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  • Опубліковано 29 лип 2021
  • Take a dive into the glory days of the Internet with me and let's read some old Persona/SMT reviews on GameFAQs. Find out what made somebody in 2011 consider Persona 4 an 'absolute abomination', or why one gamer in 2004 thought Nocturne never should've been released overseas.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 362

  • @pictonomii3295
    @pictonomii3295 3 роки тому +394

    I swear, the first guy didn't even get the normal ending. He got the bad ending where they kill Namatame.

    • @JayAreAitch
      @JayAreAitch 3 роки тому +10

      that's only a bad ending because Nanako doesn't get resurrected in it. Hate Namatame.

    • @Limit02
      @Limit02 3 роки тому +73

      I wonder how many people out there have not gotten the true ending without realizing it

    • @tjofcarolina1776
      @tjofcarolina1776 3 роки тому +20

      @@Limit02 I actually hate that about persona 4, its like it doesn't want you to get it.

    • @yoso378
      @yoso378 3 роки тому +6

      It wouldn't be as bad imo if it didn't let you make the new game plus save until you got the true ending.

    • @pictonomii3295
      @pictonomii3295 3 роки тому +12

      @@yoso378 For real? That's odd. That would be like SMT4 not letting you get NG+ on the White Ending.

  • @Ratta212
    @Ratta212 3 роки тому +324

    Persona 6 better have multiple MGS4-style 2 hour grocery store cutscenes

    • @NotGeno
      @NotGeno 3 роки тому +15

      Do we have a comp of those

    • @TallTapper
      @TallTapper 3 роки тому +4

      yes pls

    • @iantaakalla8180
      @iantaakalla8180 3 роки тому +23

      And even better, the grocery store cutscenes where they talk about different spices used are thematically relevant because they share how they make their food, and that ties into how they view life and interact with life.

    • @soap9277
      @soap9277 Рік тому +2

      Oh god, if Kojima somehow ever gets his hands on Persona, we can expect all the characters to have names like Huge Largeman or something like that.

    • @kurocomics
      @kurocomics Рік тому

      Either SMT 6 or Persona 6 better feature Vergil from the Devil May Cry series

  • @evanc1480
    @evanc1480 3 роки тому +181

    Other youtuber's intro: Welcome back to another video
    Fither's intro: AYYYYYYYY

    • @jasonlemoine2074
      @jasonlemoine2074 3 роки тому +7

      It’s a Louisiana thing, you wouldn’t get it

  • @Kelm_Kisaragi
    @Kelm_Kisaragi 3 роки тому +121

    23:46
    "Your persona is not a cute little monster"
    Hee-hold the fuck up, did he imply that Jack Frost and Mothman aren't cute?

  • @projectmessiah
    @projectmessiah 3 роки тому +243

    It really is interesting how the public opinions of these things sort of seems to change over time. If you ask me its more or so that the people with negative opinions usually only stick their head out around the time the game comes out.

    • @phillemon7664
      @phillemon7664 3 роки тому +30

      It’s either that they only stick their heads out only at the beginning because they either lose interest in hating on it pretty early, that they just lose interest in it altogether and they get separated from the discourse altogether, or that they just grow to accept the games the way they are and end up liking it.

    • @tjofcarolina1776
      @tjofcarolina1776 3 роки тому +10

      Nah I've seen plenty of people who hate on a thing specifically because they think it might make people mad. And it usually doesn't even work

    • @projectmessiah
      @projectmessiah 3 роки тому +4

      @@tjofcarolina1776 Of course those people do exist but so do the people I brought up

    • @ElectricBarrier
      @ElectricBarrier 3 роки тому +2

      @@phillemon7664 Typically, people tend to like things a lot longer than they hate them. Passion is hard to maintain, either for or against something, but once it fades when you hate it you end up indifferent or at best sometimes go "oh yeah remember how shit that was?", and when you like it you often remember "hey remember how COOL that was" and sometimes the passion is temporarily renewed.
      And someone who truly hates something prefers to forget it, while someone wh loves it will wax nostalgic.
      Unless it's MGSV, I'm still fucking pissed and I always will be.

  • @AKPC001
    @AKPC001 3 роки тому +198

    man, i remember describing persona 4 to a friend, i said "its basically persona 3, but with better mechanics and a less serious more fun story, which i feel makes it a bit weaker" and he just looked at me blankly, i then told him "its pokemon scooby doo"

    • @donaldhenderson7703
      @donaldhenderson7703 3 роки тому +31

      That’s the best way of describing it or you could say it’s Jojo part 4 but longer

    • @ElectricBarrier
      @ElectricBarrier 3 роки тому +17

      @@donaldhenderson7703 *Jojo Part 4 but nobody's super buff and the main character doesn't have a pompadour.
      This could be a deal breaker for some people, however.

    • @donaldhenderson7703
      @donaldhenderson7703 3 роки тому

      @@ElectricBarrier true

    • @Idkwgo1
      @Idkwgo1 5 місяців тому +1

      I'll never understand how a fun upbeat story makes something weaker...

    • @AKPC001
      @AKPC001 5 місяців тому

      @@Idkwgo1 Because the story didn't stick in my mind as well as 3's did.

