I will be playing Persona 4 soon!
But first...Persona 3! Starting tonight, I think.
We could synchronise our playage of Persona 4!
Wanna wait a few months?
So, I got about 2 hours into Persona 3...and died. Forgot to save after the first dungeon....now I am gonna have to repeat that. Shit.
The mechanic of you getting KOed in battle=game over? That is going to be annoying.
Everything else with this game? I love. The voices are great, the graphics are pretty good for PS2, I like the story, the battles are interesting...I think I'm really going to like this game
Luckily they fix the no-auto-AI rule in P4... but yeah, There's going to be some frustration about losing when Main dies.
You want frustration though, play Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne. I've had game overs before my first turn in battle there.
Try to get persona that are strong or null against Light and/or Dark spells for later on. You can do fine with having Persona that are weak to those early on, but you REALLY don't want to be vulnerable to Light/Dark spells when the enemy has them... because they're auto-kill if they hit.
Also, studying and shit isn't completely useless, so if your buddies aren't up to going to Tartarus, hit the books instead.
This should go without saying, but it's a good idea to have a balanced party at all times: One of each of the basic elements.
Don't rely on your buddies too much though, because they like to do shit that makes no sense, like trying to use charm spells on bosses.
Other than that, have fun. Persona 3 and 4 have the best examples of storytelling in gaming and you'll enjoy every second of it (well, unless you're like me and think the ending to the second chapter in Persona 3: FES was lame, but the fact that the second chapter is chiefly about the least interesting character hurts it.)
Now if PSN will put Persona 1 and 2 up sometime...