Fire Emblem series

[Computer God Autism]

Yeah, but it would be an in-game artist commissioned by Rhea/Seiros, one of the only characters still alive to have personally known Sothis.

I would say that doesn't mean it has to be an accurate-to-life depiction, but Rhea is absolutely autistic enough that she would ensure it would be, so you're probably right on that.

 

[Computer God Autism]

New Metal Slug SRPG:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1590760/Metal_Slug_Tactics/

Seems to be decently well received so far, but not a lot of attention.

 

[NerdShamer]

New Metal Slug SRPG:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1590760/Metal_Slug_Tactics/

Seems to be decently well received so far, but not a lot of attention.

Looks kind of decent, but I really don't care about fighting with that small of an team

 

[mrs thickness]

New Metal Slug SRPG

i played the SHIT out of the demo for this. enough to slam down 25 clams day 1 because i'm down bad for a new Into the Breach. all of the best pilots in ITB are the worst-looking ones (Kazaaakpleth can hang out though) and it's very sad because a good pilot and a bad pilot are night and day on higher difficulties. there was a metal slug tactics trailer with a release date a few weeks ago, and i only learned about it yesterday, so either i'm living under a rock or they're just marketing it badly. i think i remember the first trailer selling it as a full-on SRPG, but it's just cuh-razy Into the Breach

there's a joke to be made about a new metal slug game dropping the same day as the US presidential election but i haven't quite connected the dots on that one yet

 

[Computer God Autism]

there was a metal slug tactics trailer with a release date a few weeks ago, and i only learned about it yesterday, so either i'm living under a rock or they're just marketing it badly.

Definitely bad marketing; the only way I even noticed it was that it got into my steam recommended feed late 2022 and I didn't hear much about it since then and the release.

 

[Berrakh]

I checked out the fanbase and it's kinda sad how low quality the political sperging is. Faerghus is loved by Chuds despite not embodying any of their core values, only a shadow of a favored aesthetic. And Adrestria is liked by the Woke even though they'd be useless to that society's actual goals and inner-workings, they've only glommed onto the egalitarian rhetoric and cosmopolitan vibe even though both are only like motor oil for the machine.


But you know, I really do feel like the two good guy factions (Faerghus and Leicaster) were rejected at the ballot box last week.

I mean Faerghus is conservative but Trump's ascent in the GOP was in spite of conservatism. Trump isn't a Boy Scout pushed past his limit either. He's basically the opposite.

And Leicaster? Open Borders for Fodlan? Come on. And his defeated opponent was a racial mixture like Claude.

Edelgard meanwhile just wanted to Make Adrestria Great Again after all, and that's even the correct letters. And the same liberal use of the color red.

Also, given Melania as first lady again, relatable and approachable waifus were rejected for glamorous ice queens. Which only really fits one Adrestian citizen!

Okay I'm horsing around a little there. You can spare the bad and fully discredited takes about how nations need their kings and can't go on without the monarchy. Which was the counterargument last time, so don't forget that.

Spoiler: The Actual Sperging

However, I have been reading The Genealogy of Morals and it does a great job of settling some semi-disparate thoughts on 3 Houses. Overall my conclusion is the same as last time but better defined: Edelgard is the villain and it's silly to pretend she's good in commonly understood terms, but that's because the game rejects vitalism and any great arc of history. Warmongering is what makes Edelgard the villain but it's no sin unless you deny the world is a crucible. Which is to say you see Man as a Fallen Angel and not as a Rising Beast. Meaning you endorse slave morality, where virtue is found in being humble(d) rather than in being a master of one's life and affirming one's destiny.

This is why the political coding the fandom has given the factions is mistaken, albeit understandable.
Faerghus, the country that's desperately in need of racial reconciliation (according to itself), is right wing because uuhhhh the Wholesome Chungus Church and the King is blonde while Adrestia is left wing because uuhhh semi-abolishes the nobility in favor of advancing with technology (and has gay representation in a way that feels token, to me at least). I mean of course, this isn't unreasonable but it is shallow. If Napoleon is good enough for Nietzsche then I think the etically Napoleonic Adrestian campaign is more right wing than any number of fags and lack of clerical vestments can change since it's about reigniting history and fully endorses Great Man Theory (female).

And if you require a sort of macro case for this perspective... this game gives the role of uncovering Fodlan's true history to a literal mutt racial foreigner who wants open borders with his homeland. And he escapes the fighting with the least innocent blood on his hands. It's just a silly game to ascribe 'Based Themes' to unless you're being adversarial to its moral architecture.

