Today is Earthbound's (mother 2) 20th birthday. With all

What year did the original MOTHER come out?

Jeff is my second favorite non PSI user party member.

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>Earthbound
>good

>>260200834
My phone ringtone is Otherworldly Foe.

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Lets post stories and fun memories with the game

>1997 and seven years old
>find this gem at blockbuster
>rent it and play it for hours on end
>friend comes over to watch me play
>we discover that if you plug in a second controller, 2p can control battle commands too
>I decide to be Ness and Poo, he is Paula and Jeff
>we play the game nonstop, I even buy the strategy guide from wallmart
>to this day that guide is my favorite guide for a game ever
>I eventually buy the game used, and we continue to play it, and keep playing it years later
>fast forward to 2014, all i want is nintendo to release earthbound for a 3ds virtual console
>nintendo won't even do anything to celebrate 20 years of earthbound
>fuck it, can't stop me from playing it again and having a good ol time

>>260200953
1989

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Anyone have the comic with Ness calling his dad?

>>260200953
A quick google search can get you that info anon.

>>260201129
Some of the worst marketing ever, but i loved those scratch and sniff cards

>>260201172
My text tone is the level up tune

>>260200834
Its shit

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When the mother series turned 25 we had threads left and right, but now that this zoe bullshit and vivian lovefest is in full gear no one gives a shit about this stuff it seems.

>>260202393
Ebin

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Here, enjoy some fan art I will dump

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It's the little things games do that always impress me

>Earthbound costs more than every other SNES game on the eShop

I guess it's because even the digital copies are ***ULTRA RARE BUY QUICK***

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I love me some art of the crew

I need to finish this game. I got to the part where I arrived in some swamp and then I just stopped playing.

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>>260203113
It's like they want to force shitty sales, that or they know the following is so dedicated we will eat up anything they throw at us

I aint played Earthbound, but I will still give it a try despite the first game sucking ass and it being a JRPG and therefore inherently shitty

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>>260203401
You are actually really close to one of the coolest dungeons in the game

dinosaurs

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>mfw wrpg fags will never ever get a masterpiece like earthbound

so.. enjoying your shitty fpses that are wrongly called rpg?

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>>260203635
Jrpgs definitly arent for everyone, and if it isn't your cup of tea I can't fault you. But I love that I can see the enemies I am going to encounter, and its not all random. Gives me some degree of control over when and what I fight

>>260203745

There's way better JRPGs than Earthbound, man.

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Are there any other games that start out relatively nice and turn darker towards the end?

My only guess would be pic related.

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>>260203726
Good ol summers

>>260203905
oh it pulls things that way?
god it took final fantasy fucking 20 years to figure that shit out and it's still fucking unbearable

nice to know that they maybe toned down some of the most tedious part of the genre

>>260203745
>Perfectly fine thread
>Some bitter asshole comes in and starts smearing his shit all over his face

Every time.

>>260203113

I was going to get this on the eShop but fuck them for making it more expensive. I've already finished it but it would be a nice game to play in bed with the Wii U controller.

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So what are your thoughts on Sakurai fucking it up?

>pic related is to blame

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>>260203745
Why can't someone enjoy both. Two of my favorite rpgs of all time are Earthbound and Morrowind.

>>260204146
oh god I played morrowind on the xbox
one of the worst gaming experiences of my life

>>260204026
Eversion.

>>260204292

Weird, I played Earthbound on my xbox. One of the best gaming experience of my life.

>>260204090
I'm not even sure if I'm going to get smash anymore. I only ever played as Lucas in Brawl.

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>>260204039
It was such a fun city

>>260204069
>>260204146

see: >>260204051

wrpg fags are really cancerous.

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Pic related and Earthbound are one of my favorite SNES games

>>260204069
Isn't it like $12 or some shit on the e-shop?
Unbelievable.
>>260204039
Best city.
>>260204069
>Shitposters on /v/
Protip: If you want actual video game discussion, try night time /v/

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>>260204292
Not to be an elitist pc jerk, but it really is best on PC. Some of the mods for it are amazing. My personal favorite was one that injected Aliens and Predators into the game. Let you play as a predator and hunt aliens, as well as do regular quests. Even had downed ships, Alien hives, and all sorts of cool weapons.

Though nowadays I get that it's hard for people to get into it due to its dated graphics and bizzare combat

>Can see your party following you
>There's sprites for when you move at a diagonal
>Can see enemies outside of the fight screen

10/10 game

>>260204090
Lucas/Claus will be Ness' costume alts

>Earthbound is now 19 years old

Hold me, /v/

>>260204146
A lot of people give morrowind shit because of
>Miss miss miss, WORDS WORDS WORDS, WALKING SIMULATOR
but for what it did, I still think it holds up today. Shit's immersive as fuck, even vanilla. Reading into the lore is always interesting and the quest lines are arguably good. Not to mention the side quests and how open the world is.
Not preparing, and not sticking with main skills
are the main reasons people don't "like" older rpgs. It all boils down to reading comprehension

>>260204457
wait which bit is cancerous here?
I was stating that I'm glad that earthbound doesn't have the cancerous shit that other shitty jrpgs do, at least not to the same degree
it's unbelievable that people are mindless and dull enough to actually enjoy games with filler random battle bullshit, where every fight is the exact same thing, dealt with in the exact same way, without any skill involved

>>260204727
you're not being elitist at all, the xbox port was horribly horribly botched and had a really bad history of problems during the updates that were supposed to fix it
that said I still hate all RPGs by whatever the fuck company makes Elder Scrolls

>That feel when never managed to beat Mother 3
But beat the shit out of Earthbound.
I feel . . . g . . . o . . . o . . . d . . .

