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  1. 1 hour ago, Eltosian Kadath said:

    Hopefully the little friend has a comfortable end.

    Morbid as it sounds dogs and mortality makes me think of Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, a fantastic little game with my favorite videogame doggie in it (the little Pomeranian is literally my favorite character in the whole game). If you haven't played it before, it is well worth playing, and in spite of being one of the best games nobody played in its original DS release, it has gotten a odd revival after the fact with well received releases on Steam and on smart phones.

    Ghost Trick was very nice. Wonderful little cast of characters.

  2. 14 minutes ago, ping said:

    Ol' squinty-eyes looks more constipated than evil, but yeah.

    That's true, but he's also showed up what, four times already?

    ...Though to be honest, the idea of Kaga using John Diarrhea seven times and then giving you a playable one with no warning sounds absolutely fantastic.

    15 minutes ago, ping said:

    I don't remember when I first read about jealousy, certainly before it was confirmed to be a bug, but at no point had I ever doubted that it's anything but a bug. The specifics are just way too random ("love growth is transferred along a line of girls, but only if they stand in order according to this list, oh, and the list changes if you never reset the game while playing...") to be deliberate.

    To be fair, it's not that out there when you consider some of Kaga's later insanity.

    15 minutes ago, ping said:

    Interesting. I think I'll do as is probably intended and only get Nosferatu, then. I believe the straightforward method would be to recruit Johalvier (who's repping Sophara) and kill Johan (Isaach), which would also go along with Ruben's mild preference. So unless somebody has really strong feelings about this, that's probably how I'm going to go about it.

    Fair enough.

  3. 4 minutes ago, ping said:

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    His second son, Johan, rules Isaach Castle, while his youngest, Johalvier, rules Sophara. And the remote Ganeishire region is governed by Dannan's trusted confidant, General Harold. Under their rule, Isaach knows no freedom...

    I know I've made the joke once or twice already, but gee, I wonder which of these are playable and which are the bossmen.

    7 minutes ago, ping said:

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    Speaking of Roger-Roger - any preferences? I honestly don't care too much - if I recall, Johan doesn't really have the same power that Lex had, while Johalvier has better combat (well, I don't have to "recall" anything here, the base stats are right there) but the bad ol' "No Horse" syndrome.

    Personally, I prefer Johalvier. It's tempting to assume it's just because I like bad units more, but it comes down to their recruitment convos. Both of them are shackled by the shitty stalker characterization, but Johalvier shows signs of being a decent person in his recruitment. Johan's a pervert asshole character through and through and there's basically nothing else to him. Also, Johalvier's green. Green's good.

    8 minutes ago, ping said:

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    [HP 100% | Str 40% | Mag 5% | Skl 50% | Spd 30% | Lck 40% | Def 30% | Res 10%]
    Skills: Pursuit, Critical
    Weapon Level: Swords (A), Lances (B)
    Minor Baldur blood

    The Jeigan that is apparently so strong that he had a sub-archetype named after him. Although that might just be indicative of the FE fandom's compulsion to create a million small boxes to sort characters into.

    That said, Oifey does seem very competent, with his stand-out bases being his Def and (to a lesser extend; Paladin has a class base of 5) Mag. His growths are reminiscent of gen 1 characters - almost identical to Alec if he had minor Baldur blood himself, actually - so I still expect child characters with their inflated growths to surpass him eventually, but maybe this is a BlaBla!Marcus situation that Oifey finds himself in. Just not a Seth situation.

    I also want to mention that as a BinBla!Marcus enjoyer, I cannot endorse the Critical skill on a Jeigan-y character.

    The really funny thing about Oifey is that he's not even an Oifey. He seems like an Oifey, with competent stats and growths, but that's all in a vaccuum. In the average FE4 gen 2 run, each child will be able to kill armies by themselves, and Oifey quickly becomes too mundane for keep up. He falls off harder than most Jeigans lmao

    Still, if you do want to use him, he keeps up decently well. Really, his problem is that the army around him is just obscene, and even in a sub run, he can't really compare to the likes of the other static units or even some subs like Hawke.

