Post by: GoldShadow1 on April 21, 2004, 06:26:17 PM
Is everyone else as excited about this game as I am? I haven't yet played the GBA version (although I definitely want to), but I've been wanting to play Fire Emblem for years. It's a completely different side of Nintendo. Check out the screenshots/artwork at IGN or wherever else: It's amazing. I made the city artwork by new background.
Post by: Mario on April 21, 2004, 06:34:13 PM
Post by: akdaman1 on April 21, 2004, 09:04:53 PM
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For a second i thought that was the GBA version... but yeah, it does look pretty cool. Not graphically overwhelming, but it's probably in early stages, and the gameplay is all i really care about in games like this. I've never played a Fire Emblem game before, perhaps i'll start with this one, if it's ever released here. Can't wait to see more of it at E3.
You have never played one? I know you well enough to know that you will love it. PLAY IT. Buy it.
I agree with graphics not being important. And I LOVE the graphics of this game. I love the style of graphics it has. Its nice and round and I love it.
Post by: Ian Sane on April 21, 2004, 09:05:13 PM
If that's the best they can do graphically though I almost think it would be more worthwhile to make it 2D like the GBA games. Sure it may not sell as well but it would look much better and it's not like jaggy low detail polygons will sell better, PS2 jokes aside.
I have yet to play Fire Emblem for the GBA though since I'm a little worried about how your characters stay dead. When I play strategy games usually I'm sacrificing guys left and right for the greater good. My strategy is win at all costs and casualties are just a part of the game and it normally makes no difference. However with FE I have to completely change the way I play which probably would annoy me more than anything else. I'll probably buy it used during a time when I'm in between games.
Post by: akdaman1 on April 21, 2004, 09:26:37 PM
Now if you liked Advanced Wars then you will LOVE FE.
Post by: Bloodworth on April 21, 2004, 09:34:21 PM
Post by: Terranigma Freak on April 22, 2004, 04:58:00 AM
BTW I heard the blue shield on the logo is a very important part of the story. There's gonna be 3 different race of beast people. The main character is blue again, thank god I might add. They'll have special skills, probably something similar to FE4 and 5. There had better be new gameplay ideas though. The magic system and arena is going to be tweaked.
Post by: Bill Aurion on April 22, 2004, 07:20:07 AM
Post by: Ian Sane on April 22, 2004, 07:34:02 AM
Yes. This is a game where characters stay dead for the rest of the game. There's no way this game would be accepted in North America if it was even harder then it already is. I understand being upset by the lower difficulty if you're a fan but if it's to be successful in North America I think Nintendo has to dumb it down a bit until it becomes more accepted. Then they can raise the difficulty. If you're annoyed by the lower difficulty then just buy the Japanese versions since you've been doing that the whole time anyway.
Keep in mind that most North American gamers are total beginners to Fire Emblem so it's kind of unfair to expect everyone to be as good as an expert.
Post by: ruby_onix on April 22, 2004, 03:47:13 PM
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I have yet to play Fire Emblem for the GBA though since I'm a little worried about how your characters stay dead. When I play strategy games usually I'm sacrificing guys left and right for the greater good. My strategy is win at all costs and casualties are just a part of the game and it normally makes no difference. However with FE I have to completely change the way I play which probably would annoy me more than anything else.
I used to have very little regard to the "life" of my characters in videogames, but then in a couple of SNES RPGs they came up with the secret "game stats" rooms, and told me how many times I was letting my people get killed. I was like "What? You saw that? You were counting? Stupid game! Don't do that!"
Since then I've been rather concerned about the health and welfare of my electro-imaginary pawns. I haven't played Fire Emblem for the GBA yet, but I bought it (along with the strategy guide, which I got "just in case"), and it's pretty high on my mental "to play next" list.
Post by: mouse_clicker on April 22, 2004, 04:51:28 PM
Post by: KDR_11k on April 22, 2004, 08:40:16 PM
Post by: Terranigma Freak on April 23, 2004, 04:22:16 AM
The character deaths just makes this game all the more fun. Tell me, did you ever care when Mary Sue died in FFT? Did you get pissed off when Joe Schmoe got killed in Ogre Battle?
Post by: Ymeegod on April 23, 2004, 07:44:47 AM
My biggest gripe is there's not much in varitey in FE so far (I'm on mission 16) compared to say AW. To win (since you can't mass-produce units) all you have to sit back and wait for the advancing attackers, after dealing with them, heal and then go on the offence (some guys don't advance)--raise and repeat.
Post by: Terranigma Freak on April 23, 2004, 09:48:08 AM
Post by: CHEN on April 23, 2004, 11:10:53 AM
I thought the hard mode of FE6 was maddening myself. Still haven't beaten it. Well, that's because it deletes everything when I turn it off.
Guess I'll have to buy a new one.
Post by: Gremio on April 25, 2004, 02:16:52 AM
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Congrats, you've just got past the tutorial. Now prepare to be creamed in 16x... that is if you figure out how to open 16x.
Was 16x the one with the pirates?
It's been so long since I played Fire Emblem that I don't remember too much. I really need to buy that game. I'm a strategy game nut and had a lot of fun with it. All I have for GBA is Advance Wars and Tactics Ogre right now. I found the regular difficulty of FE rather easy (tutorial was blah for me, I was glad to get it over with) but hopefully my view on the matter will change after I get the game and play the harder difficulty. I really wanted to play Hector's quest, which I heard is even harder than Eliwood's.
Post by: Ymeegod on April 26, 2004, 08:01:27 AM
The AI is very laughable at best. But I'm not sure if my strategy will hold but right now I have basically one attacker (level 20 Paladin) who does 75% of the killing :0. Also "Guy" is quite high but my main characters levels are still in the single digits. That might bite me in the end but so far I'm still slapping around the AI with ease.
