Thread 718546913

It's Insane to me that so many retarded indie devs rip this game off, yet always fail to miss what made it good in the first place

>>718546913 (OP)
So /v/ how far did you get before dropping it? For me it's the pencil statue. Boring!

>>718547096
Never even clicked on the rom. I need actual comedy, not random shit glued together.

it insists upon itse-
wait that's the sequel

>>718547096
that was my initial filter point but when I finally made it to Poo years later I was hooked till the end

>>718546913 (OP)
>fail to miss
Doesn't that mean they succeeded in copying what made it good?

>>718547096
I drop most games so I consider it a compliment that it held my attention all the way until Moonside. I only quit because I noticed the difficulty spiking and I could see the JRPG grindfest unfolding in front of me.

>>718547563
op will NEVER recover from this, holy shit.

>>718547096
In my first time I think I gave up at the stonehenge because I was too under leveled for it

could anyone elaborate on what made the game good in the first place?
I don't wanna watch a 4 hour essay on yt

>>718546913 (OP)
looks neat some kinda mech game with a little kid protag. looks like a neat Shonen game

>>718546913 (OP)
>>718548285
Unique, memorable and approachable aesthetics and story (as long as you have specific tastes), paired with gameplay that is just decent enough.
Most of the quirky indie RPG devs understood well what made Earthbound a cult classic, which is why the aesthetics and story are usually the topic of discussion instead of gameplay.

being a nintendo game? yeah crazy

>walk two feet
>enemy encounter
>walk two more feet
>enemy encounter
>walk two feet
>enemy encounter
>walk two more feet
>enemy encounter
>walk two feet
>enemy encounter
>walk two more feet
>enemy encounter

It just got to be too fucking annoying by the 3/4 point I didn’t finish it

>>718546913 (OP)
>always fail to miss
so they get it right?

>>718547096
Shortly after the bug gets swatted by the fat bitch. The game's just too boring.

>>718546913 (OP)
How many devs even try to rip it off?

>>718548619
>he thinks this is bad
just wait until you're forced to play mother 1

>>718548285
Earthbound
>Fun game that's qurky here and there, but if stare really hard enough, you'll find some allegorys with depressing undertones

Every Earthbound ripoff
>Constant reminder that the entire game is a allegory with depressing undertones and is constantly insisting upon itself. Every character's entire personality is being quirky and random

>>718547096
I finished it. Neat game!

>>718549018
The secret is that they're actually influenced by Mother 3 but they keep saying Earthbound instead for some reason

>>718547096
As a kid, I never made it past Fourside. Finished it as a teen with no problems.

>>718548285
It feels like being a kid in the 90s. The music and spritework are beautiful. Even the battle sounds hit your dopamine receptors, especially when you got a SMAAAAAAAASH! The dialogue is pretty funny, so it's worth it to talk to random NPCs. It's so good that there is an entire genre of games just trying to emulate how soulful it is.

What exactly about it is good that's worth copying other than the aesthetic? It's the definition of of style over substance.
>muh rolling health

>>718548619
You see all the enemies in the overworld. You can just retreat until they're offscreen to make them despawn. Or you could just fight them instead of being a little bitch.

>>718546913 (OP)
>what made it good in the first place
the fact that you were a kid when you played it?

>>718550812
The writing is fun. It doesn't take itself too seriously until the finale and had a fourth-wall break when that was still a novel narrative device. Not even a huge Undertale fan, but this Is the part I think it captures best that other knockoffs/spiritual succesors fail at.

>>718550957
Nobody played it when they were kids, that's why it was in the clearance bin.

>>718548285
It's a silly JRPG that takes in place modern times rather in a fantasy setting or a sci-fi setting.
The game can be pretty humorous at times, although it can get very serious, especially at the end of the game
To me, the most interesting thing about Earthbound is Rolling Meter mechanic, where you can still attack even receiving damage that deals more than your HP.

