No.2034
>>2016>By the way, I hope your fic of them didn't get hit by formatting issues, anon.It did haha. I was actually underage when I posted it (don't tell anybody).
>>1989>FatesI've been chewing the fat about this one with you/others in the general text and fanfic thread. It's funny how much hold it had on the franchise/fandom until 3H dropped. In hindsight it feels like it had much less staying power compared to a lot of the other games. I see more people talk about the GBA games+Awakening than I do Fates, which is why I had so much to gush about when it was brought up haha. Fateslandia STILL doesn't have a canon name.
No.2037
>>2034>In hindsight it feels like it had much less staying power compared to a lot of the other gamesI'm not surprised tbh. People who started with the GBA games will always be biased and feel nostalgic over them, Awakening was the first FE game for a lot of people me included, and Fates had to deal with it's horrible publicity from the fucked localization to youtubers spouting random bs about it as if they were facts, to people not wanting to buy each route separately because different versions of one video game usually have very few differences like with Pokemon games and everyone thought it would be the same here. It's a shame, it's such a good game imo. Everyone shits on the game just for the story as if it were a novel and not a video game. It's jarring seeing people saying "Fates sucks so bad because it has fanservice and a bad story but the gameplay is good" like bitch the gameplay is by far the most important element! But yeah barely anyone posts fanart or fanfics of Fates nowadays. I used to follow a bunch of girls on tumblr and twitter around 2015/2017 who were super into it and would post very good fanart, not always with gay pairings but often enough, and they were harassed so much over their husbandos being Xander, Ryoma, Leo or Takumi that they all suddenly became less active online like in general or they made private social media accounts to compensate. In the Japanese fandom it seems like some girls have dedicated husbandos and keep posting art, and other artists just post more art when there's a new alt on FEH. I miss U_kumakichi's art sometimes but she's busy drawing her own BL now.
Although, I do hear way less about Awakening now than back in 2015 when I got my own copy and played it. Maybe I should replay this one as well and finally marry Chrom.
>Fateslandia STILL doesn't have a canon name.I don't think it needs one, just like how Europe and Asia are on the same landmass but are still considered distinct continents for historical and cultural reasons. I admit I'm a filthy casual so I don't get why it's so important to some people.
No.2039
>>2037>I admit I'm a filthy casual so I don't get why it's so important to some people.Calling games by their landmass is (or used to be?) common shorthand for FE games because sometimes there are multiple games in the same locale. We have Archanea, Jugdral, Elibe, Tellius… Fateslandia… Fódlan, and Elyos (mildly offended this turd got a name and Fates didn't).
>like bitch the gameplay is by far the most important element!So true. Conquest filtered a lot of people.
No.2040
>>2039>Calling games by their landmass is (or used to be?) common shorthand for FE gamesI avoid talking about the games online nowadays so I guess that's why it never bothered me for Fates. If people call it Fateslandia all the time online it has the same effect anyway. Someone should have come up with a name related to the silk road or something like that it would have been cooler.
>Conquest filtered a lot of people.I don't get it because if the story is that bad you can still skip cutscenes if you want to just clear maps. Like at some point I was so fed up with the repetitive monastery phases in FE3H I just started skipping them at the end of my two runs instead of forcing myself to talk to everyone in there and collect lost items between each chapter.
No.2061
Fates nonny! Thank you for making the thread. I hope you don't mind me posting from my massive collection, this is the Ferdinand/Hubert nonny reporting. I'll post other pairings too though dw.
>>2039>Conquest filtered a lot of people.Conquest was easy to me, but I'm an oldfag and am used to the punishment of older games ig. I recently played 4 and I felt like that game was a little hard, tbh. Not because the battles were hard or anything, but because if you don't have a guide you can totally get screwed over with having crappy kids, making the second half of the game unplayable. I really liked the map design even if the maps were a tad large. It really made me wish they still put any effort at all into the map layouts strategy-wise, I feel like level design has been an afterthought in so many of the newer FE games.
