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Post by TerraTerraCotta on May 26, 2015 6:48:52 GMT
Personally I joined EN because I liked the idea of having Demon Partners following you around and the emphasis on using those demons for fighting. Also the fact that you could play with friends that enticed me the most, and I've made a good group of friends from the game whom I'm still close to. (The EN servers closed less than a year after I first joined to my dismay).
I joined JP because I really couldn't shake the addiction I had for the first one and the nice perks they throw in made it too enticing. Plus I would miss being able to walk about the areas of the game with my demon partners. I admit the language barrier makes it difficult, but being able to continue playing the game with friends and raising demons makes it worth it for me. I really want to learn the ropes of proper rebirth and mitama-ing so I can raise some stellar demons (and an army of Pyro Jacks). Otherwise I really just love playing it in my spare time with my friends. It makes for good memories for me.
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Post by M on Jun 1, 2015 5:36:41 GMT
I was never a big fan of MMO games, but I had a soft spot for the lore of SMT. I remember being skeptical while trying the game at first, I was pretty sure it wouldn't be for me... In fact, I remember I put off trying it for years, because the presentation didn't grab me and "MMO" was pretty much synonymous with "CRAP" for me.
I was surprised early on when I tried it... I liked the rock-paper-scissors combat mechanics, I liked that all the demons were there and that you could use pretty much any of them in battle... most of all I loved the expertise system and that you could end up as virtually anything. Sure, I was always aware that some builds work and others are inherently gimped, but I never cared about crunching numbers or being "viable"... I only ever cared for having fun and always looked at my characters through a roleplay perspective so the temptation to experiment and build them off differently was there. I suppose the majority of people are different and like optimal characters... Ending up "competitive" was never my thing though so I avoided build guides for the most part... as long as the character was able to survive I was able to have fun. I didn't think I would get to a very high level, so the desire to look into how I "should" be leveling to be good didn't really kick in. Had I started taking the game more seriously and gotten curious about the content, I'd have probably just looked up a build online or asked people for advice, however.
Sadly I never made the jump to the Japanese servers. I toyed around on Cerberus but ultimately ended up pursuing other things and now just keep up with the game at a distance.
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Post by rutee on Jun 1, 2015 22:33:58 GMT
SMTIO itself: I had just finished playing some SMT games (Persona 3, Devil Summoner 2, Nocturne, and Devil Survivor) and was looking for info on the rest of the series when I stumbled onto the MMO. My computer at the time was crap city, but when I bought a new one, I decided to try the game. Leveled up to like 50-60 on my own (with the trademark horribly distributed expertise lol) and then some random person PMed me to invite me to their clan, and the rest is history.
Japanese SMTIO: Well, I tend to cycle through activity phases with the MMOs that I play - usually I'm active in one for awhile at the cost of all others, something will inevitably burn me out (usually a particularly grindy time-locked event) and I'll rotate to a different game, rinse repeat forever. I was on an off phase with EN SMT, but I was still following that thread on AO's forums where people were talking about the new Japanese updates. A friend and I had briefly tried to play on Pixie around the Durarara!! crossover event, but it felt barren (we saw like 3-4 people during the week or two we played) and we wandered off pretty quickly to a different game. When Leanan Sidhe and Dark Babel got released, I decided to try again and rolled on Cerberus. Screwed around on my own for quite some time until Xenepic found me and I got invited to West Imp. I started playing here more seriously with their help and got further than I ever expected possible. Now I come and go, but I think I enjoy this server a lot more than EN because of the steady stream of updates, QoL improvements, and lack of bugs.
SMT does have a soft spot in my heart since it was my first MMO and some of the people I met on EN still form my base group that I play other games with or just hang out in Skype chats with, so it's a pretty hard habit to kick entirely even if most of those people haven't made the jump here! Plus I just really love mythology and so the demons and dungeon design in this game makes me happy, as well as the freedom in gear/demon/builds.
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Kelvin
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Post by Kelvin on Jul 15, 2015 17:31:42 GMT
My first mmo was Ragnarok Online, I play it since 2008, back then I used to play Trickster too (Another game that sadly died, but the fans made a private server even better than the original),I remember I started playing Megaten in the Eng server around 2011, I love the Shin Megami Tensei series (Persona, Devil Summoner, Lucifer's Call and such) and had to check on this online one, it was great, I loved it even though it was years behind the Jp server, the demons based on the series monsters, the characters design, everything being so contemporary (And I love contemporary rpgs) and based on japanese cities, man I loved this game, Aeria wasn't a good company or whatever but sometimes they did some really nice events, I remember that I <3 Megaten event where they asked us to take pictures in many different situations holding a sign with the Me Gusta meme and I <3 Megaten writen on it, that was the best event I ever done in any game, it was fun and had some very good prizes (At least for that time and server), but then I got a job in the shopping mall so I had no time to play anymore at all, and I got a Xbox 360 and a Ps Vita at that same time too, and since mmos was never my favorite thing I totally left it behind, then last year I thought about playing it and a friend told me it died, I was really sad, after all that time the server was closed and I lost my shotmage that already had some Op gears, my DB Kisugi and everything else...And then I just stopped thinking about playing it and started playing Digimon Masters, and after some time I moved on to the Korean server of it that, naturally, is much better than the global one, then I thought we weren't allowed in the megaten JP server anyway, thought there was something like a Continental restriction of some sorts, but I thought "Well, if we can play Digimon Masters in the korean server, why not Megaten in the japanese one?", then about 3 months ago I found this forum and saw that we can actually play it, and here I can, Megaten, of course, is not our average, boring Mmo that's all about leveling and putting points in the right build, fortunatelly (Or not) it's much harder than just that, not to mention the many rules the japanese server has that the Eng one didn't and the smaller, and more individualistic (And less willing to lend a hand in some runs) community, to tell the truth I'm finding this server a thousand times more stressing and time consuming than the eng one due to the small community and so, in the Eng server even if we were newbies we could simply buy the plates and it was totally easier finding a party, now buying plates doesn't matter anymore and if you really do need help people may look at you as if you were an annoying leecher, everyone either is Op already and can do many things themselves or they do have like 40+ free hours per day (of course it's a joke xD) plus an unbeliavable amount of patience to do everything alone (When they can do it), and this makes starting again many times harder than it was in the old server..Sooo, as I said, I love the game, I love Shin Megami Tensei, but I'm not getting used to these new rules, styles of playing and even some people from this server, I really hope the community grows and the game can be enjoyable again for everyone and not only those who can do everything alone already, even though I really doubt this will actually happen, the game's still good as always, the server is not so enjoyable though, unless you're the lone wolf kind with a lot of free time and patience to waste with it.
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ottake
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Post by ottake on Aug 5, 2015 3:32:37 GMT
I used to be in the old aeria megaten back when they launched, lately I've been playing SMT IV and I wanted to check this game out again, even if it means logging in the japanese servers.
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