    9 minutes ago, ping said:

    oJbpepn.png: "So it's as I thought... It isn't as if the Empire's tyranny would ever be limited to only Isaach... Oifey, is it feasible to assist them?"

    Why do you want to assist the Empire's tyranny, Seliph...? (Yes, I know he's referring to the doomed revolts)

    Proper wording is important, Selyboy.

    10 minutes ago, ping said:

    And here's the first mum who oficially survived the Battle of Belhalla. It will be three by the end of the chapter, although numbers 2 and 3 will have died before the events now unfolding.

    I can understand why the mothers seem to have survived much more commonly from a Doylist point of view: Since the gen 1 males can potentially father any (variable) child, it's much easier to just kill them all than to consider every possible father/child relationship possible. Children can still hope that their fathers are still alive - the Battle of Belhalla was messy business - they just cannot actually find them.

    The Aideen thing is just weird though. Other Belhalla survivors do things. Aideen does nothing. She's alive because... she's alive. I don't know why actually. Did Kaga just feel merciful for her magnificent locks or what?

    11 minutes ago, ping said:

    You can just smell the alcohol in Lewyn's dialogue here.

    Get used to the stench.

    11 minutes ago, ping said:

    oJbpepn.png: "Mm. Rumor has it his birthright

    lmao. Well that's a random gag, but I like it.

    12 minutes ago, ping said:

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    Also, don't.

    (Well, if it wasn't for Jealosy shenanigans, I wouldn't have minded this little detail too much. Seliph, paralleling his dad, is head over heel for this white-haired mystical girl... but I presume they'll learn in the not-too-distant future that they're half-siblings, so this never goes anywhere. I probably would've preferred if their love points would remain static and then immediatly go to zero after they learn of their relations, but this is still a 4 at most on the degeneracy scale between 1 and Fates)

    Let's not forget that this was a bug. I think. Uhh... I seem to recall people discovered this ship was a bug? Or maybe Kaga just considered it a feature. Eh, who cares.

    14 minutes ago, ping said:

    But that is it for now. I'll repeat the question who people prefer - Roger or Roger. Apparently, that choice also determines what tome Julia can get during this map: Aura if we get Roger, or Nosferatu if we get Roger instead. I don't really have an opinion on that, either - I simply don't know how much of a thing Nos-tanking is in Genealogy, or if the big power from Aura is more valuable.

    For the record, there's a way to get both. They're gotten when you seize whichever castle turns on you when you recruit one of the brothers. The others turn green, so you can't seize the castle... Unless a certain group of enemies seize it, then you can seize it back from them and get Julia both her tomes. I believe that's how it went? Your call if that's too tedious to do or not.

    ...Also I don't remember which Roger gave which tome lmao, though I think nosferatu's probably better. Probably.

  4. 2 minutes ago, Acacia Sgt said:

    I mean, "no ill-will", after saying it took you 30 minutes to read the pre-map text. Either you really do read slow, or it's an outright mock/exaggeration.

    Perhaps I misremembered. It was a while back. The problem wasn't the amount of text, anyway, it was the genre, the tone and the characters, which weren't to my (personal, subjective) liking. And, again, the fact that the first map was basically a glorified cutscene before throwing me at more comedic hijinks. I decided the game was not the kind of game I enjoy, which is fine, I'm not saying it's bad at all, I'm just saying it's not my kind of game. That's all I've ever said, and I'm sorry if it came across differently.

    But, really, that's enough. I shouldn't have said anything at all. My bad.

  5. 2 hours ago, Acacia Sgt said:

    Funny how it's from the game you only picked up for five minutes.

    Come now, be fair with me. I picked it up for like 90 minutes. Spent 30 of those reading exposition and another 30 reading comedic hijinks, leading to a first map less complex than the Sacred Stones prologue. Then more hijinks.

