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[MrT-Tar]

Remember back in the 7th Gen, when many of us (myself included) feared that FE was on it's last legs as a series and would live only via Smash representation?

That nightmare scenario has never seemed further away

 

[Kingpin Rogers]

That was it?...

What more could you possibly want?

 

[Stairouais]

There's no 6 month mandatory delay for Echoes in europe?

Color me fucking surprised.

 

[McGruber21]

That Direct was very low energy. Very bad at making deals. Sad!

But really, a tease of Warriors was about the only thing that really hooked me. That Gaiden game could sway me if it's cheap, but given how they milked Fates, I'm not really counting on it NOT being full price.

I must have overlooked it because I LOVE Awakening and Fates, but you are so right. They milked the hell out of us with Fates. Ugh Nintendo is so hot and cold for me lately.

 

[pariah164]

Thoughts:

- FE Echoes - Day one, fuck yes.
- FE Switch - Not till 2018, but ok
- FE Warriors - For Switch - and 3DS. Ahahahahahahaha, I bet GAF is salty about this.

Spoiler

Of course they are.

- FE Mobile - You're goddamn right I'm pre-registering that.

All in all, this was a great Direct. Loved it.

 

[R0ckman]

Remake was wasted on Gaiden? Is this a down and dirty quick game?

 

[Rymuth]

Lots of FE to play! Was worth to stay up until now.

• February 2017: FE Heroes (Andriod / iOS "soon")
• May 2017: FE Gaiden (3DS)
• Fall 2017: FE Warriors (Switch/3DS)
• 2018: Mainline FE (Switch)

Recall how dead this franchise was to Nintendo. What a world, what a world

 

[Pau]

So wait... there's a chance Ike might not be in the game? ;-;

Or is it just about being in at launch?

 

[uncleslappy]

And to think they were going to make Awakenings the last Fire Emblem. Now we're close to oversaturation. How many games were just announced? six hundred and eighty?

 

[jooso]

Heroes looked good!

 

[plentyofmilhouse]

That was a pretty good selection of Fire Emblem games. Nice to see the series getting so many releases.

 

[Lee Chaolan]

on android FIRST? wow. unexpected. :/

Anyway, this is good faith for Android users that still don't have Mario Run yet.

 

[Litri]

So new 3DS game, new Switch game, new Warriors game on both 3DS and Switch and a mobile game. The series is finally where it deserves to be!

This!

 

[ShyMel]

I got more than expected so I'm happy. Can't wait to give Nintendo lots of money to get my favorite characters.

 

[jonno394]

What more could you possibly want?

3DS remasters for switch were what I wanted.

 

[Kaelan]

You got like 7 fucking FE games. What else do you want?

I only got like 2, one is pretty much vaporware (switch console fire emblem). I only have a switch so it kinda sucks :/ Excited for FE warriors though. Mobile game just isn't for me. Guess this isn't targeted for me though

 

[Rodin]

That was fucking good, buying all of these. The mobile game looks great as well.

Fire Emblem Warriors was Switch gameplay.

And it looked a lot better than Hyrule Warriors

Spoiler

and DQ Heroes Switch

I only got like 2, one is pretty much vaporware (switch console fire emblem). I only have a switch so it kinda sucks :/ Excited for FE warriors though.

Vaporwhat? Lol

 

[Askherserenity]

https://fire-emblem-heroes.com/en/

Thank you!

 

[jackal27]

Never thought i'd see the day of multiple Fire Emblem game announcements, i'm tearing up here. It's amazing to see it blow up and still be amazing.

I know right? It's incredible. What a time to be alive. I remember how scared I was about whether or not Awakening would even come to the west and yet here we are!

 

[Dee Dee]

This was everything I wanted and more. *_*

Happy to play Gaiden in May, what a nice surprise! And I can get hype for the new Fire Emblem trailer at E3 this year.

Also, the mobile games looks rad, and I will spend all my money pulling heroes, and I will do it happily. Yusssss.

 

[kiri]

This mobile game is going to sell like fucking gangbusters in Japan.

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

What was the website? Trying to look for it.

 

[Crazyorloco]

Lots of FE to play! Was worth to stay up until now.

• February 2017: FE Heroes (Andriod / iOS "soon")
• May 2017: FE Gaiden (3DS)
• Fall 2017: FE Warriors (Switch/3DS)
• 2018: Mainline FE (Switch)

This is beautiful. I hope the Apple version comes out soon after. What a great direct.

and FE Gaiden comes out pretty soon too. Damn.

 

[CSX]

theres not even RNG in Heroes??

But it's no longer Fire Emblem when a hit of 90 misses and it leads to your death T___T

 

[elrohir]

4 games, not bad.

But for the fact that Nintendo is launching soon the Switch, they showed pretty much nothing. At least some more material for Warriors would have been ...of advantage.

 

[Shaanyboi]

no wii u? fuck off.

They aren't selling the WiiU anymore.

 

[Riddler]

That was lame No Switch gameplay whatsoever...