>>260203113
Should have got it for the platinum reward

>>260204986
Funnily enough there's this one really old Korean RPG called Seal that played a lot like Earthbound with the whole seeing your party thing.

Although it's like FFVI in terms of combat

>>260205332

I'm not in the States. We don't get games.

http://stars.nintendo-europe.com/?locale=en_GB

Is EarthBound really that good?

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i'd celebrate by listening to its OST but hey i've already scrobbled it like 6000 times in the last month anyway

>>260204451
Why does 50's america make me feel so depressed...

>>260205612

It's easy to emulate it so you can go see for yourself.

>>260205612
It's mostly the absolute wackiness with decent gameplay working with it

>>260205612
Yes, but you can't approach it like the typical game. It's got repetitive moments, and requires some imagination to fully enjoy, but it's one of the comfiest and realest games there is.

>>260205612
Fuck yes I love this game.
I love it so much I went back and beat Mother.

>>260205612

It's kinda overrated, but it's a fun ride.

>>260205109
>meanwhile, Pit's black palette from Brawl becomes a completely new character

>>260205743
Because you can't help but see the innocence we lost.

>>260205672
What an awful shitposter.

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>>260205281
>no skill involved

how can you say that when you actually never finished a JRPG game?

and sorry mate.. but the first RPG games were like that, until your retarded FPS and click games came and we had to start calling them JRPG to make a difference.

>le ebin spam attack to win xDD!!111

just play earthbound.. you will have a good time.

>>260205612
Yes, anon. Do yourself a favor and play it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJYQVZl6qt0

>>260205612
It's a really relaxing game; nothing too complex but the game has few faults in my opinion.

Earthbound sucks shit though.

Post your favourite Earthbound OST.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saVZRj1qiKw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVcyZ_TtLhI

>>260206125
>le ebin spam attack to win xDD!!111

Do you not realize how stupid this makes you look? Acting like a complete asshole doesn't make people want to take your suggestions on board.

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>>260205273
I usually replay it once every 2 years or so, I just love its world and exploring the nooks and crannies. Plus the quests are actually interesting.

>>260205612
Yes

>>260205672
Ost is easily one of my favorites for any game ever. What's your favorite song? I have lots, but i always loved the song that plays during the opening demo

>>260205976
But anon, that's bulshit. People are exactly the same. It has to be something else, but I can't put my finger on it.

>>260206125
I've finished plenty of JRPGs, when did I ever suggest I hadn't?
you're making a lot of assumptions, jesus christ you are autismal as fuck about this
literally all you know about me so far is that I think Mother and every FF game is shit because the gameplay is shallow
I will play Earthbound but holy fuck dude, in the future if you're going to attempt to argue with a person, at least fucking learn to read what they wrote

>tfw today is my birthday
>no Earthbound related announcement from Nintendo
It hurts,it would be the best gift i had in a long time.

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>>260200834
I never beat it because I lost my save file

Guys, I know this sounds strange, but I want to listen to a album that feels like Earthbound.

>>260206461
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFU6zwV47Q4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOJZRFeRi_s

>>260206521
That jazzy tune that sounds like a remix of Fourside and Threed?

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>>260206461
deal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qarAgC8g3Ds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiGfjOLF_j0

>>260205612
It's fantastic. I've played it like 4 times and i still love it.

How comfy do you feel on a scale of 1 to 10 when playing this game, /v/?

I liked JRPGs.
And I thought Earthbound is pretty shit.
No strategy to the fights.
Story was about as deep as a pokemon game.
>hurruhuhru expecting a story on the snes
Music was decent.
Everything else was "eh". I'd rather play breath of fire.

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>>260206843
How bout a song inspired by and using sounds from earthbound?

https://soundcloud.com/willrock07/homeward-bound-snes-style

Oh cool, a decent EarthBound thread. Where are you guys in your playthroughs? I just got to Fourside

>>260200834
So Ness is going to be officially shown in Smash tomorrow?

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>>260206921
see the first song on
>>260206924

>>260207452
That's too bad I guess.

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>>260201930

>>260207452

Is there any JPRG on SNES with a deep combat system? Honest question.

>>260207451
Every time I get to the traffic jam or on the bridge to Fourside, I just stop and listen

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>>260207787

>Zac Gorman

>>260206461
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieapBou_3cs

This song is my fucking jam.

