Atlus: No enhanced version of Persona 4 planned

by Jason Dobson { Nov 7th 2008 at 5:45PM }

If you're thinking of holding off on Atlus' upcoming Persona 4 in hopes that the PlayStation 2 RPG will be followed by an even shinier edition, wait NOT! Following April's release of Persona 3 FES, which added enough new content to the RPG to fill a high school student's locker, Atlus now confirmed that "at no point in the future" will it give similar treatment to the upcoming sequel.

So whether or not you plan on pre-ordering the game or strolling up to the register on day one, buy with confidence, niche role-playing faithful, when Persona 4 drops onto shelves on December 9.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Rollins @ Nov 7th 2008 5:51PM

Okay. Sounds good.

Slayer @ Nov 7th 2008 5:54PM

I don't give a damn. Either way I'm excited for this game. More so than any other game released so far. Can't wait to get my hands on it.

AsherR @ Nov 7th 2008 5:56PM

That's great to hear.

I haven't even played through the expansion part of FES. I felt that they could have spent like 5 minutes fleshing out the ending of P3 and wouldn't even have needed that expansion. But maybe my opinion would have changed if I played it. Meh. We don't need like 30+ hours or however long the expansion was added onto a 100+ hour game. Thank you very much.

fanguad @ Nov 7th 2008 6:26PM

I really enjoyed P3, but I just could not bring myself to play through the expansion. I wanted to, but you *had* to grind monsters for hours in order to be able to move on. Unlike the original, there's no way to adjust the difficulty, and you don't get any bonuses to Personas you synthesize. The combat in the game is okay, but not enough to keep me at it for hours just so I can beat the mid-bosses.

fanguad @ Nov 7th 2008 6:17PM

Unfortunately, announcements like this can't really be taken at face value (unless the company has a history of being reliable - I don't if Atlus does).

Scenario 1: They know 100% for a fact they won't make a special edition: "We will not make a special edition"

Scenario 2: They plan on making a special edition, or strongly suspect they might. They don't want to kill sales now by essentially telling all their customers to not buy their game: "We will not make a special edition"

AsherR @ Nov 7th 2008 6:25PM

And you're right. Also with Atlus we have to bear in mind that they like to discontinue something early on, making some of their games really hard to find.

I already have too many games to buy! >_

aj @ Nov 7th 2008 8:09PM

You are right. But whatever, I just won't buy the special edition of P4. The only reason I got P3FES was because I did not have P3, and P3FES was the only Atlus game I have ever seen in such huge numbers on shelves for so long.....probably because no one wanted to buy FES after buying the first version, maybe?