Did anyone here play Echoes? I really enjoyed it and honestly don't get the hate for it. The characters and writing weren't amazing, but I thought it was pretty solid for an FE game, it wasn't like Engage-levels of awful. Plus, I liked Celica. I thought she was pretty cute. I also liked destroying Berkut but I'm having trouble finding nice Berkut/Fernand art.
No.2074
>>2061>I hope you don't mind me posting from my massive collectionThis is what the thread is for tbh, go for it.
>Did anyone here play Echoes? I did. I didn't like it though, not because it's bad but because it's just not for me. I think it felt very slow to me, between the fully voiced dialogues (I muted the voices after a while, they were in English with no option to switch to the original so not a big loss), the dungeons with almost all the encounters in them being the same one over and over again, and the RNG working against me all the time. I beat the game but I didn't do the remake exclusive content because I lost all my motivation and just didn't have a whole lot of free time back then. As for the story. I thought it was fine. Basic but not in a bad way, just straight to the point. I never understood the whole thing with how much the game hints at Alm's real identity and how it's treated as a huge surprised late in the game though. I wish it were more subtle.
>don't get the hate for itI've seen nothing but praises for it online. But it was mostly on tumblr and twitter and it was always compared to either Awakening or Fates when being praised, so maybe opinions have changed with time? People kind of moved on from the 3DS games but if FEH releases a new Berkut alt or just Fernand in general maybe you could find some Berkut/Fernand art.
No.2076
I have a hard time sticking to Japanese immersion so I'm trying to play FE9 in moon now. I'm kind of a birdfag but these were the first seasonal pictures in my folder. It's just a coincidence.
>>2032Ike/Soren was my OTP for a couple years and I still see the appeal. It's a goldmine of feels but I got bored of it. I wish people would branch out more. There's just so much more to Tellius. I have a decent-sized folder of old Ike/Ranulf art, even a whole doujin if you're interested.
>>2034I'm still sorry about your fic. That happened to a longfic I meant to read ages ago on FFN. I can't believe AFFN has the same problem.
>>2039My friends always called everything by continent, at least on tumblr when it was big.
>>2061>Did anyone here play Echoes?I would have played it but I always loved Celica and I'm still assmad about her lame redesign. I think they added dialogue for when a character dies next to one of their friends which every game should have, honestly.
>>2065Aaahhhhh!!!! Thank you so much! I'd never seen any art of them before at all!
No.2113
Been slowly making my way through the Black eagles route of Fire emblem three houses. I was totally ready to just focus on Yuri as my love interest in both branches because his character design and personality appeal to me but I ended up getting unexpectedly attached to Jeritza and his autism moe in the Crimson flower branch.
No.2116
>>2113Does that mean you played through the DLC before starting this route? How is it? I did the route with the Blue Lions, then the one with the Eagles and never touched it again because of the chapters being almost always the same ones.
No.2117
>>2116My first playthrough of the game was a vanilla Blue lions playthrough and I completed the DLC before my Golden deer playthrough. I thought it was enjoyable enough, making me use some characters and class combinations I wouldn't always have used. There's a few lore tidbits too. In order to prevent burnout I've pretty much been doing one route per year.
No.2122
>>2117I didn't play on my own Switch at the time and I was unemployed so I rushef through the game when it got released, but I learned my lesson kek. Never again. I played several JRPGs on the Switch that have NG+ features so I think I'll replay them all at some point, including FE3H. If I do replay it I'll do a run with Claude's route, marry Seteth, and maybe try to play the DLC right before that so I can get the new characters and costumes this time.
No.2126
>>2076>doujinPlease post nonna, I like ike. I need more of him.
No.2309
Since the 3DS won't be able to connect to the internet from April 2024 I dusted off my 3DS and I'm replaying Fates Birthright. Last time I played an FE game was 3H before the pandemic and I think I got too used to that game because holy shit, I'm just doing the intro of the game right now before the route split in Fates and I missed how the characters actually move, do things, interact with each other and how the camera moves instead of seeing characters just standing there in front of some JPEG background and occasionally frowning unless they're in a pre-rendered cutscene. I don't care what anyone says about the story in Fates, at least the presentation is better than average.
