Thinking of doing a cosplay from this, but not sure if I should do Chris, Queen, or get a tan and do Aila. I'd need a wig for Chris, but for Queen I'd just need to darken my hair a little and cut it, and for Aila I'd just need a different hairstyle.
Ever since I saw this on G4 back when it really was G4 (the program Cinematech, to be more specific), I fell in love with the anime opening and the music. I swear, I have the ambition to come up with some story or game idea like this, only with a lot more anthropomorphic characters to join with or fight against humans.
@TheDarkchild1980 Yes this is definitely one of the greatest openings i've seen. I love the music, and I love Chris she is so tough for being a chick. But my fav is the duck and the kid I forget his name I know it starts with H. I just wish Thomas castle was bigger, or mansion should have been a fort/castle like most Suikoden games.
@UchihaGamer111 I totally here you on Chris. She's one of the few female video game protagonists that didn't dress like a slut and wasn't explotive sexually.
There were a number of strong female characters in all the games, which is a big plus in my book. In this game alone, we have Chris, Queen, Cecile, Lucia, that old gypsy woman who lived at Thomas castle whose name escapes me. Again, underrated game.
they should just suprise us and make another oe for ps3 and xbox 360 that would be EPIC... cause this had one of the most original and best concepts ive seen bulding an army, ur own base of operations a great series
Easily my favourite Suikoden game in the series, and it had an awesome opening. I wish a sequel could happen so we could see some of these characters again (I know about 4 and 5, but those take place in the past).
What bugs me the most about this opening is that there are a few parts here that don't happen at all in the game (those that have played it will know what I'm talking about).
@starkingxxx I'm sure you've already figured it out by now, but..You need to of beaten Suikoden 2 with the 108 stars of destiny ending. Unfortunately the only thing you get is an extra play, two if it's Suikoden 1 and 2 data.
Y'know, at 0:35 when it says "The Story Never ends", I really wish that were true. But something good or even great and amazing never lasts forever. More-so, the longer something good goes on the more chance it has to become something bad or mediocre, look at the Final Fantasy series. There has not been a major Suikoden since Suikoden V, which was over coincidentally, five years ago. Every day that goes by, the chances of a Suikoden VI dwindle, and it's really a shame.
Well, there is that new Suikoden game for the PSP that's coming out. It looks horribly generic, though. Konami DID disband its RPG team, and most of them were hired at Tri-Ace, so the chances of a new Suikoden masterpiece are really, REALLY slim.
@MassMisanthropy Suikoden is based on the chinese classic Shui hu zhuan (The water margin) Playing the games made me interested in the book. Reading the book made me interested in learning chinese. Learning chinese made me interested in moving to China. Moving to China made my life a lot more interesting. I have now visited the places where many of the characters from the book were born, where they fought and died. Next time there is evil in the country, once again 108 heroes will be born.
Obviously he has not. No human being in their right mind would categorize Suikoden III as the SOLE good Suikoden. Nor would anybody who has played Suikoden II dare to place it in the "Only a collectable" category.
@RebornAleph my god is it amazing. i have a hard time choosing which is better though (II or III). II is such a great character driven story, but III was the first one i played and will always hold a special place in my heart.
@thedandynad That first one is always really special to us. That would be II for me, but after playing all of the rest, I quickly realized that the entire series always feels incomplete if ANY of all of its games were changed. I think every single Suikoden is awesome in its own way and they all make up one of the greatest RPG series to have ever existed.
Final Fantasy is honestly overrated (especially the latest games). Nothing can phase me more than the Suikoden series up until today.
@RebornAleph No Haven't played Suikoden II, not yet. I hear it is very good like FFVI good compaired to FFVII. I ordered it 2 months ago and I haven't started a file in it yet. I'm too spoiled off of Suikoden IV and V with Jeane being a playable character. lol
this was my favorite suikoden, but if they update the first and don't screw it up then i might change my mind. the first had a great story, and we didn't care how it looked back then. awsome series!!! :)
this was my favorite suikoden, but if they update the first and don't screw it up then i might change my mind. the first had a great story, and we didn't care how it looked back then. awsome series!!! :)
I have to say Suikoden 4 sucked. Suikoden 2, made me cry and it was what made me love the whole franchise all the more. Suikoden 3 exceeded my expectation from Suikoden 2, helloooooo better animation? :P Suikoden 4, I had to wait freakin AGES for the fight to upload... so I quit on it. Suikoden 5... hell yeah, I LOVE IT!!! :D they really should have made the series into an anime... I WILL BUY IT AND I WOULD EVEN FLY TO JAPAN FOR IT!!!
i love how in the Suikoden series, excepting maybe 4, you get this sense of everyone doing what they thought was right. Our sympathies invariably lie, of course, with the protagonists, but we get the sense that had things been different, the main Good Guy could very easily have become the main Bad Guy.
The manga for Suikoden III was awesome I still have them and they are my favourite, it gives you a fair bit of good history on what happens in 1 and 2 and the storyline is very good. I have not yet played any of the games although would like to eventually get them....of course I hear the price in 1 & 2 are quite expensive ranging in the $200 or more.
im playing suikoden 3 right now. I'm loving the way there's 3 separate storys that slowly join together the more you play. my only complaint is that whenever there's dialogue, there's no bg music at all, just silence as you're reading the dialogue. most rpg's have music during dialogue to set the mood. but oh well, it doesnt ruin the game for me, just a little annoying.
the last good suikoden though I did hate that it was set in a time way past viktor's era he was my favorite character edge had the king dragon sword but it wasn't the same 4 sucked but 5 was ok even thought the main character looks like a girl georg made up for that
Suikoden 4 and 5 are great. I played 5 until i finished the game!!!!!!!!!!!!
