Serenes Forest's Teehee Thread

[Venger_06]

Since nobody cares about beards here's some boobs instead

[Punished Dayni]

8 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

It wasn't my most rational purchase, I'll admit. But I do not regret it.

And worse, looking at the prices right now if I were to get everything except the early game DLC it'd actually be cheaper to buy the 4 packs rather than the season pass. And that's if I actually want the overclasses, which are hilarious in how unneeded they are (Aside from restore on the Saint promote and maybe Death/Mire on F!mages and bowrange on Alm and Bow Knights, there's nothing worth consideration. Hell the Gold Knight promote seems to get nothing but stats, which is just pathetic.) and thus skipping would drop the 3 packs to below €30.

Whatever IS was thinking, it was certainly not about letting people save that's for sure. The bundles separately are only 6 euro more expensive than the pass, thus making it not worth the trouble.

9 minutes ago, WraithReborn said:

No, no degeneracies, just wondering why people bother with relationships. All I know Dayni I won’t be stupid enough to go rushing into another relationship any time soon.

I know what isolating oneself can be like and frankly it's awful and I don't know if a breakup like yours would be worse, but I know how hollow I was at the time and I don't want to see that again.

11 minutes ago, WraithReborn said:

…Blasphemy.

I mean, it's a remake of an NES game that was having to experiment with the fundamentals when SDatBoL was too much for the NES.

Kaga wouldn't find a stable baseline until MotE. I don't think it's hard to say that.

[Sidereal Wraith]

4 minutes ago, Dayni said:

I know what isolating oneself can be like and frankly it's awful and I don't know if a breakup like yours would be worse, but I know how hollow I was at the time and I don't want to see that again.

I mean, it's a remake of an NES game that was having to experiment with the fundamentals when SDatBoL was too much for the NES.

Kaga wouldn't find a stable baseline until MotE. I don't think it's hard to say that.

The breakup is way worse. Oh and more blasphemy.

[Saint Rubenio]

27 minutes ago, Ghost_06_ said:

Since nobody cares about beards here's some boobs instead

Hey Ghost, who's your favorite character in Dragon Age Awakening? No particular reason I'm asking, I'm just going to give them a painful, horrifying death when I get around to playing the game.

 

28 minutes ago, Dayni said:

And worse, looking at the prices right now if I were to get everything except the early game DLC it'd actually be cheaper to buy the 4 packs rather than the season pass. And that's if I actually want the overclasses, which are hilarious in how unneeded they are (Aside from restore on the Saint promote and maybe Death/Mire on F!mages and bowrange on Alm and Bow Knights, there's nothing worth consideration. Hell the Gold Knight promote seems to get nothing but stats, which is just pathetic.) and thus skipping would drop the 3 packs to below €30.

Whatever IS was thinking, it was certainly not about letting people save that's for sure. The bundles separately are only 6 euro more expensive than the pass, thus making it not worth the trouble.

Yes, they got way too carried away with the Echoes DLC. I'd argue RotD and the Cypher characters are fine-ish, there's at least some decent content there, but everything else is completely worthless. Like, seriously? Grinding maps in a game that already has plenty of places to grind? Who thought that was even remotely reasonable...?

...Though it's still better than Three Houses, in my opinion. Fire Emblem has generally handled DLC really poorly, but at least in Awakening, Fates and Echoes you can just pick up what you like. It's something. In Three Houses you are forced to grab the season pack, which is comprised entirely of embarrasingly useless fluff and Cindered Shadows. So really, 25 bucks for Cindered Shadows, which is way more than any of the DLC campaigns in Fates and Echoes. And people ate it up, so we can expect more of that in the next FE. Hurray.

Though, I guess to be fair, Cindered Shadows is slightly longer than Heirs of Fate or Rise of the Deliverance, isn't it. Totally justifies the price difference.

28 minutes ago, Dayni said:

I mean, it's a remake of an NES game that was having to experiment with the fundamentals when SDatBoL was too much for the NES.

