you guys think?

>>531163115
I am the Supreme Truth Heavenly Master of yaoi enjoyment

>>531151729
This is unironic reddit-core

i'm thinking tomorrow night at 8pm est or so would be a fair time to "close" the poll for 真 /smtg/ plays and then we can start the event.
if it's still a tie though i might just put up another poll for the tied games.
thoughts? or is that all fine?

>>531163115
You know I wonder if Isabeau actually read french historical yuri instead of yaoi.

>>531167538
Can we please, please do the guided playthrough thing with us having goals to get towards a specific point for each day? /smtg/-plays would be very helpful if I had like a set amount to do with everyone else each day

>>531173096
i'd be fine with that.
i just wouldn't know how far apart each checkpoint of the day should be.
hmm...
it could be more like a recommended place to get each day but everyone can ultimately play how they want maybe. mostly to make things easier.
i know not everyone can put as much time into games as others.

>>531158046
play keno.
make savestate before you start the keno game.
take screenshot of the finished keno game.
reload savestate and punch in the winning numbers for that keno game.

hee ho pee po mee mo lee lo tee to

>>531163115
https://youtu.be/O7ifuPjDREc?si=ASf_PKyiNcSBTjQE

>>531151729
>budget was wasted on this dumb shit than actually marketing the remaster

>>531177362
Atlus West's marketing is so bad that it's a miracle anyone in the west knows or cares about this series

>>531173464
Thanks man, of course I would want everyone to play how they like just with added guidelines for those like me who would want that

>>531178147
>tfw you will never watch SUPERM with basedjack

The more I live the more Hikawa’s world of silence and stillness seems appealing

>>531178147
Herald Kal-El

>>531179093
Glad you are finally awakening to the truth

>>531179093
maybe buddhism is right

>>531179093
I'm glad you se the light.

you'll get a debisama remaster released in english inevitably with atlus going into rerelease mode for their non-persona games.
you'll get it before any fan project finishes.

>>531161010
>>531159767
>WAHHH STOP HATING ON MY FAVORITE QUEER CHARACTER'S CASH GRAB DEMASTER

raidou and gouto fucked

>>531186115
i beg of you to leave the general. you're single handly the reason why it's gone to shit over the past years. just get a life and stop schizoposting.

>>531187843
but I'm neither of the faggots that post Raidou or Hazama

Flopdou

Mexican SMT. You can join the cartels, become a priest or flee the country.

What do the luster candies taste like?

>>531186108
But on the day before the demon apocalypse happens

>>531188809
then you won't need debisama anymore.
you'll just become a devil summoner irl and negotiate with the demons.

>see discussion on DeSu2 online
>it's just DeSu1 fags seething about how it's better than DeSu2

One can falseflag as a Raidoufag but true Raidoufagging comes from the heart and autistically remembering all his cute little quirks.

Shut the fuck up Avery

>>531188349
Hmm... Rasperry, Sunflower seeds and Tahini all at once.

>>531187843
His new meme is posting stfu avery everytime someone posts genuinely or shitposts in a way he disapproves. Honestly pathetic.

>>531189978
That’s something you could always do now

>>531191912
but do you need to go on missions to stop demons nowadays?
if there was a demon apocalypse you would have to develop skills to do something about them.

>>531191356
post more about raidou and his quirks.

>>530815309 (OP)
Where on the Kabbalah is the persona metaverse situated? I would say Yeztirah, on the path of Tau

>mfw people claim V story is good because there's direct references to japanese mythology
....okay AND? oh wow susanno-o came out of the snakes mouth with kagatsukihime or whatever that fucking sword is called oh wowwwwww it's just like my ancient japanese scrolls

>>531192190
Well, for example, did you know Raidou has a lovely singing voice and that his favorite food is daigaku imo topped with a lot of honey? (daigaku imo is a type of candied sweet potato that became popular among university students in the Taisho era).
He also is the one who does the chores and cooks at the Detective Agency.

>>531192624
Vfags are really just pokefags in disguise.

if... is good because feels like a fever dream

>>531192654
keep going

>>531193515
Oh boy the gays are at it again, surely this will only improve the state of this general!

You guys wanna talk about Maken? I think it's cool.

release all the smt games on steam already and persona 1,2

>>531194459
It is wild to me they haven't shat out quick and dirty ports of SMT1, 2 and maybe if. 1 even already has a translation thanks to IOS.
They're SNES games, the scripts aren't that large.
They're unironically probably even shorter scripts than raidou. I can only assume they have literally zero confidence in the zoomer generations interest in playing the snes games and they think that a port/collection would flop so hard it wouldn't even warrant the miniscule amount of budget it would take to create.

