Because they'll quit once they realize their waifu is legal after the timeskipBecause its too hard or because it's too easy?
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I'm playing Three Houses on Casual Mode, and I will not be shamed out of it (or, what mode will you play on?) (UP: I’m a liar, I chose classic)
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Nobody calls them by the full title. Do you also get confused when people say echoes? Or awakening?
Well that's perfect! I think I'll start with classic normal, try out the rewind featuere and if it's still too tough go casual.
Do FE have loot/ending differences depending on the difficulty?
Wait, wait, wait. Are you saying they will only want them as waifu's if they are loli's? surely you jest...
Yeap I finished PoR and RD ad I would always restart if I lost a character. This is why I'm going casual, I don't plan to keep any memeber dead any way so classic mode would only have me doing restarts.
Classic hard. Deaths have been pretty uncommon in the 2 of the last 3 games, and especially echoes with the watch. Awakening and Fates were super super easy. Choosing casual on addition to the rewind mechanic would probably feel like cheating to me, it's just overkill for me.
Okay, I'm convinced. Gonna try Hard/Classic for my first FE game. I like strategy games so much don't think it will be a problem, especially since I could still decrease difficulty to Normal/Classic
The rewind feature helps to make the jump
As for FFT, I still remember the first time I met Wiegraf in that game, and the dead bodies strewn all over the field. The learning curve in that game was SHARP
The rewind feature helps to make the jump
As for FFT, I still remember the first time I met Wiegraf in that game, and the dead bodies strewn all over the field. The learning curve in that game was SHARP
Yeah thinking about it more im definitely going with Hard/Classic. It seems like the game is easier than other FEs judging by what the previews say, and you get a rewind feature to boot.
Phantom Thief you still planning to play on easy given how reviews have pointed out how easy the game is? C'mon and join us on hard classic mode!
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It boggles the mind that people have so much trouble understanding this.
I have no problem whatsoever with those who want to play Casual (and have said repeatedly that I'm grateful it exists, as it's in the best interest of the series), but I do take extreme exception to the pervasive misrepresentation of Classic-with-resets from people who literally don't understand FE's mechanics or save system despite having ostensibly played the games.
No-death reset runs are the harder way to play. Iron Man runs where you take your losses on the chin are great fun, but there's a reason I play them second as an easy mode for kicking back and playing sloppily when I've already proven to myself that I can struggle through my chosen difficulty perfectly. This isn't balanced like XCOM (where Iron Man is the game in its purest form, troops are designed to be expended and replenished, and squad wipes have a way of snowballing very quickly): you have to lose quite badly in FE for resource/XP depletion or the under-levelling of your B-team to really catch up to you.
I'd actually be overjoyed to have a third setting above Casual and Classic where the game automatically slaps you with a Game Over for any character death, just to save me the trouble of resetting and to make the distinction clear: that resetting isn't a cowardly cop-out but a self-imposed Game Over.
Out of all the things I come across in conversations about video games, this is the one canard that keeps on whizzing back like a boomerang and makes me wonder if people are paying any attention at all to what they're playing. But this isn't the only genre where certain players, I've realized, literally do not understand the challenge introduced by playing perfectly without checkpoints or instant save-scumming, and perceive any repetition of content or substantial cost in time as "artificial difficulty". I think some individuals just don't perceive time as a cost, a penalty, or a meaningful and well-designed source of tension and difficulty—and that is a mindset I cannot even begin to comprehend.
I'm definitely not playing with permadeath. I'm the sort of person who would just replay each battle if I lost someone and I don't have enough time to play the games I currently own - I'm not about to pad the Fire Emblem experience out further.
I also don't feel it cheapens anything.
I also don't feel it cheapens anything.
It's just funny to me because the introduction of casual mode didn't actually do anything to settle this debate. You can play on casual mode and still reset on a character death.
If anything, the thing that *actually* changes everything is the turnwheel/divine pulse. Now there's no need to reset at all because a simple mistake or a crit happened, you can just go back. This significantly removes the tension from a no-death reset run. But ultimately, I'm not against it. I think it's something the series has needed in some way because maps can get long and resetting on those maps can be a total momentum killer. RD added battle save, but this was tedious.
The irony is that I feel like IS is kinda kicking themselves for not thinking of the turnwheel before coming up with casual mode. I think it's actually a more elegant idea for a casual mode, but at the end of the day I don't blame anyone for saying "fuck it, I don't have time for this nonsense". I love the FE series, but I think it's a weirdly conflicted series that has a hard time defining what it's primary risk vs reward system should be. That hasn't changed over many, many games.
I had no idea what he was talking about until you clarified. Thank you for this.
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So as it turns out I'm not playing this on Casual after all. So, this thread was kinda a waste.
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Idk man, I just start the game and it asks and I picked Classic. All I can say is
Well I wouldnt say so since it was merely a starting point for the discussion. The discussion remains valid and meaningful.
Lol. Well dude, have fun anyway. Just don't let your inevitable waifu die. No pressure though.Idk man, I just start the game and it asks and I picked Classic. All I can say is
I have a habit of playing these games, enjoying them and then never finishing them so this time I think I'm going to take the path of least resistance and play on casual.
One of us! One of us! One of us!Idk man, I just start the game and it asks and I picked Classic. All I can say is
The only shameful thing here is your poll, OP. Not everyone playing Classic thinks so low of others playing Casual.
Normal or Hard/Classic for me.
Normal or Hard/Classic for me.
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I am playing on Classic and I am ashamed of everyone playing on Casual. They disgust me. Disgust.
I picked hard/classic despite me never finishing an FE game before because I always get stuck resetting after deaths -_-
All the reviews saying normal was too easy scared me away since the only thing worse than a game that's too hard is a game that's too easy. Ah well, at least in this game you can rewind time and redo bad moves so I'm sure it will be fine.
All the reviews saying normal was too easy scared me away since the only thing worse than a game that's too hard is a game that's too easy. Ah well, at least in this game you can rewind time and redo bad moves so I'm sure it will be fine.
I voted casual but didn't know the game had a rewind feature back then, went with classic as well instead.
I was originally going Normal/Casual and opted for Hard/Classic. lol
I would have done Normal but everyone was saying how easy it was so I am taking a leap of faith and doing Hard even though I usually suck at these types of games. The option to reduce it to Normal if need be made the decision easier.
I play Classic and reset whenever anything mildly inconvenient happens.
That's half true. I usually reset deaths in the early game when I'm still learning mechanics, then roll with the punches once I get to the early mid game. Ignatz just got shanked to hell on the first turn of the first story mission in a frankly baffling turn of events. Needless to say, I've wiped that.
That's half true. I usually reset deaths in the early game when I'm still learning mechanics, then roll with the punches once I get to the early mid game. Ignatz just got shanked to hell on the first turn of the first story mission in a frankly baffling turn of events. Needless to say, I've wiped that.