No.2034
>>2016>By the way, I hope your fic of them didn't get hit by formatting issues, anon.It did haha. I was actually underage when I posted it (don't tell anybody).
>>1989>FatesI've been chewing the fat about this one with you/others in the general text and fanfic thread. It's funny how much hold it had on the franchise/fandom until 3H dropped. In hindsight it feels like it had much less staying power compared to a lot of the other games. I see more people talk about the GBA games+Awakening than I do Fates, which is why I had so much to gush about when it was brought up haha. Fateslandia STILL doesn't have a canon name.
No.2037
>>2034>In hindsight it feels like it had much less staying power compared to a lot of the other gamesI'm not surprised tbh. People who started with the GBA games will always be biased and feel nostalgic over them, Awakening was the first FE game for a lot of people me included, and Fates had to deal with it's horrible publicity from the fucked localization to youtubers spouting random bs about it as if they were facts, to people not wanting to buy each route separately because different versions of one video game usually have very few differences like with Pokemon games and everyone thought it would be the same here. It's a shame, it's such a good game imo. Everyone shits on the game just for the story as if it were a novel and not a video game. It's jarring seeing people saying "Fates sucks so bad because it has fanservice and a bad story but the gameplay is good" like bitch the gameplay is by far the most important element! But yeah barely anyone posts fanart or fanfics of Fates nowadays. I used to follow a bunch of girls on tumblr and twitter around 2015/2017 who were super into it and would post very good fanart, not always with gay pairings but often enough, and they were harassed so much over their husbandos being Xander, Ryoma, Leo or Takumi that they all suddenly became less active online like in general or they made private social media accounts to compensate. In the Japanese fandom it seems like some girls have dedicated husbandos and keep posting art, and other artists just post more art when there's a new alt on FEH. I miss U_kumakichi's art sometimes but she's busy drawing her own BL now.
Although, I do hear way less about Awakening now than back in 2015 when I got my own copy and played it. Maybe I should replay this one as well and finally marry Chrom.
>Fateslandia STILL doesn't have a canon name.I don't think it needs one, just like how Europe and Asia are on the same landmass but are still considered distinct continents for historical and cultural reasons. I admit I'm a filthy casual so I don't get why it's so important to some people.
No.2039
>>2037>I admit I'm a filthy casual so I don't get why it's so important to some people.Calling games by their landmass is (or used to be?) common shorthand for FE games because sometimes there are multiple games in the same locale. We have Archanea, Jugdral, Elibe, Tellius… Fateslandia… Fódlan, and Elyos (mildly offended this turd got a name and Fates didn't).
>like bitch the gameplay is by far the most important element!So true. Conquest filtered a lot of people.
No.2040
>>2039>Calling games by their landmass is (or used to be?) common shorthand for FE gamesI avoid talking about the games online nowadays so I guess that's why it never bothered me for Fates. If people call it Fateslandia all the time online it has the same effect anyway. Someone should have come up with a name related to the silk road or something like that it would have been cooler.
>Conquest filtered a lot of people.I don't get it because if the story is that bad you can still skip cutscenes if you want to just clear maps. Like at some point I was so fed up with the repetitive monastery phases in FE3H I just started skipping them at the end of my two runs instead of forcing myself to talk to everyone in there and collect lost items between each chapter.
No.2061
Fates nonny! Thank you for making the thread. I hope you don't mind me posting from my massive collection, this is the Ferdinand/Hubert nonny reporting. I'll post other pairings too though dw.
>>2039>Conquest filtered a lot of people.Conquest was easy to me, but I'm an oldfag and am used to the punishment of older games ig. I recently played 4 and I felt like that game was a little hard, tbh. Not because the battles were hard or anything, but because if you don't have a guide you can totally get screwed over with having crappy kids, making the second half of the game unplayable. I really liked the map design even if the maps were a tad large. It really made me wish they still put any effort at all into the map layouts strategy-wise, I feel like level design has been an afterthought in so many of the newer FE games.
