[General Discussion] Suikoden Club v7!

Originally Posted by RunemasterJeane

LEKKY MY LOVE!

The lost Atreides siblings are together again! I forget, am I Bubba or Gunther?
(To all that are wondering what the hell I'm talking about, don't ask, ya don't wanna know )

I miss you guy's signatures done with the runes of the suikoden games. Some of those were great.

So it says here the game comes out on 3/21/06. Thats good, I havent been following this game like I did IV. It seems like it took a longer wait for IV (from when III came out) then it does with V. Word on if theres actually a castle? Or does the group travel in a big wagon that magically gets bigger with the more people you get? (Cmon the whole ship homebase was stupid)

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Unknown woman never had a name, I think she was the female that was told to dress up like Elza to fool Clive.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Denicalis

The bonus to getting all 108 characters was the only redeeming factor. God awful battle system, terrible characters (I need a talking duck in a helmet like I need a kick in the teeth) and an atrocious story. However, a great soundtrack.

Sergeant Joe is the best Suikoden character ever. Ok not really. He was helpful though...as a character. Early on he was the hard hitter for Hugo's team. I was disappointed with some of the SoD though...adding those two ducks in duck village was just stupid. Gotta love that there are always at least 10 stars of destiny...that can be used in fighting parties but have pathetically bad stats.

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I dont think they are lacking...we are just giving them high expectations because of how much we have overrated 1 and 2. I picked up 1 because I had 20$ to spare about 7 years ago and loved it. Shortly after...II came out and I figured what the hell...I will give it a shot and loved it also. Eventually because the game was somewhat simple in graphics (compared to other hit rpgs at the time ..FF8, Legend of Dragoon..lol and Star Ocean II) but the story and gameplay mechanics made it great. We had a long wait from II to III so we played II again and made it almost immortal in our minds. III was a great game (Id go on record and say it was better then FFX) and the cartoon graphics fit the game in my opinion.

Suikoden has only had a few games out but because of how well perceived I and II are...when a new Suikoden game comes out...we tend to hold Suikoden II up on a pedastal and compare it to the game coming out. Now...I admit IV did simply suck...but I think Tactics managed to provide a pick me up for the series.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I need to find me a suikoden avatar...and a sig too.

I got the game today along with a fancy little Limited Edition Suikoden V artwork cell. Its not too shabby although I would of preferred a NICE artbook (IV's sucked). Its pretty funny really because I went to pick it up yesterday but i didnt have it preordered. Gamecrazy didnt have it yet but he said I could pay for it now and hed call me when it comes in. So I did, so that was considered a pre-order so I got the cell.

I havent played or read about the game too much. Is...the prince (main hero) supposed to be a guy? Because if he is...thats the girliest looking guy ever.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by russ

That's like going on record as saying that one plus one equals two. You're not exactly going out on a limb there.

III is an underrated game. When FFX and Suikoden III came out...more copies of FF were available....Suikoden 3 I had to search for to find it...and I know alot of people who considered FFX to be the end all of rpgs (im talking of course about 2002-2003 era of games). Alot of people came down hard on Suikoden III because they felt it should of been voiced ...and I admit there were parts that looked like it should of been but I still find it to be a great game.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

So far I like the game. I like how the battle view is similiar to that of 1 and 2...yet still maintains its updated graphics. I also enjoy how the spell effects actually look good instead of the bland spells we got in 4.

I love the characters so far, I am not far into it but...

Spoiler:

The Queens Knights are awesome...for some reason I know I am going to end up leaning towards having Georg and Kyle as two of my most used characters...uh only put this is spoiler because maybe people dont like to know names?

Anyway, I was looking through some of my Suiko-Stuff....I have a lame strategy guide for S1, the official one for 2...a printed out one for III (LOL) and the one for 4...plus the artbook...so...

Does anyone else have the artbook that came with 4? If so...have you been able to identify all of the runes on that big page with them? Shit I know all of the true ones listed but only about 1/3 of the others. I wanna get this scanned...so I can label them.

FELIPE NO

I wish people would stop comparing every game with the word "Suikoden" in it, to Suikoden II. Yeah we get it, Suikoden II was great ...but why ruin a great game by comparing it to something completly different? Ive read peoples opinions of this and have gathered that...people dislike this game because it does not have a "cook off minigame". Are you kidding me? First of all that mini game was not all that great...and secondly how can you judge a game completly based off of its mini games?

Now granted I do rank the games in the series as favorite to worst. Clearly IV is the worst...the best is indeclared until I beat Suikoden V. Im not going to sit there and play the game and say "oh well it should of been like this because thats how they did it in Suikoden II".

I think Suikoden V is fantastic so far. It has characters that I actually can get used to much like the previous Suikoden's did. Suikoden IV being the exception because the characters for that game were dull, boring, and bland. Much like the storyline. To top it off...you spent more time sailing than you did anything else. Suikoden V has great characters and I am not even 1/4th way through the game yet. The story is fantastic and complex...which goes along with the music...which is also great.

I have recognized a few themes from previous Suikoden games (The music during when you name the main character, the music during the stategic battles and one other that I wont say because its a spoiler). I think all Suikoden games have incredible music, well except for IV...that seems to be the black sheep of Suikoden games.

Its also alarming how many people I have seen upset over the fact that Yuber or Pesmerga are not in this game. Who freaking cares? Pesmerga had like 5 lines total in all the games and really did not do much of anything. Yuber wasnt all that great either and became more pathetic when he showed up in that ridiculous outfit in Suikoden III.

Im not sure how many Suikoden games there will be, I have heard 7, maybe even 6 and if that were the case...if they make the game as good as this one I will be content. I would rather them stop the series when its good...instead of letting it become a Final Fantasy series. However the immortal difference between Suikoden and Final Fantasy will be that Suikoden has wonderful mythology to it and great backstory. Final Fantasy gives us Moogles...oh yay.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Yeah I actually think the Silent hero bit works alot better then it did in IV. In IV it just always seemed awkward that he never said anything, but with the Prince...its hardly noticible (except during cutscenes when you see your name in text and they skip over it).

I think the dialogue is really well done in this game as well as there are alot of scenes so far that I think are memorable.

Spoiler:

When you meet Jeane after coming from Stormfist, Lyon telling the Prince not to look directly at her and Sialeeds saying "Even I can't compare...". That was great.

Jam it back in, in the dark.