So, any Mother/Earthbound fans on GBATemp?

[NightsOwl]

I guess it's a better experience than a game. Since in reality, the only thing that keeps that series enjoyable is the story. And quite frankly, that's not enough for me.

 

[Gahars]

its actually dumb to post hate messages towards a game on a fan's thread

Eh i could really care less about the series.

Ah, yes, you can just feel the hatred seething from this post.

 

[Rydian]

I honestly don't see what's so great, they never brought anything important to the genre.

A modern take (Secret Of Evermore is the only other example I can think of, and that's just partially), NPCs talking as if they were human (stuttering, correcting themselves, an almost total lack of cliche hero/villain speeches), actually making explanations behind why everything in the game wants to kill you for once... there's a lot of things Earthbound did that were new, things that other RPGs of the time didn't do.

They did, it's just not apparant since it doesn't stand out much anymore. Kind of like how people talking about Super Mario Bros today wouldn't say it's a fantastic revolution or anything now, that playing it now would just be for hipster cred or something.

 

[TripleSMoon]

Does anyone else feel Earthbound be better if it were set in realistic war-like environment where you shoot things in a first person perspective, to stop some modern international terrorists?

Hmm where have I seen this before?

 

[TyBlood13]

I am a HUGE fan of the series, just import MOTHER 2 from Japan
(Looks at Avatar for reassurance)
Going to beat Chapter 8 of MOTHER 3 on my psp at some point or another..
Also @[member='raulpica']
Big fan right there.

 

[retrodoctor]

I now hate the series. I can't like anything that someone who uses Comic Sans likes.

 

[YayMii]

Love the whole series, especially Mother 3. Although I've only beat EB0 and I lack the effort to get back into EB/M3 right now.

 

[Rydian]

I've beaten Earthbound, gotten up to the highway part of M3, played just a bit of M0.

 

[linuxGuru]

I love the series. I played through Mother 3 and Earthbound three times, and am on my third playthrough of mother 1. The music is just so good, and the story is more interesting than most rpgs I've played.

 

[Yepi69]

I am a HUGE fan of the series, just import MOTHER 2 from Japan
(Looks at Avatar for reassurance)
Going to beat Chapter 8 of MOTHER 3 on my psp at some point or another..
Also @[member='raulpica']
Big fan right there.

Mother 3 is so addicting, yet such a sad story :/
Earthbound was epic but it was kinda creepy on some parts lol

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[emigre]

I am a HUGE fan of the series, just import MOTHER 2 from Japan
(Looks at Avatar for reassurance)
Going to beat Chapter 8 of MOTHER 3 on my psp at some point or another..
Also @[member='raulpica']
Big fan right there.

Mother 3 is so addicting, yet such a sad story :/
Earthbound was epic but it was kinda creepy on some parts lol

It's not like the final boss was an aborted fetus.

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[Yepi69]

I am a HUGE fan of the series, just import MOTHER 2 from Japan
(Looks at Avatar for reassurance)
Going to beat Chapter 8 of MOTHER 3 on my psp at some point or another..
Also @[member='raulpica']
Big fan right there.

Mother 3 is so addicting, yet such a sad story :/
Earthbound was epic but it was kinda creepy on some parts lol

It's not like the final boss was an aborted fetus.

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[narutopet112]

Any earthbound/mother fans here around GBATemp ?

are you kidding me? Wonderful game with a great plot.

 

[Gahars]

I am a HUGE fan of the series, just import MOTHER 2 from Japan
(Looks at Avatar for reassurance)
Going to beat Chapter 8 of MOTHER 3 on my psp at some point or another..
Also @[member='raulpica']
Big fan right there.

Mother 3 is so addicting, yet such a sad story :/
Earthbound was epic but it was kinda creepy on some parts lol

It's not like the final boss was an aborted fetus.

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[emigre]

Sorry, buddy, it's a fetus. And the bad guy's lair is a woman's cervix. (Plus, the game is called Mother in Japan... do the math here).

The game was promoting an anti-abortion stance?

 

[Gahars]

Sorry, buddy, it's a fetus. And the bad guy's lair is a woman's cervix. (Plus, the game is called Mother in Japan... do the math here).

The game was promoting an anti-abortion stance?

Well, the game's creator said he based the game on a traumatic experience he had when he was younger; he walked into the wrong theater and witnessed a graphic murder scene that he mistook for a [censored] (the movie was called The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty, if it helps).

So... maybe?

 

[DS1]

Metal Max is better. It combines the quirkiness you kids love about Earthbound/Mother with the actually fun non-linear gameplay of games like Fallout.

 

[4-leaf-clover]

Only played Earthbound and Mother 3.. Never completed it though. (Cuz i don't like emulating on pc :/ )

 

[raulpica]

I've finished the first one 5-6 times, always without easy ring (YES, I'M THAT HARDCORE), and one time with the easy ring few months ago.

Replayed Earthbound for my third-fourth (can't remember) time after the last playthru of MOTHER1, and I'm now going to replay MOTHER3 for the third time soon

I remember finishing MOTHER3 the first time entirely in Japanese, with the dialogue transcripts on my PSP (the only and one time it was truly useful as a console) aside my GBASP while playing it

So yes, I'm an uber-fan.

 

[Yepi69]

I've finished the first one 5-6 times, always without easy ring (YES, I'M THAT HARDCORE), and one time with the easy ring few months ago.

Replayed Earthbound for my third-fourth (can't remember) time after the last playthru of MOTHER1, and I'm now going to replay MOTHER3 for the third time soon

I remember finishing MOTHER3 the first time entirely in Japanese, with the dialogue transcripts on my PSP (the only and one time it was truly useful as a console) aside my GBASP while playing it

So yes, I'm an uber-fan.

Yes i am also a uber fan, i am completing mother 3 for the third time too but this time on hard more (i can't get past the mecha drago) Earthbound was epic but i still gotta give Mother 1 a chance because i don't like random encounters, still if i could play them all on my NDS console it would make me happy as any fan would like to have earthbound/mother games on the go