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Ill never understand the lack of respect that Suikoden III gets on the internet.

Hands down the most critically acclaimed game in the series and the last truly successful game in the series, yet it is constantly criticized and insulted.

Tactics was a decent apology for the relatively underwhelming 4th game, but 5 was a meaningless rehash of elements from 1 and 2 with terrible pacing and an awful ending. Even then though, it was still better than many other games in the genre.

Compared to other rpg series I would say that Suikoden has been fairly consistent in its quality, varying only from average to excellent but never particularly bad.

I'm guessing people like the original Suikoden, because it didn't let them down like FF7. Rolling Eyes

To be honest I prefer Suikoden 3 over the others (the coming together of the allies is better with the conflict between them). I like my main character/s to be more developed. 1 was just too underdeveloped for my taste. 2 seems to be the favorite of most fans, I enjoyed it but I put it at the same lvl as 5 (mostly because there are characteristics of each that I like better than the others, I enjoyed recruitment in 5 much more than 2 for example).

wow, everyone here is really into Suikoden, huh? I feel left out xD

Yeah, Keith Courage was a lousy pack-in game. Oh well. They probably felt that a platformer was warrented given the somewhat platformer nature of other companies pack-ins at the time - or something. If the Turbografix-16 seems not more powerful than the NES, you're not far off. Part of the systems failure, as I recall, was a marketing campaign that effectively lied saying that the Turbografix-16 was more powerful than the NES (or whoever they were bashing) when in reality, it was not at all. It just had a different graphics chip or some such so it looked somewhat better, but it wasn't actually more powerful that the NES at all, in truth.

Like many things, the Turbografix-16 - known was the PC Engine there - did better in Japan. Some of the games were fun. But the system was pretty much doomed, it seems.

I want to see that Anime now xD

Honestly I whould hope that Top Secret: Hitler's Revival whould come out on the Virtual Console so the unedited game can be enjoyed, as it were but I'll settle for Bionic Commando for sure. I don't think the ending is what is holding them up. Its probably CAPCOM and Nintendo not agreeing how much it'll cost to license it or however the Virtual Console games work. Ok, while the Gameboy Color Bionic Commando was not nearly as good as the NES version, I didn't think it was THAT bad. Besides, Sniper games were all the rage then right? So I forgive it a little. I didn't think the arcade game was that bad either but I'll certainly agree that its nothing nearly as exciting as the NES sequel.

Last edited by Shadowrun20XX on Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:02 am; edited 1 time in total

FF7 was too easy? Well, yeah, but in comparison to Suikoden? The only thing hard about it was the party-member scavenger hunt.

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