/vr/ - Retro Games

It's a Jerperguer, so. No.

>>4026030
Only for autists

I'm playing it and it's pretty good, but they should make you restart from the beginning when you die. or have some death counter. Might as well read a book otherwise. But that aside, I think the gameplay is solid. I'd never played a game with a rolling counter, and I never thought that it would matter so early in the game, but if you're desperately trying to prevent death than it spells a world of difference. On top of that I like how you can avoid enemies and then the tables turn once you grow more powerful, and how enemies can jump you in groups.

In fact I'm gonna restart it again right now. You got my itching to play.

>>4026030
I doubt I would like it if I didn't first play it when I was 10 in the mid 90s.

>>4026047
Lol, you wish. You probably jumped on the wagon along with everyone else ins '06. Don't lie. The game is still fresh and implements many mechanics other RPG's don't have.

xD random the game

for the first 10 hours or so.

>>4026042
It has the Dragon Quest penalty of taking half your money when you die, though I don't understand why since there's no reason to ever carry cash into a dangerous area in Earthbound.

Yes, I'm 35 yet I wouldn't be able to live unless I play earthbound every so often.

>>4026030
Has some cool bgm and some nice humor.
Good but not THAT good.

>>4026056
Why, what happens after that?

>>4026042
Speaking of which is it just me or is the beginning of the game way harder than the rest? I was dying left and right in the beginning but then I got Paula and suddenly it's easy mode.
>inb4 git gud
But I didn't need to! The rest of the game was easy mode.

>>4026030
Not really.

>>4026069
I don't think it's hard so much as it's just grindy. You lack any real options outside of directly attacking, and your HP isn't large enough for the rolling counter to matter yet, so you either have bigger numbers than the enemy or you die.

>>4026074
This is a fair review, to be honest.

>>4026080
Yes, a not so great game.

>>4026068
I remember you having to back track a lot and getting a little overwhelmed with quests. which is annoying because the map is huge so it's easy to get lost. I might just suc though.

>>4026030
some people will tell you that that game is FuNnY As HelL

>>4026030
it's a good game. dragon quest RPG mechanics with some interesting additions. its main strength is its art, writing, music, storytelling, and overall atmosphere. it's like a parody of RPGs with alot of quirkiness -- if that's your thing, earthbound is perfect; if not, it may not pull you in.

at first EB was underrated and ignored, then online fan communities became echo chambers hyping this game up until it gained a hipster reputation as Video Game Jesus, which led to people bashing it to be contrarian. that is why it's really difficult to get a straight answer on EB.

in conclusion, EB is very good but niche. you'll either love it or be bored by it.

>>4026179
/thread

EB is my favorite game ever made but everything this guy said is 100%. It's a goofy sci fi modern day dragon quest clone. If that sounds cool you'll like it, if not you probably won't. Earthbound feels like a childhood adventure, and really I love that.

I recommend at least trying earthbound and mother 3, they're quite different from each other so if you don't like one that doesn't mean you will not like the other.

>>4026232
appreciated.

and I agree, m2 and m3 have a very different feel. m3 is darker and more serious.

it's too "random" quirky

>>4026313
Not an argument.

Either have an actual argument or don't post. You may as well post "I never played it," thinking it adds anything.

>>4026074
k

>>4026232
So its basically a hit or miss like Gintama?

>>4026030

no. its a reddit game

It's shit

>>4026582
In a way. I'll be honest and say I have no idea what gintama is so I won't comment on that comparison.

The thing is really nothing is quite like earthbound or any mother game. The fans of it are so hardcore since for those it does appeal to the appeal is really strong. I reccommend earthbound as something everybody should at least try as for those it does appeal to it really appeals to them.

>>4026585
What does that even mean?

>>4026638
It means hes never played it

>>4026074
I can't believe a nineties magazine actually got so many points right.

>>4026030
>is this game actually good?
Play it for an hour. Still want to play? It may be good, repeat in another hour until you don't want to.
If a game is bad, you should be able to figure it out in the first ten minutes, because that's exactly the time it takes to get bored in an unsure situation.
Although by that standard, engagement, social media including this type place are platinum record achievement

>>4026074
>>4026338
These are both some really lame-ass reviews. Why does the Gameplay tag talk about age and not gameplay? If their argument for replay value is the duration of the game, wouldn't that make the rating subjective based on an individual's free time or attention span?

