Thought this might be fun; FE8 is one of the easier games in the series, and I've never done a randomiser run before, so might as well spice the game up a bit, right?
For those who don't know: a randomiser run is where things like units' (both enemy and playable) stats, classes, growth rates, equipment, weapon attributes, and so on and so forth, are... er, randomised. You could get revenant Artur with 100% strength and skill growth and who ends up being the best unit who ever lived (or didn't live, being that he's a revenant), or cleric Joshua with 300% Luck growth and 5% in everything else, and he ends up being useless.
(For the sake of not making the game literally unplayable, some things, like the Lords, haven't been randomised, though the tool I used does offer the option to do so.)
I have absolutely no idea what the randomiser produced. So I don't even know if the game is going to be beatable. :p The list of changes are listed here, you lot can look at it if you like and tell me if you think I can actually beat the game with what it's giving me; I promise I haven't looked at it myself. Likewise, don't tell me what's coming until I've actually seen it myself (you can still meme on me if you think I'm screwed, just try to be somewhat oblique about what sort of misery lies in wait for me). :p
I'm also letting people here decide if I'll go for Ephraim or Eirika's route. For the poll, because I can't have multiple polls to a thread, there are actually two questions in there; question 1 is "do you think I can beat the game", and question 2 is "Ephraim or Eirika's route". You can pick two options, so make sure you don't pick both options of only one question. :p The poll runs for a week, though the question of Ephraim vs. Eirika's route might be resolved sooner than that depending on how quickly I can get to that point of the game.
Might also consider streaming a bit too, if people are interested in that. I'll post regular updates here anyway, since that is kind of the point of the thread.
For anyone who wants to try their own randomiser run, you can get the randomiser tool from here. As for finding a copy of the game, you're on your own there.
also, some boring moderator stuff: please put story spoilers in appropriately marked spoiler tags (include the chapter number in the title, specify if it's Ephraim or Eirika's route, etc). If you forget, I'll just edit them in myself and poke you about it a little since this is a reasonably old game, but in future when Three Houses and any other future games are released, I'll be cracking down hard on unmarked spoilers. So might as well get in the habit early, yeah?
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So with that out of the way, let's begin...
For those who don't know: a randomiser run is where things like units' (both enemy and playable) stats, classes, growth rates, equipment, weapon attributes, and so on and so forth, are... er, randomised. You could get revenant Artur with 100% strength and skill growth and who ends up being the best unit who ever lived (or didn't live, being that he's a revenant), or cleric Joshua with 300% Luck growth and 5% in everything else, and he ends up being useless.
(For the sake of not making the game literally unplayable, some things, like the Lords, haven't been randomised, though the tool I used does offer the option to do so.)
I have absolutely no idea what the randomiser produced. So I don't even know if the game is going to be beatable. :p The list of changes are listed here, you lot can look at it if you like and tell me if you think I can actually beat the game with what it's giving me; I promise I haven't looked at it myself. Likewise, don't tell me what's coming until I've actually seen it myself (you can still meme on me if you think I'm screwed, just try to be somewhat oblique about what sort of misery lies in wait for me). :p
I'm also letting people here decide if I'll go for Ephraim or Eirika's route. For the poll, because I can't have multiple polls to a thread, there are actually two questions in there; question 1 is "do you think I can beat the game", and question 2 is "Ephraim or Eirika's route". You can pick two options, so make sure you don't pick both options of only one question. :p The poll runs for a week, though the question of Ephraim vs. Eirika's route might be resolved sooner than that depending on how quickly I can get to that point of the game.
Might also consider streaming a bit too, if people are interested in that. I'll post regular updates here anyway, since that is kind of the point of the thread.
For anyone who wants to try their own randomiser run, you can get the randomiser tool from here. As for finding a copy of the game, you're on your own there.
also, some boring moderator stuff: please put story spoilers in appropriately marked spoiler tags (include the chapter number in the title, specify if it's Ephraim or Eirika's route, etc). If you forget, I'll just edit them in myself and poke you about it a little since this is a reasonably old game, but in future when Three Houses and any other future games are released, I'll be cracking down hard on unmarked spoilers. So might as well get in the habit early, yeah?
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So with that out of the way, let's begin...
...oh, and Seth's already dead.
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It even plays his death scene and the music, and his map sprite vanishes and everything, which is really interesting since the battle is scripted (I wonder, if Valter had attacked Eirika instead and killed her, would it cause a game over?). But of course this is the Sacred Seth, so he still lives anyway, returning from the great beyond to rescue Eirika from Valter.
As we've just seen, apparently Joshua got a haircut and decided to join the knights of Renais instead of becoming a professional gambler:
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Meanwhile Eirika has this interesting piece of equipment in her inventory:
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This just shouldn't be legal. :p
But Seth gets an even better one:
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A 1-2 range brave sword that's effective against fliers. Perfectly fair and balanced, right? I wonder where the catch is. Eirika probably has like 1% Str growth or something.
Here's the boss, he didn't last long with this sort of nonsense flying around, even despite some nonsense of his own (a 1-2 range lance boss against two swords in the prologue? really?):
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So yeah, there's a taste of some of what you can expect from something like this. :p Might do chapter 1 in a bit, though it's getting late here so I might just wait until tomorrow.
It even plays his death scene and the music, and his map sprite vanishes and everything, which is really interesting since the battle is scripted (I wonder, if Valter had attacked Eirika instead and killed her, would it cause a game over?). But of course this is the Sacred Seth, so he still lives anyway, returning from the great beyond to rescue Eirika from Valter.
As we've just seen, apparently Joshua got a haircut and decided to join the knights of Renais instead of becoming a professional gambler:
Meanwhile Eirika has this interesting piece of equipment in her inventory:
This just shouldn't be legal. :p
But Seth gets an even better one:
A 1-2 range brave sword that's effective against fliers. Perfectly fair and balanced, right? I wonder where the catch is. Eirika probably has like 1% Str growth or something.
Here's the boss, he didn't last long with this sort of nonsense flying around, even despite some nonsense of his own (a 1-2 range lance boss against two swords in the prologue? really?):
So yeah, there's a taste of some of what you can expect from something like this. :p Might do chapter 1 in a bit, though it's getting late here so I might just wait until tomorrow.
Guess I'll find out soon enough.
