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On 1/29/2020 at 10:48 PM, eclipse said:

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Edelgard's siblings die of some sickness-or-other instead, so she no longer has a reason to want everyone in the church dead.  She survived because she happened to be visiting Faerghus when the plague broke out, and the message to stay there got to her in time.  Thus, she's also on good terms with Dimitri.

Dimitri's biggest downfall is dancing, something that Edelgard's naturally better at.  He, in turn, spars with he regularly.  The two have a friendly rivalry, since the number of sparring matches each has won is equal.

Claude is the emissary that's familiar with the other two.  His mother made frequent diplomatic trips, and always insisted on bringing her son along, so he'd know what to expect out of Fodlan.  Being the heir of two different nations is something he doesn't divulge, but he'll gladly out-shoot Edelgard and Dimitri.  He's also the one that got them into trouble while they were younger.

Several weird coincidences occurred five years after graduation - Arianhod was wiped off the map, the weird plague resurfaced in Enbarr, and people are up in arms over Claude being half Almyrian.  The three meet back at the monastery where it all began, and divide up the tasks equally - Edelgard's troops will help out Claude, since she has allies there.  Claude's forces are airborne, so they'll assist Dimitri in his investigation.  Dimitri's forces will help out in Enbarr, since they are familiar enough with the last time the plague came around their parts.  Through each piece of the puzzle, they'll learn of the Slithers, find traces of them within their own ranks. . .and then Three Houses REALLY begins.

. . .what do you mean, rewrote the plot?

 

I just wanted to say, I really wish we had a united route based on this. I'd love to see how that ends!

On 1/31/2020 at 1:36 PM, omegaxis1 said:

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I hope this puts some of the belief that Edelgard is not popular or is not as popular as Dimitri to rest. I expect plenty to realize this fact. 

 

I'm not going to go too much further on this since others already have and I've only just caught up with this thread but I wanted to get my 2 cents in.

Granted I wasnt around here when the game released (I was terrified of getting spoiled), but I was always under the impression that she was always popular? Divisive to be sure, but even her detractors seemed to agree that she was a good well written antagonist even if they personally didn't like her. And she had all the marketing and I guess the "waifu" factor going for her as well. Even with the vocal hatedom after the game came out, I never thought she was unpopular; unpopular characters dont drum up that kind of discussion and discourse. Whether is more positive or negative is subjective, but clearly shes always had a spotlight. 

And I'd say Dimitri had way more struggling to do to gain his current popularity; he was seen as the least interesting and popular lord from the beginning and only started making a splash when the E3 trailer hit, and even then it wasnt until people played the BL route that he really started to shine. And even after that, people still kept downplaying his popularity, despite being 1st place in every official and fan poll since, as if somehow it having more female votes and only chalking it up to "husbando" factor meant that it was invalid and didn't count for anything.

I think it's pretty clear that both are popular enough to win first in their respective divisions and not at a huge disparity in votes from each other. They have both won in popularity contests (Edelgard scores better in VG and CYL, Dimitri scores better in 3H polls, neither of which are the ultimate best way to truly gauge exact popularity due to many variables such as polling size and 7 votes for series wide characters), they are both equally popular and I really wish people would just accept it and move on. I dont know why we cant just be happy for our winners and have to nitpick and needle each other over why so and so won and whether it was only waifu/husbando factor or not.

I like them both and am happy for both, but I gather that's not the popular opinion. Well, along with the anti 3H salt. *sigh*

On 1/31/2020 at 2:43 PM, daisy jane said:

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Dimitri needs his wife. Let us begin. 

 

Byleth (and her twin brother) did just win Smash. I think Dimitri winning CYL has brought them balance for the time being lol.

I'm actually not fully sure who I'll be voting for next year, but if I cant think of anyone else to spend on I'll probably toss her (and Eirika) a few votes for good measure. 

But if FE4 remake becomes a thing, I may end up being sucked in that direction.

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Im at work right now and I cant look at anything for too long, but are these official results? I dont want to start celebrating yet until I know; I've been burned by leaked unofficial results like these before...

 

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Yes please to infantry Dimi; I don't want anymore lance horses!

