The head shot gimmick..

[CourtJesterCowboy]

Idk.. I never played P3, so I was like "Oh, cool, they do a little emotional sui ciding to unlock their personas in the beginning, nice!"... but they really just head shot the whole game? Really?

[r1ver]

Main reason: it's just look cool and edgy

So far as I know, it fits the theme of the game. In P3, they summon Personas in the real world, unlike the TV World in P4 or the Metaverse in P5. They must feel threatened or in danger for a Persona to come out and help them, and the Evoker (the gun) is the tool to cheat it

[CourtJesterCowboy]

Publicado originalmente por RecoveringTrashAddict:

its a video game my guy

Oh dang, it is??? I had no clue. I guess since its a video game Ill just shut my fat monkey lips and bow down as if it was a perfect decision to have them false headshot themselves every single ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ round. Whoever thought of that was beaming brilliant

[CourtJesterCowboy]

Publicado originalmente por river:

Main reason: it's just look cool and edgy

So far as I know, it fits the theme of the game. In P3, they summon Personas in the real world, unlike the TV World in P4 or the Metaverse in P5. They must feel threatened or in danger for a Persona to come out and help them, and the Evoker (the gun) is the tool to cheat it

It was cool/would have been coolest if they just did it once to face their mortality and inner self and got access to the persona, then had it... Virtually every turn is insane, especially with the same animations and whatnot. By far the most repetitive trope in all of Persona.
I dont think the act in itself is dumb.
Makes me really appreciate 4 and 5

[DerErnst]

Publicado originalmente por CourtJesterCowboy:

Publicado originalmente por river:

Main reason: it's just look cool and edgy

So far as I know, it fits the theme of the game. In P3, they summon Personas in the real world, unlike the TV World in P4 or the Metaverse in P5. They must feel threatened or in danger for a Persona to come out and help them, and the Evoker (the gun) is the tool to cheat it

It was cool/would have been coolest if they just did it once to face their mortality and inner self and got access to the persona, then had it... Virtually every turn is insane, especially with the same animations and whatnot. By far the most repetitive trope in all of Persona.
I dont think the act in itself is dumb.
Makes me really appreciate 4 and 5

you got those repetitive tropes in all modern persona games

[r1ver]

Publicado originalmente por CourtJesterCowboy:

Publicado originalmente por river:

Main reason: it's just look cool and edgy

So far as I know, it fits the theme of the game. In P3, they summon Personas in the real world, unlike the TV World in P4 or the Metaverse in P5. They must feel threatened or in danger for a Persona to come out and help them, and the Evoker (the gun) is the tool to cheat it

It was cool/would have been coolest if they just did it once to face their mortality and inner self and got access to the persona, then had it... Virtually every turn is insane, especially with the same animations and whatnot. By far the most repetitive trope in all of Persona.
I dont think the act in itself is dumb.
Makes me really appreciate 4 and 5

You know, P4 and P5 have the same animations repetitive too, right? I mean, I've seen IT crush their card and PT rip off their mask to summon Persona countless times already

[allknowingeel]

Publicado originalmente por CourtJesterCowboy:

Publicado originalmente por river:

Main reason: it's just look cool and edgy

So far as I know, it fits the theme of the game. In P3, they summon Personas in the real world, unlike the TV World in P4 or the Metaverse in P5. They must feel threatened or in danger for a Persona to come out and help them, and the Evoker (the gun) is the tool to cheat it

It was cool/would have been coolest if they just did it once to face their mortality and inner self and got access to the persona, then had it... Virtually every turn is insane, especially with the same animations and whatnot. By far the most repetitive trope in all of Persona.
I dont think the act in itself is dumb.
Makes me really appreciate 4 and 5

Just like how every turn in persona 4, 5 has the same animations. You do know this applies to basically all jrpgs, and most games right? Same animations, always repeating.

[CourtJesterCowboy]

Publicado originalmente por allknowingeel:

Publicado originalmente por CourtJesterCowboy:

It was cool/would have been coolest if they just did it once to face their mortality and inner self and got access to the persona, then had it... Virtually every turn is insane, especially with the same animations and whatnot. By far the most repetitive trope in all of Persona.
I dont think the act in itself is dumb.
Makes me really appreciate 4 and 5

Just like how every turn in persona 4, 5 has the same animations. You do know this applies to basically all jrpgs, and most games right? Same animations, always repeating.

Oh, other games have the characters headshot every non basic attack? Which ones?

