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    Depicting occult practices, fey heroes, and demons crawling out of the woodwork, Persona is Atlus' largest, most successful, and most acclaimed franchise. Beginning as a spinoff of the Shin Megami Tensei franchise, the series developed a sizable following in the West after Persona 3, and expanded into non-JRPG genres after Persona 4.

    Persona Series Takes Next Logical Step: A Fighting Game

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    #51  Edited By DarkShaper

    I really wonder how the personas will be worked in for the protagonists. They could have it Arcanna Heart style but that would only make sense for them, they are probably just gonna have their starter.

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    #52  Edited By Hector

    I wasn't going to get a PSP Vita, but it looks like I am now...

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    #53  Edited By hagridore

    Would LOVE having P4 on a handheld.

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    #54  Edited By Zolfe

    EFF YEAH

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    #55  Edited By RadixNegative2

    This is the greatest idea that ever was.

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    #56  Edited By SpunkyHePanda

    I have long believed a Persona fighting game would be rad. And I don't even like fighting games.

    Also, they're just starting on Persona 5?! Tonight, I weep.

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    #57  Edited By Kear

    I hope the fighting game has a branching story system like Blaz Blue. I sort of hope the vita remake of 4 sucks so that I'm not tempted to buy a vita. I will main Naoto.

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    Aha!

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    #59  Edited By mutha3
    @SpunkyHePanda said:

    I have long believed a Persona fighting game would be rad. And I don't even like fighting games.

    Also, they're just starting on Persona 5?! Tonight, I weep.

    That might just be shoddy translation work. They said they started P5 almost a year and a half ago.
     
    Then again, with how well realized the style in Persona games are, and how budget concious they're made, I think they spend a gargantuan amount of time in pre-production.
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    #60  Edited By Cathryn

    Vita purchase confirmed.

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    #61  Edited By defe
    @Seroth said:

    Wasn't there supposed to be a 3DS Persona game?

    I'm with you. I want to hear some news about that game. Still, I'll take any Persona news as good news.
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    #62  Edited By Kyreo

    @Cloudenvy said:

    @Kyreo said:

    I think I'm gonna main Rise. Maybe Chie. Chie will be the new Chun Li.

    Rise is mine! don't even try it! Her or Yukari!

    Then, like I said, I will stick to Chie. Her Finisher is gonna be some amazing, shoe kicking, steak eating fatality.

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    #63  Edited By FluxWaveZ
    @natetodamax said:
    Whoa, an Xbox 369 release? That's sweet. Looking forward to hearing more about this strange project.
    Yeah, I'm also looking forward to learning more about the Xbox 369.
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    #64  Edited By Zeik

    I'm buying this so hard. This is officially my most anticipated game of 2012.

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    #65  Edited By MisterMouse

    News like this is awesome!

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    #66  Edited By ImmortalSaiyan

    This is bizarre but wonderful news. I trust arc to make a quality fighter.

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    #67  Edited By wafflez

    Looks like sony knows how to sell Vitas/psp2s/NGPs.. because I am now buying one!

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    #68  Edited By csl316

    Dissidia Persona

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    #69  Edited By Marz

    ...

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    #70  Edited By MisterMouse
    @patrickklepek said:

    @Joeyoe31 said:

    The new character is named Marie. Jesus get your shit together Klepek.

    Hm? That's not what it says on Andriasang. Probably multiple translations floating around.

    The translation from japanese could make it be either really. There is no one-to-one translation necessary and the specific cues we hear different in Marie and Mary are very difficult to get across in Katakana. I don't think the actual English name will be solidified until release.
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    *Patiently waits for a "Dissidia" somewhere in the title*

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    #72  Edited By Curufinwe
    @gladspooky said:

    Vita? That's too bad.

    For you.  Great news for me and many others.
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    #73  Edited By drstrawberry

    FUCK YES!!!!

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    #74  Edited By Hailinel

    Fuck yeah! I will be buying the shit out of this game.

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    #75  Edited By TehFlan
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    #76  Edited By MezZa

    That settles it. I'm getting a Vita.

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    #77  Edited By StarvingGamer

    Let it be known here and now:

    I call Chidori as my main

    Hands off bitches!

    Money matches at EVO!

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    #78  Edited By zockroach

    Yeah this really sells me on vita.. first day purchase for console/these games!

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    #79  Edited By aceofspudz

    bitches! I don't even like fighting games. But...

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    #80  Edited By Hailinel

    @TehFlan said:

    @EisforExtinction said:
    Nameless Persona 3 Protagonist vs. Nameless Persona 4 Protagonist.
    Wait, doesn't

    Yeah. I'm guessing (s)he might not show up in this game. One silent protagonist would probably be enough.

    HeyASWMitsuruplease.

