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The combat arts in 3 Houses that use magic instead of strength were a great way to make certain builds feel unique. It felt very rewarding to trek through some early Lance hell on Marianne or whotever to all the sudden become a real unit with Frozen Lance or what you call it. I dislike how promotion raised stat floors in that game for the same reason, though. When reclassing doesn't alter unit personality like that, it feels way better to play with imo.
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Fat Samurai posted:I’ve just picked up Tree Houses, it’s the first time I’ve played a FE game. How much can the random leveling up screw me? I’m pretty anxious about it. i wouldn't worry about it chances are most of your units will be pretty good. it just means the 'best' units aren't guaranteed to be. it's theoretically possible to get a bad (for example) lysithea even though shes usually one of the best units in the game, but if that happened, it would just mean you'd probably drop her. There's lots of options and three houses on normal or hard is pretty forgiving
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I didn't mind that characters have a bit less mechanical identity in Three Houses because it's the premise of the game. You're the teacher, and you can decide how to teach your students and how they develop. I wouldn't like to see it again but I think it's fun as a change of pace.
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Fat Samurai posted:I’ve just picked up Tree Houses, it’s the first time I’ve played a FE game. How much can the random leveling up screw me? I’m pretty anxious about it.
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Normal and Hard also don't have particularly strong enemies so even if a character you really like is massively below their average stats they will probably still be viable.
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If a unit isn't contributing enough on the battlefield, then your other units can pick up their slack.
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I got my gacha threads confused. Meant this for the Genshin thread.
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In FE8, the super trainee classes have much better caps in the JP version than the US one. Ewan's isn't that much worse, but Amelia and Ross had their super trainee classes completely gutted. Incidentally, there were quite a number of growth changes too between the versions with Moulder and Amelia getting nerfed from the JP to US release.
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Doing an Engage runthrough while I'm killing time waiting for Unicorn Overlord, and while I love this game, it's still a crushing tragedy that most of the generic promoted class outfits look loving horrible and are tremendous downgrades from the characters' personal outfits. Additionally, some of the character color palettes are so bad they look like texture bugs, like when you put Panette in any class with plate armor and the plate armor looks like untextured vantablack. Really sad we never got a 3H style "just wear your normal outfit" toggle.
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Default/personal outfit toggle really would have been killer. Throw in a somniel outfit option too would be nice
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Definitely needs the option for Somniel outfits too, yeah. What's the point of playing dress up with your army if they can't wear any of it into battle and/or completely ruin the tone of plot scenes because everyone is trying to have a Serious Somber Moment but they're all wearing giant Sommie heads?
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sharkmafia posted:hey the lords have some unique mechanics to them. except dimitri who is just guy who punch hard Yeah Raging loving storm would like a word as would Fallen Star. Edit: Actually giving it some thought, Dimitri Battalion Vantage/Wrath, Bernadetta Vengeance Lance, Cyril Point Blank Shot, Petra/Leonie crit swordsman builds. Annette/Ignatz Rally. There's actually quite a lot in the combat arts and personals that make the characters play pretty differently to another person in the same class. Mainly though, a big part of Fire Emblem to me is all the creativity I put into building units with the skills and classes I want them to have that I feel best represent them in my own playstyle. When the only difference between Louise and Rebecca is their statlines and portraits I stop really caring about which archer I have. Natural 20 fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Mar 8, 2024 |
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I care which one I have. I love both Gonzales and his everything, but I also love Geese and his beautiful, majestic hair
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Some of the mages in houses get unique niches based on their spell lists. Hubert for instance has a whole thing with 3 range spells which makes him play different than a “standard” reason mage.
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I’m coming to the conclusion that Lindon is the best character in Fire Emblem Engage Lindon upsides: - cool old guy - mystical subtype, so has access to fire terrain - funny supports - personal skill is good and enables meme builds cons: - mid stats and unimpressive growths. but this is actually a good thing because I don’t feel torn about having him use fire terrain every turn - no together we ride arrangement
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Lindon is just weird to me from a game design perspective, doubly so since Engage is otherwise so meticulously designed. He comes way later than every other character, to the point lots of people unknowingly kill him because recruiting is already “over” by then. He’s a mediocre unit mechanically so you have no impetus to have him replace someone like how Alcryst replaces Etie. You have no spare slots so you won’t have a reason to “might as well” him. And he doesn’t fulfill any role in the army three or four other people aren’t already capable of like fellow late recruits Veyle and Mauvier. And unlike those two he has no story importance. He’s just so superfluous. And that wouldn’t stick out if this was say Shadow Dragon or Binding Blade where your thrown filler units en masse, but as I said before Engage is very much not that kind of FE.
