Suikoden V, I+II for psp (Konami looks to redeem itself)

HKK · Post by **HKK** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 6:06 am

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3143798

Origins of popular RPG series make the handheld jump.
by Patrick Klepek, 09/16/2005

The financial drain of tracking down copies of Suikoden 1 and 2 for the original PlayStation are out of bounds for most gamers, but Konami's about to make those gaming experiences a heck of a lot easier with Suikoden 1&2, ports of both games to PSP.
Not only that, but Konami's bundling the duo onto one UMD! There don't appear to be any enhancements being made to the conversions, and given the track record of most companies with their PSP ports, don't really expect Konami to work overtime on this.

As you'd expect, there's no word on a US release, but given the current drought of releases for the portable, we wouldn't be surprised to see it come over sometime next year.

*plans on rebuying a psp this year solely for this*

Joei · Post by **Joei** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 6:34 am

why......?

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 6:50 am

Because the Playstation versions don't work now

Joei · Post by **Joei** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:26 am

no. i mean hkk getting them when he has them and played them?

HKK · Post by **HKK** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:26 am

becos in my pocket

Joei · Post by **Joei** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:59 am

you are retarded.

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 11:36 am

I've always wanted to play these.
Interest + 3

Cheese King · Post by **Cheese King** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 3:29 pm

Excellent. Now I can sell my copy of Suikoden II on eBay for $100+.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 9:31 pm

Cheese King wrote:Excellent. Now I can sell my copy of Suikoden II on eBay for $100+.

Yay Capitalism

Plaztik · Post by **Plaztik** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:08 pm

never played these games before...this could get interesting

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 7:00 pm

Are they going to make any improvments or stuff?
Chiepoons in 1 & 2 plz and they can replace Flik and Victor with Thomas and Snowe

HKK · Post by **HKK** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 7:03 pm

They are going to make improvements.

Matsukawa was the senior producer for Suikoden IV and was also in character of Suikoden II after Murayama left. He's basically a manager of the development team. Kawano works under him, basically.

He has been making some pretty strong comments at TGS, apparently, such as "Suikoden is on par with Final Fantay and Dragon Quest," and "we won't take the easy way out and put a half-assed effort into bringing Suikoden 1 and 2 to the PSP, we will add new things to them."

And the "Deepest entry" leans, "deepest stroyline." He also says that this Suikoden will be the longest in terms of gameplay.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 7:06 pm

Matsukawa was the senior producer for Suikoden IV and was also in character of Suikoden II

He was a character in Suikoden II? Templeton?

Jeff 2G6 · Post by **Jeff 2G6** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 7:42 pm

Too bad it won't come out in english.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 8:59 pm

I like the fact that characters will have S, M and L range weapons again

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 8:59 pm

Jeff 2K5 wrote:Too bad it won't come out in english.

I don't see why it wouldn't.
Suikoden is really popular afterall and the first two games have cult status in the West.

Jeff 2G6 · Post by **Jeff 2G6** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 9:02 pm

Yea but there are alot of ports that were out for PSP in Japan that have yet to even be announced in the US. It's highly doubtful in my mind it will ever come out or if it did, not after a long while after it's introduction in the east.

But I guess wishful thinking can't hurt. I'd love to play them in my dorm or something or while my roomate is sleeping.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 9:07 pm

who gives a crap psp isn't region coded

o wait i don't know japanese nevermind

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 9:59 pm

I know some extremely basic Japanese. Enough to order a meal with

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 12:08 am

Surely you all know what's going on in Suikoden anyway, unless they change things drastically and by the screenshots, that doesn't seem to be the case at all.

Jeff 2G6 · Post by **Jeff 2G6** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:01 am

You're right, but it seems odd, to me anyway, to play a game with a ton of text, and not be able to read any of it. Even if I do know what is going on a majority of the time.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:05 am

yeah, i don't touch jap rpgs with jap text bcos with no text means no story at all, and with no story at all means play for gameplay, and let's face it RPG gameplay is 90% of the time shit.

HKK · Post by **HKK** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:14 am

Did you guys watch the 10 minute trailer?

