http://www.vg247.com/2013/05/23/fire-emblem-awakening-was-almost-last-game-in-the-series-dev-reveals/

http://operationrainfall.com/fire-emblem-awakening-could-have-been-the-last-entry/

http://www.serenesforest.net/fe13/news_2013b.html#2205

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According to these news and others, had Fire Emblem: Awakening not risen up from the 0.25 million copies it first sold, that would cause this game to be the final Fire Emblem game. So Intelligent Systems made it like it was going to be their last FE game.

Thankfully, its sales picked up everywhere, in and outside Japan. It's now the highest-selling and most popular game in the entire Fire Emblem franchise, and a very good game at that.

Unfortunately, that also means that it may start being called overrated, too. That happens to popular games all the time, regardless of their actual quality.

But really, Intelligent Systems put their hearts into this game, probably moreso than any other FE game they've made. I've seen this online and I've seen a lot of my friends with the game offline. It IS really good, overrated or not.

It deserves to be a very strong 3DS killer app that holds itself tightly to older fans while bringing also in a lot of new fans at the same time. As a genre, it's also a great gateway towards playing Japanese Strategy RPGs.

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So congratulations & thanks to both Intelligent Systems & Fire Emblem fans for pitching in and making this game possible, keeping the franchise alive, and for giving the entire franchise even more international exposure than it ever had before.

I asked for it, after I made a basic texture of it, and indirectly, someone responded to me.

Here's some more pics:













It looks awesome! The butterfly wings make this vertex hack for Meta Knight really stand out.

This is what he was going to be before he got the look we know him for now.

Download this "Concept Meta Knight" texture now if you want it.

http://forums.kc-mm.com/Gallery/BrawlView.php?Number=32150

http://www.solidfiles.com/d/e2468ed46f/

This will be my first one as all of my others were temporary part-time jobs.

It's going to be at a thrift store where my main priority will be to tear open bags and boxes of donated clothes, so they then can be sorted out. I haven't officially gotten this job, yet, but I've trained for it today by working a full 8-hour shift there, and I'm going to continue it for possibly the rest of the week.

I'm even getting paid for just the training, since it's pretty much work right now, except I'm being coached for improvement and I'm not wearing an apron, yet.

This is going to be a warehousing job with a lot of physical labor, so I'll get more working out from it. I'll still play offline Smash and go to tourneys & Smashfests, but probably not as much because of this.

Even I need to keep my priorities straight, but I'll be busy for the entire day tomorrow from about 6AM since I still want to attend my Donatos Smashfest, which I can do straight after work.

For me it was random. I started playing P:M more passionately sometime after v.2.5 came out, and I went through a lot of friendlies shuffling between mostly Mario, Sonic, Fox, Falco, Ness, Marth, & Captain Falcon.

Then I stumbled across Wario, tried him, and loved the hell out of him. He just felt so fun to use and a bit after that is when I started participating in P:M brackets.

I'm quickly working my way up to becoming one of the best Wario mains in P:M, or at least one of the best in my region.

For those of you that subscribed to my YouTube channel. It's gonna be run-of-the-mill, though, but I intend to record my progress and get 100% on it.

See my SMW playlist as it grows here:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyLyf5pa2_KY7YxTavK64mSXQpN0aJNdx

If you want to, subscribe to my channel if you haven't already. It has a lot more playlists than just for this game, such as other Mario games, Sonic, Kirby, Mega Man, Crash, Smash, Castlevania & Final Fantasy.

And those are just the mainstream series. I have plenty more games covered than just those.

Satoru Iwawa becomes the new CEO of Nintendo of America; replaces Tatsumi Kimishima, oversees Reggie:
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/04/24/satoru-iwata-assumes-nintendo-of-america-ceo-role/

No Nintendo press conference at E3 this year; plans to have smaller events instead:
http://mynintendonews.com/2013/04/25/nintendo-announces-it-will-not-host-a-major-press-conference-at-e3-this-year/

Both of these are pretty surprising to me, to say the least.

Thoughts? Check out the links for more details before responding.

This is divided into 2 different lists: Games I haven't started on yet, and games I started on, but still need to finish. No fighters.

Games I haven't started on yet:

• Xenoblade Chronicles
  
• The Last Story
  
• Final Fantasy VIII
  
• Final Fantasy IX
  
• Final Fantasy X
  
• Final Fantasy X-2
  
• Final Fantasy XII Collector's Edition
  
• Dragon Quest VIII
  
• Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
  
• Persona 3 FES
  
• Persona 4
  
• Vanquish
  
• No More Heroes
  
• No More Heroes 2
  
• Metroid Prime 3
  
• Muramasa: The Demon Blade
  
• God of War
  
• God of War II
  
• Shadow of the Colossus
  
• Okami
  
• Onimusha 3
  
• Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes
  
• Asura's Wrath
  
• Anarchy Reigns
  
• Uncharted 2
  
• Sly 3
  
• Crash Twinsanity
  
• Wario Land: Shake It!
  

Notice how the first 11 are all JRPGs...

Games I've started on, but still need to finish:

• Bayonetta
  
• MadWorld
  
• Rogue Galaxy
  
• Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage
  
• Pikmin 2
  
• Sly 2
  
• Devil May Cry 3
  
• Devil May Cry 4
  
• Kirby's Epic Yarn
  
• Epic Mickey
  

I tend to focus on a small amount of games at a time. Smaller than this 2nd list.

This is because I also play certain fighters, manage a YouTube channel, and also because I have more important stuff to do than just these things.