  • @lolo-TM
    @lolo-TM 3 роки тому +152

    Gamefaqs was a god send when i first played P4 in 2019
    It helped me so fucking much

    • @theidiotnamedjay5501
      @theidiotnamedjay5501 3 роки тому +27

      Honestly that site has such fucking in depth guides it’s amazing. Playing the KH franchise for the first time it’s like getting a full blown walkthrough by someone

    • @Thatonenigqa
      @Thatonenigqa 3 роки тому +10

      @@theidiotnamedjay5501 dude right!! The depth in the guides are indeed amazing

    • @Mclucasrv
      @Mclucasrv 3 роки тому +14

      For guides the site is amazing.

    • @dantemustdie00
      @dantemustdie00 3 роки тому +13

      Boy you NEEDED Gamefaqs to play a lot of SMT games, you think it's easy to go through If....'s World of Sloth, Nocturne's Ikebukuro Tunnel and parts of the Amala Labyrinth, and Strange Journeys Sector E without a map? Heeeeellllllllll no, lol. Also optimization your time properly in Persona and Devil Survivor games since you'd easily miss something and end of regretting it later.

    • @Fermin-hw5pd
      @Fermin-hw5pd 3 роки тому +2

      It helped with P3's and Strange Journey's sidequests

  • @coolperson677
    @coolperson677 3 роки тому +77

    I want "a little bit of animé," on a shirt

    • @Fermin-hw5pd
      @Fermin-hw5pd 3 роки тому +6

      Didn't know english people used the ` on letters xd

  • @Finny94
    @Finny94 3 роки тому +39

    "These are high school students, they don't even have real problems to worry about yet."
    Naoki Konishi: Am I a joke to you?

    • @honeyslime7178
      @honeyslime7178 2 роки тому +13

      Seems like grieving over the loss of your loved ones isn't a problem anymore

    • @emptyvending8964
      @emptyvending8964 2 роки тому +6

      I mean the whole game is about how these High School Students have real problems and mental issues. Even Yu has some serious issues honestly, being one of two Persona protags to have their own shadow version.

    • @punbasedname9032
      @punbasedname9032 Рік тому

      @@g.o-fish p4au

    • @mr.umbreon3173
      @mr.umbreon3173 Рік тому

      @@g.o-fish in the anime as well. During the margret fight.

    • @soap9277
      @soap9277 Рік тому

      ​@@g.o-fish He does in the Arena games. He has one in the anime adaptation too.

  • @scuffed7648
    @scuffed7648 3 роки тому +194

    Reading really negative reviews of good games is always so fun to me. Especially ones where the reviewer has no idea what they’re talking about.

    • @phillemon7664
      @phillemon7664 3 роки тому +42

      Same, it’s so fun seeing people pull irrelevant shit out of their ass to make something out worse then it really is.

    • @SEESBoy-hy8jz
      @SEESBoy-hy8jz 3 роки тому +22

      The first review made my fucking teeth ache

    • @kingoftropes922
      @kingoftropes922 3 роки тому +10

      This is me ever time someone who clearly doesn't want to understand or respect Kingdom Hearts talks about it lol

    • @SEESBoy-hy8jz
      @SEESBoy-hy8jz 3 роки тому +1

      @@kingoftropes922 Same

    • @Fermin-hw5pd
      @Fermin-hw5pd 3 роки тому +5

      I'm playing Strange Journey, and was saddened by the reviewer who treated it so badly, I'm enjoying it a lot and thought it was good?

  • @JackFrostAegirine
    @JackFrostAegirine 3 роки тому +68

    My first exposure to JoJo was a post on SMT IV's board about someone joking that Night Stalker was actually DIO.
    Really.

    • @Fermin-hw5pd
      @Fermin-hw5pd 3 роки тому +4

      You were expecting a night stalker to be an assassin, but it was me, Dio!
      I know nothing about Jojo, but I had to

    • @OgreDLink
      @OgreDLink 3 роки тому +3

      Jojo led me to persona thus to smt maybe not the proper order but eh well

  • @projectmessiah
    @projectmessiah 3 роки тому +59

    4:54 Never mind Akechi this sounds like Adachi on the scene.

  • @coldsteeledge6248
    @coldsteeledge6248 3 роки тому +68

    There is a GameFAQs reviewer that gave TWEWY a 2/10 and called the game a trainwreck. This same reviewer gave FFXV a 9/10 and said the combat is "incredibly deep".

    • @Cinko420
      @Cinko420 3 роки тому +19

      I remember this one reviewer that put up a poll of what people think is the best fighting game and there was that one person who went on a tangent about how Smash was winning.

    • @angellord2252
      @angellord2252 3 роки тому +10

      As someone who is actually a fan of FFXV, that guy is just wrong. The combat is the worst part of that game.

    • @kartikayysola
      @kartikayysola 3 роки тому +3

      @@angellord2252 Same. I loved FFXV and combat in that game was a hot mess and a half.

    • @kartikayysola
      @kartikayysola 3 роки тому

      @@iantaakalla8180 you forgot the most important one:
      BROS BROS BROS BROS BROS BROS BROS BROS BROS

    • @someclevername8167
      @someclevername8167 3 роки тому +5

      @@angellord2252 I will say that the Royal Edition’s Armiger Unleashed makes combat quite fun. It’s a glimpse of what the combat could have, and should have been, had the game been given the love it deserved

  • @redrix1787
    @redrix1787 3 роки тому +223

    Someone: persona 3 sucks!
    Nyarly & Fither: how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?