No.2334
>>2316>>2319>>2321Thanks love. Appreciate it much. Are these your scanned doujins or are you getting them from somewhere (like e-hentai or sadpanda)?
No.5079
>>5077I wish I could replay Fates with others online or thanks to the streetpass features but the 3DS is dead now. RIP.
No.5080
>>5077After learning how to mod my 3DS I decided I'd go on a journey to play a bunch of the the FEs I skipped over before, starting with shadow dragon on the DS cause in the past I never got my hands on a physical copy. Fates is also on the piracy list since when it was new I refused to reward Intsys for having the gall to pull a Pokemon when the previous entry was possibly going to be the end of the series and it was literally proven all of Fates could fit into a single cartridge.
No.5081
>>5080In my case I bought secondhand copies of Birthright and Conquest and then I bought the DLCs during a bif sale in Europe that lasted just a few days, I think it was either -20% or -50% on everything FE in the online store. I waited to get secondhand copies for the exact same reason. Is Shadow Dragon good?
No.5082
>>5081NTA, but I love shadow dragon. It being built so players don’t need to reset made me really enjoy learning how to strategize properly in SRPGs.
If you’ve never looked into it, basically once you lose a certain amount of characters, the game gives you more either through actual characters or nameless soldiers once you lose too many. There’s even a replacement for Tiki if you’re really bad at the game. Although if you’re the type of player that enjoys side character interactions and keeping characters alive, you might not enjoy it as much as the newer games.
No.5097
>>5095Me when I married Niles as a girl to have his fujo daughter and then as a guy in the next route.
No.5099
>>5095>tfw you do this in 3H and end up with Manuela because the launch day homo options were trashI really hope the next Fodlan game gives us dudes I actually want to see fucking the MC, they knocked it out of the park with Niles so it's offensive they didn't at least match that in 3H. Speaking of I think it's still up in the air if it's a prequel or a sequel, what are you guys hoping for? I'm huffing the sequel copium but I feel like it's gonna be a prequel.
Playing "future" games with a prequel followup is something they've already done with 6+7 and while that has its own charms (tragedy of foregone conclusions with certain characters in 7) I really want to see if they'll commit to a post-3H canon or try to pussyfoot around it.
No.5100
>>5099I assume it will be a prequel because this will be a good excuse to show us more of Sothis and her family. She looks like an adult in that trailer. There's also the blond guy who looks like he's related to Mercedes and Jeritza. I won't play it because I'm done with Nintendo, so I'm not getting a Switch 2. But that new game makes me curious.
>end up with ManuelaI like her, she's cute. I always played as a girl for the same reason. I haven't done all the routes though and the DLC was released after I stopped playing so maybe I'll complete the game someday.
No.5101
>>5099I thought it would be a sequel because older Sothis but idk.
>ended up with Manuela because homo options were trashI chose Flayn purely out of copium for no male MC Seteth romance.
No.5102
>>5101"Older" Sothis strongly implies prequel because she's not depowered and she merges with Byleth in 3H so how would she "grow" past that point? Despite knowing this I am still rooting for sequel haha.
>copium for no male MC Seteth romanceI'm so mad Seteth wasn't a Byleth-sexual. He was a great candidate for it because his other supports were all kind of mid.
>>5100Nintendo has the lion's share of living IPs I still care about so I'll cave on Switch 2 eventually. The good news is that by not playing you will be free from another 5 years of 3H discourse!
>the DLCIt's pleasantly challenging because it's so on rails and has a fixed roster but the interquel story is stupid/irrelevant and 3/4 of the new characters are total memes.
No.5557
>>5556Legault/Heath was the big one for me back in the day.
No.5567
>>5558Lloyd/Linus is amazing, if by any chance you'd revisit this ship I'd love to see your writing for it.
>>5565I'm surprised it's not well-liked around here, Felix and Dimitri are both angsty qts.
No.5573
>>5567Thanks, nona. Maybe it's time for a quick run of the game for inspiration.
