I want to play Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne in the current year for the first time. What's the best way to do this?
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I want to play Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne in the current year for the first time.
pcsx2
if you're really going to play the remaster at least turn the voices off
Is the voice acting in Remaster really that bad/different?
>Make sure to play Maniax or Chronicle to get the full game experience
Define "full game experience". What does the remaster not have?
>Maniax if you want Dante from Devil May Cry, Chronicle if you want Raidou from Devil Summoner Raidou Kuzunoha
I have no attachment to either character. How big of a role do they play in the game?
>Play on hard but change the difficulty to normal when you want to buy items
Sounds annoying, but noted.
>Is the voice acting in Remaster really that bad/different?
No, it's fine. Ganker is just being contrarian morons for no reason. Turn it off if you don't like it, otherwise not an issue.
>How big of a role do they play in the game?
The characters themselves don't matter, just make sure you play one of those versions because it adds a huge dungeon and seven or so extra boss battles that are all good.
>The characters themselves don't matter, just make sure you play one of those versions because it adds a huge dungeon and seven or so extra boss battles that are all good.
Interesting. Are they not in the remaster?
They are in the remaster, just make sure to choose Maniax or Chronicle when starting a new game
Is that basically just a choice between Dante and Raidou?
Yes, they both have the same role in the story and their skills have the same properties.
If you play on hard with Raidou you get an extra hard version of lucifer but otherwise they're identical.
nvm, just read
the remaster lets you actively choose to play something closer to the original japanese PS2 release of the game before they made an improved version (nocturne maniax) which was then the version translated back in the day.
it doesn't actually have any of the sweeping gameplay changes between the two versions outside of arbitrarially locking you out of all the new content in maniax, but its something.
>different
The original had no voice acting.
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>Is the voice acting in Remaster really that bad/different?
It's ok, just the usual Atlus voice acting.
>Define "full game experience". What does the remaster not have?
Maniax and Chronicle are new game options in the remaster, it adds a huge extra dungeon, new bosses, new ending and a new final boss.
>I have no attachment to either character. How big of a role do they play in the game?
They're just cameos that appear sometimes in the game to beat you up and you can eventually recruit them in your team.
>Sounds annoying, but noted.
Having to spend three times more money on every single item is more annoying.
>Is the voice acting in Remaster really that bad/different?
Some of it is pretty good like thor gauntlet or hell biker.
>hell biker
It's actually what got me interested. I really like the music.
I love Hell Biker.
>candle
I thought the remake (accurately) changed it to menorah.
He says both. See:
Colonel Campbell Lucifer is peak. I can't imagine him voiced by anyone else
>pcsx2
this. it plays flawlessly and it's easily the best version of the game.
>What's the best way to do this?
you don't. go play a real rpg, like one of the saga games
https://cdromance.com/ps2-iso/shin-megami-tensei-iii-nocturne-maniax-chronicles-edition-english-patched/
Quite based. Raidou with the extra Pierce skill makes TDE run better.
dante not having pierce has always been a non-issue. it literally only effects the lucifer fight because he can just stinger/showtime every other enemy and against lucifer anyone that doesn't have charge isn't going to be doing enough damage to matter and is going to be a buff/heal b***h
PCSX2 for sure
PS2 version looks way better and lack of skill inheritance doesn't matter as much as people portray.
is the best version hands down, its the intended experience by the original devs
>lack of skill inheritance doesn't matter
I'd kill you if I could get away with it.
It is. Hell Biker is calling it a candle anyway.
Play the remaster just to save yourself time with manual skill inheritance.
Make sure to play Maniax or Chronicle to get the full game experience (Maniax if you want Dante from Devil May Cry, Chronicle if you want Raidou from Devil Summoner Raidou Kuzunoha).
Turn off the voices if you don't like them.
Play on hard but change the difficulty to normal when you want to buy items.
either the US PS2 release or the remaster. gameplay/story is basically identical in either version and its just a case on if you want voice acting but also want to spend money on DLC in order to play as dante. the main thing to keep in mind is that hard mode is actually the intended difficulty mode and "normal" mode was added after the original release.
>Play on hard but change the difficulty to normal when you want to buy items.
nah frick you. people playing SMT games in the stupidest way possible is why every modern one is braindead simple.
you don't need every magatama as soon as it shows up in a shop. sell moon chest items or use converstation skills to make cash or just come back later.
you don't need the perfect minmaxed demon skill set on every single thing you make. instead of sitting there mashing xoxoxoxoxo for 20 minutes just learn how to actually use properly and cope with only having most of what you want
just play the fricking video game. the only part of the game where you need to actively sit there and grind is if you're fighting lucifer on hard mode
>spend money on DLC in order to play as dante
I can't, SMT3N is not available in my region. If I'm choosing the remaster, then I'll have to pirate it.
>I'll have to pirate it.
Anon...
the switch version emulates flawlessly
Is the Kaos Krew one good?
play remaster, without maniax or chronicle, without raidou or dante. just the base game.
the remaster let's you pick what skills pass down when you fuse demons, which will save you a lot of time (in the original it's random and forces you to exit/enter the fusion menu until you get what you want)
it also let's you change the dificulty whenever you want and the lowest difficulty, I forget what it's called, is essentially a grinding mode, this is really handy for when you want to grind a couple of levels, of course just use it according to your needs and don't abuse it (obviously you can just play on whatever difficulty you want to and stick to it, but I find the time you save is nice as long as you don't cheat with it)
the Dante/Raden pack is MANDATORY, do not play without it, doesn't matter which one, pick which one you think it's cooler
install the mods that restore the soundtrack, it's really compressed for some reason
if you decide to go with the PS2 version most of what's above also applies, you just need to patch it
you shitheads want to celebrate having beaten a game you think is hard, but you use every possible method to exploit and metagame and cheat so that the game is easy. just frick off. i know you are unfamiliar with this method but you would enjoy games more if you just went and played them start to finish instead of asking for help on Ganker or gamefaqs or a wiki
Play the remaster. Manual skill inheritance is a massive QoL feature and it's hard to go without.
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Remaster is totally fine. Skill Inheritance and voice acting is cool. The lighting is worse than the original so if you really want the best aesthetic go for the original but I think I prefer remaster.
yeah remasters always lose something in aesthetic sense but there are improvements that make up for it.
Also they had to remake a lot of shit in the Nocturne remaster since the lost the code(?)
>Also they had to remake a lot of shit in the Nocturne remaster since the lost the code(?)
this is a big thing with all these 6th gen games. a combo of game size getting much closer to storage size and "why would we need this, we would just make new good games people want instead =)" meant a lot of jp devs just kind of flushed data after the game was out for a few years
>got to the final candelabra
>go to the elevator
>didn't realise I get locked out of the tower when I enter the tower
>Got the bad neutral ending
Frick me I'm so annoyed at that. Figured someone would have made some cheat engine trigger to change the elevator but nope, after all these years it's not something anyone ever bothered to do. RIP to my run I guess I'm not playing this shit again just to get to the true ending.