    • @heehoostockdude2338
      @heehoostockdude2338 3 роки тому +2

      No problem here

    • @joaovitorsilvalima8457
      @joaovitorsilvalima8457 3 роки тому

      Nice

    • @TailsGuy72
      @TailsGuy72 3 роки тому +16

      I actually hate P3. Though, I can't say it's a bad game. There are just flaws that ruin the game for me. There's nothing wrong with liking P3 though, it's just extremely overrated.

    • @TailsGuy72
      @TailsGuy72 3 роки тому +8

      @FuckOuttaHere I played it during Hurricane Isaiah here in the Bahamas, and my god I beat it in 2 days. The pacing was non existent. In p4 and p5 I WANTED to save people. You had a goal you know? It felt like the game wasn't trying to get me invested in this. It was like "do stuff or not I guess". I couldn't care less about most characters. He'll I didn't like aigis till January. I played it on my PSP instead of my PS2 (yknow, power was out.) I was sorely disappointed with gameplay and balance. I played P4G during Hurricane Dorian in 2019, and it got me through that fucking apocalypse and deaths. Spent hours playing P4G. P3 just makes me feel dead, wasn't fun at all, and that BALANCING... Early game is absolute shit... Three party members against the arcana bosses sucked. No, arcana bosses suck. SMT3 is WAY better. Oh and DeSu

    • @tastethecock5203
      @tastethecock5203 3 роки тому +7

      @@TailsGuy72 I feel you. Persona 3 has almost mythical status in Fandom as if it is some holy grail of writing and character development... But I just don't see it? Pacing is atrocious yes, but for me problems go deeper with that. The plot of Persona 3 almost non existant. The dialogue is very wonky, and presentation is full of unnatural exposition. If we are talking about characters. Yes - there are highlights that everyone talks about. But how about rest of the characters and rest of the game? Yes this game persona 3 has some really good highs, I won't argue that. Yes, the atmosphere is amazing, but that's just sparkles in the eyes. The game is full of holes and its very inconsistent.

  • @ultrapyrusbrawler
    @ultrapyrusbrawler 3 роки тому +83

    Oh, this is going to be quite the ride.

  • @ScarletDragon_Slayer
    @ScarletDragon_Slayer 3 роки тому +38

    I am now permanently changing my status to RPGamer

  • @KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva
    @KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva 3 роки тому +24

    The first guy's criticisms were actually somewhat reasonable, until he blew them out of proportion and gave 1/10 scores for almost everything because they weren't perfect. Except for talking shit about the Persona 4 soundtrack. I legitimately have never played a Megaten game that didn't have at least an 8/10 soundtrack.

    • @somejabroni51
      @somejabroni51 3 роки тому +2

      The p1 review was based. Fuck that game hahahahaha

  • @somelucifrostguy9208
    @somelucifrostguy9208 3 роки тому +97

    The softly racist vignette in the first review upsets me as someone who does a lot of code switching between English and Spanish since I'm from an immigrant family.

    • @phillemon7664
      @phillemon7664 3 роки тому +46

      Yeah that part really came off as incredibly insensitive, it’s frustrating how western centric a lot of people operate (I.e. every game must take place in a western setting or else it’s shit!)

    • @ci7210
      @ci7210 3 роки тому +58

      How dare a Japanese game be too Japanese. Is basically that review.

    • @BeruleAdierant
      @BeruleAdierant 3 роки тому +10

      I don`t think is racist at all is just "I fear thing foreign to me" the review.

    • @purplespectre
      @purplespectre 3 роки тому +3

      I don't understand why someone would play a JRPG if they hate Japanese stuff. That first reviewer comes off as very entitled.

    • @NrXJupiter
      @NrXJupiter 3 роки тому

      since when was japanese a race

  • @Crase1986
    @Crase1986 3 роки тому +17

    To be fair, I can understand feeling like the ending of P4G was a little abrupt, with the true mastermind being the gas station attendant you had a single interaction with at the start of the game.

    • @ElectricBarrier
      @ElectricBarrier 3 роки тому +8

      You think that guy actually got the True Ending? You think that smoothbrain coulda figured out how to get it?

  • @PlanScare
    @PlanScare 3 роки тому +35

    It’s always fun to just go back and see this even though you can tell how badly some of these have aged

    • @tachankathechub4727
      @tachankathechub4727 3 роки тому

      Unrelated but I love the Samsa pfp

    • @PlanScare
      @PlanScare 3 роки тому

      @@tachankathechub4727 Thanks man. This is the first time someone had noticed

  • @canadianbacon3846
    @canadianbacon3846 3 роки тому +6

    "If Final Fantasy was all I played I'd shoot myself"
    babybabybabybabybabybaby

  • @yoshitsune5691
    @yoshitsune5691 3 роки тому +40

    Ahh yes back in the day where anime was viewed as being weird/edgy. Me at 13 playing persona 3 while kids my ages playing Pokémon.smh now everyone is a persona fan

