Umm how do you know that is "my way of playing"? You're making assumptions.

Turtling in a corner is not necessary on Lunatic. If Fred is advancing forward to take on enemies that is not what's usually called turtling. Not a lot of luck needed to get through Lunatic 1-4 if you use an optimal strat. Once you reach Chapter 5 you can access all the highly imbalanced DLC/wi-fi features.

Nope. Take a look at serenes forest or the gfaqs boards sometime. Here's a sample Lunatic turn count someone posted on a serenes thread:

Prologue - 5
Ch. 1 - 4
Ch. 2 - 6
Ch. 3 - 4

I wouldn't call those counts "turtling".

Yet when I prove "The difficulty in Fire Emblem games is not about demonstrating your awesome tactical prowess. To win you basically have to turtle, turtle, turtle." is a wrong statement, I get unrelated excuses about how some people here are inexperienced players. Ok?

Err.. people regularly do low turn count runs of FE games on their hardest difficulty. Turtling is not necessary. Awakening in particular is easy to break on any difficulty with Nosferatu tomes, spotpass hires, or DLC recruits/grinding. Look at this screenshot where someone cleared Lunatic+ in under 2 hours.

Yeah, the posters on the gfaqs and serenes forest boards are getting very restless and irritable over the delay. Lots of nastyposts going on.

I don't see what the big fuss is about. It's a decent tactics game (balance issues aside) but as soon as I get to the romance stuff it gets creepy to me. Mission design tends to be a bit on the bland side.. not a lot going on.

yes it is

I'm pessimistic that it's going to be all about waifus, grinding, and broken DLC.

Probably makes more sense as a tactics game than a dungeon crawler.

In addition to avoiding DLC and grinding, you'll also need to refrain from using the Nosferatu tome and certain class/skill combinations.

If you haven't tried FE12 please do so, I think it's a better game in terms of classic FE mechanics, difficulty, and balance. It also has casual mode.

Yeah, no FE is perfectly balanced, but some are far more balanced than others. I doubt this game will top FE12 for me.

It's not just the DLC, though. Certain class/weapon/skill combos involving the nosferatu tome can break the game as well.

I don't think it would be hard to implement a scoring system. Yes it would penalize players that want to grind everyone to max stats/supports, but those players are free to disregard the score they're rated at. Maybe if you played the game in casual mode you wouldn't get shown a score at all. That would probably make some players happier.

"The only things they're missing"

They're also missing things like game balance, a scoring system, or a difficulty mode that isn't easily broken. Before you ask, yes there were a couple of FEs that had scoring systems.

It's a lot like sacred stones. Open world, imbalanced/easy, endless grinding, and dating sim/procreation stuff.

Looking forward to UX along with my new imported Japanese 3DS. It cost $330 US after shipping, but if the 3DS gets more good import games it will be worth it. I wanted to import a 3DS XL but that cost about $80 more so I had to settle with the cheaper one.

I finished 2nd OG ex-hard, and finished the video playthrough log as well.

>Not sure where I was hating on anyone.

"revengernance" - Deliberately misspelling the game name.

"but I can't stand that 'YO DAWG DANTE'S ACTION FRAMES ARE ALL FUCKED UP IN THE NEW GAME AND THE HITBOXES ARE WAY OFF'" -  ALL CAPS strawman, very rude. And "I can't stand X" sounds like some severe dislike to me.

"people who bitch about" - Disrespectful way of describing someone's opinion.

>You're obviously just looking for an argument, but you're not going to get one from me.

That's really disrespectful right there.


>True, but you said 'above'.  That implies that his level of fun is beneath.  

You're misunderstanding the sentence. Analysis/strategy and fun are two completely different things. Fun can't be "above" or "below" anything, it's an opinion.

Once again I ask you to provide any examples of "condescension and derision" in my posts. I don't see anything that would indicate "considerable offense" like saying "I can't stand X". What's annoying you so much?

Please find and quote content from my post to back up your assertion of "hating", thank you.