 

[Computer God Autism]

And if you require a sort of macro case for this perspective... this game gives the role of uncovering Fodlan's true history to a literal mutt racial foreigner who wants open borders with his homeland. And he escapes the fighting with the least innocent blood on his hands. It's just a silly game to ascribe 'Based Themes' to unless you're being adversarial to its moral architecture.

This is highly autistic and but I agree Claude is useless as anything other than a racial token in his own story and that, on balance, every faction in 3H could be considered progressive. The most frustrating part of Azure Moon for me was the parley between Dimitri and Edelgard where Dimitri doesn't really argue against any of her points or assumptions.

 

[Kier]

I checked out the fanbase and it's kinda sad how low quality the political sperging is.

I don’t know about you , but that might just be the absolute last thing I’m looking for in my game fanbase.

 

[NerdShamer]

The most frustrating part of Azure Moon for me was the parley between Dimitri and Edelgard where Dimitri doesn't really argue against any of her points or assumptions

I honestly doubt if it genuinely would have changed things to have an debate. Since Dimitri doesn't have an lot of ground to stand on from his murderhobo episode and Edelgard isn't the type to consider any other option other than the "join or die" bit.

 

[AWarmToiletSeat]

Three Houses really is our New Vegas. 20 years will pass and we'll still be arguing about the factions in this game.

 

[Computer God Autism]

I honestly doubt if it genuinely would have changed things to have an debate. Since Dimitri doesn't have an lot of ground to stand on from his murderhobo episode and Edelgard isn't the type to consider any other option other than the "join or die" bit.

You're right it probably wouldn't have changed much; Edelgard is too self-righteous and if there had been an actual dialogue between them where she tips her hand about being given a very curated version of history by TWSITD there would have been even less reason for people to play Verdant Wind.

That said, Punished Dimitri's murderhobo-ing wasn't ideologically motivated and, as far as we know, didn't target people who weren't in Adrestian colors. Him going from that to articulating a positive vision for the future and his reclaimed kingdom in direct opposition to Edelgard's would have been a better conclusion to that aspect of his redemption arc than him tacitly agreeing with Edelgard about muh inequality and the need to get rid of it.

He doesn't really argue that what she's doing is wrong, just that she's wrong in breaking the speed limit to do it. There's some really basic gotchas that he doesn't even bother to seize; Edelgard talking about putting a stop to Fodlan's bloodstained history when she started the first war between Fodlan's nations in three hundred years, or her telling Dimitri she doubts he could know what the poor feel when he had been living in slums and eating grass for the past five years.

It's just a very amateurishly written debate, and I think the only lower point in AM than it is letting Dedue survive if you completed his paralogue.

 

[Atypical Dog]

I mean Faerghus is conservative but Trump's ascent in the GOP was in spite of conservatism. Trump isn't a Boy Scout pushed past his limit either. He's basically the opposite.

And Leicaster? Open Borders for Fodlan? Come on. And his defeated opponent was a racial mixture like Claude.

Edelgard meanwhile just wanted to Make Adrestria Great Again after all, and that's even the correct letters. And the same liberal use of the color red.

The classic Fire Emblem "don't think about the plot too hard, you're just here for the ride" combined with politics makes for endless sperging from the fanbase. Just as planned.

Three Houses really is our New Vegas. 20 years will pass and we'll still be arguing about the factions in this game.

I've always felt that FE's strength is in the character work and how that gets reflected in-game, so the politics and factions being just fleshed out enough to look like something while actually just being riffs of the Three Kingdoms that leave everything open to interpretation. That lets us inject our political opinions/stances into the characters that look like they fit best.

Dimitri is totally Liu Bei right down to going berserk after his sworn brothers get killed.

It's just a very amateurishly written debate, and I think the only lower point in AM than it is letting Dedue survive if you completed his paralogue.

FE likes to do this. The Shadow Dragon sacrifice, for example. Though I would prefer if Brown Guan Yu stayed dead, it's not that big a deal.

 

[NerdShamer]

There's some really basic gotchas that he doesn't even bother to seize;

Speaking of which, I'm not sure if 3 Hopes actually had the lords use this against Edelgard, either.

 

[Lone MacReady II]

Winter is here. Eldigan is dead. Sigurd is now an enemy of the state. Deirdre is tag:mindbroke, and worst of all - Quan and Ethylyn are gone so that means no Gae bolg, no combat healer, and no Finn with Brave Lance! Thankfully Ayra, Jamke, Bridget, Lewyn, and Beowulf have all become pretty efficient murder machines. When I replay the game I'll pay much closer attention to the gold system, I really like it but I also underestimated how much money characters would need in order to really shine. So far perma-death has claimed the digital lives of Alec, Arden, Midir and Erin.

Ayra with the Leg and renewal rings is ----> fucking busted ----> I love it.