I get chills every time you transition to Winters for the first time in Earthbound, because this fucking track starts playing when you take control of jeff. Oh god. It's so good.

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>>260207452
Fights got a bit more involved later in the game for sure, the real charm of the game was the asthetic though. Most jrpgs were ripoffs of the standard dragon warrior esque motif.

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I love the whole series, but I honestly think the first Mother was the one that had me hooked the most. It didn't have a vast soundtrack like 2 or 3, and the gameplay was primitive, but I think it had the best characters and the few tunes it had are some of the most memorable in video game history. I sincerely hope they remake Mother 1 some day.

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>>260208067
Great fucking song.

>>260208195
despite hating that fucking game I gotta agree it had a lot of style for a game from 89 and those tunes are pretty jamful
I actually had them on my computer before I played the game

>>260208089
Eh, it was pretty much "what would an RPG in the city/town look like". Not much else is going on, just swapped names and shit. I guess it was strange in its own way, but that didn't go too far. At least an extra layer of something to consider in combat would have gone a long way. As it is, it aged terribly.

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Did anyone else have real trouble getting into Mother 3? I loved mother 1 and 2, and anxiously waited and was inevitably crushed with earthbound 64 was cancelled. When I finally got to play mother 3...I dunno, I just ended up wanting to play earthbound again.

>>260208284
The SNES rendition of Snowman is my favorite. That soundchip, man.

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>>260207506

>>260208067
Earthbound version of snowman was the worst though. Even the original was better and it was just beeps and boops.

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>>260208515
Mother 3 is a lot different than Earthbound so don't feel too bad

>>260206464
Maybe i should remember you we are on /v/ good sir.

>>260200834
>tfw i really want to play earthbound/mother games
>tfw i dont have old nintendo systems
>tfw i cant translate for shit
>tfw cant find good translated ROMs because am retard

>>260208815
>earthbound version was the worst
to each their own

>>260209117
he means objectively tho
in the eyes of god

>>260208987
Can someone be this retarded?

>>260208987
Do you speak another language or something?

Finding a rom is as easy as a couple clicks.

>>260209228
sorry i dont agree with you

>>260208987
How can you not even emulate Earthbound
>get SNES emulator on literally ANYTHING (even your phone)
>Get Earthbound rom
Whoopedee do it is done now go bash hippies

>>260208987
it's easier to find english mother roms than japanese ones m8

>tfw I only come into Earthbound/Mother threads to collect art that I never post or look at.

What the fuck is wrong with me?

This thread has shit art, btw

>>260209498
Post some actually good art then

>>260209406
no but
objectively

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>>260209117
http://youtu.be/ieapBou_3cs?t=10s
They got this part wrong and that's why it's shit and bad and you're basically Hitler for liking it.

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>>260206843
earthbound spans many genres, brother

what does 'earthbound' sound like to you

to most people it is boring chorused organ sustaining a chord for 5 hours, or some idiosyncratic bullshit involving a drum machine and synth noises

>>260205612
yes

>>260209795
Are you kidding? I like that part. Like I said, to each their own. I'm neither hitler nor jesus for liking it.

>>260210008
hitler he said

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>>260209498

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So is this series one of those "must play this it's so damn amazing/wtf is wrong with you because you haven't played it" series?
Haven't played it yet and was thinking about getting the ROMs
about how long will they all take to finish too?

>>260210121
Just play it and tell us what you think.

>>260210121
You'll either like it or you won't

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>>260209498
Ive got a huge collection that im slowly going through. I can post a mega upload if you like

>>260210121
It's shit

The entire Earthbound fanbase treats it like some godly game but just know this thread is 100% dribbling fanboys who ignore the many flaws of this game

Play it if you must, but you, like many others before you will realize it's a shit game

This thread is like 5 guys posting amongst themselves, I'm totally not exaggerating

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icSsuyBGxtc

Such a simple tune, but it's beautiful, like so many things in this game. Looks like I'm going to be replaying some Earthbound here soon.

Still have my fingers crossed that we'll see Lucas for smash. I wish Paula could get in the game too.

>>260210008
Yeah that's exactly what Hitler would say

>>260210121
I am one hundred percent serious don't play Mother
somewhat stylistically neat but every time you get a new member on your team they are at the lowest level possible and they will immediately die everywhere you go unless you fucking grind and grind and grind
just like
read a walkthrough of it
http://walkthrough.starmen.net/earthbound0/
boom it has pictures so you basically see everything
I don't know why people ever play JRPGs when you accomplish the same thing by reading someone's playthru while listening to the music in like 1/10th the time
also take note that even the people who like the game agree that it's primitive and mainly enjoyable for the artistic style or whatever

>>260210425
I'm totally not hitler in disguise, if that's what you're trying to say. It's not like nazi science has given me immortality and i am secretly pulling the strings of world politics.

>>260210393
I'll give it a try
I loved using Ness and Lucas in ssb but have never played their original games and feel like I should give them a chance

>>260210393

I'll bite. It's a good game. It obviously has flaws, but the atmosphere and characters make up for any of that.

