Persona 3 Reload producer dashes any remaining hopes for the return of Portable’s female protagonist: ‘It is likely never going to happen’
Persona 3 Reload producer dashes any remaining hopes for the return of Portable’s female protagonist: ‘It is likely never going to happen’
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Why is it so hard to make a female protagonist, there’s already female party members. They’ve had 3 games of high school age guys now it’s time for a change
Love the original comments which are full of dudes not giving a shit and arguing with anyone that advocates for this. Literally saw someone say, “It would be a lot of work for little return.”
Seeing arguments about having to add all new voice lines and anime cutscenes as opposed to P3P where the og fem MC is from which doesn’t have the anime cutscenes and like. Correct me if I’m wrong but is P3R not an entirely new from the ground up project? Did they not have to do most of that work again for the male mc still?
Comment section full of men pretending not to understand what the problem is.
I love the Persona games and P3P is my favorite of all time, but I’m not going to buy Reload. Playing as FeMC really made the game special for me: the social links were mostly better (with one glaring exception, obviously) and her characterization as someone who hides depression with a bubbly personality resonated with me better. I’m not really enthusiastic about going back to the male main character.
When you add in that the series has some other issues with homophobia and how it treats its female characters at times, I don’t feel super optimistic about 6, either.
If P6 doesn’t have a female protag I’m never buying another Atlus game, honestly. So lame.
Honestly not surprised, but due to that decision GUESS WHAT ELSE ISN’T GOING TO HAPPEN!
Me buying it. That won’t happen. A glorious act of eye-rolling defiance that won’t make the slightest bit of difference to the board of executives or their golf course, but is still a thing. They might lose out on… like… a whole meal at a fancy restaurant worth of money from me over the course of my life since I am so. Freaking. DONE. With their carp.
No, sorry. I shouldn’t have said that. It’s not fair to Carp as a species.
Most male anime/game fans are insufferable and the overlap between them is so much worse. This post on the main sub is literally just guys getting mad that girls are feeling abandoned by Atlas. Again. It’s a circlejerk or “who cares what the girl audience wants” and it’s pathetic.
> The development time and costs would not have been manageable.
For what it’s worth, I do believe them on this. Kotone’s route in P3P was significantly rewritten with her own special events, social links, and such. Combined with the costs to get the voice casts back in to record, I don’t doubt that it would be very hard to get management to sign off on such a DLC.
But it was a choice to exclude her from the scope of the game in the first place, and they ended up creating a “definitive version” of P3 that feels anything but. I’ll just keep playing P3P.
Just dropping in to say although Atlus refuses to give us FeMC, modders are already working on it. Clearly the community wants FeMC so much that they are willing to make it work themselves. Why would Atlus shoot themselves in the foot like this??
> “Development of a FeMC route would be too expensive and time consuming.”
What a coincidence, *Persona 3 Reload* without Kotone is looking a bit too expensive and time-consuming for me.
Pass.
Okay, but did they remove that gross babe hunt scene where a woman gets accused of being trans for having the tiniest bit of facial hair?
Well then I guess me getting a Persona game is likely never going to happen
That’s fine, I’ll just never buy it. Especially not when so many other developers don’t force me to play as a teen boy harem protagonist.
Atlas reaffirms their devotion to disrespecting women.
And I’ll likely never buy it.
Well, that’s it, I’m never going to buy any Persona games, brb I’ll go back to P3P on my Vita. Of course they don’t care because how dare women want a female character avatar and ruin their beloved and questionable underage harem right?
This series really need some competition. Someone has to make a Persona-like with a female protagonist, or at least that lets the player date whoever they want
Oh how I hate atlus
I like both protagonists, honestly, but being able to play as a girl and being able to have all of those social links with your male party members that were unavailable to you before was just like… so special. Like someone finally tried to cater to me, after all? Such a weird feeling in the j-rpg world.
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Is why I didn’t buy it. They can kiss my ass with that bs.
From everything I can tell from interviews, (this is not confirmed, just my own theorizing) the director probably wanted this to be the complete version of P3. When the remake of persona 3 got greenlit, the base game, the answer, and FemC were all planned. But I think they fell behind, and Atlus/Sega upper management told them just to finish the base game. The Answer didn’t even get greenlit itself until the fans begged for it after the first trailer. And I think they wanted to add FemC, but it’s never gonna happen because it would take too much time and money. The FemC route has an incredible amount of new content, it’s not just the exact same game with a different look for the mc. So yeah, I don’t think the devs were at fault here.
TLDR: Don’t blame “Lazy Devs”, blame Atlus/Sega managerial oversight and time crunch.
Do you think its better to buy the version of the game with female protag or not at all in protest?
I was really annoyed by this in the beginning, as I was just getting into Persona games after P5R, and never originally played P3 but another person in this sub had explained to me that P3R is *more* of a direct remake of the original one. Which only had one protag.
I thought the game originally had dual MCs. So, from that perspective, I guess it made more sense and I was as okay with it as I can be. I really like the game but it is still a little disappointing.
I think director said in one interview he wanted Katone but the time and budget didn’t allow for it. I guess I can’t really get worked up about it or just have the energy for it. I still like the game and I’ve been really enjoying it.
Friendly reminder that they’re nickel-and-diming us with DLC, again. The P3P remaster had the old expansion pack included with it, for pete’s sake.
Honestly? I don’t care much about FeMC, I’d probably use the male MC anyway. But I’m not buying Reload because it’s obvious they cut corners in places, and I’d rather just play the OG at that point.
I haven’t played P3 yet, but in games when I’m given the option to play as a boy or girl, I’ll usually chose boy just because I feel more comfortable. Some games like SoulCailbur, Metal Gear Survive, or Final Fantasy Comrades I’ll chose the girl option though.
I didn’t know P3 had different stories based on who you chose, that’s pretty cool! I can see why it’s annoying then, not being able to explain some of the story.