To be fair:

• it got a remaster; a remake is usually something that recreates the game from scratch.
• DMC1 did not age that well in terms of gameplay, imo, as much as DMC3 did; it's a little stiffy! But it is true that it still plays much better than many PS2 games.

GTA games are the epitome of shallowness, for me. The story is always so vague and not interesting, you never get attached to characters. Gameplay is a boring loop, but its strength has always been being some sort of theme park. But it's 2024 and "hop onto a game just to go fast on car and shoot a couple of civilians"

Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Like Pokémon, nintendo developers know fans will buy new games regardless of how much new content there is to it. There is no legitimate reason for the game to be so close mechanically to its Gamecube entry, and I find it an insult to long time fans.

Most PC games nowadays do not have physical releases.

I'm sorry but it is definitely nowhere as close as the kind of harassment women receive. They have to deal with insults based on their gender, sexual harassment, digital stalking outside of games, etc

fyi: SMT and Persona based their combat system on weak points way earlier than P5. I'm not saying it is immune to criticism, but it's a series standard by now

A good chunk of comments have spoilers, so if you read this first beware. I guess people like to brag about game knowledge more than they like having other people experiencing stuff.

The Final Fantasy series has many loved entries in which recurring characters, archetypes and items make a looping comeback. It is very fun to see how different those elements are handled in different entries. They just need to step back and realize not every FF needs to be a game that pushes its platform to its hardware limit. That may have worked well for them up to the PS2 era, but it's not a thing anymore. You don't need extreme ultra realistic eye twitching for your game to be grandiose.

Like many others, I highly suggest Retrodeck instead of EmuDeck. Not only it is a flawless experience, but having it all packaged in a flatpak means it won't scatter files around for every emulator which are then hard to clean up (like EmuDeck does, usually).

fellers never heard of a mmorpg

This! I mean, if we take a well-known and loved example, Goku is 18 by the time the first Dragon Ball series ends up, while being around 23 at the start of Dragon Ball Z. Also, I don't think it's bad to have a teenager as the main character once in a while, but we have to admit that it happens a little too often and in dubious way in japanese media in general. That's because this whole thing sadly has a market, and it's ever-expanding too, as @Wugger@lemmy.world said.

Fair question! After I grew up to around 21/22 years old, I felt like I had a harder time resonating with young teens in JRPGs: coming of age stories can be a bit.. dull at times, it's common in JRPGs to take someone quite immature and make them grow up as they save the world; more often than not there's also either awkward/creepy tropes in many of those that make the game and the characters much less appealing or straight up uncomfortable to me.

I guess I would genuinely prefer to spend my time on media starring adults while still remaining in the genre of JRPGs.

All the numbered personas are independent from each other. There are some games that are basically fan-servicey crossovers (Persona 4 Arena, Persona Q), so I recommend starting with either 3(Portable), 4(Golden) or 5(Royal). You can pick just one and go!

Depending on how you're feeling:

• Persona 3 has an amazing moody vibe to it: I'm sadly afraid it'll be a little toned down in the remake in favor of something more akin to P5. It can be grindy, but you can play it on easy if you can't be bothered. Maybe it's because it's the first one I played, but I still deem it my absolute favorite of the tree.
• Persona 4 is something of an in-between, but a banger nonetheless. It's a game in which the usually upbeat soundtrack is placed in direct contrast to a mysterious foggy countryside town.
• Persona 5 is, in terms of gameplay and fluidity, the absolute best. I highly suggest you NOT to start here simply because after you get used to the gameplay of P5, dealing with P3/P4 will be slightly harder imo; those are still highly relevant to play nonetheless: they all have very different stories, very different characters, some may be for you while others may be not. For me, P5's story tried to be so grand that it failed in delivering the same "personal connection" that the player could feel with P3/P4. Or maybe I grew out of highschool settings by the time P5 came around, who knows.