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But yes, I don't think I'd be exagerrating when I say Earthbound is the BEST RPG I'VE EVER PLAYED. Coming from a childhood of Final Fantasies, Zeldas, and Soul Blazer trilogies - all high quality stuff, obviously - Earthbound just BLEW ME AWAY. The modern settings, the wacky and often hilarious text, the NPCs that you actually WANTED to talk to, the crazy enemies, the utterly terrifying final boss, the weapons (baseball bats! Frying pans! YO-YOS!), calling your dad, getting homesick...
GUSH GUSH GUSH
But anyway, I'm obviously a big fan of this game. Few other RPGs have been able to garner such a die-hard following. Anyone else into it around here?
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I love the humor, battle system,weapons, and pretty much everything about it to be honest its my most favorite game series!
But sadly since it took place in modern day times unlike the trend of medieval games it was ignored.
Have you played Mother 3 yet?
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I think I need to break it out and play it again. It's been years.
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I got so pissed of that it's wasn't even remotely fun anymore. It is rare to see games that are SO poorly made.
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Still, I want my Mother 3. Earthbound forever!
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Mikker wrote:
Tried it, got stuck early, and never got why everyone thought that this is a good game. The humour ended up being lame, and the fighting got so rediculously hard at that point that it was impossible to get anywhere without dying. I had to have a 20 min long conversation with Wooster before I could get past that part, which includes cheat codes. Who the heck is that apple kid, anyway?
Only place I got stuck was at the Dept. Store Spook and that was because I sucked massively at the game.
Perhaps the answer as to why you got stuck lies in yourself?
And the battle system was not "ahead of its' time". It was a re-tooled version of the old school Dragon Quest system.
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Attorney Hatman wrote:
And the battle system was not "ahead of its' time". It was a re-tooled version of the old school Dragon Quest system.
I didn't say the battle system was ahead of its time, I said it was memorable. And to me, at least, it was. (Earthbound in general was ahead of its time.) Please try not to pick apart my statements so much. I have played Dragon Quests before.
Anyway, I really loved that game. It was pretty unique. Most of all, I remember things like Casey's Bat, which had very low accuracy.
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Tajiri Ami wrote:
I didn't say the battle system was ahead of its time, I said it was memorable. And to me, at least, it was. (Earthbound in general was ahead of its time.) Please try not to pick apart my statements so much. I have played Dragon Quests before.
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Oh and Mikker doesn't seem to understand the meaning of the word grinding. A need for effort is not a design flam.
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Rebel: Oh man, I WISH I could get Mother 3. Unfortunately - living in a PAL region - I'd have to wait for it to be officially translated into English. Then brought to America. Then to Europe. Then down here where I am to Australia.
...I swear, Earthbound fans must be masochists for faithfully waiting this long.
Wooster - I'M THE THIRD STRONGEST
Tony - Oh my God, yes. Get that get it now before someone else takes it now now now.
Tajiri - I heard somewhere that if you Use the Casey Bat as an item while you have another bat equipped - say, the Gutsy Bat - it'll equip and hit every time. I tested it out myself and the trick seems to work.
Plastecine - I noticed on the Mother 3 section in tSR that there is a city with a abundance of Pokey-ness. Is that as horrid as I'm imagining it to be?
And hey, one more thing. The FRANKLIN BADGE is gonna be an item in Super Smash Bros: Brawl.
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By the way, Mother 3 is never going to be officially translated. :"(
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Plastecine wrote:
Oh and Mikker doesn't seem to understand the meaning of the word grinding. A need for effort is not a design flam.
Ehm, yes. Yes it is. If the storyline doesn't flow with the experience gained from random battles, it will end up grinding, which I see as a critical error. Not that theres anything wrong with grinding, but the entire game up to that point was one long grind. Finally when it seems like a plot point is FINALLY going to ensure, it just breaks down and asks you to grind even more. No thank you. I'll rather watch grass grow. The game lost it's charm after that part with the fly. The rest was boredom. And while you can finally exclaim 'yes! Something is going to happen!' when you hear of that girl kidnapped, it stops you from going to the actual plot event. How very nice. Not.
Anyhow, this was the problem, yes. At the point, I was apperently supposed to be "at
least Level 15-16" according to a random gameFAQs tutorial I digged up. In fact, at that point, I was level 6. No wonder I couldn't get anywhere without dying. That's some needed grind there. 10+ levels? That's what I like to call a break in the game.
When I've spend days trying to get a frickin' puzzle solved, the last thing you want is to find out you need to spend several more days trying to level up in order to get past to the next point, if you don't want to get killed while walking arround town. The game stops. I rarely hate games, but this is one of the instances where I do. Terrible game design. Same thing Final Fantasy 12 suffers from. You won't get far before you get thrown into several extremely long dungeons with no healing posibilities in between. You got fatigued very easily, and this throw alot of people off.
And the bad jokes doesn't really help on your mood when you're pissed off at it.
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The only time I got stuck was when I purposely avoided enemies, simply because I wasn't in the mood to fight. That's something that most RPGs warn against, though.
...Plus, you can never really take what GameFAQs says seriously. I've flown through games WAY below their recommendations a whole bunch of times.
Haha, I remember the magic cake sequences. And the "coffee" and "tea" breaks. WE KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING, MR. SATURNS!
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Twin: It's true, I also never avoid creatures... except for the last part where avoiding them were my only chance of surviving. I don't know how I could get in such a situation, but the game was hard the entire way through. I don't know, did I miss some sort of dungeon?
