Saint Rubenio

You say that like he doesn't have his own hack already. And yes, playable Gheb will be a thing. I'll try to spend as little time on him as possible. Hardy har har.

Well, you know me. I prefer my warrior girls when they don't stink of "I was created so men can gawk at me like a piece of meat (and pay moneys for it)" syndrome. If I wanted a porn game, I'd get a porn game, not a 60$ SRPG. Of course, if you're going to have horny shit, I find that I prefer when it has a wee bit more subtlety than that of an elephant wielding a sledgehammer in a porcelain store. IE basically everything I've seen from Vanillaware. But maybe I'm just weird.

Fine, you are correct. Time to nerf Bone. You're so funny. Has anyone ever told you that? Yes. Whatever that's supposed to mean.

I mean, it's not the artwork. My interest for this game has been rather low in general. The godawful artwork certainly doesn't help, though.

I probably should've worded it differently, yeah. You folks have fun. The first time I murdered Seth and it was a lot of fun. The second time I murdered the entire cast of FE6 and it was a lot of fun. It was only a matter of time before I went ahead and explored the boundless possibilities of the Lyon Wins timeline. While murdering the entire cast of FE8*, of course. It is being a lot of fun. * There may be one exception. No, it's not Moulder, Moulder already died at the Tower of Valni

I think I'll wait for you all to play it. And for myself to be done hacking FE8 so I feel like playing videogames again lol. Then I've got to finish the Berwick Saga ranked, I should probably go back to Radiata Stories and finish that too, and...

You wish it was that way but that just finished killing my interest in the game lmao

Happy one to ya @Newtype06 Finally. The US becomes inhabitable. Yeah, you know what? Fuck this game.

Well... Not in this game, he didn't. Yeah, you know you've succeeded when the Camus actually seems like the reasonable one. It's a shame that his two dumbass choices are the only thing people ever remember. Though, in fairness, they are really dumbass choices.

Oh I forgot this portrait was also here. Come to think about it, I don't think Thracia has a generic soldier at all - it just uses recolored bossmen and such for its cutscene nobodies. Then FE6 created the red soldier boy that would go on to become the series' staple generic. For a while, at least. Awakening onwards they were giving all generic classes their own portraits, so having a generic soldier for cutscenes stopped being necessary. Yeah, it's a pretty interesting situation they came up with here. Chances are even if Chagall waited out the year, Grannvale would've just gone "lol no" at Sigurd's request to let him get his kingdom back, and then basically the same thing would happen in the end. No it doesn't, since the narration says your band's "revilled." And the narrator wouldn't lie, would they? Honestly, thinking about it, the situation with the pirates is just weird. One moment they're revilled bastards. The next Briggid is actually trying to make them into a band of Robin Hoods. Then her cronies are evil bastards, but her old father, who they had also served under, was also seemingly a good dude? So then why didn't the evil bastards try to oust that guy instead? Why do they act so surprised that his daughter, too, is not an asshole? I'm probably thinking too hard on something that probably came about from a single sentence's worth of thought process: "We need brigands to burn down villages, put Briggid there and establish she's a good gal for her recruitment." The ol' cap'n was Kaga, he imprinted the importance of divine right to rule upon his subjects-- I mean, his men. Of course not. Sigurd left a 10(?) year old to protect Deirdre. He'll kick the asses of any teleporting garbage bagmen that show up to kidnap her. Watch. Would you look at that. Even if Ping ends up depriving him of his precious, he might still end up being as good as he deserves to be. You ever think about the fact that they called this guy Levin even though he dabbles in wind magic, and then aptly named the thunder sword Levin even though the FE Levin has nothing to do with thunder? And then solved this conundrum by renaming Levin, the character, Lewyn? ...Jesus Christ, what a mess...

Well, I'm sorry, or I'm glad, depending on how it turns out.