But I suppose I wouldn't be against a flying Dimi either, as long as his Legendary or some version of his is infantry. Brave alts can be the creative versions at times.

 

.......I'm just gonna be sitting over here on pins and needles waiting for the results. I want to believe that he will win, and somewhere in my heart of hearts I can feel it, but I'll never be sure until I see the numbers......this is gonna be a long wait isn't it? DX

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My final vote and ballot. Let it not be said that I am not devoted to the character who is easily in the running for my favorite character in the series. I probably wont spend all 7 votes on the same person again like this, but holy crap Dimitri deserved all of them. Here's hoping there's nothing to worry about and my boy wins, and wins at first place!

 

 

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23 hours ago, Landmaster said:

Honestly would suggest +10ing a Legendary if you're at all competitive. He'll be good for Arena Scoring himself if he's Infantry and you can use him for bonus scoring in his Season~ I'd think he'd be easier to pull for since Legendary Banners have higher rates and rotate every few months~

Yeah I wish Dedue was a bit higher, best boy is still the only retainer not in the game yet~

Any tips on pulling for Legendaries in general then? I'm never sure if I should be color sniping and ensuring that I get the best odds possible for my color of choice at the expense of more orbs, or full pull as much as I can to build up the pity meter and save on orbs at the expense of getting other colors and, well, 'wasting' orbs. My luck can be very good or bad depending on the banner (lately its just been bad in general), but I suppose if I attempt this for one character at least it would be for him.

 

23 hours ago, daisy jane said:

 

i tried for Bylass but i got Siegbert'ed. (I was saving for Myrrh at the time.  - so that's what happened with Petra). and yeah - she'll be such a help in some modes. 
I've got everyone now  but those two. (I kinda want to get all 3H units. but i mean it will be sooo difficult, esp. if some get broken (and some... (lookin' at you Hubert) i don't really care about at all but at least it's a tick in the collection box. the minute i saw the Null Banner i knew Hilda would be on it, and i got her (neutral to boot!!) and both my claudes were Random (both 3% pulls, 1 via Myrrh hurting, and 1 on a free pull). Edelgard seems to loovveeee me.  and Mercie is coming along but no perfect iv yet. 

I was thinking that the other day actually if they had fallen - would Dimitri qualify. he's not possessed, or actually evil. just..a very broken and traumatized guy. 

honestly i'm gonna take it via the calendar. i'm actually changing my feb plans a bit (I had planned to go full throttle on Julia/Azura/Sothis merges but i'm probably not going to do that to give myself a bigger head start on CYL. 

Considering that I don't believe that Hardin is possessed or overtly evil (at least not before the negative emotions and events that lead to his fall) and he was one of the first Fallen units we got, I'd say that Dimitri qualifies. I agree of course that he is neither of the above, but you could argue that the ghosts he perceives, whether real or not, along with his deep seated trauma related issues would cause him to act as if possessed by vengeance for the dead or commit morally grey actions (which is something many characters perceive and comment on), if not exactly evil (I'd argue that none of the Fallen units we have had are straight evil anyways, just mostly possessed in some way or negatively disposed due to circumstances and not inherently by choice). Regardless of how he ended up that way, feral Dimitri is kind of a well known part of his story even if its not his end point in his journey or the most important part of his overall character, so I'd be surprised if IS didn't in some way work that aspect into an alt at some point down the line; and what better way than a Fallen alt? Bonus points if he's released alongside Hegemon Edelgard who is also a Fallen Hero, since that is arguably her lowest moment to match his own. But I digress.

 

On that note, I grant another vote to my King. However they decide to portray his brave alt, I do hope he is happy and at peace with himself, since even his OG academy self is clearly still suffering alone. :<

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30 minutes ago, SoulWeaver said:

Excuse me, this title is currently copyrighted property of Lord Roy of Smash Brothers fame. Dmitri may settle for 'their boy'.

...In all seriousness, if we get four 3H characters I may have to go Dmitri, he's currently my favorite mainly because I see so much about him being at odds with Edelgard. I...do not like Edelgard, to put it nicely.

