Difficulty.

[Light Master]

What level of difficulty you like the new game have ???

Edited February 8, 2015 by Light Master

[DeadGame]

Didn't play the games before the GBA era but I found the difficulty in the Tellius series (especially Radiant Dawn) and the localized GBA games suitable.

Binding Blade might have been a little berserk-heavy.

Anyways, definitely a higher difficulty than Awakening, anything to make the lifes of those casual players harder, hehe.

Edit: In case you didn't notice, I was messing around. Awakening still was way too easy, though.

Edited February 9, 2015 by FierceRagnar

[Ishi]

Thracia and genealogy should be seperate they both have extremly different levels of difficulty.

[MisterIceTeaPeach]

FE8 and 9 (western version) were too easy on highest difficulty.

FE11 and 12 had a good range of different difficulties: From easy (for newcomers) to superhard. So I vote for them.

Anyway I don't want to see anything like the lunatic + skills back. It was a terrible idea to make a game artificially harder.

Edited February 8, 2015 by The Taninator

[Light Master]

I will separate Genealogy and Thracia 776

[DragonLord]

I thought FE4 had good difficulty, gave a good challenge at times.

[Florete]

(You only need one question mark)

Radiant Dawn has a pretty good balance from easy to normal to hard. It could possibly use one more higher difficulty, but I might just be so used to it.

[Anacybele]

RD is a good difficulty, imo. It's not easy, but it's not really hard either.

[NoNameAtAll]

I thought FE4 had good difficulty, gave a good challenge at times.

Forseti alone nullifies challenge. I mean, if you're doing a substitute only run, it's fine. But the moment pairings happen, holy shit.

Anyway, I say bring on the Thracia. At least the game, for all of its dickery, had a lot of interesting mechanics that never returned.

Edited February 8, 2015 by NoNameAtAll

[Star and Moon]

I want the difficulty to be challenging but I still want perma-death to be optional. Soo, similar to Awakening.

Edited February 8, 2015 by Star and Moon

[DragonLord]

Forseti alone nullifies challenge. I mean, if you're doing a substitute only run, it's fine. But the moment pairings happen, holy shit.

Anyway, I say bring on the Thracia. At least the game, for all of its dickery, had a lot of interesting mechanics that never returned.

I actually liked Thracia's difficulty, aside from the Fatigue system which made things annoying for me. Capture is probably the coolest mechanic I've seen in an FE game so far.

[Sentacotus]

I voted for RD's difficulty other than part I it just felt pretty well balanced maybe throw in a Lunatic + or Maniac for those hardcore optimizers out there.

[Azz]

Didn't play the games before the GBA era but I found the difficulty in the Tellius series (especially Radiant Dawn) and the localized GBA games suitable.

Binding Blade might have been a little to berserk-heavy..

Anyways, definitely a higher difficulty than Awakening, anything to make the lifes of those casual players harder, hehe. :P

Bold.I don't get this,why punish those for playing a game how they want?I mean it may sound bias cause I tend to play casual but I play games to relax not stress myself.At least on casual I get to take my time and not worry to much about my units.It really makes no sense if a creator of a game said 'I am gonna punish you for not playing my game the 'proper' way' while there is no 'proper' way to play a game.

[lonelyVoxel]

Bold.I don't get this,why punish those for playing a game how they want?I mean it may sound bias cause I tend to play casual but I play games to relax not stress myself.At least on casual I get to take my time and not worry to much about my units.It really makes no sense if a creator of a game said 'I am gonna punish you for not playing my game the 'proper' way' while there is no 'proper' way to play a game.

I agree with Azz here. There's a reason higher difficulty is optional. I too prefer to turtle up and take my time and developing units than take huge risks. There's no proper way, only ways that work. LTC works. Speed running works. Taking it slow works.

[Ryo]

Since it'll probably go with Awakening's difficulty system or something similar, I say keep Normal as easiest as possible for new players (Awakening's level is good), raise the difficulty of Hard a bit while Lunatic's should be downgraded a bit to make them closer to each other, Lunatic+ should have fixed skills or no skills at all.