No, I don't think much of anyone has much sympathy for Yuzu specifically. Them being greedy assholes is old news, and Ryujinx was more and more often considered the better emulator, with Yuzu essentially being the hacky option for people with worse computers. Again, the worry is that Nintendo will use this as precedent to hop onto real "big corpo vs the little guy" cases. Let's not lose sight of that. It's not looking that likely, but who knows.

lmao It does, what it doesn't have is a fast forward button. But you can totally increase the speed of the game on the settings menu, or in increments with a bind. I know because I accidentally pressed the button at one point and spent an unknown amount of time playing the game at 105% speed until I realized the music sounded a bit weird.

Eyup. Existing versions will be easily available, not to mention it's open source so forks might be made. Also, another emulator Mikage is being made. Though it is not public yet, when it comes out it might just be better than Citra anyway because Citra is a pretty lackluster emulator, all things considered. As for Switch... Well, it sucks for people with lesser computers because Ryujinx is harder to run, but Ryujinx is the better emu anyway and its devs are far less awful. All in all, consequences aren't too bad. It's the precedent that worries some.

There's certainly a possibility I have just spread misinformation lol. I myself received this information second-hand - or more like third-hand, considering the image isn't even the leaker either. If anyone finds out I'm wrong and ugly, please do yell at me.

So, Unicorn Overlord has purportedly been leaked. Watch out for them spoilers folks. I did want to bring up this one thing, though, because I believe it may be of interest to some. By some I mean @Interdimensional Observer This concerns the game's romance options. The only spoiler here is a broad description of who you can date in the game, nothing more. About what most expected. I just hope they don't try going after anyone else now. And that, if they do, they actually take them to court, win and Ninty eats shit. Too optimistic, I know.

If it wasn't for the constant insistence from all sorts of sources for the pairing, that'd be a nice and charitable way to interpret this bit of dialogue. Bit late there, champ. Considering current real life events, this concept is... disturbingly relevant. This is very funny when it's on a jobber like Chagall. If only it was always that way. As critical as I often am about this game, I did enjoy my first FE4 run enough that I got from start to finish without really having to force myself. It was very far from a FE I'd call super enjoyable, but it wasn't so bad that I couldn't get to the end either. What I'm trying to say is, I get what you mean here. That said, I also feel this is probably one of the least replayable, if not the least replayable FE in the series. Because on replay you're going to feel all the walking, all the arenaing and where's the variety? There's one small team for gen 1 you're basically always going to use, and second gen is a choice between breaking the game with obscene child units (children are basically always good, you have to look hard for parents that yield a genuinely bad child - except for Sylvia's kids, who are the opposite lmao) or getting subs and still breaking it with the few broken fixed units you still get. There's an argument to be made about how important replayability is, but for this series in particular it's one of its main draws for me personally, which made my opinion of this game tank severely. The game likes to drive home the point that she looks childlike a bit too much. Which is not good, to say the least. Sadly, a constant character trait of Kaga throughout his plotline. I'd say it's more like the king could just come along and say "hey Sigurd, do this thing that happens to be the opposite of what you promised to Eldigan" and then Sigurd has to commit treason or break his promises. I don't recall exactly how the transition from chapter 2 to 3 goes, but... Well, two guesses as to what he ends up doing. Anyway, agreed on this being pretty well done. Aside from The One Moment and a few bits with Arvis, the shenanigans with Eldigan are probably the story's best points, so enjoy them while they last. Pretty sure that's actually what I did, myself. Either that or I just powered on through. I can't remember. Actually, I might've just powered on through lol. I do remember I had Lewyn take care of the village cluster, it seemed like the most obvious course of action.

Well, he's my favorite character in the game, and also the one I'd say is best written. As funny as calling him Uncle War crimes is, there's very few places where you can really disagree with his arguments. Even when he's proposing something thoroughly heinous it's less "haha I'm the pragmatic asshole who wants to do the bad things" and more "if we don't do this we're going to die and accomplish nothing for it, it's better to do this bad thing now and live to correct it later." Later in the game his full motivations are revealed and it actually shines a really different light his actions throughout the game - which is the best kind of writing.