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>>260210635
If you like classic jrpgs you will like earthbound. It's that simple

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>>260209691
I would but theyre almost all in a 30gb unsorted folder so...

>>260210635

It's worth it. Fun and unique story that you will make good memories with.

>>260208987
The hell are you talking about?
For one you can find Earthbound on the eshop if you are legitimately retarded about roms
For Mother 1 just look up Earthbound Zero
For Mother 3 just find you a rom and apply this patch:
http://mother3.fobby.net/
don't be a dumb

>>260210868
so the things that aren't related to the fact that it's a game?
nice try
also
>atmosphere
come on man

>>260210876
>if you like dicks in your ass you will like more dicks in your ass
I dunno man most people get tired of things eventually you know?

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>>260209498
>>260209691
>>260211025

Currently uploading a file to MEGA for yall to enjoy

>>260211253
Thanks, but everything you've posted so far is terrible so don't go out of your way

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>>260211220
>if you like dicks, you like dicks

I'm not to sure what point you are trying to make there. I mean, if you like a certain type of game, you are gonna go out and play other games like it. It's that simple.

>>260210393
Actually there are flaws in everything. I guess the flaws in Earthbound just didn't stick out to the people who enjoyed it.

Well, actually that's kind of obvious. But really though we all have our own tastes and it's cool that you don't like it. It'd be nice if you could just leave us to our thread and maybe you can make a thread about a game you like better.. but really I guess if you wanna stick around then that's cool too. No one's telling you what to do.

>>260210635
>>260210868
Awesome! I hope you like it lots. Just sit back, enjoy all the little things the game does and have fun.

>>260211083
I have to agree with this Anon. But for me it wasn't so much the story as it was the atmosphere, gameplay, visuals and music. I mean I really liked the story but dang those other things just took the cake.

>>260210635
I like Ness and the Onett stage in SSB but I have to tell you the game is bad. Fair enough if you want to see for yourself though

>>260210868
No they don't. The gameplay was atrocious. As much as I liked the weirdness of the game for the first few hours, the gameplay made me turn it off and never play it again. Well I turned off the emulator, it never released in my territory

>>260210876
This statement is wrong, not just for this game but the statement that somehow liking a classic RPG means you will like them all

>>260211220
>if you like dicks in your ass you will like more dicks in your ass
Not even clever, you probably will.

>>260211253
the perspective in that picture is really bad

>>260211408
that's not what you said the first time

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>>260211384
Do you have any to share? I'd love to see some of the stuff you like.

>>260211220
no one respond to this guy

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so how old are you guys who have never played earthbound?

the first time i played the game was 11 years ago before i was even a teen, because the internet had hyped it up everywhere, it'was impossible not to pique interest

how long has it been since you guys figured out emulators existed?

>>260211583
I've been using emulators since I was 6, 15 years ago
I didn't know how to set one up til I was 9 tho, so I just played GB and SNES games on my computer til then

Take a melody

>>260211770
im going to have to ask you to stop singing

>>260211567
yeah you might get into an argument where you have to actually make an intelligent point and that would be hard
let's instead all keep jizzing ourselves over a game without actually talking about it, we'll totally gain more as people by doing that

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>>260211458
But if you like a jrpg, then you are predisposed to enjoy other jrpgs. Especially one that is an arguably decent jrpg such as earthbound.

>>260211563
That's a very nice painting. I loved Mother 1 with it's atmosphere and everything. Well, to be honest here, I didn't like it at first but once I got into it a little more everything just sort of came together and it became a masterpiece. The atmosphere was quite a bit different but still really similar to Earthbound. It was almost like Earthbound but without too much of the quirkiness and weird things going around, but in place of that it just sort of felt more "grand", if that makes sense.

>Beat Earthbound for the first time a few weeks back
>for years have been inundated with spoilers of the giygas fight at the end, including Paula praying into the void
>I still fucking tear up
The battle system and item management was a chore, but I don't regret playing through at least once.

>>260211567
>my ideal life
>by: anon
>everyone likes what I like and I don't have to think
>I saw jimmy today I told jimmy I liked pokémon he said he liked it too, then we didn't have anything to talk about so we just played pokémon some more
>nothing is ever a challenge for me it's so great that everything is so neat and perfect

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>>260211839
Giegue, pls leave

>>260211935
>decent
>a game which has zero tactical strategy, just attack and heal
Final Fantasy is several times more complex than Earthbound and it came out years earlier. EB was way behind the times at its release

There were, at the time of EB several JRPG series which were only anything alike due to using a turn based structure

You are wrong and dumb, fuck this fanbase

>>260211905
>>260212123
im not really good at arguing, i admit i shouldnt have posted that

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Here guys, if yall have any interest i have a half gig of fan art and what not.

https://mega.co.nz/#fm

If the link doesnt work just yell at me

>>260212582
That is quite literally the homepage.

>>260212356
You're in the minority here, therefore, YOU are the one who is wrong and dumb.

