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Fire Emblem: Three Houses Preview Thread (Including Opening Cinematic)
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niceIf anyone was curious what animations look like turned off:
It will be even better if we can just jam on the start button to skip all animations and enemy turns like with the 3DS games :)
For some reason the Black Eagles have the least strong skills (23) and the most weak skills (19). I wonder if they have bette growth rates to offset this difference.
Blue Lions have 24 and 14
and Golden Deers a whooping 27 and 14
With Claude having both riding and flying skills, I'm starting to lean toward golden deer which I never thought I would. But I love Marianne and Lythsea. The only one I cannot stand is bowl-cut dude - seriously WTF
Game is still the top game at Amazon. I believe it's going to do pretty well
Game is still the top game at Amazon. I believe it's going to do pretty well
Stat growths are class dependent now - and getting better classes is contingent on skill growths.
Maybe they're expecting it to be evened out some other way, like personal abilities?
Crests I would put money on being changeable somehow later on.
You talking shit about my boy Coconut Head? Meet me outside.
Units will likely have personal growths in addition to class growths, like usual.
Entirely class dependent? Or is it like personal growth rate plus class modifiers?
Do we know all the rates already?
I could've sworn I read that it was going to be all on class - but I'm not sure.
And no idea about the specific rates, though there's a letter grade breakdown.
We still don't know the numerical values associated with Strength and Weaknesses though. Are all characters weaknesses and strengths equals for instance?
Actually, I'm just going with my first instinct, and am going Blue Lions. I will recruit two of Lysithea/Marianne/Dorothea for additional support. However, I'm going to play all of the story lines eventually.
I'm locked in and planning support now. Too many cool knight types in the BL to pass up, and Dimitri definitely has the best supporting group. Not one of them irritates me
I'm locked in and planning support now. Too many cool knight types in the BL to pass up, and Dimitri definitely has the best supporting group. Not one of them irritates me
I'm going to leave my first choice to the dice. 1-3 is BL 4-6 is GD. I'll leave BE for a second playthrough.
I don't need any more convincing Nintendo, I have the game preloaded and my "amiibos" ready.
Just 11ish more days...
I don't need any more convincing Nintendo, I have the game preloaded and my "amiibos" ready.
Just 11ish more days...
Units with a weakness in something get less skill points, while units with a strength get more. This seems to apply to all gains — actions in battle, instruction, group tasks, and weekday lessons — and is the same for all characters. There's also hidden talents, which aren't just limited to the default visible ones, but seem to be able to be discovered at further ranks as well — so most will be unknown at this point. If a unit unlocks their hidden talent in something, that skill becomes a strength, and they gain a new combat art/ability.
Here's a helpful page on it: https://serenesforest.net/three-houses/pre-release/skill-levels/
I'm going to put my favorites off a bit, I think. Most likely going Golden Deer for my first run, since I'm less attached to them, so when I undoubtedly screw things up it'll be k.
Do we have confirmation that there's extra Hidden Talents to find?
No text/reviewer confirmation, but we've seen screenshots of some at further skill levels IIRC, so presumably.
It wouldn't make much sense to have a mechanic/UI element that half of the cast can't interact with, despite all having weaknesses, and that stops being relevant after E ranks, IMO.
Well, that'd certainly be nice. I hadn't noticed that it was different in any of the screens.
Oooh, it'd be cool for NG+ if it randomized that stuff, or had an option to randomize, at any rate.
No clue. Only one of the previews even got far enough to start a second run, and all they said was that it's a thing.
What I really want is something akin to the XCOM Second Wave options, where you have a bunch of choices in how things change. Keep your levels, randomize everything, extra enemies, less gold, whatever.
Second Wave was a great idea. So much granularity in how the next game would play, even if several of the option quite clearly were prototypes that never made it into the normal game, but were interesting enough to offer as an option for a replay.
I'm also remembering Tales of Symphonia has a Grade Shop at the end. You can buy ways to make the game easier and harder for another playthrough from there.
