Azure Sen
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5 hours ago, Water Mage said:
I don’t get why anyone is angry. This actually makes a lot of sense considering the Gacha market. Especially those who play Fate/GO. They should totally have seen this coming. Saberface is a thing and it gets them lot of money.
Will Camilla become Fire Emblem’s Saber?
Altria is the face of the Fate series, she has been since the series started, and no one else in FGO has anywhere near the number of versions she does, with the most being Liz at 4/5. Also, as pointed out, each version of her is treated and written as a different character, or at least the same character at a different point of her life - original is her in her prime, Lily is her before she became the heroic king of Britain, Lancetoria is older and wiser her from another universe, MHX and by extension MHXX are actual jokes, and the Alters are all separate characters too; the only straight fanservice only variant of regular Altria is Summer Altria. Camilla is literally just the same character released over and over with nothing changing except the amount of clothes she wears, and she's far from being the face of the series.
That's also not getting into how most Altria variants bring something different to the table gameplay wise while Camilla is always flying and often ranged, or how Altria's alts have been spread over three years while Camilla's have been crammed into a year and a half or so span, or how "Saberfaces" are both still seperate, unique characters with their own merits while again Camilla is just the same person released over and over.
Second, this sort of alt saturation is actually pretty uncommon among gachas, especially the bigger ones. Altria is the exception rather than the rule in FGO, with most characters that do have multiple versions having 2-4 versions at most. GBF is fairly evenly spread in its alts as well, as is Dragalia. Camilla's physical counterpart, Narmaya, in GBF has all of three versions. The only gacha I know of that have comparable alt saturation are Dragon Ball Z ones.
Also I'd like to point out that a( we know Camilla isn't making them oodles of money anymore because Adrift happened and yet November was one of the lowest grossing months in the game so far according to independent reports and b( this Camilla is free so she doesn't even make them money.
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On 11/4/2018 at 10:18 PM, 1% Critical Hit said:
Also, this could be an introductory point for someone who never ever actually played a Shin Megami Tensei game before?
Yes and no? The difficulty of TMS is definitely a good primer for SMT games' general difficulty but SMT's tone is drastically darker and more bleak.
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To quote myself from a previous thread on the topic:
QuoteI'm against it. Unlike Book 1 and 2 of Mystery, Binding Blade and Blazing Sword have a twenty-year gap between them that renders them ultimately pretty irrelevant to each other. They share a general world and a handful of characters, but not much else, and I'd rather neither game suffer the abridging and cast reduction they had to do to get the Book 1/3 format work. The most I would like to see is some sort of save bonus feature where the children in 6 Echoes get growth modifiers or special items depending on who their parent was in 7 Echoes.
That thread was about an FE3 format for the two, but it applies to any form of them being connected together.
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6 minutes ago, Rezzy said:
Archer's an odd choice for Lucina. Does she have natural access to that?
Chrom gives natural access to Archer by default.
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Eyyy, Lucina! I'm very pleased with their choice this time, Lucina hasn't gotten an alt in a while and all of her previous versions have sort of slid downwards in usefulness, so I appreciate them giving her this leg version. I do find it funny that Lucina Emblem is 3/5ths blues.
Just now, Rafiel's Aria said:Can I just say that I really like her art? Not going to have the resources to do any real pulling on this banner, but at the very least, I do think she's gorgeous. I'd like to have her someday.
Agreed 100%. Yamada knocked it out of the park yet again.
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I rate pretty much every event in terms of how much free stuff it gives out, the ease of acquiring said stuff, and such. From best to worst:
1. Tempest Trial+: Same rewards with half the grinding time, and thus the best event.
2. Voting Gauntlet: I actually likes multipliers because it means there's the potential for interesting match-ups and wins instead of the same boring characters that IntSys refuses to retire winning all the time (and as a tangent, I have no idea why people want a straight popularity contest and thus the same winners all the time which sounds insufferably boring, outside of wanting feathers). There's no real grind which is nice too. I do wish there was a system in place that would balance the color of your allies, though.