My favorite is a 5 for innovation: "You've seen most of this before." Yeah, no novelty in Earthbound whatsoever. Gooooood one.

Most autistic review ever fed to the public.

>>4026976
I'm so triggered, I forgot to include this picture for dramatic effect. This isn't far from what I see in those reviews.

>>4026030
Yes. Not great. But good.

>>4026042
>he dies in EB

>>4026069
It's not just you. It's every ADHD bandwagoner who thinks exploring and learning how a game works is grinding.

>>4026982
What is this chart what does it signify

>>4027014
Clearly it's a hierarchy of bug society. Only a small man would ask such a stupid question.

>>4026313
your reddit concept of le QUIRKY randomness memes xD didn't exist at the time so that 'argument' doesn't work.

>>4026030
It's pretty mediocre, it's just Super Smash Bro kiddies overrating it. Most of them think they're part of secret little club that's discovered some esoteric game nobody's ever played when in all actuality it's probably the first (and likely only) non-AAA game they've ever played. Same thing happened with Fire Emblem after Melee came out

>>4027029
What the fuck are you talking about, earthbound is pretty well known. Stop talking about things you know nothing about.

>>4026673
80s and 90s were the high point of game reviews, champ.
>>4026976
>>4026338
>wahh Earthbound is betta den Final Fantasy!!!!

>>4027043
Are you honestly trying to say people knew about Earthbound before melee? Not that anon and you're an idiot.

>>4027043
>What the fuck are you talking about? Something you know nothing about obviously. Perhaps if you had been alive for more summers you'd know that anon is right and EB was relatively unknown before you were born.

As an RPG, the gameplay is a step above the average. You can move freely in all 8 directions, your money from battles is automatically deposited in a bank so if you die you won't lose your grindings, you can see and avoid enemies on the screen instead of random battles, if you completely outclass enemies you automatically win the battle, you get an in-game map for the earlier areas, later on you can teleport to previous locations, and your health "rolls" up and down in battle allowing you to heal someone who's taken fatal damage before they fall.

That being said, it's still a rather average RPG and game. You have four characters who are preset and can't really be customized in any major or meaningful way short of giving them all the stat-boosting seeds you find in the game. You can choose the order in which you want to do some of the 8 macguffins. But due to the difficulty curve of them, there really is no reason to do them out of order. There are no sidequests, and very little reason to go out of your way and explore outside of looking for loot in the current dungeon. Every town suffers from early RPG syndrome, in that they are large and give a sense of being full of life, but only have a handful of buildings you can enter(with Onett being the lone exemption). The mushroom status, while unique, is just plain dumb outside of combat. While the autistic have issues dealing with the rotated controls, everyone else just rotated their controller to match the current setting and continued on. A good chunk of the music is just stolen from pop bands the devs thought represented the USA well. The plot is about as dumb as DBZ, the characters are almost blank, and a few times throughout the game you are forced to sit through navel-gazing walls of text that don't really serve the plot or any other purpose. Oh, and don't forget to waste time with repeated conversations with your mom or the game will disable your MC in combat. Yay.

6-7/10.

>>4027238
>While the autistic have issues dealing with the rotated controls, everyone else just rotated their controller to match the current setting and continued on

>>4027108
>Are you honestly trying to say people subscribed to Nintendo Power before melee?
Not that anon, but if you read NP, you would have seen Earthbound reviewed. It's the reason I got a copy back then for $40.

You post like an Australian.

>>4026049
I had a Nintendo Power subscription, my brother rented EarthBound a couple times and then he got it for Christmas in 1995. We had almost all of the SNES JRPGs released in the United States. Sorry you grew up playing shitty games from the K-Mart bargain bin, anon.

why everyone want this game

>>4027245
I'm American and not underage. Just because it showed up in a magazine doesn't mean people gave a fuck about it. Few people cared about Shitbound. It's a modern hipster game.

Nintendo advertised Shitbound pretty hard and people still didn't buy it. I still remember the stack of strategy guides at my local shop. Also Nintendo Power reviewed many obscure games.

>>4027258
Omg its the best game ever

>>4027245
>trying this hard
>failing this hard
laughing this hard

I got it at release. It was so hard to find, because they didnt run that many. They dumbed it down for US audiences and included a strat guide with a scratch and sniff page at the back.

I lost the guide pretty early, but didnt care because I didnt like/use them that much anyway.