>>5565Dimillix looks the best out of his ships to me. Most of the characters suffer from being Byleth-sexual, but I liked the tension (and angst) that these two have going on through both halves of the game.
No.5706
>>5705Mercedes' great great grandpa looks hot.
No.5707
>>5705Ah shit that is plausible *continues to huff copium*
No.5727
>>5705I fear this game might not be good for fujos and the Alucard knockoff will have even worse discourse than Dimitri. A lot of "how dare you write more fics about the white guy" AO3 posting. As much as people say "just ignore discourse", it does affect fandoms and the ability to have fun.
No.5728
>>5727I feel like since 3H's release, fandoms have changed a little bit and it's likely that the more vocal annoying fans you're talking about will be laughed at a lot more than they already were. I'm thinking about that infamous "Dimitri doesn't just kill woman, he MURDERS them!" tweet kek what the fuck was the OP thinking about back then.
No.5729
>>5728I'm hoping gen z has mostly aged out of it and younger gen z+gen alpha is too busy playing Roblox/live service slop.
>>5727I feel like they are going to at least fluff it back up to 3H levels of shipping/story. Engage flopped partly because it was all gameplay and I'm sure they are acutely aware of this.
No.5820
>>5819Bertrand would be really hot if he shaved his weird beard. I need to see Diego's hairstyle properly before having an opinion as well but from the portrait he looks cute.
No.5821
Hold on. Since Seteth is back and it's not spoiler anymore that he's a dragon, are we going to see his pointy ears? Please god show me his ears this time and I'll buy a Switch 2. What if we see Rhea/Seiros as well if it's really a prequel?
No.5827
Preview copies of fortune's weave were sent out and among the info that's coming out is this shot of Fodlan with only the Adrestian empire shown. This very much implies that the game is a prequel that takes place before the kingdom of Faerghus was founded in 751. The debate may finally be over cause I find it less likely that they'd canonize the most controversial route.
>>5819Sirocco is exactly my type.
No.5828
>>5827It always looked like a prequel to me just based on Sothis looking like an adult and what happens to her in 3H. I don't have a Switch 2 so I'll just try to avoid spoilers when the game comes out but I'm curious about it.
No.5829
>>5828The issue is that Fabio is a member of the Church of Seiros, which was established after the event that caused Sothis to look like a child. That's the main thing that led me to believe this couldn't be a prequel.
No.5857
I've been seeking out more three houses content for my bluesky feed lately and it's occurred to me that I'm shallow enough that I can't get into Dedue/Dimitri and Hubert/Ferdinand because I don't find Dedue and Hubert attractive. When I first played through the Blue lions route years ago I was playing it in a "I can fix him" otome sort of way with Dimitri/fem Byleth but now I'm rapidly becoming a Felix/Dimitri girlie.
No.5858
>>5857>I don't find Dedue […] attractive.I get it but I always thought he was underrated and cute. He's literally the ideal husband. I married Dimitri myself when I played 3H but then I felt a bit guilty for stealing Dimitri away from Dedue kek. I agree with you on Hubert/Ferdinand, I like Hubert but not like that.
No.5899
>>5819Most of them are so ugly while the women still look beautiful of course. So many of the men have womanizer as a core trait that it makes me believe they really don't want fujos into this game.
No.5900
>>5819None of the dudes are really wowing me. Bert's my pick for hottest new guy and I'm happy to see Seteth return. I agree with
>>5899, all the women are so good compared to the dudes this time around. Even gun gilf is hot to me (at a glance I thought she was a bishounen lmao, like Niles 2.0 or something).
I'm sure some manner of brainrot will get me once we meet them as characters in supports and such.
No.5904
>>5900I hate how they're following Western trends of only guys being ugly for ~diversity~. The only homo is the ugliest guy in the game too. Every franchise is trying to keep fujos away.