While I'd argue he has never had exclusive rights to that title outside of Smash (I've seen many other characters referred to as such), I suppose I'll settle for our man or King then, considering we're mostly voting Timeskip Dimi. Or we can take a hint from Felix and just go with our boar; it's not too far off from the original~ XD

Thankfully I'll be happy with a 3H sweep, in particular for the lords; I like both Claude and Edelgard well enough. It's just that I love Dimitri so much more. 

27 minutes ago, daisy jane said:

LOL my ballot is kinda screwed because i did vote for Academy dimitri but i mean war-itri is winning (and IDEALLY he gets DLC hair which is winning anyway).
while IS is really not much for patterns - i think if we see a CYL hero fest this year at any point in time (small pit stop for Camillas thanks), i won't feel as pressure to get all the dimitris. and chances are - (again) - i'm  going to want the Dancers. there will be one and i'll need them (especially if they fly lol) and they run basically just before CYL. 

Golden Week  basically is a massive bait. last year they did Alm (who had to be in progress anyway) but he's hands down one of the best Legendaries ever (not named Azura). and they're gonna have another Bait legendary this year (it mightnot be Dimitri but it will be someone).  

yeah the one bummed out is that Ingrid isn't int the top 20 (which surprises me greatly). 

the thing w/the legendaries - they always show up so it doesn't have to be a lump sum event (but if he always shares with Lucina/Azura/Peony  it will always make life easier). 
 

honestly if Bylass could please with neutral/best ivs find her way into my barracks without too much trouble and bring petra along with her. that would be fan-tas-tic. it knocks out most of my summoning goals. 

A vote for Dimitri is a vote for Dimitri regardless of age, so it doesn't matter lol; I'm pretty sure we're getting PTSDimitri regardless, the question is which hairstyle haha. It'd be cool if the brave alts for the lords had their NG+ hairstyles, I'm especially fond of his hair tail and I really prefer Edelgard's side tail to her regular look.

It's definitely going to be a struggle though, especially depending on what comes out in the meantime. I dunno if anyone had postulated this idea yet either, but what if we get Fallen Dimitri too? I do believe that banner will be around the corner, so in my quest to have at least one copy of all Dimitris, I'm going to be really trying and failing at restraining myself. Especially if we get a certain FE4 announcement and accompanying banners... >_>

I actually got really lucky with the 3H banners when they came out; I got Bylass and Dima first which was all I was really going for, plus an Edelgard for the first banner and Petra and Hubert for the second (Petra in particular has been so useful, hope you get her and Bylass!). So all I'm missing atm is Claude and Hilda; I have a 4* Mercie at least, which is all I need for now to keep bringing my Blue Lion children into my barracks. Here's hoping most of them scoring high will mean they all get in sooner or later~

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1 hour ago, daisy jane said:

six months is a long time not to summon for anything and i'll know i'll get baited, but i will be trying to save as many orbs for Dimitrii (i'd also have to be prepared for his Legendary form down the road). 

Ideally there'll really be nothing to make me go. MUST. GET! right away outside of my designated list. 

 

1 hour ago, Landmaster said:

Touche, it's been years, someone just give her a voice already

On this topic of free picks, while I'd like to think I'd pick Lysithea or Claude, I'd probably pick Dimitri to spare my Orbs if I actually do manage to have self control enough to try to +10 him~ 

Voting once more for the Boar Prince! 

And this is going to be my exact same issue; free pull for Brave!Dima so that will be one less I have to pull in order to 10+, but that will be assuming I have the self control to not spend too many orbs for all those months.

And if he gets a legendary....my poor wallet.......I think I would have to decide quickly which one I will be attempting to 10+. And I assume Legendary!Dima would be harder to pull for, but dammit I WILL have at least one version of him 10+, no matter what!

So here's hoping his brave alt will have great art and be an awesome unit, because I'm just shuddering at the thought of 10+ing a Legendary/Mythic unit.....but I will do it for him if I have to.

 

1 hour ago, daisy jane said:

Day Five, Same as the First five days. 

not going to be complacent. 

Same here, I take nothing for granted. This may be the only year I ever go all 7 days for the same character, but our boy deserves it! We can't let up!!!