>>531193515
Often NPCs talk about how charming Raidou looks in his quietness. However, it seems he's just rather shy, especially around girls.
Oh and we still have no idea what's under his hat. What if he's balding underneath?

Also this isn't about Raidou per-se, but Raido's scarred eye squints slightly.

>>531194814
I can see a possible If... remake happening, especially due to Persona, but I'm not sure if SMT 1 and 2 would fly in the current political climate. Journalism really loves nuke scares and that's without getting into the jewish can of worms.

SMT1 Yuriko/Lilith deserved her own route

>>531195557
you get a route with her and her suster in the SMT 1 remake

>>531197797
s-sister??

>>531198881
https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Kyouko_Shibusawa

>>531199268
She does a sex magic ritual and fucks the MC into being super-saiyan Masakado in the OVA btw

>>531195557
Play VX.

>>531194278
I honestly keep having the thought of buying an actual PS2 to buy the game physically since it runs with graphical bugs in PCSX2 still. And I think the online ROM of it doesn't include all of the game's features due to a bug. There isn't any other games that don't run well in PCSX2, only Maken Shao has this problem.

>>531200371
There is a fix iirc, but it's pretty obtuse, you gotta change some configs and switch to software rendering, but it IS possible to emulate it.

What SMT character embodies the "Gen Z Stare"?

>>531203382
Avery from /smtg/

>>531203581
Avery isn't Gen Z, newfag

>>531203382
V-kun.

>>531203773
Yes you are

>>531203901
Avery is a classic 40-40-40
>40 years old
>40 IQ
>40 stone

>>531203886
Kek, this is it

>>531200536
I have done that but even then it doesn't look good. I've replayed the game multiple times and never was able to unlock the bonus content.

>>531205490
I feel ya. It's a shame, the game has some cool changes from the original, have you played Maken X?

Sex with milf demons like Tiamat and innana

>>531194278
I wish they did a new game that did routes and different levels accessible depending on your action like maken did. if there is a raidou 3, I wish it reused that idea.

>>531214758
Which Tiamat though?

>>531206550
I've played both versions.

>>531215358
All of them. At the same time

>>531216269
One of those has Aogami inside of it. Kind of gay.

fellas...

>>531217237
Yes?

>>531217725
is it gay...

>>531219840
To fuse with another man in order to become a Nahobino? Yes. You shouldn't be cursing your bad luck if your partner is a male demon, you should be looking internally and ask yourself why your destined soulmate is male. Maybe you ARE gay.

>>531219840
to exist? yes

How come dazai gets to fuse with a tall sex angel and we dont?

Raidou hours (and by that I mean boring gayposting)

Imagine chile got nuked along with all the SMT reddit cord faggots

>>531220398
It's a fujo game, so were forced to play as the gay disturbingly skinny femboy.

>>531221170
Glibbb you're a faggot

All fucking mudmen must fucking die.

go vote on the poll it's been stuck in a tie in forever

>>531223982
>21 votes
dead general.

>>531223982
Link it, I'm a lazy faggot.

SMTVVV for Switch 2 is happening.

>>531223982
no MT2, no vote

>>531224998
nigga we already played that game.

>>531225089
and I already fucked your mom but that doesn't mean I'm not up for round 2

>>531221078
Wow, it is?! Well, don't mind if I do!

>>531225398
retarded ass newfag go back to /pg/. nobody wants to play that shit again. if you haven't played it yet in 2025 you can go jump off a bridge like the rest of your fellow tranny friends.

>>531225685
meant for >>531225521

>>531224998
Eh, I'd rather not play a game we already played together. Feel free to just not vote then. Oh well.

see, this is why i said bringing back the playthrough was a bad idea. we can't have nice things with people always arguing with each other. this world will never know peace.

>>531226638
Its such a weird thing to seethe about
Nobody is forcing anybody to play the game
Its an opt in thing for fun
If you want to play a different game instead... you can just play it lol

>>531225914
why act like there aren't other games on the poll that we've already played?

>>531227115
I’m not the creator of that poll. I don’t want to play those either. I wanted some games we haven’t played in the general like any of the Majin Tensei or Last Bible games. Or Debisama. Something new.

>>531224998
we're gonna do more and we'll probably play repeat games but since it's not a tie any more your vote probably won't matter

no neocities, no play.

