Difference between this and portable?

[Lord Commissar Terra]

Im a big fan of P5R and this looks really fun, but i just want to know what the difference between this and portable and which one should i get?

[r1ver]

You can watch the trailer and see for yourself. Imo, Definitely go for Reload, it's 70$ remake but feel like entire new game and really worth the price.

[Chopsteak]

Personally after playing both games I much prefer Reload from portable game play wise and the new story elements added in were great too. The only thing from portable I miss is the option to play as Kotone or FEMC instead of Makoto as the protagonist and honestly, I would have much prefered to have her work alongside Makoto with the rest of SEES as her own character instead of having to pick one over the other.

If it is in your budget, I would get Reload. It is just more fun. The only huge difference Portable has over Reload is the ability to switch MC for FEMC and the difference between their two journeys just wasn't that big of a difference.

[CPT Chthonbeard the Pirate]

Persona 3 Portable was a demake of Persona 3, where they ripped out a bunch of things to fit it on the PSP from the PS2 version. Like they ripped the animated cutscenes, audio tracks, and the ability to move around the locations apart from just selecting locations in a menu.

This is a remake of the original PS2 version. True to the original they have all of the cutscenes, audio, and locations in the game, and they have added new music, remade models in the new engine, and added new mechanics from future games.

The only thing that is missing is it is not the P3 FES version. They may release that as a DLC later, but only time will tell.

[Arifufu]

-> Portable has Female protagonist
-> Maniac difficulty from Portable actually harder than Merciless from Reload, but both difficulties don't carry over anything on NG+ Maniac / Merciless, so my advice just use the hardest difficulty for both games so in NG+ choose Hard to carry over everything from previous playthrough
-> Reload has theurgy which is super powerful, you can avoid using it btw
-> Reload has Link Episode for all male party members, it's tied with regular Social Links because when you do all Male party member Link Episode you actually unlock additional persona from them. Portable doesn't have this, so when you choose Male route you will only have Female party member Social Links, same goes with FeMC to enjoy male party member social links you have to choose female route
-> Reload has gardening system also you can do gardening with party or other activities such as watch DVD or read with them at dorm to unlock even more powerful passive skill called characteristics of each party member
-> Portable: when a party reach level 99 both their HP and SP will be 999 automatically, in Reload won't
-> Fusion Spell in Portable is in item form which you can buy from antique shop, in Reload fusion spell is MC's Theurgy. In Portable there are more than 7 fusion spells while Reload only has 7 fusion spell

alright so the main difference is, Portable is Visual Novel style, the 3D style only inside Tartarus (dungeon's name of both games) while Reload 100% 3D both in-game daily life or tartarus.

If you care a lot about graphic no doubt Reload is your best bet, but if you wanna run as a Female protagonist + you prefer visual novel style when explore daily activity in-game then you can start from Portable and choose female route immediately

[Yürei]

Originally posted by Arifufu:

-> Portable has Female protagonist
-> Maniac difficulty from Portable actually harder than Merciless from Reload, but both difficulties don't carry over anything on NG+ Maniac / Merciless, so my advice just use the hardest difficulty for both games so in NG+ choose Hard to carry over everything from previous playthrough
-> Reload has theurgy which is super powerful, you can avoid using it btw
-> Reload has Link Episode for all male party members, it's tied with regular Social Links because when you do all Male party member Link Episode you actually unlock additional persona from them. Portable doesn't have this, so when you choose Male route you will only have Female party member Social Links, same goes with FeMC to enjoy male party member social links you have to choose female route
-> Reload has gardening system also you can do gardening with party or other activities such as watch DVD or read with them at dorm to unlock even more powerful passive skill called characteristics of each party member
-> Portable: when a party reach level 99 both their HP and SP will be 999 automatically, in Reload won't
-> Fusion Spell in Portable is in item form which you can buy from antique shop, in Reload fusion spell is MC's Theurgy. In Portable there are more than 7 fusion spells while Reload only has 7 fusion spell

alright so the main difference is, Portable is Visual Novel style, the 3D style only inside Tartarus (dungeon's name of both games) while Reload 100% 3D both in-game daily life or tartarus.

