[General Discussion] Suikoden Club v...8

The PSP handles Breath of Fire 3 just fine and that fit on the same size disc as S1 and 2 originally so there's no reason why a full fledged Suikoden game wouldn't see the light of day. I'm not sure what benefit there'd be to a portable version though, other than being able to play it on the train. Suikoden has always been about the story and is very much a one person experience so the online capabilities of the PSP would be pretty redundant.

If there was going to be an extension of the Suikoden series on PSP, I'd like to see a more spin-off approach, maybe following some of the more popular characters after one of the games. Following Viktor and Flik between 1 and 2 maybe? There's plenty of ambiguity in the end of game stories for each character which leaves lots of scope for character development in a new game.

I can't believe this thread is up to version 8 already. I wonder whatever happened to Runemaster Jeanne and Dragonmaster Don from the first few versions of the thread?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

III never got released here so I've not played it but V is a huge improvement over IV. Some of the 108 are pretty tough to recruit, even if you know all of Suikoden's little tricks (As in re-visit every town and dungeon after every event and keep switching obscure members of the team in to your party).

I think that for the next Suikoden game to keep the epic scale of the previous ones, it kinda needs to be set elsewhere in the world and in a different time frame. Huge wars need periods of calm between them really and straight after each game there's a lot of true runes concentrated in one area as a rule.

I live in hope that there'll be an ultimate Suikoden one day that brings all the true rune bearers together (Including Stallion!) for a proper climactic ending. One hopes that the processing power of the PS3 would allow for full 3d large scale battles although from a gameplay and strategy point of view, I prefer a more turn based approach to real time. Something like the Kessen games would be pretty cool though.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Leknaat

Shin: I love V. I think it got all the elements rights. If Konami kept the battle/duel formulas the same--I don't think anyone would mind. Do you?

Except for the broken characters, V's battle system was spot on. The only thing that let it down compared to II was that it was still too east to collect characters and the plot was a bit predictable but then possibly that's only because I've played so many Suikoden games. Also, the voice acting was horrible. I wish games companies would put in options to turn it off, especially when they use all American actors. Nothing personal to anyone here but American accents don't sit well with me in a fantasy setting. Probably because your country is only 500 odd years old...

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Leknaat

True. But it was discovered by Columbus in 1492--500+ years ago.

Shin--I understand what you're saying. We've all been brought up with Fairy Tales that originated in Europe, so we tend to think of the voices with those accents. The same can be said for video games. (Wow...Video Games as modern fairy tales....lol)

At least some games companies seem to be learning now. One of the tings I like about FFXII is that there's very few American accents in it, what with the Archadian Empire all having British accents (Coz they're evil, naturally). Sure, Vaan still sounds like someone you want to punch from a second rate Disney film but luckily he doesn't say a great deal. Likewise, Fable scored big for only using British voice actors although as a pretty much 100% British game you'd expect that I guess.

How ya doing, buddy?