I just went to GameStop

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All I can say about Persona is that most of the games in that series are EXPENSIVE, but I have heard good things about it.

Like Gizmonicgamer, the Persona series came from the Megaten (Shin Megami Tensei) series, and this usually means "Kiss your life goodbye, you're going to spend the rest of your time grinding". They are great games, but they are unforgiving.
Persona's games prices are normal, never seem nothing too expensive about them.
Nocturne is the best Megaten title so far if you ask me. Persona 3 I found kinda of boring. You got the level up in random dungeons with the same background music and only with texture swapping along with a primitive dating sim where you don't get a girlfriend. Megaten 1 and 2 are pretty good but they are very hard, and the PS1 Personas got laughable translations. I still have to play Persona 4.

isn't .hack like final fantasy?

Maybe I was looking in the wrong places, lol. But I am interested in trying it out. Thanks for that info.

(Oh, the SMT series is expensive! I got them mixed up my bad.)

[quote='Vipershark' pid='172534' dateline='1253234267']
isn't .hack like final fantasy?

The only similarities are that they are both RPGs.

Otherwise, basically what Grooveman said. I actually forgot how dreadful the random encounters were. X(