Unfortunately, you got retards on this board like >>718549018 who never played the games and is just talking out of their asses

>>718550812
>>muh rolling health
Yes, the only good thing Earthbound has that people didn't implement in their games

>>718550812
The aesthetic is a big part, but that doesn't mean it's lacking in substance. The story is pretty wild.
>kid dodges the cops to hang out near a meteorite
>bug from the future tells him about aliens that are gonna invade
>kid takes out a local gang, a psychic ant infestation, and then fucks up the local police department
>next town girl has a chick missing, so the town thug recruits the kid to rescue her from a bunch of cultists
>thug boss rewards him with a wad of cash, which the two kids use to save an indebted band from wageslavery, allowing them to ride on the band's loud bus to clear out the ghosts haunting the tunnel to the next town
>that next town is under a zombie invasion
>a hooker lures the two kids (Paula is ride or die) into a hotel and the local undead beat the shit out them and bury them in the cemetary
>they psychically reach out to another kid to rescue them
>he leaves his boarding school, braves the winter wilds, reaches his dad's lab, then takes a spaceship to crash into the grave, freeing his new friends
And that's just the first few areas. You don't even have the full crew yet. This game has a shit ton of stuff that happens.

>>718547096
In my case it wasn't "drop" so much as "use savestates to skip from the final save to the start of Giygas". I'm not supid enough to consider using savestates "beating the game", but I did in fact reach the ending*

>>718551443
No way was it in a clearance bin with how expensive the game was compared to the others. It came with a pretty detailed guidebook. Here's a copy:
https://archive.org/details/Nintendo_Players_Guide_SNES_Earthbound_1995/mode/2up
I got lucky in that my mom actually wanted to play it, but I doubt most parents would have shelled out the extra cash.

>>718548285
A thing that's missing from pretty much every piece of modern media is the fact that creators don't have life experiences and things they like that they reference and put into new creations. Earthbound is full of pop culture references and you could tell inspired by the real life experiences of Itoi. You don't get that from any of the games inspired by Earthbound because people do not have real life experiences anymore.

>>718546913 (OP)
Most japanese people probably laugh or cringe when they see anything related to localization of jp games. On 4chan or on the internet generally. This game is alled mother 2 in japan or something like that.

>>718547593
>EarthBound
>Difficulty Spike
???
The game gets easier as you go along
the hardest there is is Ness alone at the beginning

>>718552053
The whole desert mine bit was a refrence to that time Itoi made a TV special where he tried (and failed) to find a legendary lost treasure.

>>718547096
I would always dropped it somewhere after the first boss fight against that gang leader and his bot
tho lately ive been playing it on NSO again and as of now i'm at the zombie town and just got the zombies stuck in the tent and now am looking for what to do next...
also it's kinda bs that you have to sleep in the hotels for the stuff there to progress i did it on sheer luck!

>>718552159
>The game gets easier as you go along
until you get to the Mall in fourside

>>718552053
All this life experience talk makes me fucking pissed. So what, I’m not allowed to do jack shit because I’ve been playing video games all the time? Fucking hell.

>>718552053
and now people reference culture and experiences that they shared from... the internet! society has fallen! we need more games about boomers catching bugs and scraping their knees!

>>718547593
onett and fourside are the only spikes

>>718547096
the weird nose guys

>>718552257
That won’t ever capture the spirit of Earthbound, though.
>>718552242
What’cha gonna do, kill yourself or something?

>>718552257
>boomers catching bugs
You mean exactly why Pokemon was made, the largest media franchise on earth? Were you trying to make a joke or something?

>>718552242
I mean, if Toby Fox could make something with soul, so could you, Anonymous gamer.

>>718552370
they will but it'll go over all of your heads because you're ancient and don't care about young culture

>>718550812
funny, uncommon setting, good set pieces

>>718552436
Deltarune heavily reflects Toby’s days when he was working with Andrew Hussie. I don’t have jack shit equivalent to that sort of stuff.

>>718548285
It's the writing and characters. It's a delight interacting with npc's instead of it being a chore. Also the music is amazing.

