YingofDarkness

Okay those last two had me genuinely laughing. Gray's face is especially priceless!

Welp, so Faye is a yandere. Just more tame then Tharja and Camilla, but still just as flipping crazy over the object of her affection. I'd still say she is the best of the 3 since at least her creepiness is more subtle then the other two's.

I got interested because of the promotion they were doing with Shin Megami Tensei IV and Awakening where you got $30 of eshop credit. Since I had nothing else to play on my 3DS at the time I figured "why not? worst case scenario I just sell both games and keep the eshop credit". I was very surprised to actually enjoy both games as much as I did, so it worked out perfectly.

I choose realistic with over the top criticals without actually reading what flynning is. It didn't change my opinion, but it did make me wish Fire Emblem included more banter with their boss fights. At most you will get one extra bit of dialogue if it is someone related to that boss in a way, but I'd like to see some actual back and forth in a cutscene or something haha.

I think ElectiveToast is playing devil's advocate, but he is bringing up quite a number of good points. None of these apply to FE because Nintendo doesn't seem to be going in this direction, but a lot of western companies are trying to make games into live services where they can do exactly what he says. The jimquistion on youtube goes into this topic in his most recent videos, and it is quite terrifying but only seems to apply to Western companies at the moment. We also know that the game has already been scheduled to come out this year so unless they delay it there isn't any fear that they are going to slow down mainline production of FE16 because of Heroes. I think that if we are talking about the Heroes base then it is the opposite actually. A lot of the people that play Heroes will probably buy the game of course, but the ones that don't will have never wanted to play it anyways because lot of people that play gachas do so because of how little time investment is actually required to get anything done. This applies to a lot of the whales who will spends thousands of dollars a month on a gacha game. They don't have time to spend sitting down and going through a much longer mainline game, and probably don't play many (if any) games on consoles or pc's. I can imagine FE16 will still see a sizable boost of course from Heroes, but if we could compare the exact sizes of the people who play Heroes at the time FE16 releases to its lifetime sales we would probably see Heroes having more people (this is all conjecture though). All of that having been said I'm pretty sure that 3 was correct up until December. At that point we stopped getting much in the way of content on Heroes, and that was probably because IS never expected it to be as popular (and profitable) as it was. I think that they are slowly moving on to the second option if they haven't already because both games do need each other for different reasons. The mainline games can use the extra cash and marketing to help include features that would have been more difficult to do before, and Heroes needs the new games to keep things fresh without having to create more and more OC's.

I mean they can always change things up if they want to, but I did use the word "hopefully" for a reason haha. I know it isn't an 100% thing, but it would be more convenient if it was on a Saturday since Gamexplain immediately starts posting up videos about the direct while it is going on (most times even faster then Nintendo). If it doesn't then I still have my fallback, but I will always get a bit spoiler regardless unless the time is an hour and 30 before I go to work or 30 mins after I leave. At which point I can catch it.

Alright thanks for clearing everything up for me, the E3 talk makes a lot more sense now. It seems like the direct will probably be held on March, and thankfully it is in the beginning of it. Hopefully it is actually on the Saturday because I don't want to have to be dodging spoilers the second I get home because I was at work. Now I'm actually pretty excited to see what they come up with for the anniversary event!

I'd prefer if they got rid of reclassing and they would just give everyone two classes to choose from. If they don't however, they should make it so that each class has skills that can not be kept if you switch out of them and add personal skills. The class skills will make them more unique from each other while the personal skills can make each character a little more unique and maybe even expand on a character trait of theirs (like Oboro's personal skill that makes her stronger against Nohrians). They should also limit the amount of reclassing that you can do to only partner + friendship seals, and have the character choose which line from that partner/friendship seal they want, and block off the other option.

Omg Gray XD He is trying so hard to get Claire to notice him haha

Why are people talking about E3 when it is in June? We still have over 4 months, and there is no way Nintendo isn't going to drop any info on the FE Switch before that. FE Switch will probably not be the focus of E3 either (although I'd love to be proven wrong just to see pictures on what they turn their booth into) because it won't move the amount of units they need to hit the 20 million. I'm expecting either AC, Pokemon, or Smash to be the main focus as that would be what moves the kinds of numbers they need to hit that goal. I'm just so confused because I've seen people bring up E3 as if it is right around the corner when it is still pretty far away. There is plenty of time to get info on FE Switch especially if it isn't due until after Summer.

Thank you so much for translating these! Huh, I'm not sure what to think about the first one. Conrad has always been an odd character to me. He's cute, but his personality changing is so odd. Ah well, I look forward to more.

If it isn't this week it might be early next week, but it isn't even then I'm guessing it isn't going to be out until the March anniversary. It would be a big way to kick off that anniversary come to think of it. If anything they might consider the Nintendo Labo direct the direct for this month, and the big one happening on the anniversary. On a side note, all of this speculation and pushing back of the date is reminding me of a gaming board back when Nintendo was teasing the Dark Souls port with the flaming Chibi Robo haha

I was going to ask something similar...I've been hearing about a supposed direct this week for a while, but nobody had mentioned who leaked it (from what I read) until that link a page back. I'm hoping we are getting a big direct this week, but I think people need to temper their expectations a bit.

They should definitely have full voice acting for all story scenes and base conversations (if they have them). Whether this should extend to supports and NPC is another question. Voice acting is very expensive, and the only reason they were able to do so in Echoes is because it had a shorter story (compared to what I expect from FE Switch), with a smaller cast, who had very limited supports.

