Just like the games XD They just drag on and on ...

You haven't played any FE?

When does the issue of the magazine come out?

Can't say I'm a Fire Emblem expert, but my personal favorite out of the ones I've played (4, 7, 9, 10, 11) is 9, so I'd reccomend you pick that up.

Good plan :)

 If you get 9 and 10 first, play 9 on Easy.. then again on Normal.

I'm sure all the features that makes FE great will stay.
What I want is an improvement in GRAPHICS!
Seriously, RD was an amazing game. But I couldn't even see my character's faces. The game looked horrible (ok in battle scenes I guess). It shouldn't be that hard improving it just a little bit, so that I can at least make out the characters better.

Easy teaches you how to play.  Normal gives you a feel for the difficulty of the series.

Why wasn't there an FE on the N64?

@Soriku - I very much recommend 9 followed by 10. I love those two games to bits! They're the reason I'm looking for more Fire Emblem.

FE was planned to be on the N64, but was canned early in development. Presumably, they believed that a 2D board game wouldn't sell very well on a 3D platform (first one at least). Thus, they made yet another one on the SNES (hence why FE5 was the very last game to release on the SNES, in 1998).

Intelligent Systems pretty much ditched the 5th gen completely. They made 4th gen games all the way untill they made Paper Mario in 2001, and then went onto the GBA, and then the GC.

If there's one specific thing about Intelligent Systems: They wait a long time before starting to develop for a system.

They tend to release titles even after the successor of the machine they're making it for is released.

Other than that, Soriku - get FE7 first. It's the best introduction to the series. Period.