Suikoden would not have proceeded past Muramayas daydreams were it not for Konami, if you want to believe that Muramaya developed and coded the entire series on his own with no help or vision from the rest of the team who only sat around and ate bagels than you're dreaming.tiki wrote:no they didn't shape it, they funded it
money does not mean vision or creativity, money just means you're rich
if I gave Coldplay a million dollars to make me an anti-war song to play on the radio for profit it doesn't mean I am an artistic visionary, it just means I'm a jerk with funding
if I then hire someone else to change the song drastically to make it's meaning to be nuking Iran it doesn't change or invalidate the meaning behind the first song
it means they're two entirely different songs
see: Muramaya-canon Suikoden (1-5) and Konami's brandname milking-canon (Tierkreis, most likely this new game)
Also, your coldplay example is another example that not only makes no sense, it has no relation to the discussion at hand. This entire thread has been nothing but you and Jigglebiscuits putting down a fandom excited to see that their favourite series has not completely been left for dead.
If you want to pretend that Suikoden ended at V, than do that. Just don't open any threads not related to Suikodens I to V and your perfect world won't collapse in on itself.