Did anyone here play Echoes? I really enjoyed it and honestly don't get the hate for it. The characters and writing weren't amazing, but I thought it was pretty solid for an FE game, it wasn't like Engage-levels of awful. Plus, I liked Celica. I thought she was pretty cute. I also liked destroying Berkut but I'm having trouble finding nice Berkut/Fernand art.
No.2074
>>2061>I hope you don't mind me posting from my massive collectionThis is what the thread is for tbh, go for it.
>Did anyone here play Echoes? I did. I didn't like it though, not because it's bad but because it's just not for me. I think it felt very slow to me, between the fully voiced dialogues (I muted the voices after a while, they were in English with no option to switch to the original so not a big loss), the dungeons with almost all the encounters in them being the same one over and over again, and the RNG working against me all the time. I beat the game but I didn't do the remake exclusive content because I lost all my motivation and just didn't have a whole lot of free time back then. As for the story. I thought it was fine. Basic but not in a bad way, just straight to the point. I never understood the whole thing with how much the game hints at Alm's real identity and how it's treated as a huge surprised late in the game though. I wish it were more subtle.
>don't get the hate for itI've seen nothing but praises for it online. But it was mostly on tumblr and twitter and it was always compared to either Awakening or Fates when being praised, so maybe opinions have changed with time? People kind of moved on from the 3DS games but if FEH releases a new Berkut alt or just Fernand in general maybe you could find some Berkut/Fernand art.
No.2076
I have a hard time sticking to Japanese immersion so I'm trying to play FE9 in moon now. I'm kind of a birdfag but these were the first seasonal pictures in my folder. It's just a coincidence.
>>2032Ike/Soren was my OTP for a couple years and I still see the appeal. It's a goldmine of feels but I got bored of it. I wish people would branch out more. There's just so much more to Tellius. I have a decent-sized folder of old Ike/Ranulf art, even a whole doujin if you're interested.
>>2034I'm still sorry about your fic. That happened to a longfic I meant to read ages ago on FFN. I can't believe AFFN has the same problem.
>>2039My friends always called everything by continent, at least on tumblr when it was big.
>>2061>Did anyone here play Echoes?I would have played it but I always loved Celica and I'm still assmad about her lame redesign. I think they added dialogue for when a character dies next to one of their friends which every game should have, honestly.
>>2065Aaahhhhh!!!! Thank you so much! I'd never seen any art of them before at all!
No.2113
Been slowly making my way through the Black eagles route of Fire emblem three houses. I was totally ready to just focus on Yuri as my love interest in both branches because his character design and personality appeal to me but I ended up getting unexpectedly attached to Jeritza and his autism moe in the Crimson flower branch.
No.2116
>>2113Does that mean you played through the DLC before starting this route? How is it? I did the route with the Blue Lions, then the one with the Eagles and never touched it again because of the chapters being almost always the same ones.
No.2117
>>2116My first playthrough of the game was a vanilla Blue lions playthrough and I completed the DLC before my Golden deer playthrough. I thought it was enjoyable enough, making me use some characters and class combinations I wouldn't always have used. There's a few lore tidbits too. In order to prevent burnout I've pretty much been doing one route per year.
No.2122
>>2117I didn't play on my own Switch at the time and I was unemployed so I rushef through the game when it got released, but I learned my lesson kek. Never again. I played several JRPGs on the Switch that have NG+ features so I think I'll replay them all at some point, including FE3H. If I do replay it I'll do a run with Claude's route, marry Seteth, and maybe try to play the DLC right before that so I can get the new characters and costumes this time.
No.2126
>>2076>doujinPlease post nonna, I like ike. I need more of him.
