Flop confirmed

[kijib]

found an honest review https://www.nookgaming.com/persona-3-portable-review/

Verdict

"The few improvements made to Persona 3 Portable cannot begin to make up for how half-hearted this remastering effort feels otherwise. Shoddily redone audiovisual aspects compromise its atmosphere and painstakingly crafted emotional beats. Things that should have been improved simply weren’t. I implore you to play Persona 3 if you haven’t already, it’s one of the most fulfilling and characterful JRPGs ever made. However, don’t make this disappointing version your first experience."

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it kills me people who still follow in 2023 the reviews made by incompetent and influencer

[Charlie]

floopy

[Z2k1]

Originally posted by justina:

Originally posted by Z2k1:

The conclusion of "wait for sale" sounds about right, and was the plan all along on my end. Waited a year and a half to get SMT 3 Nocturne HD, and I can wait just as long for this. Besides, if Atlus announces SMT V going multiplatform or something I'd rather use my money for that.

bro its literally a 60hr game its well worth your 20 or you could just emulate fes for free (the better version)

I already have SMT 3 and the 3 Mafia HD games on my backlog. I won't be able to start on P3 regardless.

[Aka must die]

Originally posted by Dome:

Its a port of a psp game, what the hell would anyone expect even?

Atlus said it's a remaster
https://twitter.com/p_kouhou/status/1615574706102362112

[myronik]

That was to be expected honestly. First, Persona and Megaten fans eat up horrible technical state of P4G port (that only gets fixed 2 years after release), then follow up with lazy SMT3 port, then P4AU without rollback netcode.

Atlus\Sega simply doesn't need to bother with proper ports and any significant improvements - fanboys will buy anything and then ask for seconds. That is a sad reality of these lazy ports, unfortunately.

For me pesonally, if it's under 15$ regional price (maybe bundled with P4G?) and this forum is not filled with "game crashing unplayable" threads immediately on launch week - I'll consider buying it.
If not - see ya in two years on 50% sale. I'd rather pick ASTLIBRA Revision than lazy P3P port.

[myronik]

Originally posted by GeassV:

https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/persona-3-portable
https://opencritic.com/game/13297/shin-megami-tensei-persona-3-portable, only 2 from 25 critic give 6.5 ( techraptor ) and 6 ( nookgaming ) and you say flop lol

Well your metacritic links only prove OP's point. If you pick even "90 out of 100 reviews" and actually read review texts, they all have bits and pieces that clearly scream"LAZY PORT":

My main problems with this release have to do with the upscaling done for the backgrounds and certain 2D elements sticking out. These could’ve been touched up to look good given how often you see them while playing. You will notice certain things in the background in an area look distorted or poorly scaled-up thanks to this. The 3D character models look good for the most part though.
Mako Reactor 9/10

In terms of sound, while the music is fantastic (the two routes feature different songs) the sound effects and some of the voice acting remain heavily compressed. Out of battle, things sound fine but in battle, everything sounds super crunchy. I kind of like it in a way, but it really should have been cleaned up here.
Gaming Trend 85/100

For the most part, Portable looks great, but some environments and models fared better than others in the remaster treatment. Backgrounds with more lighting effects suffer the most, adding messy layers of grain to the art. It's nothing catastrophic, and the upscaled makeover remains a significant improvement.
PC Gamer 80/100

On the other hand, I really wish the FES character models aside from the FeMC had been ported into the game. Fans will mod them in, probably alongside better Tartarus textures. But the real shame is that this is going to be a lot of people’s first experience with Persona 3.
Pcinvasion 8/10

Picture is pretty clear.

[kijib]

exactly, if reviewers were honest they wouldnt easily forgive/overlook these things

[SoapyTaco]

Not sure with they didn't use the PS2 version instead....

[Tajer]

Originally posted by toughnails:

This version is aimed at zoomers and they have no frame of reference so it'll be fine for them. It will sell well (obviously not as much as 4 and 5 but reasonably well) and have "very positive" reviews.

Setting up an emulator (or getting an actual PS2 console) to play FES is way too much work for the modern gamer.

I question whether that would actually work. As a parent of two "zoomers", they both know how to use emulators and have already played Persona 3. It's weird how people think Gen Z are just these lifeless Internet beings that plug their iphones directly into their heads and are incapable of doing anything.

[Dome]

Originally posted by SoapyTaco:

Not sure with they didn't use the PS2 version instead....

a psp game is easier to port and has content more people would be interested in. I imagine a lot of people have played Persona 3, but not the Fem pc route before.

[Sam]

FEMC alone makes this the definitive version as she's the best protag in the series.

[GeassV]

Originally posted by myronik:

Originally posted by GeassV:

https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/persona-3-portable
https://opencritic.com/game/13297/shin-megami-tensei-persona-3-portable, only 2 from 25 critic give 6.5 ( techraptor ) and 6 ( nookgaming ) and you say flop lol

Well your metacritic links only prove OP's point. If you pick even "90 out of 100 reviews" and actually read review texts, they all have bits and pieces that clearly scream"LAZY PORT":

My main problems with this release have to do with the upscaling done for the backgrounds and certain 2D elements sticking out. These could’ve been touched up to look good given how often you see them while playing. You will notice certain things in the background in an area look distorted or poorly scaled-up thanks to this. The 3D character models look good for the most part though.
Mako Reactor 9/10

In terms of sound, while the music is fantastic (the two routes feature different songs) the sound effects and some of the voice acting remain heavily compressed. Out of battle, things sound fine but in battle, everything sounds super crunchy. I kind of like it in a way, but it really should have been cleaned up here.
Gaming Trend 85/100

For the most part, Portable looks great, but some environments and models fared better than others in the remaster treatment. Backgrounds with more lighting effects suffer the most, adding messy layers of grain to the art. It's nothing catastrophic, and the upscaled makeover remains a significant improvement.
PC Gamer 80/100

On the other hand, I really wish the FES character models aside from the FeMC had been ported into the game. Fans will mod them in, probably alongside better Tartarus textures. But the real shame is that this is going to be a lot of people’s first experience with Persona 3.
Pcinvasion 8/10

Picture is pretty clear.

op title is "flop confirmed" not lazy port just because the review ( nookgaming ) say half-hearted port and give score 6 op can say this game flop ?

[Blair Fujin]

Originally posted by SoapyTaco:

Not sure with they didn't use the PS2 version instead....

because p3p requires little to no work to port in comparison to fes, that's it

[Tr0w]

Originally posted by Z2k1:

Originally posted by justina:

bro its literally a 60hr game its well worth your 20 or you could just emulate fes for free (the better version)

I already have SMT 3 and the 3 Mafia HD games on my backlog. I won't be able to start on P3 regardless.

I'd recommend just playing Mafia 1&2, i liked 3 to begin with but it just becomes a mind numbing slog of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ proportions.

[myronik]

Originally posted by GeassV:

op title is "flop confirmed" not lazy port just because the review ( nookgaming ) say half-hearted port and give score 6 op can say this game flop ?

Yeah "flop" is a wrong word to describe this.

P3P will sell well - fanboys and people who don't read reviews or don't care will buy it blindly. It will be enough to pay for low development costs and gain profits.

It will meet Sega and Atlus expectations (these are the companies who never expected that P4G will sell more than 300K copies on PC and even made surprised_pikachu_face at investors meeting call)

But it's also a disapoining release and all the reasons not to buy it are on the table.