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Panthera posted...

This leads into my next point, which is that Fodlan is easily the most fleshed out setting in Fire Emblem.

I loved Jeralt's little cultural lessons at the start of each chapter. Amazing how a few small details like those can sell the setting as a real place rather than just an empty space where fights happen (hi Fates).

I don't think I'm quite as positive on all aspects of 3H as you, but that first playthrough (also Blue Lions for me) was damn good. Special mention also to the gambit system for making the player phase more valuable than is usual for FE.

Next game is clearly FE Warriors.

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Panthera posted...

Medeus' behavior doesn't fit in with it very well and it ultimately adds up to being little more than just yet another tired old "humans are the real bad guys bet you didn't think of that" cliche that every single fantasy story ever uses as if the writer thinks they are simultaneously the only person to have ever thought of it and also the only person conveniently exempt from being oh so terrible like everyone else. It's not even all that internally consistent, since the dragons apparently had to become manaketes and lose most of their power to not go crazy, but the ones who did were still strong enough to fight the crazy earth dragons who nearly wiped out humanity, but then magically couldn't defend themselves against humanity (who we're supposed to believe were just motivated by being evil, rather than by the fact that the actions of the dragons had very nearly wiped them out of existence).

I don't remember anything about Medeus well enough to be mad about the bad writing (which I'll take your word for). Half the time I forget he even exists and that the main villain isn't Gharnef or Hardin.

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Trump supporters literally believe that only things they like are true.

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I agree with everything you said about Berkut. Him having fans is just baffling to me, like did y'all play the same Echoes I did? On the other hand I'm pretty okay with Faye. I think she's saved by her support with Alm which ends with her basically growing up and getting over him.

To defend New Mystery's story for a moment, I think it's the most successful FE's ever been at trying to go high fantasy. The whole journey following Anri's footsteps is compelling to me, instead of just seeming out of place like the bigger fantasy elements in other games do. I don't think I'd like it as the first game about a character, but it being Marth's second quest makes me much more willing to enjoy it.

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I don't like the Fates mechanics much, but Conquest does have generally good map design. Fuga's Wild Ride is a low point though. Ninja map is fine.

The story is one of the worst things I've ever read. Completely agree with all your criticisms of it.

Prediction for the next one is Echoes.

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Geese was a serious disappointment for me. Just bad all around. I think mine was worse than average but it just didn't leave a good impression.

Zephiel's a bad villain but the rest of the villainous cast is solid (...minus Jahn). I like FE6's emphasis on human politics rather than dragon-gods too, even if ultimately it goes dragon-god heavy for the ending.

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"hit and miss in gameplay" is definitely an FE6 thing with its low weapon accuracy

FE8 is probably the most easily replayable FE for me. As you said there aren't any maps to dread (aside from Ephraim hard mode ghost ship), and the branching promotions make up for the low number of playable characters. I played an FE8 randomizer a while ago and it was super fun (I got mage Ephraim, bishop Orson, and dancers Kyle and Forde, which made chapter 5x very interesting).

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My understanding is that the site's still doing well as a whole. The front page doesn't get as much traffic as it used to and some of the boards are dying/dead, but the site is still profitable, just not a behemoth like it used to be in the early 2000s.

Nevertheless, I don't think there's much retention from rallies. Most don't even stick around to vote in the next match.

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MyMainAccount posted...

Contests open to the internet are decided by the internet. You're making it to be exclusive when that was never intended. The fact that most of the people left are regulars and more regulars are leaving every day is why the site is dying.

It's implied by being held on this site that it's supposed to reflect the opinion of this site. That's why the front page used to say "GameFAQs has decided that ____ is the best [whatever]" at the end of a contest. That's why rallied contests had more tortured statements like "thanks to the legions of League of Legends fans, Draven has won our character battle". I'm paraphrasing, but you get the idea. It's not supposed to be ~super exclusive~ but it's supposed to generally reflect the opinion of the people who visit GameFAQs.

The site dying is irrelevant to this. I don't know why you keep trying to bring up things that only really matter to the administrative/financial side of the site.

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Bump for the people who missed the last write-ups

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Bartre may be stupid, but at least he never turns to banditry to support his sick wife only to end up helping bandits try to kill her. Going to argue that makes him smarter than Dorcas.

