So in some videogame related news, Atlus just announced and posted a trailer for a remake of Persona 3. Pretty normal gaming news right? Yet the response I've seen on reddit and elsewhere has literally been batshit crazy.
They announced that it was gonna be a straight up remake and not include any of the portable content (Which added a female main character route). This has people I guess losing their fucking minds calling it misogynistic and "heteronormative" or other crap about how they're gonna boycott Atlus and not buy the game and yada yada yada.
Like who cares? It's a remake, they can make it however they want. Not to mention the female mc they're creaming over was only in the portable remake and never mentioned in any of the official works. Yet these people are foaming at the mouth over it? Have videogamers always been this crazy, like is a portable spinoff character from 14 years ago worth to sperg over? I just don't understand it and wonder if I'm alone in it.
Oh. It’s not going to include content from FES, either. That just seems lazy. Especially now that we run the risk of them EVENTUALLY adding all that as DLC, as if they were surprised to find out there was additional content to remake.
This is Atlas, the company that rereleases games later to have a 'definitive' edition (see: Persona 5, and then Persona 5 Royal). Everyone knows this, and they've been doing it since 3. The consoooomers still buy them both anyway. Knowing this, we can probably expect:
Release the P3 remake
Release the P3 remake with FES
Release a P3 remake with the female protagonist
Release a definitive P3 remake with all of the above
Why release one game everyone wants when you can release it 4 times, and (most of) the fans will buy it 4 times?
In their defense, Persona 3 and 4 were PS2 games where DLC wasn’t really an option. I was naive (stupid) enough to buy Persona 4, figuring the inevitable additions would be a DLC. But nope, they pulled that bullshit move of “there’s so much new material it was impossible to integrate it with DLC.”
Fucking pricks.
Plus, they could look over to Capcom and see that Monster Hunter was doing it at three times the speed they were and making bank off it.
Because most of the worst Jap business decisions can always be traced back to Capcom and then people copying them.
Sigh, guess I'll wait another 5 years to buy the Final Persona 3 Definitive FESP HD Collectors Edition.