We're playing Suikoden II? Hooray!

I never did the trick myself, was wondering if they bothered putting him on the list for the Greenhill team considering he's not supposed to be recruitable yet.

Alright, let's get real here. Let's get really real. Nobuyuki, you're a relative newbie on the forums. That obviously has nothing to do with your writing ability or your technical ability to do this LP. But that does mean you can abandon this project with little to no guilt. You've taken on something truly monumental and horrible here. When the LP subforum first started, a bunch of people rushed in and did some half-hearted LPs. Others did some great ones, but later abandoned them. We're already planning a massive group project for Suikoden III, and IV and V are sure to come not long after. You sort of have to see this thing through once you start. Speaking from experience, doing an LP of an RPG is a really long and excruciating experience.

I'm not saying you can't do it, I just want to make sure that you know what you're getting into and that you're going to see it through. If you want to back out, then that's fine. But don't start what you can't finish, you know?

If you decide to go through with this, then I wish you the best of luck.

P.S. Don't feel obligated to finish Clive's quest since that would make the entire game feel rushed and would hurt your LP as a whole.

P.P.S. Pancho is a great name for a main character.

You know, I've played this game four times and never saw the whole Clive subquest.

I'm an inch away from volunteering a parallel run myself. I've read that it's possible to collect everyone and do the Clive quest...and then I find that my PC runs the game perfectly and I remember that it is the best game ever.

No really, someone tell me to shut up. Please. My proper place on the LP board is reading, and I know it.

You should name him Blondie.

Geez Alix, kind of a Negative Nancy, aren't we?

Anyway I'm mailing out the card today so the legacy of circlecdohl can live on.

Now, now, Alixar, if he abandons this one, he will be strung up and destroyed utterly by all the peoples of the 'Time. Surely he was aware of this before starting, no need to get get all uppity. And Tanto was pretty new when he started Fire Emblem, wasn't he (I don't remember)? Though, honestly, that is a part of the reason why I stick to little bitty games.

I would like the New Hero to be called... Fungasm. Because that is the result of playing Suikoden 2, so it is therefor an appropriate name.

And I humbly request an overuse of Lorelai, to make up for her being underused in Bricks run. Yes, Mr. Road, I'm still bitter about that.

Hooray, one less jRPG I'll have to slog through! One of you guys needs to get on Persona 3 stat so I don't have to bother going back to it either.

Yeah, I feel sorry for the guy who has to do that.

I understand the concern, but I do realize how much work this is going to be and I'm alright with that. I love this game and this seems like it'll be a fun, new way to go through it, while also showing it off to people who've never had a chance to play it. Like I told Brick, I am a student and that occasionally keeps me very busy so I can't promise I'll always be quick with the updates, but it is something I want to see through. He also has my address now, so if I do leave you know where to direct your unruly mob vengeance.

Still no consensus on the names. I'm gonna go ahead and say Heero and Eureeka are leading because neither of them are smiley faces. Any more ideas?

Come on guys, think of a new gibberish name! We have to annoy our LP hosts to the best of our ability!

I'm kind of ok with this LP not going super-fast, since that gives us more time before the Suiko III run in which to wait for a PS3 screenshotting update that will make all our lives much easier. -_-

I think Hiro Protagonist is as excellent name. Obviously you wouldn't be able to input the last name, but we'd know it's there.

Also, Lorelai.

The hero of Suiko2 is always making this dumb scared rabbit face, so years ago I started calling him Scared Rabbit Boy, and have taken to naming him SRB in most of my playthroughs.

There's at least one member of Talking Time (and I suspect one or two others) you could irritate immensely by naming him either William or Makoto.

Maybe he should be named SonGoku since he looks like he stole his wardrobe from him.

The Journey to the West one, not the Dragonball character.

;_;

x_x;;

Like I said, I'm not saying he can't do it or that I don't want him to. I just want to make sure he knows that a lot of people we be upset if he starts it and bails. I wanted to give him the chance to reconsider, you know?

This. This times a billion.

Alright, sounds good. Good luck.

man, screw lorelai. her time is suiko 5. this game is all about the man in white--Shiro.


yeah, bitches.

Whos the most useless, annoying, worst character you can use?

I vote for him.

It's almost a shame "Sarah Palin" doesn't fit into the name box.

I'm suggesting "BoySlave".

Yeah, you're right. I'd much rather hang out with a wolf than hang out with a super hot/super bad ass Indiana Jones-style adventurer chick.

Don't listen to Shivam. He's gotten into gramp's medicine cabinet again. Lorelai is the way to go. Oh, and Georg Prime and Killey are musts as well. I demand a Suikoden V reunion tour party!

I can tell you right now I'll be picking whatever random-ass characters come up as my suggestions. Blacksmiths, gardeners, whores, puppies- you name it.

He was, having only a dozen or so posts under his name when he started. Didn't stop him from kicking ass and finishing the longest LP on record, though!

Anyway, it's a person-to-person thing for the most part, but Nobuyuki's initiative and TT's sheer love for the Suiko games should help buoy him for most of the way through. Let's see where he can take things first before we let the wolves come out.

I am not even joking.

Technically he's the man in blue, since the only actual piece of clothing he's wearing in blue.

I mean unless you'd call Hauser "the man in brown". Which would be pretty hella funny actually.

I have a bone to pick with that little twerp. I failed to recruit Oulan SEVERAL TIMES because I stuck Tuta in my party assuming with absolute certainty there was no way this jailbait little kid could be in possession of a Y chromosome.

It's a shame the sheep girl can't be put in the party.

Also I am going to vote LOUD, HARD and OFTEN for Viki.

Seriously you people are going to see so much Viki you might actually throw up a little.

Suikoden II has not one, but two Giant Women. I want to see all Hanna and Oulan, all the time.

oh! we have to use Yoshino! she's so dreamy~~~

Count all of Brick's Viki votes as one for me too.

Also - Nina and Zamza.

For the Book Belt of Love and Iron Fist of Rage

Or Tuta and Wakaba for extreme gender confusion.

You should see him in III. He's actually normal looking.

This LP will follow the adventures of Mr. Hiro Protagonist, mostly cause it’s easy to type. Having given him a name the game now asks if we want to import Suikoden save data. From Suiko II on this becomes a series tradition, importing save data from game to game. Doing this has different advantages from game to game, but it’s most worthwhile here. And for the record, no I’m not using ○✗∆□☆‘s data at the moment. Don’t worry, it’ll all make sense eventually.





The game starts out with Hiro and his childhood friend Jowy in a camp outside of the Jowston border. They’re both members of Highland’s Unicore Brigade, a youth corps whose name is surly feared far and wide. I’m assuming that name was chosen over the Happiness Squad or the Friendship Platoon. The history of Highland and Jowston involves many skirmishes and border disputes, but a peace treaty had just been signed and the Kittens Army is scheduled to return to Hiro’s home town of Kyaro the next day.


Jowy mentions how relieved Hiro’s sister Nanami will be to see him again. Nanami and Hiro aren’t technically related, but both were orphaned by the war and raised by a man named Genkaku.


Wandering around the camp Hiro talks to some of the other soldiers, who say they can’t wait to get back home and in general just how much they love living.