Also I'd like to thank all of my fellow Blue Lions brethren for getting not only Dimitri but most of the rest of our house into the top 10! I would be even happier if we could get Dedue, Ingrid, Annie and Mercie good scores as well (although Mercie is already in the game, so that one is understandable), but regardless I'm so happy to see my favorite House scoring so well~

This will probably be 3 Houses' biggest CYL possible, even with the anti 3H sentiment, so despite usually being an advocate for the older FE games, I'm not unhappy if the majority of the spots are taken by 3H; its not like it isn't well deserved at this point.

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Another vote for PTSDimitri~

Kind of unrelated, but I had a thought about future duo heroes and designs, and I was thinking about how cute it would be if they ever made a dancing duo unit of Mini-mitri and Mini-gard based on that CG of their younger selves dancing in Dimitri's flashback. It would be like Smol-zura from the Adrift stuff except this time there would be canonical basis since Dimitri and Edelgard actually have younger selves that show up onscreen. If I have to suffer more alts than new FE units and more duo heroes in general, I wouldn't mind more cute units like that 🙂

Actual question though:

I dont remember when they announced results in previous years. Was it right after the voting closed, or did it take days/weeks to see the final numbers?

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10 minutes ago, DefyingFates said:

YES! Thank you so so much! I'd be thrilled too!

I don't know if it's worth considering, but if enough people are upset that CYL is just a Three Houses (alts) banner do you think IS would include the top non-3H characters of each gender as honorable mentions (i.e. Marth and Eirika right now)? Considering 3H is barely 6 months old the recency bias really makes things unfair for anyone not from there 😕

(Don't worry, I haven't given up on an Eirika rally or anything, just curious~)

I mean, I'm all for IS recognizing more popular picks as winners; Fire Emblem is way too big of a series (and getting bigger with every game) imo to keep bottlecapping the winners at 4 per year. I'd say they should maybe consider taking the top 6-8 and maybe splitting them across 2 banners, obviously the big winners get the better toys to play with as far as weapons and skills but I get the feeling most people dont care as much for the viability of a character compared to the visibility. I know a big part of my excitement in CYL is more for the cool designs I get to see on the characters or at least having the character be playable over how broken they are. So I say the more the merrier, and not just because 3H is sweeping it. 

Keep up the Eirika rally tho, if she doesn't make it in this year I will personally save some votes for her next year (and if she does, maybe we can start rallying for Lyon next year; I have such a soft spot for these sweet sad bois who go through some dark character arcs. Clearly I have a type lol)

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I've been working so many long hours this week I almost didn't log in to vote, nor did I expect CYL4 this early (was it around this time in previous years?) but thank Naga I've managed to remember to vote every day somehow. 

To no one's surprise, I'm going all in for Dimitri!!! He is certified best boi and leader of the best House; he's also the very first favorite character of mine to actually be seemingly embraced by the majority of FE fans so I'm very happy to be part of the obvious front runner mob for once, especially for a very deserving character~ 

sorry not sorry

And I'm delighted to see with the midterm results that he is indeed in the lead! Normally in previous years I would split my vote at this point to help boost other characters that I like (like Alm to Micaiah last year), but I refuse to be complacent with Dimitri knowing that some others will be so I will pick up their slack if I can. I learned my lesson from Marth last year that one can never be too careful, and its been a long while since I have deeply loved and admired a character this much so Dimitri deserves all my votes for the 1st place win this time around. 

Sending support over to the other deciding battles, I would be happy to see any of them in the other slots (though I would be especially happy for Eirika if she could eke out a win, I still love FE8 and prefer her to Ephraim as a character despite how unpopular that opinion is).

Also, I hope that Seliph and Sigurd's higher than normal placing means more support for the fabled FE4 remake; I'm hoping that is the main reason we haven't seen any Sigurd/Seliph alts yet, they're just holding out to coincide for an announcement!

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So if the Wolves join you on whatever path you are currently playing and have time skip designs, is there any indication that they'll still have any relevance in the story or are they just like recruits from other houses who only show up for supports? I suspect the latter, which kind of sucks if the only story you'll ever get for them is only in the side story.

 

Also, quick question, does anyone know when exactly most Nintendo dlc starts downloading the day of release? I will unfortunately have to be traveling on 2/13 so I'd like to have it downloaded before I go. I remember Torna was around midnight at the start of the release day, but will this be similar?

