Just Finished... Epic (Minor Spoilers)

[CurryStorm]

I posted this on gamefaqs a little while ago but I decided to post it here also. I don't know if anyone involved with this game or bringing it over glances at these boards or not but I just had to add it here. Most things posted or spoken are negative (I'm not talking about this board but all boards and life in general) so I thought I'd write this as a "thank you" of sorts.

This game was outstanding- from the story, to the characters, the combat and the music... just a great, great game.

I enjoy most all JRPGs to some extent, they're just the games I like playing. I care most about a game's story and character interactions/development than I do combat and love games with some romance in them (I like the ladies, what can I say lol). I try to beat any RPG I start playing regardless of how good or bad it is.

However, I have found that most RPGs I play now, at some point in the game, I start wanting to go ahead and beat it. I just get to that point that I'm playing more for the desire to go ahead and finish it and start another game than for the joy of just playing it. This applies to games that I've loved and have great memories of: Radiata Stories, Xenogears, Xenosaga series, Kingdom Hearts series and Mana Khemia just to name a few. While I loved playing these games, at some point in the game I was just like, "okay, I'm ready to end this and move on." I don't know why, maybe it's because I'm older (28 years) or what, but very few games catch and hold my attention like they used to.

That's why I consider any game to be "Epic" when, no matter how long I've been playing it, I don't want it to end. You know that feeling when you realize you've already played more of the game than you've got left to play and you're kind of sad because you know soon you'll be leaving this world (that particular game's world) so-to-speak. In my life since really playing RPGs since I was 14, there have been only a few games that I was actually upset when I knew they were over: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Steambot Chronicles and Tales of the Abyss. (In the case of Steambot Chronicles, I may have this feeling because it was so short more than it was that great of a game; regardless, I didn't want it to end.)

Persona 4 now lands in this category for me. Even by the end of Persona 3, which I also enjoyed and it's in my top 6 favorite RPGs (of which I've beaten 50+), I was ready just to get it over with as Tartarus was getting old. I never grew tired of P4 and with every passing month in the game I was literally getting depressed because I knew it was a month closer to ending.

Granted, this game isn't perfect and there are some things I wish were done differently, but when I feel like I'm actually "leaving" the town and my comrades as the MC did, I know a game has done what it intended to do- make you feel like you're the main character and you're actually there in that world. I'll probably have another thread about the actual game play and story, etc. but I just had to give this game its props as I really, really enjoyed it and hate that this experience is over.

[xHaseox]

The only thing I didn't like was the ending.

1. Because it ended.
2. Because he had to leave.

Though it didn't leave me as emotionally screwed up as Persona 3 or Xenosaga Episode III.

[Sorpheous]

The only thing I didn't like was the ending.

1. Because it ended.
2. Because he had to leave.

Though it didn't leave me as emotionally screwed up as Persona 3 or Xenosaga Episode III.
If my understanding had been at Saintly, I might've cried when I finished those games. :very_sad:

[CurryStorm]

Yeah, P3's ending was messed up and probably the reason I haven't had any intentions on playing the game again. There's too much bad already in the world to be emotionally scared because of a video game :).

Xenosaga 3 was also pretty disheartening although I was more upset that the series wasn't continuing.

[AC/DCmartin]

It only happens to me only with the Persona 4.And when a month passed,I was getting more and more depressing like you were.I didn't want it to end.That's what the thing that bothers me of this game is when they pass 3 month(the winter holydays)in a row,I was expecting to those holydays 'cause I wanted to be free to walk around for 3 months,and go to the TV just to have some fun...

[BRASSKNUCKLES]

I know i really wish you would have nmore time and more things to do..when your out walking**(anyone beat the raining challenge ast that resteranT?)

[AC/DCmartin]

I know i really wish you would have nmore time and more things to do..when your out walking**(anyone beat the raining challenge ast that resteranT?)
No,only 1 point more od Dilligence and I will!!!!

[CurryStorm]

I know i really wish you would have nmore time and more things to do..when your out walking**(anyone beat the raining challenge ast that resteranT?)

Yeah, I wish they would have at least had something for Valentine's Day and some group stuff during the months they skipped. Maybe had where once you beat the final boss before the new year, the next months could be used for a secret dungeon or something. Wasn't P3 playable until the end of January?

I also wish they'd find a way to incorporate the Slinks in the main story more. I don't like how I could be dating Yukiko in the Slinks but in the real game she doesn't seem to know me all that well. At least give more 1-on-1 time between the MC and the other main characters during the main story events (spoilers for Persona 3.........kind of like the MC comforting Yukari on the beach in P3. That, to me at least, made those two closer than any of the Slinks with her did).

[Enzo_Kensei]

I know i really wish you would have nmore time and more things to do..when your out walking**(anyone beat the raining challenge ast that resteranT?)

I already beat it. Max everything to beat the challenge. ^^

[Daroki]

That's why I consider any game to be "Epic" when, no matter how long I've been playing it, I don't want it to end. You know that feeling when you realize you've already played more of the game than you've got left to play and you're kind of sad because you know soon you'll be leaving this world (that particular game's world) so-to-speak.

I think I've FINALLY hit that point with Persona 4, but it took nearly 170 hours to get to that point. It's the first game since Disgaea (twice, both Hour and Afternoon of Darkness) that's held my attention that long.

The first time I played through Persona 3 I actually stopped just 11 days before the end, possibly as a defense mechanism to finishing the game and exiting that world. Persona 4, like with Disgaea, I just blew through and restarted immediately. But sitting at the true ending of the second game with one data file, and repeatedly smashing Adachi to see the Christmas dates, (why no save point between the Adachi battle and the December 23rd), is getting tiring. I'm ready for it to end and to move on to something else, probably P3:FES or trying to go straight through the Digital Devil Saga series since I never got that far into the second game.

The tag only says minor spoilers, so I'll tag the last few sentences out, just in case. :)

[Rin]

Yeah, I'm really depressed whenever a game is reaching out to the end, usually when I've finished playing a game until the end, I'll stop playing for a while, and after I found another great RPG to play, I usually regret for nit playing it immediately...
In P3, I cried when I saw the ending!!! Minato... Why did you died???!
I didn't really like it when somebody died in the game, especially my favourite character or the prontagonist, in FFX, I also cried when Tidus disappears...:sad:

[persona3rocks]

Yea i hate that when they kill the main character, or an important character!!!

[Saburo Hikari]

I got Eternal Sonata a few months before getting Valkyria Chronicles and P4. I haven't played Eternal Sonata ever since getting those last two games.