I also made it a rule to never sell what I wanted to buy. If I don't like it as much as I thought I would, I can still get some kind of enjoyment out of it, such as its characters & music.

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Consider this a survey. Give me your opinion on what you think I should first play through and/or finish out of what I've shown.

I may not follow in on your choice since I'm still figuring that out myself, but go ahead.

In Tier List v7 Order

CT Zero (Above every other MK I've faced so far, and I've faced too many to count.)
L_Cancel
Zinoto (Above every other Diddy I've faced so far.)

Roller, Stewyian (Kinda by default, really.)
Ally (Above everyone else so far. I'm only very slowly learning how to beat him.)
??? (I've met several, and they vary a lot, so I need to iron this out somehow.)
Kel, clowsui (I like fighting Marth for some reason, btw.)
??? (Not sure about this, as I was able to beat every Pikachu that I faced in tourneys so far, and this is supposed to be a terrible Fox MU.)
LOE1 (Oh mai gawd...), Blue Rogue (Though it's been months since I last faced him.)
Salem
QD (The only one I know offline right now.)
Fizzle, SneakyTako (Fiz Wiz got more wins off of me, but Tako's slightly more active than him now. They're the main sources of my improvement on what should already be a good MU for Fox. I only had wifi to rely on before then and that didn't work out for me well...)
??? (Pretty much matches TL's expression here. I don't know or remember. Offline TL mains, help me out!)
Kain, Luminoth (Haven't played Seagull Joe yet, but I met him. I'm not 100%, but I'm sure he'll likely either be placed before or after Kain.)
??? (I need to remember.)
Zeton (The only other active Fox main besides myself that I was able to meet and face in person so far. I actually ended up placing higher than him at Armageddon, but that was only because we were in different seeds and mine was easier.) 
Eddie G, KassandraNova (Like with Seagull & Wolf, I haven't faced Nicole yet, either, but I also met her, too, and she'll likely be placed above the two Peaches if I do face her.)
Krystedez (At least back when he was more active.)
Mr. Eric (Completely different from the Marth guy, though now as long as I use Fox, he might never use ROB on me ever again.), SneakyTako (Again.)
Juushichi (Though he's playing less Brawl for Project M, so besides him I need to figure this one out.)
Meek (Proved to me that Sonic is harshly-ironically one mid-tier I can't face well when he's being played at a top skill level. Either that or I don't know the Fox/Sonic MU as much as I thought I did.)
S2, BeanBurrito
Berserker Swordsman
Tutu, DLA
MX778/Karaoke_Man (My biggest, greatest offline rival. No really.), Delta-cod, Hadesblade
Smash 64 (I've faced him not too long ago.)
TheReflexWonder (Thought I'm not sure if I even faced him in a friendly yet.), FalconFist
Drillbit Sammy (Be it in Brawl or Project M, really.)
??? (I need remember and figure it out.)
Juushichi (Again, prefers Project M nowadays.), mars16
GenoSamus (The only Samus I know offline so far.)
???
Lordhelmet (The one time I finally met him in person, I can say him.)
SoulPech (Holy **** yes.)
Zeton (Again. When he's not Fox, he's this guy, instead.)
Fujin (I think he's the only one I've faced offline so far, but he still stands out.)
DLA (Again. If I could finally face Vermanubis in person, I'd likely add him here, too.)

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I don't get too much character variety every month, so some characters are based on MU experiences that I had a while ago. I don't even remember if I faced some of these players yet.

Either way, most of this is subject to change.

This takes both offline friendlies AND offline tourney matches into consideration. Sometimes warming up for a real match can be just as experiencing as the real match itself.

Finally, remember that I am a Midwestern Fox Main, when viewing this list. It might clear some things up.

It's time for me to firmly speak up on this, regardless of how this might damage my reputation on here in the future:

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Question

Some, if not most, say that Sonic doesn't need to be in Smash anymore because he doesn't belong or fit/not a Nintendo character.

My question is this: Why isn't the same said for Snake? Even so, it's not said for him as much as it's said for Sonic.

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My Two Cents

Think of the kind of things that go on in a Metal Gear game to begin with. Don't get me wrong. I like both characters, and I would love if both of them stayed for Smash 4...

But realistically-speaking, Snake has a higher chance of being dropped than Sonic does.

I don't care if Snake has a better track record of good games than Sonic does. I also don't care if Snake is a better character/fighter than Sonic. I'm also aware that Snake got in pretty early while Sonic got in pretty late. I don't care about that, either.

I'm pretty sure that game quality, or having a tier in Brawl, aren't the only reasons why anyone's able to show up, or continue showing up to Smash in the first place, and otherwise, those would be very unhealthy reasons for Sakurai to kick anyone out, especially if it's because of old bad games from years ago or because you just want to rant about a fanbase.

Speaking of which, I'm also pretty sure that removing any character because his games have a dumb or polarizing/unpleasable fanbase is a really bad reason too, otherwise we wouldn't have any Zelda or Pokémon characters in Smash 4 either. And those are just the Top 2 I've witnessed within Nintendo.

Also remember that Snake AND Sonic are both 3rd-Party characters, meaning that both of them technically don't belong in Smash anyway because they BOTH aren't Nintendo characters. They're Konami & SEGA.

If both of them were dropped, and if either more or no more 3rd-parties showed up in their place in Smash 4, this would all be pretty moot.

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TL;DR: Bad Games/Bad Fans =/= No Smash 4 for U! Open your eyes and get this through your heads, already!

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That should cover things for now. I might explain more depending on what happens. Consider this a side note to my Smash 4 Character Limitations blog.

I'll see how this could likely turn out once I return from a Smashfest.