Why such stupidity?

[Colonel Death]

No voice acting? Konami really wants this series to remain dead it seems. They didn't want to change the voice acting in MGS 3 Delta as well.

What is it with Konami and voice acting?

[Melodia]

Why would you expect a PSX game that had no voice acting to suddently have voice acting?

[Colonel Death]

Originally posted by Melodia:

Why would you expect a PSX game that had no voice acting to suddently have voice acting?

Other HD remasters. Also, common sense.

[AnxiousBlue]

That's not how common sense works. Not every game, remaster or otherwise, suddenly gets or needs voice acting. I personally don't think this one needs it and would probably just turn it off if it did.

[Colonel Death]

Originally posted by AnxiousBlue:

That's not how common sense works. Not every game, remaster or otherwise, suddenly gets or needs voice acting. I personally don't think this one needs it and would probably just turn it off if it did.

You don't want this franchise to succeed then

[AnxiousBlue]

Originally posted by Colonel Death:

Originally posted by AnxiousBlue:

That's not how common sense works. Not every game, remaster or otherwise, suddenly gets or needs voice acting. I personally don't think this one needs it and would probably just turn it off if it did.

You don't want this franchise to succeed then

Yeah, sure, that response makes sense. You got me. Now I know why Suikoden has fallen into decay over time: insufficient voice acting.

I'll telephone Director Konami posthaste.

[CoffeeCat]

Originally posted by Colonel Death:

Originally posted by AnxiousBlue:

That's not how common sense works. Not every game, remaster or otherwise, suddenly gets or needs voice acting. I personally don't think this one needs it and would probably just turn it off if it did.

You don't want this franchise to succeed then

the dude is dead bro

[Wanderer]

I just wish the remaster would be as good as the star ocean one but i highly doubt it.

[GoldInfinit7]

Maybe they don't want the same thing that happened with Silent Hill HD collection where people didn't like the new voice acting that replaced the original. Maybe they're scared the voice acting will ruin specific scenes as they can't do them justice by voice acting.

[Corsair]

I have voices for all the characters already, my imagination made them decades ago. I would switch that off in an instant. There's 108 main characters alone...

[BahamutXero]

I don't think expecting voice acting in a Suikoden game is reasonable. There's 108 characters and to make each one unique would take a lot of resources that could be used on other parts of the game.

[dog_force21]

Not to play the devil's advocate but given the fact that this game has been delayed for so long you would think they would actually ADD something to this instead of it just being a direct port. Yes I know the creator? Or someone else important to the series died but that was recent and this game was delayed LONG before than.

[BahamutXero]

I understand your point, but recent history has shown that game developers as of late have done some really weird stuff lately. I'm not saying something else may be included down the line, but I seriously doubt it and don't want people jump on the hype train and then have their hopes and dreams dashed when it's a low quality HD port instead of a "remaster".

[AnxiousBlue]

Originally posted by dog_force21:

Not to play the devil's advocate but given the fact that this game has been delayed for so long you would think they would actually ADD something to this instead of it just being a direct port. Yes I know the creator? Or someone else important to the series died but that was recent and this game was delayed LONG before than.

Have you not seen screenshots or footage of these HD remasters? That look like a direct port to you, that adds nothing, just because they didn't throw in unnecessary voice acting? Not saying these will be amazing HD remasters or that they will be superior to the originals, my hopes are admittedly low and I've been satisfied with the originals for decades, but they ain't the games I grew up with as-is.

[Zio]

Guess none of you you have even watched Yuichi/Installbase's streams with Suikoden and other Konami games etc? The fact that there are no latter Suikoden rereleases is because of the voice acting. The short answer is a lot of legalese.
Likewise, though this is just my theory because you can't get an actual word out of either party, is that the only reason we get this Suikoden I & II version is BECAUSE it is not a simple port, hardly anything aside from the character sprites is the same. And the reason for that is most likely that Konami signed contracts with Sony that prohibit them from releasing the games in their exact form elsewhere. Everywhere everyone keeps yelling about Metal Gear Solid and Castelvania Symphony of the Night, the only reason Konami wouldn't rerelease the living hell out of the both of them, is because they can't.

Personally I would prefer to get a "simple port" (which is not always as simple as people think, there is no single button you push to just magically have it on another platform), or at least to get the option to switch between updated HD graphics and their original versions but I'm glad we get ANY version of it at all. Making significant changes to the original in any way is always going to be a bad choice, but sometimes the only possible one.

[AnxiousBlue]

The one thing I'm curious/excited about is that I assume both games will be re-localized. I love Suikoden I & II to death but they had some translation hiccups and other problems.