He actually is lol Yeah, but Brock didn't have this guy's furrowed brow and crooked neck. Nah, Zane's just holding a wicked shit. He's been holding that same wicked shit for 7 years, but he's too dutiful to take 10 minutes to go to the restroom. What if his lord needs him then!? Padolf's the best, though. He's the funniest bossman in the game. Meme stat through the roof.

Clement tends to be one of the more memorable bossmen in the game for people because of this. In a sea of virtually identical evil morons with the exact same personality - and despite having the face of one - he stands out as just some guy who doesn't even seem like he's necessarily the bad guy in the situation. Sigurd is the aggressor here, after all. Kaga likes to do that sometimes. Having bosses be oddly weak when story-appropriate. And viceversa, a few times. Yeah he did that. Meme is achieved. Now it's Ardenin' time. Lewyn being a shitty person is, sadly, another constant throughout the game. I forgot Project Naga rewrote his death quote. In older patches his death quote was an utterly incomprehensible "urgh... don't forget me..." which, ironically, did ensure people wouldn't forget him, as they wondered what the heck he could have possibly meant by asking his murderers to keep his memory in mind. I suspect this line is probably the intended one. You can almost interpret a similar message conveyed by the original if you squint hard enough, but the wording's beyond bizarre. Sylvia looking so young in general is iffy. But Kaga will Kaga, I suppose. Sigurd's addicted to war crimes now. It won't be long before he transforms into Benedict Triangle Strategy. Oh hey, they actually acknowledge it. Neat. Eggads, Sandima is back to life! I don't know, judging by his facial expression, I'd say the only thing he's going to hit is the crapper.

Holy fuck the world map in FE8 is difficult to hack. Limitation breeds creativity, though, as they say. I've had to adapt my plans but I've been able to ìt together a decent solution. Hopefully. Sometimes disconnecting does wonders. Good that you're feeling better.

I don't like peggy sues. They're coarse, and rough, and irritating, and they get everywhere. More to the point, they're made in a factory and they're all boring, which is worse than being bad or evil. Fury is a pretty awesome name, I'll give her that much, but beyond that she's exactly the same as every other peggy sue ever. Archetype 1 of 2: The serious one. That is rather amazing, I suppose.

Lame. I retract my previous statement. To be honest, Chagall's design doesn't look that generic to me. It's the last portrait I would've reused in the way they did. And yeah, I'd expect Clement would get a more serious look, given his more subdued personality.

Gaming has historically been a culture that's not friendly to women. Y'know, because Big G Gamers are a bunch of misogynists. This leads to less women wanting to get into the culture, which means the folks producing it market their stuff to women less often, which leads to Big G Gamers feeling satisfied in the fact that gaming is biologically not for women. Self-fulfilling prophecies galore. I really don't, but not to worry. I shall give him the worthiest of deaths in the new hack. I did say it "simulates" the original GBA's lighting. It's an aproximation. An accurate one, from what I've gathered, but an aproximation. This is indeed an early screenshot. Perhaps from before they realized this color palette would make the grass look like swamp goop on the GBA's dimly lit screen, and the villages would be an indecipherable dark shape? ...Hey, I just noticed, the female mercenary world sprite is there. It survived all the way to FE8, where it's still an unused artifact in the files. Huh.

IntSys halfassed... What? Again, the whole reason of the textures looking like that was an unavoidable hardware limitation. Of course applying a filter that simulates the lighting conditions of the GBA is going to fix the looks. The filter is how they looked on the GBA, it's emulators lacking the hardware issue that are the problem here. What, you wanted IntSys to fix the GBA's lack of backlight themselves? Everything is yellow because the yellows become brown-ish when the lighting is less saturated. Just look once more at the screenshot I posted. The yellow tiles outside Etruria Castle become an ocre tone much closer to the floors of Thracia you just posted there. The greens are brighter but much more clearly green, and the blues aren't nearly as loud. Again, this filter is not me fixing the game. It's how the game looked originally. At least, as I understand it.