    • @LckD008
      @LckD008 3 роки тому +6

      *p5

    • @Fermin-hw5pd
      @Fermin-hw5pd 3 роки тому +5

      Nothing wrong with Pokémon though

    • @Fermin-hw5pd
      @Fermin-hw5pd 3 роки тому +1

      @Bread Sticks Yeah, as the other user said, apparently everyone knows, or loves Persona (5)
      Even a guy I met at high school likes it because I recommended Strikers to him

  • @mammothplant
    @mammothplant 3 роки тому +7

    "no pink haired vixen"
    this guy would hate Digital Devil Saga

  • @muthesquirrel
    @muthesquirrel 3 роки тому +13

    I always find it strange when a complaint is "the demons get weaker and you have to replace them!"... It's like playing a basketball game and complaining "you keep having to put the ball in the basket and you're score doesn't carry over between matches!"

  • @j.rockin1650
    @j.rockin1650 3 роки тому +29

    At least the teachers didn't lecture you on most of the major arcana like in P4.

  • @kevinhixson1586
    @kevinhixson1586 3 роки тому +7

    The first guy sounds like the people who say "persona 6 should be either college or career setting".

  • @KumaNicol
    @KumaNicol 3 роки тому +13

    “But for the average RPG player here” got me, it’s specifically a JRPG, lmao. Of course it has Japanese settings, soundtrack and other elements my dude, that’s where it’s from, cmon.

  • @flippy7035
    @flippy7035 3 роки тому +67

    In short: the newest and most popular game will always be the worst somehow. And everything surrounding it will feel extra horrible to the people who don't like the game. We witnessed this phenomenon with 4 and when we thought that was bad, it got even worse with 5. I fear for the state of the community once persona 6 comes out, no matter how good the game turns out.

    • @flippy7035
      @flippy7035 3 роки тому +21

      @FuckOuttaHere they're gonna compare it to persona as if it's a bad thing.

    • @patrickloureiro1403
      @patrickloureiro1403 3 роки тому +20

      @FuckOuttaHere i can't wait for people who hate iv apocalypse to suddenly love the game once V comes out

    • @SuperFusionAJ93
      @SuperFusionAJ93 3 роки тому +7

      It's an Endless Cycle. This is Sonic Fanbase levels of bad.

    • @Cinko420
      @Cinko420 3 роки тому +19

      @@SuperFusionAJ93
      Worse, it’s Pokémon levels.
      At least Sonic fans mostly agree whether a game is good or bad.
      Pokémon fans literally got split in two because of Sword and Shield.

    • @SuperFusionAJ93
      @SuperFusionAJ93 3 роки тому

      @@Cinko420
      .......Good Point....

  • @leontrotsky7816
    @leontrotsky7816 3 роки тому +13

    To me, the most interesting part of this is wondering what happened to people who were doing GameFAQs reviews 20 years ago. Are they still stuck in their parents' basement or did they leave, become accountants, get married and have kids?

  • @Crimsontears83
    @Crimsontears83 2 роки тому +5

    That las t guy killed me. "Some enemies are immune to physical attacks or reflect them back!!!" How dare enemies have strengths and weaknesses. Maybe try something else you idiot?
    "Street Fighter is too hard! Sometimes enemies block or even counter your attacks!!! 0/20

  • @Saturnfanboy
    @Saturnfanboy 3 роки тому +3

    "Many of you were not alive in when this review came out"
    Thanks for making me feel old...

  • @lolo-TM
    @lolo-TM 3 роки тому +20

    14:08 EB games is a canadian thing, you wouldn't understand
    EDIT: Australia too

    • @heehomgee4671
      @heehomgee4671 3 роки тому +1

      Oh hey Australia.

    • @silverware7976
      @silverware7976 3 роки тому +1

      cant believe fither dont know about leaf culture smh 😤😤

    • @lolo-TM
      @lolo-TM 3 роки тому

      @@heehomgee4671 oh true

    • @knightshade2654
      @knightshade2654 3 роки тому

      Is it just some Commonwealth thing?

  • @melvint-p9500
    @melvint-p9500 3 роки тому +8

    Could you imagine if Rise final Social link was two straight hours of spice selecting and nothing else?

    • @soap9277
      @soap9277 Рік тому

      Oh god, yes please. Talk my ears off about turmeric and allspice, Rise-chan! Bless my brain with your spice knowledge, goddess.
      Jokes aside, I would've just turned the fucking game off. I love P4, and I like Rise a lot, but my god, if something like that happened idk if I could've handled it. I've had enough of the two-hour cutscene sessions from Metal Gear Solid games.

  • @danieew
    @danieew 3 роки тому +4

    Gamefaqs sure helped me a lot through some SMT games, thanks guys from 15y ago

  • @StreetTaco
    @StreetTaco 3 роки тому +57

    "The voices are too cutesy-cutesy and they don't come across as real people"
    Wait I thought this was a Vanilla review not a Golden review.

    • @SenhorKoringa
      @SenhorKoringa 3 роки тому +7

      The only voices changed in Golden were Teddie and Chie, but yeah Atlus doubled down on the “anime” crap with the spin-offs and rereleases for their games

    • @phillemon7664
      @phillemon7664 3 роки тому +46

      @@SenhorKoringa SMT is anime too whether you like or not. Hell even P1 and P2 are anime. P3, 4, 5 are just more “modern anime” styled than the other games. Anyone denying the “anime” quality of all of Megaten are just copers.