    No ill-will towards the series, it's just not my preferred kind of strategy game. Or story. Good music, though!

    1 hour ago, Armagon said:

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    They just be writing anything these days.

    Whatever it takes to keep making more romcoms that are all identical, I guess.

  6. 9 hours ago, Jotari said:

    I think the message if the game is that goo is inherently evil. If Garon wasn't goo and he sat on that throne and just laughed it up then Xander and the other Norhians would have just celebrated with some newly appropriated Hoshidan Sake. It's not the actions of bad king being bad that meant he needed to be stopped, he needed to be stopped because he was goo, regardless as to what he was doing. A very bigoted and anti goo moral Fates peddles.

    Have you ever considered that every person of color in the game looks gray?

    ...Oh my God his own kids are racists against Garon. Now I'm never going to be able to unsee it...

    7 hours ago, Interdimensional Observer said:

    Indeed, quite the difference between having your body offered up to the Demon King (after getting doubled by literally everyone b/c lol0AS) and getting chopped by Tristan (after a few cuts by some blue dude).😛

    In my run Tristan died unceremoniously stalling Brian because I had nobody that could kill the guy lmao

    Instead, I killed Arvis with the only character that deserved it.

    6 hours ago, Jotari said:

    I think we do know from the opening that it was Manfroy specifically who killed Lewyn.

    There was an attempt at Genealogy Gen 2 with standard maps FeBuilderGBA game a few years back. It only got through the Isaach arc before it was abandoned, but one funny addition is that they had Arden he a playable character, because otherwise there'd be no armoured knights until late mid game. The justification for Arden surviving was simply that he wasn't at the Battle of Bahrara because he was too slow and was just but in charge of guarding one of the castles. A fitting a headcanon for Arden as any other.

    To be honest, it fits. He finally got there to find everyone dead and Arvis's cronies long gone. He swore revenge...

    On the "no armored knights until late midgame", I mean... That's basically how it is in FE4 gen 2 as it is. Not that anybody minds, because armor knights in this game are at the height of their badness. Bors, Wendy and Barth are walking memes but they are at least usable if you put your back into it. In this game? You need to put your back, eyeballs, liver, urethra and house insurance into it and it's still probably just going to result in a bunch of burnt villages.

  7. 5 hours ago, Eltosian Kadath said:

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    Because it is time to take a long hard look at my party, and realize that the unit that makes the most sense to add to my army after Zelkov's death is actually Lindon. I put it off for a bit (as I have my army set for max deployment, and we are still at least one chapter away from that being the norm), but looking at who would make good use of the Micaiah ring really cemented it. Framme has Eirika for the funny punchy powers, I am saving Celica for Ivy, and putting Micaiah on anyone without a staff rank means I can't use her powers for Rescue and Warp staff uses. Additionally I have been really wanting another magic focused attack, and having a third healer for the three lane back to the future map makes sense from a army composition perspective anyway (the very three lane focused miasma chapter had that feeling too, although I cheesed one lane with the fog to ignore that issue in the end). I guess this decision may be making @Saint Rubenio day a bit.

    Highly based.

  8. 10 minutes ago, Shanty Pete's 1st Mate said:

    Thus creating a paradox. Leo needs to stay compulsorily heterosexual, or else his son will fade out of existence, Back to the Future style!

    ...Except nvm the Deeprealms solve this, Babyrealms good actually?

    I mean, you can always go the Gay Fates route.

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    11 minutes ago, Shanty Pete's 1st Mate said:

    TBH I love love love how CQ Corrin's plan boils down to "if my adoptive siblings see Garon as a pile of goo, they'll know he's evil!" Not "if they see Garon turn into a pile of goo, they'll know he's been tricked by those wicked Hoshidans! Who could've predicted a cursed throne that turns any Nohrian who sits upon it into goo?"

    So even if Garon were evil, it's not because he's made of goo. Goo is morally neutral.

    I'd have loved if Xander just kept on being like "no my dad is awesome, this proves nothing" and then Corncob eats shit and dies.