Suikoden 2 is still te best and it`s damn rare. Suikoden 3 is also a great game. I own this game but never played it because i have a European ps2. This game was US only and i stil hate Konami for it.
Ah such memories. Back then I was taken back from how smooth and beautiful the animation was and even to these days I find this intro animation to be damn incredible.
I mean hell it's a game intro and yet better animated than a lot of crap they pass as animation these days.
I just noticed something. Almost the WHOLE intro video has scenes from the 4 first books (out of 11) and praticly nowhere further. I guess they didn't want to spoil us :P
@Icekin23 It sounds like one of the dialecs in chinese, I think, though I'm not sure exactly. Could do some research on it as I'd like to find more of this kind of music anyways.
I haven't played any of these games except for the third one, and it's awesome. The intro had me hooked - truthfully I was hoping the atmosphere in the game would stick more to what they had shown in the intro movie, but it's a great game nonetheless. I rate it in those games that come close to Chrono Trigger truth be told.
Chrono Trigger is 3rd rate garbage! There is nothing that those money gobblers at Square that could get close to as Epic as the plot to Suikoden 3 or really any Suikoden. No Final Fantasy game will have characters as illuring as the superbly well written backgrounds and growth of the characters in Suikoden 3!
1st was great, 2nd was truly awesome, 3rd was great too especially this intro but was a bit lacking, No.4 was horrible truly horrible, sadly i havent played 5 but from these comments at least it seems it isnt as bad as VI
This is my favorite game intro of all times. IMO the game sucked but I was just happy to have it cuz of the intro lol, I would always watch it when starting the game up.
It did not suck it just needed to be revised and they should have spent more time one it. The jiu jitsu teaching were awesome addition to the games to come.
Unfortunately, they did not. There is a "Suikoden anime", but it's almost nothing like the games at all, given that it is placed in the future. There is no anime based on the games, though I agree, if there was, it would be a great seller.
@jcard275 I know you asked this question over two years ago, but I don't care. As far as I know, there isn't a Suikoden III anime, but there was a manga. It's eleven or so volumes and it was published by Tokyopop.
Suikoden III, the best Suikoden yet produced and my favorite game of all time. I can't wait for Suikoden VI as long as it doesn't suck like IV and V did.
Agreed. IV was a HORRIBLE game. Not just horrible for a Suikoden game... but a HORRIBLE game. I bought Suikoden V and didn't even play it because I had a bad taste in my mouth from IV. I probably will play V eventually, though, when I recover from the horror that was Suikoden IV...
@Alsark i agree but 5 is good cuz the big battles r done like in the old games and unlike 4 the story doesn't revolve in 5 around just and hanful of youn kids but a larger group of people
@Alsark LOL LOL LOL, so true man, I played Suikoden III, what an awesome game in every way, but IV was such garbage that i left it half way, yeah what a piece of junk that was, no offense to the team who worked on it, but heck it sucked. Five was good too.
@classicalmix be glad you didn't Suikoden IV because (SPOILER ALERT like it matters) the final boss is a damn sea turtle wtf that's it and it's weak as hell I left that game with a blank look on my face like that's it... and the two main villians you never fight them once in the game that games the biggest fail in rpg history
@DW1014 haha i agree.. it was promising though, except it turned out to be truly unbalanced and just plain retarded. i loved part 2 as well, but it also showed signs of unbalancement right towards the end when ur suppose to fight that big ass egg.. well i was short on healing potions if i remember correctly, nd theres no way of going back to any shops once u enter that final area, so i was stuck in a jiffy. pretty much threw all my most powerful attacks i had at that egg before it would kill me
@CrashBandikoot7 had the same problem that's why I never ended it and had restarted a new game but didn't have the motivation to play all the way thru again so yeah I see what you mean
@DW1014 wow thats nuts that u had the same problem. shitty game. i also didnt have the motivation to replay the whole thing over.. must say i loved the water colors they used for the graphics. they need to make a similar game for the newer platforms
@SuperMondo u should play 5 it's nothin like 4 they returned 2 the basics in 5 so it's really good sory i won't give u any spoilers ontil u play it but it's good
I loved Suikoden 3 despite some of the problems it had. I haven't played Suikoden 1 or 2 (but hope to some day), so I can't compare the character development to its predecessors, but I thought the story was well-written. And I don't think it was intended for the audience to care much about Wyatt dying; there is not a lot of interaction with him and he was not such a great father to Chris. The said can be said about Lulu; he was just a child and you did get to use him, but he dies so early on.
One of the reasons I don't like part 3 so much is because the character development is so poor that when...
*SPOILER*
...Wyatt died, I didn't give a bloody hell. In my opinion, the best character development in this game was...
*ANOTHER SPOILER*
During the sixth flame, Luc's story. Even that wasn't so great compared to Suikoden 2 and 5. OMG when Nanami died I cried wtf is that omg. I mean "died." And same with Lyon in part 5.
