Is PS3R the best?

[Echō]

I am entirely new to the Persona series as of last week. Persona 3 Reload is my first game and I am absolutely loving it. I heard about Persona 4 and 5 being great games but also heard PS3R is the best social dynamic, combat, and Tartarus wise... Is it worth for me to play P4/5 AND/OR should I wait for a remaster if there isn't any remasters already?

[strikerDX]

Persona 5 is better at everything. Actually fun dungeons, social links that gives you actual benefits, more things to do outside dungeons, style all over the screen, Makoto. Reload is a good game, but it's based on the old one from ps2 era and it shows.

[iriyap]

Gameplay wise, 3 is the oldest and most simplistic. The dungeons and social links are much more fleshed out in later games.

[yb1e]

Yes.

Best story, best characters and now best combat

Persona 5 is a slog game with a trash ending

[DeathRinger93]

persona 4 golden has by far the best story persona 5 royal best gameplay and mechanics persona 3 is a basic version of 5 with mechanics but still great for what they have done updating it im not a jrpg fan but persona 4 golden on vita got me hooked to the series

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No game with Denuvo is "the best" of anything.

There's better JRPG franchises out there as well.

[Radipz]

Persona 5 has better aspects in every side.

Only negative aspect from me though is that I have to do keep track harder of time for every event/social/skills/etc that I did harder compared to Persona 3....

Because Persona 5 has more strict rules regarding date of events.

Get the Persona 5 Royal (Not the tactica)
I would suggest get Persona 4 only if the Remake already been released

Originally posted by Garbage:

No game with Denuvo is "the best" of anything.

There's better JRPG franchises out there as well.

He ask which one the best persona games... the game itself, not the DRM
Moreover, Sega & Atlus are notoriously always keeping Denuvo, so.... waiting is useless I guess

Although I agree with the idea of protections from piracy

[Rednak]

The great thing about 5 is the fact that the dungeons aren't just randomly generated. That's why I still think 5 is the best experience

[MoH [JoinUsInVR]]

Persona 4 Golden is the best persona game, and where the gameplay and story peaked. While the graphics are dated, only a true loser and brain-damaged moron would slight graphics considering how absurdly popular MeinKraft is. It is worth it to finish Playstation 3 Reloaded then move onto its sequel, also on Steam.

Considering it’s also at a decent price for a full, finished, and expanded game, the only negatives I have to say is that the voice actor for Chie didn’t reprise her role. The other glaring downside to Persona 4/Persona 4 Golden is that the game was succeeded by the vacuous and panderiffic Persona 5, whose quality and features are akin to a popular show firing its creator and voice actors, then putting on another season; it is nothing but archetype copying and pasting while making no efforts to design unique monsters or themes, and the maps non-replayable and creatively bankrupt one-way, relying on another dungeon for players to grind rather than have it conveniently connected to the story, taking on a 1920’s approach to diversity.

Fans tell you Persona 5 is the superior game while hiding or being too stupid to conceptualize the fact that most of the fans from the PlayStation have now paid $120 for two games since the original was released incomplete—with one whole month missing from the story along with social links and new features to the series—only for a Rfinished edition to release years later with no upgrade edition or discount (something Final Fantasy 7 Remake did years before 5 Rfinished released).

Considering how stupid the fan base is I recommend avoiding waiting for a remake of 4 since it will inevitably feature more censorship cuts (I foresee the beach being completely removed, along with Marie (or editing her backstory so she’s no longer in middle school (a selling point for some I suppose?)) along with rewriting the romance and female story lines) and the game being upsold for $100 base price because the fan base is clearly missing their left hemisphere and will preorder anything with the name ‘Persona’ on it.

[SKINLESSHEAD]

Originally posted by Garbage:

No game with Denuvo is "the best" of anything.

There's better JRPG franchises out there as well.

Dude. Get off your highhorse and do literally anything else. You aren't special because you like etrian odyssey more than persona.

[1237dfshjbn34]

Originally posted by Garbage:

No game with Denuvo is "the best" of anything.

There's better JRPG franchises out there as well.

what r u doing here man. you don't even own the game ;-;

[1237dfshjbn34]

Originally posted by MoH JoinUsInVR:

Persona 4 Golden is the best persona game, and where the gameplay and story peaked. While the graphics are dated, only a true loser and brain-damaged moron would slight graphics considering how absurdly popular MeinKraft is. It is worth it to finish Playstation 3 Reloaded then move onto its sequel, also on Steam.