    • @JayAreAitch
      @JayAreAitch 3 роки тому +17

      @@phillemon7664 There are levels to it though, and Golden really went heavy on the corny, uninspired end of the spectrum of anime cliche.

    • @kaelanmcalpine2011
      @kaelanmcalpine2011 3 роки тому +19

      Wait until he hears Japanese Rise. That voice will make anyone say Urasai!!! three times.

    • @SenhorKoringa
      @SenhorKoringa 3 роки тому +7

      @@JayAreAitch yeah the anime tropes don’t get in the way of most titles. But when Inaba is such a dull shithole that a 7 year old girl’s favorite activity is visiting the department store, and rereleases send you on a ski trip and off to the beach, it feels a bit disconnected for the sake of more cliche SoL anime moments.

  • @flippy7035
    @flippy7035 3 роки тому +28

    Btw: EB Games still exists. It's basically canadian gamestop.

    • @shadowlugia2624
      @shadowlugia2624 3 роки тому +10

      We've got them everywhere here in Australia, basically our main source of buying games and that

    • @amysel
      @amysel 3 роки тому +4

      Eb games is owned by Gamestop

  • @TDBoltSSBM
    @TDBoltSSBM 3 роки тому +4

    Oh man, that first guy will love Fate/Stay Night

  • @FarelForever
    @FarelForever 3 роки тому +26

    I remember all the negative reviews Persona 4 got upon its release. Do I dismiss the possibility for people to prefer 3 over 4? No, of course not. I see it as quite likely to be honest. But ... to make them out to be night and day in terms of quality is a bit.... silly

    • @ElectricBarrier
      @ElectricBarrier 3 роки тому

      Absolutely none of the issues people often have with P4 are things you can ascribe to P3. None! NOT A ONE!!! NOT A SINGLE ONE!

    • @FarelForever
      @FarelForever 3 роки тому

      @@ElectricBarrier I apologize for my comment being so upsetting. Would deleting my comment make you happy?

    • @ElectricBarrier
      @ElectricBarrier 3 роки тому +3

      @@FarelForever I was being sarcastic, I dunno how much more obvious I coulda made that. P4 is one of my favorite games and the people who complain about the same stuff that's in P3 really need to sit down and take long, hard look at both games.

    • @FarelForever
      @FarelForever 3 роки тому

      @@ElectricBarrier Sorry, I have a very negative outlook regarding myself, and often assume the worst.

    • @ElectricBarrier
      @ElectricBarrier 3 роки тому +1

      ​@@FarelForever I'm sorry to hear that! Low self esteem sucks. I guess my only advice is that you're most likely not as bad as you think, the people who suck the most usually have the highest opinions of themselves. Maybe it's a subconscious thing, trying to pretend they don't suck...

  • @Gatekid3
    @Gatekid3 3 роки тому +1

    What song is playing around the 11 minute mark? It sounds familiar, but i cant recall

  • @michaelolaf9968
    @michaelolaf9968 3 роки тому +6

    That P3 review is actually raw

  • @guillermomunoz3422
    @guillermomunoz3422 3 роки тому +4

    >Many of you weren't alive when this was written
    Thanks for making me feel old

  • @ReanXAlisa
    @ReanXAlisa 3 роки тому +4

    If i had to ever take a shot for everytime someone said mature and hardcore gamer i'm more than sure i'd have lost my liver by now. shit even the wholesome ones where they poured out their soul made me think of middle school you wouldn't get it dad cringe but fuck it dawg, props to em for going all out like that lmao.

  • @SwedishDuckey
    @SwedishDuckey 3 роки тому +5

    The first guy was probably a young Cvit

  • @emmychansuper
    @emmychansuper 3 роки тому +7

    7:57 - I was 12 years old when that review was made, which means I'm the odd ball here.

    • @knightshade2654
      @knightshade2654 3 роки тому +2

      I'm eighteen and used to feeling old on the internet now; I have no idea how you feel.

    • @Fermin-hw5pd
      @Fermin-hw5pd 3 роки тому +1

      I wasn't even born bruh

    • @Stefano.C
      @Stefano.C 9 місяців тому

      I was 6 when that review was made 😂 felt like I missed out on late 90s/early 00s internet. Tbf, my parents were hesitant to let me browse the internet on my own until around 07

  • @McKayla24798
    @McKayla24798 3 роки тому +7

    The graphics section on the strange journey review sounds like people bitching about Pokémon sword and shield now LMAO

  • @kiss-shot_is_bae
    @kiss-shot_is_bae 2 роки тому +1

    For the longest time I had no idea GameFAQs had reviews because I only used it to look up guides

  • @neku963
    @neku963 3 роки тому +17

    RPGamers rise up!

  • @Fermin-hw5pd
    @Fermin-hw5pd 3 роки тому +4

    So no one has noticed that, in the Digital Devil Saga review, they called Serph by "Serf"? And the Junkyard is a town?

  • @NishaPerson
    @NishaPerson 3 роки тому +2

    Do more of this. This is fantastic.