This game is going to own, I'm sure it'll make up for IV. Thankfully.

Go to gamespot to see it, konami's releasing it on their site tonight. It's full of fanservice. Not only does it show (I think?) all the 27 true runes, but it also shows Georg owning it up, Lorelai, and the hero in clothes similar to Tir's (hero 1).

Gameplay wise so far it looks fantastic. You can change battle formation, in many varieties. It seems this is key to certain types of unite attacks. Speaking of unite attacks, you can now do whole party combo's (yes, 6 characters). Story and plot wise it's looking great so far. According to the people that know Japanese, the script (as presented in the trailer) is very well made and definitely puts the emphasis on characterizatoin and plot. It's also going to have quite a few True Rune appearances (as seen in the trailer). Blue Moon/Sarsadmin is going to translate the trailer tonight.

The party in a arena looking enviroment (notice Georg on the right, with the eyepatch). Take note that Felena has Gladiator arena fights for sport:

Lorelai:

compraed to her Suikoden II art:

Not to mention *this* little homage:

Jeff 2G6 · Post by **Jeff 2G6** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:27 am

As long as it doesn't suck like 4, I'll play it. It probably won't be any better than 3.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:58 am

yeah I watched the trailer, looks good.
And as I said above, S, M and L range weapons=

Going back to Suikoden II can't be a bad thing anyway, even though I did see a boat in that trailer

Joei · Post by **Joei** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:06 am

the sun rune sounds really gay though

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 11:33 am

The smokey rune

Joei · Post by **Joei** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 1:42 pm

that would be better

HKK · Post by **HKK** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 2:06 pm

Red Sun Rune. Opposite of the Blue Moon Rune. Won't sound gay if Sierra is there.

Joei · Post by **Joei** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 2:28 pm

but knowing konami she won't be!

Joei · Post by **Joei** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 2:43 pm

where can i get the 10 min trailer from. other than the official website.

HKK · Post by **HKK** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:45 pm

Joei wrote:where can i get the 10 min trailer from. other than the official website.

Gamespot. Use my account to dl it:

himurokokenxl@earthlink.net

pw: shinigami

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:36 pm

omg leech time

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:55 pm

Time to get HKK banned

HKK · Post by **HKK** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:50 pm

omghi2u

You guys really think I'd post my pw?

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:59 pm

why don't you just upload the video to someone's ftp or something

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 11:42 pm

himurokoken wrote:omghi2u

You guys really think I'd post my pw?

why the fuck not

HKK · Post by **HKK** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:19 am

Calbrena wrote:why don't you just upload the video to someone's ftp or something

Who cares? Blue Moon is translating and subbing the video as we speak.

edit:

translated trailer:
http://suikox.com/movies/s5trans.avi

right click and save as

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 8:32 am

I thought the one on Gamespot was already subbed

Thanks anyway

Joei · Post by **Joei** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 9:17 am

I can only hope Templeton will be a playable character in this

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 9:50 am

Fuck Templeton, the game looks awesome anyway, can't wait to play it

But wtf, no kobold, no chiepoon, no silly animals at all, or did I just miss them in that trailer?

HKK · Post by **HKK** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 3:16 pm

What? There are beaver people this time!

This game's trailer was better than IV in it's entirety. Also, it looks they've been working on this game since way before IV was even released. When it comes out, it will have been in development for almost 2 years.

Here's an srt with the same translations but you can work it with the high quality gamespot trailer.

http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2SXJ ... PSAHF07LS8

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 4:32 pm

Guess I'm just good at ignoring things I don't want to see then

HKK · Post by **HKK** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 4:50 pm

lol i guess

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 6:08 pm

Beavers

Joei · Post by **Joei** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 6:13 pm

it's a worse animal everytime. next time it will be frogs or something

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 6:17 pm

B-ding ding D:

Elephants like Babar plz

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 6:19 pm

no it's been done in Chrono Trigger already, that would be plagiarism

HKK · Post by **HKK** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 6:28 pm

Damien wrote:
Elephants like Babar plz

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:41 pm

next time next time?