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Which definitely sane post-timeskip Lord are you choosing?

  • Dimitri: "Those who stand in my way will be crushed."

    Votes: 122 18.6%
  • Claude: "...I'll take them out... without hesitation."

    Votes: 198 30.2%
  • Edelgard: "I'm sorry, teacher. But this is my path."

    Votes: 336 51.2%

  • Total voters
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Enduin

You look 40
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Oct 25, 2017
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Do the main characters have character customisation like in the previous games? Not digging their looks and haven't heard about customisation so far.
Nope, no customization at all. You choose gender and that's it. Unless you buy the Season Pass which will have alt costumes.
Actually, this is sadly still up in the air... Those pictured are "exchange students" — other people's, via Nintendo Online — who can sell things to you, participate in battle as pair assistants, etc.
Crap, I literally thought that might be the case when I posted it. Well not really crap. I don't care, I actually like that they have uniforms at school, makes more sense to have casual wear off the battlefield.
 
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I'm just gonna quote something I said in the previous thread
The quote and bio say "Healer," but the portrait says "I've murdered a lot of people atop this wyvern"
 

Strings

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Oct 27, 2017
31,377
I thought the voice was really good though, but idk if its Yuri Lowenthal or not
Like, it's a good voice, but the delivery is a bit stilted in that trailer at least imo (and I thought it was extra unconvincing in the E3 trailer where he's all aggro :/). Would be crazy if it was Yuri though - it would be like his third lord lol.
 

DecoReturns

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Oct 27, 2017
22,003
Like, it's a good voice, but the delivery is a bit stilted in that trailer at least imo (and I thought it was extra unconvincing in the E3 trailer where he's all aggro :/). Would be crazy if it was Yuri though - it would be like his third lord lol.
I wouldn't necessarily judge too much the VA from trailers. It's always splice together, plus edited and doesn't reflect the final game.
 

Tfritz

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Oct 25, 2017
13,254
No customization is a small price to pay for the protagonist appearing in actual cutscenes instead of them being awkwardly in first person or wearing a hood.
 

LincolnTunnel

Member
Oct 25, 2017
489
New Jersey
I definitely prefer Byleth just being the character you play as, rather than a vaguely defined avatar. Hopefully it means better character development, rather than just... "I LOVE TACTICS!" or whatever.
 

Enduin

You look 40
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Oct 25, 2017
11,470
New York
No customization is a small price to pay for the protagonist appearing in actual cutscenes instead of them being awkwardly in first person or wearing a hood.
Terrible price to pay to me, especially with how horrible these two characters look and especially when best as we can tell they don't even seem to talk in said cutscenes they can now be featured in, or anywhere else for that matter save for death quotes and tutoring quotes. Not to mention many of the cutscenes we've seen have been in-engine, not pre-rendered, and they're quite good looking so it's not even like they need to rely a great deal on pre-rendered cutscenes as they did with the 3DS games. Plus cutscenes in Awakening/Fates were perfectly fine if not great when using the first person POV, it was far from a seriously limiting factor.
 

DecoReturns

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Oct 27, 2017
22,003
Terrible price to pay to me, especially with how horrible these two characters look and especially when best as we can tell they don't even seem to talk in said cutscenes they can now be featured in, or anywhere else for that matter save for death quotes and tutoring quotes. Not to mention many of the cutscenes we've seen have been in-engine, not pre-rendered, and they're quite good looking so it's not even like they need to rely a great deal on pre-rendered cutscenes as they did with the 3DS games. Plus cutscenes in Awakening/Fates were perfectly fine if not great when using the first person POV, it was far from a seriously limiting factor.
Honestly. The cutscenes hiding the avatar were awful. The Characters looks is irrelevant in the long run.

Nothing about that was fine about that. It was more, they had to by force.

The first POV was effective in maybe 2 instances acrossed Fates/Awakening, buy completely take you out when it's clearly done by force in every other cutscene.
 

