Warning: Fanboy's ravings inside

[Voivod]

Only 20 more day untill it comes out... In Japan But it seems awesome. 44 Chapters, and at least 20-30 more hours of gameplay, more of PoR's gorgeous Cut scenes,, a magic using Lord (albiet Light magic), dark Magic's back, Wolf Laguz and of course Jill's back! YAY!!! Of course Ike may be getting Hectored...

Its too bad I can't read the website :blue:

 

[Fatuous One]

...

*Uses google*

Uhm... You're talking about this, I assume? <<?

 

[Voivod]

...

*Uses google*

Uhm... You're talking about this, I assume? <<?

Correct!

I honestly wasn't expecting any replies for this, except for maybe GH since he's the only one here (that I know of) who's played Fire Emblem: Path of Radience. This is just mainly me blabbering on and generally trying to get my excitement out... and using horrible grammar and spelling in the process

 

[Fatuous One]

*nods*

I'm not a huge fan of Fire Emblem. I have a few misc. games of it, but never really got into it.

 

[GenocideHeart]

Heh. I just saw this. Yeah, I'm interested in it, although if I'm not mistaken it's a Wii game, and I'm not buying a Wii just yet.

I'd like to see another female Paladin like Titania, though. She was awesome - second highest stat growth in the entire game, not like the scrub prepromos of the past. She could conceivably go until the very end.

 

[SimmyC]

Yes. It is a Wii game. Without a Wii (which is still a bit hard to get. Showing the popularity of the Wii), can't exactly play this game.

And yeah, not a lot of people have heard about this game (me included), BUT, I have heard about Fire Emblem. Heck, I even played the games for the GBA. Having SOME indication that this game might have garnered this thread a few more replies. Who knows? Maybe you'd get other 'fanboys' to reply to it.

 

[Voivod]

Yeah I'm not getting a Wii for a bit. But the english version won't be read for probabally about 6 months so that gives me plenty of time to Buy a Wii once the craze has died down and prices are lower.

Yeah Titania was pretty awesome, and would usually make it in my Final Line up as well. Ofcourse Path had the best premotes of any Fire Emblem game... from 6 onwards. Titania, Callil, Geoffrey, Lucia, Tanith, Haar.

Yeah Fire Emblems not for everyone and its more of an underground( maybe not the best word) game than say... Final Fantasy. Ofcourse the GBA games opther than Rekka no Ken ( Fire Emblem here in NA) kinda sucked. 6 espiecally

Unfortunit;ly it seems more an more likely that Zelgius= the Black Night but I still hold out that they're different... unless the game proves me wrong

 

[SimmyC]

Six months? While I could probably confidently say that the Wii craze would have died down, don't expect a price drop either. I mean, Wiis are still pretty much sold out when there is in stock (though how fast might have slowed), I doubt Nintendo will drop the price in that short amount of time. After all, even with an expected Xbox 360 price drop, Nintendo will still have the cheapest system on the block. Until Xbox 360 or PS3 drops their prices significantly (unlikely), Wiis will still carry the same price six months from now.

 

[Voivod]

Six months? While I could probably confidently say that the Wii craze would have died down, don't expect a price drop either. I mean, Wiis are still pretty much sold out when there is in stock (though how fast might have slowed), I doubt Nintendo will drop the price in that short amount of time. After all, even with an expected Xbox 360 price drop, Nintendo will still have the cheapest system on the block. Until Xbox 360 or PS3 drops their prices significantly (unlikely), Wiis will still carry the same price six months from now.

... Shush you I'm trying to be Optimistic here

 

[GenocideHeart]

Yeah Titania was pretty awesome, and would usually make it in my Final Line up as well. Ofcourse Path had the best premotes of any Fire Emblem game... from 6 onwards. Titania, Callil, Geoffrey, Lucia, Tanith, Haar.

You forgot Shinon (who had the best stat growth in the game period, despite somewhat crappy starting stats) and Tauroneo.

Seth was great in FE8, too.

Unfortunit;ly it seems more an more likely that Zelgius= the Black Night but I still hold out that they're different... unless the game proves me wrong

I just want to see more of Ena and/or Tibarn. Tibarn was cool. So was Ena, in the short time you have her.

 

[Voivod]

Yeah Titania was pretty awesome, and would usually make it in my Final Line up as well. Ofcourse Path had the best premotes of any Fire Emblem game... from 6 onwards. Titania, Callil, Geoffrey, Lucia, Tanith, Haar.

You forgot Shinon (who had the best stat growth in the game period, despite somewhat crappy starting stats) and Tauroneo.