    12 minutes ago, Shanty Pete's 1st Mate said:

    They're very different. They have superficial similarities, yes, as "prettyboy mages who start friendly, but turn out to be the main antagonist". But how they get there is continents apart.

    Oh, I'm not saying they're identical, but they do tend to be brought up together (probably because the topic tends to be "good FE villains" and there's not exactly many), and I find Lyon's tragedy to be done a lot better than Arvis's, different execution and all.

    13 minutes ago, Shanty Pete's 1st Mate said:

    "Brunnya? Who's that?"

    - Me when I actually use the legendary weapons instead of hording them like some nerd.

    Imagine discouraging hoarding. Greatest strategy game of all time FE6 would never.

  9. 12 hours ago, Interdimensional Observer said:

    That is factually incorrect.🤨

    He was truly in love with Deirdre, not knowing of his blood relation with her at first. Arvis constantly feared that Deirdre might’ve had some sort of relationship with Sigurd, and so he used her to gain an unfair advantage over Sigurd because he felt that was the only way he could win against Sigurd.
    You could say Arvis is a protagonist from another perspective. Sigurd and Arvis are both protagonists in their own right, even though they are on opposing sides. If anything, Arvis is definitely not a ‘villain’; that’s why tragedy befalls him in Seliph’s chapter, caused by his own weakness.

    ...Kaga was the first Arvis megafan.😝

    I care to disagree, Arvis did little for me personally.

    Ahh, so I was correct.

    Also I've got to agree to be honest, maybe it was all the spoilers softening the impact of his actions but Arvis and his three scenes didn't exactly leave me super moved. Kind of a Brunnya effect where the concept isn't too bad but then they barely exist so they don't get to capitalize on it much.

    ...That, and Arvis is often namedropped in the same conversations as Lyon, and... Yeah, no. Arvis wishes he was as good as Lyon.

    12 hours ago, Interdimensional Observer said:

    Excuse me?

    Kaga’s comment: Sigurd’s chapter was meant simply to be foreshadowing, leading up to Seliph’s chapter.

    You misunderstood everything.😜

    This may be the reason gen 1 is better than gen 2, actually. Every time Kaga's tried to write a story that's like, "smaller part of a greater whole", it's consistently been his best stories. FE5, Berwick Saga... And I guess you can count FE4 gen 1 if he conceived it as just a prologue to Seliph's "main" story.

    9 hours ago, Shanty Pete's 1st Mate said:

    How can a person who hires Niles, of all people, hate his femboy son? And don't complain about how they turn out when your version of parenting is "stick them in a bubble and hope they don't die".

    Garon gave his child four siblings, their own castle, their own maid service, a challenging but rewarding job - and, for their sweet 16, a cool glowing sword! What more could a child want from their daddy?

    Leo is in the closet and is secretly really frustrated that his son is so much more brave and free (and pretty) than he is.

    And yeah, the game tries to frame it as child abuse, but I know better. Garon gave Corrin their own castle and army of servants because he cared, not because he was an evil man of goo.

    4 hours ago, ping said:

    Tsk. 😛

    Forgive me. I kind of saw a wall of text about FE4's mechanics and went "I have no need of this information, give me more recolors to comment on."

    4 hours ago, ping said:

    Dastardly evil King Desmond: Protects his dear daughter from contracting rabies by discreetly removing the baby fox that her brother gave him.

    Despicable abusive monster Hilda: Selflessly saves Tailtiu from having to participate in the shittier part of the game.

    Lovable and huggable (hot) girl Hilda: Emotionally manipulates the people around her, owns slaves and is unrepentant about it, stole both her name and her design.

    1 hour ago, ping said:
    3 hours ago, Interdimensional Observer said:

    YOU DEFY THE WORD OF GOD?!

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    THE AUTHOR IS DEAD! THE AUTHOR REMAINS DEAD! AND WE HAVE KILLED HIM!

    If Kaga is dead, how's he posting about the Vestaria remake on twitter?

