Jumpin said:
Then I will just play the game without permadeath. I enjoyed Awakening when I realized it wasn't really a strategy game, but more of an RPG with strategy elements. I'd say that I'm one of the few on the forum that avoids save scumming because I'm one of the few, here, that was a fan of the series before Fire Emblem Awakening. Save-scumming was heavily frowned upon, not just by the traditional Fire Emblem community, but by the developers: who designed the game in such a way that it would punish you harshly for attempting it. I don't think newer FE fans would be able to handle the older games. Awakening and later games are more RPG in their mechanics and less about strategy, while the earlier ones are more about strategy and less about RPG. The big difference is there's no room to rest in the classic games, you push forward through the story and battles, no extra grinding. Awakening and post-Awakening are a lot of "do a map" "now do some side maps" "do these battles on repeat to grind up some characters" "now continue on with the story on the next map" and you lurch forward. I don't dislike the new games, I actually like them, but they are different, and I found trying to play classic mode is kind of a trap, because Awakening (at least) certainly was not balanced for it. I'm not weird, just old. Old enough to have played the original games long before Awakening. That's how they were designed to be played. |
Okay, I need to say something here. I've been a fan LONG before Awakening, and I count amongst my real life friends over a dozen Fire Emblem fans who, like me, have been playing since the GBA era, and not a single ONE of us didn't save scum. And we don't even call it save scumming, we call it RNG manipulation, of which strategic saving and resetting is only a part. Thank you very much. The new games certainly are different, but no-death runs requiring RNG manipulation have been a long-time pass time of hardcore Fire Emblem fans. It's the only way I've ever known any of us to play. Maybe my first time playing an FE game I allowed a character or two to die because I just couldn't figure out a way through the map with everyone intact, but after that, it became a very rare occurance. Nintendo knows this is how the VAST majority of the fanbase has ALWAYS played, and that's why they felt comfortable making the changes they did. It was still controversial, but the controversy was partially over the fact that you could endlessly level your characters, partially over the increased emphasis on the "shipping" elements, not on the fact that it was designed to make it easier for you not to lose any characters to permadeath. Indeed, the only other thing that pissed people off was the fact that casual mode had no permadeath, because a bunch of elitist fans felt that filthy casuals not willing to earn their no-death runs weren't welcome in the fan base. The fanbase has since moved on because Nintendo gave multiple ways to play, Classic and Casual, and multiple difficulties, the highest ones making the extra leveling a moot point and requiring pure strategy to win. Eventually the hardcore fans realized there was still a space for them to do their thing and it was still just as fun.
You on the other hand are just weird. Weird even for a fan of the old games. Only weirdos let their characters be lost to permadeath.
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