3. Grand Conquest: I find Rival Domains-style gameplay to be pretty boring overall since it's just normal combat but with more units, but since GC has actual good rewards and you can just use 8 spears and autobattle it that means the grind is minimal, which means GC itself is pretty high up on the list for me.
4: Forging Bonds: TT but you need to get four different scores and also the rewards are pretty mediocre (1 orb per character? yeah no). The grind makes this pretty unbearable and the idea of support conversations is nice in theory but a( was given to Awakening characters who don't need more supports and b( is just an excuse for more player butt-kissing.
5: Tap battle. What a pointless and content-free mode. The rewards are okay but being a mediocre rhythm game with stages that go on for too long kills it for me. The only real benefit is that if you wait a couple days it's not super-grindy.
6: OG Tempest Trials. Thank goodness these are gone because boy were they obnoxious.
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Saber: Marth, as he is the only one with a long enough time gap in-series to justify him actually being a Saber
Lancer: Oboro, her tragic backstory makes her a perfect fit for Lancer
Archer: Beck, as any projectile weapon qualifies for Archer and a ballista is more impressive
Rider:
shitpost answer is Corrin because of the other "Riding"qualificationactual answer is Sigurd because being a rider can be just as much about leading an army as it is riding a horseCaster: Literally anyone, thanks for being the actual dumping ground of Servant classes, Caster
Assassin: Jaffar, because he's an actual assassin and not one just in FE class
Berserker: Muarim, as he's one of the few characters in the series that actually had something akin to a berserker rage
Ruler: No one, since no FE character is a Catholic saint
Avenger: Rutger
Moon Cancer: No one, since no one in FE is BB
Alter-Ego: Anankos, because of the whole splitting himself thing
Foreigner: Lyon, because the Demon King is the closest thing the series has to an Elder God
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1 minute ago, Vaximillian said:
I won’t count on it increasing any time soon. Then again, I didn’t read the newspost about the “event”, so maybe it won’t take a whole circle for it to increment.
According to the notes, both the modifier and the friendship drop rate-up change every six hours. But unless the multiplier hits at least the double digits, I can't see it being much help.
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While I try to temper my expectations and be positive about new things, this mode is pretty bad. It's basically the old style of TT, except the rewards are worse, the stamina cost is obscene, and the nature of it makes it impossible to do with any sort of efficiency. This and the arena changes are just two of the many things that have made me realize that IntSys never had any real idea of how to sustain Heroes in the long term and how unprepared they are to keep it going now that it's become so profitable.
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1 hour ago, Simpsons138 said:
So, can we all agree that Hríd will be a Earth/Def hero? Mostly to be different from Fjorm and Gunnthrá who are Water/Spd and Wind/Res respectively
Given the pattern that's gone so far, it's more likely that Hrid will be Wind unless they throw us for a loop, so I'd imagine he'll be Wind/Def if anything.
7 minutes ago, Johann said:August will be interesting, since red is the slot with the highest demand among potential characters. I'm kinda surprised they made Hrid a sword guy given how common those are in FE, even within Heroes OCs (it's the most common weapon type among them as of Hrid's introduction).
Apparently they need to make the reds as boring as possible. At least Hrid can potentially get a weapon with cool effects unlike Ike and Ryoma just using the weapons from their normal forms.
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If Hrid is a legendary hero, he'll probably be August's since that's the next one where a red is most likely going to happen, as Ike comes back in September and Ryoma is July's red leg hero. This month...I dunno. It could be Awakening related but I doubt it.
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26 minutes ago, silveraura25 said:
But the fact remains that they were there right next to the banners
I'm not saying there will be a Conquest banner, just that there have been in recent memory BHBs that happened to to take place around the time a new heroes banner came out that can be associated with them
By that logic, the new banner could just as well be FE7 related, since we're also getting the Lucius and Raven BHB revival shortly before the new banner. Not to mention what Ice Dragon said about it being the exception, not the rule.
Also, considering that we haven't gotten an actual Hoshido banner and we just had a Fates banner fairly recently, a Nohr banner would be ridiculously out of place.