FE4 continues to impress with a difficulty that beats you down, but doesn't do it in an unfair seeming way like you'd find in Awakening's Lunatic difficulties. I really like how ill it's been for just about everyone in this story so far. There isn't a "clean adventure" like with the shepards, since just about every conflict in the game so far has been brought about by lies, cult-scheming, political maneuvering, stupidity, and/or greed - like actual war! The more the story plays out, the more confident I am in saying that Nintendo needs to handle a potential remake Exactly like they handled Valentia, otherwise shit is gonna get fucked fast. FE4 can also be surprisingly cheeky and witty too, like Lewyn gets roasted by his own mother for being a throne-dodging little hipster.

Sigurd of course is the ideal Gentleman. The final chapter cometh...

 

[Friendly Primarina]

FE4

Have you paired off any characters?

 

[Lone MacReady II]

Have you paired off any characters?

Jamke got Aideen because he chose her and Sigurd's fight over his clearly dark-cult-manipulated family. I'm trying to pair the two arena monsters together now (Ayra and Holyn). The two mages Tailtiu and Azel. Midir with Bridget. Alec with Sylvia (green hairs). Noish with Laquesis, and hopefully Erin with Lewyn. I want Finn to carry on as well, not sure with whom.

I restarted the game after learning about how to get the Pursuit band. Noish is now an animal who can actual kill things, and replaying allowed me to max the arena to get Holyn, promote Ethylyn to Paladin before she left with Quan, and get Allllllllll the fucking rings with the characters who I wanted to have them first time. Turns out the game is very fun if you nut up and just learn the damn mechanics.

 

[Quartermaster]

Jamke got Aideen because he chose her and Sigurd's fight over his clearly dark-cult-manipulated family. I'm trying to pair the two arena monsters together now (Ayra and Holyn). The two mages Tailtiu and Azel. Midir with Bridget. Alec with Sylvia (green hairs). Noish with Laquesis, and hopefully Erin with Lewyn. I want Finn to carry on as well, not sure with whom.

I restarted the game after learning about how to get the Pursuit band. Noish is now an animal who can actual kill things, and replaying allowed me to max the arena to get Holyn, promote Ethylyn to Paladin before she left with Quan, and get Allllllllll the fucking rings with the characters who I wanted to have them first time. Turns out the game is very fun if you nut up and just learn the damn mechanics.

When I play I usually pair like this

Aideen - Midir
Gives Lester pursuit and all the Bows Midir has, Lana doesn't really matter she is always good.

Ayra - Lex
I find the sword twins are good at combat no matter what but they fall behind thanks to not having a mount.
Lex giving them Elite helps a lot.

Raquesis - Beowulf
Gives Delmud pursuit and swords, about as optimal as it gets really.

Fury/Erin - Noish/Alec

Fury's children are amazing no matter what, both have pursuit from the getgo.

Sety needs no help no matter what.

Fee appreciates all the weapons from her dad.
Nihil from Alec will patch up Fee's weakness to bows.
Noish's skills make her better at combat.
Just depends on what you want Fee to be.

Brigid - Any physical dad really

Faval kind of sucks no matter what you do and doesnt really need any other bows, Patty is always great as a thief but appreciates swords

Dancer girl I forgot the name of - Any sword dad, if you don't care for inheritance leave unpaired

Dancer Daughter needs all the help she can get if you want her to clear the arena so swords need to be passed down

If you leave her unpaired you get a good staffer with elite as replacement and a berserk staff

Tiltyu - Lewyn

Chapter 6 Arthur with Forsety is just too cool to pass up.
Tinny kinda sucks no matter what dad she has.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

(Ayra and Holyn)

Based and incestpilled. Give me deviant stickers, but I always do the incest pairings in the second generation because it makes me lol. Also, (actual spoiler follows) I forget which one it is but one of the pairs has a love conversation like "Aren't we cousins?" "Yep, lmao."

 

[Mr. Idiot]

Based and incestpilled. Give me deviant stickers, but I always do the incest pairings in the second generation because it makes me lol. Also, (actual spoiler follows) I forget which one it is but one of the pairs has a love conversation like "Aren't we cousins?" "Yep, lmao."

I'd bet you'd also go for the infamous Julia/Seliph pairing method glitch.

Though it is kind of amusing given how if more incest-pairings would run the gambit in Jugdral's royal families you'd have major blood-slayers running around with god-tier stats galore.

And though yeah Arthur with Forsety early on rocks, the only pairing I do sort of have a soft spot for plot-wise is Tiltyu/Azel given the chapter 4 conversation between them.

 

[AWarmToiletSeat]

I once played a game where the translators included the phrase "Onii-Chan Kenobi" in the dialogue and my mind has been a fractured mess ever since. IYKYK.