And with that, and over 100 comments (!), this thread is closed.

“How many people come home from school or work and play a RPG, no ANY game for FIVE minutes, and then turn off the console for the rest of the day? ”

Today’s exam contains a math word puzzle.

Quentin comes home from a hard day at the steel mill. Wanting to enjoy a videogame, Quentin turns on his new favorite RPG, Wankona 3: Shin Megami Lain, which involves defending the honor of your favorite game on the Internet. Shin Megami Lain only lets you save when you reach or return to certain points, which happen about every 15 minutes. Quentin plays Shin Megami Lain for 62 minutes. During the 67th minute Quentin starts to get a little bored of the game, and wants to stop. But since he has just found a new magic item (the Quiver of Infinite Wanky Replies), he doesn’t want to just turn off his console and lose the last 7 minutes of gameplay. How many more minutes must Quentin continue playing Shin Megami Lain for before he can finally turn off the console?

Note that if anything, I’ve probably understated the complete awfulness of Persona 3′s save system. If I recall correctly, when you’re in the tower, you can only save by going back to the ground floor, but you can only teleport back to some of the tower floors, every 5 floors or so. So if we assume that it takes about 10 minutes to clear a floor (probably that estimate is a bit low, based on how long combat takes), then the player is actually actively punished for saving the game, since to get back to (roughly) where they were, they’ll likely have to fight through several lower floors.

Sure hope there are never any power outages where you live.

“And saying that the opening theme romanticizes suicide is practically a insult to the entire development team for that video.”

I’m sorry that my writing was so poor that you thought it was only practically an insult. Let me try again: the people who designed that video were bad people, and I think they should feel ashamed.

There’s no gore when they do it. They don’t die when they do it. It’s not even suicidal. Sure, some lunatic might get the impression that by shooting themselves in the head with a ammo-less fake gun that can’t even kill (It’s stated that the Evoker is NOT a weapon). Now, I haven’t completely beaten the game, (because I got it late— My friend reccomended it.) and the fact that I don’t devote all of my time to playing it, I don’t fully know if suicide does happen.

But, I honestly don’t think the audience of the this game would go and kill themselves over it. By now, someone would have, and we would’ve heard about it on the internets.

It is really tedious, however, and I understand what you say about saving. Sometimes, you spend so much time going through dialogue, you can’t save when you really need too. Persona 4 is coming out— They use glasses for something this time, and it’s a murder-mystery style… So, got any objections to that? I bet in your review, Martha Stewart is going to be used. I predict it.

But, yeah. If you’ve played a Persona game, it’s heavily occult, and it has a great style that appeals to people. If Persona 2 was more widely accessible, (I have it downloaded…)it’d be controversial too. It seems like it would be more of your type, however, seeing as you can save anywhere.

Persona 3 was a great game, but it had tons of room for improvement. Cut out the meaningless dialouge, and add in more story. I’m still skipping through the talking to progress in the story. Tartarus is annoying, as well. I can’t stand random dungeons.

I think you’ve done a good job defending yourself, and your views, and I think the opposition has been great, too. You don’t really apprieciate a game until someone talks smack about it.

-Chiu

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