It's crazy that no version of Persona 3 is agreed upon as the definitive one in comparison to P4 and P5.
>>750266758It's FES
it's reload. period.t. guy who has only played reload
>>750266758I'd argue golden isn't definitive either
>>750267095>t. guy who has only played reloadYou didn't need to mention it we already knew
Sex with Kirijo wife
>>750267126Outside of changes to the fog and making the game brighter than it already was, the new content was tolerable at the very least.
titsuru sexo
>>750266758The best version is skipping because p3 sucks
>>750267042Yeah. It is. That's the story and game as it is.
>>750266758Objectively, FES or Reload. I don't get why people draw arbitrary lines for the convenience of defining your experience as the definitive edition.
>>750266758There is no counter-argument to FES.
>>750267042fpbp
>>750266758that's because they kept releasing shitty half-assed versions of the game. In a way it makes sense to do that from a business perspective, because why would people bother to buy your new remake in a few years if the previous one was perfect?
>>750266758P3 ReloadIt isn't perfect and there are some things in FES I want back, but Reload added and improved so much it would be stupid not to consider it the definitive.
>>750267042>no female MCIt's shit
>>750267307I'm not so sure, but I guess tolerable is a low bar. A lot of it is actively a pretty big detriment to the game but I suppose it's not so bad that you shut the game off instead of having to sit through it necessarily. Like Marie is genuinely awful.
>>750269361manual skill inheritance>>750270516Aigis is right there though?
It's Reload no one cares about the dusty ass PS2 versions
>>750266758it's p3p, that's the only one with femc. if you were only allowed to play one game that's obviously the one with by far, by FAR the most content that the others are missing. like it's not even close at all
>>750266758FES was definitive for over a decade. I haven't played Reload but no doubt some people prefer that now. >b-but FeMCNo, very, very tiny minority who think Portable is better than FES because of FeMC, and I'm almost certain they don't even mean it given how compromised it is compared to the PS2 games.
>>750270645every other version are the compromised versions because they don't have femc. I don't see why anything else would matter tb h, it's a much bigger element of the game that you lose compared to anything else.
>>750267042>able to save ChidorinopeBase P3 is the definitive version because it's the only version with the fucking BALLS to stick to its own theme. You should not be able to save Chidori. You should not be able to save Shinji. People die, things end, live the life you have while you have it.MEMENTO.FUCKING.MORI.
>>750270645>I'm almost certain they don't even mean itThey're trolls. I was in a discord group recently with a guy who was loudly bragging about how he "shits up P3 threads with FeMC spam" once.
>>750270776It would've taken twice as long to develop and inflate the budget, Reload would still be in development now if it was in.
>>750270971The Death tarot card doesn't consist solely of actual bodily death.All social links in the game for instance are also related to The Death, not just in the actual death of a person, but of sadness, ending and renewal. Chidori's situation still conforms to the meaning of the tarot card. Shinji being saveable didn't though.
>>750266758Each version bring something to the table, except for the original I guess. FES has the answer, P3P has the femC and social Links for every character instead of just some of them, and reloaded has the best graphics but loses some of the atmosphere that FES has.
>>750270645Why would you even play with FeMC? The whole thing seems like a shitpost route. Like oh look at me I'm coming onto all the men teehee.Sure, if you're a woman it's hot, all the power to you, otherwise I literally don't see what you have to get from it. But keeping the NG+ stuff of having someone else to die on would have been great in Reload
>>750270585This.
>>750271262Trannies. I'm not joking they literally will not play a game unless they can be a girl. They only play persona 3 portable to be a girl and they couldn't care less about anything else but being a girl.
Reload with jp text/audio
>>750270971Shinji can't not die in FES, that was a Portable thing.
>>750271417I'm aware; I'm saying that each new version of P3 watered down the original by making something which was supposed to be grim and depressing brighter instead.
>>750270971Was that in FES? I thought that was a PSP addition. FES i thoight was mostly The Answer and some QOL changes.
>>750271262It had a lot of new social links.
>>750271467Yes, FES is what let you save Chidori by encouraging Junpei to talk to her so that he gave her the bullshit life magic flowers.
>>750271203that's not really relevant to the discussion, the question is which game is the definitive one. P3P has by far the biggest and most meaningful unique additions that none of the other games have. Like if you were only allowed to play 1 version of Persona 3 for the rest of your life, isn't it really obvious that that's the one you'd pick? That one has approx. twice as much game in it than the others. Or to put it another way, if picking one version meant every other version of persona 3 would get deleted from all hard drives forever, P3P is the obvious one to pick since it just has way more unique stuff in it that isn't in the others. Like it's the one that actually has something else to offer aside from the base game and the one where you would actually lose something if it didn't exist anymore. The other versions of the game are all made entirely from content duplicated in all the other games.