NSESN

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Oct 25, 2017
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hey I love tactics isnt that bad compared to what we got in Fates
 
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Poodlestrike

Poodlestrike

Smooth vs. Crunchy
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Oct 25, 2017
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This is a non-fight. We've had fully customizable, fully voiced protags in real deal cutscenes in other games that came out long before. No reason for IS to keep using prerendered cutscenes like this.
 

Enduin

You look 40
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Oct 25, 2017
11,470
New York
Honestly. The cutscenes hiding the avatar were awful. The Characters looks is irrelevant in the long run.

Nothing about that was fine about that. It was more, they had to by force.

The first POV was effective in maybe 2 instances acrossed Fates/Awakening, buy completely take you out when it's clearly done by force in every other cutscene.
Awakening was better about since only a handful of its cutscenes were actual POVs, the majority just didn't feature Robin in them which was fine by me cause it was Chrom's story, but I still never had an issue with it in Fates despite being a lot more prevalent. Regardless that's pretty irrelevant because as I was mainly saying we have good in-engine cutscenes now in Three Houses. It's as much of an either or situation. They can do high quality cutscenes in-engine, they shouldn't need to rely on pre-rendered cutscenes for a ton of scenes.

Byleth as best we can tell is still a nothing character, even more of a nothing character than Robin or Corrin. So I still don't see the point. I would have vastly preferred they were a real fixed character with a set personality and everything but for whatever reason they're still trying to pass them off as us. Except now we have far less control or ability to make them feel like ours.
 

Chirotera

Avenger
Oct 27, 2017
4,265
Is there a way to buy the expansion pass separately? I picked the game up with one of my Nintendo Online vouchers, and figured I'd use the (albeit small) savings to also get the pass, but it doesn't seem to be located anywhere.
 

Quinton

Specialist at TheGamer / Reviewer at RPG Site
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Oct 25, 2017
17,253
Midgar, With Love
A few of you may remember I recently asked if Echoes would be an OK starting point for the franchise while I await Three Houses with y'all. I just want to provide a brief update now that I have a couple dozen hours logged with the game. I'm going to put this in spoiler tags for folks who haven't played Echoes but the spoilers will be quite light IMO.

I'll tag Xavi since they were the one who convinced me to go for it!

This game is AWESOME. It feels like anime Final Fantasy Tactics. The story is gripping and the lead characters are fantastic. The very first scene showing Alm stabbing Celica with a shocked look on his face has made everything so damn intriguing; what a master stroke, that. I'm probably narrowing in on the end of Act 3 now; Celica took down Grieth and Alm is almost to the sluice. Gerkut and Fernand are excellent villains (the rest are fairly disposable so far but there's nothing wrong with that) and I have so many "ships" between the support cast, LOL.
 

DecoReturns

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Oct 27, 2017
22,003
A few of you may remember I recently asked if Echoes would be an OK starting point for the franchise while I await Three Houses with y'all. I just want to provide a brief update now that I have a couple dozen hours logged with the game. I'm going to put this in spoiler tags for folks who haven't played Echoes but the spoilers will be quite light IMO.

I'll tag Xavi since they were the one who convinced me to go for it!

This game is AWESOME. It feels like anime Final Fantasy Tactics. The story is gripping and the lead characters are fantastic. The very first scene showing Alm stabbing Celica with a shocked look on his face has made everything so damn intriguing; what a master stroke, that. I'm probably narrowing in on the end of Act 3 now; Celica took down Grieth and Alm is almost to the sluice. Gerkut and Fernand are excellent villains (the rest are fairly disposable so far but there's nothing wrong with that) and I have so many "ships" between the support cast, LOL.
Amazing Soundtrack as well.
 

Kass15

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Jan 14, 2018
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A few of you may remember I recently asked if Echoes would be an OK starting point for the franchise while I await Three Houses with y'all. I just want to provide a brief update now that I have a couple dozen hours logged with the game. I'm going to put this in spoiler tags for folks who haven't played Echoes but the spoilers will be quite light IMO.

I'll tag Xavi since they were the one who convinced me to go for it!

