What's the appeal to Earthbound?
>>729865452You have to understand it's quirky humor.
>>729865452Appeal to emotion
>>729865452It's a jrgp that isn't high fantasy or sci fi. I mean there's sci fi aspects but the setting is modern suberbia which is cool
>>729865452dragon quest but with americana settingthat's pretty much it, it was something itoi was familiar with more than fantasy so he felt more confident in writing for a game like that
>>729865452Novelty of being an RPG with a modern-ish setting but still very wacky and cartoony. So it's like playing a fun cartoon. The pacing is also very good from what I recall, doesn't feel like it majorly drags especially in the first half and keeps you engaged and wanting to find out what happensd next. It also has some very wholesome and sentimental overtones that make the whole journey very endearing and positive. Even though your characters don't talk much, you wind up rooting for them in this crazy world. It kind of reminds me of The Goonies, if you've ever seen that. But on a way bigger scale.
it factor
>>729866372It doesn't put up any roadblocks to your enjoyment.
>>729865452Poo's intro is still the most kino sequence of any jarpig
In the immortal words of Big Smoke: The same things that make us laugh, make us cry.
>>729866549>jarpigGood grief....
>>729865452Playing Earthbound reveals mind's différancial dehiscence—a transfinite recursion through arithmetic hierarchies of phenomenological stratification. Dreams constitute nicht-sein's constitutive exteriority, where Dasein's ownmost potentiality-for-being encounters its ontological destitution through causal diamond measures of temporal becoming. Within this hyperdimensional manifold, consciousness exhibits aggregative excess demand functions, perpetually deferring psychic equilibrium through Carnapian internal/external oscillations. The oneiric operates via fine-structural mice—minimal inner models generating interpretive multiplicities that resist epistemological closure. Each dream-fragment becomes a differential topology, where univalence axioms collapse traditional subject/object distinctions into pure speculative flux. Constitutivism regarding epistemic norms dissolves under sleep's anarchic différance—meaning proliferates through default logical frameworks that suspend rational governance. The dreaming-I exists as epistemic-modal correlation (C ◊M), where consciousness's possibility-conditions emerge only through their own impossible actualization. This nocturnal metaphysics reveals mind's essential in-determination: neither purely material nor transcendentally ideal, but perpetually deferred through recursive hermeneutic spirals. Dreams expose consciousness as ontological poverty—the abyssal ground from which all presence emerges through its own originary withdrawal. The psyche's deepest truth manifests precisely through its systematic self-concealment within hypnagogic multiplicities.
>>729865452>Dogshit inventory>3 items at a time transfers>BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH For everything you want to do>Saving?>BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH>Healing?>BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH>Walking?>OH FUCK IT'S PHOTO TIME FOR THE 23597865236897TH TIME!!!!>BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH>*SNAP!*>This is going in my end-credits compilation!>Oh hey for this town, lets reverse all the yes/no dialogue options!>Oh hey for this same town, lets split it into segments and require you to talk to specific NPCs to teleport you around between areas!!I don't get the appeal either. The *GAME* is mostly shit. >Combat is decent>Rolling DMG countersDoesn't make up for the rest being tedious as all fuck, and I quit sometime into Farside or whatever the fuck it was called. When the UI becomes more of a challenge to deal with than the actual combat, the game is officially shit. I'd rather mindlessly mash A through the entire Pokemon series than replay Earthbound
>>729867078Isnt there a rom hack that changes the UI so it's not ass to navigate
>>729865452It's a game that perfectly captures the sensations of being a kid.
Holy shit this game really triggers the fuck out of cynical zoomzooms. They are going all out. That's funny
>>729865452Simple game with a lot of charmThat's literally itProbably the simplest game of the series in term of everything
>>729867062silence, chatgpthumans are speaking
>>7298654521950's Americana is a pretty unique setting for a jrpg. The execution and presentation are also quite good for the 16 bit era which was already the golden age of 2d pixel rpgs. If you can't see the appeal, you probably just don't like that style of game.
>>729867595Not at all. Earthbound has subtlety and allegorical meaning behind it which Mother 1 and 3 lack.
>>729867062>asking chatgpt to write you pseud posts on a Vietnamese fly fishing forum
>>729865452Obscure old school snes RPG that make me look quirky and interesting
>>729865452Apart from what everyone else has said, you also have to consider the time it was released. Now I know most of the fans didn’t play it then, but these were the days when the internet wasn’t what it is today. You were at home on a summer night, trapped in a house with nothing to keep you entertained or connect to the outside world. The game was your world. And it was a charming one
>>729866915Summers and Costa del Sol always makes me think of San Tropez. Meddle's album art even looks like an Earthbound battle background.https://youtu.be/mjNYO-OI2Fo
>>729865452>What's the appeal to Earthbound?unless you were 10 in 1995 you'll never understand
>>729865452it's like mother 3 but worse
>>729868196>50'sWhat? EarthBound is set in the early 90s.>jrpgAh okay.
>>729865452It's millennial quirk chungus: the game. You wouldn't understand if you weren't born between 1980 and 1995.
>>729865452It's a game and you can play it.