>>531194815
Raido also has a slight tan. Makes him look more rugged and cool.

>What if he's balding underneath?
Apparently it can be a thing where if you wear a hat almost all the time the friction where the scalp meets the inside will cause balding over time. I doubt at his age that's the case and it might just be part of his shyness but hopefully he gives up hats as soon as he's out of high school for his sake...

>>531192190
I have a few
>in the manga it seems to be implied that he doesn't know how to ride a bike
>in fact he might not know a lot about life outside of Kuzunoha Village which might be why Raidou seems so shy and reserved
>According to the novel and the manga, Raidou is an orphan, but clearly remembers his mother while his father is never mentioned

Also as a bonus, it was said once by Gouto that the Raidou that proceeded our XIV was a loner type. Y'know, I wish I could understand the drama CD, because I wonder if there's hidden lore there like in the novel and manga...

>>531192896
Lol. That's the whole franshise in general. Pokemon and monster rancher are the only chads in the monster coomlecting world

if only the pre-nocturne games had press turn...

is Nocturne on Steam also a Demaster?

need more turtle demons...

I enjoyed more Raidou Time tonight.
I am closer and closer to Thor-sama (and Parvati) which is a quite sexy prospect.
Fusion is stupidly addicting in this game.

>>531221078
Not gay posting but I’m wondering who’s the jackass who put in the mt2 doujin on nhentai
I know it was one of you. Confess

>>531236065
it wasn't me but did you really expect it to not end up publicly viewable somewhere?

Good bye frens

>>531237560
Don't do it Kaneko-san, you still have a lot to live for

did Metaphor have more or fewer dungeons than P5?

Meta-WHO

>finish massive sprawling fetch quest for Masakado's body parts
>do one dungeon after finishing it
>ok time to do another massive sprawling fetch quest for some dildos
>hope you leveled MAG or didn't feed all those MAG incenses to Hiroko fucko
I am no longer having fun with SMT2

>>531231114
Technically, yes but if you never played the original, you will never notice why.

>>531231114
graphically yeah, but it does have manual demon inheritance

>>531237345
My thought process was that it was too niche and too small to be added.
>>531242153
It’s best to do the game in sessions-one dungeon per since you can easily burn yourself out for later events

Kanek-WHO

>>531126397
I hate principality...

>>530815309 (OP)

It's...over?

>>531251134
In the beginning is the end, and within the end is the beginning

Kether is in Malkuth

Such is the cycle

We can't play Megami Tensei, this is SHIN Megami Tensei General. Leave that to /mtg/.

sorry i'm late.
the winner is smt1.

i guess, anyone playing, reply to this post with a display name and maybe a screenshot of your game with your protag's name.

>>531254518
>not IV
dropped

>>531194815
>>531228440
very interesting.
i read somewhere that there's a demon you can talk to that will want to wear raidou's hat and if you say yes, he'll see raidou's head and look surprised.

You can also tell Raido isn't a virgin and smells like sex.

>>531254518
I thought it would also be fun to have a "poll of the day" while we play so first question:
>have you played smt 1 before?
https://strawpoll.com/LVyK25KMQZ0

and the page link for 真 /smtg/ plays:
https://rentry.org/shin-smtg-plays/

>>531242153
funny, recently we talked about that.

>>531228048
anyone suggest games for the poll.
i put games people suggested.
i can add those games for the next poll.

>>531161514
For the anon who wanted the saves.
emulator was messen via retroarch, game version is 1.0 with english patch applied of course. save seemed to be in two parts so I uploaded both.
https://files.catbox.moe/wdlrui.srm
https://files.catbox.moe/trhz6n.srm

fuck you guys I wanna play SMT IV
>>531254518
also double fuck you RECOUNT!!!!!!!!

>>531257931
hoy

last bible special will win the next poll

>>531257382
Further information:
Team is lv 58, with Odin and Genesha in the squad along with a couple of fusion fodder demons.
As far as I can tell everywhere's been cleared with the exception of Infini.

>>531254518
Gives me a good excuse to get used to the jank and beat II after I while I'm at it. Do we care for which version it is?

>>531260819
whichever version you want

>>531254518
STOP THE STEAL RECOUNT
I guess I'll finally use it as a reason to play the PSX version

>>531254518
You should set a date for signing up and when the playthrough starts and when it ends.