On a happier note, I'm currently grinding out a broken antenna.

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>>260212356
You sound like someone who only played the game up until threed and just stopped. If you had played any further you would have seen how in depth the combat could get, with different shields, combat items, and dealing with large groups of enemies. Not claiming its combat was revolutionary, but it did a lot of things well.

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>>260203726
Why is the Lost Underworld so comfy? I love those little sprites.

Poo just joined me, how far am I into the game?

you think Mother would even be relevant if Ness wasn't in Smash Bros

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>>260211563
first one ive found

>>260212872
A little over half
It gets faster

>>260212965
No it wouldn't be, at all

Thankfully it still isn't really relevant, I have no idea why Sakurai added Lucas and another EB stage to Brawl. It's an unpopular series for a reason

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>liking the game that inspired Homestuck
thats perfectly okay

>>260212582
You linked us to the homepage m8.

You have to click at the folder and then click on "Get link"

Posting some Mother related albums for everyone to enjoy if they haven't listened to them yet. I know there are people arguing in this thread lots, but I'm just trying to ignore them and post things that I really like about the games.

Rock Candy 1 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D95325756388E68
Rock Candy 2 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8D4E7FE88364EA84
Rock Candy 3 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3632ADA459C4B39F
Rock Candy 4 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE6BABBAD24AB5AAB
Rock Candy 5 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5685F955935E213C
Bound Together - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9DC7F5610EAC462E
Mother 1 Vocal Album (One of my favorites) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL682FAAA919005D2D
Earthbound (Sort of a psychedelic rock/post rock story album thing) - http://coryjohnson.bandcamp.com/album/earthbound

>>260212582
Thanks Anon! But the link seems kind of, uh, special. Can you fix it for us? I'm sure to download it once you do.

>>260210393
so I'm like 3 minutes in
is it literally all fighting lamps and snakes?

>>260205612
Soundtrack, atmosphere, writing is 10/10. Gameplay is typical Dragon Age but advantage of seeing enemies.

It's one of my favorite games, despite the actual gameplay being a bit lackluster.

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>>260213342
Definitly gonna save and listen to these.

Sorry about that, site gave me some trouble so i am gonna need to reupload. Should only be a few min

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>>260213180
Who gives a shit if Earthbound inspired it. Fuck off, and don't ever mention Homestuck in any Mother thread ever again. Please.

>>260213883
read da spoiler

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>>260213493
You fight stronger enemies as you progress.

You'll eventually fight gang members, zombies, bears, crocodiles. And then you will progress into fighting aliens, mother fucking dinasaurs and other weird shit.

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>>260213026

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>>260213883
Please do not get angry

>>260214046
so basically the whole game is click fight and hope you dont die

>>260214134
You realize you could boil almost any game down to "you just click fight"

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>>260214069
last one because holy shit am i tired of looking

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>>260214045
read mine
fuck off back to tumblr, and take your shitty webcomic with you

>>260213493
Mother 1? Yeah it can be a little stale at first but really once the atmosphere kicks in and you get that comfy feeling that really makes the game what it is. At least for me, I really loved the atmosphere of it all.

>>260213789
>>260213819
Oh, if you want actual download links, here.
http://starmen.net/rockcandy/rockcandy1.php
http://starmen.net/rockcandy/rockcandy2.php
http://starmen.net/rockcandy/rockcandy3.php
http://starmen.net/rockcandy/rockcandy4.php
http://starmen.net/rockcandy/rockcandy5.php
http://starmen.net/rockcandy/boundtogether/

For the Mother 1 Vocal album you might have to download each of the tracks individually, but there aren't that many so it shouldn't be too hard. Here's the link.
http://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/mother-vocal

The "Earthbound" album should have the download links right on the page I linked to earlier, so yeah. Anyways, enjoy!

>>260200834
I first played Earthbound/Mother 2 in 1997 when I was 11 because my cousin gave me her SNES and a copy of the game plus the guide. It was the first RPG I ever played and it completely changed how I saw video games. I realized then video games could be art. That doesn't excuse the current trend of overly cinematic games with no substance as far as gameplay goes.

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>>260214415
sorry i'm not as autistic as you

>tfw my hometown is basically like onett and hasn't changed that much in 20 years

no box stores showed up, no shitty night clubs. aside from alot of illegals moving in feels fucking good man

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>>260214134
Not really. Maybe in the early game (and by that I mean maybe the first 15 minutes).

But the way your HP bar slides when you get hit will become really important as you get more HP, because it means you can keep fighting even if you got a deadly blow, or you can have enough time to heal.

And there's also the PP (magic) management; I recommend you to actually use the healing items so that you can use the PP to damage your foes to kill them before they get a chance to hit you.

I literally just started playing Mother 2 today. Didn't even know it was the 20th anniversary.

When do I get other party members? I just beat Frank and the weird ant thing in Onett

>>260213883
homestuck is more clever than mother

>>260215171
Paula comes during the Twoson Twoson
Jeff comes during the Threed arc
Poo comes when you reach Summers

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>>260208515
I was only disappointed that it was a lot more linear than Earthbound and had a lot less funny dialog. Still like it more than Earthbound though because of the rhythm fight system and the feels. I have to say though that I played it straight after Mother 2 without any hype/waiting in between.