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38 minutes ago, Jotari said:

Those are the reasons I feel Alm and Celica are a terrible couple. They spent like two months with each other prepuberty and then never see each other again until adulthood where they immediately have a fight. That is a major warning flag. These two people are strangers who don't know each other at all. The basis of their attraction is on romanticized memories of their childhood (and I say romanticized with some hesitation, because their time together was capped off with a group of soldiers trying to murder them which really should be a traumatic memory) that by this point they can probably barely remember. It also doesn't help that during the time they were together they were basically being raised as brother and sister.

I thought it was implied to be a much longer time together in the original Gaiden (years, not months), but even so regardless of how unrealistic it might be IRL that time spent together as children was incredibly precious and meaningful enough to both of them that they each made a promise to find the other again someday. They weren't raised as brother and sister; the opening lines of the game made an effort to discredit them being raised even as cousins (Kliff being quick to correct Faye's statement in saying she is just Mycen's ward. And even if they were, Westermarcke effect would take waaay longer to set in if we're going to assume it was only months, especially at the age they already are). Clearly they remember everything about that past since its shown that in all of their private moments they are thinking about the other and wanting to reunite. They don't even immediately fight upon reuniting; its just as magical and heartwarming as either of them expected it would be, all until the topic of current events and what to do about them came up, and then with the tensions running high on both ends with the war needing to be fought but Celica fearing for Alm's safety, they had a spat (which is common in normal relationships and I find to be more realistic than most FE couples never fighting honestly) and went off to fix things in their own way. When they meet again with cooler heads (remember, they are both still teenagers, not true adults), they're able to make up and start approaching their issues together and their arc culminates by the end very satisfactorily. That's way more onscreen development of a canon relationship than you get in an average Fire Emblem game, and I fully acknowledge that it can be done even better, hence why I hope they try in the future.

I agree that its not the most realistic love story in the world, but I don't necessarily always have to have only fully realistic couples in my stories and they were presented in a far more enjoyable manner than the average main Fire Emblem couple. I respect your opinion to disagree, but I do think its a bit much to call them 'a terrible couple' based on Fire Emblem standards, which are the only standards I was applying here.

 

With as many "lord" characters as there were in Fates, I'm beginning to wonder if there was even a traditional main character/lord at all; its like it was spread out across multiple characters like Corrin, Azura, Xander/Ryoma, and some of the other siblings too. Very strange.

 

But I'll stop rambling now since I've been very off topic for a bit.

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3 minutes ago, Roland said:

You wanna know what's hilarious? Out of all of the characters in this pass, the one that actually ended up having a personal connection to me is Byleth.

I didn't care for Joker and Banjo and I didn't know much about Hero and Terry when they were first announced, but through Smash and playing some of their games (this moreso applies to Hero. I admittedly still need to play a KoF title), I became fans of the characters. But as I said, this was admittedly before Smash. Not saying I don't like Hero or Terry, hell Terry is actually my favorite character out of the whole pass, but without Smash I would not have know who they were.

Point I'm trying to make here is, even though I think all characters are well made and definitely have their own fans, I was hoping the final fighter would be someone from a video game/series that I personally knew in good faith beforehand like the mentioned Doomguy and Ryu Hayabusa. A personal favorite of mine if you will.

And in the most hilarious way possible, fate answered that with Byleth. I got what I wished for, at the cost of said character currently being the most controversial character in Smash Ultimate.

Oh well. Nobody said being a Smash fan was easy.

This is mostly my experience as well, having played none of the games these characters were from (no, not even Banjo, the most exposure I ever had to him was Diddy Kong Racing; I was amazed growing up later to find out he had his own series).

Being a Smash fan isn't easy, but being a Smash and Fire Emblem fan is even harder. 

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Does Azura count as a lord? Considering the family aspect and despite technically being able to marry them, I don't feel like Corrin was especially implied to be love interests with the lords or at least Xander and Ryoma who are the main lords respectively. Whereas Azura I feel kinda was implied, at least with a male avatar. 

But yeah, it would be nice to have non lord implied love interests, but then at that point being implied love interest usually means they are a main character, which typically translates to lord character, sooo.... 

