>gets cancelled for taking resources away from Gamecube developmentWas it worth it?
>>12093021MOTHER is a cursed series, I'm sure Itoi was already being crushed by yet another third troubled development cycle and the switch to GBA was a godsend.
>>12093021>Was it worth it?no. we couldve got an actual mother game, another light-hearted romp for all to enjoy. instead we got itoi's midlife crisis in gba form.
>>12093021>>gets cancelled for taking resources away from Gamecube developmentSource?
>System finally gets ONE RPG>Gets cancelledYamauchi's last deed
>>12093049Based Yamauchi
>>12093021It's literally your fault.
>>12093021I dont get why the fuck it didn't just move to the gamecube like pretty much every other in development late 64 game.
>>12093028seemed like iwata and miyamoto pushed for mother 3 gba more than itoi
>>12093021no matter what the game would’ve not come out until right before or after the gamecube released and would have not sold well enough to make back costs
>>12093049>System finally gets ONE RPG???
Salsa or gtfo
>>12093028He only changed the ending.
>>12094102It also has Ogre Battle and Shiren the Wanderer (as well as Quest 64 and one or two others).
>>12093029That's just what is claimed from the cancellation interview. Not sure whether some details are lost in translation or not.>Iwata: We first started the game six years ago on the Super Famicom, then transitioned it to the Nintendo 64DD halfway through; now we’ve aborted the last six years of development and disbanded the MOTHER 3 project teams. This doesn’t mean Itoi has permanently parted ways with the MOTHER franchise, and nothing’s been decided about the future of the game. What happened is that we couldn’t keep our promise to release it on the Nintendo 64.>Miyamoto: It’s really too bad, but the honest truth is that we couldn’t go on. It would have had far too much an impact on other projects like Project Dolphin. The reason we’re quitting is not because it’s not going well, or because the end’s not in sight. It might be easier for people to accept this if Nintendo were a small company that got stuck because project money had dried up. You could try and put it optimistically by saying, “It’s out of our hands for the moment, but if we ever find ourselves able to come back to it, we will.” But it’d be irresponsible of us to say that.>https://yomuka.wordpress.com/2013/08/18/earthbound-64-cancellation-interview-itoi-miyamoto-iwata/>>12093486I can sort of see why they decided that it wouldn't be a good fit on the GC either. Players expectations in JRPGs radically changed from the time MOTHER 2 came out; if they weren't already happy with smaller scale titles then they were probably absolutely wowed by the cinematic PS1 FF games, and if they wanted a tried and true experience with a fuck ton amount of content then they'd get Dragon Quest VII. Even with a massive retooling for GC it probably would have been seen as quaint next to FFX which launched in 2001 for PS2.
>>12093021No. It looked nothing like the previous games and even the final version only vaguely resembled the distinct oddball-Americanized setting of Mother.>>12094209Likely because execs told him he can't end a game with everybody literally dying, so he threw in that bit of the END sign going around talking to people to confirm that they're all okay.
>>12093021Shither and Shitoi deserve everything bad coming for them
Remember what they took from you
>>12094038I think itoi said it was specifically miyamoto who didn't want all of the work to go to waste.
>>12095209was this made by alphadream?
>>12094951>distinct oddball-Americanized settingHow is rural America not Americanized?
>>12093021Who cares. It would have been a cool and unique game (somewhat dragged down by the retarded traditions of the JRPG genre) either way, and we would have missed out on the other version of it either way.
>>12095209I don't remember this sorry
>>12093021Earthbound 64 would have changed the world if it had been released. There is a reason some of the developers are still under an NDA.
No, i love the n64 but it definitely was missing 1-2 more massive games and mother 3 would have been really nice to fill out the consoles library with a meaty rpg as a sendoff We should have also gotten animal crossing, and custom robo
>>12093021Would have absolutely loved to play this game.
>>12093049It was always funny how much this game was a dangling carrot for RPG fans in Nintendo Power. Imagine you were a fan of RPGs from the Super Nintendo, watching the magazine cover every Square game, Breath of Fire, etc... seeing all those series shift over to Playstation, and the magazine telling you "don't worry, your RPG cravings will be answered when we release a sequel to a game that NOBODY FUCKING BOUGHT"
>>12097192Yeah, the hype for EarthBound all feels so fake, even to this day. It really feels like people have been trying to force it as some kind of "prestige" series for as long as they've been pretending they "played it back on the SNES" when in reality, they played up through Twoson on a crappy emulator, dropped the game, and heard about the rest from other people.
>>12093021Why not just port it to Gamecube, like they did with Animal Crossing?
>>12095357It looked no different from the typical RPG settings of forest/desert/ruins/etc. When people think of Earthbound, they think of the cities and towns filled with oddball enemies like living trash cans and crazy hippies.
>>12097203I think mother 1 fans are even more fake. Its a completely non special dq clone with mindless grinding and was basically remade anyways with earthbound which follows so many of the same beats you get the gist of the first game from the sequel.Yet every few weeks every retard on this website swears up and down they are a massive mother 1 fans despite the fact its 10x less popular than 2 which is already not that popular compared to like final fantasy You can usually tell something has fake fans when they already bring up something in context of it being better than something else which is the only context 1 is ever discussed. Very tiring, only mother 3 remotely sticks out in my mind and even that game is impossible to replay without being bored
>>12097406filtered
>>12097441 CopeOnly fucking retards pretend to like medicore games for online internet points
>i think all of the fanfare for earthbound is actually fake and actually nobody has ever played it and all of those animations and indies inspired by it uhhhhh just guessed how the game goes i guess.>yeah but also the same for mother 1>WOAH WOAH WOAH buddyFucking faggots everytime with you niggers.You’re like 40 bro, nobody is impressed if you say you enjoy shit dq clones
>>12095209This looks ugly and retarded.
>>12093021Nope
>>12093021Earthbound 64 would have probably not been good.
>>12102459>released in n64Would have been shit.
>>12095209superstar saga vibes
>>12097365Did you see all the screenshots? It had a Onett looking area and a ruined Fourside. It was more than likely going to follow the same vibe of the gba version, but more focused on the post apochalypse/fall of civilization angle with ruins of the old world(Mother 2). It would have been unique at the time as far as jrpgs are concerned and I can't blame Itoi for wanting to try something different after two mostly identical games, so going more for a wild west like setting while having ruins from the 1990s world of the past game, was a fine enough way to do something new for the series.
>>12095357Imagine if it was an actual rural america setting or at least characters and they looked like >>12095209That's actually a cool unique jrpg
>>12095209What's the opposite of ROBBED?
>>12093021It was for the bestYou needed Smash 64 to come out, make people know who Ness is and by Gamecube with Melee, make them feel like now Earthbound is a big deal and some legendary seriesIf we got Mother 3 (Earthbound 64) back on the N64, ignoring the whole DD drive thing, it would have been a flop. Too early to be hipster cool
>>12093021The only people who care about M64 are brain-damaged zoomers obsessed with lost media
>>12095209Itoi you bastard
