Suikoden Topic

[Agent D.]

Saga frontier offered better music, a battle system with some flair, and a the same 50 characters that had no impact on story but were just plain badass (Lei-Fang, Liza, and Rouge for example, Gen had SOME story with T260-G). Suikoden 3 I remember Chris and the guy Geddoe I think, and the kid who's mother was a villian in part 2 were the main characters, and something about the true fire rune. 2 I remember the main character had tonfa, and his sister was annoying, and his best bud became a super dick. I played 2 less than a year ago, and I really remember nothing about it, other than the final boss pissing me off for a while, then I power leveled and came back and dominated it.

Basically, I don't like suikoden. Its battle system is boring and the music is terrible. The story is probably good, but forgettable, though I won't fault it for this, only a few games really stick in my head anymore these days. I will say outright I liked Saga Frontier much more than Suikoden as a series.

[Yggdrasil]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=32530541&postcount=22

That translation.

Grrrrrrr!!!!.......

[Eusis]

It's also why SCEA's policies are really, REALLY fucking frustrating. If they want to release something and I want to buy it, and there's nothing particularly problematic with it legally or otherwise then just let them release the damn game, especially if it's rare and extremely expensive in its original form. Having Suik I & II come here would've been a great opportunity for Konami to at least polish the localization some and axe the bugs, and instead all we're left with is a buggy, badly translated and overly rare/expensive copy.

[DPB]

The PAL version already has all those things fixed, including the script. There's no real excuse for them not to release it.

[Eusis]

The PAL version already has all those things fixed, including the script. There's no real excuse for them not to release it.

There could be issues with SCEA wanting the EXACT VERSION that was released in that territory. And given the Mickey Mania idiocy they may well be tighter than even Nintendo on that front, where previously PAL-exclusive games got converted over to NTSC.

[Dice]

Can the esteemed RPGFan write up a petition?? :D

[Eusis]

Can the esteemed RPGFan write up a petition?? :D

None of us are stupid enough to think that will work anymore. Or so I'd hope.

[Dice]

Can the esteemed RPGFan write up a petition?? :D

None of us are stupid enough to think that will work anymore. Or so I'd hope.

I keep an unfortunately optimistic head about things.

[Maxximum]

I'm kind of curious why the selection of classic games on the PSN is so small. There must be some rather interesting reason for not shoving everything you can on there. After all, its potential revenue from reselling old games with, what I assume is, minimum effort.

[Klyde Chroma]

I'm kind of curious why the selection of classic games on the PSN is so small. There must be some rather interesting reason for not shoving everything you can on there. After all, its potential revenue from reselling old games with, what I assume is, minimum effort.

I've always had a hunch that the ultimate plan was to hold off on select titles they knew were gonna be hits and make them exclusively available to the next gen consoles somehow whilst making all the previous titles still available as well. Always seemed like a solid strategy to make sure they get us for every dime we are worth..LoL.... ok... so that is more diabolical than funny.... but none-the-less I can totally see them doing that.. I mean, I imagine when the next gen consoles do become available, they are going to want to make it as advantageous to upgrade as possible.

[Maxximum]

I'm kind of curious why the selection of classic games on the PSN is so small. There must be some rather interesting reason for not shoving everything you can on there. After all, its potential revenue from reselling old games with, what I assume is, minimum effort.

I've always had a hunch that the ultimate plan was to hold off on select titles they knew were gonna be hits and make them exclusively available to the next gen consoles somehow whilst making all the previous titles still available as well. Always seemed like a solid strategy to make sure they get us for every dime we are worth..LoL.... ok... so that is more diabolical than funny.... but none-the-less I can totally see them doing that.. I mean, I imagine when the next gen consoles do become available, they are going to want to make it as advantageous to upgrade as possible.

While I can see what you're getting at, I don't think that's quite it. My guess is that its something fairly obvious, but elusive enough not to get noticed by someone that isn't in the industry. I'm also guessing that its probably something incredibly stupid from a consumer point of view.

[Aeolus]

I'm kind of curious why the selection of classic games on the PSN is so small. There must be some rather interesting reason for not shoving everything you can on there. After all, its potential revenue from reselling old games with, what I assume is, minimum effort.

I've always had a hunch that the ultimate plan was to hold off on select titles they knew were gonna be hits and make them exclusively available to the next gen consoles somehow whilst making all the previous titles still available as well. Always seemed like a solid strategy to make sure they get us for every dime we are worth..LoL.... ok... so that is more diabolical than funny.... but none-the-less I can totally see them doing that.. I mean, I imagine when the next gen consoles do become available, they are going to want to make it as advantageous to upgrade as possible.

While I can see what you're getting at, I don't think that's quite it. My guess is that its something fairly obvious, but elusive enough not to get noticed by someone that isn't in the industry. I'm also guessing that its probably something incredibly stupid from a consumer point of view.

They probably lost the license to a number of those old games. And then there's the probability that they don't want to bother resubmitting them to ratings boards for concerns of costs.

/theorycrafting