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2 minutes ago, silveraura25 said:
@Azure Sen Fates banner and Hinoka BHB. Legendary Hector and Hector BHB
Hinoka's was a revival and the Hector and Matthew BHB didn't start until after the Leg Banner had passed.
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55 minutes ago, mcsilas said:
New heroes smell like a Conquest themed banner due to Fallen Takumi rerun and the BHB
Doubtful. BHBs rarely ever have any connection to concurrent banners and the GHB re-runs have fixed order dependent on the order they ran so Fallen Takumi would be this month regardless of whom was on the banner.
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I'm mostly interested in seeing what the seasonal on the 10th is.
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29 minutes ago, Sunwoo said:
Like ... giving old tempest rewards at like 4-star rarity would be perfect for tap battle mode, I really wish they'd do that.
I'm guessing in future they'll either make them GC rewards or put most of them in the general summoning pool a la Kaze. I wish they'd do something, because I missed every TT unit before Joshua and I'd like a chance to get them that doesn't involve me shelling out cash for one.
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I think the BK only got that deal because they realized that giving out a really powerful and popular unit like him for free was a not a good idea in the long run. I don't see them doing it for any other TT unit except maybe Marisa.
EDIT: Whoops, quoted the wrong thing.
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Orbs for Takumi and a decent selection of seals makes this a-ok for me. I am a little bummed we're getting Maskina again, but she can be foddered for feathers so it's not a big deal.
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Takumi! I'm going to pull hardcore for him, a( because I love Takumi and b( because I need a ranged flier for Flier Emblem.
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7 minutes ago, Water Mage said:
You have absolutely no idea how much money single japanese males spend in these type of games. It more than makes up for the lack of players in other countries.
I know of one case in particular where a Japanese player dropped the equivalent of 3000 USD trying to get 4 +10 Halloween Sakura. That's about as much as the one hardcore whale I know has spent in over two years of playing the game. The Japanese gacha market is ridiculously profitable, see also: FGO making nearly a billion off Japan alone.
1 minute ago, Michelaar said:Oh my god guys wrys has the same wristband as the silhouette with the pina colada were getting summer wrys er mah gerd
But does Wrys also like getting caught in the rain?
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32 minutes ago, Frenzify said:
Yeah, I don't want to say we're lucky to get as many male alts as we do, but in a genre where female fanservice reigns supreme Heroes does a barely passable job at putting out male alts, which is more than can be said about plenty of other games. That being said, it's at the very least understandable why people would be upset with the apparent bias towards female characters.
I can understand it in cases like Karla where the character wasn't particularly popular or requested but was put on the banner clearly to attract whales, at least.
Also I did some number crunching, and the disparity between the number of male and female alts is 8; 39 female alts to 31 male alts. The only reason it seems like there's a large disparity is because of the bridal banners, otherwise the numbers would be about equal at 32-30. For the record, I did not count the Corrins, the Kanas, the Robins or the Morgans as alts of each other, only whatever actual alts they've gotten.
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I have no idea why people let the gender ratio thing bother them at all, especially when it comes to the fanservicey cash grabs that are seasonals in general. Maybe I'm just unsympathetic given the number of gachas I've played where male characters hardly if ever get alts as opposed to Heroes getting male alts pretty consistently.
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Excellent, excellent. Congrats to my fellow members of team Lyon; I hope you consider 5*ing the boy for all his hard work.
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2 minutes ago, Sunwoo said:
A chill stats banner would be cool, although aren't half of them currently seasonal? If we're not including those, we'd have basically ...
Exalt Chrom and Fallen Celica.
I think.
Yep, the other Chill [x] skills are on Spring Catria and Bridal Ninian (and Gunnthra if you count Chilling Seal).
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Mignogna's creepy behavior with underage female fans has been well-known and documented for years, so as far as I'm concerned any of the flak he's getting for it now is long overdue.
I'd imagine the homophobia accusations stem from a few infamous incidents where he spoke out against people doing same-sex fanart and fanfiction of his characters, to the point where he once put words in the mouths of the creators of Tsubasa Resevoir Chronicle, saying that they had told him that the character he voiced was straight even though it's CLAMP and their usage of LGBT themes and characters is well known.