No.2309
Since the 3DS won't be able to connect to the internet from April 2024 I dusted off my 3DS and I'm replaying Fates Birthright. Last time I played an FE game was 3H before the pandemic and I think I got too used to that game because holy shit, I'm just doing the intro of the game right now before the route split in Fates and I missed how the characters actually move, do things, interact with each other and how the camera moves instead of seeing characters just standing there in front of some JPEG background and occasionally frowning unless they're in a pre-rendered cutscene. I don't care what anyone says about the story in Fates, at least the presentation is better than average.
No.2334
>>2316>>2319>>2321Thanks love. Appreciate it much. Are these your scanned doujins or are you getting them from somewhere (like e-hentai or sadpanda)?
No.5079
>>5077I wish I could replay Fates with others online or thanks to the streetpass features but the 3DS is dead now. RIP.
No.5080
>>5077After learning how to mod my 3DS I decided I'd go on a journey to play a bunch of the the FEs I skipped over before, starting with shadow dragon on the DS cause in the past I never got my hands on a physical copy. Fates is also on the piracy list since when it was new I refused to reward Intsys for having the gall to pull a Pokemon when the previous entry was possibly going to be the end of the series and it was literally proven all of Fates could fit into a single cartridge.
No.5081
>>5080In my case I bought secondhand copies of Birthright and Conquest and then I bought the DLCs during a bif sale in Europe that lasted just a few days, I think it was either -20% or -50% on everything FE in the online store. I waited to get secondhand copies for the exact same reason. Is Shadow Dragon good?
No.5082
>>5081NTA, but I love shadow dragon. It being built so players don’t need to reset made me really enjoy learning how to strategize properly in SRPGs.
If you’ve never looked into it, basically once you lose a certain amount of characters, the game gives you more either through actual characters or nameless soldiers once you lose too many. There’s even a replacement for Tiki if you’re really bad at the game. Although if you’re the type of player that enjoys side character interactions and keeping characters alive, you might not enjoy it as much as the newer games.
No.5097
>>5095Me when I married Niles as a girl to have his fujo daughter and then as a guy in the next route.
No.5099
>>5095>tfw you do this in 3H and end up with Manuela because the launch day homo options were trashI really hope the next Fodlan game gives us dudes I actually want to see fucking the MC, they knocked it out of the park with Niles so it's offensive they didn't at least match that in 3H. Speaking of I think it's still up in the air if it's a prequel or a sequel, what are you guys hoping for? I'm huffing the sequel copium but I feel like it's gonna be a prequel.
Playing "future" games with a prequel followup is something they've already done with 6+7 and while that has its own charms (tragedy of foregone conclusions with certain characters in 7) I really want to see if they'll commit to a post-3H canon or try to pussyfoot around it.
No.5100
>>5099I assume it will be a prequel because this will be a good excuse to show us more of Sothis and her family. She looks like an adult in that trailer. There's also the blond guy who looks like he's related to Mercedes and Jeritza. I won't play it because I'm done with Nintendo, so I'm not getting a Switch 2. But that new game makes me curious.
>end up with ManuelaI like her, she's cute. I always played as a girl for the same reason. I haven't done all the routes though and the DLC was released after I stopped playing so maybe I'll complete the game someday.
No.5101
>>5099I thought it would be a sequel because older Sothis but idk.
>ended up with Manuela because homo options were trashI chose Flayn purely out of copium for no male MC Seteth romance.
No.5102
>>5101"Older" Sothis strongly implies prequel because she's not depowered and she merges with Byleth in 3H so how would she "grow" past that point? Despite knowing this I am still rooting for sequel haha.
>copium for no male MC Seteth romanceI'm so mad Seteth wasn't a Byleth-sexual. He was a great candidate for it because his other supports were all kind of mid.
>>5100Nintendo has the lion's share of living IPs I still care about so I'll cave on Switch 2 eventually. The good news is that by not playing you will be free from another 5 years of 3H discourse!
>the DLCIt's pleasantly challenging because it's so on rails and has a fixed roster but the interquel story is stupid/irrelevant and 3/4 of the new characters are total memes.