No.5905
>>5904Wait who is it? I'm trying to avoid leaks, do we know anything about same-sex s-supports? That's the only information I want
No.5906
>>5899I don't really see it, none of the women besides Ursula and Noctula look good IMO. The guys aren't special either but that's nothing new, I rarely found more than three characters with designs I genuinely liked within the same FE game. Still enjoy the gameplay a lot though.
And Dietrich has a classic, kinda overused design, but it's still the shit a lot of fujos are into I think and I kinda like it. Cai, Solel and Sirocco look commonly pretty too albeit I am not really into these kind of bishounen.
Honestly, half of the designs wouldn't be half as bad if it wasn't for their awfully colored hair and fashion. Looking at Fortuna, Solel and Mars is giving me an aneurysm. The two mentioned dudes could even be cool IMO if they colors were harmonic, e.g. if Solel wore black clothes and had dark brown hair or something. But nah, has to be eyecancer inducing shit.
I unironically like the generic rando to the right of Yang Jie, hope he will be a cool DILF type character.>>5904>The only homo is the ugliest guy in the game too. F-Fabio?
No.5907
>>5905It's Fabio.
>>5906Deitrich is such a Alucard ripoff and the yumes will be fighting for his cock so I know any homo ship he could get will get discoursed to death so it won't even be fun. All the other typical "classic" bishies types like Solel and Sirocco are canon heterosexual. They're doing more "this guy is a womanizer" so people don't get any attractive guys in homo. The two Christmas knight guys have to be no homoed as well.
No.5908
>>5907If a genie appeared and offered to grant me one wish, I would wish for Dietrich to be canonically gay. Only romanceable by male avatar, romantic paired endings with other male characters, and no romantic interest in the female ones. It's revenge for Dimitri.
No.5909
>>5908From your lips to god's ear, nona. A man obsessed with combat should only want to cross swords.
No.5977
Anyone else playing Fortune’s Weave now? So far the game looks promising story-wise. Alas, almost the entire male cast is fugly/old while all the female characters are conventionally beautiful and youthful-looking. Dietrich is singe-handedly carrying the game for fujos so far.
No.5979
Fortune's weave hasn't been out for long and since I'm not that bothered about spoilers I've been peeking around a bit and they really did make one of the ugliest dudes in the game the gayest.
https://x.com/totobunnyyy/status/2100927359134117974 No.5982
I won't be able to play FW for a while, can someone tell me without spoilers if there's any good fujobait? I don't care about the bird avatar's "gay options", just ships between non-avatar characters
No.5983
>>5977I like it so far (started with Leda). Like half of the male designs look like gussied up NPCs, to the point where I've actually exclaimed "REALLY???" while going around scouting recruits. I'm hoping supports will endear me to them. I've loved some real uggos in the past haha.
No.5987
>>5983> Like half of the male designs look like gussied up NPCs, You said exactly what I was thinking. Those supports are gonna need to work overtime to make me love those characters.
No.5988
>>5984Oof, you're so right
No.5990
>>5984lmao a third "Akira chooses the wrong path and gets raped to death" end.
No.6015
>>5977I like diversity for males (not in the woke tumblr way, but generally) because I want choice, but my issue is that I simply don't like many characters here, not even the women (I fucking love older women when will we get games or anime with OLDER WOMEN?). Anyway, when I say "diverse" I think of casts like that of Golden Kamuy. Here it's mostly guys with really stupid neon colors and terrible overdesigns.
Though tbh from what I have seen so far the ugly gay dude isn't even bad. Hell I might end up liking that pairing because I am a sucker for weird misfits who eventually find someone who is nice to them.
But it's a bit lame that there is only one choice AFAIK. And as said I dislike most of the other dudes. It's not the skin color, it's the stupid hair/fashion colors and the art style and eyes that aren't my thing. Well, I will see. Might change my opinion once I play it.
How was the FE Engage? That one looked like harem shit at first so I completely ignored it so far.