>>260215171
You will be going to Twoson soon after beating the cops. From there you will find your way to rescuing Paula

>>260215637
>>260215498
Sweet, I still don't quite understand the battle mechanics. I mean I know its TBS but I can't ever understand boss patterns for defending against attacks like in Etrian Odyssey.

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>>260213342
>>260214615

Youtube playlist links:
1 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D95325756388E68
2 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8D4E7FE88364EA84
3 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3632ADA459C4B39F
4 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE6BABBAD24AB5AAB
5 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5685F955935E213C

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>Play Mother games, Euro Truck Sim 2, and a few different other games
>As I play, I get this overwhelming feeling of calm, almost as if everything is going to be alright for the rest of time, almost in a sleep-like state
>Even after I stop playing the game it takes a while for this fantastic feeling to go away

What is this thing I'm feeling

>>260214615
Thank you so much! I'm gonna be listening to this all night.

Also, here is that link to my collection of Mother pics

https://mega.co.nz/#!3sdGCJRL!zJSS4keia7IEjMi07oexuiXuwEFh_VFKV2WEubMnLWs

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>>260216143

>>260215634
Im playing mother 3 on an emulator...and from what I understand the emulation lag makes it very difficult to master the rythm combat. Do you suffer from the same problem? or were you able to find a work around?

>>260215939
It's a high comparable to smoking marijuana.

I listen to The Beatles sometimes when I play Earthbound.

>>260215939
It's bliss
Games made with love have that effect

>>260216317
what kind of a shitty toaster do you have that can't emulate a fucking gameboy game properly?

>>260216317
I played on PSP and had little to no problem. When the combo stopped it felt like it was my fault. But I've heard there is a problem with PC input lag or something.

>>260216364
Which is why playing earthbound while smoking mary jane is pretty fantastic.

>inb4 needing weed to enjoy games

>>260216424
Two atomicly overrated things in one. How fitting.

>>260216495
PSP has minor input lag. I played it on the emulator and on a ROMcart on the GBA and the ROMcart's combat worked perfectly while I'd lose combos constantly on the PSP version.

>>260216546
I've never tried that before because I barley smoke weed. Is it worth trying?

>>260216489
I've actually got a pretty legit rig, and it emulates the game fine. There is just input lag when you emulate the game on a pc

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>>260213342
God all the stupid Beatles samples in that last link are fucking irritating. It's like he just found their discography. I hate this so much.

ur still a faget tho

>>260216635
Why not, I enjoy it. You might, you might not. Weed sometimes makes me feel like a kid again, and Earthbound is the embodiment of that feeling. Kinda goes hand in hand for me.

>>260216143
Thank you Anon! This is a real help for my Earthbound folder!

>>260215939
Aw yeah. I love this feeling. I get it a lot, especially since I just relax all of the time. Playing Earthbound is comparable to meditating while in a very nice place, and I love it a lot.

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>>260206843
This is the closest Earthbound could be to an album. Wacky, psychedelic pastiches of american pop culture and ironic self awareness.

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>>260206125
>laughing shareholders in the devil's machine.gif

>>260206807

Anon, I hope you're still here because:

The same thing happened to me.

But hey, look right here:

fantasyanime com/legacy/earthb_saves.htm

Some other anon in an Earthbound thread showed me that. Best day of the year. :)

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>>260217490
When I first listened to Smile bootlegs in 2010, my first thought was how much everything sounded like Earthbound, and I thought I was crazy for thinking that

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>>260218368
but those saves arent me.

how I mused my items, how my characters leveled up.

DYING LIKE 20 TIMES IN THAT FUCKING MOLE LEVEL JUST TO WALK BACK TO IT FROM THE CITY.

its just not the same.

But ill look at it anyway. thanks anon

Today's my birthday too.

>>260219250
happy birthday you gargantuan faggot

>>260218845
I'll check that out now.

>>260219250
Same here anon,happy birthday.

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>>260218912
>those saves arent me
Every game is played differently
They are our own personal journey through a world someone else made
The experiences we had will always be with us forever

Wow thanks for making me tear up faglord

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dumping wallpapers and such.

>>260219250
fuck you

>>260220537
>>260220679
dump away friend, I could use some more earth bound wallpapers

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzlhLX-4AW4

>20 years old

I remember ten years ago, getting stuck on an emulator. Beat it two years ago. Why is everything getting so old?

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>>260213342
>>260216143
Thank you my friends!
I am definitely going to check those out.

>>260216608
Hey anon, let me ask you a question.

Do you know the name of this song? It goes something like ___terday.
>Yes
>No

>>260216317
I played it on a DSi with DSTwo and it worked flawlessly. I never experienced any lag of any sorts

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>>260202597
I don't give a shit about Earthbound/mother at all.

