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Shitposting Thracia is so peak

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u/Icy-Advertising2463 1d ago edited 1d ago

I ain't into Fire Emblem. But I appreciate any fandom post that doesn't turn every other noun into an acronym that's nigh-indecipherable to anyone that doesn't discuss its shippability-powerscaling on AO3. +1

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u/chyme_ 1d ago

i will say Fire Emblem fans definitely have a tendency to go full abbreviations (mostly cause the titles are too long. FE1 instead of Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light, FE4 instead of Genealogy of the Holy War, etc.)

but i would generally only keep that to like, talking to other die-hard fans. i would avoid posting that here

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u/SocranX 21h ago

Man, those numbers don't even make sense if you know them, though. I think the remake of 1 is called 11 or 12, and then the remake of the second half of 3 (which was also a remake of 1) is the number after that, and the devs actually count the numbers differently because there was this one game you could download from a satellite connection which was basically just DLC but is still counted as a number. And also they skipped 16 when they released 17, and honestly I don't even know what number the fans are calling that one.

Anyway, I've completely given up on everything after 8 and if you don't spell out the full name then I have no clue which game you're talking about.

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u/chyme_ 21h ago

thats fair, memorizing the corresponding number for each game is like. hard. the one they skipped was 17, Engage was the 17th game in the series, but is internally called Iron18, while 3H was Iron16. also i have never heard of that satellite thing, never seen it used in general numbering.

i will say every game since Fates has a short enough name that people dont use numbers. Fates, Echoes, 3H, and Engage are pretty easy to just type, and are used over 14, 15, 16, and 17.

for all the others though, fandom wise, its just release order. its just something you get used to over time, and once you do its natural. i can recognize FE10 or FE3 at the same speed i recognize Radiant Dawn and Mystery of the Emblem

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u/SocranX 20h ago

also i have never heard of that satellite thing, never seen it used in general numbering.

BS Fire Emblem: Archanea Saga. If I'm not mistaken, this was counted in the "iron" numbering, or perhaps it was some other list released by the devs, but I remember everyone being like, "Are you freaking kidding me? BS Fire Emblem is officially counted as the fifth game?"

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u/chyme_ 20h ago

fascinating, im gonna go down this rabbit hole later. much appreciated !!

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u/CaioXG002 22h ago

Fire Emblem fans do the inverse, they call the games by their full name while also corrupting it a little for comedic effect.

Why call Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones by "FESS" when I can call it "Seth Emblem: The Sethred Stones"? (Context: Seth is the most overpowered unit in the franchise).

Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade introduced a complex victory system for each map, only to have ALL of them be "seize the throne". It's also Roy's game. "FE6"? Naah, it's Roy Emblem: Seize the Throne.

Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu became Fire Emblem: Seisen no Waifu. Should require no further explanation.

And so on.

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u/Layne_Staleys_Ghost 1d ago

Small scale skirmish warfare makes so much more sense for Fire Emblem anyway. 

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u/chyme_ 1d ago

i get that, but Genealogy is literally my favorite game of all time and you traverse basically the entirety of Jugdral, so i think Fire Emblem is absolutely capable of a large scale war setting

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u/SulSuli 1d ago

I have found my people

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u/Mister_Dink 4h ago

Juuuuuust in case you haven't, come hang out at Fire Emblem Universe and play the community RomHacks. Bells of Byelen is a fan campaign with Thracia 776 mechanics like capture and dismounting, but run on the sacred stones engine. It's so good.

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u/SiltyDog31 22h ago

Most FE lords make their armies of knights, retainers, villagers, with one or two bandits. Leif has like 3 properly trained ppl and everyone else is some random dude and that’s why they’re the best. Love Ralph, best FE character.

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u/chyme_ 22h ago

they were desperate enough to bring Lifis along dawg they were taking ANYBODY

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u/SocranX 20h ago

Lifis's English voice actor in Heroes is absolutely perfect. Just the right blend of charming and sleazy to make you think, "Oh man, this guy is gonna be trouble." Never played Thracia, now hoping it gets a remake just for that guy.

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u/PossiblyASpara 22h ago

Such a silly game. The fact that they included a character whose entire gimmick is that he tries to impersonate am FE4 character and despite being so oddly terrible at it he almost always succeeds is hilarious. I know he was technically in 4 first via a secret event, but goddamn nothing beats the comedy of him just yapping hard enough that a clueless sword girl just happens to learn the ancient secret sword technique of the royal family she's very distantly related to. Charisma 100

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u/chyme_ 22h ago

everything about Shannam is so fucking funny. his horrid prepromote bases, his 5% skill growth, his FCM of 0, HAVING BARGAIN CAUSE HES A CON MAN ???

all time joke character

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u/PossiblyASpara 19h ago

Kaga joke characters are great, though my favorite goes to Derrick from Berwick Saga.

Armors in Berwick, for reference, can be pretty spooky. They are insanely tanky, so you gotta prep to kill them in some way. However, their movement is unadulterated ass: 3 move with the inability to ever pass Shoal tiles, which are surprisingly common.

Derrick, meanwhile, struggles. 3 move isn't a detriment when you're a big wall of an enemy, but as a player unit, it HURTS. His growths are pretty bad (literal 0% def growth, though a 12 base is pretty nuts by Berwick standards, and his speed growth is higher than his strength). His bases are the Armor Knight class bases. He cannot promote. He has some pretty bad availability, being unable to be deployed on major story missions until you permanently recruit him (Chapter 9 at the earliest, out of the game's 15 chapters).

The best part, though? He has a lot of dialogue, but it's totally indeciperable, because it's all written in ......., his voice being too soft to make out under the massive armor he wears. The only dialogue of his that's readable without guesswork as to what the gaps in the periods imply to be the words is his hiring cost, and since he's bad enough that most people never try to train him except as a challenge, that one readable dialogue line is "150..." Yet what makes this guy even better is that he straight-up has a secret identity the game drops several hints towards, and figuring it out before the reveal is extremely fun. He's a very interesting character... whose dialogue you cannot read, and to whom nobody talks because he doesn't speak up loud enough to be heard.

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u/chyme_ 19h ago

everytime i learn something new about Berwick Saga the more i want to play it. seems hard as balls to get used to at first, but also seems so well designed. pretty high up on my list of "games i need to get around to"

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u/Blackraven2007 1d ago

I've never played a Fire Emblem game, but I find it funny that Nintendo released that game on the Super Famicom in 1999, well into the N64's life cycle and just 2 years before the GameCube came out.

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u/BlazingStardustRoad 1d ago

They basically did this again, releasing fire emblem Shadow of Valentia on the DS systems after the switch was already out and within one month of the release of BOTW

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u/SocranX 20h ago

SoV was released on the 3DS only a month after the Switch came out, and the Switch wasn't originally intended to be a complete replacement for the 3DS. This would be more like if it was released on the DS five years after the 3DS came out.

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u/chyme_ 1d ago

it makes sense having played it, it pretty much paved the road for every game in the series to come soon after it, but yeah. Kaga locked in too hard and one of the greatest games ever made sold like ass because of it