If you care a lot about graphic no doubt Reload is your best bet, but if you wanna run as a Female protagonist + you prefer visual novel style when explore daily activity in-game then you can start from Portable and choose female route immediately

I really hope they add back those other fusion spells. Idk if it was a balance decision (doubt) or lack of time, but there should be no reason to not have them.

[CPT Chthonbeard the Pirate]

Originally posted by Yürei:

Originally posted by Arifufu:

-> Portable has Female protagonist
-> Maniac difficulty from Portable actually harder than Merciless from Reload, but both difficulties don't carry over anything on NG+ Maniac / Merciless, so my advice just use the hardest difficulty for both games so in NG+ choose Hard to carry over everything from previous playthrough
-> Reload has theurgy which is super powerful, you can avoid using it btw
-> Reload has Link Episode for all male party members, it's tied with regular Social Links because when you do all Male party member Link Episode you actually unlock additional persona from them. Portable doesn't have this, so when you choose Male route you will only have Female party member Social Links, same goes with FeMC to enjoy male party member social links you have to choose female route
-> Reload has gardening system also you can do gardening with party or other activities such as watch DVD or read with them at dorm to unlock even more powerful passive skill called characteristics of each party member
-> Portable: when a party reach level 99 both their HP and SP will be 999 automatically, in Reload won't
-> Fusion Spell in Portable is in item form which you can buy from antique shop, in Reload fusion spell is MC's Theurgy. In Portable there are more than 7 fusion spells while Reload only has 7 fusion spell

alright so the main difference is, Portable is Visual Novel style, the 3D style only inside Tartarus (dungeon's name of both games) while Reload 100% 3D both in-game daily life or tartarus.

If you care a lot about graphic no doubt Reload is your best bet, but if you wanna run as a Female protagonist + you prefer visual novel style when explore daily activity in-game then you can start from Portable and choose female route immediately

I really hope they add back those other fusion spells. Idk if it was a balance decision (doubt) or lack of time, but there should be no reason to not have them.

As I said, they didn't remake Persona 3 Portable, as it was a demake. They remade Persona 3. The reason why some of the things from it made it in to Persona 3 Reload is because Atlus took some ideas into Persona 4 and 5, and then brought them back to this remake. There was no point in remaking a demake rather than the original.

[Yürei]

Originally posted by CPT Chthonbeard the Pirate:

Originally posted by Yürei:

I really hope they add back those other fusion spells. Idk if it was a balance decision (doubt) or lack of time, but there should be no reason to not have them.

As I said, they didn't remake Persona 3 Portable, as it was a demake. They remade Persona 3. The reason why some of the things from it made it in to Persona 3 Reload is because Atlus took some ideas into Persona 4 and 5, and then brought them back to this remake. There was no point in remaking a demake rather than the original.

Well considering they pulled stuff from FES and Portable, I see no reason why they couldn't just take all the fusion spells.

[CPT Chthonbeard the Pirate]

Originally posted by Yürei:

Originally posted by CPT Chthonbeard the Pirate:

As I said, they didn't remake Persona 3 Portable, as it was a demake. They remade Persona 3. The reason why some of the things from it made it in to Persona 3 Reload is because Atlus took some ideas into Persona 4 and 5, and then brought them back to this remake. There was no point in remaking a demake rather than the original.

Well considering they pulled stuff from FES and Portable, I see no reason why they couldn't just take all the fusion spells.

They pulled stuff from FES and P4/5, they didn't really pull anything from Portable.

[RVRZERO]

Originally posted by CPT Chthonbeard the Pirate:

Originally posted by Yürei:

Well considering they pulled stuff from FES and Portable, I see no reason why they couldn't just take all the fusion spells.

They pulled stuff from FES and P4/5, they didn't really pull anything from Portable.

They did, rescue missing people, copying skill cards from the shrine, and everything portable added to the journey has been added.

