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[GrandHarrier]

If you're doing a solo Ike run in Path of Radiance, it's a war where a teenager takes on the army occupying his home country in open battle...and wins, single-handedly.

 

[Mr. Nice_Guy]

Love the Awkward Zombie FE comics, my personal favorite:

Oh, mai immersion

 

[Loptous]

Just wait until see archers shoot through solid walls. Oh maybe the walls have holes in them? In that case you can throw a spear or axe through the gap as well.

And then the axe will come back through the gap as well!

 

[Hibiki Kurosawa]

This is silly.

Enjoy the game. It's great.

 

[NewGame]

I hate it when pegasus ruins my emrgergion

 

[redcrayon]

Other FE logic favourites of mine (I love the series).

A pirate is an aquatic unit whether he has a boat or not.
Enemy troops prioritise killing your troops over any kind of tactics or regard for personal safety. Yes, that priceless, veteran squadron of wyvern knights will launch a certainly suicidal mass charge just to kill a wounded, fleeing 8-year-old refugee cowering behind obviously less valuable targets like your healer and head mage in the back line.
You can only take equipment from a defeated enemy's backpacks, not the giant polearm they were actually hitting you with.
The correct rank for the armoured, (albeit elite) foot trooper commonly left behind by the advance of your command group is 'general'.

 

[thechristoph]

This HAS to be satire.

 

[Deified Data]

I don't think anyone thinks Fire Emblem is immersive.

 

[silvermember]

Immersion isn't a thing to be applied to every or even most games.

 

[Azure J]

She is real

Spoiler

as a figma

It's kind of funny awkward zombie's latest comic coincidentally is fire emblem related so here's to more of your immersion

I like that dude is getting sandwiched by the most busted units in the entirety of Path of Radiance.

Edit: Wait nah, I think the other two are Locke (dunno bout him stats wise) and Boyd/Rolf (always forget this one's name).

Almost want to use that Mia face as an avatar. :lol

-Lyn does a critical hit
-splits into 5 different copies of herself
-each copy attacks
-at the end the copies join back together

REALISM

Based Lyn.

 

[Forkball]

In Animal Crossing, your house barely looks bigger than you.

But when you go inside it becomes massive.

WHY NINTENDO WHY

 

[Serrato]

I always tought that each units/character were in fact a troop leader and each one was moving basically a small troop of [insert type of unit] with them.

It kinda help with immersion. Though In the Radiance Saga it doesn't help.

 

[FriedConsole]

Not sure if being trolled.

Yeah I like to make fun of people who use the "breaking immersion" excuse to make pendant criticisms but this guy is like a parody.

 

[Fireblend]

There is no rational explanation for a mushroom that would make you grow to twice your size, or a leaf that would make you sprout a raccoon tail out of your ass.

WTF Nintendo.
How am I supposed to have fun with this shit? Are you on drugs?

 

[silvermember]

Yeah I like to make fun of people who use the "breaking immersion" excuse to make pendant criticisms but this guy is like a parody.

People love using breaking immersion because they seem too afraid of saying they hate something.

 

[theprodigy]

If you're doing a solo Ike run in Path of Radiance, it's a war where a teenager takes on the army occupying his home country in open battle...and wins, single-handedly.

or Awakening Robin solos (also known as speedruns), aka the story where Robin drags her chump husband Chrom around while killing hundreds of enemies

 

[-Horizon-]

Love the Awkward Zombie FE comics, by personal favorite:

Oh, mai immersion

holy crap xD

 

[superseohyun]

And it doesn't bother you that characters swing and flip their giant axes, leap into the air in massive armor or do other impossible acrobats when in battle?

I dont think fire emblem ever tries for realism.

no it doesnt.
what bothers me is when 2 kingdoms meet on the battlefield for one decisive battle, there are like 20 guys for both side. Shit like this in SLG just messes up my brain.

 

[Peltz]

If not a troll post, I'd love to know what games are immersive to OP.

 

[chaosblade]

Love the Awkward Zombie FE comics, by personal favorite:

Oh, mai immersion

The fact that it's Hector really just makes the whole thing too. Perfect.

 

[Jazzy Network]

OP are you drunk? Please be drunk.

 

[Chrom]

This thread has been entertaining. Thanks OP.

 

[Gucci Messiah]

no it doesnt.
what bothers me is when 2 kingdoms meet on the battlefield for one decisive battle, there are like 20 guys for both side. Shit like this in SLG just messes up my brain.

It's a GBA game, what exactly are you expecting?

 

[Azure J]

or Awakening Robin solos (also known as speedruns), aka the story where Robin drags her chump husband Chrom around while killing hundreds of enemies

...guess I'm playing the Misadventures of the Housewife Mage soon.

 

[L Thammy]

They aren't actually forts, they're just stone shacks.