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MyMainAccount posted...

Yet it lives forever in my heart.

A rally is just people voting in the contest set up by GameFAQs to include anyone who wants to vote. The idea that it is or should be just for people who usually go here is the weirdest kind of gatekeeping on an event that was no doubt intended to draw new traffic. The fact he bent over backwards to make our votes count double is already embarrassing enough for us.

From an administrative perspective it's to drive new traffic, but from a user's perspective, what's the point of holding a contest here if it's not decided by GameFAQs? There are tons of similar contests on other sites if we wanted to participate in a contest decided by another site.

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Big ones make contests super boring so yeah I dislike them.

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Panthera posted...

The one character who does get meaningful focus here is Nyna, who is pretty sympathetic, and generally speaking the quality of the narration and dialogue is great. The game has a very enjoyable style of writing to it that always gets me more invested than the content itself really justifies. I'm not sure how much of this is a real part of the game as originally written and how much is a function of the English localization doing its own thing to an extent, but whatever the case is, it makes the version I've played a lot of fun to read.

Shadow Dragon really does have some of the better writing in the series. It's a shame it's shackled to such a nothing plot, but maybe that's part of why it works.

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Selena/Benny is a very solid top 2. I wish Benny was recruitable in Birthright, since he's kind of overshadowed by Effie in Conquest.

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FE7 hits the absolute sweet spot in complexity for me. On the other hand, enemy quality is awful and while the supports themselves are good, the way they build is _terrible_. It's also a game that could really benefit from a turnwheel mechanic, especially when you get to side objectives like trying to kill Kishuna. So it's a bit of a mixed bag. I've gone back and forth on how much I like it over the years, but I think it's probably one of my series favorites.

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MegamanX posted...

Hes also the only Royal family member willing to just outright kill those who are dishonorable.

Also willing to kill a subordinate who won the entire war bloodlessly for him!

But yeah that aside, Leo is pretty good. Fates would have been better if it was about him and Takumi, without Corrin being around at all.

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Siegbert and Ignatius aren't exactly units I hate, but I find them really bland. They just kinda exist and that's it. That said, I'll admit I didn't give them much of a chance -- I never used them so I never saw their supports.

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I didn't expect it to put up a fight here at all. Pleasantly surprised to see it being competitive.

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My 3 favorite Fates originals are all out now...!

Curious to see who makes your top ten. Surprised we haven't seen Benny's kid yet.

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Yeah, I think FE7 or 3H has to be next based on that clue.

I'm torn on Awakening. There's enough there to like, but the map design's not great, I don't like the skill system, and the writing is just bad. (With the worst example being Emmeryn surviving. God that was dumb.) Definitely not my favorite game in the series, though Fates sure makes it look good by comparison.

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Wallace is admittedly useless but I like him a lot as a character.

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Panthera posted...

Now I'm curious as to which you're thinking of

Conquest and Awakening. I'm that guy who thinks he's too good for 3DS FE. <_<

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Never enough FE on the board.

Tag!

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Panthera posted...

(in addition to Elincia, Titania and Tibarn stand out)

Excellent taste.

I think I like PoR a lot more than you overall, it's definitely sloooow though.

NeoElfboy posted...

(Shadow Dragon is already too high, incidentally.)

Better than at least two other games that haven't been ranked yet!

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Panthera posted...

Up next: This one might elicit some surprise, it is rather well regarded by many who have played it

FE8 is my guess, hope I'm wrong though.

I tried to play FE3 once and quit extremely early, possibly on the first map. It just felt too archaic, even compared to Genealogy.

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I wouldn't go that far but they should have lots of warp points and an item or power-up that lets you warp from anywhere to a hub/warp point.

also: how take

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They are pretty stupid, it's true.

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The war happening makes sense, it's just the Nohr siblings that don't. It felt like uniting with them against Garon should have been a slam dunk. Garon more or less just states outright that he doesn't care about Nohr or his children, but we're expected to believe that Camilla picks him over Corrin? That Leo does? There's just no way. At least Elise doesn't really fall for it in any of the routes.

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Panthera posted...

the whole conflict is meaningless bullshit because these people are totally willing to just cooperate

Honestly this was exactly what I was thinking through the entirety of Birthright and Conquest, so at first Revelation's story seemed like a step in the right direction.

