Ansem Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 IS put out some crap animations like Fighter, but I always thought animations like the Sage and Lyn Lord were pretty great. I wanted to see what others thought of the battle animations in the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Book of Ereshkigal Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 (edited) I like the animations FE8 added. Most of them are pretty nice :B (for some reason I really like Wyvern Knight) Edited January 10, 2015 by L95 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandragon Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Great Knight has to be my favorite GBA animation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klokinator Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 I hate like, all the FE8 new animations. Rogue looks stupid. Ranger is choppy as fuck. GK is OK. Summoner is REALLY GODDAMN RETARDED. FE6 anims are basically FE7 but worse. FE7 added Hawkeye!Berserker, which is the best anim ever. FE7 wins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oshimos Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 (edited) I hate like, all the FE8 new animations. Rogue looks stupid. Ranger is choppy as fuck. GK is OK. Summoner is REALLY GODDAMN RETARDED. This, so much. Everyone seems to go on about how great the new sprites in 8 are but most of it is really janky. Even GKs look really awkwardly out of place with their pseudo 3D when literally every other animation is flat, imo. That said, I typically leave the combat animations on in the GBA Fire Emblems, though I like to turn off Dancer and Staff animations and will turn them off if I'm up against an orgy of enemies like in Cog of Destiny, and I typically speed through them on emulator. Edited January 10, 2015 by Oshimos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ansem Posted January 10, 2015 Author Share Posted January 10, 2015 Something about watching the Eirika lord animation was satisfying. I think that little click in the beginning was pretty great. Also Sword!General is pretty beast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Gabriel Knight Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 This, so much. Everyone seems to go on about how great the new sprites in 8 are but most of it is really janky. Even GKs look really awkwardly out of place with their pseudo 3D when literally every other animation is flat, imo. How is it bad that the Great Knight animation is of a higher quality? It should be bad that they didn't bring everything else up to its level. I like the new FE8 animations, but Ranger is still badly done. My favorite animation is the General. God, the sheer coolness of the whole concept of the GBA general is just brilliant. It's really disappointing that the Generals in the later games just didn't live up to it, in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Horace Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 never forget nomad trooper sword crit animation honestly even the obviously bad ones like fighter never bugged me. There are some pretty rad ones like the Hawkeye!Zerker and I quite like Hector's helicopter crit (I think its only for Armads? I forget) I still always turn them off though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT075 Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 nothing will ever top the nomad trooper sword crit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ϲharlie Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 The GBA sprites generally don't look half bad, but the animation is not very good overall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Mir Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 (edited) I thought most of them were alright, with the exception of Great Knight, which was craptastic, not unlike the class itself. Also, the Pupil animation stunk. never forget nomad trooper sword crit animation honestly even the obviously bad ones like fighter never bugged me. There are some pretty rad ones like the Hawkeye!Zerker and I quite like Hector's helicopter crit (I think its only for Armads? I forget) I still always turn them off though. Yeah, the helicopter crit is Armads only. Edited January 11, 2015 by Levant Caprice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted35362 Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 they give cool animations to eliwood hector and lyn for when they use the weapons that athos gave them, but the weapons are all useless garbage. nintendo WHY fe8 did great for the new classes and added nice animations for monster classes, but i can agree that the ranger is awk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Mir Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 they give cool animations to eliwood hector and lyn for when they use the weapons that athos gave them, but the weapons are all useless garbage. nintendo WHY fe8 did great for the new classes and added nice animations for monster classes, but i can agree that the ranger is awk. Armads wasn't too bad, really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
super45 Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 I really liked the General animation. It was much bulkier and more intimidating than later generals. The crit where it spins the chain-axe then throws it is the best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterIceTeaPeach Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Like most of the animations. My favourites: critcal hits by the nomad trooper with the iron sword in FE6 critical hits by knights / generals in general pegasus knights and draco knights in general great knights in FE8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gradivus. Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Generals with 1-range axes are awesome af. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siuloir Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 People hate on the Great Knight, but are okay with the three frame attack choppiness of the base cavalier? Generals win for me, followed closely by Great Knight, and then Warrior or Nomad Trooper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Karnage Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 (edited) No matter how bad you may think any of the animations look in the GBA games, I think we can all agree they look 100X's better than the DS sprite animations. Edited January 25, 2015 by Captain Karnage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eselred Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 The GBA games have the best animations, specifically 7. 6 and 8 look a bit off. I haven't played Awakening (yet!), but of the 3D Fire Emblems, Radiant Dawn has some good battle animations. The DS games were the worst by far. What's wrong with the Fighter animation? He smashes an axe in the enemy's head. It's hilarious and completely over the top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErrantDShepherd Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 (edited) All the GBA games animations have a certain charm to them... And at least have more personality than the DS boringness... Even the janky/lazy ones. ;) Agreed on FE7 being most cohesive. FE8 has some cool ones, but... Why some of those proportions, why some of those animations? ...yeah yeah, FE7 has a helicopter, flying horses, and a dude stabbing(why!?) instead of swinging or striking with a BFSword... But in general its tighter, everything fits together for the most part. Edited January 29, 2015 by TheErrantShepherd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrightBow Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 At least the DS animations had a second attack animation. Anyway, either one pales compared to the FE3/4/5 system. That one actually simulated a battle, the ones from the handhelds just go through the one animation they have over and over and over. It's so cheap, they don't even dodge projectiles, they just disappear. Well, the Thunder Spell doesn't but Fire does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirie Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 I really love the GBA animations, even the cheesy ones. Sometimes especially the cheesy ones, like dodging a bolt of lightning by stepping ~10cm to the side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerosabers Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 I'm with Kirie, I love all of the animations for GBA. Except for promoted Ephraim, with his 180 horse spin stab that looks so ridiculous. My favorites are the sword master and Lyn's animations, they're so over the top and flashy. I really like to watch them fight and their crit animations look really awesome to me. Though falco knights and sword masters have problems with the 1 pixel adjustment to dodge lightning the dodge animations are all pretty good. Of course the no damage animations are even better http://awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=042913 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Stewart Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 (edited) I love the GBA animations. Even the bad ones, lol. Warrior has always been a favourite, especially the crit. I like the FE8 Great Knight, don't know why people have a problem with it. I like the Mage Knight animation too. Only one I don't much care for is the FE8 Rogue. There's a bit TOO much flourish in that one. Also, the sword animation for the Ranger was quite janky. Edited February 9, 2015 by #RR shinpichu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topaz Light Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 I don't know what people mean by mentioning the Great Knight's "pseudo-3D"...? It's not "pseudo-3D" at all. The DS animations are pseudo-3D. FE8 Great Knight just has a lot of frames for its attack animations, so it's very smooth. Anyway, as much as they're not really all that good some of the time, I have a soft spot for the GBA-style animations. They're bright and lively, even if not realistic, so they're charming enough to watch that I generally leave them on (unless I'm doing something extremely tedious like Boss/Dance/Play abuse). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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