The game itself was different from RPGs at the time. Chrono Trigger, FF, (no dragon quest on snes in the us then) robotrek, illusion of gaia etc were all fantasy based. Earth ound was an RPG set in todays world, which was something you didnt see and it made it unique.

Its pretty by the numbers with a difficulty level gamers werent used to, but the style, writing, and the journey makes it more than worth it.

If you're a fan of games you should play it and try to complete it. Master Belch, Starman, the bosses of your sanctuarys...all so memorable.

>>4027303
>It was so hard to find
BULL FUCKING SHIT.

It was in bargain bins for half a fucking decade because nobody wanted the fucking game.

>>4027262
did itoi touch you, anon?

>>4027387
Yeah. I remember buying the game at Walmart for for about $30 new. Back then most games were about $60 and my parents would never pay that much, only let me rent.
Only reason I was able to get it was because it was cheaper than any other SNES game being sold.

>>4026030
Earthbound is Kagemusha to Mother 3's Ran.

>>4026594
>>4026179


You know how movies get cult fandoms even though the movies may not be particularily good but still have a lot of charm? It's the videogame equivilent of that.

But due to the internet and gaming fandoms being such complete and utter shit it's hard to really get that impression from anything you see online.

>>4027756
>You know how movies get cult fandoms even though the movies may not be particularily good but still have a lot of charm?
We call those people idiots, just like Earthbound fanboys.

A cult film doesn't mean it's garbage.

It's just average from a gameplay standpoint.

But I love the weird atmosphere and the story that's sugary sweet for the most part but then takes very sudden dips into oh-shit territory.

It's not bad, mother games are worth 1 playthrough at least

>>4027781

I think the first one can be skipped.
It isn't very good, it's pretty ugly to look at, and the story doesn't quite have the same quirky charm as the rest of the series to save itself.

Yes, it's good. Not the magnum opus of RPGs, but it's definitely worth playing. It just has one of "those" fanbases (see: Sonic, Undertale, Steven Universe) plus it's very notorious for its price/"rarity" and prized as one of the crown jewels of a SNES collection so some people are preconditioned to hate it.

>>4027794
The story isn't as quirky, but I think the story as a whole is better than M2's, and the world is enormous. it's actually a technical feat for the NES/Famicom, whereas M2 looked 'dated' (not my opinion) at the time. I love all three games, but M1 is my favorite by far. Just my 2 cents, I don't disagree that it's certainly harder to love now though. M1 was actually the first in the series I played, weirdly enough; I couldn't emulate SNES games on my Dreamcast in highschool.

>>4027108
Ness was in smash 64 though

>>4027432
This is actually a pretty good comparison

It's a good game. The fact it makes people angry because its USA version is expensive only makes it funnier.
Got Mother 2 CIB for my SFC for $15, enjoyed it.

>>4030170
That's not the reason, what makes people angry is the autistic hipster fanbase.

>>4030174
I haven't seen an Earthbound fan online sperg in years. And anyway, out of all fanbases, EB fans aren't close to being the worst. Never got the hate for that fanbase, at least something good came out of it (M3 fan translation).

But yeah I guess there's still a sort of perception of the fanbase as a boogeyman or something, but the price and collectors paying thousands for it also makes people angry all the same.

>>4030180
>Never got the hate for that fanbase, at least something good came out of it (M3 fan translation).
That was mostly Tomato's work, the fanbase had nothing to do with it.

>>4030186
Well, he is part of the fanbase, isn't he? In fact he's one of the "leaders" of the fanbase, he's been around since the game came out (unlike the hipsters that jumped in recent years)

>>4030196
The fanbase didn't do jack shit.

>>4030198
IIRC, other people helped with the translations. Tomato did the full translation but other people helped with the hacking.
Anyway, even if it was just Tomato, he's part of the fanbase -> therefore something good came out of it, even if it's just 1 person.

Did anything good ever came out of, say Castlevania or Final Fantasy fanbases?

>>4030204
Lots of fan translated Final Fantasies out there on the famicom and snes. Was the fanbase responsible for those too?
also that's not even the point, the point is that EB fags are fucking disgusting liberal numales. Nice goalpost move faggot.

>>4030213
>Lots of fan translated Final Fantasies out there on the famicom and snes.
Yeah, and don't even get started about how the fanbase insult each other over these translations because of fucking like a tiger and what not
>was the fanbase responsible for those too?
Well, probably people from the fanbase did these, no?

