It seems Atlus has been focusing on Persona for some time. They sell well and are good games, so I'm not really complaining. However, it would be nice of them to actually release a proper sequel to 2004's Nocturne. In case some of you have forgotten, Atlus had confirmed a new Shin Megami Tensei game for the PS3 back before the console was released. That was years ago. Maybe after P5 is done they'd get to it? Getting such a hyper-hardcore JRPG would be refreshing.

People seem reluctant to accept the fact that SMT: Strange Journey is SMT 4.  Atlus themselves have said as much.  It's the same situation with MGS: Peace Walker essentially being MGS 5, even though it's not titled as such.

" People seem reluctant to accept the fact that SMT: Strange Journey is SMT 4.  Atlus themselves have said as much.  It's the same situation with MGS: Peace Walker essentially being MGS 5, even though it's not titled as such. "

" People seem reluctant to accept the fact that SMT: Strange Journey is SMT 4.  Atlus themselves have said as much.  It's the same situation with MGS: Peace Walker essentially being MGS 5, even though it's not titled as such. "

Let me guess: being on a handheld somehow makes Strange Journey not a proper SMT game.

" Let me guess: being on a handheld somehow makes Strange Journey not a proper SMT game. "

Nocturne is still a much better game, and the story and characters don't compare to other SMT games. It's still a great game, but not as good as past SMT games in my opinion.

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Fine then, call it Shin Megami Tensei V if you're so obssessed with numbers. I'm talking about that game Atlus said was coming to the PS3 back in 2005-06.

Atlus says a lot of things, like there's a new Persona, Devil Survivor, and mainline SMT coming to 3DS.

" :sigh:  Fine then, call it Shin Megami Tensei V if you're so obssessed with numbers. I'm talking about that game Atlus said was coming to the PS3 back in 2005-06. "

It's been mentioned before fout after a certain point, once you get up there with sequel iterations, theres somewhat of a stigma where a franchise can seem to be too insular to be penetrated by new potential audiences.

Atlus isn't going to be making the RPG you want on next-gen systems until the eighth generation is practically out.  They don't have the resources (or at least don't want to spend the capital to gather them) to make next-gen games, which is why they almost singlehandedly extended the PS2's life and are now producing stuff for Wii and handhelds.  Next gen graphics take a fuckton of artists to produce.  People think the tech is the expensive part, it's paying people to hand-design it to look acceptable for modern standards that costs money.  And I don't know if anyone else noticed, but Atlus likes to re-use as much art as possible.  The entirety of Persona 4 had about 8 expressions per character portrait, and maybe a dozen animations per character model, and that lasted for 100 Goddamned hours.