fire emblem is the funner one it has more difficult missions and the levels very in difficulty also it is a bigger challange trying to keep or characters alive because they don't come back after a level or boss fight and there are no life restorers

Eh, Fire Emblem is an awesome game. But I definitely like Golden Sun better. I'm more into the turn-based RPGs, not the sprawling strategies.

But actually, I think comparing these games as to which one is better is a little unfair because they are too different. You have to compare the common ground the games have (and that's pretty much just about the turn-based system).

Everything else in these games has different styles (such as the trinity of weaknesses, which is absent in Golden Sun). And don't forget that everyone in Golden Sun is a magic user.

Personally, I like Golden Sun for it's graphics, though. B)

i see where u were going with that. o i just thought of somthing have u heard of a game called ogre battle 64

I've heard of it, but I've never played it or even seen it. :(

i prefer GS, no one person is only a magic user and no one person is only a melee attacker. plus the dijni add a strange touch

Yes. Equiping djinn in order to change class/psynergy affiliation is a very interesting concept.

While a game that deals with character death realistically is revolutionary and definitely more challenging, I can't say that it's more fun. :...:

Yeah, having to restart after a half hour long battle because one person died is not fun at all.

I find that it adds more challenge to the game since it forces you to make your decisions carefully. I personally prefer FE over GS myself.

but GS almost has that same quality, in the begining of the game u dont have much money (or atleast i didnt) and i used my money to buy armour so i couldnt aford a water of life for quiet a while. so if one of my peeps died i would have to go all the way back a village. which made play very carefully (and save my game a lot)

:ninja: thats so interisting. have u guys heard of a game called ogre battle 64 :?:

I prefer GS because of the dijin, and the class switching and such. I also see that FE is not very interesting... in my opinion and it made my computer laggy :/

DEATH TO FIRE EMBLEM!!!!!! jk lol :P

Wow haven't heared that one before. I am now a GS fan but FE is 50x better but thats just me and all my friends.

I'm torn. = /

The graphics weren't all that bad in FE, IMO, like when you're in battle, in fact in some areas I was surprise at the detail. Look at the character mugs, aren't they clearer than GS's. I found GS's to be a little blurry.
The part I liked was the adaptability of the characters (in GS), but that is also somehting I didn't in that anyone could be anything. It takes away the geniuity of all the characters....

I'd say they're even.

First of all, I have to wonder about the level of intelligence from someone that proclaims a game fifty times better than another, but that's just him, and of course all of his friends. (That's without mentioning the random change of subject to "Ogre Battle 64") Hm...

Now, a few things you can compare them on would be Tactics, Leveling, Storyline, and Difficulty. To give us something to talk about here. I don't have time to do a rant.

No one thing makes either game better than the other but personal preference, to be perfectly honest.

At least the final boss in Fire Emblem was only a dragon once. *snicker*

@Lor: :lol:

This indeed a difficult decision. Fire Emblem or Golden Sun?

Well, this question is a little rigged because Fire Emblem has had several games in its series. A few of them are good, but a few are not so good. I think it's pretty much unanimous that Fire Emblem 7 is one of the better ones, so if we're talking about that one, I'd say Fire Emblem is a little better. It has ten times more characters--all with unique mugs and personalities. Its animation is smooth and top notch and is minimally pixelish. It also requires much more thought, whilst Golden Sun battles are really straight forward. And story-wise... it's better than Golden Sun's.

Golden sun is my only love.

Well then, Lionman, you're very limited.

Any comparison that I would make right now would be based off of Sacred Stones, as that's the one I have played the most (and even that is only up to chapter...I think 14 or 15, right now).

I love both. Fire Emblem is incredibly more challenging than GS, in my opinion, and I like the strategy angle. The storyline is also much more extensive in FE with some good characters, and I like the fact that not every main character is virtually a teenager with a good past. :lol:

On the other hand, I tend to like GS's graphics more (except on the character pictures, I think FE does it better there. Also, while the storyline is more extensive in FE, I dislike the fact that you can only get a certain number of support conversations; to me, it feels like you're witholding part of the game from me. GS has been a long time favorite, with a good plot, and some good angles with things like Djinn and using all of the cool Psynergy attacks outside of battle. In a way, GS has it's own strategies, too, even if they're outside of battle.

Mmm... toughy!

Let's look at them story-wise!
Golden Sun is about the unforeseen release of the four elements of the world that may bring about mankinds/world's ultimate destruction, and so four young kids must travel across land and sea to retrieve the elemental stars from the bad guys (an arrogant, cool, blue man, and a hot-headed villainess.)

Golden Sun is more cliche, but the story still isn't bad. I liked how in the first GS, you were pursuing someone else who was holding your friends as hostages. Half of the game was made up of that. In other RPGs, you would have to "seek the x number of temples and collect items of great power in order to defeat the bad guys." Most of the conflict was between characters, and the player was forced to really have bad feelings for the antagonists by having the protagonist's killed off (lost) at the beginning of the game. Perhaps maybe it's because of my inexperience in playing too few RPGs, but I feel Golden Sun had many original elements in it. GS2 was far more cliche in that Felix had to visit many areas of the world-- exploration was much more key. Aside from the lighthouses, he also had to visit the "rocks", which was fairly troublesome for me, because although the puzzles in Golden Sun were simple enough to be possible, but still sometimes require thinking. It's a Zelda-esque trait. A good one.