Considering it’s also at a decent price for a full, finished, and expanded game, the only negatives I have to say is that the voice actor for Chie didn’t reprise her role. The other glaring downside to Persona 4/Persona 4 Golden is that the game was succeeded by the vacuous and panderiffic Persona 5, whose quality and features are akin to a popular show firing its creator and voice actors, then putting on another season; it is nothing but archetype copying and pasting while making no efforts to design unique monsters or themes, and the maps non-replayable and creatively bankrupt one-way, relying on another dungeon for players to grind rather than have it conveniently connected to the story, taking on a 1920’s approach to diversity.

Fans tell you Persona 5 is the superior game while hiding or being too stupid to conceptualize the fact that most of the fans from the PlayStation have now paid $120 for two games since the original was released incomplete—with one whole month missing from the story along with social links and new features to the series—only for a Rfinished edition to release years later with no upgrade edition or discount (something Final Fantasy 7 Remake did years before 5 Rfinished released).

Considering how stupid the fan base is I recommend avoiding waiting for a remake of 4 since it will inevitably feature more censorship cuts (I foresee the beach being completely removed, along with Marie (or editing her backstory so she’s no longer in middle school (a selling point for some I suppose?)) along with rewriting the romance and female story lines) and the game being upsold for $100 base price because the fan base is clearly missing their left hemisphere and will preorder anything with the name ‘Persona’ on it.

true. regarding p4, i believe atlus stay to original source. this is east dev, not west dev. if they remove it. ♥♥♥♥ it what can i do.

[SKINLESSHEAD]

Originally posted by adlan:

Originally posted by Garbage:

No game with Denuvo is "the best" of anything.

There's better JRPG franchises out there as well.

what r u doing here man. you don't even own the game ;-;

He just likes to hang around here so he can pretend he's the smartest guy in the room.

[Pocket Dog]

Originally posted by iriyap:

Gameplay wise, 3 is the oldest and most simplistic. The dungeons and social links are much more fleshed out in later games.

The original Persona is the oldest and most simplistic, as it, along with P2, don't have the social sim aspect. I know what you mean, though. :)

To the OP, Persona 5 is really the best of the last three. It's much more long-winded than P3 and possesses a bit too many cutscenes, but the sim elements and combat are much more in-depth and nuanced, the graphics are better (to the point where it feels like a AAA game) and it's got hand crafted dungeons as opposed to procedurally generated. My main issue with P3 has always been the lackluster dungeon that is Tartarus.

[Queen Nothing]

The Best™ Persona game is a matter of taste, really. If you're just looking for the most robust main release, P5R is enormous and has more of what you'd expect from Persona. P3R isn't trying to top P5R, and it is a leaner experience. That being said, P3R brings the strongest story the modern series has ever had (even if it takes a while to cook), and some might argue the strongest main cast in terms of design and writing. P4/G is ... P4, and P4 is perfectly fine with enough drug use and/or head trauma. The gameplay is there, and it'd be natural to anyone that's gone through P3/FES/P3P/P3R. There's plenty of content, plenty to do in P4/G, but the P4 era was all about straight-up uncut cringe, and while P4 has some good characters and a few serious story beats that work, it's a clownshow most of the time.

[Yürei]

Originally posted by Queen Nothing:

The Best™ Persona game is a matter of taste, really. If you're just looking for the most robust main release, P5R is enormous and has more of what you'd expect from Persona. P3R isn't trying to top P5R, and it is a leaner experience. That being said, P3R brings the strongest story the modern series has ever had (even if it takes a while to cook), and some might argue the strongest main cast in terms of design and writing. P4/G is ... P4, and P4 is perfectly fine with enough drug use and/or head trauma. The gameplay is there, and it'd be natural to anyone that's gone through P3/FES/P3P/P3R. There's plenty of content, plenty to do in P4/G, but the P4 era was all about straight-up uncut cringe, and while P4 has some good characters and a few serious story beats that work, it's a clownshow most of the time.

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Each game has their strong areas. It all depends on what you're looking for. I already stated it in another thread, but for me P3 has the best story and characters, P4 has the best social life events, and P5 has the best gameplay.