Suikoden's 5 of a kind
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I was actually impressed with suikoden IV in this regard. Didn't any of you notice that upon closer inspection none of the NPCS looked a like? THey all had different faces. That's fairly impressive in my book because I doubt in any other RPG(Ys excluded) would they go through so much to make all of the villagers look different.strider tag wrote:suikoden 4 , being 3D , also had lots of characters who looked a lot like each other ( archers , knife throwers , bare hand fighters .... )
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I love Skies of Arcadia, but I had no clue that the town's folk all looked different. It's surprising what I miss even in rpgs I like alot. I usually just assume that most rpgs use dopplegangers due to time constraints and difficulties.
I never minded that much when it came to certain characters looking heavily similiar in Suikoden (to an extent.) I don't like when characters share animations though - that's pushing it a bit for me.
I think on today's consoles the 108 stars should have more individuality then ever. It would be lame to see doppelganger stars now.
Allen and Grenseal will always be personal favorites though.
I never minded that much when it came to certain characters looking heavily similiar in Suikoden (to an extent.) I don't like when characters share animations though - that's pushing it a bit for me.
I think on today's consoles the 108 stars should have more individuality then ever. It would be lame to see doppelganger stars now.
Allen and Grenseal will always be personal favorites though.
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Beavers?
Beavers?!
Why?! I really hope they look cute... at least they're not bunnies...
Are Kobolds or Nay-Kobolds going tobe there somewhere? Neither race was very interesting (honestly, the Nay-Kobolds looked like a bunch of hunchbacks with huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge cat heads, which was a bit .... fugly) but it'd be nice to see a different race pop up... er something.
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Beavers?!
Why?! I really hope they look cute... at least they're not bunnies...
Are Kobolds or Nay-Kobolds going tobe there somewhere? Neither race was very interesting (honestly, the Nay-Kobolds looked like a bunch of hunchbacks with huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge cat heads, which was a bit .... fugly) but it'd be nice to see a different race pop up... er something.
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If there is a set of 5 beavers....... well I would hope theyd use Suiko 3's battle system so I can frag me own party members....MWAHAHAHAHA...
Personally I hope for the queens guard to defecttt. theres five of them, right... dont want to look up at the moment........
Personally I hope for the queens guard to defecttt. theres five of them, right... dont want to look up at the moment........
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I don't think that the Beavers will necessarily be the 5. I mean look at what they represent - the animal people.
Recruitable animal people -
Suikoden 1: Kobolds, 2 of them
Suikoden 2: Kobolds, 3 of them ( 4 if you count borus )
Suikoden 3: Duck/Lizard people, 3 ducks, 3 lizards
Suikoden 4: Nay-kobolds, 3 of them
I think the Beavers will take this role, they will be more important to the plot than the Pokemon "Gotta catch em all" of the other games.
Remember also that in GS2 and GS3, four of the 5 collectables were not stars of destiny... and with the exception of the mermaids in GS4 the collectable characters were not in the promotion material.
I don't think the beavers will be the collectables, I'd prefer some Cutbunnies! With the wealth of characters in this Suikoden I think we will again see out of stars recruits, as opposed to GS1 and GS4 where they seemed to struggle for getting to 108 characters and therefore put the collectables into the 108 stars.
I simply think the beavers are too different... the collectables are always very similar to each other and basically clones except for textures. If there are 5 beavers they would have to either all be partyable or all non-warriors. I believe the only reason mermaids didnt' fight was that then people would expect a unite attack and that's impossible with 4 party slots.
Recruitable animal people -
Suikoden 1: Kobolds, 2 of them
Suikoden 2: Kobolds, 3 of them ( 4 if you count borus )
Suikoden 3: Duck/Lizard people, 3 ducks, 3 lizards
Suikoden 4: Nay-kobolds, 3 of them
I think the Beavers will take this role, they will be more important to the plot than the Pokemon "Gotta catch em all" of the other games.
Remember also that in GS2 and GS3, four of the 5 collectables were not stars of destiny... and with the exception of the mermaids in GS4 the collectable characters were not in the promotion material.
I don't think the beavers will be the collectables, I'd prefer some Cutbunnies! With the wealth of characters in this Suikoden I think we will again see out of stars recruits, as opposed to GS1 and GS4 where they seemed to struggle for getting to 108 characters and therefore put the collectables into the 108 stars.
I simply think the beavers are too different... the collectables are always very similar to each other and basically clones except for textures. If there are 5 beavers they would have to either all be partyable or all non-warriors. I believe the only reason mermaids didnt' fight was that then people would expect a unite attack and that's impossible with 4 party slots.