  • @TailsGuy72
    @TailsGuy72 3 роки тому +60

    I wonder if persona 5 will be more appreciated down the line like how Persona 4 was once trash compared to 3 but now stands on it's own as an outstanding game. I mean, fan base wise not the mainstream.

    • @flippy7035
      @flippy7035 3 роки тому +30

      It was when it came out, it got a bit of a resurgence once people could finally talk about royal and it definitely will once persona 6 comes exists for a bit. Unfortunately that means that half the community will now trash persona 6 for every overblown reason they can find.

    • @Hyunation
      @Hyunation 3 роки тому +13

      @@flippy7035 all i really hear people bitch about with persona 5 is how its too easy. on paper, making persona 6 simply more difficult should tide the angry mobs over. but yeah, they'll find something bout it to hate on regardless.

    • @JayAreAitch
      @JayAreAitch 3 роки тому +4

      @@Hyunation and the fact that a lot of its characters are just Persona 4's but worse.

    • @lick816
      @lick816 3 роки тому +5

      @@JayAreAitch not really, some of them are persona 3 characters too. Now whether some are worse it's debatable.

    • @JayAreAitch
      @JayAreAitch 3 роки тому +3

      @@lick816 Hardly debatable. Once you're creating characters to tick off boxes on a trope checklist, you aren't writing in good faith.

  • @optimize0
    @optimize0 3 роки тому +3

    Some of these reviews really bring back memories. 2004 was a different time and definitely the case with j-rpgs.
    Glad to see you revisiting history lol.

  • @FluffyTailedPrince
    @FluffyTailedPrince 3 роки тому +4

    Oh yeah, I do remember SMT being called Shin Megaten. It really was a thing back then

  • @Samuel-do9dy
    @Samuel-do9dy 3 роки тому +7

    Naoya is Ness confirmed

  • @ganon4688
    @ganon4688 3 роки тому +14

    Fither why did you make a 20 minute video of FF fans coping

    • @phillemon7664
      @phillemon7664 3 роки тому +7

      Lol, it’s always FF fans.

    • @ganon4688
      @ganon4688 3 роки тому +5

      @@phillemon7664 "Why FF12 is the greatest JRPG of all-time"
      5 minutes later
      "Why I fucking hate FF12"

    • @ci7210
      @ci7210 3 роки тому +8

      @@ganon4688 I remember when FF12 came out people hated it during the late 2000's. Now it's a beloved classic.
      Considering Final Fantasy was still extremely popular around the time. It feels like Persona was too different for them.
      Hell I was huge on Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts when I was a kid. But playing Persona 5 last year it was so different from what I grew up with and loved the game.
      Yes how dare a Japanese game too Japanese.

    • @kaelanmcalpine2011
      @kaelanmcalpine2011 3 роки тому +4

      @@ci7210 Seems like for me it's the opposite, even though I've started on all three of them awfully late (around 18-19 and I'm about to be 20 in a couple months). Finished the KH series up until KH3 and played quite a bit of MegaTen for the past year. Tried playing FF7R and XV and haven't finished either of them, though at least XV is fun enough for me to have some motivation to continue, I'll probably just need to cut down on quests.

  • @TheMaskedNinja_
    @TheMaskedNinja_ 2 роки тому +2

    I know this man did not diss Yu/Adachi/Lelouch voice actor

  • @s3studios597
    @s3studios597 3 роки тому +8

    2000? How old is GameFAQs anyway?

  • @TonyRedgrave
    @TonyRedgrave 2 роки тому

    18:20 Dude, Orcs and Elves on the side banner. I played that game forever ago. Really shows the era these articles are from.

  • @shadowmetroid18
    @shadowmetroid18 3 роки тому +3

    They're high school students how interesting could their problems be?
    Has this man SEEN Yumi's social link??

  • @frknspacewizardbrett6044
    @frknspacewizardbrett6044 3 роки тому +1

    14:05 EB Games is still around, at least in Australia. It's actually quite common there. I don't know about anywhere else though.

  • @counterhit148
    @counterhit148 2 роки тому +1

    Would be more interesting to hear you comment more on these reviews

  • @makotoyuki345
    @makotoyuki345 3 роки тому +8

    Yo Fither you do this too!? Nice

    • @makotoyuki345
      @makotoyuki345 3 роки тому +8

      @FuckOuttaHere indeed it is fellow persona 3 fan

    • @Heli-draws
      @Heli-draws 3 роки тому +5

      @@makotoyuki345 Wait,how are you able to write this comment if you're a door

    • @phillemon7664
      @phillemon7664 3 роки тому +1

      @@Heli-draws cuz he’s swagger like that

    • @makotoyuki345
      @makotoyuki345 3 роки тому

      @FuckOuttaHere that’s fine

    • @Fermin-hw5pd
      @Fermin-hw5pd 3 роки тому

      @FuckOuttaHere Then why do you even said the previous thing

  • @TheRamblemanWhoSings
    @TheRamblemanWhoSings 3 роки тому +9

    EBgames is still around, it'll only die when game stop dies

  • @LostBlade776
    @LostBlade776 3 роки тому +6

    Yeah I'm kind of an RPGamer myself I know hard to believe isn't it

  • @knightshade2654
    @knightshade2654 3 роки тому +3

    I can't believe that Harry Dubois is such a Persona 3 fanboy.