 

[Firemind]

can't be worse than toilet bowls and lack of feet

 

[Gucci Messiah]

Why don't the characters ever eat, sleep, bathe, or use the bathroom? Why do they look like sprites instead of real people? Why don't the dragons fly them to Mordor? Terrible game design, immersion breaker, not realistic enough, etc; 2/10.

 

[L Thammy]

This, I love how Yggdra Union shows the units leads a "squad" of similar units and having a skirmish.

This is pretty common, even in Intelligent System's other strategy series: Advance Wars.

I can't believe a king can move less than a tower in chess. Totally ruins the immersion!

Fun fact. A rook was originally support to represent a chariot ("Rukh" in Persian) before chess was important to Europe. You are now re-immersed.

 

[Astral Dog]

My animu characters can't enter a building and it ruins my immersion too, maybe some kind of Diet system to make them fit?

 

[Boss Doggie]

can't be worse than toilet bowls and lack of feet

I've heard of the latter but what's the former?

 

[Chrono Helix]

She is real

Spoiler

as a figma

It's kind of funny awkward zombie's latest comic coincidentally is fire emblem related so here's to more of your immersion

I didn't get the joke until I read the post on her site. I've never applied that tactic before.

 

[Chrom]

I've heard of the latter but what's the former?

Cavalier designs in Awakening make them look like they're wearing toilets.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Cavalier designs in Awakening make them look like they're wearing toilets.

Ah... AH!

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Holy shit I now can't unsee it!

 

[Yoshi]

I didn't get the joke until I read the post on her site. I've never applied that tactic before.

Don't try that in Gaiden...

 

[Ezalc]

I didn't get the joke until I read the post on her site. I've never applied that tactic before.

What?! But this is a classic!

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

It's a strategy game. The same genre that will allow you to put 8 elephants in a unit carrier and then it won't be able to hold 9 foot soldiers.

 

[XANDER CAGE]

It'd maybe bother me a bit if that view is all we saw, but we often see what the characters/world actually look like in other segments of the game. It's a war room map, basically, and the characters and terrain are pieces on the board.

Lord knows Fire Emblem would look goofy with Kessen or Total War levels of detail, unless they started having characters command whole battalions.

 

[Venfayth]

I explain this away by saying that battles are a tactical expression of how the battle actually happened, and not a direct representation of them.

 

[Boss Doggie]

It's a strategy game. The same genre that will allow you to put 8 elephants in a unit carrier and then it won't be able to hold 9 foot soldiers.

I love how I can carry 10 elephant sieges in a rather small, primitive transport boat.

This is pretty common, even in Intelligent System's other strategy series: Advance Wars.

Advanced Wars says a city is composed of one building, and you can stomp them.

 

[PK Gaming]

How's this for realism? Seth is literally God.

You have God as a unit on your team!

 

[Kilau]

I just wish they had feet in fire emblem awakening, talk about ruined immersion.

 

[Yoshi]

How's this for realism? Seth is literally God.

You have God as a unit on your team!

If you are among the people who think there is a god, this is probably less unrealistic than fitting an army into a house that can be blocked by a single person.

 

[DecoReturns]

Just wait until see archers shoot through solid walls. Oh maybe the walls have holes in them? In that case you can throw a spear or axe through the gap as well.

You can't shoot through walls in the GameCube and wii version tho

 

[Shmuppers]

 

[Pudge]

You can turn off animations. This also speeds up the game. I recommend it.

Playing Fire Emblem or Pokemon without the animations is how a monster plays video games. It turns them into spreadsheets. Where is your childlike wonder?

 

[Gucci Messiah]

You can't shoot through walls in the GameCube and wii version tho

OP is clearly playing the GBA game where you can

 

[ChazAshley]

Better example of terrible immersion

 

[Vincent Grayson]

Playing Fire Emblem or Pokemon without the animations is how a monster plays video games. It turns them into spreadsheets. Where is your childlike wonder?

I always think to myself "This time, I'll play with animations on!", and then sure enough, a few battles in, I realize that I hate waiting through the animations, and that most of them I've seen a dozen times just a few battles in, so I turn them off.

The games are so much snappier and better paced, IMO, without the animations.

 

[Ohmygoditsjrod]

Love the Awkward Zombie FE comics, my personal favorite:

Oh, mai immersion

Man this is great. Best FE in my opinion.

 

[Gucci Messiah]

I always think to myself "This time, I'll play with animations on!", and then sure enough, a few battles in, I realize that I hate waiting through the animations, and that most of them I've seen a dozen times just a few battles in, so I turn them off.

The games are so much snappier and better paced, IMO, without the animations.

I probably sunk 150+ hours into the Fire Emblem GBA games over the summer and never turned the battle animations off. The sprites are nice and the animations look cool; they never felt repetitive to me. Heck, I'm replaying Rekka no Ken on Wii U right now and haven't turned to battle animations off during my 25 hour playthrough.