Fire Emblem 6 and 7 are the best fire emblem games. I tried playing the gamecube one but I thought the writing was laughable. It still had decent gameplay though.

Navi

5286 Posts

August 09 2011 04:53 GMT

#22

i remember my brother playing FE7 and training all his people to level 20 and classing them up and then training them to 20 again in the colloseum
and then finishing his last character for that level (hawkeye)
and then running into a swordmaster with a silver blade and some retarded crit chance

i will never forget his scream as the crit animation started

imBLIND

United States2626 Posts

August 09 2011 04:57 GMT

#23

The game is actually ridiculously easy if you abuse the coliseum lol. Still very fun to play tho, nevertheless.

Ian Ian Ian

915 Posts

August 09 2011 04:58 GMT

#24

I never thought these games were that frusterating. I played the 2 GBA ones and the 2 Gamecube ones.. didnt find any of them that hard. I did a HHM playthrough and it wasnt bad either. Just gotta be smart.

Never finished 2nd gamecube one, it was too long

Juddas

768 Posts

August 09 2011 05:00 GMT

#25

2nd gamecube one? do you mean Radiant Dawn? For the Wii?

Kupon3ss

時の回廊10066 Posts

August 09 2011 05:04 GMT

#26

For those looking for a real challenge, ChinaFE is probably the only honestly "hard" fire emblem
ChinaFE aka The Will of Good and Evil is a patch for FE8 for the GBA that makes the game significantly harder while adding a bunch of awesome stuff like third classes and characters from past fire emblems, hardcore fans of the series should definitely look into it (though it is all in chinese xD)

ItsMeDomLee

Canada2732 Posts

August 09 2011 05:19 GMT

#27

My favourite series of games of ALL time easily. Including any Blizzard games.

ItsMeDomLee

Canada2732 Posts

August 09 2011 05:20 GMT

#28

On August 09 2011 13:57 imBLIND wrote:
The game is actually ridiculously easy if you abuse the coliseum lol. Still very fun to play tho, nevertheless.

Dude that's like saying SC2 is easy in Bronze League...

Tatari

United States1179 Posts

August 09 2011 05:24 GMT

#29

I abused the living crap out of the Colosseum. It's so easy to break the game with. :I

Out of curiosity, does anyone know some characters to sacrifice to continue the Gaiden plot in Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon? I'm at a complete loss on who to sacrifice. The mages are so good and for some reason characters that I want to sacrifice have had beastly level ups

ItsMeDomLee

Canada2732 Posts

August 09 2011 05:26 GMT

#30

On August 09 2011 14:24 Tatari wrote:
I abused the living crap out of the Colosseum. It's so easy to break the game with. :I

Out of curiosity, does anyone know some characters to sacrifice to continue the Gaiden plot in Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon? I'm at a complete loss on who to sacrifice. The mages are so good and for some reason characters that I want to sacrifice have had beastly level ups

Keep one of each class. It's not a huge deal if you're not playing on H5 mode. I played on H5 mode and couldn't beat the final boss XD It's so crushing haha.

SnK-Arcbound

United States4423 Posts

August 09 2011 05:29 GMT

#31

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones GBA (<<My personal Fave) AKA FE:8

I'm still trying to beat this on the hardmode. I'm stuck on Ch.19. One little misstep and I have to start the whole thing over again. Hard difficulty is no fucking joke. On normal you can send in one guy to kill every enemy. On hard he will quickly be killed if you try that. You won't have much appreciation for FE if you only play it on normal (I didn't).

Edit: I also like the story. No redemption. People make choices, and sometimes they are irreversible. Sounds like real life to me.

HansMoleman

United States343 Posts

August 09 2011 05:31 GMT

#32

Question: Are the old japanese Fire Emblem games playable by an English speaking person? I loved the hell out of the game boy series but thats about it, the ds ones were not as good IMHO.
Anyone play the japanese ones?

Blitzkrieg0

United States13132 Posts

August 09 2011 05:33 GMT

#33

I wish FE 1-6 were more accessible in my childhood. I've played through 7 a few times and it's my favorite one although I've only played the GBA/DS ones. Sacred Stones was a huge disappoint though. I didn't even know about the Japanese games at the time, but FE7 had such a great story and progression, and FE8 was extremely short and boring. I don't understand how that could be your favorite one ^_^ It had the tower and all the unlocks, but it just didn't measure up.

On August 09 2011 14:29 SnK-Arcbound wrote:
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones GBA (<<My personal Fave) AKA FE:8

I'm still trying to beat this on the hardmode. I'm stuck on Ch.19. One little misstep and I have to start the whole thing over again. Hard difficulty is no fucking joke. On normal you can send in one guy to kill every enemy. On hard he will quickly be killed if you try that. You won't have much appreciation for FE if you only play it on normal (I didn't).

