I beat the game 60 hours in, but you're still quite a ways away if you only just saved Naoto. You have 2-3 dungeons left depending on the ending you want to get.

If you've ever met the other party members that you didn't take with you, their social links will alter their dialogue. If you were dating Chie and Yukiko, and you ran into both of them in the dungeon, thinks can get awkward.

As for how far..... i finished the game on about 80 hours... The answers may or may not arrive.

If you get the bad ending, there's only 1 more dungeon left.  If you choose the path to the Normal Ending, there's 2 more dungeons left.  If you go for the True Ending, there's 3 dungeons left.  I finished the game in 67 hours on Normal and I agree with the Midnight Channel not being everywhere on the news and the police not knowing of its existence is rather dumb.  In P3, there was an excuse because everybody who was normal was unconcious during the Dark Hour but here, with the rumors circulating and the accessibility of seeing the Midnight Channel, you'd think it would not be such a secret.

But how do you know the actors got drunk for real before the recording?  To me, it sounded pretty fake.

- Social links for party members are great, but I wish they tied into the critical plotline. These guys are too important and too ingrained into everything that's going on in P4, and it bugs me when none of my party members acknowledge the things that happened when I hung out with him. I wish Chie and Yosuke would go absolutely batshit over the fact that I'm totally dating Yukiko now.

" @Ping5000 said:

- Social links for party members are great, but I wish they tied into the critical plotline. These guys are too important and too ingrained into everything that's going on in P4, and it bugs me when none of my party members acknowledge the things that happened when I hung out with him. I wish Chie and Yosuke would go absolutely batshit over the fact that I'm totally dating Yukiko now.

That's what a good number of people have been saying. Although, that's alot of scenario's for the developers to flesh out. Even if that kind of idea was implemented in future Persona game's, I wouldn't see it being more than a minor change in the dialog. "

You know what, I really doubt that the voice actors got drunk before they did the King's Game scene....

There was an undercurrent of sarcasm that I hoped everyone would catch.

I was just glad the main plot wasn't pushing Yukiko or who ever on me like they did with Yukari. Damn I hate Yukari. But yeah, P5 better up the ante. I maxed out Kanji like immediately and found it really jarring how irrelevant his whole accepting himself s.rank 10 thing was to the way he acted in the main plot.

" There was an undercurrent of sarcasm that I hoped everyone would catch. "

"@Ping5000 said:

" There was an undercurrent of sarcasm that I hoped everyone would catch. "

Sarcasm isn't easy to detect on an internet message board."

The in-dungeon chats between party members do take Social Links into account, often with humorous results. But I think it would be a bit more difficult to tie the Social Links into the actual story.

The problem with thqat is that PS2 just can't handle it.  The more stuff you cram in the more has to ne kept in memory.   They could ahve forced the palyer to do certain SLinls first but that cuts down on player choice.

- Plothole. The Midnight Channel. How has this not become the center of a media circus? Everyone sees it, everyone acknowledges its existence (and if someone doesn't then that person is dumb) and it broadcasts everything me and my party members are doing inside the TV. The static filter during battles should be proof enough, but when I hear the roars of outside observers, then that just drives the point even more.

Soooooooo, what did you pick for the King's Game? :P.

On my First playthrough I got Yukiko (bleh)
On the second playthrough I got Chie ( :D :D :D)

" @Gahzoo: I got Rise. She rests her head on my lap and then Yosuke says he envies me. Or maybe he envies her. Hm. "

" @FluxWaveZ: Yeah, Chie.Yukiko's is by far the best. "

" The in-dungeon chats between party members do take Social Links into account, often with humorous results. But I think it would be a bit more difficult to tie the Social Links into the actual story. "

" @Ping5000 said:

- Plothole. The Midnight Channel. How has this not become the center of a media circus? Everyone sees it, everyone acknowledges its existence (and if someone doesn't then that person is dumb) and it broadcasts everything me and my party members are doing inside the TV. The static filter during battles should be proof enough, but when I hear the roars of outside observers, then that just drives the point even more.

During the scene where you hear the audience, you're in the TV during the afternoon, so it can't possibly be the people watching it on the Midnight Channel. So who's laughing? I have no idea. But yeah, otherwise it still seems weird that something broadcasting who is about to disappear wouldn't cause a bigger scene. "

"@LordAndrew said:

" The in-dungeon chats between party members do take Social Links into account, often with humorous results. But I think it would be a bit more difficult to tie the Social Links into the actual story. "

"You've been into his room too?"The atmosphere becomes awkward."