Quote Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno View Post
Yellow_Magic: I agree about P4 being mostly about silly teenage drama which is largely why I like the P3 cast better because despite being high school students, they were dealing with revenge, regret for killing a person, losing family and loved ones and living with the shame of your family legacy.
Yeah, I can see where you're coming from and it definitely helps put P3 in a more positive light. Honestly, there wasn't a huge amount of school in Persona 3 as opposed to, like, saving the world etc., which made P3 feel more like any other old jRPG as opposed to P4...so while you could argue P3 achieved everything that would be possible with an older cast, one could counter with the idea that a high school cast wasn't needed in P3. It depends on how you look at the issue, I guess.

The issue with college is that it doesn't offer anything new, you are basically just making them older but it wouldn't change the club activities or people you meet very much. You just get the reassurance you're playing someone older than eighteen which in my mind is a waste.
I think it'd just make a nice change, personally. I don't really know much about how Japanese colleges operate, myself, but I'm guessing a large proportion of the western audience wouldn't and as such would be interested in comparing their own college lifestyles to the Japanese versions. Something to consider IMO

Adults also wouldn't work as well from a social link level because frankly adulthood sucks for social gatherings in a realistic setting as we're all building family's and careers while losing touch with old friends and our world gets more narrow. I'm not saying it can be done but I feel the HS scenario offers more variety and easier means of breaking willing-suspension of disbelief with eccentric characters.
Wow, you're certainly not helping me look forward to starting full-time work proper next week lol. I agree with you to an extent, but not ALL adults' lives are that, well, boring...

As I said, I have yet to see someone come up with a strong scenario that justifies an older cast that either couldn't be done with a HS cast.
I think Baofu and indeed, Ulala from Eternal Punishment are pretty good examples of such justification. Katsuya to a certain extent as well

Quote Originally Posted by Vyk View Post
I'd picture something more along the lines of some mid-20's something person renting a house with 4 other people, having an active social/dating life. Some non-boring job that might add to the dynamic of the game. Not to pull too much from P4 but a detective or something would probably work great.
You really should play Persona 2: Eternal Punishment if you haven't already, because it almost has exactly what you're looking for - even a detective!