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He has great supports with the Elusian + endgame character and he has a funny gimmick. Way better than Saphir who is like... there
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lindon's cool. he's eccentric and kind of mediocre but that's just good gameplay/story integration, for him as a character. the part that 'doesn't work' (although this is exaggerating it a bit) is that on-map recruitment is fairly rare and he's the only enemy you recruit on map in the entire game, which isn't a problem in and of itself but kind of doesn't gel with how the rest of the game has been. the number of Normal Gameplay Features that only show up once at the end of the game is one of the weirder parts of engage in general. it's a game where you are getting 'tutorial' popups 2 chapters before the endgame to explain that the map has a time limit, because there hasn't been a map with an actual time limit up until then. (the endgame also has tutorial popups but to be fair explaining how sombron's boss attacks work, or even the penultimate boss' beam attack, is less 'tutorial' and more 'communication')
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Gotta say from a gameplay standpoint Sombron is my favorite final boss in the franchise. Houses also tried to do big monster final bosses instead of the Final boss being just another stage boss with a fancier sprite. But they were just statues waiting for everyone to dogpile all at once with their gambits. Sombron was built into the stage design and had you actually making tactical decisions. You have to always be mobile, and your never not interacting with him in some way. Plus I love how the map design has you literally running laps around him.
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He’d probably be my favorite if it wasn’t possible to just focus fire him down and eliminate the second phase with the other evil emblems entirely. Feels kinda anticlimactic, but Chapter 25 is a good enough map that it more than makes up for it, and it’s still significantly better than the lion’s share of final maps.
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Duma is the best I think
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Sombron was good fun, cute seeing the minibosses show up and going “hey that’s Nergal!”
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it would have been nice if theyd had the time to actually model those characters, but i get why they didnt
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Endorph posted:it would have been nice if theyd had the time to actually model those characters, but i get why they didnt Still mad they didn’t make the Houses nega-emblem the main trio. Would have been especially great since you could have had some good unique dialogue if you fought them with the trio bracelet.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLFiFy4rTrk
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I'm still disappointed Shez was never an Emblem. They could have done a lot of interesting tricks based on her being from a completely different sort of game.
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magnificent I hate this process so much
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I feel you, Hector.
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I've never played a fire emblem hack, are many of them good?
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Meowywitch posted:I've never played a fire emblem hack, are many of them good? Probably years out of date, but I had a good time with the Crimson Arm (full original campaign) and Elibian Nights (suite of individual levels set around 6 and 7). The Awful Emblem demo was also quite good.
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Meowywitch posted:I've never played a fire emblem hack, are many of them good? I think there was one I played a while ago called requiem that was a solid full conversion hack if you want to do a shaman lord with minimum edge. Vision quest is a solid all around B+ for another one. Andaron Saga has a ton of time and effort put into it and really interesting mechanics if you can stomach a Game of Thrones ripoff plot that keeps shoveling worse and worse dialogue in your face.
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Andaron Saga is also headed by a YouTuber who used his position to sexually harass women, made an apology video when called and then deleted it a month later. He then proceeded to go back to his poo poo like nothing ever happened. Mangs is a shithead in general, I don't think I'd bother playing his hack personally.
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Mysticblade posted:Andaron Saga is also headed by a YouTuber who used his position to sexually harass women, made an apology video when called and then deleted it a month later. He then proceeded to go back to his poo poo like nothing ever happened. drat, that sucks. I was genuinely thinking of LPing it because it's probably the highest level of polish I've seen in a romhack while also having a lot to tear into in the plot. I'll guess just wait for Solium Infernum to get patched a couple times and LP instead.
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Meowywitch posted:I've never played a fire emblem hack, are many of them good? there's a lot of decent ones just because they dont really alter the core gameplay and the core gba gameplay is good. iron emblem is a fun one if you like the idea of an ironman game with weak generic units that you get a ton of replacements for, sort of like an fe11 ironman. Mysticblade posted:Andaron Saga is also headed by a YouTuber who used his position to sexually harass women, made an apology video when called and then deleted it a month later. He then proceeded to go back to his poo poo like nothing ever happened.
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I keep hearing that Project Ember for FE6 is really good, though worth noting it is a difficulty hack (though a more standard difficulty hack, not of the "Xtreme, Git Gud" variety) that is harder than the normal game, though it does make more characters good and usable. There's an LP going for it right now.
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I think project ember is easier than hard mode of the base game. Even the lunatic mode version of Ember
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I still have a soft spot for Last Promise, even though it's very dated and full of goofy poo poo appropriate to the tastes of the teenager who made it.
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Is that the one with the edgy assassin named Shadow or Blade or something, who eventually reveals that that's just a code name and his given name is some death god name, I wanna say Thanatos? Because that's the good kind of teenage cringe.
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BlazetheInferno posted:I keep hearing that Project Ember for FE6 is really good, though worth noting it is a difficulty hack (though a more standard difficulty hack, not of the "Xtreme, Git Gud" variety) that is harder than the normal game, though it does make more characters good and usable. There's an LP going for it right now.
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Kanos posted:I still have a soft spot for Last Promise, even though it's very dated and full of goofy poo poo appropriate to the tastes of the teenager who made it.
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