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Mother thread?

Imagine staying at an inn. You step into the room, Ana steps in after you. She closes the door behind her, stands in front if it and asks if you want to dance.

>>441259

Mother thread.

>>441271
>something falls out of my pocket
>"MY SPAGHETTI!"

Fuck if only they went with the N64
That console would've finally had a JRPG

Quest 64 is the only one I can think of. It'd not bad but it was flawed

>>441340

Paper Mario, maybe?

>>441340
Paper Mario, Hybrid Heaven, and Ogre Battle 64.

>>441357
Oh forgot about that

>>441358
and Ogre Battle

Was Hybrid Heaven really a JRPG?

>>441340
Animal Crossing was originally for the N64 and all they did was port it to the Gamecube when they realized they wouldn't make it to the N64
Mother could've done that

i'm more interested where the fuck the prototype carts for the 3D game is. Did they even start on it?

>>441361
I consider it one. You level your body parts up through natural growth, learn skills through enemies performing them on you.

>>441389
The game was in playable form in one E3 I'm fairly sure.
http://starmen.net/mother3/beyond_mother_3/n64_connections/
Looks like they had a lot of stuff done. I'm happy it never came out though, the game was perfect for GBA. I just love the super detailed sprites and animations.

>>441447
That's one of the greatest things about GBA games

It came out years after everyone perfected it on the NES and SNES, we ended up with a bunch of good looking games

By the way is Mother 1 + 2 the best version of Earthbound Zero? I heard the original is crazy difficult.

>Battle ends
>Move one step
>another battle

Dat random enemy encounter rate pissed me off throughout the entire game

>>441520
It's really only about average NES asskicking levels of hard. Which is to say, it's hard, and you will die if you aren't prepared or do stupid shit, but if you're properly level(grind)ed and are prepared for what's to come, you should be able to make it through with only moderate difficulty.

At least until you get to Mt Itoi.
At that point the game throws off the kid gloves and declares your ass to be ripe for plucking.
At that point the game

I just got to that part on my first playthrough too. It was a really well done scene too, with Ana standing in the doorway unexpectedly.

I've been playing this game for a couple months now. The encounter rate just makes it impossible to play for more than an hour or so at a time. But I guess it makes it so the game stays with you for a long time whether you want to or not.

whee

>>441520
It is because it fixes all of the bugs of the original and it makes the Easy Ring optional in case you want to go about the game as it was originally intended.

Personally I think it sucks massively compared to Earthbound and Mother 3, but if you're into Dragon Quest-y stuff I would go for it.

>>441584
OP here
I haven't had to grind except for the beginning of the game. I think the issue is that it starts you off weak as shit compared to everyone else

I don't need the easy ring

>>441520
Yes being that the translation is better. The translator is fucking awesome for doing this and the Mother 3 translation.

Why the hell is there no new mother/earthbound yet.

get it together nintendo.

>>441389
You wouldn't be able to play it even if it WAS dumped. As i understand it, Emulation isn't anywhere near close to running 64DD games.

>>441584
I remember getting there at, like, level 25, i watched a video on youtube to see how high i had to be to fight the final boss, and god damn, i think the guy was at level 60-something and was still getting his ass kicked by gygas.

Thank god for game genie.

I really have to complete Mother 1 one of these days. I got to around Reindeer, then I just lost the will to play. Probably had something to do with the encounter rate and having to warp back to Magicant to grind the fuck out of my party members every time I got a new one.

>>441875
Because Itoi doesn't want to make any more. I'll eat my shoe if we get a new Mother game in the next 5 years.
There's a shitty fan created game in progress but it just wouldn't be the same. The game has to be written by Itoi.

>>441946
It's not so much that he doesn't want to do one as it is that he wants to see someone else do it, so he can be the player, or some shit.

>>441973
Aye he said that he wanted to be the player this time around. But the reason was because how hard the development of Mother 2 and 3 were on him.

>>442026

While it's true that Itoi said something like that on an interview once, some people seem to take it way too literal. You know, he's Itoi, if he says "Please make Mother 4 yourself, doing 3 was enough for me" not necessarily means that anyone can make Mother 4.
Also he knows what makes the Mother games good. It's not the cute pixelated little peanuts, nor the incredible music, nor the gameplay; it's his writing. Mother 1, 2 and 3 had different people working on them, but there was always Itoi behind all the text and story planning.