>EB fags are fucking disgusting liberal numales
First and foremost, nice projection.
Second, why only the EB fanbase? Are you implying other fanbases and hipsters who jumped recently into the retro bandwagon aren't disgusting liberal numales too?
>Nice goalpost move faggot
You are the one moving the goalpost "i-it doesn't count if it's just one guy", what do you want, the whole fanbase working together? I said something out of the fanbase, it fits my criteria. Faggot.

>>4030215
>reddit spacing

>>4030215
>fucking like a tiger
That's Tales of Phantasia, not Final Fantasy.
What is your point here? Are you seriously defending millennial Hilary shillers on the EB fanbase? Get fucked.

>>4030219
>if you use the enter key, you ARE from Reddit, there's no other way around it!
Idiot.

>>4030221
I'm not defending the EB fanbase, just saying it's not necessarily worse than any other fanbase. And at this point, the anti-EB people can get more loud and obnoxious than people that like the game.

>>4030228
These are the people you're so defending so adamantly
https://youtu.be/NrDJ9eEHv8E

>>4030229
>defending
Can't you read?
Do you want me to find some videos of Final Fantasy fans? Because I'm sure there are a lot of embarrassing videos of VII and VIII fanboys.

Anyway, my point is: Yeah, all fanbases suck.

>>4030232
>all fanbases suck.
EB even more so

>>4030235
Whatever helps you sleep, they all suck regardless, even the one you're part of.

>>4030232
The thing is that Final Fantasy fags don't go around telling people their generic jrpg is a poignant journey of emotional self discovery or some shit.

>>4030237
>The thing is that Final Fantasy fags don't go around telling people their generic jrpg is a poignant journey of emotional self discovery or some shit.

What? Yes they do.

>>4030236
I don't go to fan forums, buddy. I hate videogames.

>>4030237
You got that all mixed up, FF is a lot more "serious" and "epic".
Earthbound is mostly known for its humor.

You okay man?

>>4030248
Used to until Mother 3 came out, now it's about MY FEELINGS WHEN MOM DIED

>>4030253
Still doesn't even come close to all the melodrama with Cloud and Sephiroth in FF VII.

>>4030260
I don't play FF past the Snes anyway, don't care about them.

At least we all agree Earthbound fans are fucking unbearable faggots.

>>4030287
Feels good to be European. No Earthbound fans wasting your air here.

>>4030265
Nice goalpost moving faggot.

The game is fantastic, solid 9+/10 unarguably. Balance is perfect and battle is fun, encounters aren't random, level ups give seemingly random Stat boosts, lots of brilliant humour and mechanics like hatching eggs and carrying around a teddy bear to soak up hits. Paula and Geoff are great and bring new mechanics too, Geoff especially. The music is incredibly catchy and fits the tone no matter what's going on in the game. The different towns and environments are always refreshing especially considering JRPGs are all about repetition.

>>4030443
Yeah but Europeans have a lot of Final Fantasy fanboys, which are more in number, and definitely more autistic.

it's awesome. I literally beat it for my second time 2 days ago. it took me about 3-4 weeks. I play for 5-10 hours a week.

great game. not the technical marvel that ff6 was...but earthbound has more heart than any game I've played.

the only problem is limited inventory space. and the beginning can be rough if you don't grind for a bit first.

Any video game that contains this line cannot be bad.

>>4026030
It is ok, for an RPG it isn't a bad game, a bit overrated but still fun, it does drag on at points though.

I give it a 8/10. It still is a good RPG, and at least worth playing once if you are a fan of the genre.

>>4026030
It's a good undertale clone.

>>4030180
have you been to starmen.net? they're pretty bad, I used to be a regular there. I was even featured on their Rock Candy fan-music compilations but I always hated the other fans.

>>4027262
I had a copy and I'm sure at least three of my friends did as well.

>>4031550
It would be good if it wasn't said by what is basically a brainwashed person.

>>4032230
What are you talking about?

>>4032230
That's not a brainwashed person, just a snob.

>story
Young teen travels the world, meets friends, beats up bad guys, mcguffins are collected, plot twists happen, the story gets pretty bleak near the end, all goes well.

>Gameplay
Like others said, it's a DQ clone with a few new features like the rolling hp system. Character development is quite unbalanced though; Ness is just op as fuck and can do it all, Paula is quite strong magically but has low HP and defense, Jeff sucks and is best used as the item thrower of the group, Poo is Ness-lite but he falls off later as well.

