Suikoden II, Suikoden V or Final Fantasy X?

[Yew-Yevon]

Suikoden 5 all the way! I have ffx and Suikoden 5 and i can honestly say the Suikoden 5 is better.


PS:I havnt played Suikoden 2

[Captain Maxx Power]

Suikoden 2 gotten hold of, but since I found out you can use Suikoden 1 data I've had to get hold of that as well. I'll have an opinion in about five weeks.

[ValkyrieWing]

You will enjoy it, I guarantee.

[nik0tine]

I haven't played Suikoden II, but I have confidence that it's greater than FFX, so it gets my vote.

[Zeromus_X]

I haven't played any of the Suikoden games (I only saw Suikoden IV being played, and a kitty was a playable character). I guess I'll just trust you guys in them being good games. Do I need to play them in any order, or are they not chronologically connected? I hear that the earlier ones are extremely rare.

[Jowy]

Storyline wise:

Suikoden IV > Suikoden Tactics > Suikoden V > Suikoden > Suikoden II > Suikoden III.

Doesn't really matter where you pick up from, they're all pretty decent. II's the best though.

[ValkyrieWing]

However, being able to upload your data from one game to another means playing them in order.

[Madame Adequate]

You can only transfer data from I to II though, can't you?

Edit: And II to III.

[Captain Maxx Power]

You can only transfer data from I to II though, can't you?

Edit: And II to III.

Yes, from I to II to III. However seeing as I can't get hold of the games in PAL format without paying through the nose, I'll only get to play I and II since III is a PS2 game and for reasons I couldn't possibly mention here I couldn't transfer my save from II to III without the proper tools.

[Madame Adequate]

Transferring data from II to III affects very little, if I recall correctly. A lot less than I to II does, that's for sure.

[Captain Maxx Power]

Well that's good to know if I ever feel the need to continue with III at some point.

Incidentally I'm currently playing I and so far it's rather doody (that's good by the way). Not particularly hard or spectacular, but then again that whole thing with the armies against each other I saw in the starting video looks VERY intriguing. Also do all dragons sound like elephants?

[MecaKane]

The character raising system is really nothing very 'outstanding', the only thing the characters get by leveling up is stat upgrades, they can't learn new skills or spells on their own without Runes. Suikoden II is 31 Flavours of groovy but calling it the best RPG ever made kinda slaps games like Dragon Quest IV and Phantasy Star II and IV in the face.

Hi, if you judge RPGs on character skill upgrades, you might want to play them on a PC, not videogame consoles.

[Erdrick Holmes]

There are plenty of console RPGs with skill/spell upgrades. Dragon Quest 7 and 8, Shin Megami Tensei Digital Devil Saga, and some of the Final Fantasys.

[Madame Adequate]

And none of them compare to what you can get on the PC.

[ValkyrieWing]

Upload from 4 to Tactics, too.