Suikoden 4 I will not even talk about. Nor Tactics.
I've never read any manga before, but if there is one for Suikoden 3, then I'll consider it. How much better is it than the game? And is there manga for all of the Suikodens and are they all worth it?
Well as far as I know the there is only one for Suikoden III. Not saying that there aren't ones for the others, but just not in America. And I really liked the Suikoden III manga, I think it came out really good and followed the story well.
Played all of them. Don't like Tactics. 1, 2, and 5 are the best. 3 was kinda experimental and it kinda worked and kinda didn't. 4 was, well, I dunno wthell the developers were thinking when they made it.
Futch, Apple, and Luc were playable characters in 1, 2, and 3. Tuta was only in 2. While Jeane and Viki were in every Suikoden game to date (Suikoden 1-5 and Tactics), Nash appears in Suikogaiden (not so much a game as it is a visual novel) and is the main character. Beecham, Lily, Lucia, and Sasari appear in 2 as NPCs and Yuber is in the 1st and 2nd as an NPC. Also Edge's Star Dragon Sword was in the 1st and 2nd game. But if you only read the manga than you probably have never seen the sword.
Sadly I never played this Suikoden and those games are so rare! I played 1, 2 and 4. Never played tactics, 3 and 5. :'( My favourite, so far, is 2. This one has the best intro though!
I remember picking up Suikoden 1 awhile ago and never being able to find 2. Then I read the manga for 3, which I JUST got around to buying it and I have to play it. I LOVE this intro though. Such a good intro and song.
I had always heard about this game series growing up and I go to the library and find the manga and i got hooked on the story...The game is hard to find thats for sure
Yeah, the general consensus about four amongst Suikoden fans (or at least, the ones I have talked to), was that Suikoden IV wasn't so great. I have Suikoden V, but haven't had the time to play it yet, so I'm not sure about that one.
@Alsark agreed... Suikoden I was a little lacking though, a bit too simple but fun, II in my opinion was the most balanced and well done. III was pretty good as well. We will not talk about IV..... and V was actually pretty interesting too, surprisingly.
I have been playing role playing games since the original Dragon Warrior for NES, and I cannot think of one that was more well-done than Suikoden III. My personal favorite of all time.
I'm a fan of Suiko V. But suiko 3 has a really great intro and I think it's underrated, not a lot but it is underrated. Bad graphics hah reminds of blocky FF7 redux
But there was one mini-game I as partial to. It was the playhouse, and it was even better if you had ported Suikoden I to Suikoden II and then to Suikoden III. There were two extra play scripts you'd get if you managed to chain them.
i cant think of a more dope intro to game than this
swishola 6 days ago
Thinking of doing a cosplay from this, but not sure if I should do Chris, Queen, or get a tan and do Aila. I'd need a wig for Chris, but for Queen I'd just need to darken my hair a little and cut it, and for Aila I'd just need a different hairstyle.
TheAltoSuperior 6 days ago in playlist The Beauty of Music
reading vinland saga manga to this is epic. Viking wars + epic theme = win.
UchihaGamer111 2 weeks ago
suikoden was and will always be one of the most incredible games i had ever played
ratonazo1 2 weeks ago
Ever since I saw this on G4 back when it really was G4 (the program Cinematech, to be more specific), I fell in love with the anime opening and the music. I swear, I have the ambition to come up with some story or game idea like this, only with a lot more anthropomorphic characters to join with or fight against humans.
ApacheMan2K 3 weeks ago
For me, this is the best opening to a video game.
The song is hypnotically catchy and the animation is top notch.
Few games pull off a truly jaw-dropping opening, and Suikoden III does it right!
Such an underrated series.
TheDarkchild1980 3 weeks ago
@TheDarkchild1980 Yes this is definitely one of the greatest openings i've seen. I love the music, and I love Chris she is so tough for being a chick. But my fav is the duck and the kid I forget his name I know it starts with H. I just wish Thomas castle was bigger, or mansion should have been a fort/castle like most Suikoden games.
UchihaGamer111 3 weeks ago
@UchihaGamer111 I totally here you on Chris. She's one of the few female video game protagonists that didn't dress like a slut and wasn't explotive sexually.
There were a number of strong female characters in all the games, which is a big plus in my book. In this game alone, we have Chris, Queen, Cecile, Lucia, that old gypsy woman who lived at Thomas castle whose name escapes me. Again, underrated game.
TheDarkchild1980 3 weeks ago
They should have made an anime series off of this game.
aDinoSupremacist 4 weeks ago 3
Aside from Chris, I liked Thomas' story as well. The idea of being a weak master of a Mansion becoming a strong leader bringing everyone together.
MikeBlessinger 1 month ago
If they made an anime of this i would watch it :D
Inufan20 1 month ago
Goddamn the music is beautiful!
