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30 minutes ago, Ottservia said:
Too bad the mangaka is a pedophile
regardless, been rewatching Naruto recently and well I’m enjoying myself. Now that I’m a lot older and with a more mature out look on my critique of stories, I can better understand the general nuances and themes that Kishimoto was going for. Naruto is a lot better than people give it credit for honestly. There are a lot of really interesting ideas it explores in great depth. It’s a good show/manga. Also Sasuke is the best character and you can’t change my mind on that
I don’t think a persons action should influence your enjoyment of their work.
I tried to get into Naruto, really couldn’t. I did try thou.
43 minutes ago, Etrurian emperor said:I'm not entirely up to date with modern anime however you can't go wrong with My Hero Academia for a modern anime. I've never seen it but Demon Slayer is supposedly really good, and its similar to Kenshin with its Japanese setting and focus on swordplay.
As for an oldie you could always consider watching FMA Brotherhood. Its often placed as one of the best anime of all time and its on Netflix so you can get your hands on it really easy. Quarantine might also be a good time to put yourself through the time abyss that is One Piece.
The Magi anime is really interesting with a far too rare Arabian Night setting and dozens of countries and factions all fighting for dominance. Its however also very unfinished with the anime ending at season 2 some years ago and no new season being in sight.
I was never a big fan of FMA, and One Piece lost me at Skypia.
I’ll try to limit it down a bit more. I dislike SAO and generally don’t care much for Shonen style anime. Not trying to hate on anyone but that is how I feel
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With a lot of place on lockdown, I think now would be a good time to get some anime in. However as a fan of older(ish) anime I have no idea what to watch. I mostly like to watch romance and comedies but I do enjoy action that has a good story. Like I loved Love Hina, it’s what really hooked me into anime after Roroni Kenshin got me interested. Some of my favorites are Pani Poni Dash, Speed Grapher, Ergo Proxy, Shuffle, Clannad and .Hack. I started That time I was reincarnated in another world as a slime and Horizon in the middle of nowhere, but haven’t finished them. What would everyone suggest?
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I would really recommend RossxAmelia and RossxLute for each path. Franz with Natasha is another good one
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Marisa and Amelia are good units. Yes I always use them.
I also think Fiona is a pretty good unit when lvled
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13 minutes ago, Shadow Mir said:
Ditto. At least crossbows had some uses, even if they weren’t immediately obvious. What use did Tellius daggers have that better weapons (read: literally anything else) couldn’t do?? They should have just let thieves keep swords, which would be a huge improvement over knives.
Jotari did ask, and gave RD daggers as a choice. There is comfort in familiarity. Some people prefer the simple straight forward thing over the gimmicky thing.
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31 minutes ago, Jotari said:
What did I say that makes you think I don't want Light Magic?
And yes, the Fates weapon triangle was very pointless, but I don't see what that has to do with anything.
To prevent me from dragging this off topic, I’ll stop here already said me case but if you wish to discuss this we can in PM
6 minutes ago, Shadow Mir said:Reapplying the magic trinity is the pointless idea here - it doesn't do much when the units it affects are mostly the ones that are going to struggle to do damage to each other in the first place. Also, there was no "second triangle" in Fates - it was red > green > blue > red. Which is elementary if you played even a modicum of Pokemon.
Anyway, my answer is for Fates shurikens. It actually made knives have a strategic use, unlike in Tellius, where there was no point to their existence whatsoever.
Please read above.
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1 hour ago, Jotari said:
I was thinking Nosferatau and Seraphim were white magic in Shadows of Valentia, but they're classed as black. What the passed two games have done is blend light magic and staves into one weapon type, but even ignoring that as not being "real" light magic, that still leaves seven games, roughly half the series, as having white magic.
That's what makes them boring imo. They're not doing anything the existing weapon triangle weapons are doing already except be a physical attack not connected to the triangle. All the users would also be able to deal much better damage if they could just use swords. Personally if I had my way I'd make knives like Firesweep weapons that can't be counter attacked. That means even the low strength thieves that wield them can contribute in combat with just being buffed into irregularly good combat units for their archtype.
Okay, I’m confused. You say knives ain’t interesting because they are not part of the weapon triangle but... you are okay with light magic being a one off spell instead of re-applying the magic trinity? That pointless second triangle of fates was just awful.
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27 minutes ago, Jotari said:
Light Magic has been in like ten different games. Including the most recent entries. How it manifests is different but it's never been an experimental thing.
Wow. You voted for Tellius knives...why? XD
Okay so I haven’t played anything before Blazing Blade so don’t know how light magic worked before, but no light magic in SD, no light magic in New Mystery, no light magic in Awakening(maybe one if you count Naga, I don’t), no light magic in Fates, 1 light spell in Echoes and 4 in 3H. They may have been in the games but as a actual weapon type they haven’t.