>>750266758PSP
Please stop replying to the FeMC troll.
>>750271518Then I agree with you. P3 is the strongest of the latter Persona's because of it's theme of Death and how we choose to live within that inevitably.
>>750271456>supposed to be grim and depressing
>>750271676Yes, Anon. The game with a dark color tone, with the tagline Memento Mori, with multiple character deaths, with the main character sacrificing himself, with the main mechanic being a symbolic suicide, was not at all supposed to be a sad game. It's bright happy pony sunshine like P4.
>>750271456I actually agree. I just refuse to trigger Junpei's flags relating to it myself, not the ideal way to go about it but at least it's not an unavoidable thing.I recently saw a video about the differences between the original and FES and originalfags might have a point. The Aeon link with Aigis is kinda awkward and the shrine has very little use in FES. Though making Devil a daytime link in an already extremely tight rotation or not being able to take Koromaru on a walk would suck.
>>750270554>manual skill inheritancehttps://gamebanana.com/mods/531295? 2 years ago by the way
>>750271759FES was mechanically MUCH better than P3 due to a lot of things. It is, inarguably, the better game. But it made some sacrifices to the sanctity of P3's theme that are tough to justify. And I'm speaking as a diehard Aigisfag who ate GOOD with FES.
>>750271759>The Aeon link with Aigis is kinda awkwardHow so? It gives more credence to the MC's developing relationship with her and the rooftop scene. If anything, it made it more justifiable.
>>750271759Might just be the most authentic version is the OG P3 with the OG Answer where it's just an expac.I know a lot of people hate The Answer because it's only dungeon crawling and you don't have a compendium. But I think the theme is a logical conclusion of P3s story.We see the MC sacrifice his life for something, and we see the rest of the cast have to deal with that sacrifice.Its a beautiful game, it really is. I like 4 as well, but 3 is just one of those rare games. I don't know.
>last update for the p4g fog mod was 6 months agowrap it up
>>750271870Obviously Aigis is cute so I'm not complaining about getting a link with her, but the Aeon link is really in your face thematically in a game that is otherwise relatively decent about keeping its theme an audible background hum rather than a hammer strike to your face.>"Do you think the cat was glad to be alive?"
>>750271996The original Answer doesn't have a compendium? The velvet room in the Reload version is exactly the same as the base game except there's no social link exp bonuses.
>>750271826>moddingAt that point just make your own version from scratch and get mad at people for not saying it's the best.
>>750271996It's such a bummer that 3/31, the track only plays once in the entirety of the Answer.
>>750270554>Aigis is right there though?Aigis will never be a real woman, it has no womb, it has no ovaries, it has no eggs.It is a soulless robot twisted by social links into a crude mockery of nature's perfection.
>>750271996>But I think the theme is a logical conclusion of P3s story.It is.
>>750272029>that is otherwise relatively decent about keeping its theme an audible backgroundwhat? I love P3 but it's not exactly subtle in any way, shape or form.
>>750272138It did have a compendium, it was just really expensive and it also had no S-link bonuses which made things quite painful since most Personas need a couple levels to get their best skills. Making that skill pretty much mandatory which grants personas EXP even when they sit in your stock passively.
>>750272210Cope and seethe, Yucunty, my artificial womb robowife will be a perfect and eternally youthful mother to our children.
>>750272138>The original Answer doesn't have a compendium?Nope. Couldn't register or buy back your personas at all in FES's Answer.>>750272342It didn't have one.
>>750272210Yeah but she's autistic in a funny way and also I have a thing for blondes.
>>750272418Did I get mandela'd? I have faint memories from a decade ago, of the compendium being in the Answer...
>>750272521I literally booted up my ps2 and played FES prior to Reload's release and also fucked around in The Answer. There is no compendium in The Answer.
>>750272584Hmm, seems you're right. Memory is a scary thing lol
>>750267042nice
I feel like the FeMC obsession thing is way down compared to what it used to be like in the late 2010s, during the peak of Tumblr's influence.
>>750272832They inevitably move on when they realize they're not getting what they want.
>>750272981She got into Q2, didn't she?
>>750273189she also got into a trash can where she belongs.
There's no agreement on 4, either. Plenty of people have huge problems with Golden and it's generated a fair level of debate among people who care enough to not just play the normalfaggot-approved version and call it a day. Every Persona has these kinds of debates besides 5, and even then Royal does get criticized for making an already easy game easier
>>750274164Even P1 has this issue.
>>750266758Reload solely for the combat improvements.
There's absolutely zero chance that Mitsuru isn't a paizuri demon
>>750267042>Ugly game>Worse voice acting >Everything is brown Kill yourself nostalgia fag you're what's wrong with the world
>>750266758>in comparison to P4 and P5People argue over original 4 vs Golden and original 5 vs Royal constantly though.
