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    Pros and cons: everything right and wrong with Shadow Dragon

    in Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon

    Posted

    Shadow Dragon. What can I say? My favorite FE, and the first I happened to play. Truly, it is the ultimate form of the game that started it all. But i'm not going to mercilessly defend every flaw like a fanboy. Any game is going to have flaws. Blazing Sword had that incredibly forced tutorial that Japan loathed it for. The Radiant series had the Biorythem and the infamous Easy mode memory transfer glitch.

    Genealogy had it's "Never turn off, no reseting" love system that permanently swapped upon power down.

    And Mystery had the removal of key elements from Book 1. But still, most people overlook these flaws because these can be amazing games if you power through the crap spots, kinda like Wonderful 101. Why didn't people do that with Shadow Dragon?

    All i usually hear from engish players is that this game sucks and it's nowhere near the Radiant Series. I set out to find: is it really that bad? So, I compiled a list of the pros and cons of Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon to conduct a written review and comparision, and ask what you think about it. What do you like and dislike about it? Here's my input:

    THE PROS

    First official Translation of a Japanese Fire Emblem :Japan:

    Technically 7 was

    Reclassing

    It made the characters seem less unique, awakening handled it far better

    The Controls

    I agree

    Blade of Light, Mystery of the Emblem Style

    The more the merrier

    Most of the characters are worthless

    Online Features

    They were ok

    The tutorial

    It was ok

    THE CONS (BUM BUM BUUUUUUUUM!)

    Who the fuck is Whymp?!?!? He's Auffle!

    This was actually one of the better features

    THE GAIDEN CHAPTERS THAT EVERYONE NEVER PLAYED

    If they could be accessed by speedy completion or dead units it would be cool

    Pre Promoted Unit Overkill

    oh well

    Questions About Design Ideas

    in Concepts

    Posted · Edited by Wintersmith

    Ok, so while making my hack, I was thinking about not having any kind of magic(except for healers since I can't really do without those) or anything supernatural in my game. Now I'm not too far into the hack, so before I go any further I would like to know the community's opinion on some design choices. Those choices are no magic, and no fliers. I feel that if I took both of those out, it would make the game a bit more realistic, which is something I just personally like, but I know it's not for everyone.

    If you could let me know what you think in the poll I would appreciate it. Comments explaining why help too. Thanks in advance!

    For healing you could make it be more like using herbs and poultices (you could maybe try and make the healing run of skill or something), and for class variety use the 3 magic ranks you now have free for additional physical weapons, maybe a simple weapons category with like slings clubs and daggers, a polearm category and for the 3rd i cant think of one of the top of my head.

    edit: to add utility to archers you could make them effective against armored units because arrows can pierce armor (with a good angle the proper arrow)

    also i seem to recall a patch that let units have weapon ranks in both magic and str based weapons but they ran of the same stat, if you can find it a patch without magic would be a good place to use it

    edit 2: it occurred to me that you would likely need asm to make the second set target defense not resistance

    Anyone else having issues with Firefox?

    in General

    Posted

    Yeah, Google Chrome is DEFINITELY better than Firefox. Faster, too.

    Its faster usually but firefox is far more secure.

    Its really a matter of preference.

    I've been using Firefox pretty consistently for years, and I have never had the problems you described. I'm no software expert, but what you described sounds like a symptom of some kind of malware.

    This is my best guess

    I would like help

    in Concepts

    Posted

    Yeah, sorry about that, I thought I clicked hacking questions, I must've clicked the wrong thing

    Edit: I don't know how to change the post of a topic or delete it

    Use the report button on the op and request the topic be moved and the 2nd post merged with the op

    Well.. I got a laptop. But

    in Far from the Forest...

    Posted · Edited by Wintersmith

    whats wrong with the keypad and the wifi card?

    also as an alternative to taking it in to a shop

    -usb wifi devices those generally run for 10 dollars or so (i think thats less than the repair)

    I've have this one, haven't tried it yet though everything I've gotten from the site has worked well

    https://www.adafruit.com/products/814

    -a usb keypad (roughly 10 dollars for a really cheap one most are 20 dollars or so) though this is somewhat counter productive to portability

    If you had the chance, how would you handle remaking a FE game?

    in General Fire Emblem

    Posted

    I'd remake RD so it's a little longer, the support system was more akin to that of PoR, certain characters have more availability (I'm looking at you, Tormod and co., Tauroneo, and Geoffrey. Yes, I said Geoffrey, because even I have to admit that he couldn't be used much at all), and more paired endings were available. But DON'T WORRY, I WOULD NOT CUT PAIRINGS THAT ARE ALREADY POSSIBLE. Just to clarify. :P

    I'd also give the Dawn Brigade more chapters, despite how much I dislike them. In fact, one reason I dislike them is BECAUSE you're not given enough chance to level them up. They can pretty much never be on par with Ike's group and that's kind of unfair.

    I'd also cut the Shove skill, because there is absolutely no point to that. Shove can just stay as a battle command. Smite can stay though, because it's slightly different in that it allows a unit to shove another unit two spaces instead of one. And speaking of Smite, I'd give Ike access to it, because come on, look at those muscles! :P

    I would combine fe9 and fe10 into 1 game

    There would be fe9 supports

    a lengthened part 1

    maybe an extra 2 or 3 with one specifically designed to make fiona worthwhile)

    part lengthened 2

    have the bit with stealing the documents be a stealth puzzle like the prison chapter in fe9

    make the part with tashoria be a siege (break line (opposite of the chapter with the green line) and then after breaking the line take the castle) of radiant dawn.

    For people like Tormods group, tauroneo, bastian and geoffrey, i would give them side story chapters that would be unlocked on later playthrough by meeting certain requirements in game (talking to certain enemies faster clears etc)

    I wouldn't remake any of the GBA games or any that came after, I'd remake 2, 4, and 5. I'm not sure how I'd go about remaking 2, but I would make 4 and 5 more like Awakening since the parent-child part is basically an updated part of 4.

    do you mean that the parents would come back? i personally hate that idea, a core mechanic of fire emblem is perma death

    Best pairings for epic children? Lunatic DLC Apotheosis run.

    in Fire Emblem: Awakening

    Posted

    Chrom/Sumia (Already been done, can't be changed) I like maribell chrom for a dual support/guard/strike and other stuff pair up lucina and sumia with henry for darkflier but this will do


    Donnel/Sully this is what i generally do though i've never really utilized the child


    Gaius/Tharja niore turns out nice, i like her as a dark fleir or the nosferatanker, for the noseferatank have giaus pass down sol


    Lon'qu/Miriel Gregor gives a far better skill set


    Stahl/Cordelia great pairing


    Henry/Maribelle i would use lonqu he gives brady the speed he needs


    Ricken/Lissa I never know what to do with lissa


    Libra/Olivia same with lissa


    Fredrick/Cherche i like vaike for the str boost


    Kellam/Panne vaike or frederick is better


    MaMU/Nowi kellam



    +str -mag, i would go with either olivia or panne


    Your Top 2013 movies

    in Entertainment

    Posted

    Frozen was awesome

    but... book thief i loved the book and the changes weren't bad, the omission of the books max vanderberg wrote on the pages of mein kampf was disagreeable but i understood the change and the handled it well

    I didnt get a chance to see the new thor nor did i get to see catching fire, which i'm sad about

    and pacific rim was cool movies like that are always good but it wasnt best

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