This game is AWESOME. It feels like anime Final Fantasy Tactics. The story is gripping and the lead characters are fantastic. The very first scene showing Alm stabbing Celica with a shocked look on his face has made everything so damn intriguing; what a master stroke, that. I'm probably narrowing in on the end of Act 3 now; Celica took down Grieth and Alm is almost to the sluice. Gerkut and Fernand are excellent villains (the rest are fairly disposable so far but there's nothing wrong with that) and I have so many "ships" between the support cast, LOL.

Such an underrated game. So good.
 

Fendoreo1

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Jan 1, 2019
15,652
Ok I got some translations for the lore texts snippets in the library. This is one of them

Writings of Seiros
Chapter One Revelation Transcript
"The Godess exists in the heavens, The Godess exists on Earth.
She exists too In the present, in the past, and in the times that are yet to come.
Those eyes that view all, those ears that hear all, those hands that accept all.
 

Strings

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Oct 27, 2017
31,377
Honestly, the library stuff has me feeling like this is more Falcom (Trails of Cold Steel + Tokyo Xanadu, not Sky) than Persona.
 

Fendoreo1

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Jan 1, 2019
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Here is the other one

Kingdom Nobles Directory
House of Blaiddyd
The Blaiddyd House are descended from one man of the Ten Elites.
In the year 751, victory was secured in the Eagle-Lion War. The "Lion King" Luwg (?) 's coronation was accepted by the religious organization and as a result they have ruled a kingdom independently of the Adrestian Empire for more than 400 years.
 

Xavi

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Oct 27, 2017
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Lightning for Smash
A few of you may remember I recently asked if Echoes would be an OK starting point for the franchise while I await Three Houses with y'all. I just want to provide a brief update now that I have a couple dozen hours logged with the game. I'm going to put this in spoiler tags for folks who haven't played Echoes but the spoilers will be quite light IMO.

I'll tag Xavi since they were the one who convinced me to go for it!

This game is AWESOME. It feels like anime Final Fantasy Tactics. The story is gripping and the lead characters are fantastic. The very first scene showing Alm stabbing Celica with a shocked look on his face has made everything so damn intriguing; what a master stroke, that. I'm probably narrowing in on the end of Act 3 now; Celica took down Grieth and Alm is almost to the sluice. Gerkut and Fernand are excellent villains (the rest are fairly disposable so far but there's nothing wrong with that) and I have so many "ships" between the support cast, LOL.
Aaaaay, awesome update. What is your main team? Either Celica or Alm's side
 

Strings

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Oct 27, 2017
31,377
I just hope some of the tea time goes all Alice in Wonderland on us. Or release DLC with Mad Hatter costumes.
 

Flame Flamey

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Feb 8, 2018
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Ok I got some translations for the lore texts snippets in the library. This is one of them

Writings of Seiros
Chapter One Revelation Transcript
"The Godess exists in the heavens, The Godess exists on Earth.
She exists too In the present, in the past, and in the times that are yet to come.
Those eyes that view all, those ears that hear all, those hands that accept all.
yeah gotta say that sounds kind of ominous since we know the church is up to some shady stuff

also, I'm glad they 're putting this lore stuff in-game, instead of in artbooks and stuff, like with the Tellius lore. Or behind a cipher like Fates did (why would they do that?)
 

NeonZ

One Winged Slayer
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Oct 28, 2017
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This is a non-fight. We've had fully customizable, fully voiced protags in real deal cutscenes in other games that came out long before. No reason for IS to keep using prerendered cutscenes like this.

Considering how this game turned out to have the same director as Echoes, I'd guess he just dislikes customizable Avatars in general, and only kept the male/female choice because it's kind of expected at this point.
 

Aaronrules380

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
22,427
People focus so much on player waifus, but I think a huge part of the appeal with the support system has always been shipping the supporting characters together lol
 

NeonZ

One Winged Slayer
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Oct 28, 2017
9,371
People focus so much on player waifus, but I think a huge part of the appeal with the support system has always been shipping the supporting characters together lol
I actually think the same. There are tons of games where you can ship people with the main character, but actually shipping supporting cast with supporting cast is a very rare feature.
 
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