Here's my beef, all these "indie developers" exist, but why can't any of them make a decent jrpg style game?

Why do people think that platformers are fun? They're not, they're just easier to shit out than a decent genre.

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how's the fangame Eagleland going?

>tfw South America is not on the map

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I'm not sure if this one is really from Earthbound or not. The font is similar and it's definitely got the motif, but I can't recall seeing it ingame. It has been a while since I've played though.

Anyone confirm?

>>260221101
>>260220903
>>260220679
>>260220537
thanks anon
do you have a mega upload of a zip of these?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abTaRhOCv5U

>>260221662
From what I understand its going slowly, but theres some footage on youtube of the cities. Looks like it will be fun

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>>260221662

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>>260221623
I'm trying to understand this comment, but the more I look at it, the less sense it makes.

>>260221786
No, it's just the same font.

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>>260221840
No, sorry.

>>260222302
Looks like small features John McCain.

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I like to take title screens of games that I like and make them into wallpapers. Works really well for Earthbound and other 16-bits.

>>260213180

God why is Diaz such a faggot

Ness is probably one of the best silent protagonists in videogames.

>>260222060
To summarize it, I don't give a shit about celebrating Earthbound, but at the same time I'm wondering the genre is almost completely dead.

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>>260222023
>no huetopia
>no monkey islands
>no kangaroo land
>no guidotropolis
>caliFAGnia blocked by mountains
it's perfect

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>>260222835

>somebody played the game this far just for this screenshot

A+

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Few different variations of this one.

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>>260222835
>tumblr
This is so ironic it's not even funny.

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i have these with transparent backgrounds if anyone wants 'em.
>>260223012

>>260222708
Welp, thanks for clearing it out anon.

>>260215878
For the most part bosses don't really have a pattern, they just have a moveset and they'll use whatever they feel like using. The Frankling bot is one of the exceptions.

In the future, you'll guard when a character is low on health and you want to get them healed ASAP. Make sure you know your character's speed, as well, to know who can heal the quickest.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uOrvgXJEw8

why does this mashup sound so good

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>>260223189
yes, please

keep dumping anon i'm saving em all

>>260200834
>best

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reminder

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>>260222981
>he doesnt play game for screenshots

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>>260223501

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>>260223501
.

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this game is too good.

>>260223618
Daily reminder that this shit theory is wack.

>>260223618
>Confirmed for back alley abortion saving the world

>>260222145
>Trashcan inside his room
Neat

>>260224387
>theory
Nigger, the place you fight him looks like a woman's womb, and there is absolutely no reason for his normal circular form to shift in such a way to make this fetus shape. They did it on purpose

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Dose any one remember Onett times?

The original Post is still up but your not allowed to comment on it anymore.

https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAABAAD4UV52ollCtA

>>260224668
Play the Mother 1.
He's not a fetus.

Mother 3 > Mother > Mother 2
Although i think all three games are fucking great.

>>260224903
why the fuck does it not let me just eat the fucking cookie i'm hungry now and I don't want to give up my Hamburger or Croissant for a pissant cookie but I'd like the extra few HP for fuck's sake holy shit I'm mad

>>260225067
Didn't say he was, but the shape resembles one and it's no accident

>>260225076
>Mother > Mother 2

I'll never understand this, honestly. I'm playing through Mother 1 right now and while I'm liking it I wouldn't put it over Earthbound.

>>260225497
I think it was just more original for it's time, though i should have probably just said Mother 2=Mother

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>>260222145
>tfw I funded Orange Kid first

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>>260226137

>>260226137
>posting the cat with the candy
>not the cat that swims on the ground

Worst cat general?

Earthbound is my favorite rpg ever, it sucks nintendo isn't doing anything for the 20th anniversary even though i don't know what they could do

>>260212356
>Implying the combat doesn't get more intense
-The order of killing foes can matter because some may blow up on you when you murder them.
The tree itself is a fine 1st example of the game showing you some shit, by far the strongest foe there, able to wreak your shit in if given a chance, blows up on your face when killed. You have to murder shit around it 1st because if you don't you die from the blast most of the time. Foes around it could be doing shit like stealing PP, giving a status affect, and more. Now the tree being open to paralysis might be nice an all, but you might not have that when you 1st fight it.
Later on some foes take the whole blow up on you thing and go medic for the enemy team. By now you are a lot stronger yes, but you still might not want a bomb in your face. Still if you don't kill this thing fast enough you'll have to deal with a prolonged fight.
-Several foes can come into fights with auto shields on
It isn't so bad at 1st when they only have a shield of light, sure it is annoying but whatever. You can power through them. But then they can do some real horrible shit later.
A "black mage" type foe casting non stop fire on you and shit has a psychic power shield on, it also blows up on you when you beat it.

Really there is a lot more but meh.

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here

>>260226137
Man, how come Ninten didn't get a cat? Fucking kid is a small weak child. The only party members that aren't weak overall in some way are Pippi and Teddy, and Pippi is just using Teddy's stats.

I'd love a cat that could take care of his asthma issues.

