Sony or RPG fans i need some recommendations

[Nem]

Pachofilauri said:

Nem said:

Hmm.. Suikoden V.

Not that im a fanboy of anything mind you. I like both Nintendo and Sony. I used to like Microsoft aswell until they started trying to rape my wallet for any means necessary and stopped supporting my system.

Though i used to be an avid SEGA fanboy. Old SEGA was the best.

do i need to play Suikoden 1-4 to understand? 

Not at all.

Suikoden titles are stand alone stories, though they sometimes have common characters you can recruit. Suiko V takes place hundreads of years after Suiko 4 and a decade or two before Suikoden 1, 2 and 3. There would be nods there if you had played the first two games, but nothing story related.

Think of Suikoden games like Zelda. They have a common thread but each game takes place in a different place with different characters. Though Zelda always features the princess and Link, they are also different people almost everytime. Gameplay wise they are completely different games though.