Seth was great in FE8, too.

Unfortunit;ly it seems more an more likely that Zelgius= the Black Night but I still hold out that they're different... unless the game proves me wrong

I just want to see more of Ena and/or Tibarn. Tibarn was cool. So was Ena, in the short time you have her.

Yeah, I did forget Tauroneo but Shinion... I perfered Rolf ofcourse I had to use a lot of Bonus EXP on him but I found him better than Shinon.. Yeah Seth was awesome but I was talking about FE9

Well Tibarn, shows up in the opening(?) cinematic so we'll probabally see more of him. Yeah he was pretty sweet and is my favorite of the Big 3. I liked Ena as a character more but Nasir was the better Unit. Rajaion may be showing up which means if he does then Ena definately will

 

[SimmyC]

Six months? While I could probably confidently say that the Wii craze would have died down, don't expect a price drop either. I mean, Wiis are still pretty much sold out when there is in stock (though how fast might have slowed), I doubt Nintendo will drop the price in that short amount of time. After all, even with an expected Xbox 360 price drop, Nintendo will still have the cheapest system on the block. Until Xbox 360 or PS3 drops their prices significantly (unlikely), Wiis will still carry the same price six months from now.

... Shush you I'm trying to be Optimistic here

Well, you know what they say about optimism... if it isn't fulfilled, it will lead to disappointment.

 

[raedric]

I have played Path of Radience, so I guess I will check out the new one...Looks interesting, at least. B)

 

[Jakkun]

It doesn't lead to disappointment when it's not? Pessimism is the way to go. You expect things to go bad, and when they don't you are pleasantly surprised.

The Wii isn't that expensive, unless you buy one off ebay for a jacked up price. I don't see a price drop until November at the earliest. Even that is doubtful since it isn't ridiculously expensive. Eventually it will probably be 100 USD, but not for a few years. Nintendo is making profit off each sale since they actually understand cost efficiency. They aren't going to screw themselves like Microsoft and Sony are doing, since both lose money on every console sale.

Sony is in trouble though, they aren't selling PS3's at all. My friend works at best buy and says they sell maybe two or three a day. People still line up for Wiis when they come in. This is in a major city. It might be a bit different in normal places, but Wiis being sold out, and PS3's not selling is a global trend.

I don't know too much about FE, but I will probably check out the game.

 

[raedric]

Main reason the Ps3 isn't selling is everyone is wary of the "problems" that were stated when it first came out. People will eventually pick up on the buying when it either lowers it's prices, or starts troubleshooting all of the various problems the new ones hold. Also, faith in Sony dropped a lot when they failed to meet the promised one million launch consoles, and reaching barely 300000.

 

[Jakkun]

Clicky

They barely managed to sell over a million units. 1,356, 699 is what they have sold so far. They are getting stomped. That is almost a quarter of what Wii has sold. Wii demand is still high. It can probably get another million easily, if not more.

 

[GenocideHeart]

I tried the Wii, and was less than amused by the Wiimote. It's clunky and doesn't fit comfortably in my hands, since I'm about the size of the Under fucking Taker from WWE, and the damn thing is so small I often have trouble using the buttons.

I'm much more comfortable with the 360 and PS3 pads. Less clunky, less gimmicky and I can actually puch the right buttons.

The fact the Wii has exactly TWO titles that hold any sort of interest for me doesn't help at all. Besides the upcoming FE and SSBB, the rest is uninteresting crap for me. OTOH, I've spotted several titles for both 360 and PS3 that spark my interest.

Nintendo's problem is always the same. A cheap console means jack shit if the games on it are boring crap. That is what killed the GameCube, and that is what, in the end, will kill the Wii, unless they wake up and get some big names on the thing. They can't survive on first party games alone. End of story.

 

[raedric]

I am also one of those who plans on buying a Ps3, I like that it has by far the most POTENTIAL, as sony has been pretty consistent with knocking the ball out of the park. I predict that around the time ff13 is released, Ps3 will see a boom in sales. People love the series too damn much to leave a game unbought. Unless they sell it out to Wii, ps3 will definitely up the numbers.

All it needs are a couple of more solid titles and a bit of troubleshooting, and I'll buy one myself.

 

[GenocideHeart]

I am also one of those who plans on buying a Ps3, I like that it has by far the most POTENTIAL, as sony has been pretty consistent with knocking the ball out of the park. I predict that around the time ff13 is released, Ps3 will see a boom in sales. People love the series too damn much to leave a game unbought. Unless they sell it out to Wii, ps3 will definitely up the numbers.