>>729868260both 1 and 3 have more subtlety and allegorical meaning behind them than earthbound
So, is it the existence of Undertale that makes you faggots flock to discussions about this game, or what? There's got to be some sort of underlying angst at work here because EarthBound is as inoffensive as it gets.
>>729868797Mother 1 I'll give you, but 3 is not subtle at all. One could in fact say it insists upon itself.
>>729868797LMAO no. Mother 3 hits you over the head with its messaging.
>>729865452It's a pastiche of 90s America through the eyes of a middle aged Japanese bass fisherman with a vested interest in the paranormal, occult, cryptids, aliens, cultists, ESP, and so on.It's also kind of a distant cousin to the main series Pokemon games. (the people at APE went on to found Creatures Inc.)
>>729868750I was born in 2003 and I like it. Shrug.
all three have the exact same message you simple peoplefamily and treating each other well is important, protect the planet who is your mother, abuse and exploitation makes monsters of us all
>>729869041You don't actually like it, you like telling people you like it.
>love mother 2, replay it often every 5 or 7 years>can't even bother doing mother 3, finished it only once but every single time i try to replay it, it's just not fun
>>729868742It's kind of anachronistic because it's what a Japanese guy thought America in the early 90's was like, but the visuals and vibes are heavily based in the 50's-60's. Particularly since it's so tied to saucer cults and the UFO craze.
Whew
>>729869101What??? Are you good?
It’s a good warm up for Mother 3.
>>729869152Fair point. I'll give you the War of the Worlds references at least. I don't think the locales and tech in the setting were all that retro though then again it's been decades since I played it
>>729865452It's just neat
>>729865452It's an alright jrpg that's filled to the brim with charm.
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smiles and tears made me cry and no other game has done that to me since
>>729869591Ahh that's so damn cute. I love it.
>>729869427It wasn't super 50s outside of a few visual references, like Paula's aesthetic and the whole ray gun theme for the robots and UFOs.
>>729865452The story is weird but intense, I kinda like it. This game celebrated randomness before randomness became a meme. But the game itself is such a fucking chore, I could never play it without save states. Also, the much praised "humour" isn't really that funny.
>>729867062Kill yourself faggot. For real. Using ai fkr anything
>>729869732It's shitpost humor, the funniness of it comes from the fact that they actually wrote all that silly bullshit dialogue and put it in the game without elaborating. You can tell that whoever wrote and translated this game was havin a laff while doing it.
>>729865452It's a nice looking RPG in a unique setting that doesn't take it self too seriously and goes crazy.This is the only game I've ever replayed more than 2 times, usually play to completion every 2 years, no mods or anything, not even using the emulator speed up option and savestates.Millennials are incapable of emulating similar SOVL into a game.
>>729865452What other media has a similar feel to Earthbound? Not just the Americana aesthetic but the overall tone?
>>729865452it's a vibe thing
>>72987032580s and 90s Saturday morning cartoons and kodomo anime, especially comedy/adventure
>>729865452JRPG with a domestic western pastiche.America was once like this, in a way.
>>729870325I always felt like the first 2 pokemon gens felt very similar to earthbound in a lot of ways. There's also Undertale but that was a conscious effort to make something in the vein of earthbound. I haven't played Chulip, but I've seen some videos and it gave me a lot of the same vibes as Earthbound, in terms of art style, weird but cozy vibe, and oddball humor.
>>729870665As an ESL, Moonside walled me hard. Had to resort to GameFAQs to pass it.In return it became my favorite area. Fuck the hydrant enemies though
>>729865452Despite there being a lot of indie devs that were inspired by Earthbound, they sure never did anything even remotely as good.Imagine that, a game from 1994 with a file size of 50 MB with archaic features (inventory system) with all the limitations of hardware and software at the time reigns supreme over the heaps of putrid slop that is churned out by indies non-stop.We need people to get out of their houses and take inspiration from life instead of other games, game dev in general has become incestuous.
It was full of these little scenes that made me feel more in tune to these characters being young on their first exploration rather than feeling like a player.
>>729871059>We need people to get out of their houses and take inspiration from life instead of other games,lol that requires money and time, neither of which anyone has anymore, games will continue to rot as people continue to have to slave away at nothing jobs just to make rent
it's undertale for uncs
>>729871059It took nintendo 2 full years to develop mother 1 with cream of the crop team of creative gods at the peak of their prime gathered by Miyamoto himself specifically to appease his celebrity guest Itoi.The fact that you think a random Joe Herbertson from shitholistan virginia can do better solo in shitmaker is frankly astounding.It's not even comparable.
>>729871059>We need people to get out of their houses and take inspiration from life instead of other games, game dev in general has become incestuous.This is a massive problem with a lot of creative industries nowadays. It's why all cartoons are just the same ideas filled with nothing but nostalgia, the creators childhood trauma and political beliefs.
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>>729865452Phenomenal musicRelateable setting (for Americans)Humorous writingOptional Guidemagazine over 100 pages long in "high resolution" and equally charmingAll for $50 on your Super Nintendo. No internet needed.
>>729865452All the Earthbound games are pretty fucking chill and really plays by itself, the soundtrack is cool af and the game always has something philosphical to say inderectly or directly to the player.
>>729870325Brian Wilson music
*rapes you*
>>729870325Mahoujin Guruguru (2017)
