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ff7 is just okay i guess. ff5 is really really good and they should copy it with every game. now they should copy x-2 with every game. i suddenly want to play x-2. cid is the only really likable character in 7 but when i first played it i didn't get a lot of the stuff with cloud being hosed up or care much about the story so i guess it's better than my initial ok analysis Mother 3's big saving point is the combat music mechanic and its unpredictability, i wasn't expecting the intro to go where it did
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:It oozes style and humor and whatever, but the battles are simple (so simple the game lets you autowin them. Hooray?) and wandering most places out of town is boring as poo poo. this sounds like every jrpg ever though.
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pro tip if you get bored wandering outside: become a boss at steering teleportation and ramming into walls right before it goes off if you actually need teleportation beta in anything but a cramped area you a scrub
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Fromsoft: please change the bonfire teleportation in Dark Souls 2 into PSI teleport alpha. You can thank me later for making the game 300% gooder
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Gimbal lock posted:Fromsoft: please change the bonfire teleportation in Dark Souls 2 into PSI teleport alpha. You can thank me later for making the game 300% gooder
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Gimbal lock posted:Fromsoft: please change the bonfire teleportation in Dark Souls 2 into PSI teleport alpha. You can thank me later for making the game 300% gooder i have barely played DS2 and I will 100% it if that ever happens
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I am a man that likes to play my games slow. I like to dick about and look through every corner for cool goodies and fun secrets. Is Earthbound a game that will fulfill my curiosity?
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Hog Butcher posted:ff7 is just okay i guess. ff5 is really really good and they should copy it with every game. now they should copy x-2 with every game. i suddenly want to play x-2. Did you jes call Barret unlikeable? Get the gently caress outta here.
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Ragg posted:Did you jes call Barret unlikeable? Get the gently caress outta here. Barret's cool tifa's cool cid's cool. Yuffie's not vincent's not cait sith's really loving not and aeris/aerith is creepy as hell.
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Ragg posted:Did you jes call Barret unlikeable? Get the gently caress outta here. i am completely neutral on barret. he is an okay guy, fit to take on a date on a ferris wheel, but nothing more.
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LaTex Fetish posted:I am a man that likes to play my games slow. I like to dick about and look through every corner for cool goodies and fun secrets. Yeah
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Cyra posted:Yeah thanks
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LaTex Fetish posted:I am a man that likes to play my games slow. I like to dick about and look through every corner for cool goodies and fun secrets. there's not a lot of cool secrets in terms of items if you look around every nook and cranny, but there are fun jokes to be had, if you talk to everybody
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Earthbound made me want to talk to every npc. how about that?
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Earthbound is poo poo.
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Mark Brouhard posted:I have it burned into my brain since I was 15 that people who like FF7 believe its worth 150 bucks, are nasty and sweaty looking as gently caress, and get no pussy. I think I'm good tia. Those people sound way cooler than you
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mabels big day posted:Those people sound way cooler than you I am, thank you, although I don't think I'd pay 150 bucks for a video game.
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Gonna eat this here hamburger that I found in the garbage
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Some very minor spoilers from 1995 while deconstructing Earthbound's themes. Don't read this poo poo, OP. Earthbound seems like a cute rpg with a child's story, but it's actually about kid's dark fall into the world of drugs. It's Fear and Loathing in Eagleland, presented by Nintendo. Ness starts off trying some poo poo, late at night, in the woods with a couple of friends. Everybody's pretty nervous and monsters are starting to hound them. He's invited by a talking bee from the future to travel the world and experience new kinds of trips. Before long he's hanging out at the arcade with street toughs and loving around with Johnny and his smoke-puffing machine in the bushes. Soon after, he's discovered by the popo while tripping fiercely in the local area's hobo shack and known drug hotspot. He fights off the police with a baseball bat and runs away, kickstarting the real journey. From thereon, all sorts of crazy poo poo happens. Magic butterflies making him relax. A freakout in a department store with inanimate objects coming to life and attacking him. Magic cake on the beach that gives him visions. He spends time with a spiritual guru in the desert with a million monkeys. Getting mad paid by known gangsters with game-acknowledged dirty money. I won't even go into the kinds of crazy that happens in the back of a crummy bar. Glowing walls that write down Ness' thoughts as he thinks them, or are they? Even the presentation is indicative of tripping balls, especially the fight screen. A third of the way thru his journey, Ness looks like he's getting clean. He literally fights the aspect of nausea, cleans the filth away in a hot spring and drinks some coffee. The game even acknowledges, at this point, that this is important. Much later in the game, it gets so bad that his old demons come back to haunt him: as he gets further lost in the Deep Darkness from the tenuous connection that he had left with the rest of humanity, the avatar of nausea comes back to haunt him stronger than ever. Far in the game, he's so far detached from the rest of the world that he's walking lost lands found deep in a hole, in a cave, in the Deep Darkness. There, he eventually goes on a spiritual journey in his own minds where he attempts to fight his demons. In his spiral of self-destruction, at the very end of the game, Ness goes back in the past and (again, literally) tries to destroy himself while he's still in his mother's womb. Hopefully he gets his wish that he had never been born at all. That's a whole lot of hosed up symbolism for a SNES RPG, man.