But anyway, I might just try to start over from scratch again. I may have gotten a wrong angle on it, but it just stopped being fun. The storyline is so shallow that once the game is so annoying it isn't fun, the game loses it's purpose, it seems. But damn, I'm not looking forward to getting through that biker-squad again. That was one of the hardest bosses I've ever seen in any RPG...
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@Mikker
as for MSOB's comment, it's sort of a joke, since one of the ailments in earthbound is a character turning into a diamond.
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Objectionification wrote:
I'm sort of playing through Earthbound now, slowly.
By the way, Mother 3 is never going to be officially translated. :"(
By the way, Mother 3 is never going to be officially translated. :"(
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Starmen.net have tried things like this before to no avail, and I can't see things being different this time. Besides, the GBA is being phased out, so I don't see how Nintendo would consider bringing over a new game themselves when they've shown little interest in the console for months.
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Uh, and yeah. I like my EB.
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Objectionification wrote:
Those topics are interesting enough, but I don't see how they tell us that Mother 3 will ever come to the US.
Starmen.net have tried things like this before to no avail, and I can't see things being different this time. Besides, the GBA is being phased out, so I don't see how Nintendo would consider bringing over a new game themselves when they've shown little interest in the console for months.
Starmen.net have tried things like this before to no avail, and I can't see things being different this time. Besides, the GBA is being phased out, so I don't see how Nintendo would consider bringing over a new game themselves when they've shown little interest in the console for months.
Because they could never port Mother 3 to DS, I mean a remake of a GBA game on DS?
Unheard of!
Also, read the "Earthbound on VC" topic, it says it's sales will decide if Mother 3 comes to America.
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Gee, who ever heard of a popular GBA game in Japan getting ported for the DS for the International release. It's scientifically impossible.
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And as far as I can see, Earthbound isn't on the VC yet in the US. Did Nintendo actually announce it?
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I'm just ardently hoping for a VC release of Earthbound. You know, so I can play it LEGALLY.
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I've finally got off my butt and started playing Earthbound again from where I left it:
Spoiler:
...and now I'm all the way up to Giygas. Sitting right in front of him, pretty much. And for the first time, I feel INTIMIDATED. I remember what it was like the last (also the only) time I fought him, and it was SCARY. Not just the atmosphere, but the oh-god-please-let-me-survive-I-don't-wanna-die deep-down feeling in your gut that I've only really ever gotten from Giygas. He - and this is a first for any VG villain - truly puts the fear in me.
Isn't that great?
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Mother 3 is the best out of all of them hands down......Well, time to go before people kill me for bringing a dead topic back to life.
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Those wonderful people at starmen.net call nintendo every day and ask about Mother 3 coming over to the USA, and doesn't nintendo know it... sometimes they reply with stuff like "Yeah, we've been getting a lot of calls about this lately." But IMO, the only thing that will really get nintendo thinking of localizing mother 3 is if Earthbound was to be released on the virtual console and then to sell like hotcakes.
They say mother 3 is too text-heavy to be localized, or at least localized for a profit, but isn't our own Ace Attorney series also very text-heavy? They localize that for not only the USA but for a bunch of European countries too! Then again, that's capcom. Maybe nintendo could learn something from them >.>
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I'd love for all 3 Mother's to be released here in one DS cart (like an EGM rumor stated), but I'm not holding my breath.
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I really, really want play the Mother series! If they don't, then I'll rip them off by making my own Earthbound RPG...
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EARTHBOUND has been spotted on esrb.org as rated Everyone, and to be released on the Wii. This basically confirms that Earthbound is going to be released on the Virtual Console! See link: http://www.esrb.org/ratings/search.jsp? ... Search.y=7
This is the chance for everyone who is an Earthbound fan living in North America, or even Europe, to make a contribution. If Nintendo sees high sales of Earthbound on the Virtual Console... well, that's the most effective way of telling Nintendo "We want Mother!" It's a business, after all. My Wii-owning friends don't even know what Mother is besides Ness and Lucas from Smash Bros., but if they won't buy EB on the VC themselves, I intend to pay for it for them, regardless of whether they'll actually play the game or not.
I know you Mother fans are out there. Heck, maybe you're not even a Mother fan, maybe you just like traditional RPG games. It doesn't matter, this is the chance we've all been waiting for. Make it count!
Summary: Buy Earthbound when it gets released on the Wii's Virtual Console, and maybe, just maybe, Nintendo will finally release the elusive Mother games in North America/Europe. They need to see high sales of Earthbound before they do that, though.
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The VC version is listed on the ESRB website. I've actually never played Earthbound before... (I don't have a SNES)
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Also, I had a dream last night I played it again. O-o IS MY MIND TRYING TO TELL ME THINGS? ;-;
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NOA hates the Mother franchise due to how poorly EarthBound sold (even though it was entirely their fault for that).
The GameBoy Advance is a dead handheld that Nintendo no longer supports.
Nintendo is not going to port Mother 3 to the DS.
NOA refuses to translate Mother 3 because the game includes a tribe of transexuals and they would want the game to be rated E. Modifying the tribe to meet E rating standards would damage the plot significantly.
Reggie himself admitted to thinking Mother is a shitty franchise and he doesn't give two shits about its cult following.
Just fucking live with the fact that we're never going to get an official Mother 3. Just download the ROM Starmen.net is translating.
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