Let's discuss the most cursed franchise in gaming and why we'll probably never get another installmentAnd your favorite CO
>>734924631ADVANCE AUTISM
>>734924631Dunno if it's cursed or just really hard to make well. Lots of wars clones that ended up just as shitty if not worse.
>>734924631IS, RELEASE ONE MORE GOOD ADVANCE WARS GAME BEFORE WW3 AND MY LIFE IS YOURS
>>734925591Like which ones? There's hardly any.
I actually liked the remaster because I'm not a sperg that melts down over "it looks different so it's le bad".
>>734925591everytime there been a new release of the game some irl event is happening
>>734925591Cursed in the sense it's releases are always right before or after real.wars in the world. Which caused a few titles to be delayed.>>734925937Soon anon. Very soon.
>>734926312considering how many wars there are, it's not really difficult to release your game before or after a war somewhere in the worldhumans are violent
>>734924631>And your favorite COGotta be Grit. Chill theme, chill playstyle. Just spam some mechs, APC and artillery creep. Slow and steady baby.
I found out last year that Hachi's superpower was buying units in any city you owned. I had no idea what it meant when I read it years ago. And I recently realized Sasha's superpower was tied to how much money she had. Before I thought it's potency was random.
cursed series
>>734924631war is unironically too edgy for nu-tendo. fave co is drake, love that easygoing oaf
>>734926189The COs looked fine despite being different. The units looked bad because they looked bad.
>>734924631Last game flopped so we are not getting a new one anytime soon, at least we have AWBW
>>734925591I think art + music and a servicable story carry the series, and why clones fail.Clones are mechanically competent, but look soulless and have forgettable aesthetics.
>>734926189Fuck them for the censorship tho
>>734925591>>734928973It's the same reason Sonic clones never take off. They're always missing "something" that makes the whole thing feel right.
...could something akin to a MMORPG work with this franchise?
sex with lash and finishing on her forehead
>>734924631>any map>go towards goal>uh oh tweest>retry map knowing tweest>win>repeat
>>734930489the twist is always 5 gorillion tanks jumping out the fog of war/edge of map
>>734924631>And your favorite COI need me a tomboy wife who will encourage me to workout with them and self-improve.
>>734925591It doesn't have autist level up numbers which means you actually have to think but it's too simplistic for western strategy tastes basically ending up appealing to nobodyValkyria chronicles would have suffered the same fate if it didnt have sexy hot anime women and some rpg progression
sami
Man, AW was great. We used to pass three handhelds around between four of us at lunch, since waiting for one to go round was boring but four meant you were always bottlenecked. Three was the right number.Favourite? Grit. But we tended to say no grit or colin unless you asked to either of them first, our local meta had them be strong. IDK what the current online meta is, just that hicks and jews were OP to us.>>734930489>>734930539https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umRrhSLp668
Sami a best girl
>>734930489>No you don't get it, it's great steategy because... you have to do some dumb easy shit for ranks!
>>734931531>IDK what the current online metaDiscuss!
>>734931872Also Sasha in teams is underrated. If you have a Sasha your team can use powers but the other team can't. Basically mandatory if not banned. Why isn't she tier 0?
>>734931992Even FFA she warps the game. Even if she doesn't benefit directly she still instantly makes numerous COs significantly worse. Just by existing. That tier 1 is crazy.
>>734931872DESU I can't really comment on the current meta because I've not played actual advance wars in a long, long time.I have that fantasy AW clone sat in my steam library, I think I played a few hours and didn't go back to it. Didn't hate it just... you know how it is when you have a bajillion games.
Let's talk about game mechanics.I've playing Days of Ruin recently, and there's many interesting ideas I would have loved to see in the original Advance Wars series.In particular, I liked the level up system a lot, since it encourages you to preserve your old units by adding extra value to them (I guess that was the purpose).However, the bonus are just puny. Veteran units don't really feel any different unless they reach level 3, which is very rare against a human opponent.
>>734932547Eh...Preserving units is already really strong. The level ups aren't really necessary. If you ported that mechanic to the GBA games it'd be completely broken because of how much stronger defense is too(defense was nerfed in DoA). Certain COs would benefit allot from it like Eagle or Andy who already like preserving units but now those units can get Von Bolt stats. Any CO that already has defense like von bolt/Javier/Sturm becomes even more unkillable. Which lets to retain units and get more levels. Very obnoxious.
>>734924631It won't get a new installment cause that remake looked like Konami Power Bros baseball. Eagle is my CO of choice
>>734924631>>734925193>>734925591>>734925937Lol this never gets old
>>734932954>Eagle is my CO of choiceBrutalized by Sasha.
>>734932897Yeah, the way defense works on AW2 is very broken. I think they changed the formula on Days of Ruins.But I agree with you. Without further adjustments it would completely break the game. I mean, just imagine Kanbei with an extra 20% defense. Nigger would be invencible on forests with his super power.
>>734931872>my favs ae all trash tier
>>734933958>dogshit outside FOW maps>dogshit in FOW maps
>>734933958Unironically worst CO in the game. Could play a CO with no powers, no D2D and still be plus against herslight exaggeration
>>734924631I just beat the first game recently and most of the campaign missions suck, especially when fog of war is involved against that fucker Grit or maps where you cant build shit.
>>734934224>>734934229how would you fix her giving her a meaningful advantage in FOW play?
>>734934510Changing her bad luck for her not having any luck roll at all would be a nice start.The main problem with Sonja is that her D2D and powers aren't really effective. It's more like they were designed to annoy both the Sonja player and the one that plays against her.
>>734934510+dmg and mov on recons, missiles and submarines alongside her usual effects. Also, get rid of her bad luck, why does she even have that?
>>734926312someone is always at war with someone else, it's one of the few constants throughout world history.
>>734934847it's thematic, she's careful because she has bad luck, it punishes risk play
>>734934510Fuck it, just make it to where she doesn't have fog of war while the enemy does. That might sound crazy, but would she really be as good as any given Tier 0?
>>734934847I guess devs just wanted to have a bad luck CO. But they didn't understand how much of a nerf unreliability is
>>734934865>it punishes risk playNo, it punishes normal play. She gets a damage debuff on every single combat she does.
>>734934929Should've given the bad luck to Olaf or something, it even makes more sense on him.
>>734934871that's too much and you lose the fun of playing fow, I would give her +2 vision to all units by default, keep her disadvantages, give her a new power to reduce the enemy vision, the resoaning is that she's supposed to be smart and use recon a lot so she can find gaps in the enemy defenses, her superpower would make the enemy blind for the day allowing some crazy plays
>>734934510DS Sonja is fine. Her flaw in GBA is that her D2D is pretty much negative. Every other CO gets compensation. Even Grimm gets 30+ FP which is enough for him to trade positively.
