tymon

OUTRAGEOUS

I've been making custom proxies for a while, and these are some of my favorites. Opponents' reactions are always either utterly confused or hilariously distracted.

For example, when I'm logged in, subscriber counts and user interaction counts appear far, far lower on different communities than they do when I'm logged out.

Look at these screenshots of the same community. This one is with me logged in:

And this one is with me logged out:

Why such a huge discrepancy?

Similarly to the post I made earlier on The Elder Scrolls, I may be missing a few communities that already exist due to lemm.ee being on a slightly behind server version - but on the chance that there isn't already a Fire Emblem community here, I decided to fix that.

https://lemm.ee/c/fireemblem

In your opinion, which moment sticks out as the absolute lowest point of the series? The absolute nadir of quality? Be as specific as you like - can be a moment from a game, or a whole game in its entirety if you can't pick.

Also, what about the opposite - the highest point? A moment so good that you felt FE had reached a new peak of excellence?

For me, the lowest point has to be the dynamic between the Nohrian family in Conquest. The moment-to-moment writing is atrocious, but I doubt even John Updike could have saved the overall arc of the story itself, regardless of the specific lines of dialogue.

Another contender is the entirety of Fire Emblem Heroes. I can't even begin to describe how much that gacha dogshit bothers me, and the influence it has had on the direction of the series as a whole is extremely depressing.

The highest point for me (so far) is when Alm and Celica's routes merge in Valentia. I don't know what it is about that game, but it's far and away my favorite so far.

Lots of game-specific communities have been popping up lately; surprisingly, there isn't an active ES-specific one, so I fixed that.

!elderscrolls@lemm.ee

If you had told 23-year-old me that the brand new copy of Skyrim I was holding would be the last mainline Elder Scrolls game I'd play until I was in my 40s, I would have kicked you out of my house.

There's always Blades, I guess...