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[Thezalor]

I personally hated it. My first few fe games were the gba ones. And I usually never bothered to get supports because I did not care about them. I just wanted to have fun by beating the levels and killing everything. When I finally decided to play fe4 I though it was pretty cool. But the lover system ruined it for me. I hate looking up guides for a game that I just want to play casually. And I had to look up pairing guides. I also found it annoying that I had move my characters in a way that they needed to be next to each other so they could start a conversation. I thought about just getting the standard units you would get at the second half of the game. But I heard that they are terrible. So I am basically forced to do the love system. In the end I view it as a cool feature in the game. However I just personally don't like it because I hate having to play a game and read a print out at the same time telling me which characters should talk to who. I want to relax when I play a game not multitask!

[Ezra]

I find most pairings aren't that difficult to get, especially LevinXFury, which is one of your best pairings anyway. LexXAyra is pretty easy to get as well since you have them for a while. oh and AideenXMidir.

But I do know what your saying because I HATED fe4 for a while, I never got paste chapter 3, I kept trying to play the game but always would get bored and delete it telling myself NEVER AGAIN.

Eventually I played the game all the way through and I thought it was really fun, probably because I just remember who pairs with who now so I don't have to spend half my time on the internet looking for how to get stuff.

[Shu]

See, I'm different, I love reading dialogue in my video games, because I like story and character development. IMO, it's the second most important part of a video game, and sometimes THE most important thing.

However, I was like you in that I wasn't thrilled hearing about the lover system, because like you, I didn't want to manage that. However, once I got into the game I realized it wasn't so difficult to multitask between your battles and keeping lovers together. In the end, it makes for a great game.

[Thezalor]

[Fitz24]

[QUOTE]But I do know what your saying because I HATED fe4 for a while, I never got paste chapter 3, I kept trying to play the game but always would get bored and delete it telling myself NEVER AGAIN.

Eventually I played the game all the way through and I thought it was really fun,[/QUOTE]
Lol, I never got passed chapter 3 either. Although there have been a few games that I hated at first and ended up loving them later on in time. So hopefully FE4 will be one of those.[/QUOTE]

How can your opinion matter if you really haven't played the game that much? You have to at least make it to where love even matters to have a say on it. For the first three chapters, love barely even matters.

I actually thought it was a neat idea and made the game have much more replay value trying to get different pairings together.
Celice FTW.

[Thezalor]

Sorry this post won't delete. Anyway look at the post below me.

[Thezalor]

[Shu]

You could do what I did, in that I went through and found out who pairs best with who, write it down or make a file with all the pairings and just keep that around and refer to it when needed. It really doesn't require a ton of management, as in FE4 there's a lot of time when you're just marching your army around the map and these are excellent times to keep the lovers together. When I form battle lines (Which is my style of play in FE4) I usually keep lovers together, but if it's needed, which it often is, I break them apart.

But again, it's not as much of a pain as I thought it would be when I started playing it.

[Bobryk]

I lurved Fe4. But making pairings (especially after going through the game once already) is kind of a pain.

My first playthrough, I didn't look at the best pairings and just rolled with what I felt would work. I didn't know how inheritance worked either (especially skills), so I paired the characters I felt were "made for each other" XD

I ended up with:

Ayra x Holyn
Bridgid x Jamka
Fury x Levin
Tiltyu x Claude
Sylvia x Alec
Aideen x Azel
Lachesis x Lex

So yeah, I had a few fairly worthless units (namely my magic...) but it was still fun nonetheless.

Looking at spoilers before you play a game really takes the fun out of trying this stuff out for yourself, imo.

BUT to answer the question, I think the pairing system kinda sucked because of how long it took for people to be paired, especially if they didn't have a special conversation.