Kawano Alludes to Suikoden Sequel for PS3

[Wiseman]

What happened to Leon? He gettin too old and you need someone younger? :P
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Guardian of the Great Forest

Battle wounds and scars is how I show my pain
My palms covered in the blood of those I've slain
Yet I still keep comin back all the same...

[runemaster]

I would think leon is either in the scarlet moon empire,to old, or he does not fit in the timeline of the game.
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[rane]

look guys lets face it even if many of us here is disappointed at s3 and s4 saying that it will lose alot of fans coz of its "not so deep storyline" well yeah your right. but face it even thou how many times you hate those two games when you heard that suikoden 5 is going to be released and news about 6 for ps3 look who started to talk about suikoden again. i bet my ass you'll buy those 2 games when they are release even thou your always saying how much they stunk. i believe suikoden will not lose its following instead i believe it will follow thru. cmon where in a suikoden community lets give kawano a chance.

and i like all the suikoden games coz they're suikoden.

[Lena Suphina]

What people are afraid is that the makers are pushing it by offering what looks like a very unpolished result. People don't care that much about sales counts as long as the game provides satisfaction. Of course I don't hate IV, but people don't just buy because it's suikoden. Not everyone has a disposable income. Hell, I probably won't get a ps3 even if suikoden 100 went out on it unless there is a cheaper pricetag.

However I still think Kawano still deserves a second chance. The success of III pushed the bar a bit too high in my opinion. Sure you could make a great story full of everything but it always starts off as a story that is great only to you. I may recall a story of the Breath of Fire series, where Capcom decided to take a gamble and release their 5th game which resembled very little to it's predecessors. It sold peanuts in the US but it is now slowly gaining fans. The story of IV was not anything like 3, but I'm happy it did so. Because if they stuck to 3, the game would be damn boring. and repeating the concept is not a good idea to reviewers.

The party number topic is always going to have different responses. People love this, people hate that.

What I really want is to see Suikoden take a gamble and use their popularity introduce something that is new to mainstream gamers. not new as in "appealing to" but rather what they want and not something cut up to fit the deadline. And I'll go back to Breath of Fire V, which I worship because it did such a wonderful job at ignoring the thought of "what if the mainstream gamers don't like!?".

I have nothing against mainstream gamers by the way, I'm just taking it as a marketing view. Many games are made just for the masses. I wouldn't be surprised if suikoden 6 turned out to be a rehashed suikoden 3 with bits of 2.
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[Admiral Ackbar]

[Kobold]

Well, it makes sense for them to already be planning Suikoden 6. I mean, it would only make sense if they hope to push the release of S6 to be somewhere along the release of PS3.

Afterall, it would be the best marketing time since with the new release of PS3, there would be limited amount of games, and if they make S6 one of the first games to be released, it'll improve sales...
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Kobolds are great!

[rane]

[Admiral Ackbar]

Suikoden 1 was the first RPG released for the PS1. But it didn't sell so well because everyone was saving money for FF7.
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[Himuro]

[Admiral Ackbar]

Change is not what the majority of fans want...

We want improving and perfecting what is already established!

We want the game to preserve what it always had, but make it better. This isn't hard to do. Suikoden 2 took everything good about Suikoden 1 and perfected it, while doing away with what was bad. Thats what we want, plain and simple.

Not "another Suikoden 2" in terms of taking everything from Suikoden 2 and making a copy of it, even though the game was about as perfect as a sequel can possibly ask to be and had more drama in the first 5 minutes than most RPGs have from beginning to end...but "another Suikoden 2" in terms of improving upon already established systems, storylines, and characters like Suikoden 2 did, insteading of whoring off some Final Fantasy dribble and expecting fans to swallow it because they're so devoted to the series that they would buy twenty more Suikodens even if they hated every game because they loved the first three so much.

Or...something like that.

Change can be good. But this is Suikoden. Change is not what we need. Improving and perfecting what is already there is what we need. You can still have the same kind of dilemnas, the same kind of story, and the same kind of battle system, and make it interesting by improving it every time.

Change should be reserved for the series' last death throes. Thats when we need Suikoden Extreme Beach Volleyball and Suikoden 3-2: Luc's Revenge.

And the reason Suikoden 4 was a backstep in development isn't because fans complained about Suikoden 3. It's because fans complained about Suikoden 3 and the game makers heard us...but didn't understand us. They completely misunderstood what we were complaining about and decided to completely abandon everything that had been constructed over three games and almost a decade.

I probably ranted didn't I? I apologize.

Whatever the case I'm still excitied about Suikoden V and this new rumor of another Suikoden for the PS3.
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[Lena Suphina]

[Admiral Ackbar]

[Himuro]

I don't know, I personally would prefer change, as well as improving and perfecting old features.

[Thief]

[runemaster]