Well I binged on playing FE7 on the GBA and beat it over the weekend. Wonder if this game has multiple endings or not. Unfortunately, I never really played FE6 yet, but now I can see maybe Nintendo might want to release FE6 for the GBA seeing that FE7 was its prequel (with a major cliffhanger if you haven't played 6 - of course it wouldn't matter unless you knew Japanese).
HOpefully this sells well and Nintendo doesn't stop there, but the selling was of course what they've been afraid of all this time to keep them from translating the FE series. PLaying all 5 of the other games in Japanese just isn't the same.
But anyone else beat the game ? Know if there are multiple endings ? Usually FE games do.
I haven't beaten the game yet but I'm having a hell of a time playing it. I can't believe it took Nintendo this long to release a Fire Emblem game in the states. We should get some sales numbers pretty soon so cross your fingers. Hopefully you were wrong about FE being a niche title that would never sell here.
Given that Advance Wars and Tactics games sell well, and strategy games are popular... why wouldn't it?
It's probably selling well, but maybe the fact that Nintendo released it around the same time as a bunch of other big games might hurt its sales this month?
I'll have to wait till at least Christmas to get it.
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Me too, probably, as you know...
On a related note, GBA emulation is really easy... the thing was virtually emulated before it came out and roms are reasonable -- 8MB at most. Its the only current platform easy to pirate... bad for Nintendo, for sure. But good if you want to "test " games or get harder-to-get imports. :)
Of course the main problem is the same as with GB emulation -- playing GB games on a PC screen just isn't anywhere near as good as playing it on a real GB. Even more so than major consoles... and anyway, I like to own games that I can reasonably get.
Yeah it's pretty pointless to play a handheld game on a PC monitor, especially with all of the graphical problems that you have with GBA emuation. It's best to get the original games and a GB Player if you want to see it on a big screen.
Graphical problems? Huh? As far as I know the GBA is perfectly emulated... and it happened amazingly fast, too. There are a lot of old systems that don't have very good emulation yet... and hey, the PSX and N64 aren't anywhere near perfect yet! Or the Saturn, or 3DO, or Jaguar, with their ... early ... emulators... or others... I guess its because its all 2d or something? And based on the GB, which of course is quite well emulated...
BTW, Visual Boy is by far the best GB emulator. Its one flaw is that it has no multiplayer (emulating the game link cable for multi-window, internet, or anything)... but that doesn't matter much. :)
Oh, I have some GBA roms... I just don't play them much. The only ones I can think of that I've actually played for any amount of time are KuruKuru Kururin and Golden Sun... oh, and the fan-translated Love Hina Advance -- first game in that genre I've played. :)
Well this game might attract people because its no where near as complicated or hard as some of the other Fire Emblems. And to be honest, I thought some of these were pretty hard, but a game like FE5: Thracia 776, which many of FE fans call the mother of all FE games, was one of those near impossible games (well... if you wanted to beat the game without taking too many character casualties). I'm afraid if Nintendo had brought Thracia 776 over or games like that, it would have been a niche title, but ever since Advanced Wars and FFTA, and then a little bit of a watered down FE7 that we just got in the US, I think popularity for it might grow - hopefully.
I really would like to see what the full story for the other games are. They were all undoubtedly, great on the gameplay aspect. Maybe Nintendo might end up redoing them for the GBA in Japan and here.
I think Fire Emblem will sell fine because of four little words:
Super Smash Bros. Melee
If Roy and Marth weren't in Melee to spark interest, Fire Emblem probably wouldn't fare well. I'm not sure how it'll sell, but not to me. Doesn't interest me.
The biggest problem is that in the US people think of strategy games as a genre for the PC... where, of course, they are more suited, but Japanese companies don't make many PC games.
If FE were a PC series it'd sell great.
ABF, games like Advance Wars and FFTA have sold better than any recent PC strategy game. Console games as a whole sell far greater numbers than PC games.
And the GBA roms that I've played weren't nearly as good as the originals. Sonic Advance 2 had lots of slowdown.
In case you didn't get the notice, I moved all of the arguing posts to the debate forum in the thread "Dumpster".