Welp I guess I'm using Ninian again for a tempest team. Klein is still going to be my bonus unit for the two bonus rounds because I love him, but he maxed out his HM last Tempest :/

Ugh, exams suck but you aren't doing yourself any favors getting so hung up over FE Switch's announcement. If anything it may be amplifying your stress, and I suggest taking a break from it. Try disconnecting from here, and do something that has relieved your stress in the past. Stressing over the release will not make it come about faster, and if Nintendo does a good job with FE Switch and it's announcement you will get hyped again pretty quickly. Being able to matchmake characters draws in quite a bit of females, but the waifu culture can draw them away again if it gets to be too much. However, I do need to point out that Awakening didn't actually have much waifu culture in it. Yes some of the scenes and lines the women can have are a bit ridiculous (flipping ChromxFRobin support), but that balances it out nicely by the males in the game being pretty fanservicey as well (just in a different matter). This is where Fates messed up. Awakening kept things more or less equal, but Fates pushed too hard in the direction of male-oriented fanservice. Yes there is still some stuff for us ladies, but there is a reason it took Tharja a bit longer to catch up to the level of ourtrage inspiration that Camilla got practically instantaneously.

I can actually see them adding S-supports to the GBA games if they decide to take out the limit on them. There would be no other way to get the paired ending for some of the characters otherwise.

I want another wolf (ala Tellius not whatever Fates did) and dragon tribe + them learning how to use a secondary weapon upon promotion. I understand why they don't want to use human weapons but I feel like it limits what they can do since they only have one path they can go down. Well unless the game allows you to re-class them to a class that can use weapons at which point I don't understand why they can't just give it to them normally.

No. There are too many ways it could go wrong. If you wait until late game the lord is going to be considered useless, and labeled as one of the worst ones purely because they are such a pain to get trough the story chapters alive (unless pair up or there isn't any forced deployment). Even if you implement it early enough, you'd have to limit (or remove) the ways a person can grind or else it will still be seen as a pain. This one is more of a personal one because I know there are people on here who don't want grinding to be a thing, and would be happier with this approach. However, I like to grind purely because I like to see as many supports as I can and not be limited in who I can use in the play through. The only way it can really work is if the character you are forcing promotion on is already OP in their base class, and it doesn't matter much because they can keep up with everybody do too how good they are. Preferably if they want to do a big scene similar to this they just upgrade the lord's weapon. It might not give as much of an oomph but it inconveniences the player a lot less I think.

I really don't like this. I wasn't actually planning on using Fjorm or VIke long term, and just leveling them to get their level 40 convos + Tempest Trial boost...The fact that I have to build a whole team around them, and then plan out the blessings accordingly is going to be a big enough pain that if the rewards aren't worth, or it isn't particularly fun to me it will just end up like Arena Assault. I'll play it every now and again, and then ignore it for weeks just because I don't want to bother :/

I'd like to have base conversations come back. I think they would add a lot of background information on characters we might not even use or read many supports of otherwise. I can imagine if Awakening and Fates had some base conversations (instead of just supports and creepy face petting) more people would appreciate some of the characters that they look at as just a trope.

I actually want the opposite. I don't want them to another Genealogy because I don't think their current writers can handle that well (just look how they handled the Fates games darker elements), but I do want them to go back and try another simpler story. That is where they seem to do their best at, and I'd rather they do something they are comfortable with then try to do something new. If they release another FE game on the Switch after the 2018 one (and they probably will) then they should start to experiment again.

I get mixed feelings over the two in 3rd place. On one hand, Faye is that close to being first and I don't like that they gave her no development after Alm turns her down. On the other hand, the ginger stud is also super high and I really love his support with Clive and some of the analysis that people have done about him. I'm pretty sure it is because she is attractive and has that whole doomed lovers thing going for her. People might have also voted for her to see what IS would do with her if they had to release her (so sort of like Veronica).

If I could have any free 5* it would be Christmas Chrom with Christmas Robin being a close second. It would feel like a waste to go after anyone that wasn't seasonal, and I really like those two haha. Thanks for the offer, but I kind of already know my problem with arena. I have a main team of Alfonse, Reinhardt, Klein, and PInigo and there aren't many other units besides them that I put any serious investment into. This is why arena seasons like the current one mess with me so badly. If I can't replace one of these four with someone whose base kit is good enough to stand on their own in that season (which is becoming harder with some of the new units they are releasing), then I'm going to lose repeatedly and it is going to feel like a grind to do arena. I just like using these four to clear everything in the game, and it works the majority of the time. I have started investing in other units, but I don't follow the meta. I just go for whoever I like which is the reason I kitted out POlivia and PShigure, but still have PAzura at level 1. If I don't like the character I won't use them. Obviously you can make any character super good with enough investment, but some take a lot more then others (like Alfonse). I find I enjoy playing the game more like this and have just come to accept the 3 - 4 orbs I won't get during these seasons.

I'll be honest I'm being selfish here. I already hate going to arena and have already decided I just won't bother this week because I don't have a good unit to use that is in rotation right now, and Anna just isn't cutting it anymore on Tier 19 without serious investment...that I don't want to give her. Thinking about having to deal with more units with DC would probably put me off doing arena more that it already does. The worst part is I don't even know how to solve this issue. Tier 19 is the only one I don't see horse emblem at (have never gotten to tier 20), and it is very difficult to stay here unless you have a well built team going in. I'm trying to balance this out by voting for RDIke (who I just don't care about) since I have noticed that a lot of people seem to be gunning for him, but are unable to pull for him, but yeah I'm being selfish and I apologize in advance to everyone hoping for Hectors if he doesn't end up winning.