On the other hand, Fire Emblem features a good story as well. Now, I've played through both Fire Emblem 7, as well as 8 (Sacred Stones). Personally (and a lot of fans do agree) Fire Emblem 7 was far better then Sacred Stones. Sacred Stones dealt with a country going haywire and brutally destroying neighboring countries. In the end, the protagonist's had to defeat a "Demon King". For some reason, I felt this "final boss" was just... something I've fought before. The story was just a modified version of some other RPG, where an unsuspecting boy gets an evil item, and an evil entity controls his body. You were also supposed to collect the Sacred Stones-- another cliche theme. Cliche's aren't actually bad-- when used right, they produce a nice effect. But when used too much... it feels like you've played the game before, and know what's going to happen.

Fire Emblem 7 was much more enjoyable for me, as I felt I got to be a character in the story rather than an onlooker. They called you "the tactician" (which was rather cute), and you were able to connect with the characters in the game much, much more than in Sacred Stones. The characters had much more spunk and variety-- Hector for example. Eliwood is just the standard royal hero, but Lyn was from a tribe and lived on the plains alone. She's pretty and nice, and her sword attacks are o_O strikingly lovely. Fire Emblem 7 also had MORE recruitable characters than in Sacred Stones, and I felt that the backstories of the some of the characters of it were rather bland compared to FE 7.

So, I will use Fire Emblem 7 to compare to Golden Sun. Fire Emblem 7's story dealt with a war between dragons and humans. The humans won, driving Dragons back into another realm. Many centuries later, an evil sorceror wants to bring them back so he can harness their power. Yes, I'm afraid that's been done before, but it's done well. I like it.

At this point, I cannot say which game is better. Both stories are good.

In terms of graphics... well... both are great. Goldun Sun's world is incredibly well crafted, colorful, and has a unique style that isn't dark enough to be like Final Fantasy, but light enough to feel Zelda-esque. The battle scenes are where it excels. The developers use a "camera panning technique" to emulate third-dimensionalness, and as a result (along with vivid, explosively vibrant psynergy graphics) the handheld battles are unlike any other.

Fire Emblem on the hand... most of it's graphics are of well-animated sprites. Yes, they've had a knack for making these pixels attack in a very cool manner. There was work definitely involved. We also can't forget the great number of mugshots. Almost every map boss has a unique face-- even the ones that die in five minutes.

I shall say that Fire Emblem's sprites had more work involved in them; however, in the end, Golden Sun's graphics still come out on top.

Music. Both series had a great score. I can't decide for this one... they tie in this manner.

I like both games a lot. But...

I'll have to say I'll choose Fire Emblem over Golden Sun, but that's only by a hair.

*whistles* That was brilliant, Suicune! I very much enjoyed reading your comparisons/contrasts; you made some very good points. I've played a little bit of FE7 (only to about chapter 7 or so, and that was at least a year or two ago), and I think I would have to agree with you on FE7 over Sacred Stones.

Still, I think Golden Sun will end up beating Fire Emblem simply because of the emotional ties I have to it. If it had not been for GS, I would not have gotten into fanfiction...nor would I have met any of you. *hugs Suicune* ^_^

Sheesh!Will you ever give it a rest will you?
Oh and no Im not limited,what I meant by Golden Sun is my love it means that I like it better than Fire Emblem,will you ever cop onto yourself and start reading posts before you comment them! #

I do read posts before I comment on them.


And I will apologize for this one; I commented much too harshly, and I didn't mean to be...well, mean.

I just took it in the sense that Golden Sun is your only love, meaning that Golden Sun is the only game that you will ever really love, not in the sense that you just love it more than Fire Emblem.
The argument does make sense, you have to admit.

Still, you could also argue that the post I made comparing the two games made GS sound like my only love too, so I guess I could prove my own point moot. o_O

^_^ Forgive me for being such a doofus?

Im sick of Valten getting me into trouble! #
First of all he posts a thread saying that I was in a car crash and then changes it to a false rumor of Camelot halting the production of GS and now this,this!
He now gets someone hating me,Valten if you're reading this...
GET YOUR OWN BLOODY ACCOUNT!!!!! # # # # #

o.o *cough* While I don't feel up to a tirade (Not that I could match Her Majesty or Sui-kun [ooh, a pun, how delicious (though I think Lor was the first to find that one...)]), I think it can be summed up nicely...

Both games are at a equal as far as quality goes, so it comes down to this: Which do you prefer, tactical warfare, or a good RPG?

both...now go make one

and i dont think gameplay and story are two things you should compare...they should both be good and preference is never going to be the same with two people as far as gameplay goes....

and hey Zaber.. you turn into a prince while you were gone.... nah must just be me :}

You are back?
Your custom title 'The Forgotten Hero',now makes sense. ^_^
Apparently Fire emblem is the best strategy/Rpg mix game ever designed but yet Golden Sun is one of the funnest Rpgs ever made also.
It is an epic war indeed. '_'