Gotta save something for E3 i guess.

 

[brad-t]

Gambling. Gacha = gotcha. Poorly monetized mobile games.

Gacha refers to "gashapon" which is a Japanese capsule vending machine, usually for toys/collectibles.

 

[emb]

Glad to hear Warriors is this fall. I had my doubts.

And FE:Gaiden, that's awesome. I wish it was on Switch, but I'll take it. Hope they do an Echoes version of several older FEs :]

Of course the new main series title is good to hear about, but that won't be for quite some time. Other things to be excited about for now.

 

[KillGore]

Where's my boy Ephraim?????!!

 

[purg3]

FE Echoes looks great, really looking forward to that.

 

[DecoReturns]

Feels good to be a Fire Emblem fan

 

[ladyluthien]

Awesome stuff. I am totally in for Echoes and Warriors on 3DS. I also want that Celica amiibo. Surprised to see Heroes as an actual strategy game and thankfully not just some card game. Looks very promising.

 

[iceblade997]

This is awesome! Was thinking it'd be really awesome if they announced just 1 3DS title, but nope, they went ahead, and put some icing on top of the cake, as well as a pile of cherries and sprinkles, making 2 titles instead. This is really really awesome! . It's great that there's something for everyone here.

 

[cackhyena]

All of this looked like crap to me. Bummer.

 

[Brandon F]

So when is the Metroid direct?

 

[Divvy]

Four Fire Emblem games holy fuck

It's crazy to me as a long time fan of the franchise that it was on its deathbed only a few years ago

 

[Draxal]

https://fire-emblem-heroes.com/en/

 

[daffy]

Yo heroes looked BAE

DAY 1 ANDROID im ashamed i ever doubted the android love

 

[SporeCrawler]

Really nice direct

Fire Emblem Echoes so soon
Fire Emblem Musou for 2017 confirmed
Fire Emblem Switch for 2018 confirmed
Fire Emblem Heroes... well it looks like what many suspected..

 

[Neoxon]

They're using female Corrin as the default Corrin... maybe the Amiibo will also be female Corrin?

The Corrin Amiibo is still Smash-based, which chose Male Corrin as the default. That said, we could very well get both of them in a two-pack, but we already found out what the two-pack Amiibo bundle was in this Direct.

 

[Shadowninja100]

FE Heroes looks great. I'm glad it's coming out on Android first because I believe that we're still waiting on Super Mario Run to release.

Wish we could have seen more of Fire Emblem Warriors but looking at that clip I know I'll have just as much fun as I did with Hyrule Warriors.

 

[Raitaro]

Fire Emblem Musou for New 3DS too ? Oh no ..

The next step is seeing more (New) 3DS titles being announced that won't get a Switch version at all. Then we're in full Wii U mode again and can start believing Reggie's promise that the 3DS is not being abandoned (which he said in a tone that seems to indicate that Nintendo thinks that many people actually want the 3DS to be heavely supported still, which I personally do not if that means less games for Switch due to no unified development...).

(Yes, I'm still bitter we never got games like Luigi's Mansion 2 or Kid Icarus Uprising on Wii U when the system needed every game it could get, while the 3DS got more and more original games as well as quite a few Wii U games like Mario Maker, Hyrule Warriors and Yoshi's Woolly World.)

Back on-topic: I guess I've reached the point of no longer caring about FE, right when it's being milked supported to its fullest potential. Sure, I'll check out the mainline game on Switch, assuming it will rival the ones on Gamecube and Wii, but the other 3 leave me quite cold honestly. I'm glad for the people who can't get enough of this series though, don't get me wrong.

 

[MutFox]

So hyped for FE: Heroes!

Out so soon too!!! XD

Gonna go vote.

 

[DMONKUMA]

Oh that's neat. Announcing/showing all title that are current being worked on based on the games series the direct is for. Would be cool if they did something like this for the next type of direct.

 

[Calamari41]

Really happy that everything they showed looks like a top notch effort. I'll be gladly playing all of these.

Thank God for Awakening, Fire Emblem is now a top tier franchise in Nintendo's mind.

 

[Peterc]

So when is the Metroid direct?

Lol, but true,.

Did they show anything from the switch versions?

 

[7Th]

We may actually be getting both versions of Corrin (& possibly Robin, too). There's in-game footage of Male Corrin.

There was footage of female Corrin among the units. The card game uses both so I don't see why the gacha game wouldn't.

 

[vareon]

Well all hype I had for mobile FE deflated once I saw it was a gatcha game.

You wouldn't want anything else than a gacha FE game for mobile. It's the bone Nintendo have to throw for investors. Even then we still get three upcoming FE games.

 

[Kingpin Rogers]

What did people think of the graphics of warriors? I know we didn't get much of a look but it seems reasonably improved over hyrule warriors.

You wouldn't want anything else than a gacha FE game for mobile. It's the bone Nintendo have to throw for investors. Even then we still get three upcoming FE games.

What's a gacha game?