>Difficulty
Is a bit all over the place; the first town is comparatively difficult to the rest of the game since Ness has to solo a bunch of bosses for awhile until almost the end of the second town. after that the difficulty goes down considerably. It's also easy to accidentally overlevel and be too strong, but some places (like the underworld for example) will have tough fights regardless.

>Humor
Some of it holds up, some of it doesn't. It's pretty charming for it's time though, the parody it has for itself, RPGs, being a hero, etc is all pretty neat.

>Overall
It's an enjoyable game that is a good start for someone trying to get into RPGs, if they can get out of Onett without too much frustration. A lot of hardcore fans of the mother series and of role-playing games can find little snippets of events that are deeper than they appear. RPG fans should give it a shot.

PS I really enjoyed the ending and wished more games let you walk around the world and talk to people before doing your return home

>>4032747
>PS I really enjoyed the ending and wished more games let you walk around the world and talk to people before doing your return home

This! taking Paula home and saying goodbye wasn't easy.

>>4032230
The tard polfag is just memeposting He's never actually played the game to understand the context. A fedora tipping cunt like himself.

>>4032747
All the dragon quests I've played let you walk around after the final battle

>>4026030
I think EB is a very good game. It's one of the hardest to describe my admiration for, but I'd say the biggest part of its appeal is that it has arguably the most intoxicating atmosphere/game world of any video game ever. Shit feels like a nonstop acid trip

>>4026673
"gamers" in that time were passionate. because you really had to like games to play them. It's not like nowadays, which all games can be comparable with another game, and they all have decent graphics and music.

>>4026074
>it barely looks better than a 8-bit game
Does the guy who wrote that even knows what 8-bit RPGs looked like?
He could have said "it doesn't look as impressive as Chrono Trigger", would have made a lot more sense.
>But then, some of it (music) just kind of lies there.
What did he mean by this? He was bothered by the ambient soundtrack inside caves? I dunno.
>You've seen most of this before.
What did he actually mean by this? Yeah, we know Mother is a lot like Dragon Quest, but Dragon Quest influenced, like, all JRPGs, you kind of could say the same about any other JRPG.
>Older ones are likely to be bored stiff with it, though.
What did he mean by this? That adults are jaded? I don't get it.
>How many times can you play a game this big and slow?
What? Mother 2 is like a 30 hour game... did this guy even play any RPG before?

>>4035635
If you're incapable of actual human speech and not meme spewing it's above your mental capability.

>>4035639
>actual human speech and not meme spewing
Yeah, sorry about the "what did he mean by this", but in this case it's not meme, I really mean it, his points aren't very clear, or right.

It's a unique game. It's not exactly conventional, you just have to take it for what it is. I played it for the first time a few years ago after they put it on Wii U VC. I spent about a week on it and really enjoyed it and I usually hate RPGs.

>>4035639
>speaks about mental capability
>can't concentrate in the actual points and just notices the "meme"

Uh...

>>4035643
Nothing the reviewer said is all that unclear or wrong.

>>4035648
The game doesn't look "barely better" than 8-bit games.
"music lies there" doesn't make a lot of sense, you could say the same about any other game, and it isn't even clear if that's a good or a bad thing.
"you've seen most of this before" could be said about most other RPGs (but still, it's unclear what he's really talking about, "most of this"? what about it?)
"Older ones are likely to be bored" is just a sentence without real meaning, he's just assuming all people are the same depending on age, which is wrong.
And Mother 2 is definitley not a long or big game, for an RPG.

>>4035650
You seem borderline illiterate. Another problem is you lack of the knowledge for the period.

>>4035654
Okay, thanks for your ad-hominem, I'll add it to my collection, but you're not really addressing any of the argument's points.

>>4035654
>>4035648
You're the guy who wrote that old article, aren't you?

>>4035658
If you want a rebuttal make a post that isn't a cancerous cesspool of memes and shitty paraphrasing.

>>4035654
>you lack of the knowledge for the period.
Damn, that sytax...
And you call other people illiterate?

>>4035662
Just because some random anon on the internet is bothered by my use of memes? Fuck you, if you're bothered by memes remain offline in your comfort zone.
My points were clear, you could only deliver ad-hominem.

>>4035667
K, kid.
>>4035664
>sytax
After a capthca with 12 images of random 3rd world street signs I don't care.

>>4035670
>kid
Damn, you sure told him.

>>4035670
But you sure care, you're still replying.