[Knight Falchion]

Since it'll probably go with Awakening's difficulty system or something similar, I say keep Normal as easiest as possible for new players (Awakening's level is good), raise the difficulty of Hard a bit while Lunatic's should be downgraded a bit to make them closer to each other, Lunatic+ should have fixed skills or no skills at all.

I mostly agree with what you're saying here but for the proposed reduction of difficulty in the Lunatic mode. While I get that there is an issue in making the leap from Hard to Lunatic in Awakening, the only change that should be made to rectify that is to make Hard actually hard. I personally like soul-crushingly difficult modes (that aren't bull shit like Lunatic+) and would honestly like Lunatic to be more difficult, though I'd be content with Lunatic staying the same.

Edited February 9, 2015 by The Legendary Falchion

[Mighty Kamina]

I don't really care about normal mode, so probably around Awakening's would be alright. For hard mode, I'd like it to be about at level with Radiant Dawn's (North American version) Hard mode, and then have Lunatic end up even harder than that. Should there be a Lunatic+ like with Awakening, I want the enemy skills to be set, rather than randomized.

Edited February 9, 2015 by Monado Boy

[iavasechui]

if they bring back Lunatic + it should involve more skill and less luck. At the very least combing luna +, hawkeye, and gamble should not be legal until well after chapter 2!!!!

[Faye]

Awakening is my favorite because of how easy it is, with grinding and all that. 8U; I wouldn't mind Casual mode and Awakening's Easy/Hard returning. That said, Fire Emblem is known for its difficulty in some places, so Lunatic should return, but it shouldn't be complete garbage like Lunatic +, cuz god I gave up even AFTER trying to level grind for Chapter 6. 8U;

[Awakener_]

To be honest, I kinda like Awakening's Lunatic Plus difficultly. It only that one time I won't minded being a extreme M for that extreme S mode.

[arvilino]

Bold.I don't get this,why punish those for playing a game how they want?I mean it may sound bias cause I tend to play casual but I play games to relax not stress myself.At least on casual I get to take my time and not worry to much about my units.It really makes no sense if a creator of a game said 'I am gonna punish you for not playing my game the 'proper' way' while there is no 'proper' way to play a game.

There honestly isn't any point, the game is best when it lets people play however they're most comfortable.If a casual player wants to improve their skills more than the player can increase the difficulty and choosing whether they want casual mode on or off, They don't really need the difficulty of their preffered setting forcefully raised in a following entry.

I think some players are too quick to think that everyone should play by their rules(how they play the game) that they don't realize designing the whole game and all modes to their liking alienates the rest of the audience. Like if we look at the results of this most people want Radiant Dawn kind of difficulty, but the highest difficulty of Radiant Dawn is too easy for players like me and the lowest difficulty is likely too difficult for other players.

Personally I'd like to see something between Shadow Dragon, New Mystery and Awakening's where the multiple modes from Normal up to H5/Lunatic'/Lunatic+ and casual mode in NM and Awakening gives the game the widest range of difficulties.

[feplus]

The key isn't difficulty, but difficulty options. The more, the better. Ideally I'd like to see something along these lines:

Easy ; roughly as challenging as Awakening Normal

Normal

Hard

Hard+ ; unlockable, works the same as Awakening Luna+ but with more reasonable enemy stats

Lunatic

Lunatic Reverse

Even more ideally I'd like to see a return of rankings, since a well-executed ranking system addresses the ways to trivialize most FEs (turtling / lowmanning / grinding), but it seems IS gave up on the idea after FE12 in favor of a world map.

edit: a compromise would be having postgame maps with their own individual rankings, FE8/9 employed something similar

Edited February 9, 2015 by feplus

[DeadGame]

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Life isn't easy, Fire Emblem shouldn't be, hahaha.

Edit: Just messing around again.

Edited February 9, 2015 by FierceRagnar

[DomesticHausCat]

I just beat FE3 a month ago and I felt that that was a very suitable difficulty. It was hard enough for me to do a few resets, but not frustrating.

[Ownagepuffs]

FE13 and FE12 Lunatic are the perfect difficulties as they demand a high level of knowledge from the player.

The FEDS games had a bazillion difficulty modes. More like that would be welcome.