I'd say P4. I don't know why. I really like the story a lot.

Persona 4. The tweaks they made to the combat and the story were phenomenal. I honestly, can't imagine myself going back to P3 other than to play the expanded portion in FES.

I would definitely pick Persona 4 over Persona 3. I found the characters to be more interesting overall and all the little tweaks really made the game almost "perfect". It's definitely not a series for everyone, but it's one of my personal favorites.

I can't decide, I love them both. Truly, they're very different games then they appear on the surface. I have a class that is all about rhetorical analysis this semester, and I've actually been applying that stuff to these games (and therefore I might be crazy) and I'm astounded how different they really are.

I have only played Persona 4, and I love it. I recently ordered Persona 3 FES on Amazon and it arrived yesterday, so I will play that sometime soon. Still, Persona 4 is awesome...from what I played.

I'd have to say P4. I love P3, but the changes made in 4, like the more smooth navigation, better written dialogues, the changes in combat, the way your social links can interfere with each other and how they can improve combat... all that made the experience of P4 much more enjoyable than of the previous entry. Both are great games, but P4 is on a step above of P3.

The further I go, I think that I liked MOST aspects of P3's gameplay more, but P4 has better pacing and a better story. I think one thing that benefits P4 is that the firs 3/4 of the game don't seem like a waste, as they did in P3. Near the end of P3, when major revelations occur, it just made it all feel like a waste of time. The majority of the game was a waste, killing all those shadows, and now the bulk of the story takes place in the last 5+ hours of the game. P4 did a better job of making it all flow into the conclusion, not, "Oh, this is what it actually is!"

i think persona 3's story was more epic, but i find that persona 4 is a better game overall since it had some much needed gameplay improvements

I'd have to say Persona 4. I have Persona 3 but i just haven't been able to stop playing part 4 to try it.

I had the privelege of playing 3 before 4 due to it coming out first of course so I enjoyed both games greatly.  Honestly, I enjoy 3s mechanics more and story and how the dungeon gets handled (random dungeons, 250 or so levels - no real time limit outside of trying to get stronger and go futher) - but with 4s combat mechanic changes, mostly the ability to control your allies its hard to reccomend anything else other then 4.  4 is a much easier game as well, this can be good or bad - for me kinda bad - but there still is full of tons of frustrating parts.  I find generally 3 had a lot more mudo/hama deaths whereas 4 had a lot more careless/cocky deaths.

You should play P3 before P4, if you play P4 first 3 will feel incredibly dated and annoying as it doesn't have any of the improvements.

I played half-way through P3 and beat P4 for a reason.