>>260225316
I'd love a rom hack or something of this.

(Ness getting the powers of foes he beats meaning something than just at end game)

So what would each guardian give him /v/?

>>260225076
Mother 3 is shit

>>260206552
>People are exactly the same
That's wrong. Media has changed. Media changes people. Therefore, the people have changed.

>>260228053
You know, having played Earthbound over and over the combat has become second nature and I don't think much about it. You're right though - there's some enemies that can seriously wreck your shit if you just sit there and jab A.

>>260224668
Yes its a metaphor to show gygas helpless state after trying to erase his weakness (emotions), gygas is not a fetus, and certainly not a human one.

>was using an emulator on my phone to play during downtime
>having a blast, got to the desert
>few months ago busted my phone

Welp guess I'm never finishing the game.

>>260230387
Which desert? The first one? On the way to Fourside? Nigga, you were just getting started. Replay that shit.

So I fucked a cosplayer dressed as Paula once. It was kind of surreal to both of us. Otherwise enjoyable copulation was made real by the fact that one of us was dressed up from Earthbound. Moral of the story don't sexualize Mother.

>>260231730
Did you shove a bat up her ass?
Did you shout BEEG GHAY TUNDAH when you climaxed to keep in Ness' character?
If you did not do even one you failed.

>>260231730
What a slut.
Both of you.

>>260231730
I mean, I'd fuck a cosplayer dressed as Paula. But I'm not sure I'd be completely okay with it.

>>260229443
Mother 3 is by far the best game in the series. Music, gameplay, graphics, dialogue, and length. It's got it all.

>>260222302
Goddamit I cannot but think about the Pillar men.

>>260229595
The funny thing is, I've done a solo game with every character (read, use cheats and such to remove party, switch them out when needed)

I made it a goal not to level too much mind you but:
-diamond band is best arm band, sorry but full brian shock protection is so much better than a 10-30 extra defense.
-super bombs are awesome
-brain food lunch with salt is awesome

-Ness is still overall the easiest, but man Poo and him switch places a lot, no wonder they give him late. Some areas are harder for him by himself mind you, and shit like homesick can be a game over, but still. The fact that he can use some auto heal points others can't is nice as well (the game is programed to respond to him). Also he is the only one who's encounter system isn't messed up of course so you don't have to rethink about how you get into battles like you do with Paula, Jeff, and Poo (who are all different in this area, each of them actually). He has the easist end game overall of course. And man you really learn to love salt with brain food lunch with him by end game, it almost feels like it is cheating. Paraylsis is still a 1hko on so many and you learn to love it more.
-Poo, he can teleport out of Thread and nothing happens bad game wise, in fact you got to love teleport. Shields are a big help. Life up and not having to pack salt with brain food lunch is a huge help. Overall his game is quick, guy is awesome. Poo does have to juggle his equipment though, Bracer of King's removal of brainshock guard seems like a no brainer to not equip it, but that extra luck is very useful. Taking off the cloak of kings for an earth pendant gives full flash, fire, and freeze guard, but you lose 40 defense and 40 speed of course. Freeze lets him one shot a lot of horrible monsters as well that Ness would have loved to smash up. The sword of kings of course lets you do physical attacks with the guy some w/o having to rely on bombs/power shield (oh my god, that shield is a life saver for him).

>>260225564
is this earthbound or fucking cool world, i cant tell

>>260232068
Nah. He should have begged her to save the universe until she prayed her way to climax.

>>260233201
No, they should have worn blocky iron armor and just clang hips

>>260233150
>single character playthroughs
anon i shall google this

Life gets so much better all the time

>>260232893
If you're having sex that makes you feel uncomfortable, then THATS NO GOOD

>>260232068
There was frying pan play.

It was complicated and scary for both of us but we made it work.

>>260233617
Uncomfy sex isn't that bad. I've fucked my sister in law and overall it was a 7/10, easily the most uncomfortable sex I've ever had.

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>>260233794
>frying pan play

>>260232950
Its shit compared to the other 2
The first 3 episodes are so fucking boring slow and with so much handholding Ill never be able to replay it

Its sad that normalfags have taken over /v/

I'm playing through EarthBound on the Wii U VC after I beat MOTHER about a month ago (the MOTHER 1+2 fan translation by Tomato), and I'm not sure what to say. I'm only in Twoson, but I don't know whether I like it more than MOTHER.

I mean, there's something I like about the simplicity of the first game. Enemies sometimes drop items, I can encounter enemies just by running back and forth, making grinding easier, and it's fairly easy to read all the dialogue in the game. But in EarthBound, there's just so much dialogue that I'm afraid of missing. There are a ton of items, some of which only have like a 1/100 chance of dropping from the enemy, and it just feels like there's so much to miss if I do something the wrong way.

I talked to this guy in Burglin Park who wanted to buy a For Sale Sign from me, but I didn't own one yet, so I bought it from the other guy, but when I tried talking to the first guy again, the option wouldn't come up to sell it to him anymore. Just what the heck did I miss?