Recent content by Draayder

Somewhat hilariously the difficulty localization is the opposite problem FE: Radiant Dawn had, which had normal, hard, and lunatic translated to easy, normal, and hard. This led to a LOT of reviewers saying the game was way too hard (and kind of highlighting people's fears of being seen as not...

imo Awakening's difficulty is really... weird? The normal mode is pretty dang easy since A) infinite grinding (you could always not so kind of moot) B) mechanics changes that really altered the difficulty (pair up system kind of broke the game badly) and C) losing a lot of things like shove...

To be fair some of it isn't hypocrisy so much as not liking the implementation. Some people might be fine with dating aspects to something set in a high school, or in a more casual setting but find it jarring in a combat game (I personally love Bioware's dating portions but found awakenings...

Your math is right, there's just a lot of people rolling gear plus you can (potentially) order the "pure" gear from others. Also save scumming to get perfect gear is a thing.

I am 110% fine with easier/harder modes in Fire Emblem games, they've been done that way successfully plenty of times. In my opinion Awakening fell flat on the difficulty settings since the normal was pretty easy (not necessarily a bad thing) but the hard modes were more 'hope you get lucky'...

I was just about to post the same article, kinda of funny that it might not have been a FE rep if not for the dev staff convincing him to go for it. Also a pretty decent "Sakurai can't do anything and everything he wants to do in a game, he's still gotta discuss it with the higher ups" example.

I think along with it being an issue of a whole lot of sword users from a series that is all about weapon variety (you've even got characters like the manaketes and laguz who use NO WEAPONS and solely transform into dragons/various animals to attack) and the fact that there's THREE Marth clones...

Here's a larger copy of the image behind the spoiler. Note that she's listed as 6'3 and 198 pounds, which is what you'd honestly expect of someone that tall with as much muscle as she'd realistically have. Here's a pretty good comparison of how she used to look vs the Other M look (they made...

I feel like theres a pretty big distinction between "all the bad guys are dead, I can relax and get out of this armor and maybe hit the club" (and make an Aliens reference) and "I am randomly choosing to fight things while in a skin tight catsuit and high heels". Ones a pretty sensible...

Phantoon is so hilarious, just everything about the process that led to the result. "What enemy should we use for the SUPER BONUS BOSS?" "idk that one boss fight in Fusion I guess??" "okay so what happens if the player screws up the overkill shot to defeat it" "uhhhhh I guess it'll just murder...

I can appreciate the authorization system as an attempt at explaining 'well why doesn't Samus just have all her stuff from the last game', but it was pretty terribly executed. Some rewriting could have saved it somewhat, if Samus had been hired specifically to work under Adam's command rather...

Well that sure was a thing. Congrats to the top 3 tho.

Consistency and transparency. From what I saw in the thread the same situations were being handled differently for different groups. One set of 2 teams couldn't find a time to play, both get DQd, another set can't so they play 3v3, and so on. One team needs a sub and they get them, another is...

Just confirming these results, not sure if you still want our pics of the results too since we're not contesting it lol.

Yeah part of the reason a lot of people signed up for this (myself included) was that the 48 hours per round gave some great flexibility for teams and kept the thing less of a huge commitment for people that had other things going on. Saturday's already a mess with splatfest happening, I know a...