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The "fun" option is too much of a generic catch-all, of course the majority (I won't say all, maybe there's a masochist gamer who hates games..) of people "have fun" playing video games, but there is likely a more specific and more significant factor (or at least a more interesting one..) that draws them to video games in particular, as opposed to other sources of "fun" - I think many would choose a different answer if they stopped and reflected a bit, or were more open.
 
For me, and I think the others who picked C, there was no question; I knew it fit right away. Then there's L which I'll admit applies too. I'm definitely a bit of an escapist and probably a bit repressed. I play RPGs almost exclusively. My favorite games are those that bond you to the characters emotionally. I hate short and shallow games - no matter how "fun" they may be they won't keep me playing.

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Conan Edogawa, Detective.
 
I have a nephew named Thor. No joke.

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 I've read a lot of manga, including Death Note (which is pretty good for the first half).

Manga gets you serious works that go places most other forms of media won't go.  And also less-serious works that are funny without being cynical (helps recover from the soul crushing experience of browsing the web).

My favorites are:

Serious stuff --
-Berserk - occasional demon rape and gore fest, Hieronymous Bosch, epic horror-fantasy
-Akira - the movie is well known of course
-BLAME! - focuses on imagery, cyberpunk psychological thriller maybe
-Blade of the Immortal - elements of 70s samurai flicks, historical setting
-Claymore - reminds me a little of berserk, but toned down (chicks in armor are hawt)
-Monster - reads like a novel, mystery / thriller, high quality story but drawn out a bit after the half way mark
-GantZ - post-cyberpunk horror, aliens, killing off protagonists, reviving protagonists, gets kinda tired

Comedy --
-Hajime no Ippo - a comedy centered around a kid who becomes a boxing champ
-One Piece - an epic fantasy parody involving pirates and super powers
-Great Teacher Onizuka - a lowlife dropout becomes a teacher at a high school, hilarity ensues

Also, as the above poster mentioned, Transmetropolitan and Watchmen are excellent.

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Many JRPGs have the feature that allows other players to control secondary party members in a cooperative form of (offline) multiplayer, Secret of Mana was one of the first, I think. More recently, Tales of Vesperia. This would be a trivial addition to Persona4 - less so Persona3, as the above poster touched upon - I actually think this would be a very neat feature if Persona3 style party-split-up-exploration was brought back - it could even be online!
 
As for some type of versus mode, I don't think it would work very well. It's very possible, almost easy, to fuse persona that are very nearly immortal. For instance, my Yoshitsune is vulnerable only to Fire, and Almighty; and any Yoshitsune will kill a player not immune to physical in 1 turn. And, let's not forget about instant death spells - viable builds would be extremely limited.
 
Now, let's say players are limited in the number of skills they can have or handicapped in some other way to prevent exploitation of game breaking persona. Granted that the test of strategy is thus maintained - however now we're no longer talking about using the main character / persona build that we've carefully crafted and bonded with in our single player experience. One poster mentioned always wanting to pit his party against his friends' to see whose was stronger (I can relate to this myself) - but said limitations would ruin this fantasy.
 
I could see a simple offline versus feature where it loads party A from one save and party B from another save. This would also be a very trivial addition, but this wouldn't make sense on the current gen consoles with HDDs instead of memory cards.
 
The best argument against a multiplayer feature is that even one added purely as an afterthought would delay the game's release, and I think to the vast majority of players this feature is not worth a delay of even an hour.
 
Edit: that was odd, it took out all my line breaks...
Edit2: Said Legend of Mana, meant Secret of Mana.