>>2017450
What part of
>In the context of romhacking for the gba games
do you not understand? Half the reason Sacred Stones became the preferred base for modern romhacks was due to the user circleseverywhere making the skillsystems patch for fe8 specifically. It's in the repo. It's what all romhackers use if they want to add skills to their romhack.>>2017547
Yes, but that's not what people mean when they refer to a hack or a game as Skill Emblem, nor is it what we're talking about here.
I guess you're right in a completely different context, for whatever that's worth?>>2017550
Except that's exactly what I'm talking about because I am the original poster that brought it up lmao >>2015290
I was also talking about skill emblem in the context of fe8 superseding fe7 as the preferred base for modern romhacks.>>2017551
Oh. My mistake.>>2017479
yeah i get what you mean here, granted i want to point out that it's not that i'm a storyfag, it's that i just want a story i care about, doesn't even need to be more complex than the average script.
I kinda miss when the series did more with less, now you have more while not really doing anything interesting.>>1967271
3H is just a retrofitted smoke cracked version of FE4 anyways, FE I would argue has had decent to good stories in the past, 3-5, 9/10 ,just ignore some parts of ten if you go for the extra stuff on replay, but because of how much the series has shifted on the RPG side of unit customability and wanting to capitalize on that it just feels like other than maybe conquest on the gameplay side and echoes on the story and presentation side( even then it has issues cause they weren't actually super faithful to remaking the story and added alot of elements), no game since maybe FE 10 has had a solid mix of story and gameplay combined>>2018070
I think a better way I could've worded my post above yours is that "if your not going to have an interesting story, atleast make it short and to the point", when my switch is going into sleep mode during every other story event there's a problem.>>2018228
The decentralization of control within modern video game development makes this nearly impossible. It used to be that the director was also the writer or at the very least a co-writer in the very early parts of narrative driven video games. However, now directors and writers are not only different people, but there are multiples of them. Three Houses credits 2 directors and 3 writers. None of them are the same person. Outside of indies you're never going to see some director that needs a very short story to serve exclusively as a vehicle for gameplay. Meanwhile, writers feel a constant need to justify their own existence and rather that focusing on effective storytelling they just spam slop in high volume. Doesn't help that so many of them are also ideologically captured due to the absolute state of the liberal arts in modern academia. Better off trying to fish for one that made a living by writing straight out of high school.>>2015290
>Beyond that, there aren't that many new, feature complete, and notable romhacks that or unmentioned old goodies that were missed
I think I disagree. Last year and a half was actually quite good for FE hacks.
>Dream of Five - as vanilla as it comes (to the point that I saw people writing about dropping it because it doesn't show unit growths in-game which is considered one of the basic QoL changes in the romhacking community) but solid. Very pretty and has a half-decent story.
>Drums of War - previous project of one of the guys behind DoF. Less polished but still good and has a fun gimmick of choosing either getting gold or recruiting the chapter's boss.
>Cerulean Crescent - Very much Skill Emblem for those who want to command an army of murder machines. Plot early on is rough but gets better.
>The Morrows Golden Country - starts relatively normal before giving the player increasingly stupid tools to use. Too woke for average channer but a decent time nonetheless.
>The Dark Amulet - Story-focused hack with small cast where nearly everybody is important and OK gameplay. I heard that the ending was an absolutely terrible sequel-bait that was somewhat fixed later on.
>Lineage’s Ties: Daughters of Braghedunn - reworked telephone (so a tad uneven) hack with every weird experimental feature under the sun. Showcase of Lex Talionis engine.
>Holoemblem - Fire Emblem but with vtubers, also inspired by a Japanese hack that makes Thracia harder. Fun for some.
>Dark Stone - Sacred Stones-adjacent hack #1 where you play as the baddies. Surprisingly fun and leaves most of the meme-y shit to postgame.
>Curse of Lagdou - Sacred Stones-adjacent hack #2 where you play as a bunch of big-breasted lesbian/trans/capitalist anime girls (and a few guys) working with mostly untouched OG cast. Fun crit system and some horror elements to spice up the story.
>Embrace of the Fog/Hetja’s Quest - FE but roguelite. Named for novelty value but the first one is a nice timewaster.>>2018739
>Cerulean Crescent - Very much Skill Emblem for those who want to command an army of murder machines. Plot early on is rough but gets better.
I like that one, so I want to point out; it's not Skill Emblem as in Awakening or Fates, where you get a ton of skills and wreck shit with them. It's Skill Emblem in that every character has one powerful, unit-defining personal skill and that's it, you don't get any more. Lot of personal weapons too.
Similarly, the murder machine aspect depends on you using all the crazy tools the game gives you effectively. You ARE really strong, it's not a very hard hack, but not in the sense that you just have a ton of stats and solo armies of weak enemies.>>2018739
dream of five and drums of war are on my list of "I really should try them out eventually", maybe once i have less other stuff i wanna do.

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