Kaga wouldn't find a stable baseline until MotE. I don't think it's hard to say that.

Considering Genealogy and the KagaSagas, I'd say Kaga never found (or really wanted) a stable baseline. We just perceive MotE as a "stable baseline" because post-Kaga FE all followed MotE's example. But even Thracia mixes things up on that "formula", and TearRing I'd argue doesn't really count because it was more Kaga's own remake of Gaiden in less limited hardware.

[Interdimensional Observer]

6 hours ago, Dayni said:

>Remembers some numbers from Neo

I don't take these things as granted. Even if I have done them by now.

As I said, I'll lower my level in the postgame. Finish the story, hog out on food, get the best attire, and then worry about filling the Noisepedia. I doubt any Hard drops with low rates will make or break the story's challenge, and Ultimate difficulty is postgame-only anyhow I assume.  

...Still need to finish Day 7 first though, I spent most of yesterday sitting outside in the last nice day of weather for the year, and returning to a drab old fanfict of mine.

 

2 hours ago, Armagon said:

Marriage pretty much symbolizes the next step but yeah, I get your point because of how it's been "legalized". Back then, you just got married and that was it (unless you were higher-class, in which a whole bunch of baggage came with that), now you gotta sign a bunch of papers and shit.

"Common-law marriage" is a concept that has existed for centuries. (I want to say that either Benjamin Franklin or Andrew Jackson were in common-law situations.) Although it/"cohabitation" most often doesn't have the rights of true, formalized marriage, perhaps a lawyer could argue for them. But why then not tie the knot with no ceremony if you really want your significant other to receive some social welfare benefits or the like from being so closely bonded to you?

 

1 hour ago, Dayni said:

Also are you talking in favour of open relationships and other degeneracies now?

Being in a loving marriage ought to absolve one of being charged as degenerate, for it indicates a willingness to embrace traditional concepts of love. Therefore, those who are wedded have mutual rights to pursue things as such as legal pornography, solo visits to sex dungeons, and swinging at sex resorts and conventions wherein both spouses are in attendance. If your potential spouse has a problem with an NSFW dakimura whom you hug for a little while every night on the opposite side of the bed them, despite you meeting all their sexual and romantic needs and them admitting to being perfectly happy with you in mundane life, they might be the problem, not your dakimura. -So I decree! 😛

Edited October 26, 2021 by Interdimensional Observer

[Spara]

Does anybody here remember that one madlad's incredibly strength-blessed Christine I posted here a while back?

Well, today, they finished their run.

Spoiler

 

[Saint Rubenio]

27 minutes ago, Spara said:

Does anybody here remember that one madlad's incredibly strength-blessed Christine I posted here a while back?

Well, today, they finished their run.

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22 defense on Christine.

I mean, I know 5 of that must come from the Gotoh, but... holy shit, 22 defense.

Honestly that's more insane than the strength at this point.

[Shrimpica]

Finished storge. That was short and sweet

2 hours ago, Ghost_06_ said:

Since nobody cares about beards here's some boobs instead

Best girl!

29 minutes ago, Spara said:

Does anybody here remember that one madlad's incredibly strength-blessed Christine I posted here a while back?

Well, today, they finished their run.

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Damn that's blessed

And not just str, but everything lol

Edited October 26, 2021 by Shrimp γ

[Saint Rubenio]

1 minute ago, Shrimp γ said:

Finished storge. That was short and sweet

That's certainly a good description.

[Benice]

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Meanwhile me: Best part of the game was the first stretch and it declined steadily from there.

Seriously, the mad rush to Kuze was the most fun I had with the game by a long, long shot. Well, that and the first time I used the beast fighting style.

It took me, like, two hours to get to Kuze, so I excluded that part; just until, like, 10 minutes after you get Rush.

To be fair, you dropped the game at Ch. 7 or so, so you didn't get to see the payoff of the plot when it's slower in the middle section.