MiLOzzkilo 1 month ago
they should just suprise us and make another oe for ps3 and xbox 360 that would be EPIC... cause this had one of the most original and best concepts ive seen bulding an army, ur own base of operations a great series
TheFreestylebeast 1 month ago
IMO, Suikoden 2 is the best!
bOycHiLL87 2 months ago
Is this Suikoden good? Better than I, II or V? (I won't ask about IV because I've heard that it's rlly bad xD)
Otnixin 2 months ago
@Otnixin i'v played all Suikoden's and THIS is my favorite!
duhsasjekirom666 2 months ago
GAWD dammit! i love this too muchT.T
sagemaster 2 months ago
i just got another copy of this game again recently. I'm so glad im able to play it again. Such an epic game!
allthatishere 3 months ago
Couldn't help but fall in love with this game. 4 is rough to like, and 5 is looking incredibly good.
tranceotaku 3 months ago
the best of all is suikoden 2
joset0506 4 months ago
0:36
How I wish that were true...
Xephy13 4 months ago 4
The parts that are in the intro but not in the game is likely planned content and characters that didn't make into the game somehow.
Overdoseplus 4 months ago
Easily my favourite Suikoden game in the series, and it had an awesome opening. I wish a sequel could happen so we could see some of these characters again (I know about 4 and 5, but those take place in the past).
What bugs me the most about this opening is that there are a few parts here that don't happen at all in the game (those that have played it will know what I'm talking about).
SSBFreak85 4 months ago
I heard about this during Extra Credits cutscenes episode. Indeed, this was quite awesome.
WarthogL2 4 months ago
Thumbs up if the new Extra Credits video brought you here
HyrdaRancher 4 months ago
@HyrdaRancher The video reminded me of this, and I'm having a fit of nostalgia right now watching it
Lunarvx22 4 months ago
Lady Chris was and still is soooooooo f***ing HOT!!!!! Chicks in plate mail RULE!!!!!!
Zero8880 5 months ago
How do you convert Suikoden 2 data to Suikoden 3?
starkingxxx 6 months ago
@starkingxxx I'm sure you've already figured it out by now, but..You need to of beaten Suikoden 2 with the 108 stars of destiny ending. Unfortunately the only thing you get is an extra play, two if it's Suikoden 1 and 2 data.
FoolhardyExile 5 months ago
:D
wesleypogi1 6 months ago
Y'know, at 0:35 when it says "The Story Never ends", I really wish that were true. But something good or even great and amazing never lasts forever. More-so, the longer something good goes on the more chance it has to become something bad or mediocre, look at the Final Fantasy series. There has not been a major Suikoden since Suikoden V, which was over coincidentally, five years ago. Every day that goes by, the chances of a Suikoden VI dwindle, and it's really a shame.
MassMisanthropy 6 months ago 13
@MassMisanthropy
Well, there is that new Suikoden game for the PSP that's coming out. It looks horribly generic, though. Konami DID disband its RPG team, and most of them were hired at Tri-Ace, so the chances of a new Suikoden masterpiece are really, REALLY slim.
Finnishiam 3 months ago
@MassMisanthropy Suikoden is based on the chinese classic Shui hu zhuan (The water margin) Playing the games made me interested in the book. Reading the book made me interested in learning chinese. Learning chinese made me interested in moving to China. Moving to China made my life a lot more interesting. I have now visited the places where many of the characters from the book were born, where they fought and died. Next time there is evil in the country, once again 108 heroes will be born.
sidewalkpsb 1 month ago
This was the best Suikoden game. All the other Suikoden’s are all just collectables like FFX-2.
Bktend11 7 months ago
@Bktend11 TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
fyourcouchnigga 6 months ago
@Bktend11 Have you EVER played Suikoden II?
No, seriously, have you?
RebornAleph 6 months ago
@RebornAleph
Obviously he has not. No human being in their right mind would categorize Suikoden III as the SOLE good Suikoden. Nor would anybody who has played Suikoden II dare to place it in the "Only a collectable" category.
voodkah 6 months ago
@RebornAleph best game ever!
Reichsgrahf 5 months ago
@RebornAleph my god is it amazing. i have a hard time choosing which is better though (II or III). II is such a great character driven story, but III was the first one i played and will always hold a special place in my heart.
thedandynad 4 months ago
@thedandynad That first one is always really special to us. That would be II for me, but after playing all of the rest, I quickly realized that the entire series always feels incomplete if ANY of all of its games were changed. I think every single Suikoden is awesome in its own way and they all make up one of the greatest RPG series to have ever existed.
Final Fantasy is honestly overrated (especially the latest games). Nothing can phase me more than the Suikoden series up until today.
RebornAleph 4 months ago
@RebornAleph No Haven't played Suikoden II, not yet. I hear it is very good like FFVI good compaired to FFVII. I ordered it 2 months ago and I haven't started a file in it yet. I'm too spoiled off of Suikoden IV and V with Jeane being a playable character. lol
Bktend11 2 weeks ago
this was my favorite suikoden, but if they update the first and don't screw it up then i might change my mind. the first had a great story, and we didn't care how it looked back then. awsome series!!! :)
BloodSinEngraved 7 months ago
this was my favorite suikoden, but if they update the first and don't screw it up then i might change my mind. the first had a great story, and we didn't care how it looked back then. awsome series!!! :)
BloodSinEngraved 7 months ago
WE DEMAND AN ANIME BASED ON SUIKODEN!!!!
AnimeLoversOnly 7 months ago
This is the orginal Plot twist game there was at least 4 different 1's in this game lol it was amazing
n543576 9 months ago
I remember watching this opening over and over years ago!
I'll just watch it one more time...
MoMoLoVe36 9 months ago
Looks like a Studio ghibli intro...