Honestly I'd rather have a break from avatar romance games in general and get a new game with a well written canon main couple. Something that the story is guaranteed to get me invested in since that's going to be what is happening regardless of supports; they don't have to be coy with implying things here and there, it just is. Alm and Celica are one of my favorite FE couples because of it. The only way they could have been even better is if they had gone through the whole game together, but the strength of their backstory and clashing ideas was enough for it to work. I want to see more of this nuanced relationship writing in future FEs, not just the older ones. Avatar pairings just aren't the same, despite the avatar x lord pairings being typically more fleshed out than the rest.

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18 minutes ago, Etheus said:

*In addition to Chrom.

 

Thanks.

 

- A Chrom main.

Can you imagine the salt if they had added in YeT aNoThEr FiRe EmBlEm ChArAcTeR, regardless of how unique they are as seen demonstrated recently?

Of course I love that Chrom is in despite everything, and I'm all for delicious salt from people who seem to irrationally hate FE just because of smash, but I like to think of other people too lol

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I do like Edeleth, for much the same reason I like all main character with lord ships: you actually get onscreen relationship development that isn't only stuck in the supports convos like most relationships with supporting characters. The character arcs tend to tie in with them rather well, and even in ordinary non romantic scenes and dialogue you still get to see them interacting and engaging with each other throughout the story. By the end, it doesn't feel like that much of a jump at all for the relationship to become romantic, unlike a lot of the others where it still feels like after only 3 or so conversations....BAM! Your married without much fanfare in comparison.

1 hour ago, Dark Holy Elf said:

More generally I also think the games feel more complete if Byleth and the lord end up S supporting; those make good capstone scenes for each character and their route; the endings can actually feel a bit underwhelming to me otherwise since a few sentences from the narrator don't really accomplish much.

This is also a major reason, in particular to this game. I feel like even in the other Avatar related FE games you still have some kind of denouement moment with your lord character where you talk about what happened in the ending and what they intend to do in their world moving forward, regardless of whether you marry them or not; 3 Houses for some reason only put all of that extra 'main story related talk' with the lord S support endings and not with most of the other endings, which make the other endings feel lacking imo. I don't know why they did this, since I don't remember this being an issue in the previous games.

Even among the lord supports for this game though (I'm not going to count Rhea since I technically haven't seen it, but even then you dont get to be onscreen with her as much as the other 3 throughout the story), after marrying all three, in my opinion I think Claudleth feels the least romantic (I felt way more of a best friends/bros vibe from him compared to the others, he leaves you in the S Support, and the ending card didn't say anything else about the relationship), Edeleth is in the middle (since it did establish more of a romantic vibe outside of just the supports and the ending implies a relationship, but it was hampered due to the route being so short in comparison to the others and Edelgard not really showing much development as a character throughout it since she's mostly the same from start to finish; Claude had the same issue), and Dimileth is the most romantic (has all the juicy development in both character and relationship, Dimitri himself has the most character driven narrative which lends itself well to the rollercoaster of emotions that comes from his evolving relationship with Byleth, so much so that I felt the story scenes between them were more romantic that his supports at times, and he is the only Lord to explicitly marry you in the ending card).

Since Byleth is mostly emotionless by design, its falls to the strength of their support partner's character to really sell the romance, so I do appreciate the added relationship investment to the story all three present when on their respective routes. 

But considering how much I obviously love Dimitri in general, I suppose I'm a bit biased haha XD

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On 1/16/2020 at 7:45 PM, vanguard333 said:

At least XC2 fans got an expansion of the story, plenty of DLC, and Rex as a Mii Costume. You want to know what Nintendo has given to us XCX fans? Nada; zip, zilch. Be grateful you got that stuff. But yes, it must be absolutely terrible to see Nintendo give the cold shoulder to you guys like that (sarcasm). 