 

'Morning, all!

Edited October 26, 2021 by Benice

[Shrimpica]

 

[Punished Dayni]

42 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Yes, they got way too carried away with the Echoes DLC. I'd argue RotD and the Cypher characters are fine-ish, there's at least some decent content there, but everything else is completely worthless. Like, seriously? Grinding maps in a game that already has plenty of places to grind? Who thought that was even remotely reasonable...?

...Though it's still better than Three Houses, in my opinion. Fire Emblem has generally handled DLC really poorly, but at least in Awakening, Fates and Echoes you can just pick up what you like. It's something. In Three Houses you are forced to grab the season pack, which is comprised entirely of embarrasingly useless fluff and Cindered Shadows. So really, 25 bucks for Cindered Shadows, which is way more than any of the DLC campaigns in Fates and Echoes. And people ate it up, so we can expect more of that in the next FE. Hurray.

Though, I guess to be fair, Cindered Shadows is slightly longer than Heirs of Fate or Rise of the Deliverance, isn't it. Totally justifies the price difference.

The gold map alongside the dungeons in the first two packs (mostly the one from the second) could be arguable, though I don't think it'll be of much help for those just going through the main game.

>implying I paid full price for CS

If by slightly you mean 2-3 extra maps, sure. I'd say a fairer comparison for SoV on paper would be putting Cipher and Rise of the Deliverance together, while as for Fates there's no real "new characters added to the roster after campaigns". No I am not making points on Anna, it's been diminishing returns since Awakening.

Said 3H DLC also having extra classes paralogues and Abyss in the main campaign alongside the fluff, I'm not as full of contempt for it.

43 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Considering Genealogy and the KagaSagas, I'd say Kaga never found (or really wanted) a stable baseline. We just perceive MotE as a "stable baseline" because post-Kaga FE all followed MotE's example. But even Thracia mixes things up on that "formula", and TearRing I'd argue doesn't really count because it was more Kaga's own remake of Gaiden in less limited hardware.

I mean that every other FE has this as the basic reference point in terms of the map design and combat, no matter what they add, chop or change. Kaga specifically not really wanting one I can understand, but when he left it's quite apparent BB took steps back towards MotE and titles for a good while went from there (alongside the notes).

34 minutes ago, Interdimensional Observer said:

As I said, I'll lower my level in the postgame. Finish the story, hog out on food, get the best attire, and then worry about filling the Noisepedia. I doubt any Hard drops with low rates will make or break the story's challenge, and Ultimate difficulty is postgame-only anyhow I assume.  

...Still need to finish Day 7 first though, I spent most of yesterday sitting outside in the last nice day of weather for the year, and returning to a drab old fanfict of mine.

I don't think there's much equipment that's going to change the world if you don't get it from a drop,

As for getting the best attire, it took me a while to get everything. As in I'd only just gotten it all recently (though that's partly because of a pin I missed by accident that I ended up stumbling on what I had to do for it yesterday.)

1 hour ago, Interdimensional Observer said:

"Common-law marriage" is a concept that has existed for centuries. (I want to say that either Benjamin Franklin or Andrew Jackson were in common-law situations.) Although it/"cohabitation" most often doesn't have the rights of true, formalized marriage, perhaps a lawyer could argue for them. But why then not tie the knot with no ceremony if you really want your significant other to receive some social welfare benefits or the like from being so closely bonded to you?

I do suspect doing so without any sort of pageantry would raise more than a few people's heckles. Elopement's already seen as scandalous for some and even if that's not happening marriages that aren't given a sufficiently large degree of pomp and ceremony are certainly stared down upon..