    Checkmate, atheists.

  10. 2 minutes ago, Interdimensional Observer said:

    I've been up since about four-thirty in the morning. An old dog of mine is possibly living their last hours, or at least scaring us into thinking that, not sure right now (I hope it's just a passing fright). I'm not crying or anything, but as others are fortunately willing to put up with the burden caring for the potentially dying, I've been able -to a degree and feeling guilty doing so- keep away from the sight that causes sadness.

    Losing a pet's never easy. Hope the doggo manages to pull through.

  11. 4 minutes ago, Armagon said:

    Actually yes.

    Hmm...

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    Yeah, I can see it.

    3 minutes ago, Shrimpy -Limited Edition- said:

    His laugh especially

    He has a signature laugh? Who does this clown think he is, Riev?

    ...Actually, that wouldn't be so bad. Riev's among my favorite Gharnefs. If you want to call it that - he knows more than the other gemstones but he's not exactly a mastermind of anything.

  12. 2 hours ago, ping said:

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    And that disappears the entire Freegian army. Whoops, I'll have to reload again, this time only for the sake of level-ups.

    Do stats really do anything for gen 1 at this point? I don't remember, do they affect the children at all, or...

    2 hours ago, ping said:

    Again, I can't say how this scene would've impressed me if I hadn't been spoiled on it. I can say that I fucking love that Kaga had the balls to just end the entire first generation here. You just don't expect that in a character-centric video game - outside of this game, it's a big fucking deal when just one party member is stabbed by the evil pretty boi with long white hair, so I'm absolutely willing to give Kaga all the props for this move.

    There's a reason this scene is as famous as it is.

    2 hours ago, ping said:

    I'll also say that I found Deirdre's appearance out of place. There's been a few scenes that seem to exist for the player, not because they were natural interactions between the characters - Manfroy narrating his Evil Plan, Reptor telling Aida that he doesn't trust her boss - and this one very much feels like it's there for the added drrrrrama and not so much to develop Arvis as a character. I suppose if it is there to make him look like a shittier man and husband, then mission accomplished, but because I believe the game is trying to push Arvis more into the "the ends justify the means" corner and not "cackling villain", this act of gloating towards Sigurd feels... well, out of place, as I said.

    It's made even worse by the fact that I'm not sure Arvis knows about Deirdre being Sigurd's wife.

    56 minutes ago, BrightBow said:

    Come on, showing Deidre to him was not Alvis being a dick to Sigurd.
    Earlier in the chapter Manfroy directly called out Alvis' motives for wanting Sigurd dead, saying that he is terrified that Deidre might regain her memory eventually.
    In that context, Alvis bringing Deidre in front of Sigurd makes perfect sense. He wanted to confirm to himself that she truly has forgotten about him. Otherwise he is not going to find peace of mind.

    Ah, so he does know. My bad, then.

    2 hours ago, ping said:

    Overall, the story up to this point is head and shoulders over most other FE games - honestly, I'd only rank Tellius on a similar or higher level. And the basic struction of the plot I would even say is the best of the series (as far as I'm familiar; the usual disclaimer). A protagonist who is thrown into a hole by outside forces, but then also grabs a shovel and keeps digging? Heck yeah! The scheming, doublecrossing Arvis who still has good intentions (which require his being on top, you see, he doesn't want to be Emperor, as such) and who is himself used by Grima Wormtongue? Yeah, that's good, too.

    However, the devil is in the execution. At this moment, I can understand why some people adore Arvis as a villain... but I can't really agree with them because he has wayyy too little screentime and his entire politicking just happens off-screen. I've repeatedly complained that Sigurd's team is fed some hints about the goings-on in the shadows, but nobody ever even takes notice. And every time Manfroy was on the screen, I was honestly more disappointed than anything else by his moustache-twirling.

    With its warts and all, gen 1 does do pretty well for itself.

    ...Then there's gen 2.