All it needs are a couple of more solid titles and a bit of troubleshooting, and I'll buy one myself.

The fear of DREs is the only reason why I'm not buying a PS3 myself. I'm waiting until I'm SURE it won't do that, then I'm buying, expensive or not.

 

[nuclear death frog]

Sony's big problem is that they're losing more than $200 even on each $600 package, and from what I understand the technology needed simply isn't going to drop significantly in price for quite a while. It's absolutely outrageous how expensive Blu-Ray laser diodes (that's the part in question) cost to produce, and the extremely complex Cell microprocessors Do. Not. Help. that situation, in fact they compound it. So do the fact that Blu-Ray discs are inherently more fragile, due to being less physically protected; plus those too cost more to produce, and apparently Sony is also losing money by giving away Blu-Ray movies with some console purchases.

While the latter is helping them put out quite a lot of Blu-Ray discs, it certainly isn't helping them stem all the money hemmoraging (sp?).

Frankly, I think launching the console with such unproven technology was a costly mistake; not the only one they've made in the past, just the latest and possibly biggest.

 

[OniGanon]

I played a FE game (Sacred Stones) on the GBA and had a lot of fun with it, so I'll most probably be getting this game whenever it comes out. Of course, that could be freaking ages. Some of the games that were launch titles in the US still haven't arrived here, and it's pissing me off something fierce. There's plenty of Wii consoles around here. The problem is there's no games around except for Zelda (which pretty much every Wii owner already has and has likely beaten by now) and the usual mediocre-at-best licensed trash that's spawned whenever Pixar makes a movie.

Personally I've found the Wiimote + nunchuk to be the most comfortable controls I've ever played, being able to position my hands independently instead of keeping them a rigid distance either side of a gamepad. The only problem is how stupid I feel seeing Link do a spin attack whenever I absentmindedly scratch my nose.

 

[Antimatter]

The wiimote is decent, but shows its lack of usefulness for alot of things. try playing metal slug or a fighter on it, and you scream for a GCN pad. Zelda was decent, but the nunchuck makes my left hand cramp up pretty bad after a few hours. Combined with shotty sensativity sometimes, it doesn't make for a fun experience.

Wii's thrashing the xbox and ps3 just shows you how hyped it was. It was declared gods gift to gaming before it every launched, and now, several months later, their is still shit to play on it. even whats on their is very much hit or miss. I havn't touched mine cept for some metal slug every now and then.

 

[Voivod]

Thats why nintendo lets use you use alternate controlers, Using the Wii -mote for Red SAteel looks fun if painful. Yeah right now there aren't that many wii-games I care for but there's supposedly going be a couple massive floods of new realives in the coming months so we'll see.

If I'm not mistake Wii's second to the 360 in the US and in first place in asia and I'm not sure where its at in Europe. WSony's lucky they have their alternative revenue sources or they'd be screwed up the ass with out lube right now.

 

[GenocideHeart]

One thing to note is that Sony still has Namco and Square's almost total home console support. The moment the big name RPGs hit PS3, things will turn very ugly very fast for the Wii, especially if Nintendo insists in its idiotic policy of 'few RPGs and they all suck' that they started on GC.

They need more third party support AND they need more RPGs. Otherwise, the RPG flood that's already predicted on PS3 will crush them like bugs under a steamroller. PSX also started slow back then... but when the first quality RPGs started to appear on it, it wiped out the opposition like it wasn't even there. Unless Nintendo wises up and gets a lot of GOOD RPGs on theit Wii, they are just going to get squashed again.

Hopefully they learned from the GC's dismal failure against PS2, despite having the superior hardware. If they didn't, they'll end up being a good second once again.

 

[OniGanon]

I'll agree to that. The most successful console these days is pretty much determined by which has the most half-decent RPGs on it. Unfortunately, which console has the most RPGs is determined by how successful they already are. And as Playstation has pretty much become synonymous with RPG because of Square-Enix in the PSX era, it was always going to be an up-cliff battle for Nintendo.

Just had a thought; the Wii could make a damn good platform for RPGs like the Elder Scrolls series. It's a shame this potential will probably be squandered, like its potential for first person shooters (honestly, just have the nunchuk tilt-sensor control the turning, the wiimote act like a light gun, and you have a control setup that finally beats a mouse and keyboard), space sims, strategy games and pretty much any other game genre that previously only worked with a mouse.

But I'm getting pretty far off topic here. This game, is it a direct sequel to Path of Radiance? Am I going to have to get that game to make sense of the story?