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Same!! haha This. So yeah, I'd go for it

Welcome to the forums!! What kind of documentaries do you watch? I love history documentaries....

Hey, don't you dare hate on fidget spinners!!! Those things are tripedal spirals of pure joy!! This is also my experience! haha I had a math professor like this. I mean, I'm a math major, but I still suck at it. I went to his office hours just about every week during diffEQ, and I was so lucky because he happened to be teaching the classes I needed during the next two semester, so I got to take him 3 times. Great guy, awesome in class and out. It was a major loss for me for sure, and totally awful for the school. It's been a few years, but it's still hard. I think part of why it was so tough was because it was so fast. We found out he had cancer early October and he passed away January 3rd. Watching him deteriorate in those last months was really bad. He taught through his whole last semester though (with help from a sub when he had to be at chemo). I guess it goes to show how committed he was to his students! And he never lost his sense of humor. I didn't mean to get depressing, haha. It's just that he remains the best teacher I've ever had. I'm really glad this forum is here. Teachers are so important and influential.

Man in the Mirror-Micheal Jackson :D

I had a great history teacher in high school who made a huge impact on my life. He was incredibly funny and great at accents, and really made things stick in your mind. I honestly had hated history for a long time until I had him, and now I love to read history books, even text books!! :D It's one of my favorite things to do, and learning more about history has significantly improved my writing, so I credit most of that to him. He also made a huge effort to make even quiet or hidden students feel like they were a part of discussions and lecture. He used to stand in the halls and wave at people in between classes. Always willing to take discussions outside of class and give additional resources for personal study. He died of cancer my senior year and it was huge loss to our entire school. I had taken all the classes he offered at that time, so I didn't have to suffer through the apparently terrible replacement, but I imagine most anyone who followed him as a teacher would be perceived as terrible just because he was so great.

Eh, I like FE dragons. You definitely can't outright remove them, since they're such a staple of Fire Emblem. I mean, they're basically in it's DNA. And while the dragons degenerating and becoming manaketes is definitely redundant in Fire Emblem, it's fairly uncommon in most fantasy. To me, the Skyrim dragons are the traditional fantasy dragons and I've always felt FE's manaketes were kind of a nice break from that. I like the dragon laguz in Tellius, but I felt like they were a lot more human than previous incarnations. I mean, they were basically just an isolationist country, and there wasn't any specific lore involving them that didn't also involve the rest of the laguz (not that I remember anyway). I liked when we only got one manakete per game because it added to the mystery (although we need more Bantus). What I'd really like to see is a playable character manakete that's more like FE3/12 Xane. He knows all the history because he lived it, provides exposition where needed, and (unlike xane) kicks serious ass as a dragon during combat. Actually, now that I think about it a Xane deuteragonist would be so radical, with increased characterization, more plot relevance, potential love interests.... I'm going to stop now. Now as far as villains, somebody mentioned a dragon-human teamup to take over the world. Love that. I'm a huge fan of the Big Bad Duumvirate trope and it would be fun to watch (AND MAYBE PROVIDE PARALLELISM WITH THAT XANE DEUTERGONIST I'M GONNA STOP). Seriously though, watching that unfold as one inevitably betrays or double-crosses the other would still be more interesting than the traditional cult working to revive the evil dragon for the lulz. Honestly though, I really wish Medeus had been handled better, because he had a lot of potential to be a really interesting villain. His whole backstory is pretty cool and they could have played a lot more with his desire to protect his fellow manaketes from enslavement, called him out on his hypocrisy during the time of Anri, added to his pain at watching his fellow Earth Dragons turn feral, expanded upon his anger with the Divine Dragons, clarified the whole "Shadow Dragon" thing.... Instead, we get "SO LONG AS EVIL LURKS WITHIN THE HEARTS OF MAN WE SHALL RISE FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL." Ah well, another remake.... EDIT: As somebody mentioned above, I also like the SoV dragons, flawed beings doing their best to deal with the people who revere them as gods... Although they were actually just gods in Gaiden... And are much more similar to Ashera as far as personality and attitudes in SoV... So maybe still not the best way to handle dragons/manaketes? Or maybe the perfect way to handle them? ?????

I like this more than any timeline I've seen before, except I don't know why Alm's line has to end. Headcannon: Wolf Berg is the reforged Kingsfang Falchion passed down the line for generations :D

I like to think Tellius's flood is the cause of the technology stagnation in Awakening, which puts 9/10 in between 3/12 and 13. The rest should fall in there somewhere too, except 4/5 which come before. And while I'd like to have one complete timeline, I think the "mythical kingdoms" line from the Fates DLC mean all of 14 is just FAKE. ;)

I didn't mind it... I remember it being weird the first time I played, but I guess it's grown on me since my sister and I mock it so much. (Bonus points for comedy value?) Honestly, I appreciated that it gave the characters voices without making you listen to them non-stop every cut-scene. Again, I don't mind VA in other series. It just feels forced in SoV, I think because Fire Emblem cut scenes are different from other games'. I don't really know how best to describe it but FE gameplay is fairly dissociated from the story (and I know there's an argument against that, but you guys know what I mean (I hope)). ON THE OTHER HAND I loved the audio in the towns and dungeons in SoV. THAT was the part that humanized the characters for me. Not the VA during the story. That just annoyed me. But apparently I am, in fact, the only person who feels this way!! You were not rude at all, and thank you for your reply!

Best: Marth. I'll quote my post from the other Best Lords Thread: I think Ike has to come second (PoR Ike is just GREAT and RD Ike is... ok.) but Roy is close. Worst: Corrin. I don't think that needs much discussion. And second worst for me is probably Alm, which I know is contentious. I just think he's kind of annoying, esp. in SoV.

Marth, hands down. I think the Shadow Dragon localization was actually fabulous and goes a long way toward developing Marth's character. "Why do words of such conviction smack of such uncertainty? Not surely, Jagen. Assuredly." Glorious. Hates to fight but determined to save and serve his people, struggles to keep everyone safe while faced with the hard reality that sometimes, you just can't (Hardin), maintains a hopeful, idealistic, upbeat demeanor in the face of great adversity, Marth is truly the Hero-King.

Lol I play those kinds of games too and I don't mind there. I think VA is great in Mass Effect, but it's a totally different format from Fire Emblem. It just felt weird in SoV.

Does anyone else not like the voice acting in SoV? Maybe it's just me, but something turned me off about it. Honestly while playing the first time, I didn't like the game as a whole and I couldn't pinpoint why, but after second run with VA off, I really like it. And it's not like there was anything WRONG with the actual voice acting, more with the fact that EVERY SINGLE LINE is read to you and you just have to sit there and listen when you've already read what they're going to say, or just cut them off in the middle of their sentences and get weird sounds of "Alm, let's--I don't kno-- In that ca--Okay." I know this happens in many other games too but I always liked that Fire Emblem avoided it. To contrast, I love the lines that were voiced during dungeon exploration. I wish there had been more to that, maybe because you actually have something to do while they're talking at you. I dunno. Did anyone else feel this way? Am I just weird?

Let's see.... -Binding Blade is the best game in the GBA series -VA in Shadows of Valentia was a mistake -Tellius series is overrated (still love it though) -Shadow Dragon was a great game -Kris was a good addition to New Mystery (but needed a little refining) -Gaiden (the original) has the best soundtrack in the series -Revelation's maps are fun to play I know the Shadow Dragon thing has been on here a lot. Maybe it's not as unpopular as we think??

If they are holding the Lightsphere, you should be able to hit him for sure.