  • @ElectricBarrier
    @ElectricBarrier 3 роки тому +7

    I got no problems with with people criticizing Persona 4. It's one of my favorite games, if not simply THE favorite. But I know it's got problems. Of course it does, I don't think I've ever loved a game that wasn't lacking in some area, I love stuff that goes for it and when you just fuckin' go for it, you're bound to fuck something up.
    But boy, if you start with "this game is an abomination", I'm not okay.
    And just as I suspected, his review is garbage.
    This dude complaining about it being long, having slow plot progression, spending most of it's time on scenes of shopping and dinnertime, and the social links are boring because they're high school students who don't have any real problems. Oh and the honorifics are weird and the music is bad engrish, and it's too japanese... ah, yes, all things you totally CANNOT say about Persona 3! Nope, not at all! You absolutely do not fight 12 bosses over the course of 12 months, only actually learning more about what's going on during the middle and end of the game! It's for sure not mostly fucking around at the mall, school, or tartarus! No siree! And hey, what's character development?
    Either this guy didn't actually play P3, or he has a SERIOUS bias for it that has totally blinded him. One of the worst reviews I've ever seen, I can't wait for the rest.
    Oh and to that guy who was complaining about how hard SMT3 was: I breezed through most of it, except for Lucifer. Git fukken gud m8.

    • @insertnamehere658
      @insertnamehere658 2 роки тому

      I think persona 4 is probably my least favorite modern persona game tbh. I love it, but the gameplay isn't nearly as good as p5, and the story didn't resonate with me as much as 3. It does do characters the best though.

    • @revolvingworld2676
      @revolvingworld2676 Рік тому

      The gameplay honestly brings Persona 3 down a lot for me. I loved the story and chatacters but
      The horrible Ai and tacticts system, the "tired" and "sick" mechanic, the repetitive climbing of Tartarus, the annoying and long final boss. And most of the social links were boring or barebones.
      A remake could easily fix all these problems.

  • @RevolverJ98
    @RevolverJ98 3 роки тому +13

    Me when I first got into the SMT/Persona series: Persona 3 is the best game in the series hands down!
    Me after having a lot more experience in the series: P3 is cool and all, but I feel P2 is a lot less headaches to worry about :/

  • @Amon_Gus799
    @Amon_Gus799 2 роки тому +2

    I still use gamefaqs to this day cause they always have the answer 9/10 times

  • @tanyasellars7492
    @tanyasellars7492 3 роки тому +2

    14:11
    EBgames does at exist just not everywhere here in Australia EBgames is our main game store.

  • @GinraiPrime666
    @GinraiPrime666 3 роки тому +3

    Ahhhhh I remember the year 2000, yeah I'm old :P

  • @mammothplant
    @mammothplant 3 роки тому +4

    hold the fuck up -- I think discoinferno84 might be Yanderedev. this isn't a joke, hear me out.
    Yanderedev wrote an erotic persona 3 fanfiction forever ago (no, really) that I saw posted on 4chan a few times. it had that EXACT SAME fucking writing style, down to the use of the word "personae" as the plural of persona. holy shit lmao

  • @matthewpopow6647
    @matthewpopow6647 3 роки тому

    I had a rough time with strange journey. I'm not sure if it was just not in the right headspace (I was mid Hs p4 baby) or if I actually didn't enjoy it. I have tried to go back but my initial play through has effected my enjoyment

  • @TonyRedgrave
    @TonyRedgrave 2 роки тому +1

    31:32 In the same vein, have you ever noticed how bad reviews usually have the writer toting how skilled/experienced they are? And then if anyone disagrees with them, they used that skill and experience as a "I'm better than you so I'm right." card?
    I once saw a guy refund a game because he found the soundtrack "unbearable" and then post a discussion about it on the steam forums. And then when people tried debating with him, he claimed to be a music producer and that the sound track was awful because he said so.

  • @pictonomii3295
    @pictonomii3295 Рік тому

    12:51 DDS in the corner like 👀

  • @Salt5006
    @Salt5006 3 роки тому +2

    "RPGamer" sounds like a sick ass username

  • @Namingway248
    @Namingway248 3 роки тому +3

    >Mark reviewed crazy!

  • @camerongranger6301
    @camerongranger6301 2 роки тому

    Can anyone tell me what the song is at 15:17?? It sounds so familiar but I can't remember it for the life of me

  • @tezmick9590
    @tezmick9590 3 роки тому

    EB games is still a thing in Australia they're basically gamestop with a different logo

  • @PluckyJackson
    @PluckyJackson 2 роки тому +1

    the one valid thing I heard in the negative ones was about nocturnes dungeons/puzzles. They are awful, using time wasting old hat crap (even for the time) like invisible wall mazes or guess the right platform, and I've always found it bizarre it's rarely brought up in criticism of the game. Or worse yet people complain about the lack of it in iv, iva, v, etc

  • @lucymorrison
    @lucymorrison Рік тому +1

    That P3 review was my favourite easily, it describes why I fell in love with the game so much (minus the graphic mid 2000s poem)

  • @goatman0123
    @goatman0123 2 роки тому

    That 2000 review guy was kind of spitting

  • @jobscarryg9514
    @jobscarryg9514 3 роки тому

    Good video but now we desperately need that discoinferno84 collab

  • @tylerlackey1175
    @tylerlackey1175 3 роки тому

    I read a review of persona 3 from a decade ago where the guy says the social system is uninteresting and that he didnt even finish the game (yet put up a review?)
    Very bizarre. But disliking persona is just about as puzzling as liking it in the first place

  • @SmirkingSamurai
    @SmirkingSamurai 3 роки тому +1

    Yeah we still have EB Games in Canada, its our version of Gamestop

  • @nitrorock1023
    @nitrorock1023 3 роки тому

    EB Games is still around, in Australia, at least.

