Did Konami give up?

[bbsting120]

Look at any rpg and youll find reused character concepts.... so with 108 people over the course of 5 games now (so over 500 playable characters) I don't think it's quite fair to say Konami is dropping the ball. Like someone else said, too, I kinda like the familiarity of some characters. And there are still innovative, fresh characters in all of the games.
I think all in all, suikoden III did the best job of fleshing out the most characters, thanks to the trinity sight system and the multiple indepth side stories when recruting characters, even if they were somewhat insignificant to the overall story.
And then came IV, but that's another story for another day... :evil:

[Lord_Tiberus661]

i agree with every one who saying that konami didnt give up. i mean, it has to be hard to create over 500 characters in a series. i mean look at final fantasy (not that i dont like final fantasy, i love those games) they only have between 5-9 characters and it kinda gets old using the same ones over and over. in suikoden if i get board with one group i end up picking an entire new group. so dont get mad with konami about characters having the same personalities. i honestly believe nobody in this forum can create over 500 characters and not have a couple have the same personality, it is just how things work.
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[Camillus]

I would say that for Konami it is much more harder to think of so much characters. You know in FF series each game is the new world- so completly diffirent environment, diffirent history and so on. In Suikoden it is still the same world, of course there are a lot of nations , states but it is one world with one history. So they must be very careful not to muddle plots ,histories and characters backgrounds. And it is 108 for every game + NPC. i think it isn't possible to avoid some similarities. And like somebody said earlier I prefer to have a lot of characters than only 5-8 of them.

Edit: Some typos.
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[Makumaku]

I think it's perfectly fine to use the same personality types for different characters who share the same star. After-all, they have the same star. That just adds a belief that the stars hold more influence than people think.

IMO at least.
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