Final Fantasy XV vs Persona 5

At least Persona still has a little life left in it..Final Fantasy just needs to be taken out back and shot at this point.

weak? Persona 4 easily has one of the fastest, most balanced and intuitive turn based battle system ever conceived. This is probably the only JRPG where every single attack type has its place to shine.

In most JRPG's boss battles are always the place to go all out using your most powerful attacks but Persona 3 and Persona 4 don't have time for such archaic designs. Both P3 and P4 encourage the use of strategies and not just use buffs and debuffs at random like every other Jrpg. They force you to exploit weaknesses too and even the placement of your character before battle could be crucial depending on the team you form. And this is only the tip of the iceberg because when you take into account the variety of personas and skill set this shit goes deeper than any FF game to date. Of course you can always play the casual versions on PsP and Vita or just set the vanilla game to easy and enjoy the story and say that the battle system is weak....

I only cared for the FF's before 7, so not that excited for 15. Never played a Persona game, but I'm thinking really hard about getting P4G.

More keen on Final Fantasy XV. It has a fresh appeal to it that's intriguing. That much development time could turn out bad or awesome.

I think we all know what to expect from Persona 5 considering the previous installments. I guessing it's gonna be set in a high shool year, where you play some students managing their school and some occult predicament. Personally (haha!), I was not too fond of the direction P4 took in terms of setting and atmosphere. And Persona Q seems to follow in that trend of appealing to a demographic that's pushing me further away from the franchise.

Coming from somebody who loves almost all of the FF battle systems, you totally hit the nail on the head (sans the casual version comment)...

*goes back and reads other posts and sees this quote from Gue*:

"is never easy to get into a series where only one game is actually good."

Never mind.

OK. I looked up what you're saying and concede that I've been educated. lol.

Persona 3 and 4's system is just a watered-down version of the Press Turn system from Nocturne and IV. The version in 4 is perfectly serviceable but to call it "one of the fastest, most balanced and intuitive turn based battle system ever conceived" is just hilarious. Also LOL'd at calling the PSP and Vita versions "casual", Persona is a pretty simple spinoff series. Don't fool yourself into thinking it's anything more than that lol.

@Gue1: no I played the first 3 one on my psp. gave a few hours each couldn't get into it. I probably won't play persona 4 since I don't feel like dusting out my ps2 and then buy the game, I don't own a vita ( don't want one either). They might have it in psn store a as ps2 classic, haven't checked yet

They do have it as a PSN Classic, and I highly recommend buying and trying it.

What the heck are you talking about? P3&P4 was basically "weak against x element.Their down all out attack" rinse and repeat for the rest of the game.Also placement never ever came into play for me and was never crucial.Only time I might have had trouble was with bosses and that was only in P4 and that was only proboly 1 or 2 bosses.Im sorry but iv played other jrpg games that imo had more fun battle systems.I still enjoy both games but it sure aint cause the battle system.

I have never played a Persona game.

I have been waiting for Versus since High School.

I'll let you figure out how I voted.

Persona 5?

All this talk about the combat of persona... alright, I'l admit... its more tense than most JRPGS (not exactly setting the bar high there are we people?)... but its barely different from FFX's focus on "use certain character against X mob" ... but abit more detailed. I didn't like how bosses were completely on a scripted order of attacks either... "oh I know exactly when to gaurd" ... well yea... it maybe clever for a 5 year old... but this is a turn based game... and things like this are far too easy and facepalm worthy... but then its because of the stupid idea of "oh hey, I hit a weakspot, now I get another turn.... for whatever reason" which applies to bosses too.

Hell sometimes you could go into a new dungeon encounter a fast enemy that AoE's your party ... oh wait... unless your max social link someone is going to make the bloody enemies nuke 5 times over... just felt abit broken... and in return. I played on Normal on Golden though... I cant fathom how tedious the higher difficulties are ... and the ridiculous grind you had to do to keep up.

I liked the whole "You have a time limit to complete the game" ... fantastic.... but making SP regen so difficult? yea for those that love mindlessly grinding corridors for hours is fun... I suppose it is the ultimate challenge for grinder holics... but I ouldn't be bothered.... MMO level grind on an SP game with turn based combat? give me a break.

One of the biggest problems with Persona is that it encourages you to do the entire dungeon crawling segment in one day. Namely because you miss out on social linking opportunities otherwise. And since you do it all in one day, all it ever achieves is that you become extremely conservative with your SP. Until you get a persona with SP regen that is, then when you run out and run to the first dungeon where you hold the block command for x ammount of turns until your SP is full.

What I am hoping for with the sequel is that they allow you to social link and dungeon crawl on the same day. Would fix the SP issues and would lead to a lot less tedium and better pacing which is Persona's biggest problem. And for the love of all that is holy, add more monster variety, giant balls with a tounge and police officers with a hole and a key in the middle got old really fast. Nocturne (2003) had over 100 demon types you would fight throughout the game, each and every one with its own model.

I have lost faith in Square Enix. There will never be a Final Fantasy 15.

So I guess I'll go with Persona 5.

I don't see why people always complain about the FF stories being incomprehensible, its all very clear. The L'jhkgo must collect the S'dgiohli and present it to the Hktlso in order to restart the Yopue'jgodfj. All very simple.

I partly agree with this. While I am looking forward to Persona 5, so far it seems like it's just going to be more of Persona 3 & 4. On the other hand, Final Fantasy XV feels fresh and unlike any FF game before it (since it's from the Kingdom Hearts team)... Also, I've been waiting a whole eight years for FF Versus XIII, so I'm not going to give up on it just because it had a name-change to FF XV, or because Squenix screwed-up big time with the XIII trilogy (which is from a different team anyway).