Marvelous.
Ryutsuna 9 months ago
One of my fav ps2 games....next to Kindom hearts of course
n543576 9 months ago
I have to say Suikoden 4 sucked. Suikoden 2, made me cry and it was what made me love the whole franchise all the more. Suikoden 3 exceeded my expectation from Suikoden 2, helloooooo better animation? :P Suikoden 4, I had to wait freakin AGES for the fight to upload... so I quit on it. Suikoden 5... hell yeah, I LOVE IT!!! :D they really should have made the series into an anime... I WILL BUY IT AND I WOULD EVEN FLY TO JAPAN FOR IT!!!
TheSugarSniper 9 months ago
i love how in the Suikoden series, excepting maybe 4, you get this sense of everyone doing what they thought was right. Our sympathies invariably lie, of course, with the protagonists, but we get the sense that had things been different, the main Good Guy could very easily have become the main Bad Guy.
johnplaystuba 9 months ago
My favourite Suikoden theme and game. Beautiful.
iamnotaplatypus 10 months ago
How old is this game?And look at this awesome animation it got there.Best Suikoden intro so far.
anano12345 11 months ago
The manga for Suikoden III was awesome I still have them and they are my favourite, it gives you a fair bit of good history on what happens in 1 and 2 and the storyline is very good. I have not yet played any of the games although would like to eventually get them....of course I hear the price in 1 & 2 are quite expensive ranging in the $200 or more.
Devidagirl 11 months ago
do you know the title of this theme? I was looking for this song...
LightKnYt 1 year ago
The manga for this is wonderful! If you like Suikoden 3, try and hunt it down!
Jagi79 1 year ago
Well there was a manga, but I haven't heard of a anime for this.
Orkb0yz 1 year ago
It's really surprising that there isn't a suikoden anime already given the huge fanbase the series has.
Valk72 1 year ago
Suiko 1 - nice(the story is great)
Suiko 2 - AWESOME!!!(Tear jerking endings)
Suiko 3 -Great(Gameplay is Great but the story is F*** up I expect that I name the hero/ previous flame champion to be the MC but SH*T he is a NPC)
Suiko 4 -Good(Game play is somewhat lame but the Story is great just feels like suiko 2 because of the MC and Snow[e])
Suiko 5 - Somewhat awesome(Storyline is great. especially at saving Lyon[the MC body guard] Gameplay is back at to suiko 2 which is NICE)
Just my opinion
yangabernard1 1 year ago
for the past 6 years I've been stuck near the end of this game. I'm stuck fighting the true element rune boss. I have Geddeo as my flame champion
Geddeo
Jacques
Ace
Joker(Pale gate rune)
Queen
Edge
and all my characters are at lvl 60 as well.
DamuEmran 1 year ago
im playing suikoden 3 right now. I'm loving the way there's 3 separate storys that slowly join together the more you play. my only complaint is that whenever there's dialogue, there's no bg music at all, just silence as you're reading the dialogue. most rpg's have music during dialogue to set the mood. but oh well, it doesnt ruin the game for me, just a little annoying.
liquidt3ch 1 year ago
one of the best games out there and making a review later on if anyone is interested
jgoth08 1 year ago
the last good suikoden though I did hate that it was set in a time way past viktor's era he was my favorite character edge had the king dragon sword but it wasn't the same 4 sucked but 5 was ok even thought the main character looks like a girl georg made up for that
DW1014 1 year ago
simply .. Suikoden II was one of the best games at that time
III had the best introduction ever!
wish they could make another great story like II used to be ~
salemkd76 1 year ago
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salemkd76 1 year ago
Lol... I agree, IV was bad. It was a rocky transition into 3D... But 4 was better and 5 was back to the good ole Suikoden 1 and 2 storyline caliber.
KingCajete 1 year ago
Suikoden 4 and 5 are great. I played 5 until i finished the game!!!!!!!!!!!!
Suikoden 2 is still te best and it`s damn rare. Suikoden 3 is also a great game. I own this game but never played it because i have a European ps2. This game was US only and i stil hate Konami for it.
I thinking to buy u NTSC Ps2 for this great game.
gustoThegangsta 1 year ago
the music is awesome, i love it ^^ but suikoden II is the best ever, this is unreachable :D
hardztyle4ever 1 year ago
Ah such memories. Back then I was taken back from how smooth and beautiful the animation was and even to these days I find this intro animation to be damn incredible.
I mean hell it's a game intro and yet better animated than a lot of crap they pass as animation these days.
MrSlaide 1 year ago
My favorite RPG ever~!!! Even Final Fantasy can't top it. Even only the new Suikoden were just as good.
Flavante 1 year ago
i bought the PS2 just to play this game :P
superSmartAss 1 year ago
Only played III, and IV. I loved III, and didn't mind IV, honestly. On a side note, I always liked Hugo best >.>
TehPwnage1337h4x0rz 1 year ago
Suikoden is one of the best games
I'm waiting for new game in PS3
you have my 5 stars =)
alkhulaifi1975 1 year ago
I just noticed something. Almost the WHOLE intro video has scenes from the 4 first books (out of 11) and praticly nowhere further. I guess they didn't want to spoil us :P
NeoArashi 2 years ago
love this intro, possibly my favorite ever.
gettothechoppa007 2 years ago
It's not sung in any particular language. It's simple chanting.
