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I never really understood Myspace myself. Doesn't help I've never figured out how the hell people make their pages all visual :confused:

I guess to me it seems a nuts idea that random people would socialize this way / maintain personal blogs / micromanage webs of friends. Most people hardly have enough time to impact the world, much less write about themselves / keep track of everyone else at the same time right? :rolleyes:

On the other hand, I think it just might be a practical way to make and document a web of interests (rather than people!)

Which is why I was disappointed there was nothing close to a Megaten tribute page in all of Myspace!


So Anyone else feel like there should be a Megaten tribute profile on Myspace?? More importantly, anyone up to doing the deed? :smokin:

Myspace is kind of on its way out as far as social networks go.  Skype is the new thing I guess though I admit I haven't checked it out yet myself.

Myspace is also more about social networking than anything else.  I could see someone maybe putting up a Myspace Music profile and uploading songs from the games (in fact I'd be surprised if there isn't one already).  There might even be a Megaten group too but honestly I try to reserve Myspace sheerly for personal contacts and people I know directly.  It's kind of like the hipster's Rolodex I guess.

Skype is a digital telephony protocol afaik??

I doubt Myspace is realistically on it's last leg. Besides I'm all for totally abusing Myspace... or inciting abuse at least. I'm a little shocked many topics/organizations don't have their own tribute page. Who says you can't be a friend of a thing after all?

That's not what I'm saying so much as Myspace isn't really designed for what you're talking about.  I mean you could conceivably do it, but I guarantee there already is some form of Megaten fandom already on Myspace, be it in a Group listing, a music profile, or individual profiles for the characters - I'm sure it already exists, just in a different form than a generic Megaten profile listing.

I get the point... or I realized as much from post one. Still seems like a no-brainer to me. I'm sure Final Fantasy has a tribute page :razz:

Lo and behold:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=68474053

&

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=1942967
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=30984809

Lame to the extreeeeeeme

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=1000653626

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=1000661004

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=252559961

The Mara and Louis Cypher profiles are actually pretty cool...?  :eek:

Yeah, I had to take another look now...

I caught the Nocture pseudo Mara fight. Apparently you can fight Mara, but the summon fails so you end up fighting a Mara version of a slime. Megaten is totally losing it's edge as we creep into the 21st century. It's funny how in the states this sort of content is becoming slightly more acceptable. While in Japan, where the video game industry really started off the back of pornography is becoming increasing neutered in terms of mainstream titles. I want testicle physics damnit :eek:

He doesn't seem to have the SMT1 concept artwork. Off the chariot... I'm pretty sure that was SMT1?? Someone should send him a copy.

Something tells me the chariot is an elaborate way to hide his boss sized balls, but it's cool enough in and of itself :aroused:

(http://a428.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/78/l_847819dcad166df68958879c32247403.gif)

Chariot-riding Mara was in Shin Megami Tensei II for sure.  You fight him in Kokuma Tower.

North America had plenty of porn games during the Atari days.  General Custer's Last Stand, Beat em and Eat em, Knight on the Town, there's seriously tons of them.  All of them are like the most tasteless things I've ever seen though.  :sick:

There's like a handful of those, and they're just abstractly placed pixels. Japan probably had a pornographic game produced  for every non-pornographic game for more than a decade. Very detailed hi-resolution titles. Of course pornography is not stigmatized in Japan as much as it is humor fodder. But it's amusing Japan's back catalogs are never mentioned when the media takes a moment to profile pornography in gaming :ninja:

Most racist game ever:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%27s_Tom_Sawyer

Jim is practically an Octopus monster :nolaff:

That remains me of the AVGN review video. Hilarious! :grinani:

I love that kind of stuff.  :circle: Japanese just seem to be blissfully unaware of the offensive nature of black face and have been for years, it's wonderful.  :rainbow:  That's not the worst I've ever seen though.

OT:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=49163540
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=53001321
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=51866542

I spotted a number of accounts like these by surfing thru friendlists. I thought they were a little too weird to warrant sharing however :sweatdrop:

I guess they're kinda like cosplaying :confused:

PS: No offense if any of our members/readers operate these accounts :razz:

Yeah, it looks like someone just made them when the games came out and forgot about them.

Weird is fair game for me.  Back when Myspace first came out I made a habit of finding the absolute weirdest people with listed profiles.  I'm pretty sure this was before you could set your profile to private.

Looks like Mara is back in the chariot in Persona 3 FES:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZEq6DG9ZP4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dYPgzQH05U&NR=1

I don't think I've ever seen a complete compendium of SH Devil artwork :confused:

:eek:Anyone know what's up with the spanking men attack?

PS: Seems to say it prevents the enemy from escaping. I guess it was just used for comic effect then :rolleyes:

It's too bad too, since Soul Hackers has pretty much the coolest nakama in Megaten.  As near as I can tell though, a lot of the demons are just touched up illustrations from previous games.  You can so tell this is when digital artists were first messing around with masking layers.  :static:

Well I've seen many compendiums I think, but I'm always seeing new SH Devils that I've never seen before, so they must've been incomplete I can only presume :sweatdrop:

There is a 'devil dictionary' disc for both Devil Summoners, but afaik they're both for Sega Saturn.  I'm pretty sure Emilio has rips of sprites from the game though.

I owned a hard copy of the DS1 special edition / akumazensho disc for a little while.

SH isn't in the spreadsheet file Emilio sent me. Speaking of which, I guess the next point of order is the Demonary...

Izanami in Persona 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMTgqeMquHc

Be warned, this video will make you want to barf.  I liked Persona because it was precisely the opposite of this sort of clichéd anime bullshit.  A bear character who says "bear" at the end of every sentence?  And why are the Persona demons from Shin Megami Tensei?  There's literally hundreds of original Persona they could have brought back from the previous games...  I mean if they were going to do that anyway it only makes sense to be consistent within the series.

God, just... ugh.  Why, Atlus?  WHY???

Yeah, using the Shin Megami Devils as Persona was a deal breaker for me. Otherwise I would've happily parted company with my mammon stamps.

I'm curious if the production illustrations of the Shin Megami Devils on the stat screens were all new for P3, or if they were from another game as well?

I found it completely uninspiring and mostly derivative. The rest seemed the product of some blind-folded dart throwing or possibly some more creative sort of divination... probably involving some S&M antics :gimp:

Some of them are newer, but the only strictly new ones are the Soejima illos.  The rest are culled from previous Megaten games, just with a bit of snazzed up color like what they did with Soul Hackers.  You could probably count the new ones with your fingers.