Catt

Hi, it's me again. I notice you have a lively mafia forum here. I was wondering if any of you were dedicated enough players to consider joining our community here: http://therewillbebrawl.forumotion.net/t865-there-will-be-brawl-mafia-sign-ups-confirmation The people there have been doing mafia games for going on 5 years (26 games) with excellent standards of quality, in terms of story (there's an overarching plot that is currently nearing completion), balance, and intelligent play. The biggest game they held had an impressive 28 players competing in various different factions - we had masons becoming mafias, mafias becoming masons, an interdimensional demon that very nearly won the game... Nowadays things are a lot more quiet, with 16 players signed up for our current game (starting next week) but I feel 20 players is a really nice sweet spot, and anyone who could join and maybe stick around would be given a very warm reception. The upcoming game is Call of Cthulhu themed, and the forum is made up of Nintendo fans and was originally made for the excellent web-series There Will Be Brawl. I go by my full handle Catterick there. Thanks for taking the time to read this, and hopefully I'll see some of you there! :)

I think 40 is a nice sweet spot. Oh FE7, is there anything you can't do?

But Oliver's a red head! Kinda.

You'll laugh, but I find FE11's Lena really attractive. Overly anime-style girls aren't my thing, and she looks like a real person I had a crush on.

On the NES he guards the gate. Who knows how he got to the sea from there... maybe they let him go and he fell into some water later. I sometimes think quite a few Fire Emblem bosses are captured rather than killed.

So why did Vigarde tell Lyon that Renais wouldn't help them, I wonder? Sounds like plot contrivance to me.

Yes, I'm playing through Gaiden for the first time and I was thinking how good a remake could be. However, I was thinking of it as a hack rather than anything official. Was running through some imaginary support convos in my head...lol. Incidentally one of the things I like about Gaiden is the small number of playable characters. I feel it gives them all more chance to be fleshed out, and there is a lot of potential there.

I really dislike Sanaki. I felt the game was manipulating me into going "oh she's alright after all" when she still acts like a spoiled brat with a superiority complex. That scene in the Serenes Forest still makes me shudder: Sigrun: Apostle! You can't bend your knee to another! (me: *cringe* god, why would Sigrun care about something like that anyway, except to show how gosh-darned noble Sanaki is) Ike: Peace! Let her speak her mind! (me: *cringe* who speaks like that anyway? Least of all, Ike) Sanaki: I'm so sorry blah blah blah (me: *cringe* oh, this is so sappy) Ike: That was well done. (me: *cringe* Ike, you're still speaking like an idiot)

I think you get it even for vanilla. Like I said I played it with the difficulty slider at maximum and things overall were easier. I seem to remember Icewind Dale II had harder difficulty without exp bonuses, which combined with the nerfing of ranged weapons made it even harder. I never finished that one.

The funny thing is, the harder difficulties are easier because you get more EXP, allowing you to level up faster and even cap your levels roughly by the time you get to the end of the expansions. I played it on the hardest difficulty (discounting the Heart of Winter mode that gives all enemies x3 hitpoints or something) and had very little trouble compared to normal mode. Just shoot the heck out of everything before it gets to you. As for the best, its between Baldur's Gate I and II for me. II has more features but I have more nostalgia for the original.

F-Zero GX is my favourite racing game ever. Challenging but not impossible, so unlocking the extra ships is really satisfying. Looks beautiful too. Love playing Dr Stewart and The Skull. Both of them have awesome themes. Did anyone else like playing just for the feeling of knocking other racers off the track?

Let's hear it for Wrys. Not that Fire Emblem isn't full of fighting old people, but most of them are, y'know, powerful. Or have plot relevance. Wrys is just an old man from a village who agrees to go with you to the other end of the world. That journey alone could've easily killed him. He's also technically the first ever recruitable character in a Fire Emblem, which is pretty cool. I also have a soft spot for Wil, since FE7 was my first game and he practically has the same name as me, and I really liked the colour of his sprites.

Well, having watched the Lyn DLC on Youtube from Awakening, she seems very attached to the Tactician. And this is true of Lyn's Mode, though admittedly once you start Eliwood/Hector's Lyn barely even speaks to you again. It's funny how the Tactician is supposed to have a tendency to wake up in locations with no idea how they got there. Also a possibility I didn't put on the poll because I couldn't think of any candidates: the Tactician being a playable character in FE6. Since he wasn't known for fighting I'd say this is basically impossible. If a remake of FE6 ever comes about I'd definitely like to see the Tactician return, and when you recruit a character from FE7 or someone with a connection to them (Bartre, Geese etc.) they could have a short conversation with them.

I've always wondered what happened to the Tactician during the events of FE6. He doesn't appear I suppose because Intelligent Systems hadn't created the character yet... but in Hector's ending, he specifically asks the Tactician to look after his Lycia and his children if Athos' prophecy comes to pass. I don't think the Tactician would abandon them, so I think s/he would've helped if s/he could. Then there is the theory that he eloped with Lyn. That could explain why neither of them can be found. Honestly, I'm surprised more people don't ship this. If you get the best rating for your tactics in FE7, it says that Etruria and Bern went to war searching for him. That's a really stupid reason to go to war unless one side had already found him... so maybe one side did find him and he worked for them? Or maybe the Tactician just did what so many characters do in their epilogue, and disappeared... Thoughts?

Yeah, I did. Actually I played on to the end having killed Alan and Samson, was able to Aum Alan but in the epilogue it treated Maji as if he'd died, even though I could still use him with his stats (although it said on the unit select screen he had Samson's HP, he didn't). Samson wasn't in the epilogue at all. I would guess there's only enough space in the game for 51 recruited characters and if you go over that it shuffles their code along and creates weird glitches.