[CPT Chthonbeard the Pirate]

Originally posted by RVRZERO:

Originally posted by CPT Chthonbeard the Pirate:

They pulled stuff from FES and P4/5, they didn't really pull anything from Portable.

They did, rescue missing people, copying skill cards from the shrine, and everything portable added to the journey has been added.

Rescue missing people was in P5 in mementos. Not sure about copying skill cards at the shrine, but I think that was in P4. You keep saying that everything portable added to the journey was added, but the journey is not in the game. If you are talking about the ability to control your characters, that is stock from P4/P5 as well.

[Yürei]

Originally posted by CPT Chthonbeard the Pirate:

Originally posted by RVRZERO:

They did, rescue missing people, copying skill cards from the shrine, and everything portable added to the journey has been added.

Rescue missing people was in P5 in mementos. Not sure about copying skill cards at the shrine, but I think that was in P4. You keep saying that everything portable added to the journey was added, but the journey is not in the game. If you are talking about the ability to control your characters, that is stock from P4/P5 as well.

You can't be serious right.... You do realize that P3P came out a long time ago right? This was way before P5 even fully started development.

[mutantbeth]

Originally posted by Arifufu:

-> Portable has Female protagonist
-> Maniac difficulty from Portable actually harder than Merciless from Reload, but both difficulties don't carry over anything on NG+ Maniac / Merciless, so my advice just use the hardest difficulty for both games so in NG+ choose Hard to carry over everything from previous playthrough
-> Reload has theurgy which is super powerful, you can avoid using it btw
-> Reload has Link Episode for all male party members, it's tied with regular Social Links because when you do all Male party member Link Episode you actually unlock additional persona from them. Portable doesn't have this, so when you choose Male route you will only have Female party member Social Links, same goes with FeMC to enjoy male party member social links you have to choose female route
-> Reload has gardening system also you can do gardening with party or other activities such as watch DVD or read with them at dorm to unlock even more powerful passive skill called characteristics of each party member
-> Portable: when a party reach level 99 both their HP and SP will be 999 automatically, in Reload won't
-> Fusion Spell in Portable is in item form which you can buy from antique shop, in Reload fusion spell is MC's Theurgy. In Portable there are more than 7 fusion spells while Reload only has 7 fusion spell

alright so the main difference is, Portable is Visual Novel style, the 3D style only inside Tartarus (dungeon's name of both games) while Reload 100% 3D both in-game daily life or tartarus.

If you care a lot about graphic no doubt Reload is your best bet, but if you wanna run as a Female protagonist + you prefer visual novel style when explore daily activity in-game then you can start from Portable and choose female route immediately

^ thanks for not being biased and elitist just cause p3p doesnt feature an overworld.

[CPT Chthonbeard the Pirate]

Originally posted by Yürei:

Originally posted by CPT Chthonbeard the Pirate:

Rescue missing people was in P5 in mementos. Not sure about copying skill cards at the shrine, but I think that was in P4. You keep saying that everything portable added to the journey was added, but the journey is not in the game. If you are talking about the ability to control your characters, that is stock from P4/P5 as well.

You can't be serious right.... You do realize that P3P came out a long time ago right? This was way before P5 even fully started development.

The way the development cycle works is that they got the source code from P3 on the PS2, and they have the source code they recently finished for P5R. They likely did not have the source code for P3P available to them, and even if they did, it was not in scope for them to port over both it and P3 for the PS2 as they are compiled for different systems, and one has all of the assets, while the other does not.
The features that you enjoy did not come directly from P3P like you keep claiming. They may have originated there, but they were refined over and over in the sequels, and then were backported. No, it is not likely they will bring it back just like P3P, because as I keep stating, it was a demake, made to work on a portable system that wasn't capable of playing the full P3 experience.

