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tactics rpgs i've enjoyed way too much
tactics rpgs that were pretty fun
tactics rpgs i haven't tried
tactics rpgs that have ogre in the title that i just played way too much of by accident and now i need to sleep but i had actually a pretty good time despite the difficulties i had with the menuing, and will probably play it more, and oh my god if Dyrone dies one more time i will NOT be loading a save (Dyrone? more like... DIErone...)
I've played three houses so many times. it's so good
Which House is the best?
Black Eagles > Golden Deer > Blue Lions
this tbh infodump incoming although I'll reply with it to Luna's post
edit: okay mini infodump
FE infodump :niko-wonderous:
Same for me, sorry Dimitri
I dumped SO much time into enemy within and war of the chosen. Same with FFT. Into the breach was cool but only did a few playthroughs. Tactics ogre is amazing.
Only fire emblems I played was the one with Lyn(?). And then the first one with Ike. Idk fire emblem was fun, and I liked them, but never really hit for me.
yeah I keep trying to get back into WotC but getting annoyed every time a suboptimal thing happens and i lose someone. Especially early game, it's devastating.
I am not sure which version I would play if I were to go back to X-Com because of that. The extremely (for me) punishing difficulty of the campaign management in 2 was lowkey stressful, but I think that's part of the appeal of the game.
I also like the aesthetic of resisting an occupying army and the colonialism subtext in 2 better than the "america resists an invasion" aesthetic in 1, but that's just me.
Its menus are kind of a mess, unfortunately. You get used to em and they can be efficient but the whole, Squad screen -> unit stats -> magic & equip flow is super weird. Glad you enjoyed tho lfg!!!
That's what I noticed going into those games. Coming from FE, it's a lot to have to get used to.
Quest desperately needed to do anything else about their menus, but incredibly they managed to complicate them even further in the Ogre Remakes. FFT is not much better either...
true, i am starting to get the hang of it, i'll get into it more tonight after my shift in the posting mines
Which house did you like the best?
spoilers for three houses
so i picked black eagles because red is my favourite colour (lol i'm such a commie), and Edelgard's design was cute, and the characters were interesting to me. I was a lib back when I played this btw.
Yellow would be a distant second for me, and I would never play blue.
THEN THE PLOT HAPPENED, HOLY F. When she betrayed the church, I did not hesitate to immediately side with her. Churches damaged me so fucking much when I was young, gave me all sorts of brainworms and basically arrested my development for decades. They are a poisonous and systemic structure and I loved the power fantasy of destroying them.
The time skip happened, we killed some dragons, and I gay married Edelgard. I loved how the power dynamic shifts in the game before and after the time skip - she starts out as a student, and in that role you relate to them as kids, but after the time skip, she is all grown up and you stay the same - suddenly, Byleth (at least how I saw it) is the one on the other side of the power imbalance.
Anyway I beat it, cried a bit, and then went in to play the game again. This time, I said, I'll play a different route. I proceeded to choose the Black Eagles again.
This time, I said, I'll side with the church. That's the right thing to do in a game like this, right? Play different branches, see how the story plays out?
Nope, I recruited most of the other houses in the second playthrough, sided with Edelgard again, and gay married her again.
not really sure how to explain this.
NOT ONLY THAT, I think this game started my journey into accepting that pacifism only serves the status quo - which, eventually, led me here. I thought to myself after that game, "hey maybe we should tear down power structures that are causing harm to people, and painting the people trying to do that as evil is a way for the system to reinforce itself?" yeah i'm an ML now so
cavets: the tea scenes were weird, as was the gift giving lol, but I do think they were well-intetioned. I really likes the slice of life aspects, eating with people, having tea, despite all the gamification of S-ranks and all that. I think the game is good despite that, not because of it. Grinding relationships is the only reason I think I'd call this game "problematic fave" and I'm not sure how I'd feel today about it if I were to play it again. But, at the time, giving coffee to Hubert over and over was very fun to me, and Hubert x Ferdinand is my favourite non-Byleth pairing, I love the depiction of their relationship.
I also loved the unexpected shared history between Lysithia and Edelgard as well. Oh, and Dorothea and Mercedes were just really fun to talk to, I loved Dorothea's confidence and Mercedes' extreme gentleness, I could probably go on for a while as long as I jogged my memory ... I have a lot of feelings about this game.
The Black Eagles appeared to me as the house of misfits (although tbh I think this is very subjective), and that led for so many interesting characters, all who had little cheesy arcs, and they are all precious to me.
All of the characters were interesting in their own way, it's just a shame I couldn't recruit Claude too.
I loved playing through Black Eagles for a lot of the same reasons. Edelgard is the best S support for Byleth, and the rest of the Black Eagles are the best and most interesting characters in my opinion.
Three Houses spoilers
They literally had a point in the game where you could spare Claude, and you don't get him? I was dissapointed. Seeing the church's true colors in Black Eagles was also shocking, and it shaped the rest of my playthroughs. Yeah, it looks like Edelgard nuked a fortress town in the other playthroughs (which ends up not being her), but what's Rhea's excuse for razing Firdhiad? I honestly think that Rhea was a great way of subtly doing the "divine dragon goes mad" idea that a lot of fire emblem games have, because even if she isn't technically a divine dragon, she surely went mad long before Three Houses started.
yeah hard agree on that
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yep, there's some deep stuff in there too about how the system warps revolutionary acts and then is actually not any better materially. all the status quo systems have is the privilege of speaking calmly about their horrific acts since they don't need to persuade or scare anyone, they are the system. sorry there's probably a better way to say all this that's not as rambly.
totally, i really like that you don't even see her true colours until you oppose her. it's kinda educational tbh, it was for me
I think I'm going to play through Three Houses again just so I can do a post about it. Maybe it's time to do my first classic mode run now that I've played more FE.