    2 hours ago, ping said:

    As far as gameplay goes, the game has had its ups (ch.2 and 3, minus Orgahil) and downs (ch.4 and, honestly, 5). I've said that in ch.2 I didn't mind the back-and-forth moving of the characters, because when you're moving horsies along the roads, they move fast and you feel like things are progressing. Chapter 4 did not follow suit, with the forests and the annoyingly persistently barred bridge, and ch.5's desert is also annoying to move through with no smaller side theatres to keep you entertained elsewhere.

    This game works best when it throws a lot of roads at you. Its insistence on... well, not doing that can be positively infuriating.

    11 hours ago, ping said:

    https://joshuawright.net/slack-wyrm-111.html

    (Also not a SW quote. But funny.)

    I agree, that is funny.

    10 hours ago, BrightBow said:

    I wonder how much you are supposed to read into both of Alvis's officers being female when no one else has any female commanders. Pegasus Knights notwithstanding.

    That's a really interesting detail that I had never stopped to realize.

    6 hours ago, Shanty Pete's 1st Mate said:

    And sad as it is to say, Garon is among the better fathers in that game.

    Handsome good guy Leo: Gets very angry that his son wears pretty dresses, calls son a disgrace to his face for wearing pretty dresses, doesn't want to save his son from kidnappers because he's that angry that he wears pretty dresses.

    Ugly evil badman Garon: Lets his daughter go around dressed like Camilla.

    I was right all along.

  13. 8 minutes ago, Capt. Fargus said:

    Damn. I wanted to try that too, but not if I can’t finish it. 

    Like old pay telephones used to be, the operator would tell you “please deposit 75 cents for the next 3 minutes”. Nah, I aint playin a game that goes like that

    You can play it without spending money, but it becomes more and more tedious and grindy to "encourage" you to pay. Also, there's no finishing it - these games operate on a system where they have to keep adding content to get more money out of people, until the servers become unprofitable to maintain, at which point the game just ceases to exist.

    Awful, awful system.

  14. 2 minutes ago, Shrimpy -Limited Edition- said:

    I think so, too. It just popped in my feed a while ago and have been keeping my eye on it lol

    This one's too recent to be the same one I'm talking about, I'm realizing, but considering it appears to be a franchise and people are talking about Girls Frontline in the reviews... yeah, that one arsehole was probably pestering me about an earlier instalment of this same series.

    Which, I won't lie, is enough for me. I'm not touching this with a ten foot pole. You tell me how you feel about it, it you grab it.

    1 minute ago, Sidereal Wraith said:

    …But I don’t like gacha games.

    Settle down, Wraith, you're not that bad. On the contrary, your brand of performatory elitism is, if anything, rather endearing. And at least you keep the links to one or two per post - this one bastard spammed so many reddit links to lame gacha memes only he found funny that my (totally unrelated) Berwick thread started to have serious difficulties loading. And he was a dick, on top of all that.

    Just now, Capt. Fargus said:

    No worries. As trucker wisdom dictates, best to follow the advice of those walked the path before you, at least the first time

    Vengeance is mine sayeth Serenoa, and that biotch Avlora’s time is comin. The King and the Dawnspear shall not go unavenged 😎

    Try your level best.

    Just now, Capt. Fargus said:

    Is FE Heroes one of those? 🤔

    Yeah, gacha's what they call Heroes's genre of games where you gamble for characters, resources and/or other variables you need in gameplay.

  15. Just now, Capt. Fargus said:

    Yup, and that’s what I did. 

    I wanted to fight them invading bastards but I remembered one of the tips you gave me. Always listen to Benedict 

    Ahhh, when you said "bristled" you meant you were initially against it... Right, sorry. Non-native speaker moment lol

    Anyway, don't get me wrong, that wasn't as much a tip as it was my biased ass sponsoring my guy. There's like, only one place in the game where you can get a story game over and it isn't unavoidable if you take the path where it's at. I just think Benedict makes the most sense most of the time, but that's just me, you do what your heart tells you to do!

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