Haven't been able to log on recently and I know you said you were done talking about it but as this was partly addressed to me I wanted to have a chance to respond:

Yes, I acknowledge that in comparison to XCX, XC2 has gotten much more love in general with the Torna dlc pack and a bit more representation so far in smash (though until Rex/Pyra get in I dont really consider it THAT much more representation since both games have about the same number of spirits and music tracks afaik). Of course imo considering how well XC2 did I still think it deserves all the love it's gotten. My point was that for a game that had everything going for it, knowing that it had every reason to be in (relevancy, high selling, popular, very unique potential moveset and playstyle, one of the few new characters that would represent a best selling game that debuted and is exclusive on the Switch), the fact that it didn't make it in by only barely missing the original cut is a very special kind of disappointment for me. It's not the same kind I would feel for a character or game that I had next to no expectations to get in, and therefore wouldn't be overly hyped for. And the mii costume only made me feel worse since at the time since I felt that it kind of soft confirmed that he wouldn't be getting into this iteration of smash, which would then put him into the same situation as Elma come next XC and smash game, as I explained before.

Still, despite my preference for XC2, I do recognize that XCX has been unfairly forgotten and underrepresented in Nintendo stuff in general. I'd say it's more because it was unfortunately released exclusively on an unpopular console that not as many owned. While I'm hyped for XC1 remake, I feel XCX should've gotten a port first to help with its obscurity issue. Sorry for rambling though, just my 2 cents.

On topic: I havent played much of smash since release due to life and just not feeling like I found a main in ultimate (they changed the play style of what I used to main, and no other character really clicked for me). But since I already have the fighters pass, and (no joke) this is the first DLC character that actually interests me from both moveset and connection with source game, how hard does it look like for a relative casual player to pick up and main Byleth for anyone that knows this stuff? I knew I wasnt going to be interested in smash again until they released a character I wanted to play, and while there still are more hype choices on my wishlist, she's the first one I actually feel like picking up smash again for.

[Talk about IT'S BYLETH, STOP MAKING THREADS in Smash here]

29 minutes ago, Yexin said:

also i am not mentioning how Rex was too late to join smash but Byleth wasn't, i swear i am no-

Much as I'm happy with today's announcement (if not necessarily having to be stuck with byleth, but whatever) I would have been over the moon if they had announced Rex/Pyra. Recency bias at its finest I guess, but I dont believe it isnt deserved since FE3H has sold so well.

I'm still salty over what they did to us XC2 fans, but I'm very hopeful that the extra dlc slots will include people that sakurai wanted to include but didn't think would have time to complete. I believe the extra slots weren't planned on before ultimate sold well enough to merit it, so I would expect Rex to be a safe bet. My only worry, is if he doesnt make the cut and they push him back into the next smash game that he would have to compete with recency bias if the next Xenoblade game is out by then. Still, I have faith he and pyra will be in eventually.

[Talk about IT'S BYLETH, STOP MAKING THREADS in Smash here]

Ironically enough I was just thinking about when we would get a 3H rep; I was of course fantasizing about who it would be and imagined a pokemon trainer situation as mentioned if byleth had to be included and they wouldn't just straight up give me Dimitri (consistently voted most popular character, is a lance user, interesting possibilities for moveset like the crit animation of him just sending the lance FLYING into the ground, isnt a female rep yes but I'm willing to make an exception for him, etc). But I'm happy to see us have a rep at all, even if byleth was the most expected and boring choice. Cant be showing too much favoritism to any house I guess, but any of the three would've made for a more interesting pick; I suppose I'll have to be happy with the weapons in the moveset. Also, can we please for once show the female version of the avatar as being the main default pick? Just a thought.

Still though, I'm happy to have a dlc character I finally care something about; let the haters eat salt, 3H deserves a rep for selling amazingly well and doing much to bring the divided FE community together.

Or as I like to call it, the anti SwSh. 😛

[DLC Wave 4 revealed at the end of the Smash Direct]

Oh no.....dont get me wrong, I'm super excited and happy to see the story dlc and would normally be excited to see it come out so early......but I'm so strapped for time as it is right now and I have too much hype. I haven't finished my last run yet (Silver Snow), patch 8.3 of WoW just dropped, I just got super excited for the Pokemon Mystery Remake in March among other games coming soon....how can I contain this hype?! I'm still shaking with excitement from all the reveals today alone, I dont know what to be hyped for first! I wasn't expecting this until April, so I'm not sure what to do with myself right now haha. Especially since I'll be at a convention for the weekend this comes out, I'll be fighting the urge to play nonstop lol

Can someone please explain to me how this works though? Is this a whole new path? Because they only have 4 students and that doesnt equal the 8 of the other houses. How in the world do they figure into the story either? Did no one else know about a secret house randomly chilling in the catacombs? Also, is it really possible to have multiple house leaders join you in whatever this is?!?! I don't care if you have to spoiler the explanation, I just want to know and not get my hopes up for a full length route if its not.

