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Awesome! I made the video in part to spread the word so that's awesome to here :)

On steam and epic games store

Nice.

Yup it’s free and a lot of reviews I read talked about how it’s good but not worth the price then people saying how it’s free

@@FirstOutpostlove the video by the way now I know what to expect

Hard disagree here I'm afraid. While I get what you mean, the idea of not citing the changes in social norms and acceptable/non acceptable behaviour in historical sources is counter productive in my opinion. Historical texts, be them fiction or not, should never be changed or doctored of course, but they should definitely be learnt from :)

@@FirstOutpost That's just it. Labeling something as problematic makes people less likely to be exposed to it and therefore less likely to be learned from.

Thanks! Yeah its a super interesting 4 hour experience that I would definitely recommend :D

I take your point for sure. The problem is that as pointed out in the video, playing the console version would have been locked to 25fps for me regardless due to the PAL region issue so once I got it running, P.C version was the best choice. I also think the many of the criticisms I have of the game overall are valid across all versions, not just P.C. :)

I played it on gc at release.

Nice. Seeing a few people saying they played the GameCube version :)

Totally understandable. It was a bit of pain to get running for sure. I'd say they are a little less memorable than those in Timesplitters tbh. I think Second Sight's strengths are much more tied to the narrative and its structure over any single character or individual. Still, there is some fun character stuff in here for sure.

I know right!? I was laughing at how aged that whole 'making of' feels now! For sure. It's ending is almost good enough to make it an all timer in spite of its gameplay issues in my opinion...almost lol :D

Nice!

I know right? I have been laughing about it pretty consistently since I found it! :D

Thanks! And yeah, its worth a play for sure! :D

Thank you! :D

3 has been asked to be remade for years. while it would’ve been nice for them to add the femc route, they’re doing a remake, not a definitive version so people discrediting the game for not including it makes no sense

@@vietnguyen2293Yes, it does make sense, not specifically for the case that you’re talking about. They released this game at full price and then gave us extra DLC to get the “definitive experience”. They’re well aware that they’re just trying to scam us out of more cash at this point and if the price of the main game was just a little lower it would be fine.

I kinda have a feeling they're gonna make the first two games after this.

I agree, I would be completely fine with this remake if they didn't change the voice actors, I deeply miss Karen's Aigis performance, I tried the dub and I just wasn't feeling it. Aigis sounds so much better and much more robotic and monotone in the original, Yukari and Akihiko I'm not fans of either. Most of the voice actors were already there but Atlus West decided to just change the direction even though the cast sounded perfectly fine in my opinion. Not to be rude to the new voice actors, I just feel like the new ones are a downgrade. It just feels like somethings missing or something just feels off, new players wont get to experience them either cause I doubt they'll play any other version after playing Reload and its kinda sad to see, I was genuinely more hyped when I saw the dancing trailers cause it had those familiar voices you were used too and that you've grown to love but now that's kinda just gone. Other then that I still really like Reload.

It's better in a lot of ways except atmosphere, some of the voice actors and a couple of music tracks.

Thank you! It definitely is worth playing if you are a fan of the series in my opinion. I will hopefully get to playing and reviewing the second one soon! :D

FYI - If you play on emulation or use a cheat card on original hardware you can add full party control without any mods :)

What does having full party control even add to the game, especially when P3 wasn't even designed around it in the first place? The only thing you miss out on is casting Mediarama every turn, and spamming items, leaving your powerhouse of an MC free use Mind Charged Ragnarok every turn. The AI is already competent enough to handle everything else, especially when you utilize the tactics menu.

@@petergriscom3431 Sure about that? I keep hearing the AI is pretty stupid and waste turns.