I remember about 2 years ago or so, there was an Itoi x Iwata interview released on famitsu I think, and there was clearly "Mother 4" on the liner note.
Nobody wanted to go apeshit because we knew it was highly unlikely, but yeah basically Itoi reaffirmed he's not making Mother 4, but gave a very nice alternative instead: Mother 4 is the lives of all the players put together.
I mean, oh wow it's fucking nothing, but it's a very beautiful way of saying "nah sorry, not going to happen".

>>441212
>Ninten...
>Do you like me?

>Ninten...Do

What the fuck

>uTorrent
>Tixati
>Deluge
Why the fuck do you have three torrent clients?

I like Mother more than Earthbound

OP here, I'm done

Now to play Earthbound

godspeed op

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-mj20Xmf4w

I didn't realize that this was a retranslation and not just a port of the NES translation

Playing it now

>>442254
Nintendo, you like me?
>y/n

>>441710
What does the Easy Ring do?

I played Mother over a decade ago, so is there a list of differences in the GBA version?

>>441710
the easy ring was always optional

pussy

>>444691

>>444706

>mfw I'm in jail and all my weapons are gone, taken away by the police
>mfw the policeman sells the exact same weapons to me for a price

this fucking game.

>>444550
was the official NES translation even ever finished? I think I read something about the prototype Earthbound NES being buggy and thus not finishable

>>444846
It's completed and perfectly finishable, it was basically ready for release.

>>443395
That's cool man, you're entitled to your opinion. They're all top notch games. As far as gameplay though, I feel like 3 is the best, but 2 is my favorite.

Look what just came in the mail today

>>441584
If I'm used to the difficulty of old school Dragon Quest games, will I get my anus devastated anyway?

>>445790

A finger that looks like a penis from the thumbnail?

>>445790
Enjoy dude. I love the shit out of my Earth Bound repro

>>445858
Took all of 5 seconds for it to make it into my NES after opening the package

>>445834

If you're used to NES Dragon Quest games (not the GBC remakes or DS remakes, not even SNES remakes), then it's about the same.

>>441212
That scene was amazing, I got goosebumps and my heart started to race so fast. And its a bloody 8-bit game.

>>449249
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_zH5wNfPBw

>try to transfer my save data of Mother 3 from my PSP to my Wii
>something gets lost in translation

Long story short, I somehow end up losing my save data, through the weirdest of circumstances. It's like once the file is read on the Wii, it just ended up shitting itself..

..Anyways, I was right at that part where you were going to the Garbage Dump.

So the fan project Mother 4 ...

Is it gonna be okay ? What do you guys think ?
I know it's not gonna be the same as the Itoi games, but it still looks pretty nice.

>>449747
I dont want it to happen

I dont want it to be called MOTHER 4

>>441361

It's an RPG made in Japan.

It counts.

>>444706
>>444760
I'm still playing through mother for the first time. I'm currently up to the ghost house in Spookane and now I can't wait to get to this point in the game.

>>449747
Not interested.

>>441520
Yeap cuz it has some gameplay improvements and you won't need to grind like crazy.

>>441340

There were a few other RPGs for the N64, but only released in Japan.

>>453831
>Yeap cuz it has some gameplay improvements and you won't need to grind like crazy.

The improvement is that the NOA version (Earthbound Zero) has a additional and more complete ending than the abrupt ending Mother 1 JP has (although nice and elegant, I love how they ending credits start rolling with the 3 kids standing at the top of Holy Loly after Gyiyg escapes, it just looks nice, but it's too abrupt).
It also has some censorship (blood, crosses, etc), and some dungeons were redesigned to be less confusing. Gameplay-wise, the only additional thing was a being able to run on the overworld map, which is actually a debugging tool the guys at NOA thought would be useful for players, so they left it on the final game. It looks kind of shit because when you use it, every NPC also starts "running" - they stay on their spots, but start moving like in fast forward. They fixed this on Mother 1+2: you can run by pressing R, but only you run, the NPCs stay normal. They also included all the censorship and the complete ending of EB Zero on M1+2, they just ported that version of the game to the GBA, and not the original Famicom release.
As far as difficulty goes with enemies and battles, I think it's the same, they haven't changed that, unless there's a change I didn't know about.
I have yet to do a proper playthrough of the original Mother 1 for Famicom. I plan it to do it someday to see these old evil dungeons and sections that can get you lost.

>>444658
The easy ring isn't part of the game, the fan translation of mother 1+2 adds this item.

Basically, it reduces the encounter rate and increases the experience and money you gain from battles.
That's all.