RD knives because I found them to be the most fleshed out of all the choices, Standard Dagger for melee and knives for ranged, with killer(and killer lite) and slayer versions. But mostly no stupid gimmick just a standard weapon
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I would like to add Light magic if possible, as I highly doubt it will return like the GBA games had it. It has been almost abandoned is recent games only having one to 4 spells. But I honestly like the Tellius version of knives especially RD style and would like to see that back again
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39 minutes ago, Darkmoon6789 said:
I would have actually preferred if Rhea told people the truth, primarily because I think she actually looks better in the actual history than in her fabricated one. When you learn that history was fabricated you would assume something much worse than was the actual case. Something like Nemesis not being the villain he was remembered as, but nope, he was even worse in reality than in the fabricated history.
Like I mentioned earlier, I cannot understand why Rhea doesn't despise the very idea of crests and relics given their nature. As a dragon I would. If she does I cannot possibly imagine why she'd defends the crest system
Perhaps it’s like a memento? Each crest might remind her of her people or grant some sort of comfort?
But I feel it would have the opposite effect if the truth was told. Instead of “you have a crest you are super important” to “you have the crest of that genocidal monster? Get away from me”. It would end up being the brands from Tellius
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2 minutes ago, omegaxis1 said:
Yeah, but nothing changed at all. If society doesn't change, then humans cannot learn new things. It's overall a case of how Rhea denied society from learning.
It's the case of how Rhea overall lied and fabricated history that now there's so much animosity around against her. People call Edelgard a racist, but even if this can be said to be true, is it really Edelgard's fault? Rhea is only sympathized strictly cause the whole truth has been covered up for ages. If all you do is build society out of lies, then the truth is someone that becomes lost.
Edelgard winning her war resulted in what really happened in the past to remain a mystery.
And I am not saying that Rhea is STRICTLY to blame. But the problem is that Rhea is the person that had the most chances to help fix this.
With great power comes great responsibility. As the archbishop, she had a job and responsibility to do.
Let's consider what happens in the Abyss. Why did Alfreic lose his mind and develop an obsession to revive Sitri?
Because not only did Rhea not bury Sitri properly, but put her in the Abyss, but never told and refused to tell Alfreic the truth of her death.
The choice to deny people the knowledge and information that is needed is very much what drives people to make choices that can be worse off in the long run.
And not once did I even mention "true" peace.
Real peace, true peace, semantics. So you would rather have Rhea tell everyone those powerful relics wielded by heroes were actually the bodies and bones of her species wielded by murders? The those crest that they were blessed with actually the blood and lives of her people? What would knowing that changed? As a commoner I would rather live in the illusion of peace then the war Edel started. But I’ll withdraw there, too Edel vs Rhea.
I still think that it isn’t the crest’s fault and the fault of human nature
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1 hour ago, omegaxis1 said:
Rhea isn't the one that started the suppression of technology. All Nabateans did.
The problem is that by doing this, it caused many other forms of problems that she's been seeing over the course of a thousand years.
She had chances, opportunities, and ability to actually help improve things. But she was willingly allowing humans to abuse Crests, and even protected the corrupt nobility overall all for the sake of her own belief that this was better. So it's basically a case where Rhea let people be sacrificed for her beliefs that this was the most peaceful solution.
But what is peace is not what others would consider peace. Consider what Hapi says.
There wasn't any real peace here. People were suffering and oppressed overall, when Rhea, the leader of the religion, should be taking more action.
That's the thing. What is the best of intentions doesn't work when your form of peace genuinely isn't working out.
Not trying to be Rhea vs Edel but the Edel’s war won’t change the deaths. Bandits will still pillage and mug. People will still clash and fight over land, be it over “right”(crest) or desire. Something you are ignoring is Rhea didn’t care how people used the crests but over those thousand year the people also didn’t change. Don’t just push the blame on her alone. That is why human nature is called out on this. As it is human nature to blame others and point fingers.
Also “True Peace” is unattainable, so hoisting false expectations on someone will only lead to disappointment.
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24 minutes ago, Darkmoon6789 said:
I think she is trying to protect them, but stopping people from becoming freethinkers is a side effect of the censorship of knowledge she is engaging in. It is curtailing human freedom for the sake of protection, but Rhea has a reason for this, considering she has seen just how badly technology can be misused. Something the Agarthans basically embody. To my understanding Sothis originally taught the Agarthans how to create advanced technology, but her disapproval. They used technology for warfare and to kill one another. Sothis wanted to put a stop to this and destroy their civilisation. The children of the goddess and the remnants the Agarthans has been hostile ever since. But the reason Rhea is so wary of technology is because she has seen the destructive potential of the javalins of light.
While I don't think this makes her actions necessarily right, it does make sense from her perspective. It is just that enlightened humanists like Edelgard do want humanity to stand on their own two feet, and she sees Rhea's curtailing of technology as suppressing human potential, so that they could be more easily ruled by Dragonkind. Which is sort of true in a way, even if Dragonkind only wants to rule humanity because they think they know better and that their guidance will stop humanity from going down a dark path again.
That is what is so amazing with this game, it is not all that black and white, no one except the Agarthans really do what they do because they are malevolent. They pretty much all have good intentions. I guess even the Agarthans really are just vengeance taken too far.
Well the quote might be from a bad movie, but it still hold much truth “Some of the worst things have happened while under the thought of best intentions”. A savior to one is villain to many.