@@Sonic171K Generally speaking, the AI makes good moves, especially when you use the tactics menu to fit the situation, and fights tend to go by quicker than with direct control. The only drawbacks to the AI party members are as follows: 1) To save on HP/SP, they'll try to finish off enemies at critical HP with a normal attack, which doesn't always kill. 2) If you haven't scanned the enemies yet, they'll try broad tactics to try and sniff out weaknesses/resistances for you. This is where Mitsuru's reputation for Marin Karin came from, as that's her safest option if she doesn't know which attack is effective. On the flip side of this, in any version before Reload, scanning a boss wouldn't always reveal its weaknesses/resistances to you, but your AI party members would always get the hidden info from scans and act accordingly. 3) In order to save on SP, they will reserve multi-target healing spells for when you have multiple party members at critical HP. This often leads to them casting single-target heals while everyone's ~50% HP. 4) They prioritize healing on anyone with the lowest _number_ of HP. This makes Yukari (even more of) a terrible healer, as she's more likely to heal herself than anyone, due to having the lowest HP stat in the game. Junpei can be at 40% HP, about to put himself at 20% with his next attack, and Yukari will heal her own 60-70% ass instead, because she practically has the lowest number by default. 5) They don't have the pattern recognition of a human player, they can only go by their intended behaviors. They'll still try punching a new pallet swap of an enemy type with a history of physical resistance if you haven't scanned it yet, and they won't cast Mediarama every turn against a boss that spams strong multi-target attacks. On the flip side, they can predict when they've got a high crit roll, and will end up getting way more critical hits than the player, because they'll go for one when the player wouldn't think to. 6) Your AI party members don't have access to your stock of items, they have their own item pool determined by their current level, and each member is limited to 3 item uses per battle. This meant you couldn't use them to set up cheese strats with mirrors for you, or as an easy choice for when to use your best items, and it also made aiments a bit scarier, as while they do actually cure them with items, those won't last an entire boss geared around it. On the flip side of this, they get access to Beads long before they're in the common item pool for chests, and they can act as a safety net for healing/curing ailments, albeit in a limited capacity. 7) The final boss has a gimmick move where it puts up a shield that reflects all attacks, and most likely due to crunch, the devs overlooked programming the AI party members to react to this, despite them already having behavior for Tetrakarn/Makarakarn. This means you have to manually order your party members to stand by or heal/support, or they'll reflect their attacks back at themselves. Reload solved this the lazy way by getting rid of its shield spell and nerfing the whole boss in general. P3 fights used to have a meta where you had to look for opportunities to use your best attacks and think a little about your best move, because knock downs had purpose beyond All Out Attacks, as downed enemies/party members take extra damage, but get up instantly upon being hit, otherwise getting up consumes a turn, multi-target attacks didn't grant a 1 More, and your party would sometimes need you to handle support. This changed somewhat as you leveled up, because your party would get access to better support skills, and Mind Charged severe spells were easy to set up. P3P messed with that meta, because they back-ported most of P4's battle system, with multi-target attacks now granting 1 More each time it caused even a single knock down, getting up doesn't consume a turn anymore, downed enemies/party members won't get up when hit and can be made dizzy, they added guarding to mitigate how enemies can exploit weaknesses, they added a nerfed version of follow-up attacks, and direct control meant both your entire item pool and Media/rama/rahan every turn was always on the table (with the only caveat being that mirrors are now single-target, and fusion spells are now consumables which only the protag can use). Reload just says to hell with thinking at all, because in addition to backporting a chunk of P4's battle system, they brought over elements of P5 Royal's battle system, where everyone gets free supermoves, Baton Pass, multi-targets granting 1 More, boss movepools are now gutted, and the new items make ailments a joke. Knowing most players wouldn't even give AI party members a chance, they skimped out on the tactics menu options and made direct commands the default.

I'm seriously considering making a Problem with FF7 Rebirth vid now :D

always care about the negative, brand loyalty never a good thing to companies that sell u a incomplete game over priced with monetization on top of it that brand bias isn't worth it just play p3 emulated modded

Fair :)

that’s such a dumbass reason to discredit a game

This feels totally possible for sure.

I think a lot of people agree :)

I think a lot of others are also expecting this. Be interesting to see what happens :)

That's fair. I know a lot of people are mixed on The Answer.

As someone who is indifferent to Reload and Femc, saying Reload is the definitive version of OG Persona 3 is wild. It isn’t even released so we can’t even say it’s quality. But one thing I can say is that the Protagonists Awakening is awful in Reload. In OG, FES, and the Movie they are all great. But Reload’s Awakening for the Protagonist is just bad. Definitive editions are only clear when they are straight up upgrades from the originals. Like Golden and Royal. But since Reload is more akin to FF7 Remake. Where they are different gameplay wise, and there is story adjustments. These characters have the same names.

@@theomnigamer9177 Will it be definitive? no, but it'll be the highest priority for recommending which version to play. I'm seeing a lot of new fans excited to play this remake now and also seeing alot of people admitting they didn't want to touch fes and portables due to its outdated gameplay, so Imo yes, Reload will be the first one to recommend to new fans no questions asked and then to watch the answer cut scenes on youtube if they care that much. Also agree to disagree but I thought that awakening was amazing 🤔

@anon3600 Yeah that is most likely going to be the case. I think it might be a generational / outdated / first experience sort of thing. When so many quality of life changes have been made with Persona 4 Golden and onward, I can imagine it is hard for someone to recommend FES or Portable. As a late 90’s kid and didn’t touch Persona 3 until 2013, I didn’t have any problems with the gameplay. Even though I tasted the major conveniences and Quality of Life mechanics in SMT IV, I had no issue getting into Persona 3 shortly after beating SMT IV. In all honesty, my biggest concern is that I hope they don’t botch the impact of the ending. Also we can agree on that disagreement. The Awakening Scene in Reload is perfectly fine as it was a 2D to 3D translation with models. My main issue is that the movements of Thanatos looked stiff in Reload. I feel the camera could’ve been used better to hide the stiffness but they didn’t. This issue is really subjective but I prefer Thanatos’ roars in OG, it sounds more monstrous (even if it is a stock sound effect).

Agreed

ofc as die hard persona fanboy your opinion isn´t biased at all XD

This comment makes zero sense in the context of what we're all talking about. @@sakutaro3musik486

not enjoying an aspect doesn't mean its ok to remove it or sell a $70 title with less than the original version amount its just not good, being able to stand it doesn't mean its quality

We're not talking about the original version because reload is a remake of the original version. FES and P3P were other things. There's a handful of people on earth that managed to like "the answer" but all the sudden everyones crying about it not being included like a hive mind.@@marcusclark1339

I am so old...

Christ

Imagine being a fake gamer that missed the golden age of gaming 😹 but no on a serious note your preference for games is probably terrible gaming companies have released dog shit for almost a decade and all the little kids think it's heat when they haven't been alive along enough to see the rise of micro transactions and half ass finished games

Agreed.