Yeah, that shit is nothing new. But I think that they've always have been cutting corners with their cutscenes. It's just that it went from being unfamiliar with the limitations of the 3DS (no feet in Awakening) to still refusing to use actual props instead of portraits
Seriously, you'll be better off emulating the older games once you get done with Radiant Dawn.
I finished both, I have a few I wanna play on Citra and I played the remake of 1 on the DS
I'm not really following your logic. From my perspective as Grognard, gameplay-focused players seem to quite like Engage, though usually not as much as Fates, and it's more people who are mad about non-gameplay elements in nu-Emblem (many of whom played the Engage equivalent of FE7 Lyn mode, at most) that keep trying to convince me, Grognard, that my fun with Engage/nu-Emblem is fake, ironic, and/or lesser somehow, and that I should be playing Vestaria Saga instead. The same people who don't even know or care that VS1 got a big update this year. I've played them, and I didn't like them. I don't like Kaga's design philosophies and I think his games are ugly, unpolished, dull, and hugely padded and bloated in the context of Fire Emblem as a series. Even disregarding rom hacks that explicitly aim for Kaga's style, it's not hard to find traditional styled SRPGs in current year. Me, Grognard, is desperate for more experimentation and re-iteration on Fire Emblem's unique mechanics (or 'gimmicks' as they're called when Kaga didn't make them), not something traditional. I've played traditional to death and I'm sick of it. For anyone who wants traditional, there is an ocean of options new and old. I don't care how much the game is like Legend of Galactic Heroes when none of my decisions for most of the game are going to be as significant as equipping my chapter 1 mounted unit with a javelin or a hand axe.
absolutely fuckin not mate, come on now. we are not going to just ignore the muted color scheme, basic lighting-less background designs, and zero aliasing. please do not tempt me and say this is cherrypicking. please. you can call these comparisons as lopsided and unfair as you want, but i hate looking at 3H so much, man. i'm not going out of my way to hunt down examples for a more balanced comparison
I'm not speaking specifically about grogs - apologies if that's how you took it - but from the perspective of someone who saw a lot of people who were saying something to the effect of 'I just want good FE gameplay' after 3H. I was one them and most people in that boat who I've spoken to agree it was a monkey's paw. Video games are fundamentally distractions; the majority of people who play Fire Emblem, even the majority of people who played before Awakening, need something other than mechanics to actually draw or hold them since other video games aside from Fire Emblem exist and time is precious. That's all I meant. I'm not denying that there are people who can have unironic fun with Engage by ignoring everything outside of the gameplay of the battles, but most people who I have seen say that was what they wanted either backtracked after getting it or started grasping at straws.
Probably because it was never announced on Steam, hardly something to blame them for.
If Kaga was the one who made Garreg Mach/Somniel I'd still call it a gimmick, which I think is the point of most people clamoring for something 'traditional', whatever that might mean in this context. FE has a core of unique mechanics, and those have remained relatively unchanged. It's the stuff around the battles or how they're facilitated that usually gets iterated on, or something is added to the maps to add another interface for those existing mechanics. It's why people can still occasionally bring up Radiant Dawn experimenting with removing the weapon triangle or gush about Fate's pair up system; IS was loathe to make fundamental changes to the formula, so they built around it, and most of it isn't clearly flavor or gameplay. I'd qualify preparing for a chapter as gameplay even if a lot of it is facilitated through seeing what units do between chapters, and getting some semi-random bonuses for it is nice and can alter my plans, but I don't want to have to spend as much time watching idle animations of mundane activities as I would playing a chapter just to facilitate that or miss it altogether.
I think our mentalities are just fundamentally different; I can't really imagine myself enjoying wringing FE's mechanics like a dishrag
I mentioned this specifically because it's as much a polish issue as it is anything with flavor and frankly just comes off as being incredibly cheap. Older FE games would have had a CG or, rarely, a cutscene in moments where hair physics would actually be under scrutiny (such as cradling someone important who is dying). It probably doesn't matter to you, but it also gave me the impression it didn't matter to IS either, which is not what any sane developer would want for their anniversary game.