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7 hours ago, omegaxis1 said:
This overall goes by how original forms of feudalism works, in which kings and such believed themselves to be descendants of gods, and that's why they are meant to rule over people.
The religion of Fodlan basically cranks this up to 11 with the entire society being founded on religion, and then the fact that Crests not only magically enhance a person's abilities, some to really absurd levels like Dimitri, and they also allow people to wield mystical weapons of awesome destructive power in the form of Relics.
Put these two together, and basically you have a society that would unquestionably abide by what Crests do.
It's only as society advances, if it's able to, that humans learn that destructive might and bloodlines don't actually define one's station.
But in order for people to become better thinkers, they have to actually become more educated. It's only when they start to become free thinkers, able to consider and process information to believe in other things that people begin to oppose the status quo. But that's not possible due to technology being constantly suppressed, mostly in an effort to continue pushing the Church's beliefs as a primary force for people to follow.
I don’t know if we have heard Rhea’s reason for stunting the growth of technology. It MAY be to stop people from becoming free thinkers or it MAY be her trying to protect them. The pursuit of knowledge is mostly the pursuit of power. Should they get more advanced then the risk of the blood experiments become more likely. They wouldn’t have to worry about a crest-bearing child kidnapped and for into marriage but kidnapped and experimented on with the chance of being killed. I fully agree with Jotari that this all stems from human nature, the crest are just tools and each person would use them different. You can’t blame the tool for the deeds of the wielder
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I know none of you wanna hear me bitching but, I’ve really hit the edge on Fate. It’s to the point where I just get my login bonus and quit. I haven’t gotten any new characters in 5 events and missed 3 out of 4 of the characters I wanted more than anything. I play for fun and do enjoy the gameplay but it really feels like the game is just hating me right now. Any support or suggestions?
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Persona 5 Royal, yup still love it(in ain’t 3 FES thou) I felt the need to restart my 300+ hours of Persona 5 for another 80 hour JRPG because why not?
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28 minutes ago, Holla99 said:
I don’t actually own RD yet. That will be a future investment as just getting POR was quite expensive already. Is there a way to tell if I have the patched version or not when I get a copy? I’m guessing by some small icon or serial number?
You may want to look that up, I honestly don’t remember how to tell them apart. I have the unpatched version so I couldn’t tell you
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Also, I do not know which version of RD you have but if it’s the original you can’t transfer from a memory card with an Easy mode save. The game will always crash when trying to transfer, hopefully you have the patched version
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I don’t know about many others but I often like to play games with weird or odd gimmicks and most of the time those are tied to equal weird games. What is the weirdest game or games that you have played?
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20 hours ago, vanguard333 said:
Good point. In that case, I would also count Edward: the best swordmaster in Radiant Dawn, but he's stuck in the Dawn Brigade.
I would disagree, Mia is better swordmaster but I’ll say that it might be preference, I say Fiona, while paladin isn’t considered a bad class it is for her. She is a pretty great unit if you baby her for a while.
And Ilyana, her class just sucks for her but she makes one hell of a magical assassin
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27 minutes ago, vanguard333 said:
I think the ideal middle ground would be something like Rook from Xenoblade Chronicles X: they're there as witness to what's happening, and they participate, but they are not the protagonist when it comes to the story. Basically, Rook is the focus during side content, but Elma is the focus during the story segments.
I get that, but I still don’t think they would do that. My example may have been to removed for the style but that is generally what I meant. I think the avatar just being a soldier in the lord’s army would make for a interesting point of view
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I’m still firmly in the Magvel camp, SS all the way. But I mean with echoes small cast they really wouldn’t even need to be a major choice. I don’t mean that in a bad way
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1 minute ago, Etrurian emperor said:
I especially don't want things to get constrained by the continuity of FEW1. The lemon twins get a bad rap but I think they are fine. Seeing them all grown up again in a FE2 could even end up being very fine. But they are the only thing in Aytolis that have any merit to them. Both Aytolis and Grimstone are non entities that you really can't craft a proper story out of. We don't even know what Grimstone is and what their deal is aside from them being an evil kingdom.
Ditching Aytolis and Grimstone in favor of an Orochi style plot where some evil badguy fuses the realm works much better. It can even bring the lemon twins back again without Aytolis dragging them down.
Honestly I was truly hoping for an Orochi style game when I first heard of FEW, but... that was pretty much what it was. You had Caslte Sol which was just the hoshido castle and the other is just Nohr’s capitan under different names
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5 minutes ago, Etheus said:
I'm with you. I'd rather have a dream crossover than a canon sequel to a game that didn't need a canon sequel.
That said... spending more time with best girl Makoto. Cough.
And to keep things on topic, I hope the same would be true for any FE Warriors sequel. I don't want it to be constrained by continuity with FEW1 or any mainline game. I just want my dream team, because that's what Warriors games are all about.
Oh one hundred percent behind you, but even if it follows the FEW1 continuity they could still add in a large number( or vary amount based on personal preference) characters in the game
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I think I watched the Escaflowne movie a decade or so ago. I honestly can really only remember the name. It was on adult swim with the Cowboy Bebop movie. But I did love Puchim@s and Potomuyo so I’m okay with cutesy.