Shin Megami Tensei IV

[ZenErik]

Hey, Atlus broke the game, not me. And of course I'm having fun; I play the game for the story as much as I do for anything else.

How so? It's been perfectly fine for me.

[ElkinFencer10]

Hey, Atlus broke the game, not me. And of course I'm having fun; I play the game for the story as much as I do for anything else.

How so? It's been perfectly fine for me.

I mean broke as in made it WAY too easy with the three grind DLCs. I went from level 32 to 92 in less than three hours, got to 1,000,000 Macca in under an hour, and bought almost every App in about an hour.

[ZenErik]

That DLC is really only there if for people that aren't good at the game or just generally don't like the gameplay but still want to experience the story. As far as I can tell. No one made you buy and use it.

[Jmustang1968]

Hey, Atlus broke the game, not me. And of course I'm having fun; I play the game for the story as much as I do for anything else.

How so? It's been perfectly fine for me.

I mean broke as in made it WAY too easy with the three grind DLCs. I went from level 32 to 92 in less than three hours, got to 1,000,000 Macca in under an hour, and bought almost every App in about an hour.

So you paid money to break the challenge in the game? Where is the fun in that?

[CavZee]

Hey, Atlus broke the game, not me. And of course I'm having fun; I play the game for the story as much as I do for anything else.

How so? It's been perfectly fine for me.

I mean broke as in made it WAY too easy with the three grind DLCs. I went from level 32 to 92 in less than three hours, got to 1,000,000 Macca in under an hour, and bought almost every App in about an hour.

You've really got nobody to blame but yourself for exploited it that hard.

[Stark]

Just got to Ueno, man this place is confusing. I'm level 17, haven't attempted the first demon I found, not sure what level it is. Gonna just explore for now.

[CavZee]

Level 30 and I'm in the Shinjuku area. My biggest problem is constantly trying to take on quests and domains that I should probably save for later. I get killed a lot that way. >_>

[MrPopo]

Just got to Ueno, man this place is confusing. I'm level 17, haven't attempted the first demon I found, not sure what level it is. Gonna just explore for now.

Yeah, the overworld map can be a pain to navigate at times. Something I didn't realize til midway through is that the game puts the name of the place/area you're currently in at the top of the map screen (and I'm talking about for the overworld, not the dungeon view). It made a few of the quests much easier when I realized I needed to be looking in a difference place than I was.

[ZenErik]

Lvl57 in Shibuya/Roppongi. You end up visiting areas of the city multiple times for different things. Not my first time here. But the story is definitely getting pretty good. I think I may be at a fork in the road soon. Hopefully I can get neutral so I can get the full experience. So far I am where I want to be.

In case anyone doesn't know, at a certain point you will see a cynical man at the bar. He will sort of tell you where you stand at current. Chaos, neutral, or law.

[MrPopo]

I did some reading in to getting the Neutral route:

Decisions give you + or - alignment points, which cap out at +100 and -100. When the time comes if you are between -8 and +8 inclusive, you are on the neutral route. Here's the tricky part; immediately before your path is chosen you have to make a decision that gives you +10 or -10. So you need to be slightly Law or Chaos, then pick the opposite choice, in order to hit neutral.

There seems to be a guide on GameFAQs that has all the decision points mapped out; I'm going to go through my previous decisions and see where I stand on the scale.