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(Tragically Heterosexual) Marriage System Announced For Fire Emblem Awakening

What's next, you get to choose what characters go on the pill?!

Outrage!

Lmao...wait, what if having too many children actually becomes a problem. Nintendo will charge us 5 bucks a pill with DLC right? I mean, we could just send the children to war, but they will get killed easily. No one dies damnit!
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Laughing Banana

Weeping Pickle
If NOA is acting stupid over this I swear I am going to do something extremely foolish and destructive....


....Like buying a second 3DS for the PAL region.

Please don't make me do this, NOA.
 

McNum

Member
Let the shipping... begin! Eh, who am I kidding, just continue as you were.

Going to be interesting to see what this does. Also permadeath and a marriage system. "Until Critical Hit does you part!"
 

kuroshiki

Member
If NOA is acting stupid over this I swear I am going to do something extremely foolish and destructive....


....Like buying a second 3DS for the PAL region.

Please don't make me do this, NOA.

You just gave Nintendo a reason not to publish the game in US. Another unit sold.
 

hitmon

Member
I wonder if this means there will be that ending synopsis (based on support rating) for the characters like in the old GBA games. Here's hoping there will be a US announcement at E3.
 

Alexios

Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
This better mean gay marriage, and NoA better bring this over fully intact. >:|
Do you have something against straight characters? I don't at all like the Bioware approach where every character is what you want them to become rather than a personality of their own. If they happen to have characters as straight or gay or bi that should ideally be the writers' choice and vision and have nothing to do with the company wanting to appear progressive or not.
 

PKrockin

Member
My Unit + Marriage. Uh oh.

Please don't be a major gameplay mechanic. Please don't make Fire Emblem any more niche outside Japan.
 

kswiston

Member
Do you have something against straight characters? I don't at all like the Bioware aproach where every character is what you want them to become rather than a personality of their own. If they happen to have characters as straight or gay or bi that should ideally be the writers' choice and vision and have nothing to do with the company wanting to appear progressive or not.

Fire Emblem Casts are usually big enough that they could have a mix of orientations. For instance, in Radiant Dawn, Heather was clearly into other women. Others were clearly heterosexual. And there were some in between.
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
That would be quite a progressive step for Nintendo.

Meh, I've been making my same sex video game characters make out thanks to Maxis since 1999.

Hmm, come to think of it, it was also Maxis that gave me the freedom to create a skyscraper shaped like a giant ding-dong in Simcity 2000. With giant blu-green balls and a bulging head that housed 10,000 citizens.

Thank you, Maxis!
 
If NOA is acting stupid over this I swear I am going to do something extremely foolish and destructive....
I think I'm going to go ahead and start looking into how much it would cost to send NoA a knocked over magazine rack.
Fire Emblem Casts are usually big enough that they could have a mix of orientations. For instance, in Radiant Dawn, Heather was clearly into other women. Others were clearly heterosexual. And there were some in between.
I need to play Radiant Dawn. O_O
 

Vamphuntr

Member
It would be good for Nintendo if they really had same sex marriages in the game but I doubt this is what the text in the OP implies though.
 
They're boring.

I wouldn't go that far. But I'm straight and like to think I'm not boring simply because I'm straight. I'm sure there's plenty of better reasons.

Generally, I'm for giving the player options, and if that means making a character that is straight in the plotline suddenly become SURPRISE BISEXUAL I don't see the issue. Games with lots of possibilities usually end up just having some path be considered canon in the event that it's needed.
 
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