Edit: I also like the story. No redemption. People make choices, and sometimes they are irreversible. Sounds like real life to me.

The only bad thing about the hard modes is that it cheats the hit percentages. If you don't have 100% chance to hit you may as well scratch off 20 or 30 points of your hit chance.

aphorism

United States226 Posts

August 09 2011 05:36 GMT

#34

On August 09 2011 13:24 Spica wrote:
I've wanted to play Path of Radiance for a long time, but I don't know where my Gamecube is anymore and don't know if you can play it on an emulator. Is it possible?

There are definitely GCN/Wii emulators out there (Dolphin comes to mind), but I haven't tried them, so I can't say if they work or not...

Anyway, this is just a fantastic series of games, anyone who's even remotely interested in strategy games should give them a shot. I'm partial to Radiant Dawn, but that's probably because it's among the more challenging of the series, and it's pretty good in terms of length. Would you guys recommend playing through 1-5 at all? It seems like it would be a bit of a hassle to find emulators/translations for them, but if they're good games I'd definitely be interested.

Eliwood5837

245 Posts

August 09 2011 05:38 GMT

#35

YESS A THREAD ABOUT FIRE EMBLEM :DDD look at my name

ItsMeDomLee

Canada2732 Posts

August 09 2011 05:40 GMT

#36

Play without restarts

The you'll take absolutely no chances haha.

Juddas

768 Posts

August 09 2011 05:46 GMT

#37

I can't give you the best advice on that because I only played through it once, but basically look at the reclasses of all of them. I have heard people say Wolf is the best character in the game, but I think they reclassed him to hero or something.

BTW Marth is amazing in Shadow Dragon and brawl lol. He pwns Ike in Brawl. like badly

Speaking of OP units, but in Path of Radiance, has anybody done this:

In the first mission with the base, forgot which that is, just BEXP the crap out of Boyd until he classes up? You can wreck that mission if you get him anywhere close to warrior.

Same thing with Haar in Radiant Dawn btw. For a while he is absolutely unstoppable.

and edward. I have never not had him max all stats besides 1-2. I have played that one like 5 times at least

LOL @ Eliwood btw hahaha

Schneeflocke

Canada89 Posts

August 09 2011 05:50 GMT

#38

Path of Radiance is absolutely one of my top 3 all time favorite games.
The fantasy world, strategy, unique character development and interaction, soundtrack and underlying philosophical and libertarian tones make it a very memorable and impactful experience.

Juddas

768 Posts

August 09 2011 05:54 GMT

#39

Have you played Radiant Dawn?

there are so many twists!!!
What you thought you knew is A LIEEEEE!

Gh86

646 Posts

August 09 2011 06:09 GMT

#40

On August 09 2011 14:31 HansMoleman wrote:
Question: Are the old japanese Fire Emblem games playable by an English speaking person? I loved the hell out of the game boy series but thats about it, the ds ones were not as good IMHO.
Anyone play the japanese ones?

Yes, I can't completely recall for FE's 1-3, but 4 and 5, barring a few glitches can be played through fan translations.

On August 09 2011 14:04 Kupon3ss wrote:
For those looking for a real challenge, ChinaFE is probably the only honestly "hard" fire emblem
ChinaFE aka The Will of Good and Evil is a patch for FE8 for the GBA that makes the game significantly harder while adding a bunch of awesome stuff like third classes and characters from past fire emblems, hardcore fans of the series should definitely look into it (though it is all in chinese xD)

Thanks, may give it a try, can't read Chinese though lol.

Also, if anyone understands Japanese, or are familiar enough with Fire Emblem mechanics, you also can try FE7if and Super Thracia, probably two of the more sadistic Fire Emblem hacks I've ever tried. Though FE7if has a heck of a music collection, it's insane.
Note: I take no responsibility over any form of mental trauma suffered from playing those hacks.

Though I'd recommend completing FE7HHM, FE5, FE10 HM and FE11 H5 [Maybe also FE12 Lunatic reverse] before going on to it.

Definitely try out the older Fire Emblem games,like FE4 and FE5, (FE11 and 12 are basically remakes of FE1 and 3 respectively, with slight modifications to gameplay and updated graphics) are very good games for their time and still provide a decent challenge, especially FE5 and the sheer sadistic madness it can inflict on its players. + Show Spoiler +

I'm looking at you, Cyas and your 10 leadership stars. You + Reinhardt gave me nightmares for a while.

FE4 however, is very much easier if you know what you're doing and easily breakable with understanding of the game mechanics. One thing though, the maps are ridiculously long for Fire Emblem standards.