I honestly feel like Thracia could be a DLC expansion to the FE4 Remake like Torna The Golden Country was for Xenoblade 2.
That way it speeds up development time when it comes to the remakes while also allowing them to focus on the next mainline entry.
I think that's a possibility, but it's a VERY unpopular opinion, for valid reasons.
Another fake direct from 4chan, seems that people are hungry for a real direct soon lol
I honestly wouldn't mind this. A Direct with a new Custom Robo AND a new Fire Emblem would immediately be my favorite Direct of all time. Bloodlines Renewed is a cheesy title, but no more than Engage and themes around rings. (And to be fair, I do really enjoy Engage.) August also makes sense, as it's four months between announcement and release. I'd still prefer a July release, but August makes sense.
The only thing this is missing is a Farming Sim game. Sun Haven promised to come to Switch a while back, according to the internet, as well as Moonstone Island. While I'm not sure when the former will come to Switch, I do believe the latter is slatted for a "
Spring 2024" release, so a shadow drop during or after the Direct makes a lot of sense.
Overall, this is a fun idea, but as it's from where it's from, I highly, HIGHLY doubt it's true.
Making a game that was so nostalgia driven in Engage (when most of the fanbase has no nostalgia for the old games...) was weird and following it up with a remake would be even weirder.
I think you're coming at this from three incorrect angles.
First is that I think you're assuming, that because Engage is a nostalgia-driven game (YMMV on that point heavily), it doesn't count as an original game. I disagree heavily. A smaller portion of the characters may be seen as driven by nostalgia, but in reality, they're not. The story has little to do with the Emblems as characters when compared to how they are as plot devices, as callous as that sounds. It's not
who they are we should focus on, but
how they're used. (Both gameplay and plot-wise)
The second thing is that you're not looking at the tone of the games released. Echoes, Three Houses, and Three Hopes are overall very serious games. (Or at least they try to be.) Genealogy is a very serious game. Engage is a Saturday Morning Cartoon. It's a palette cleanser. Breaking up the dark and dour tone helps remind and reassure fans that Fire Emblem isn't just one-note. We can have geopolitical epics right next to our classic '90s fantasy stories, right next to our simple "good vs evil and we get to choose which side we're on" storylines. It's not one-note.
The final thing is something mentioned by others here. (Well, all of this has been mentioned by others, so I don't expect my post to change your mind.) It's Sigurd's role in Engage. Sigurd's role in Engage is larger than any other Emblem but Marth, as others have stated. This allows newcomers to be engaged by his character, for lack of a better word, which leads them to Genealogy. They go from "I want to know more about this character" to "I now get to learn more firsthand," and that's something not a lot of other games can do.
Overall, I get it, You want something new and original and totally unknown. You want something novel for you. But I think you're forgetting that for a majority of people, older FE games being remade - specifically FE 4 in this conversation -
is novel for THEM. I think it's okay to say "I want new games," but claiming Engage for some reason doesn't count because it has characters from previous games in it is just plain wrong,
and claiming that IntSys releasing a remake as a new system is around the correct is historically untrue.
I was going to save this question for Sunday, but since the discussion is drifting that way anyway...
Will the theoretical Fire Emblem 4 remake have a choosable avatar character ala Three Houses and Engage?
It's honestly possible, and I can see it going either way. 2 of the 3 remakes didn't, but the past THREE CYL events in Heroes did. Like them or not, Avatars are popular. And I don't think that FE 4 is inherently better or worse for one's inclusion, if done right. Now granted, what is "right" is an incredibly relative thing... To clarify, my version of "right" would be "close to the story enough to have an emotional investment and make an impact, but not close enough to be a main character or major player on the political scene." Think of Shez in Three Hopes or Robin in the first half of Awakening, or Mark...but if Mark didn't disappear into the background.
If the Avatar is Oifey who we can now change to a woman, sure. If the Avatar is a new character who went to the Royal Academy with Sigurd, Quan, and Eldigan, sure. I'm really not hurt one way or another.
