Earthbound

[rpgfanatic]

Anyone else here LOVE Earthbound (SNES) Post here and talk about your favorite part or town in the game.

[IRC]

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haha nobody likes Earthbound but you.

[Kefka Jr.]

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I used to hate Dusty Dunes Desert, but now I love it.

[DarkwingChuck]

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Earthbound? What's that? An FPS? I bet it's an FPS. I've never heard of it before especially not on the Pav. Monkey monkey chu-chu.

[Vonwert]

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All the joking aside, I would say that pretty much 95% of the pav loves Earthbound. Those in the other 5% don't have a heart

I am hoping and wishing to get Mother 3....

[donkeyboy]

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Earthbound was great. I liked in the beginning when the woman killed the hero/bug.

[facts]

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All the joking aside, I would say that pretty much 95% of the pav loves Earthbound. Those in the other 5% don't have a heart

I am hoping and wishing to get Mother 3....

There already is a Mother 3. It came out in Japan in April?

[Loki]

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I used to hate Dusty Dunes Desert, but now I love it.

Yet some set-pieces are bursting joys to play, like the traffic jam on the desert highway. What sounds like a mundane set-up actually turns out to love the player far more completely than segments involving magic, psychic powers, or dinosaurs. In this traffic-jam segment, the heroes depart a bus, enter a little roadside drugstore, and then, if they choose, wander the desert a bit. The only wandering that's necessary takes them to the far right side of the map, where a man has set up a small hut for the purpose of having a place to stay while he digs into the earth, confident he'll find something. Stay at his house, and when you wake up, you'll find the traffic jam has cleared up, and you are free to enter the tunnel and cross into the big city of Fourside for the first time. What, exactly, transpires over the course of the night, you don't know. It's not the point. Traffic jams, as traffic jams, clear up. It's what they do. They wouldn't be traffic jams unless they cleared up at some point. Even after the traffic jam clears up, however, the music will resemble a blend of three lazy Mexican radio stations, complete with static. Should the player wander the desert some more before or after staying at the roadside shack, he might find a black sesame seed, a single pixel in height and width, buried in the sand. The black sesame seed is lonesome without the white sesame seed. He says the white sesame seed is somewhere in the desert. If you could find it, and tell it the black sesame seed's story, the black sesame seed would appreciate it. You can find the white sesame seed if you want. Should you do this, you get no reward aside from heatstroke. Yes, the desert is the only place in the game you can get heatstroke. Heatstroke acts a lot like poison, draining hit points with each footstep. Sometimes, in battle -- with UFOs, spontaneously combusting oak trees, and raging buffalo, as the desert would have it -- your characters will pass out from the heat. The only cure for heatstroke is, of course, the wet towel, sold only at the roadside drugstore.

The desert between Threed and Fourside is an ambiguous event. It comes so soon after the game's imposed "coffee break," and the majority of the walking around in the sun and getting heatstroke can be avoided if you know that all you have to do is stay at the guy's house and move on. Certainly, other role-playing games before 1994 had featured events that left the player feeling as though wandering aimlessly. Many RPGs even now force players to scream, at times, about not knowing what they're supposed to do. Most of these games do so in events where the solution is so stupidly obvious that many players might give up immediately upon discovering it. Mother 2's desert is one such event. Only evidence points to its being constructed that way on purpose.

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[Patryn]

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I like Earthbound, although I've never beaten it. I do wish they updated the battle system, though. Good graphics do not a bad game make. Look at Dragon Quest VIII! They got over their fear of showing the party and it was a much better game for it.

[Goemon]

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Earthbound's a rare gem in the Super NES RPG library. I liked how original it was at the time. Plus some of the toilet humor was pretty funny, too.

[Jamos' Old Account]

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All the joking aside, I would say that pretty much 95% of the pav loves Earthbound. Those in the other 5% don't have a heart

I never even heard of Earthbound until I joined the pavilion... still haven't been able to play it.

And you are right, I don't have a heart.

[IRC]

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That's why your Jamos. Play the damn game. Isn't Mother 1+2 out now? I really need to pick it up.

[Loki]

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It's out in Japan. Rumor has it that Nintendo is going to put all 3 games on DS for an internation release. But I don't belive it. I don't even think 3 is coming to Europe.

Edit: So of course this topic made me start a new game. I love the little things that make me smile. Like how your mom tells you "Remember to 'go for it!'" at the very begening. What stupid, condensending, wonderfully inspirational advice. I hate when people say that the game's text is simplistic. It's so nuanced and self aware. They're missing the point entirly.

[Magus]

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I started playing again over the summer and I, too, am impressed with the translation.

And what the **** is with Nintendo's refusal to release the handheld versions?

[Loki]

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I think they took such a big hit when they released Earthbound that they don't think Mother 3 will sell well. Even though they know there is a huge fan comunity they don't think that the adverage no-nothing casual gamers buy it.

That's just my guess though, I don't know any more than you.