At first.

Panthera posted...

And then for story reasons it doesn't even let you use everyone anyway!

This is legitimately the most baffling decision Revelation makes, and there is heavy competition.

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Never played Thracia so I can't comment on it, but

Panthera posted...

Up next, a game whose placement near the bottom of a list is far less controversial.

My guess for this is Revelation.

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FE6 started as a remake of FE1 I believe so that would explain that.

I'm fairly certain FE7 was not planned in advance; I don't have any real evidence to support this except that it just really seems like it wasn't. I think Hector and Eliwood would have bigger roles (and Lyn would exist) in FE6 if it was.

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BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

Not sure if I'm following you here, I'd much rather talk to a STEM major, because we can actually talk about things that make sense. No philosophy or english lit major has ever said anything worthwhile

BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

If your family is rich, and you want to fuck around and read 2000 year old philosophers talk about how flat the earth is, feel free to do so. If you aren't rich, and want to have job prospects in the future, maybe go STEM if you're smart enough, or into the trades if you aren't.

making a great case for the benefits of studying philosophy here

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Have you ever talked to a room full of STEM majors vs. a room full of liberal arts majors? The benefit is pretty obvious tbh.

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Liberal arts degrees should actually be the only ones paid for by the state because STEM majors can just make their money back in their higher paying jobs.

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Form-wise it looks fine to me. Color-wise it looks like it should be shooting at Luke Skywalker.

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I'm in college, I did like crap

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Switch Lites are in stock on Best Buy's website right now. No guarantee for how long.

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LadyVyxx posted...

Have you met the average person because theres no reasoning or logic behind most choices people make. If there was we also wouldnt have half the country literally $5 away from bankruptcy.

I guess. I think most actions at least have a sort of reasoning behind them though. "They just do it because they're told not to" doesn't make sense by itself because we're told not to murder also and the vast majority of people follow that. We're told not to smoke in restaurants and most people will go outside to smoke rather than rebel. Etc. It implies there's some kind of deeper reasoning at work here.

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I don't think that really explains the logic behind it though, unless your reasoning is that there's no logic involved.

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Which rom hack? Just out of curiosity.

I don't remember much about the Camus fight except that, as you said, he moves so he's immediately more threatening than someone who doesn't move. Like him as a character too.

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Kinglicious posted...

Questionable.

No, it's not.

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MegamanX posted...

29th Rinkah

Rinkah did not fair well in any of my playthroughs battle wise. I couldnt get her to really ever matter shortly after shes introduced. Her damage output just isnt good enough to deal with her complete lack of defense. Design wise shes good, and then character wise I think shes a very smart character that well most people write off. The tragedy here is like some other characters on this list she ends up trapped explaining shes not a dumb savage for half the dialog tree.

I would have also preferred we dove ...any into her story and her tribe a bit more. It just seems like a lost thing.

Rinkah is basically Missed Opportunities: The Character. Love her design though.

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Me, a villain in a cartoon show:

More so if you factor in how the virus predominantly kills the enderly and weak. Or generally people who no longer are contributing to society or the economy very much anymore.

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Someone help me figure out why GameFAQs would want games that are popular on GameFAQs to win popularity contests on GameFAQs, I'm too stupid to figure it out myself.

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I remember it being pretty self-explanatory. One thing to note is that you get a lot more deployment slots than you need and often it's beneficial (or at least not detrimental) to under-deploy.

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Camus is my guess.

Lloyd is a good choice. Honestly he's even a very good boss fight when you face him later, but yeah, him being right there in C24 is definitely a shock the first time around.

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HeroicCrono posted...

There is no way they are doing that. Liberals show their close mindedness by even thinking that's possible.

Free-Speech posted...

Haha you're an insane person if you think this is how things work

You two are so naive it's crazy.

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Free-Speech posted...

Identity is more important than life!

This seems to be what Samaritan's Purse believes, yeah. Otherwise they'd accept qualified volunteers regardless of whether they're Christian or not.

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First thought was someone who has their position/behavior changed on hard mode to be closer/more aggressive. Joke answer is Maxime from Battle Before Dawn.

And yeah Legion is a fun fight. I didn't know about the trick so I just killed him the old fashioned way.

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