Icekin23 2 years ago 21
@Icekin23 It sounds like one of the dialecs in chinese, I think, though I'm not sure exactly. Could do some research on it as I'd like to find more of this kind of music anyways.
orphanssong 11 months ago
ANYONE KNOWS IN WICH LANGUAGE THIS INTRO IS SUNG???? o_O
AWESOME INTRO OF ALL TIME VIDEOGAMES!!!!
blitzkrieg030 2 years ago
@blitzkrieg030 it's just an ancient chant but it sounds really nice
dualscioneer 1 year ago
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NeoArashi 2 years ago
I haven't played any of these games except for the third one, and it's awesome. The intro had me hooked - truthfully I was hoping the atmosphere in the game would stick more to what they had shown in the intro movie, but it's a great game nonetheless. I rate it in those games that come close to Chrono Trigger truth be told.
viskarenvisla 2 years ago
Come close????????
Chrono Trigger is 3rd rate garbage! There is nothing that those money gobblers at Square that could get close to as Epic as the plot to Suikoden 3 or really any Suikoden. No Final Fantasy game will have characters as illuring as the superbly well written backgrounds and growth of the characters in Suikoden 3!
WTF
milkdj 2 years ago
@milkdj i agree with u i'm just eagerly awaitin 4 any news about suikoden 6
dualscioneer 1 year ago
Anyone know if there's an anime for this?
Ev3ntum 2 years ago
No. Not that I know of.
Dantelivingrazor 2 years ago
theres a manga
BlightHyaki 2 years ago 2
does anyone know name of intro cant find it anywhere
kyuzzo 3 years ago
the song is exceeding love or transcending love.
sundina501621 3 years ago
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I get hyped off ALL suikoden games even IV..lol..real talk my d**k gets hard when i play them....lol....oh yeah NO HOMO!!!
DWAYY82 3 years ago
1st was great, 2nd was truly awesome, 3rd was great too especially this intro but was a bit lacking, No.4 was horrible truly horrible, sadly i havent played 5 but from these comments at least it seems it isnt as bad as VI
stryfe1000 3 years ago 4
I'm still looking for the manga that goes to this game.
MrWillsave 3 years ago
There is a Suikoden 3 manga. I already bought it a long time ago.
bOycHiLL 3 years ago
Is the manga good? A very good friend of mine got them all, and I intend on borrowing them from her.
NeoArashi 2 years ago
I just bough the first two manga. It's really awesome (and quite violent :P)
NeoArashi 2 years ago
This is my favorite game intro of all times. IMO the game sucked but I was just happy to have it cuz of the intro lol, I would always watch it when starting the game up.
Slacker665 3 years ago
It did not suck it just needed to be revised and they should have spent more time one it. The jiu jitsu teaching were awesome addition to the games to come.
rockiwan 3 years ago 2
Best Video Game Intro EVER!
LykosVI 3 years ago
The only problem I really had with this game were the load times...
pugnaciousboxer2 3 years ago
This is my third favorite rpg for the ps2. Shin Megami Tensei 3 and Shadow Heart 2 are at the top though. I loved the epic feel to this game...
pugnaciousboxer2 3 years ago
looks like a miyazaki's movie
popcornflakes 3 years ago 3
guys...where can i read the manga for suikoden III
flawless90 3 years ago
I don't know any sites, but I'm sure Tokyopop may have some samples to look at.
LykosVI 3 years ago
Suikoden 3, awesome game, own it and the japanese collectors set.... Always loved the intro song and anima intro. Great Job!
Hunterofthedammed 3 years ago
did they ever made this game into anime if so i think it would be a hit and i would so buy it
jcard275 3 years ago 9
Unfortunately, they did not. There is a "Suikoden anime", but it's almost nothing like the games at all, given that it is placed in the future. There is no anime based on the games, though I agree, if there was, it would be a great seller.
Alsark 3 years ago 9
@Alsark They DID make a manga tho :)
n543576 9 months ago
@Alsark There is, however, a couple mangas based on the Suikoden games. I hear they're pretty good.
MaskJackal100 7 months ago
@Alsark I'm a little late to the party here but I know there is in fact a Suikoden 3 Manga however that I think was released by Tokyo Pop.
darknight910 3 months ago
@jcard275 I know you asked this question over two years ago, but I don't care. As far as I know, there isn't a Suikoden III anime, but there was a manga. It's eleven or so volumes and it was published by Tokyopop.
Prinnynation 9 months ago
@jcard275 no, and if they did im sure it would suck ass like all other animes. suikoden games are awesome but fuck anime
lazer59882 7 months ago
Suikoden III, the best Suikoden yet produced and my favorite game of all time. I can't wait for Suikoden VI as long as it doesn't suck like IV and V did.
renji1558 3 years ago
Don't compare V with IV plz, IV was badddd
SuperMondo 3 years ago 13
Yeah! Suikoden V is the third best y'know!
prettydollzz 3 years ago
I will agree that V is nowhere near as bad as IV but it didn't give me a good pick-me-up after IV. I need a new one that lives up to III's legacy!
renji1558 3 years ago
Agreed. IV was a HORRIBLE game. Not just horrible for a Suikoden game... but a HORRIBLE game. I bought Suikoden V and didn't even play it because I had a bad taste in my mouth from IV. I probably will play V eventually, though, when I recover from the horror that was Suikoden IV...
