Slumber Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 (edited) 22 minutes ago, Interdimensional Observer said: For FEH, I can see the retainers counting as core. Though FEW only fitted in Oboro, Niles and sorta-Odin with Owain. So I'd say its just Corrin M&F, Nohr Royals, Hoshido Royals, and Azura, who count as the core of Fates, 10-11ish. Though barring the Cipher card game, FEH and FEW are the only dedicated FE spinoffs with Fates characters in them. And the only other dedicated FE spinoff is the... unique... trip of TMS, made before Fates was developed. So there isn't a lot to go on. If FE continues to do as well as it has been for the last 6 years, and its spin-offs continue to do well(TMS was a casualty of the Wii U), then I can see more FE-related spinoffs coming. And as @Seazas laid out, priority seems to be: Corn Royals+Azura Retainers Popular first geners Popular second geners Unpopular first geners Unpopular second geners With a cast of nearly 70 characters, 26 of them make up those first three tiers. Depending on the style of the spinoffs, FEW will probably be the template for bigger projects that involve Fates in terms of how characters are picked. In those cases, it's pretty much guaranteed the only Fates characters we'll ever see again outside of FEH are going to be the those top two tiers. We'll probably never even see most of the retainers outside of content that continuously evolves like FEH. Which sucks for me, because I'd rather see Nyx or Forrest over seeing Camilla ever again. So that's where I'm thankful that FETH reigned in its core cast. BCDE will always get their spot to shine, and then after that? Pretty much can be anyone. Hubert, Hilda and Dedue I see being the most likely, but I wouldn't be surprised to see any of them swapped out for like, Lysethia, Felix, Dorothea or any other seemingly popular character. Edited August 19, 2019 by Slumber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humanoid Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 I hope they take their time with the mainline follow-up, ideally by developing a completely new engine first. By all means, extend the life of 3H with DLC and maybe even a proper expansion (prequel?), but this engine is already creaking, and though I don't know the details, I'm assuming it's just a repurposed Warriors engine? I gave up on that game after about an hour so a follow-up is fairly meaningless to me. I'd certainly hope that any spinoff would be a completely different genre ...or at least a Capcom-style 90s side-scrolling beat 'em up. 😛 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Druid Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 Well, there's already more Three Houses characters in FEH than Thracia right (?) (Not counting the repeats), so that's a good sign. And they also had another banner, which is something Echoes never got, so I think that's a positive sign? (Echoes had 2 banners at launch, but then...nothing else?) I like the Three Houses characters; it's one of the best casts in the series (although I'm not sure if it's my favorite yet. Tellius and Sacred Stones are hard to beat IMO) so I wouldn't mind seeing them more. If Warriors 2 gets made, I wouldn't mind there being 8 reps for Three Houses (both Byleths, the House leaders, the retainers, and Hilda, who's sorta a retainer but she's really not.) Although if they do get promoted and used a lot, ask me again next year to see how I feel. 6 hours ago, Slumber said: So that's where I'm thankful that FETH reigned in its core cast. BCDE will always get their spot to shine, and then after that? Pretty much can be anyone. Hubert, Hilda and Dedue I see being the most likely, but I wouldn't be surprised to see any of them swapped out for like, Lysethia, Felix, Dorothea or any other seemingly popular character. I thought Dedue was an obvious choice too, but then Petra and Mercedes show up in a banner he should have been in tbh. But Dedue better be in a Warriors game if they're adding the retainers. Hubert, Dimitri, and Hilda would all be non-sword wielders and as far as I'm concerned, that's a good thing. I just hope they use the post time skip looks more though (I doubt that will happen.) Tbh, I like their older designs a lot more in most cases. Their armor and the personal details are really interesting. It says a lot about the people of Fodlan's style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mylady Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 13 hours ago, Crysta said: It'd be weird if they abandoned Fodlan completely after the amount of world building they put into it... and all the plot threads that still need resolving. I see spin-offs and/or a prologue being feasible more than a sequel, though, just because of the sheer amount of slightly different epilogues Byleth and crew could get. And the world state differs vastly with each different route. I can see a prequel a la Blazing Sword, following the 10 