Seriously though, just pretend the "what did he mean by this" part isn't there in the post, I don't know what you means by "shitty paraphrasing" though, I was quoting the lines literally.

>>4035670
please respond: >>4035660

>>4035671
>>4035674
I'm replying because you're proving the point that Shitbound is nothing but a hipster game praised by underage. You kids are incapable of communicating with out dropping some dank meme. It's pathetic to say the least.

You try to say I need to subscribe to your shit cancer culture and give a reply to your dank meme posts. Because typing like someone who isn't 13 year old redditor is too much to ask in 2017. Ya Shitbound fans in a nutshell right there.

>>4035686
>complains about memes
>uses dank, posts reaction images, mentions reddit, assumes everyone that doesn't agree with him is underage hipster
Well...
Also, I'm not really a Mother fan. I've played the series but I'm more of a Dragon Quest fan. I was just making a point of that old review not having any valid negative points. If he really wanted to say something negative about EB, he could have mentioned the PONR at the end, for example, I hate that kind of thing in games.

>>4035686
>Shitbound
You sure sound like an adult, totally not underage, huh.

>>4035696
If I was underage I'd be praising Earthbound and not calling it shitbound.

>>4035697
>if you like Earthbound, you MUST be underage!
Nice logic right there, schizo.

Seriously though, are you the guy who wrote that old review? That's the only way I could consider yourself not being underage. Otherwise why would you be bothered so much?

>>4035697
I don't think an adult person would think saying "shitbound" is witty or even funny. You are underage.

>>4035698
I never said it was an absolute. Just underage tend to like Earthbound.

>>4035704
You mad it sound like an absolute though:
>If I was underage I'd be praising Earthbound
Also, don't underages like Call of Duty, that sort of thing?

>>4035707
Are you saying that children don't like Earthbound?
>Also, don't underages like Call of Duty, that sort of thing?
Yes the main demographic is =<18.

>>4035635
Reviews are meaningless and just opinions without actual weight. More news at 11.

it's amazing that a dragon quest clone can cause this much autism
it isn't even as good as something like DQV, and I say this as someone who's not a DQ fan

>>4035709
>Are you saying that children don't like Earthbound?
The only children I know IRL are into Minecraft and other games made in non-retro times.
I could understand if you said hipsters in their 20s, a lot of those pretend to like Earthbound, but underages? Don't think so.
Wouldn't be a bad thing though, but sadly I don't think modern underages have the required patience to play a retro game. I can imagine most kids would be turned off by the first boss in the game.

>>4035713
>it's amazing that a dragon quest clone can cause this much autism

>>4035716
You do know about games like melee right?

>>4035713
To be honest, the anti-EB movement is more autistic than the pro-EB.
You won't see many people saying "EB IS DA BEST GAME EVA!!", but you will see a lot of people saying its SHIIIIIITTT!!! and talking about boogeymen like hipsters and what not.
It's an okay game.

>>4035720
Melee as in Smash Bros Melee? Yeah I know about it, it's not retro.

>>4035728
It's a pretty popular game that introduced kids to Earthbound along with youtubers.

>>4035718
FF1 has an autistic fanbase? News to me
>>4035721
>You won't see many people saying "EB IS DA BEST GAME EVA!!"
I think there was a thread in the catalog with that very same OP just now

>>4035734
>I think there was a thread in the catalog with that very same OP just now
Which was obvious bait and got 0 replies.
Any OP with "this is the best game ever" is bait.
In actual EB threads you won't see many people praising it lik the second coming of christ, but you will see a lot of salty people demonizing it as if it was Satan himself.

>>4035734
>FF1 has an autistic fanbase?
It sorta does, when people make solo White Mage only runs.

Earthbound just went full circle, at least here on 4chan.
It used to be underrated, then it became overrated, now it's underrated again.

>>4035736
Why would a mediocre game need so many threads then? Oh right because Earthbound fans actually do think it's an amazing game.

>>4026030

It's fun, unique and has a lot of charm. For those reasons it's a pretty damn good game. Is it groundbreaking? Maybe not but it's definitely worth playing.

>>4035739
fair enough, I just beat the game yesterday for the first time, and while it was fun I can't imagine doing something like that (especially the ice cavern and marsh cave, yikes)

>>4035741
What "so many threads"? This thread is just asking if this game is any good (most likely bait), and the other thread that got 0 replies is obvious bait.
Most Earthbound threads on here are anti-EB. Because most people who care to post on these are anti-EB people, like you.