[CourtJesterCowboy]

Publicado originalmente por river:

Publicado originalmente por CourtJesterCowboy:

It was cool/would have been coolest if they just did it once to face their mortality and inner self and got access to the persona, then had it... Virtually every turn is insane, especially with the same animations and whatnot. By far the most repetitive trope in all of Persona.
I dont think the act in itself is dumb.
Makes me really appreciate 4 and 5

You know, P4 and P5 have the same animations repetitive too, right? I mean, I've seen IT crush their card and PT rip off their mask to summon Persona countless times already

Same animations? Except I clarified we are discussing the head shot animation specifically, which is much more over the top than any other action in any persona title, and could have atleast been given some variance

[Soulkey]

3 Pages and not a single jester award.
Man, you have wasted your time OP.

[r1ver]

Publicado originalmente por CourtJesterCowboy:

Publicado originalmente por river:

You know, P4 and P5 have the same animations repetitive too, right? I mean, I've seen IT crush their card and PT rip off their mask to summon Persona countless times already

Same animations? Except I clarified we are discussing the head shot animation specifically, which is much more over the top than any other action in any persona title, and could have atleast been given some variance

I don't even know what you're talking about. You're dissing P3 and praising P4 and P5, even though these games also have repetitive action animations. You know all three of them are basically the same, just with more or fewer mechanics or features. Maybe I think you're just acting like a boomer who hates the idea of characters in the game pointing a gun at their heads during actions, or just acting like a idiot for clown awards

Too bad this game is not for you. You can go back to P4 and watch the MC crush the card over and over to summon Persona, which you said is not repetitive

[Tegridy Farms]

Publicado originalmente por CourtJesterCowboy:

Publicado originalmente por allknowingeel:

It's because they need an emotional jolt to summon their personas. They know it's not a real gun but putting it to the head and pulling the trigger is still nerve wrecking since it looks and feel so real. That's why they do it. Emotional jolting.

EDIT: Never mind I misread your post and thought you were asking why they did it, My bad.

They need an emotional jolt several times a battles for 100 hours of gameplay? Its a bit silly, regardless of explanation... Like a new character discovers their Persona and "activates" it, then moving forward they have it.. Now that would actually make sense. It just feels silly imo after the 4000th emotional surge headshot

They actually address that in the lore. A person can summon their Persona in P3 during the dark hour by overcoming the fear of a true life or death situation. The way they achieve this with their evokers is actually pretty simple. They are actually real guns, the clips are just loaded with blanks and no one loads their own clips; I'm sorry mags wouldn't want to get penguinz on my butt. So every time someone uses an evoker they actually are putting their lives in immediate mortal danger because the person who loaded it could have put a real bullet in there and they all know it; that's how they actually achieve the desired effect of summoning a persona.

I do agree the number of times you evoke this fear response over the course of actual game play is more than enough to give a person a heart attack 20 times over if you are actually making them fear for their lives but you have to realize that gameplay isn't representative of the actual story in that way. Cut out all the unnecessary encounters and grinding in your play though and then ask yourself how many times would the characters need to summon their persona to make it through critical story events?

Also as an aside if you are gonna cosplay a P3 character don't try copying what they do with blanks. They actually can kill at pointblank.

[fender178]

Publicado originalmente por CourtJesterCowboy:

It was cool/would have been coolest if they just did it once to face their mortality and inner self and got access to the persona, then had it... Virtually every turn is insane, especially with the same animations and whatnot. By far the most repetitive trope in all of Persona.
I dont think the act in itself is dumb.
Makes me really appreciate 4 and 5

Yeah you diss Persona 3 where 4 and 5 have a similar but yet different ways of summoning personas.
You do realize that P5 has a more gruesome way of summoning a Persona than 3. The characters literally rips the mask off their faces drawing blood

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[Viper]

Its not a gimmick. IT makes total sense. You are injecting a different persona into your brain. You are not shooting yourself in the head with a bullet. How else would you put the persona in you. People just don't understand what it signifies. Evoker...It evokes a persona which comes out the end. IT needs to get to your brain so you can use it.

[CourtJesterCowboy]

Publicado originalmente por Viper:

Its not a gimmick. IT makes total sense. You are injecting a different persona into your brain. You are not shooting yourself in the head with a bullet. How else would you put the persona in you. People just don't understand what it signifies. Evoker...It evokes a persona which comes out the end. IT needs to get to your brain so you can use it.

That isnt even what is going on... The evoker doesn't have bullets, its a symbolic action showing they've faced themselves. The personas are their inner self. They aren't injecting their inner self into their heads lol