34 minutes ago, Interdimensional Observer said:

Being in a loving marriage ought to absolve one of being charged as degenerate, for it indicates a willingness to embrace traditional concepts of love. Therefore, those who are wedded have mutual rights to pursue things as such as legal pornography, solo visits to sex dungeons, and swinging at sex resorts and conventions wherein both spouses are in attendance. If your potential spouse has a problem with an NSFW dakimura whom you hug for a little while every night on the opposite side of the bed them, despite you meeting all their sexual and romantic needs and them admitting to being perfectly happy with you in mundane life, they might be the problem, not your dakimura. -So I decree! 😛

I mean, I'm not going to get into massive shame piling what people are doing together comfortably inside with themselves much, though I do think that there aren't many couples who could work with these kinds of limitations.

I'm also pretty sure that bringing in that dakimura is going to raise plenty of people's eyebrows. Part of me now wants a long pillow for the bed though.

1 minute ago, Ghost_06_ said:

Since nobody cares about beards here's some boobs instead

Well some of us have twitter blocked from fully loading and can't see the pics loaded in this page anyway.

And also when the majority of pics posted on the thread are of one particular topic it's easy for the assumption to form.

How many updoot for our kindly old mages

[Shrimpica]

 

[Saint Rubenio]

20 minutes ago, Dayni said:

If by slightly you mean 2-3 extra maps, sure. I'd say a fairer comparison for SoV on paper would be putting Cipher and Rise of the Deliverance together, while as for Fates there's no real "new characters added to the roster after campaigns". No I am not making points on Anna, it's been diminishing returns since Awakening.

Said 3H DLC also having extra classes paralogues and Abyss in the main campaign alongside the fluff, I'm not as full of contempt for it.

Well, that's a fair point of view, I suppose.

20 minutes ago, Dayni said:

I mean that every other FE has this as the basic reference point in terms of the map design and combat, no matter what they add, chop or change. Kaga specifically not really wanting one I can understand, but when he left it's quite apparent BB took steps back towards MotE and titles for a good while went from there (alongside the notes).

Ahh, right right. Sorry, misunderstood your post.

20 minutes ago, Dayni said:

Well some of us have twitter blocked from fully loading and can't see the pics loaded in this page anyway.

And also when the majority of pics posted on the thread are of one particular topic it's easy for the assumption to form.

Anime teens galore.

20 minutes ago, Dayni said:

How many updoot for our kindly old mages

Nomah cool. I just wish he would join earlier than the friggin' sewer for no reason.

[Acacia Sgt]

At least he doesn't join as late as Mycen, pft.

[Lightcosmo]

Started playing Disgaea.

[Punished Dayni]

1 minute ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Well, that's a fair point of view, I suppose.

I'd agree however that outside the Wave 4 material there's very little locked behind the DLC. Exactly why there should have been more.

2 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Nomah cool. I just wish he would join earlier than the friggin' sewer for no reason.

He got lost, okay? Celica heading to the desert threw him.

18 minutes ago, Shrimp γ said:

 

[Interdimensional Observer]

6 minutes ago, lightcosmo said:

Started playing Disgaea.

Try to have fun!😃 I don't know which you're playing, and if you're playing the original, which version of the original you're playing.

I tried the DS version of Disgaea 1 when I was in high school. I went in all hyped up ...and I got Pleinair early and soloed the game with her until the postgame, where I used a bunch of the postgame bonus characters to defeat Baal. Too much grind/10. It has turned me off ever trying another NIS game. Although in the absence of another Etrian Odyssey, I've a slight interest for this eating & dungeon crawling game they're working on.

[Shrimpica]

There was a ''What ideas do you have for a hack'' Thread on FeU. 

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Witch hunt setting.

MC will be a survivor from one such witch hunt, on the run from and fighting against kingdom/church, and trying to find the reason for the injustice against her kind.