Alsark 3 years ago 4
i cant agree with that, sure suiko IV isnt as good as others but if you are a real suiko fan you just cant hate it,
about suikoden V its almost as good as suiko 1 and 2, you are surely missing something if you dont play it ^^
ayahh11 3 years ago
being a true suikoden fan would mean not accpeting such a sucky ass game that VI was
stryfe1000 3 years ago
not being as good as suikoden 2 doesnt mean its a sucky ass game
i still loved it, specially the tactics that goes with
ayahh11 3 years ago
@Alsark u should play 5 it's good nothin like 4
dualscioneer 1 year ago
@Alsark i agree but 5 is good cuz the big battles r done like in the old games and unlike 4 the story doesn't revolve in 5 around just and hanful of youn kids but a larger group of people
dualscioneer 1 year ago
@Alsark Please do, cause V is an amazing game, and my personal favorite in the series :)
Xelpherpolis 1 year ago
@Alsark LOL LOL LOL, so true man, I played Suikoden III, what an awesome game in every way, but IV was such garbage that i left it half way, yeah what a piece of junk that was, no offense to the team who worked on it, but heck it sucked. Five was good too.
classicalmix 1 year ago
@classicalmix be glad you didn't Suikoden IV because (SPOILER ALERT like it matters) the final boss is a damn sea turtle wtf that's it and it's weak as hell I left that game with a blank look on my face like that's it... and the two main villians you never fight them once in the game that games the biggest fail in rpg history
DW1014 1 year ago
@DW1014 i think nothing could be worse then the first saga frontier
CrashBandikoot7 1 year ago
@CrashBandikoot7 lol I like to imagine that game doesn't exist lol Pt2 was good tho I liked Gustav
DW1014 1 year ago
@DW1014 haha i agree.. it was promising though, except it turned out to be truly unbalanced and just plain retarded. i loved part 2 as well, but it also showed signs of unbalancement right towards the end when ur suppose to fight that big ass egg.. well i was short on healing potions if i remember correctly, nd theres no way of going back to any shops once u enter that final area, so i was stuck in a jiffy. pretty much threw all my most powerful attacks i had at that egg before it would kill me
CrashBandikoot7 1 year ago
@CrashBandikoot7 had the same problem that's why I never ended it and had restarted a new game but didn't have the motivation to play all the way thru again so yeah I see what you mean
DW1014 1 year ago
@DW1014 wow thats nuts that u had the same problem. shitty game. i also didnt have the motivation to replay the whole thing over.. must say i loved the water colors they used for the graphics. they need to make a similar game for the newer platforms
CrashBandikoot7 1 year ago
@SuperMondo u should play 5 it's nothin like 4 they returned 2 the basics in 5 so it's really good sory i won't give u any spoilers ontil u play it but it's good
dualscioneer 1 year ago
@dualscioneer I did and beat it, loved 5
SuperMondo 1 year ago
I loved Suikoden 3 despite some of the problems it had. I haven't played Suikoden 1 or 2 (but hope to some day), so I can't compare the character development to its predecessors, but I thought the story was well-written. And I don't think it was intended for the audience to care much about Wyatt dying; there is not a lot of interaction with him and he was not such a great father to Chris. The said can be said about Lulu; he was just a child and you did get to use him, but he dies so early on.
jbd86es 3 years ago
One of the reasons I don't like part 3 so much is because the character development is so poor that when...
*SPOILER*
...Wyatt died, I didn't give a bloody hell. In my opinion, the best character development in this game was...
*ANOTHER SPOILER*
During the sixth flame, Luc's story. Even that wasn't so great compared to Suikoden 2 and 5. OMG when Nanami died I cried wtf is that omg. I mean "died." And same with Lyon in part 5.
Suikoden 4 I will not even talk about. Nor Tactics.
TheWitnesserer 3 years ago
Yeah, but the Manga kinda fixed that, didn't it?
thedemonlonewolf 3 years ago
Yeah, but we're talking about the games. The manga always fixes everything lol.
TheWitnesserer 3 years ago
Haha.
thedemonlonewolf 3 years ago
I've never read any manga before, but if there is one for Suikoden 3, then I'll consider it. How much better is it than the game? And is there manga for all of the Suikodens and are they all worth it?
jbd86es 3 years ago
Well as far as I know the there is only one for Suikoden III. Not saying that there aren't ones for the others, but just not in America. And I really liked the Suikoden III manga, I think it came out really good and followed the story well.
thedemonlonewolf 3 years ago
Played all of them. Don't like Tactics. 1, 2, and 5 are the best. 3 was kinda experimental and it kinda worked and kinda didn't. 4 was, well, I dunno wthell the developers were thinking when they made it.
TheWitnesserer 3 years ago
I never heard of the Suikoden series until I started reading the Manga.. Then I found out it was a game.
This intro is made up of so much epic win and cheese. <3 It makes me want to hunt the game down.
Just one question, though.. Do the characters from the Manga/Game appear in the other 3, or are they exclusive to Suikoden III?