heroes featuring Manakete Flayn, Seteth and Seiros. It's easier cause won't establish a canon route. Or a gaiden kind of story like Shadows of Valentia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interdimensional Observer Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 3 hours ago, Dandy Druid said: Well, there's already more Three Houses characters in FEH than Thracia right (?) (Not counting the repeats), so that's a good sign. And they also had another banner, which is something Echoes never got, so I think that's a positive sign? (Echoes had 2 banners at launch, but then...nothing else?) Correct on the Thracia front, unfortunately. As for Echoes: "At the start of FEH, the only SoV characters in were the Whitewings- by virtue of being shared with Archanea. Then 4 came in April, then another 4 in May, followed by 7 (and Berkut) in July, and then Clive in August. In total, April-August without anyone in June brought us 16 of the 20 (not-Berkut or alts) characters. After August 2017, only Kliff has come." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Holy Elf Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 5 hours ago, Dandy Druid said: I thought Dedue was an obvious choice too, but then Petra and Mercedes show up in a banner he should have been in tbh. I have a sneaking suspicion they chose people for the banner based on some internal polling of their playtesters and that Dedue isn't that popular, at least based on that. Echoes has had four banners I believe (the initial Alm and Celica-based ones, then "Alm's army" and "Celica's Army"), which, combined with the fact that four of its PCs are already in the game (and in the case of the Whitewings, with nearly identical designs), means the majority of the Echoes roster is already covered, so at this point there isn't much to add. (I don't think there's any remotely popular Echoes PC not in the game yet, but I'm too lazy to look up CYL3 and check.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregster101 Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 43 minutes ago, Dark Holy Elf said: I have a sneaking suspicion they chose people for the banner based on some internal polling of their playtesters and that Dedue isn't that popular, at least based on that. Echoes has had four banners I believe (the initial Alm and Celica-based ones, then "Alm's army" and "Celica's Army"), which, combined with the fact that four of its PCs are already in the game (and in the case of the Whitewings, with nearly identical designs), means the majority of the Echoes roster is already covered, so at this point there isn't much to add. (I don't think there's any remotely popular Echoes PC not in the game yet, but I'm too lazy to look up CYL3 and check.) Python, Tatiana, Valbar, Conrad, Deen, Rinea, Mila, just to name a few. It's way overdue for a new banner at this point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interdimensional Observer Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 1 hour ago, Dark Holy Elf said: I have a sneaking suspicion they chose people for the banner based on some internal polling of their playtesters and that Dedue isn't that popular, at least based on that. Echoes has had four banners I believe (the initial Alm and Celica-based ones, then "Alm's army" and "Celica's Army"), which, combined with the fact that four of its PCs are already in the game (and in the case of the Whitewings, with nearly identical designs), means the majority of the Echoes roster is already covered, so at this point there isn't much to add. (I don't think there's any remotely popular Echoes PC not in the game yet, but I'm too lazy to look up CYL3 and check.) 1 hour ago, Gregster101 said: Python, Tatiana, Valbar, Conrad, Deen, Rinea, Mila, just to name a few. It's way overdue for a new banner at this point CYL3 results 56. Rinea 84. Conrad 99. Mila 100. Python 111. Silque 169. Tatiana 172. Luthier 213. Brigand Boss 216. Zeke 266. Forsyth 281. Hestia 285. Valbar 295. Fernand 307. Rudolf 333. Atlas 348. Deen 363. Kamui 380. Nuibaba 396. Marla 397. Mycen 413. Jedah 456. Jesse Two minor NPCs so minor I leave them out entirely. 522. Nomah And that is the end of the SoV playables, out of more than 569 characters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yexin Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 (edited) i'd be fine, unless the series becomes "Three Houses, Fates, Awakening, Marth, Tiki, and the boys" Edited August 19, 2019 by Yexin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabulously Olivier Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 Very hopeful. This game has a great cast (one of my three favorite casts alongside Tellius and Magvel), and I would be very happy to play as many of them. Here's hoping to play as Claude, Edelgard, Dmitri, Byleth, Seteth, and Linhardt in FE Warriors 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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