No.6017
I’m on Cai’s Path Chapter 9 now and these are my impressions so far while trying to avoid spoilers
>story beats are pretty standard per FE games but I expected as much since Cai seems like the closest to a traditional FE protagonist>didn’t finish all the supports yet but alas still no fujo bait in sight ;_; >im trying to recruit all the units in one go by spamming gifts and meals. thank goodness turns out you only need to recruit once among the four paths.>no unit has grow on me that much yet. Peter is Alcryst’s nachos reheated (wimpy archer who’s actually competent) but no niichan for hot incest potential. Nuzzuo got me with a single line (basically he’s a proud warrior race dude from the first who goes the city when you defeat him, and can’t stop jumping among the rooftops like they’re trees) >>6014I didn’t recruit him yet but his recruitment requirements basically involve haggling down his price to 10 gold so makes sense lol
>>6015I wouldn’t mind diversity as much if the same consideration was extended towards women.but the distribution is this
>female units all have the same face regardless of age (Troy has two measles wrinkles around her mouth so you can tell she’s a hag) but otherwise you could be 15 or 50 and still have the same doe eyes and face>male units range from bishonen to thugs who look like NPC enemies yeeted in the roster. I agree the skin color isn’t the issue but moreso the designs are garish. Also, on average I notice the female units are lighter skinned or have more fair skinned units among them. People will complain you’re racist or Asians are racist if you don’t like the character designs, but even a good design can’t save someone who doesn’t have a good hook or story relevance. Imo Timerra and Fogado had decent designs among the FE Engage cast and iirc they were the least popular of the four royals since they had the least story time.
> How was the FE EngageExtremely cheesy and bare bones story. Definitely a “enjoy the gameplay, skip the story” situation.
No.6019
>>6017I wonder if the smaller range that female characters tend to have is a mandate or a result of the male player's tastes, because it's a very common phenomenon, even in anime or reverse harem games. The male rooster has everything from a gray-haired bartender to a chill beefy dude and a sickly goth boy or something, meanwhile the women all look like 12 and have the same face and the only exception is 20 year old woman with giant tits that says ara ara~ maybe.
No.6020
>>6019100000% due to male player tastes. Game devs in general are allergic to hurting their feefees which is why you never see the opposite. Having a game full of black and brown skinned characters is possible for a Japanese game dev, but having diverse female characters? Nah. Imagine the riot if the roster was the other way around - all the male characters are shotas, bishies, twunks and the occasional muscle daddy for the barafags while the females are mostly adults with varying facial features, body types and whatnot. Male players can’t even stand the sight of hot dudes or homo. The middling M/M options for M!Byleth vs F/F for F!Byleth is testament to that.
No.6021
>>6019It's pretty telling that the NPC-style barabro characters like
>>6014 still have female fans, meanwhile the most "unattractive" a woman can be is something like Reina from Awakening with tiny wrinkles and a scar.
>>6015>How was EngagePretty okay gameplay (better than 3H for me), but awful to look at and read. I found it enjoyable enough to complete the game and DLC, but I do regret spending money on it.
No.6036
I personally haven't seen much of them yet cause I only completed one route so far but I get the impression Nathan and Creek are another pair with fujobait potential.
No.6039
Finished Cai’s path and started Dietrich’s; I’m only at chapter 4 but I already see Dietrich/Fabio. Nonas, looks like Dietrich is for the fujos.
I don’t go looking for fanworks since I want to avoid spoilers but I wouldn’t be surprised if Dietrich/Fabio is *the* juggernaut ship that comes out of Fortune’s Weave, à la Edeleth or Felix/Sylvain. I can already see Dietrich yumes seething at Fabio kek and no, Fabio being uggo doesn’t bother me so much since it’s not anything fujo art can’t fix
No.6040
>>6039>I don’t go looking for fanworks since I want to avoid spoilers but I wouldn’t be surprised if Dietrich/Fabio is *the* juggernaut ship that comes out of Fortune’s WeaveI've been browsing whatever posts of FE twitter come my way via the twitter algo so maybe it's just biased towards showing me fujo posts but I'm getting that impression as well. People are already comparing it to Ike and Soren for the degree of "Not just fujo goggles".
No.6043
>>6040Adding onto this, ディトファビ seems to be the ship name right now.