Shin Megami Tensei IV

[noiseredux]

Training wheels. You've got quite a lot of game left. I ended the game around level 95.

I wasn't sure based on you and Erik, since you did a lot of side quests right? I've done, um, just the couple side quests that were mandatory.

[MrPopo]

Training wheels. You've got quite a lot of game left. I ended the game around level 95.

I wasn't sure based on you and Erik, since you did a lot of side quests right? I've done, um, just the couple side quests that were mandatory.

I think if you skipped all the sidequests you'd finish in the 80's. And many of them are collection quests that you might already have the items for, so you're not even going out of the way to find the items (and consequently battle demons).

[noiseredux]

And many of them are collection quests that you might already have the items for, so you're not even going out of the way to find the items (and consequently battle demons).

right, right. I actually wasn't thinking of this. But yeah, I'm so stocked up on random crap I probably have the ability to just complete a bunch of sidequests just by accepting them at this point.

Anyway, time-wise, I'm like 26, 27 hrs in now. I must say that SMT IV is def a game where I've felt I've gotten my money's worth buying it at its launch price.

[CavZee]

I did probably 80% of the side quests and was level 86 (somewhere around there) when I finished.

But yeah, the guide is only about 1/3 of the game. The rest us up to you, but if you got this far you should be fine.

[noiseredux]

played quite a bit over the weekend. LVL 41 or so now. Just finished up the Important Rendezvous quest. The story is certainly unfolding now, haha!

[CavZee]

played quite a bit over the weekend. LVL 41 or so now. Just finished up the Important Rendezvous quest. The story is certainly unfolding now, haha!

Cool. Good to hear you're enjoying it. =]

[noiseredux]

LVL 47. I've killed the Black Samurai. Now Tokyo is a desert...

[ZenErik]

Sounds like you're getting there! Not long until you'll be locked into a story path.

[noiseredux]

Sounds like you're getting there! Not long until you'll be locked into a story path.

nice. I wasn't sure if I was already locked in since I had to choose to go w/ Jonathan to kill the Black Samurai. And really the only reason I went that route was because I felt like the "Kill The Black Samurai" Quest had been going on for so long, I was dying to see it completed.

[MrPopo]

Sounds like you're getting there! Not long until you'll be locked into a story path.

nice. I wasn't sure if I was already locked in since I had to choose to go w/ Jonathan to kill the Black Samurai. And really the only reason I went that route was because I felt like the "Kill The Black Samurai" Quest had been going on for so long, I was dying to see it completed.

That decision point gives you a big chunk in one direction or the other, but it's not until later when you have a second big decision (it'll be obvious when you get there) that you get locked into a path.