  • @VincentEternal
    @VincentEternal 3 роки тому +3

    Ah…..let the ignorance commence.

  • @orisis666
    @orisis666 3 роки тому +2

    thats gonna be good

  • @kisa4748
    @kisa4748 3 роки тому +1

    now anime and hard games are trendy

  • @SenhorKoringa
    @SenhorKoringa 3 роки тому +2

    “A la persona”
    ._____.

  • @vandam6057
    @vandam6057 3 роки тому +9

    I used this site in 2020 and idc

    • @gaspastrike
      @gaspastrike 3 роки тому +4

      I still use it to this day

    • @vandam6057
      @vandam6057 3 роки тому +2

      @Brandon Gray i only used it cause p4g came to pc

    • @yoso378
      @yoso378 3 роки тому +1

      I used it for Saga Frontier remastered lol, felt like I was back in middle school (and most of the guides were from that time! )

    • @phillemon7664
      @phillemon7664 3 роки тому

      I like stalking ‘Smashfaqs’ and seeing what shenanigans the speculation community circlejerks their way into.

    • @ci7210
      @ci7210 3 роки тому +2

      Been playing Persona 3 and Persona 4 on my PS3 and gamfaq is a godsend

  • @dieehrensklavin
    @dieehrensklavin 3 роки тому +1

    is it bad that i somewhat agree with the first one?? im not into this slice of life thing, so the RL events are always boring as hell to me. especially cause they take SO long - looking at you P5 & P5 strikers

    • @zeldalina499
      @zeldalina499 2 роки тому +2

      The flaw in the first review was that the person judged P4 as if their dislike for slice of life was objective, and a game that contains it is by default a bad game. It is totally okay not to like this style of game, and I'm sure many diehard fans (including me) agree that the dialogue can drag on a while.

    • @revolvingworld2676
      @revolvingworld2676 Рік тому

      Thats just how Persona is, it's definitely not a game for everyone.
      I actually first played Persona 4 a long time ago but I dropped it because it started off so slow.
      Now I'm a fan and played all the games.

  • @blitz5183
    @blitz5183 3 роки тому +1

    Even tho i disagree with some little things in the first review
    But i agree 100% on the story review part
    Not even pointing out how awfull the villian was

  • @tacoeater5758
    @tacoeater5758 3 роки тому +1

    People like gamefaqlurker are the reason why so many JRPGs never came to America

  • @Tate56565656
    @Tate56565656 3 роки тому +1

    8:00 i was 22 days old lol

  • @a1vash
    @a1vash 3 роки тому

    I'm a highly frustrated gamer after attempting to beat P4G on the hardest difficulty lol

  • @the_mightylicker1944
    @the_mightylicker1944 3 роки тому +1

    Reading these comments is making me wonder if I’m the only person who likes persona 4

    • @makosan1237
      @makosan1237 3 роки тому

      Yeah I love p4 but apparently everyone doesn't like it 😕

    • @ScoliosisKing1
      @ScoliosisKing1 3 роки тому

      From what I heard most people like or love it but it has some flaws personally it's my favorite game of all time and my gateway to smt

  • @Max-ze5ts
    @Max-ze5ts 3 роки тому +1

    Gonna be honest, that P4 review at the start sounds like something I would write.

  • @nolongeranobody869
    @nolongeranobody869 3 роки тому

    Damn I loved persona 4 the first dude my god

  • @naughtiusmaximus5954
    @naughtiusmaximus5954 3 роки тому +1

    Dis gon be gut

  • @houyo
    @houyo 3 роки тому +2

    I can excuse racism, but I can't excuse giving Persona 4's music a 1/10.
    ((This is a joke I don't excuse racism.))

    • @burgerking-eg7xc
      @burgerking-eg7xc 3 роки тому +1

      I do

    • @houyo
      @houyo 3 роки тому

      @@burgerking-eg7xc Yeah but you're not very cool so whatevs.

    • @burgerking-eg7xc
      @burgerking-eg7xc 3 роки тому

      @@houyo no not the music I can’t excuse that

    • @houyo
      @houyo 3 роки тому

      @@burgerking-eg7xc ah, so literally nothing has changed lmao
      Nah I'm just giving you a hard time. You a persona hater or the music just doesn't jam with you? I personally have a soft spot for 'Face Myself'.

    • @burgerking-eg7xc
      @burgerking-eg7xc 3 роки тому +2

      @@houyo p4 has possibly my favorite game soundtrack ever but I understand not liking it it’s not for everyone

  • @ImPyroChad
    @ImPyroChad 3 роки тому

    6:08 SimplyDad lol