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    #81  Edited By FluxWaveZ
    @TehFlan said:

    @EisforExtinction said:

    Nameless Persona 3 Protagonist vs. Nameless Persona 4 Protagonist.
    Wait, doesn't
    NOT IN THIS ALTERNATE UNIVERSE 
     
    I mean, look at it this way: 
     
    • Teddie would never be the type to just go: "Man, I wish my friends would fight against themselves more often. I've gotten a recent taste for violence, so I'll just organize this fighting tournament."
    • P4 protagonist goes back to America in the end. It'd be unlikely he'd end up in Japan again only 2 months after he left.
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    #82  Edited By omfgzell

    fuck you atlus you just sold me a vita :(

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    #83  Edited By Lemmycaution217

    @MentalDisruption said:

    That settles it. I'm getting a Vita.
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    #84  Edited By skippyscissors

    ATLUS TAKE ALL MY MONEY.

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    #85  Edited By ZombiePie

    Well call me crazy but I think a Persona fighting game would be really stupid...in a bad way.

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    #86  Edited By FluxWaveZ
    @ZombiePie said:

    Well call me crazy but I think a Persona fighting game would be really stupid...in a bad way.

    You're crazy.
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    #87  Edited By bigchief

    Fuck. This might have sold me on the Vita. And fighting games.

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    #88  Edited By mutha3
    @FluxWaveZ said:

    • P4 protagonist goes back to America in the end. It'd be unlikely he'd end up in Japan again only 2 months after he left.

     
    No he doesn't! At least not according to anything canonical.
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    #89  Edited By FluxWaveZ
    @mutha3 said:
    @FluxWaveZ said:

    • P4 protagonist goes back to America in the end. It'd be unlikely he'd end up in Japan again only 2 months after he left.
    ?   No he doesn't! At least not according to anything canonical.
    I always presumed he was American (doesn't Dojima say something to that effect, in reference to his sister at one point?), but I don't believe he lives in Japan so wherever he went  to, he wouldn't be back only 2 months afterwards.
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    #90  Edited By boxoflawls

    How awesome would it be if it was just a reskinned mk9

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    #91  Edited By Hailinel

    @FluxWaveZ said:

    @mutha3 said:
    @FluxWaveZ said:
    • P4 protagonist goes back to America in the end. It'd be unlikely he'd end up in Japan again only 2 months after he left.
    ? No he doesn't! At least not according to anything canonical.
    I always presumed he was American (doesn't Dojima say something to that effect, in reference to his sister at one point?), but I don't believe he lives in Japan so wherever he went to, he wouldn't be back only 2 months afterwards.

    No. The protagonist is Japanese. The reason he went to live with Dojima is because his parents went overseas for a year.

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    #92  Edited By mutha3
    @FluxWaveZ: Nah, you're misremembering, in fact, he says quite the opposite.
     
    The reason Charlie was sent to the Dojimas was BECAUSE his parents went abroad for work-related reasons for a year.
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    #93  Edited By ReyGitano

    Finally, dating in a fighting game, can't wait.

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    #94  Edited By FluxWaveZ
    @Hailinel@mutha3: Thanks for the clarification. Yeah, I misremembered. 
     
    Well, I guess it does make sense that "Souji" would visit Inaba again that early, then. But that still doesn't explain Teddie's newfound bloodlust!
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    #95  Edited By vinsanityv22

    Arc System makes some cool fighters, so this is actually cool news. 
     
    As for Persona 5, I do not expect it anytime soon. Atlus recently got restructured (the parent company absorbed what they could and will continue to use the name, but still - there have been serious changes there and that never helps development), and they're a relatively small developer anyway. If it took 'em that long to make basically Lode Runner 64 in Catherine, than I don't even wanna think about how long it'll take 'em to make an RPG like Persona 3 with visuals appropriate for an HD era game. 
     
    Some Japanese developers - CyberConnect 2, Platinum, Capcom - seem to have gotten the hang of producing games for this generation of consoles. Others have struggled to move beyond PS2-game making techniques and pipelines. Atlus is definitely one of the ones hurting to change, though at least they haven't gone running back to the PSP and DS like some, unfortunately, have chosen to do.

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    I am crying tears.

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    #97  Edited By ch3burashka
    @StarvingGamer said:

    Let it be known here and now:

    I call Chidori as my main

    Hands off bitches!

    Money matches at EVO!

    No one cares; we're too busy fighting over who gets to be Chie. I still can't believe anyone would pick P3 characters over P4 characters.
     
    Frankly, I'm kinda surprised. I guess the titular personae will make for interesting fights, but I don't really come to Persona for fighting; if anything had to go, I would be much more in favor of a purely narrative "guided experience" than a gameplay-heavy game sans story. Sure, fighting games purport to have story, but honestly, they don't.
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    #98  Edited By Hailinel

    @FluxWaveZ said:

    @Hailinel: @mutha3: Thanks for the clarification. Yeah, I misremembered. Well, I guess it does make sense that "Souji" would visit Inaba again that early, then. But that still doesn't explain Teddie's newfound bloodlust!

    Can any of the weirder shit that Teddie does fall in the realm of the explainable?

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    #99  Edited By Xsheps

    I'd actually consider getting a vita for this. If its not 10 billion dollars.

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