I already have some ideas written down (including the ending) but implementation will probably never happen because creating stuff is hard…

Some ideas i wrote down include:

• MC will have access to a “save” magic. 3 Times per chapter you can save your progress
• Weapon triangle will be relegated to skills. Instead, weapons types will have different abilities. For example, Swords can counter at range if speed is high enough (think Berwick counter slice), while Lances will have better range access than other melee weapons at the cost of damage and Axes will have high risk high reward combat arts (not rng related)
• Same with magic. Example Fire magic can burn down forest terrain, while wind magic can give units flying movements. The magic system shall be greatly expanded to distinguish it from being physical weapons that target res. High level magic might require cast/charge time. Support stuff will be split across the different elements so no more staves.
• A quest system ala berwick, but more streamlined
• No evul dragon of doom that ruin 90% of FE stories. Although dragons exist yes.
• For inventory management i am thinking something akin to fates, but instead of debuffs for high tier weapons limited use per chapter instead.
• More focus on skills and combat arts. No trigger skills tho.
• Crit damage reduced to 1.5x, however crit classes (Swordmasters, Berserkers, etc.) and crit weapons (killer weapons) will deal the ‘normal’ 3x crit damage.
• Revamped support system where supports are integrated into the story and more group talks rather than 1-on-1. Gameplay wise support skills instead of passive bonuses. For example Armors can guard supported units while Archers can give an extra Attack.
• 6 standard move ala Jugdral/Tellius.
• For Armor units i have a couple ideas, that doesn’t include giving them standard mov. One such idea is giving them acess to different shields (not just Def+), like a mirror shield that can reflect magic attacks in exchange for decreased physical defense, or a absorb shield that absorbs damage and heals adjacent allies for damage taken, or a zone shield that makes adjacent spaces inaccessible to enemies, etc. Another is making them the only class that can equip multiple accessories. Make them go through terrain unimpeded. Giving them standard mov is something i don’t wanna do.

Those are some of the ideas i have written down that will probably never see the light of the day in a game/hack. I have been playing around a bit with SRPG studio, but didn’t really create anything impressive. I wanna try creating a cool map first. Hopefully until next FEE3 i would’ve created one map xD.

This was my response, alot of which i am sure you have seen in this thread before xD

[Acacia Sgt]

I have an entire Word document for an answer and it's still WIP. XD

[Shrimpica]

Same with fanfics lol

Edited October 26, 2021 by Shrimp γ

[DragonFlames]

6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Genny's great. I'm not usually a fan of that kind of character, but... Okay, look. Even I have my limits. Genny going "I'm ready to roll!" is the cutest thing ever and even I cannot resist it.

Also, I laughed way too hard the first time she got a crit and went "NOW I'M ANGERY". She's hilarious.

*high five*
Genny is legitimately one of my favorite characters in Echoes, a game I already consider to have a great cast in general (except Gray).

Not to mention she somehow managed to become one of my best combat units on Celica's side of things during my first playthrough, which I found to be quite amazing. Always love when a character I like also turns out to be a good unit!
I'm proud of my invincible cleric, is basically what I'm saying.

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I'm watching Genny solo maps with nosferatu

Yep, that's Genny!

4 hours ago, WraithReborn said:

I’ve actually never felt the urge to beat Fates for a second time after finishing it back in 2016.

I really shouldn't have, but I did. And I regret it immensely.

41 minutes ago, lightcosmo said:

Started playing Disgaea.

Ayy, nice! Been meaning to look into that series myself after really liking Labyrinth of Refrain (another game by that developer).

...

Also

She just has these vibes like she's bursting through the door and is like "ayy, whatup guys?", when there's something completely serious being talked about in the room right now. XD

[Acacia Sgt]

4 minutes ago, Shrimp γ said:

Same with fanfics lol

Oh yes, totally!

Edited October 26, 2021 by Acacia Sgt

[Shrimpica]

ayy QP

[DragonFlames]

Just now, Shrimp γ said:

ayy QP

Yup, yup!
Still the character I played as the most. Even if she is somewhat outclassed by all the severely OP DLC characters (especially the newest ones... ESPECIALLY the new Fernet... like, holy hell) she's just so much fun to use! ^^

I also picked her, for my first story mode, and I dunno if it's connected to that, but for whatever reason, I have this:

Really don't know what this is about or how/why I got it, but I do. XD