>>718552370
>What’cha gonna do, kill yourself or something?
Might as well urge burgeoning game developers to give up their dreams because their games will never be “authentic”.

>>718552242
Yes, that’s the answer. Now stay in the closet for the rest of your sorry life.

>>718548285
It was never actually good. People like to claim that it was a hidden gem, but Earthbound sold like complete crap for a reason.

People often blame bad "Gross out" marketing for Earthbound selling poorly in the west. However people usually fail to mention that the game didn't sell very well in the east either, despite having pretty good marketing. It certainly sold a lot more without the need for localization efforts, but it still wasn't good.

Earthbound only sold around 300k copies in Japan. For reference, the latest Final Fantasy game at the time, Final Fantasy 6, sold 2.5 million copies in Japan. Even the worst selling Final Fantasy games sold at least twice as much as Earthbound did.

This is why the wave of people claiming all sorts of games are "Earthbound inspired", especially games from the east, have no idea what they're talking about. It was a trend by hipster western indie developers who thought it would make their game look cool because Undertale did it, and that's it. Nobody else actually wanted their game to be like Earthbound.

>>718552696
You know what, staying in the closet might be good “life experience”. I might just do that and make a game out of it!

>>718552612
to them it's only authentic as long as it captures THEIR specific childhood and idea of life because that's based and any other point in history is retarded and cringe. just don't listen to any dipshit saying you need life experience, make something interesting/fun and nothing else

>>718548619
You never, ever need to grind to beat EarthBound and you can see all the enemy sprites and it's easy to avoid most of them if you give them a wide berth. This is a skill issue. You'd kill yourself after 5 minutes of Mother 1

>>718549478
Hey look, someone who's actually played the games. Honestly I'd love to see a game actually inspired by Earthbound, it's pretty unique in terms of story and structure and distinct from Mother 3.

>>718549478
LISA is an obvious example. Saying Mother 3 is admitting to piracy so the marketing tweaks it.

>>718552371
And now kids are playing obbys in Roblox.

>>718553293
You really think that’s ever going to make something comparable to Pokémon?

>>718553550
You may not like it, but the future generations will.

>>718553293
Those are just platformers but worse.

>>718548285
It's just a quirky game in an interesting setting that can get serious at times

Unfortunately, you got retarded tendies
on this board like >>718551768 who never played the games and is just talking out of their asses

>>718546913 (OP)
I miss when it was obscure as fuck, I didn't meet a single person who played it until high school and when we both found out both of us had played it, it was like discovering uncharted land a feeling I can't begin to describe that zoom zooms will never know

>>718553665
Bug catching is like hunting but worse.

>>718552370
Interestingly enough, Hypnospace Outlaw has a bit of an Earthbound vibe if you squint. It's a weird, funny game that also has a lot of soul and a darker side, and it's all about the internet.

>>718552206
You get some bro time with Jeff. You can try to slog your way through with brute force or you can do the mall like a stealth mission.

>>718552759
It didn't sell well because it was selling for $10 more than the Donkey Kong Country series.

>>718546913 (OP)
Thank god I played it over 15 years ago so I don't have to pretend to hate it.

I really like the enemies

>>718546913 (OP)
Because all of them released after Undertale were ripping THAT off instead, not Earthbound (or even OFF, which inspired Toby even more than Earthbound did.)

>>718553293
Western kids, yes.
Jap kids are still bananas for Pokemon because Roblox and Fortnite haven't taken off over there due to cultural differences.

>>718547096
Been a long time, but I remember looking for Paula and something about a bus. Also fuck that dumb fuck mushroom that randomly swaps your controls.

>>718553970
>n-no you
Seems like i struck a nerve here

>>718554349
It's also very earnest, which is another part of what makes Earthbound so charming. Sincerity in your passion is everything, and Hypnospace is full of genuine love for the 90's Internet and the various cultures of that era, both online and offline.

There's no earthbound clones retard

>>718547593
>difficulty spiking
The only somewhat difficult part of EarthBound is the beginning part with solo Ness. Everything after you get Paula is a breeze.