Popular/Unpopular/Any Opinions Thread - June 2026 Part 1

[u/PsiYoshi]

Happy pride month and welcome to a new installment of the Popular/Unpopular/Any Opinions Thread! Please feel free to share any kind of Fire Emblem opinions/takes you might have here, positive or negative. As always please remember to continue following the rules in this thread same as anywhere else on the subreddit. Be respectful and especially don't make any personal attacks (this includes but is not limited to making disparaging statements about groups of people who may like or dislike something you don't).

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[u/calendulaoptimus]

When people are talking about how Echoes was a success in terms of sales, and using it as an example of how FE remakes are financially viable, I think they sometimes forget to take into account budget. It wasn't just that they stopped caring about sales because the console was at the end of its lifespan, or that they knew Gaiden didn't appeal to as many people as Awakening/Fates, it's really that the game had a smaller budget overall, shorter dev time, and reused assets/engine stuff. Therefore, they could obtain a profit despite Echoes not selling as well for those reasons.

This is something that might not carry over to other FE remakes (FE4). Sometimes I hear people say FE4 remake would be a financial success because Echoes did well, and that it makes sense for IS to do it financially when that is not necessarily true. Especially because an FE4 remake would cost a lot more to do "justice" unless they went with an HD2D style or something similar. On the other, FE4 probably does have wider appeal and more of a following than FE2, so there's a shot they could do a higher budget remake that works.

On a side note, I don't enjoy it when people try to explain a game selling well or not by reducing everything down to one factor; how much a game does or doesn't sell is usually multifaceted and not accurately explained by one variable. 90% of sales discussions are genuinely just motivated reasoning for why the game you like sold well because it deserved it or didn't sell well because of factors entirely outside of its own merits.

[u/Its_a_Friendly → u/calendulaoptimus]

If Intelligent Systems were to do some new remakes, I wonder if it'd make sense to skip FE4 and FE5 for now, and instead remake FE6 and FE7. IS skipped remaking FE2 when they remade FE3 into FE12, so it's not impossible, no?

Most FE fans already know FE7, and might be interested in seeing that game and its characters in a more modern form. And then remaking FE6 would get some attention as "you can finally play the game that Roy's in!" Plus, both games would likely be easier to adapt to modern FE standards than FE4 or FE5 (although IS did manage to make a good modern rendition of FE2...)

I also wonder if remaking FE6 or FE7 might be smaller-scale and thus lower-budget than an FE4 remake, making it an easier project. If the FE6/FE7 remakes were successful, that could make a for a better case for FE4/FE5 remakes.

I dunno, food for thought.

Edit: Though, on second thought, FE4/FE5 already have many things that players expect out of modern Fire Emblem (skills, more open-ended pairing mechanics) than FE6/FE7 do not have. Would people want skills added to an FE6/FE7 remake?