Crystalwolfie1 3 years ago
Futch, Apple, and Luc were playable characters in 1, 2, and 3. Tuta was only in 2. While Jeane and Viki were in every Suikoden game to date (Suikoden 1-5 and Tactics), Nash appears in Suikogaiden (not so much a game as it is a visual novel) and is the main character. Beecham, Lily, Lucia, and Sasari appear in 2 as NPCs and Yuber is in the 1st and 2nd as an NPC. Also Edge's Star Dragon Sword was in the 1st and 2nd game. But if you only read the manga than you probably have never seen the sword.
thedemonlonewolf 3 years ago
Er messed up...meant so say Tuta was in 2 and 3.
thedemonlonewolf 3 years ago
Sadly I never played this Suikoden and those games are so rare! I played 1, 2 and 4. Never played tactics, 3 and 5. :'( My favourite, so far, is 2. This one has the best intro though!
Xlolita89X 3 years ago 2
Suikoden 2 is best one , i mean best rpg ever! Suikoden 3 is have good story but they changed the battle system but its good,
XxIgorxX 3 years ago
I remember picking up Suikoden 1 awhile ago and never being able to find 2. Then I read the manga for 3, which I JUST got around to buying it and I have to play it. I LOVE this intro though. Such a good intro and song.
thedemonlonewolf 3 years ago
Suikoden 2 is the best suikoden, it has perfect story and everything else :D but this intor is the best intro XD
MatejKun 3 years ago
I haven't played 1 and 2 (could'nt find them)
3 never came to my cuntry, the 4 is okay, and the 5 (whiche was my fisrt suikoden experince) was really good.
i hope they make 6.
weigan 3 years ago
This song reminds me SOOO much of the opening song of the first Ghost in the Shell movie. Same kind of beautiful sad type song.
boenthugz 4 years ago
I was thinking the same thing. XD
thedemonlonewolf 3 years ago
i think this one has the best intro out of all the suikoden games
fankiller 4 years ago
That intro is so epic, makes me want to go out and find the game.
KAZUSHIKIMINOUE 4 years ago 3
I had always heard about this game series growing up and I go to the library and find the manga and i got hooked on the story...The game is hard to find thats for sure
sukiloo24 4 years ago
They put out a manga from the Game and i recomended it. its really well done and if your not the gaming type its nice.
narutofangirl13 4 years ago
Amazing intro, the rest of the game not so great.
boenthugz 4 years ago
You don't know what you're talking about! I love Suikoden 3 more than I love 1 and 2!
rjA0zcOQ96 4 years ago
idk y but i personally think this game was better than IV and V, im not sure about V, but idk the scenario in this one was good
howlingBlade 4 years ago
Yeah, the general consensus about four amongst Suikoden fans (or at least, the ones I have talked to), was that Suikoden IV wasn't so great. I have Suikoden V, but haven't had the time to play it yet, so I'm not sure about that one.
I still like Suikoden 1 and 2 the best...
Alsark 4 years ago
I seen suikoden 2 but it seem ok and kinda fun, 1 i havnt tried so im not sure, 3 i thought was da best, 4 sucked kinda, and 5 its alright..
howlingBlade 4 years ago
@Alsark agreed... Suikoden I was a little lacking though, a bit too simple but fun, II in my opinion was the most balanced and well done. III was pretty good as well. We will not talk about IV..... and V was actually pretty interesting too, surprisingly.
orphanssong 11 months ago
the song is called exceeding love..
howlingBlade 4 years ago
how do you know?
KariNirvash 4 years ago
i downloaded it O.o
howlingBlade 4 years ago
oooo.
KariNirvash 4 years ago
Whats the name of this artist or song i wanna DL it
Norg1 4 years ago
Ridiculously captivating intro.
Denamic 4 years ago
wow i read the manga. it looks so cool animated
animewarrior08 4 years ago
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this is the opening for the game stupid
baronofcheese 4 years ago
i didnt know
inulover333 4 years ago
I recognize it because I had the game
baronofcheese 4 years ago
I have been playing role playing games since the original Dragon Warrior for NES, and I cannot think of one that was more well-done than Suikoden III. My personal favorite of all time.
itsmelen 4 years ago
this game was way easy
DrAwesome12 4 years ago
suikoden 2 is best but this is best intro
XxIgorxX 4 years ago
I'm a fan of Suiko V. But suiko 3 has a really great intro and I think it's underrated, not a lot but it is underrated. Bad graphics hah reminds of blocky FF7 redux
USCHoodman 4 years ago
i like 5 the most but tactics waz a failure 3 is pretty hard :P jus cant beat sarah i can almost kill her then the true water rune
monkeyomg 4 years ago
victor, flik, pesmerga, etc etc still in S3?
baakashinobi 4 years ago
suikoden 3 has the best intro but the graphics are crap
monkeyomg 4 years ago
I have to agree.
But there was one mini-game I as partial to. It was the playhouse, and it was even better if you had ported Suikoden I to Suikoden II and then to Suikoden III. There were two extra play scripts you'd get if you managed to chain them.
gumako 4 years ago
I had a copy of this game, but I can't find it. :| The introduction, like many of you guys have said was brilliantly done.
blaze14220 4 years ago
Is this the same story as in the Suikoden game to playstation 1?
EiriYuki92 4 years ago
The 108 stars of destiny thing is still there, but no, the story is different.
Alsark 4 years ago
I adore Suikoden 3 very much!
daryljayeborda2 4 years ago