The color scheme is, imo, a matter of preference but I'll readily admit I was wrong about the animations being amateurish compared to 3H. Like I said, I didn't play that much into Engage, so what I remember the most about the animations were a few of the cutscenes.
When I talk about wanting something "traditional", I mostly mean "I want to play Fire Emblem in my Fire Emblem Game". Twists on the FE formula range from fine to great. I actually don't even like the Kaga games outside of FE4 that much mostly because supports don't exist which severs replay value to me.
Welcome to FE! PoR is also in my top 10 games I've ever played. I really love how well it captures classic high fantasy within its own world and tone. Great choice of game. Im also new to the thread since I didn't know we had one.
People religiously praise the pre-English games (mostly FE3 and FE4), known as the Kaga era after their lead designer who left after FE5. A lot of people worship FE3/FE4, and for good reason. If you like pure gameplay and either don't mind or are willing to speed up painfully slow gameplay, then you will probably enjoy them. You also may find them to be a bit obtuse and mechanically dated. I'll advocate for some of the non-Kaga-emblem games. FE1 and FE2 don't exist, if you want to play them some day out of historical curiosity than thats one thing, not even Kaga considers FE1 to be real.
Most everything came from his brilliance (ironically even the dating sim shit when you learn about FE4), at the very least he laid most of the foundational cornerstones. Even after "that debacle", he continued to tweak his formula and tried out drastically different things instead of playing it safe (Berwick Saga seems like a SRPG fan's wet dream).
The music/art/story is godly.
I downloaded the whole thing so I could listen as I drive. https://downloads.khinsider.com/gam...choes-shadows-of-valentia-original-soundtrack
That's really the crux of my endless spergouts, is that individual preferences...exist. All of these games have a lot of moving components, and their value is going to vary a lot from player to player, let alone from game to game, or how well the components work within those games. It's why I dislike gamewarring, it rarely accounts for context in a series that's intrinsically highly contextual. It's dismissive of individual strengths and weaknesses of individual games, and it mostly just devolves into lame grabs for gotchas instead of any interesting conversation about what works, when, why, and for whom. Pretty much no matter what kind of player you are, there's going to be at least one FE that'll suck you off just right, and having that one really good game is a good thing, especially if you like it enough to play it more than once, not an excuse for dooming over how the newest game isn't enough like The Actually Good One. The contrast between games is a valuable and important thing to keeping the series fresh, innovative, and exciting whenever a new one is on the horizon (let's just ignore how easy it probably would be to make a game that pleases everybody with a basic good story and basic good gameplay with graphics that look like <insert 80's anime here>.) It's especially valuable in a series with this much history and variety, and a big part of why FE discourse is so
. Sure, I make fun of javcav emblem, the 3H meter-filling watching simulator, and Awakening's...everything, but it's not like there isn't plenty of fun to have in all of those games if they click for you. Hell, I loved all of those games for at least a little while before grog kicked in and they didn't hold up as well to grog stress testing.im just gonna be honest man i think PoR's speed combined with the lack of combat forecasts and ceaseless blaring fart orchestra is unforgivable
That's when I dropped it. If I wanted that experience I'd watch an isekai anime.
Doesn't this pop in some form throughout the series?
I'm quite the sucker for military drums. I knew Awakening was going to be something I could gel with the moment I heard the menu music. Seeing a lone 3D candle flickering on a tactician's desk.
Divine dragons are basically everywhere, and you get to play with them sometimes, but the protagonist isn't ever one directly. Well, Robin is a fell dragon but that's a bad thing in that universe. FE Engage very literally makes you, yes you personally, through cutscenes shot in the first-person perspective, the father, the son, the holy ghost, Satan, Marth's best friend, and The Fire Emblem (tm) all at the same time. That is a level of power fantasy handjob that crosses over into uncomfortable.
Certified Kaga Classic, She always manages to aggro Dew for me.
My way to handle her is to either use Alec so that she can't proc astra in the first place, or Finn so he can hopefully thank her with Miracle dodges.
This is your Fire Emblem on Steven Universe.
This is what it feels like when someone tries to explain to me what happens in Rance.