Raven

yeah i did... none of that. i find FF can be easy by just spamming attack, although sometimes i have to use something else. i used ultima and dualcast with the relic that halves MP cost (idk where to get the celestriad) a lot in my first runthrough, though.

to be fair, espers are pretty useless in battle anyway

yeah, i didn't do much grinding (i did a lot of running) so i wasn't as leveled as I'd like, I was always running low on MP, and i really sucked with augments on my first runthrough. it's not really delightful for someone who doesn't know how to use augments on their first playthrough.

to be fair, I'm named after an FE7 character

in the air tonight -- nonpoint

I stopped believing in tier lists (and Serenes Forest's forums) so long ago... I hail from FESS which is now dead. See, though... FE11 H5 can be easy if you get blessed with stats or know how to lure enemies out. Well, not "easy" but "manageable." I've never played FE9 Maniac, I need to try that out at some point... but FE5 was the one game where even your fully maxed character really started to fail you about halfway into the game because during the second half, it was all about healers and being able to cure statuses. Statuses lasted forever, some characters even got left behind if you didn't escape (it was the prototype to chapters with victory requirements like FE10's first chapter) making Sleep and Berserk especially bad for you, and you got shit all for Gold in the game so your main source of weapons were capturing enemies. And in order to capture your enemies? They had to be dismounted (sleep staves galore) and you halved your stats when you attempted to capture them. Tomes would always weigh their users down, and it didn't really help that everything capped at 20 (HP at 80, but no one reached that). Then there was fatigue to worry about. Every action that deals with battle adds 1 or 2 to fatigue (I forget how much you get, or everything that adds to fatigue), and if you get enough fatigue in one chapter (basically, the fatigue you gain exceeds your max HP), then you can't participate in the next chapter. And what makes this worse? Half the healers in the game have HP growths below like 30% and bases below 20. Oh and they get captured REALLY easily because they can't fight back... in fact, most enemies capture your healers right off the bat because they're unarmed. It was not a game about stats, in the end, like the hard modes in other games; you couldn't really get away with camping that much. But like, 17 Speed thieves at the beginning of H5 was AWFUL, so I'll give them that.

I stopped caring about their abilities being too cheap in the final chapter, the hell I was put through in Part I, the dawn chapters in Part III and Ike's second chapter in Part IV more than made up for it. And FE5. The hell FE5 put me through needed to be compensated in the other games (at least FEDS had easy modes). I hope FE3-2/FE12/whatever you want to call it isn't as lame as FEDS was... then again FE3 was actually a much better game than FE1.

I thought FE9 had the best plot, if only because of Ashnard. I just remember TVTropes putting it quite nicely; "It starts out light and turns into a chapter of Berserk" because Ashnard experiment on people and killed whoever he wanted so he could do whatever he wanted. I loved FE10's gameplay the best, though. Anyone here played FE5? I think i wrote a solid essay on how awesome yet terrible that game could get. And I loved it.

I loved both games a ton so I'd love to see them remade, especially with FF4 DS' difficulty (doable and fun to complain about).

Hey, I'm Raven and I actually am semi-involved in the Pokemon fandom I guess. I've been playing Pokemon since second grade (I'm about to be a freshman in college, so 11 years?) and I pretty much grew up on it. My favorite game has to be Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance if my avatar is anything to show, but I'd say Final Fantasy 6/X, Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Pokemon Colo/XD (talk as much shit as you want, I loved this game!), and Super Smash Bros Melee are up there. Oh, and New Super Mario Bros get a shout out for being awesome. I hope to post a lot here and make friends haha, more or less; I have MSN/AIM/Skype/Facebook (PM me for my facebook if you're really that curious) so I guess that can't be too hard. And don't worry, I've read the rules. I've been online long enough to make that my first objective before even posting an intro thread.