I don't think it's amazing, it's just an okay game, I prefer DQ.

Also, if we are gonna talk about autistic fanbases... remember that guy in Spain that though he was actually Cloud Strife and killed his parents and sister with a katana? Nothing personnel.

>>4035662

Are you retarded? Honest question

>>4035747
Earthbound has such a counter fanbase because it's a bad to meh game that continually gets thrown into "Top 10 RPGs lists" while being praised by underage and hipsters.

>>4035751
I'd actually say it's a meh to good game, depending on how much you enjoy its art style and writing (the writing is a lot better in its original japanese, but okay, not many people in the west can read moon). There's nothing objectively bad about it that I can think of.
And I still don't see that "praise by underage and hipsters"; most posts on here seem to agree that it's a good game but not the best, and many people say they like the game and explain why, but don't treat it as a holy grail.
On the other hand, the anti-EB guys bash it without actual, objective arguments other than boogeymen like "hipsters" and "underage".

The anti- guys are just a vocal minority though.

>>4035751
But what's worse, underage and hipsters, or contrarian jaded autists?

>>4026030
it's okay, I tried playing it years ago and gave up half way in due to boredom. It's probably got a nostalgia factor going for fans from playing it when they were young kids

>>4035759
I played it in recent years as an adult. Didn't get bored, it's not a long game (compared to most other RPGs), but it's not a game I'd play yearly either.
I played it on SNES emulator once, then again on SFC (got the Mother 2 cart for pretty cheap, and I can read japanaese), will probably make another playthrough in the future but my backlog is huge so I dunno.

>>4035765
I probably would have liked it slightly more if I wasn't playing on emu t b h, however, I just wasn't that into the story and the combat system felt too slow and controlled, even for a turn based game. I'm not going to shit on the game though because I can completely see why others might like it but, certain people in the fanbase overrate it a little bit. It wasn't a bad game, it just wasn't for me

>>4035757
You don't have to be jaded to not like a game like Earthbound.
>>4035753
You're just objectively wrong.

The game is constantly talked about.
The game demands stupid prices. Ness amiibo went full retard.

It is the quintessential hipster game.

Took this off google news right now.

>>4035785
What the fuck? People can't use the word "earthbound" in stores? There's no connection. It's just a word, anon.

You're assuming continuity both there, and that an entire fanbase must be what it appears to be "now" in select markets. What's really happening, is people -- not even a lot of them -- really like to sperg out about the game. They're allowed to do that. I'm confused what it has to do with a game's quality. How do you feel about games with toxic fanbases like League of Legends?

I'm just saying, you haven't made an argument and may as well be trolling incoherently.

>>4035824
>toxic
There's that meme spewing again.

>>4026074
I think Earthbound is shit, but that's because I don't like JRPGs and I think it's overrated by weebs and "muh nostalgias"

During the 90's, there was this weird approach to game journalism where game reviewers would rate a game based on their personal preference, not on how good the game is compared to others in its genre.

In Australia, Sega Megazone gave Landstalker a 14% because the reviewer couldn't understand the controls, and the entire review was him raging about how much he hated the controls (because he was a retard who used a control pad with 4 directions on it instead of an official sega one with the round pad).

>>4035785
What has prices and Amiibos (not retro) have to do with the game itself?
>How do you feel about games with toxic fanbases like League of Legends?
I don't hate people that play it or whatever other game, to each their own, but I don't like it or MOBAs in general.

>>4035785
>he's a poorfag

>>4035732
You know Ness was in the original SSB right?

>>4036274
You know Melee sold way more right?

>>4036278
you know it's not retro yeah?

>>4036281
Yes. Most of Earthbound's popularity is non retro.

The gameplay is mediocre but it still ended up being a worthwhile experience. The music is great, the characters are quirky and the atmosphere and level design leaves an impression on you.

It has one of the best ending sequences of any game I've every played.

One small detail I noticed is that I really really like the sounds when you go through the menues and select stuff.

>>4030443
as a south eastern european slav, I have to say that I enjoy Earthbound quite a lot, the towns are great, the color pallet is great, the psychedelic backgrounds are great, enemy designs are (usually great), it made me laugh, it made me smile, it made me stick trough the grindy because of the charm... I'd recommend it.

>>4036278
>you know it's summer right?
We're all painfully aware and look forward to it being over and you leaving.

>>4027027
I know it's a meme, but tardigrades aren't bugs and it's bothering me

>>4037656
You tried.