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the bike represents white guilt.
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Ragg posted:I am, thank you, although I don't think I'd pay 150 bucks for a video game. i paid 150 for panzer dragoon saga and i loving regret it to this day
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matrix ripoff posted:i paid 150 for panzer dragoon saga and i loving regret it to this day haha
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earthbound is unplayable without the nintendo power scratch and sniff stickers that go with it.
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earthbound is a good game but loving nerds ruin it by endlessly gushing about it and writing fifty page threads about how nintendo REALLY OUGHTA LOCALIZE AND RELEASE MOTHER 3 IT WOULD SELL BILLIONS
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I've been trying to pinpoint why I love earthbound so much and I think it's because it does surrealism better then most other things across all forms of modern media. Or at least it does it in a way that tickles my particular fancy.
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Great Joe posted:Earthbound is poo poo. dont troll
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Earthbound is a rare breed of RPG, specifically one set in a modern era. There aren't many games that do that; all I can think of are Earthbound, The World Ends with You, and the Vampire: the Masquerade games. I'm sure there's a couple more but RPG developers tend to stick with the same elf and European forest motif that's been shambling around since Tolkien wrote The Hobbit in the 1930s.
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matrix ripoff posted:earthbound is a good game but loving nerds ruin it by endlessly gushing about it and writing fifty page threads about how nintendo REALLY OUGHTA LOCALIZE AND RELEASE MOTHER 3 IT WOULD SELL BILLIONS I don't get how that ruins the actual game tbh. It's not like a situation where the actual game is just overrated. Mother 3 was one of the few translated games I played that was totally worth the wait and hype surrounding it.
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Nalk posted:I've been trying to pinpoint why I love earthbound so much and I think it's because it does surrealism better then most other things across all forms of modern media. Or at least it does it in a way that tickles my particular fancy. play space funeral
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DrManiac posted:I don't get how that ruins the actual game tbh. It's not like a situation where the actual game is just overrated. earthbound is indeed overrated, tho mother 3 is not
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Earthbound is the only JRPG I can stomach playing these days. That's how good it is.
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matrix ripoff posted:earthbound is a good game but loving nerds ruin it by endlessly gushing about it and writing fifty page threads about how nintendo REALLY OUGHTA LOCALIZE AND RELEASE MOTHER 3 IT WOULD SELL BILLIONS if that ruins it for you im sorry.
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Starhawk64 posted:Earthbound is the only JRPG I can stomach playing these days. That's how good it is. True word life
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Hog Butcher posted:play space funeral holy poo poo this is a treat
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matrix ripoff posted:i paid 150 for panzer dragoon saga and i loving regret it to this day Panzer Dragoon owns and holy gently caress i hope my friend didn't sell his copy. dose Ebay prices 
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Nalk posted:holy poo poo this is a treat its actual artistic message is legit as gently caress too, i was expecting wacky wacky wacky
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Great Joe posted:Earthbound is poo poo. this but seriously
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earthbound > mother 3
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SpazmasterX posted:this but seriously I was being serious.
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probably. FF7 was an overrated lovely animu game with a convoluted, bad story that gets gushing praise because a ton of people were 8 years old and it was their first RPG. earthbound is just charming.
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