>>531254518
rigged votes. nobody wants to play that old boomer shit. redo the votes. we want to play IV ffs

>>531267861
We should do that next then argue about whether IV rehashing stuff from 1 was kino or cringe

what if people played the games they wanted nd posted about what they wanted to talk about and other people responded if they found their points interestring

>>531268484
desu when people do this they usually get ignored or told to stop blog posting

>>531268309
Tokyo being a chaotic shithole will always be based
>>531254518
So OG Snes, PSX, or Cd (lol)

Well I found Lucifer quite suddenly while exploring infini.
Here's hoping a demon summoning neet, a very middling sorceress, the all father and the remover of obstacles can stand up to him at about half MP

>>531269882
That was...
really easy, actually.
We just poked him until he died, no need for anything else besides healing skills. He spammed regular attacks which hit like a truck but Diarahan and the odd jewel rendered it a completely wasted gesture. He had a Diarahan asspull of his own prepared but the White Dragon Orb stuffed it.
GG unless he has a second phase.

>>531256086
>Sign up date:
July 14th – July 18th
>Playthrough Event:
July 14th – September 14th
>Subject to change to keep up with the average player. We're going to see how things go and base it off that.

Thoughts?

>>531271875
Until September is a long ass time I think. I know some people are busy though, I dunno.

>>531271875
have fun lads, I played and beat the game for the first time less than a year ago so I'm probably not gonna play it again but overall I really enjoyed the game

>>531271875
Seems fine to me, a month is a bit long but it's not like anything else is going on around here these days.

>>531272083
>>531272316
it might end up being 2-3 weeks or something.
i just don't want to discourage people with less time to play.
a full month might just be the cutoff date for how long i give attention to people playing smt 1 on the 真 /smtg/ page.

>>531270984
Holy kino, did the original end with this and the title drop for the second game as a cliffhanger or is that just part of the SNES bundle?
Also need another name for a new friend to tag along with Cubix and Dildonix in the second game.

>>531272628
there's a new cast in 2, I imagine the canon protag and heroine of MT1 got blowed up. though if you're just talking names for these bozos I don't really have any good suggestions, I usually opt to my name my dudes in these games stupid bullshit like Goku Vegeta, DINGUS or DILDER

>>531269545
whichever version you want : )

>>531238385
fewer if you just go by main dungeons.
more if you count side dungeons.

>downloads translation patch
>loads up emulator
>opens walkthrough
yep, it's SMT1 time

>>531274343
honestly SMT1 is pretty easy to play blindly, only time I ever needed a guide during my neutral run was when I needed to find the neutral path into a dungeon after blowing up both the law and chaos bosses that would've let me in

>>531274510
idk, I remember getting lost a lot when I played it a few years ago. the world map was a pain

>>531254518
name:
>Kerberos

When I played SMT1 a few years ago I got cock blocked by the Demon Summoner right before the Cathedral and later lost my save.
I think I'm still a bit too butt hurt to go back.

>>531254518
for the recommended progress checkpoint for today i went with the hospital.
i hope that's a decent enough goal for the day.

>>531272257

>>531277250
Uh, if you're giving people until September why are you encouraging people to finish certain points of the game by a certain time? I might not even be able to start playing until the weekend.

I miss my wife, Bino.

>>531277753
He's like a tyrant doing what he wants around here basically. He likes the power to just control and manipulate things as he pleases. I'm not playing through that shit.

>>531277070
i, or someone else, could probably give you a savefile for that part of the game when we get there.

>>531277753
someone wanted to do a guided playthrough.
no one has to do the checkpoints.
it's there for people who want it.
maybe something like
>complete the hospital for your first day
would be better

Idiot here, how can I convert a bin/cue version of the game into an ISO? The patch is made for ISO...

there. and it's pretty much just for that 1 anon.
no one HAS to do this.

>>531278293
just do:
https://archive.org/details/shin-megami-tensei-english-v-1.1

would eating a mermaid's tail be unethical?

awesome

>>531278512
Got it, thanks

>>531278880
Oh YHVH, this translation again...

>>531278994
Is there a better one, or is this just how it is?

smt 1 kind of reminds me of undertale/deltarune with the 2d pixel graphics

>>531280704
the snes one has better demon/race names.
i've never played the ps1 version though and wanted to give it a try.
i also wanted to see the funny demon names in eng for myself lol.

try no to feel too bad

>>531282930
Wow, that's a completely different tone from the Aeon Genesis version. Didn't know the anti-Law propaganda ran that deep lul.

>>531286696
yeah, i think the ps1 eng translation is actually pretty nice so far, barring the demon/race names.

>>531271875
I agree that it's a little too long but otherwise everything else is good

What a KINO cutscene this was!