Hmm, I also remember thinking that giant wolf in the logo for the dlc content when it was revealed months ago looked too distinctly important to ignore. I thought it might just be a reference to the giant wolves, but I guess I was right to be intrigued. Also eager to see the new classes!

[Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX]

^

Thanks for the reminder, I dont know how that system slipped my mind after the hundreds of gummies I shoved down my throat just to get some decent IQ skills. Though yeah, I do now remember the standard follower iq skill being default which is probably why I confused it as being built in to the game as normal. Hopefully it's just a demo oversight, because I'd rather not play the game like that until I can get it; gummies as far as I remember were uncommon, weren't cheap, and rarely come in the color you want.

On another note, can anyone confirm something for me, just so I know if I'm crazy or not? (Former is probs true tho)

I remember at some point during the demo I saw some tutorial or item description seemingly insinuating that pokemon recruits in the new rescue team camps may be able to gain xp or some type of growth while standing by outside of the team. I'm probably wrong in this interpretation and I'll probably boot up another run of the demo tonight just to see where I got this insinuation (I've been pouring over so much hype and info this weekend that I may have misinterpreted something at some point) but has anyone come across or remember reading something similar? I havent been able to look through all the datamined/ keyword searches stuff yet.

And if this likely isnt the case, any general tips on leveling pokemon that arent consistently able to join your team? One of the more annoying things for me was never being able to have too many pokemon in circulation for my team due to level constraints; I usually have to plan out long in advance who my 4 main team members will be for endgame. I can rarely add and experiment with freshly recruited pokemon since my starters are always too high level in comparison and generally doing high level things that restricts messing with team composition. The extra levels you have to get during the leader/partner only "on the run" sequences dont help either. Maybe I was always missing some method, but grinding levels on other pokemon in these games seemed way too hard and tedious without expecting to not progress in the story for a good long while.

And as a last thought, any hope we might be able to evolve before post game? Never understood the point of that either.

Sorry for all my rambling, I'm just too excited to play these again! 😄

[Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX]

I havent been excited for anything related to pokemon since the epic hype deflation that was the infamous E3 national dex announcement (since then I have not felt an iota of interest for SwSh and have cut myself off of most any news for it; I still have no idea what 95% of the new pokemon are or look like) so imagine my elation upon learning of this remake. This is freaking fantastic and if the main games continue to decline this is all I'll need from pokemon for now. 

I got to play the demo last night and I'm happy to see this game lovingly remade with all the things I liked about the original with QoL updates to smooth out the edges. Only thing I'm a little disappointed on is losing the generic attack, but I suppose I'll get used to it.

Also, I haven't played this game in forever or as many times as PMD2, but is there anyway to change partner behavior in dungeons? Its annoying to have him moving and attacking things without my input; I distinctly remember there being a menu to change behavior to an option that makes it so that the partner will follow you step for step and only attack things he's next to. I had one too many instances where he's stepping out of line to pick up items I dont want or attacking things further away that I dont want to engage. It was rather frustrating in an otherwise nostalgically great experience. 

I really hope this sells well so they can remake all the games or at least PMD2, my absolute favorite! Definitely picking this up (it comes out on my birthday no less!) and I think this will be enough to keep me busy until I can see if gamefreak is serious about eventually bringing all pokemon to galar, which is my minimum requirement to play SwSh.

[so i had a cool idea what about pooling our resources to make a serenes forest AGDQ donation during the three houses run]

Ha, I caught it just in time to hear the donation read. Was happy to be a part of it; just sent in a personal donation as well~

Ahhh, so THIS is why Golden Deer was shooting up so high in record numbers. I thought it was weird that they were donating so much but if it meant that Joe Zieja would join the couch I can see why lol. I'm still sad Blue Lions had such a poor showing, but this makes me feel a bit better knowing it was for a voice actor to appear. This will be fun!