Sakura
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Post by Sakura on May 28, 2009 21:13:38 GMT -6
Who's it gunna be?
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Post by Gabriel on May 28, 2009 21:25:05 GMT -6
Ike the man or Ike the tank?
That aside, Eliwood wins points due to being the main lord of the sole FE game I played. Ephraim looks decent, and I main Marth in Melee and Brawl(whenever I play at my friend's house), but have no idea about what they are like in their respective games. Ike(Man version) gets points for being cool looking, but that's about it.
The rest I know barely anything at all. And I just have this feeling that Roy is a brat(even when I have not played Sealed Sword/Sword of Seals).
(Marth gets my other vote just because he was the one to start the series, and because I use him in Smash Bros)
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Wein Lowell
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Post by Wein Lowell on May 28, 2009 22:25:38 GMT -6
Ike and Hector. They are of the sexy beast category.
Hector is jawsome and becomes a destructive force game-wise. He also wields Armads which gives him +100 to awesome in my book. He also has the personality closest to me.
Ike the boy is a god-beast game-wise, and actually has a personality unlike most of the main lords. Ike the man is just a beast game-wise, and unfortunately doesn't have as much personality in RD as he does in PoR. He does have huge muscles to make up for it.
Marth is the epitome of the generic hero. Sigurd is cool, but he's just not quite there. Eliwood is decent. Lyn lost all point after her story. Roy is a personality-less clone of Eliwood. Ephraim and Erika are incestuous pretty people. Micaiah is obnoxious and lame.
And that's my totally un-opinionated, unbiased post.
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Errol
The "Before" years
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Post by Errol on May 29, 2009 8:42:05 GMT -6
I voted for Eliwood before I realized I could vote for more than one person. So my opinion of the others...
Marth: I haven't actually played his games, but I've read SD's script. He has his moments, but mostly he doesn't really have personality.
Sigurd: Haven't played, haven't read, can't say.
Roy: He learns a lot on his quest, though he doesn't have much real interaction with others.
Lyn: She has all that buildup, then it's almost all wasted once Eliwood's story starts. On the other hand, Hector's story shows that our tactician blinked and missed most of her interactions with Hector.
Hector: Most people give him points for being different than the standard fire emblem main character. Of course he's different - He isn't the main character.
Erika and Epharaim: I liked their backstory with Lyon, but some things just didn't seem to work. Erika's mercenary "disguise" ended up completely failin by chapter 9, while Epharaim, well, I can't say anything about him.
Ike: was better in his first appearance. PoR actually learned something from the war, but RD Ike didn't have anywhere to go from there.
Michaiah: Deserved better than to have Ike steal her game. It was interesting how Part 1 built her up as an angelic hero, then Part three had her fall and become a villian.
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Post by Gabriel on May 29, 2009 13:11:47 GMT -6
Marth's lack of personality was a given. Marth is from a game released in 1990 and on the NES, to top it off. It is a miracle that Marth actually has as much a personality as he does already.
And Shadow Dragon, from what I've heard, hasn't built to much on top of what already was there.
Lyn was never intended to be the main focus of the story. Instead, she was added to the game to give most people a tutorial on how to play. I've seen the first few battles of Sword of Seals, and there is nothing like a tutorial. Why did Blazing Sword have one, then? Most likely because of it's planned worldwide release. Yes, Lyn was just a clever way of giving everyone a tutorial without breaking the story that was already set up by Sword of Seals, and without really meddling with Eliwood's story.
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Sakura
The "Before" years
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Post by Sakura on May 29, 2009 13:52:58 GMT -6
Hector is indeed a main character. He has a story, so he's a main character. That. is. my. opinion. =I
Well, I like the characters that have no personality. It lets you be creative~ Like Marth. He can be a story-book prince or a prissy princess. Ike can be a big, stupid hunk of meat, or a sarcastic man with subtle, witty humor. Roy can be a young trickster with good humor or a serious stick in the mud. There's no end~
Although, characters with personalities add more to the story, so it can go either way.
-Shrugs-
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Hiro
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Post by Hiro on May 29, 2009 16:08:37 GMT -6
Marth's lack of personality was a given. Marth is from a game released in 1990 and on the NES, to top it off. It is a miracle that Marth actually has as much a personality as he does already. And Shadow Dragon, from what I've heard, hasn't built to much on top of what already was there. Lyn was never intended to be the main focus of the story. Instead, she was added to the game to give most people a tutorial on how to play. I've seen the first few battles of Sword of Seals, and there is nothing like a tutorial. Why did Blazing Sword have one, then? Most likely because of it's planned worldwide release. Yes, Lyn was just a clever way of giving everyone a tutorial without breaking the story that was already set up by Sword of Seals, and without really meddling with Eliwood's story. From what people said a long time ago, Lyn was for us "stupid" Americans since we couldn't grasp the idea of a FE game.
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Lilith
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Post by Lilith on May 29, 2009 19:55:23 GMT -6
I voted for Hector and Mikaya
Hector was the manliest of the lords, and yet even he had a soft, emotional side.
Mikaya beat Lyn slimly. Mikaya won for me because she used cool magic and she had a great backstory. I hate how she took a back seat to Ike.
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Post by Gabriel on May 30, 2009 14:41:32 GMT -6
Not so much stupidity. It's just that the Japanese were already used to the FE system. However, this was the first time FE was to set foot outside of Japan. Intelligent Systems just thought it'd be a good idea to offer a tutorial on how things worked, so as to provide everyone with some sort of experience before the actual game started.
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Hal
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Post by Hal on May 31, 2009 10:25:59 GMT -6
Not so much stupidity. It's just that the Japanese were already used to the FE system. However, this was the first time FE was to set foot outside of Japan. Intelligent Systems just thought it'd be a good idea to offer a tutorial on how things worked, so as to provide everyone with some sort of experience before the actual game started. As I said, that's how it was put. The FE system was simple till PoR when they added Laguz. I was already used to it so adding in things that have timers that was increasing each turn and when attacked was kinda different then vice-versa when they were in beast form. After getting used to that it was simple again. But then again when I first got FE when it came out I had the habbit of reading the book on the way home so I had something to do.
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Post by Gabriel on May 31, 2009 11:38:20 GMT -6
What does any of what you said have anything to do with what I said, the first 10 words of it aside?
Either way, even if the gameplay IS simple and whatnot, adding a tutorial in a game is done simply to make it seem "complete", and to offer some insight on the system to new players and idiots who simply can't figure out what to do, regardless of how simple it may be.
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Hal
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Post by Hal on May 31, 2009 11:41:34 GMT -6
-.- Maybe it was explaining why it made it a little less simple. And then why I may of learned how to play it quickly. Simple things don't take much to learn so adding a tutorial saga wasn't needed. In PoR they had a help menu that showed you everything IIRC.
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Post by Gabriel on May 31, 2009 11:58:27 GMT -6
As I said, regardless of how simple something is, tutorials and instructions are used because they are meant to give an insight on the object(in this case, the game). Plus, I remember reading that the developers said that it was a good way to introduce the series to the rest of the world, without having to throw them into actual play right away. Most games do this nowadays, anyway.
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Alcibie
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Post by Alcibie on May 31, 2009 20:32:54 GMT -6
Hector and Ike are my boys. I got Ike to max out in 9 and 10. Then Hector is just Hector who is Hector, and one heck of a tank!
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Night
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Post by Night on May 31, 2009 21:15:50 GMT -6
Hector and Ike. Always. They are the Tank Gods of Fire Emblem
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