And Fire Emblem Awakening let you keep your Renown after you beat it, which accumulated if you beat the game again.
From that last one, I'd heavily expect Renown to be system wide for that Switch profile, at least.
One of the previews showed a glimpse of Sylvain's brother:
That's a hero relic, all right. According to one of the previews, his name is Miklan.
That's a hero relic, all right. According to one of the previews, his name is Miklan.
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One of the previews showed a glimpse of Sylvain's brother:
That's a hero relic, all right.
Sure looks like it. I am eager to see how his story plays out. Good find.
Which preview was this from?One of the previews showed a glimpse of Sylvain's brother:
That's a hero relic, all right. According to one of the previews, his name is Miklan.
Man... I really wanted to buy the physical edition, which will only be possible around October (live in a country with no official distribution)... But this is making me want to buy digital
Am I wrong for thinking this also mirrors the concentration of political power among their houses?
I have my LE at amazon right now, I'm just conflicted because I can pick up the base game at best buy for $48~ish and then grab the season pass, or do the digital vouchers and get another game for the price of the LE and get an ex
Bought a pair of vouchers for this and Astral Chain; it's all pre-loaded and taunting me.
Pledging Blue Lions for my first run. I don't want to pay for the Season Pass just yet, but those Officer Academy outfits for Byleth are so damn good. They knew exactly what they were doing.
Pledging Blue Lions for my first run. I don't want to pay for the Season Pass just yet, but those Officer Academy outfits for Byleth are so damn good. They knew exactly what they were doing.
Personally, the art in this one doesn't do enough for me so losing the art book doesn't feel as bad. Sampler CDs are always meh and the calendar is a perishable. All in all, I don't feel bad skipping this one in favor of another game.
Yeah... I think I'm going to do the vouchers and get Dragon Quest Builders 2 or XI. The only thing I really like about the LE is the steel case at this point and that's even not a biggie.
It was at Amazon. I originally jumped on it when it first went up and originally had the standard version ordered since before Amazon stopped their 20% off pre-orders. I do want the limited edition content but that extra money really does seem better spent on the season pass.
It really was do this or the vouchers but I think I'm going to use the vouchers on something else in the future. Not sure what though beside Animal Crossing.
So I'm so sad I can't play I dusted off my 3DS and was gonna buy Fire Emblem Fates.
Only to discover that, of course, it's still 40 dollars. I hate Nintendo sometimes.
Only to discover that, of course, it's still 40 dollars. I hate Nintendo sometimes.
Conquest is one of the best(arguably the best) in the series in gameplay department.
Conquest's gameplay is fantastic but it and the soundtrack are generally the only redeeming features of Fates. Birthright is thoroughly mediocre and I wouldn't wish Revelation's gameplay on anyone.
Check your local library. I was able to borrow a copy from mine. Fates is the only US-released FE title I haven't played yet, so I wanted to give it a go before Three Houses. I chose Conquest since that seemed the most "traditional" of the bunch.
I'm up to Ch.19 now, and while it's probably one of my lesser liked FE games, it's still worth playing. The writing and characters are trashy to be honest, but the maps are some of the best in the series (there are some super awful maps thrown in there too). Not a bad way to scratch that SRPG itch until July 26.
Birthright is worth it for the track "Alight", that song is amazing and fits so well in the final handful of chapters. Especially with Ryoma just Crit-ing everything in sight.
Agree, that bowl cut dude alone is making me not want to choose Golden Deer...
Gameplay and music is enough really. Tho I disagree it's the only good things it has going. Story is terrible tho
Fire Emblem really isn't that good with being a great SRPG(western release wise). Most games are too easy and don't require much thinking. Conquest, Hard mode in 7 and Radiant Dawn are probably the most fun to play through.
Out of pure hype I'm replaying Fates. I've already beaten Awakening twice and gave up midway thru Fates when it first came out. It really is hard to enjoy this game. The pace and writing are just awful. Both the plot and dialogue are bad and many of the battle maps are not so good either. Still, I have no other FE games to play!
Birthright. I wanted to play as the Japanese characters.
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