>>750274243It's actually pretty doubtful since she is sexually inexperienced. Having huge tits doesn't make you good at giving a tit job automatically.
Reload has the worst music out of all of them, you're doing yourself a disservice for only playing that one.
I recently beat Reload, this being the first time I have played 3, I like it a lot. On Steam I see a Portable version and you can play as a girl? Who knows if I will give that version a try.
>>750274503Too bad, it's the default version now.
>>750266758Probably because there are 4 very different versions of the game. There will be a similar shitfest when the 4 remake comes out and probably in 10 years when they make 5 remaster
>>750274503best*
>>750274554You didn't play P3.
>>750274503well thankfully you have the option to switch music
>>750274554Don't play the portable version. Emulate the original/FES if you want to try another version.
They only thing I dislike outright for P3P is the power of friendship dialogue changes during your final confrontations with Strega. It ruins the fact that Strega were bonded together as comrades, just for an awful and nihilistic reason.
>>750274361>Having huge tits doesn't make you good at giving a tit job automatically.The thought of her being embarrassed and fumbling her way into it before slowly becoming better is way hotter actually>>750274554>On Steam I see a Portable versionDo not. It's upscaled trash. If you really want to try the unique content, emulate it. If you have some moral issue with emulation, buy the Steam version and then emulate it anyway.
>>750274503Which game has the best music so I can listen to it's OST?>>750274747What's better the original or FES version?
>>750274554Babymaking mating press breeding impregnation with Elizabeth
>>750275008
>>750274869The best music is in FES, which is IMO the best way to experience p3
>>750267042FPBP Fuck Demake shilling zoomer trannies
>>750266758It's P3P
>>750275059I'll listen to the OST now but I'll play that version next year or something. I don't want to play the "probably same" game again so soon. Thanks.
For some reason Soejima gave her super erect nipples for her ultra cut-in in Arena.
>became a snob bitch wearing fancy clothes>became a power ranger who probably suck some producer cock to get the role>became an average baseball player>became a homeless batman beating people on the streetsother than ken and fuuka P3 character destinies are fucked up
>>750275323Mitsuru was always a snobby bitch wearing fancy clothes.IIRC Junpe is also more about teaching baseball than being a star playerAkihiko does get character assassinated really fucking hard, I'll give you that.
>>750266758>>750267095My beloved beautiful girl trapped in a dogshit game series
>>750266758It either FES or Reload. If Reload had the original dub, then it would be Reload objectively and by far.
>>750275501The weird thing is that most of the original VAs do in fact have roles in Reload, just not as their original characters. Save for Mignogna and Strassman, I think. They obviously got cancelled.
>>750275613Strassman is several characters in Reload. The fuck you talking about. She is even the old woman with the cat in Aigis’s link. She also currently works for Sega as Rouge’s voice still. They just wouldn’t let her be Aigis. Probably because the union has some weird rule now about repeat performances becoming exponentially more expensive
I'm going to play persona 3 portable for the first time do I play as the guy or girl bros
>>750276045Are you a faggot? You already know what God gave you between your legs.
>>750266758The original / FES are the best for all 3 games.No exceptions.Every other Fatlus re-release sucks major shit, and these days also censors the fuck out of the games to appeal to Amerimutt DEI firms.
FES for The Journey. Reload for The Answer. I don't like the changes they made but I'll never go back to FES Answer because the gameplay is terrible and I don't care if I get called a casual.
>>750267042FPBP
>>750270971I still don't understand how Junpei giving flowers to Chidori somehow saved her from dying.
>>750276969Her ability works in reverse as well. She can both give and drain life. IIRC the idea was that she drained the vital force from the flowers while dead just enough to give herself a plot equivalent of Endure or something.
>>750277193>>750276969Well, not while dead, but while bedridden.
>>750267042This.The others are for playing AFTER FES.
>>750276969They were almost like a phylactery for her- she had imbued them with a bit of her life essence earlier in the story, so she was able to leech off them before kicking the bucket.
>>750274503Yep, nigger music
>>750274315voice acting is far worse in demakeespecially Junpei and akihiko
>>750279384Fuuka is much better though
>>750267307With the new scenes, all the characters had began morphing into caricatures of what they were in the original. Kanji is the worst example of this. Also noticeable in P4A gamesAlso personally not a big fan of Chie's new voice
>>750266758Balancing around using tactics and Ally AI gives FES the most soul
>>750274503The remixes for P4R are much better thankfully. The only one I don't like is Reach Out To The Truth.
>>750279384>>750274315>Worse voice acting Japanese voice acting or English dub?
>>750283156Both unironically