Originally posted by mutantbeth:

Originally posted by Arifufu:

-> Portable has Female protagonist
-> Maniac difficulty from Portable actually harder than Merciless from Reload, but both difficulties don't carry over anything on NG+ Maniac / Merciless, so my advice just use the hardest difficulty for both games so in NG+ choose Hard to carry over everything from previous playthrough
-> Reload has theurgy which is super powerful, you can avoid using it btw
-> Reload has Link Episode for all male party members, it's tied with regular Social Links because when you do all Male party member Link Episode you actually unlock additional persona from them. Portable doesn't have this, so when you choose Male route you will only have Female party member Social Links, same goes with FeMC to enjoy male party member social links you have to choose female route
-> Reload has gardening system also you can do gardening with party or other activities such as watch DVD or read with them at dorm to unlock even more powerful passive skill called characteristics of each party member
-> Portable: when a party reach level 99 both their HP and SP will be 999 automatically, in Reload won't
-> Fusion Spell in Portable is in item form which you can buy from antique shop, in Reload fusion spell is MC's Theurgy. In Portable there are more than 7 fusion spells while Reload only has 7 fusion spell

alright so the main difference is, Portable is Visual Novel style, the 3D style only inside Tartarus (dungeon's name of both games) while Reload 100% 3D both in-game daily life or tartarus.

If you care a lot about graphic no doubt Reload is your best bet, but if you wanna run as a Female protagonist + you prefer visual novel style when explore daily activity in-game then you can start from Portable and choose female route immediately

^ thanks for not being biased and elitist just cause p3p doesnt feature an overworld.

If you feel it's based or elitist for speaking the truth, that's your opinion. This is simply how it is. The features are how they are, and the P3P is not going to come back as you remember it. If you want it, you can buy it on the steam store. They aren't going to remaster that, because why remaster a demake, rather than remaster the original?

[Yürei]

Originally posted by CPT Chthonbeard the Pirate:

Originally posted by Yürei:

You can't be serious right.... You do realize that P3P came out a long time ago right? This was way before P5 even fully started development.

The way the development cycle works is that they got the source code from P3 on the PS2, and they have the source code they recently finished for P5R. They likely did not have the source code for P3P available to them, and even if they did, it was not in scope for them to port over both it and P3 for the PS2 as they are compiled for different systems, and one has all of the assets, while the other does not.
The features that you enjoy did not come directly from P3P like you keep claiming. They may have originated there, but they were refined over and over in the sequels, and then were backported. No, it is not likely they will bring it back just like P3P, because as I keep stating, it was a demake, made to work on a portable system that wasn't capable of playing the full P3 experience.

What kind of leap in logic is this lol. Man, might as well brush off whatever was taken from FES too if it was in later titles. Amazing how far you're trying to argue that features that only existed in portable no longer count cause they got polished in a later game that didn't even start full development until 2 years later.

[mutantbeth]

Originally posted by CPT Chthonbeard the Pirate:

Originally posted by Yürei:

You can't be serious right.... You do realize that P3P came out a long time ago right? This was way before P5 even fully started development.

The way the development cycle works is that they got the source code from P3 on the PS2, and they have the source code they recently finished for P5R. They likely did not have the source code for P3P available to them, and even if they did, it was not in scope for them to port over both it and P3 for the PS2 as they are compiled for different systems, and one has all of the assets, while the other does not.
The features that you enjoy did not come directly from P3P like you keep claiming. They may have originated there, but they were refined over and over in the sequels, and then were backported. No, it is not likely they will bring it back just like P3P, because as I keep stating, it was a demake, made to work on a portable system that wasn't capable of playing the full P3 experience.

Originally posted by mutantbeth:

^ thanks for not being biased and elitist just cause p3p doesnt feature an overworld.

If you feel it's based or elitist for speaking the truth, that's your opinion. This is simply how it is. The features are how they are, and the P3P is not going to come back as you remember it. If you want it, you can buy it on the steam store. They aren't going to remaster that, because why remaster a demake, rather than remaster the original?

i have never insinuated they should remake p3p. They dont need to remake a game that had features taken out because the psp couldnt handle it. Odd though that they could include a whole new protagonist and cant do it again for pc and current gen consoles