I bet you weren't aware of the Gaia Beam.
>>12296093>Game came with the players guide>I bet you weren't aware of-
>>12296106Most of the playerbase emulated it after Smash 64.
Gotchu sempai
>>12296159ベース
>>12296109>not buying it on clearance for $5 USD at Best Buy>not still having a game pak, box and guide in good shape (I popped the scratch-and-sniff cards out but I kept them in decent shape as well and I keep them in the box)>not developing and executing a strict perfectionist item collection run procedure
thanks I never knew as a diehard 1+2 fan. After I finish my Paula only run I'm gonna do one with Jeff, that's gonna be essential.
>>12298382>>not developing and executing a strict perfectionist item collection run procedureIs there any online players who do this level of perfection with their playthroughs?
>using anything but the bazookalol u are retarded
>>12298743The one true AoE attack in the game. lolPK Fire doesn't count
>>12298382>not getting a Mach Pizza air freshener in the mail from Nintendo>not still having it in the plasticHide your shame.
>>12298382Isn't that from an emulator screenshot?
>>12296093>hunting for sword of kings>everyone has reached level 99>finally get it>all it gives is a pitiful 30 offenseWhy do people orgasm over the 1/256 drops so much? You don't even use poo for attack because all you want to do with him is starspam
>>12301614They are not supposed to be "hunted", it's cool if you get it by chance (happened to me once) but otherwise yeah it's not necessary at all.I think some people, especially modern people, get FOMO from things like that. Modern vidya with DLC and loots give them that
You know what else is a 1/256 drop? Brain food lunch, which also drops from the other enemy encounter in that area. I saw the item message fill the text thinking I finally got it, only to get that. idk how rng manip works but I assume if I hit the starman super then, I would have gotten it, instead all i got was a tv dinner
>>12301614With Poo, it's the mystique and allure of being able to give him the full "kings" set that gives him real bonuses, since most equipment weakens him instead.Grinding for the Sword of Kings is something you'll probably only do on a repeat playthrough, but the fact that it's permanently missable, and that the grind itself can leave you massively overlevelled for the rest of the game, kinda ruins things.
>>12301614its just coomlector autism
>>12298382It wasn't even released in my country. What was I supposed to do? I learned it existed with Smash 64.
>>12302591Most of the people saying "uhhhhh people only learned about it from smash 64!" weren't even alive/conscious when Smash released
>>12302649I bought Smash 64 the day it came out, and I had no idea who Ness was.I saw the Earthbound box at the rental stores several times, but I had no idea it was a 1st party game, let alone an RPG. It looked like some sort of edutainment game, possibly with a weird peripheral inside."Would I have to ask for something special in order to rent this? ... And draw extra attention to myself? Better not.."This is the primary reason why the game flopped. I promise you.Forget any other reason you've heard.
>>12301580Yes. Actually maxing out the HP/MP stats requires repeated use of the rock candy trick to get fairly rare vitality boosts, and is something I simply wouldn't recommend ever doing with a real cart (constant resetting, which might conceivably somehow damage the hardware). On a game pak I would play primarily for item collection and simply gets everyone's levels and exp topped out, while picking up whatever boosts I can manage without breaking anything (my understanding is once you go past 255 on a stat, it wraps back around).
>>12302649Sir you were blown the fuck out, please acknowledge.
>>12296093Just use Heavy Bazooka bro
>>12305909That works terrific.Until...You have to deal with self-destructing enemies.
>>12298382There was a fucking STACK of Earthbounds at my local Best Buy for probably 10 bucks each around early 1998 or so. If I had any foresight I could probably retire by now.
>>12301656Grinding the Starmen Supers is kind of fun because it's so easy to get a pre-emptive strike on them. For such an iconic enemy in the game, they're all pretty easy (except for the endgame variants I guess)
>>12305945Actually, I have a fairly clear recollection of the Best Buy Location. They used to have a space in the center of the store where kids could demo games on a big screen with games all around. Now that I recall, various stores had demo stations where controllers were held in (flexible) place, and now that I think way back, this is how I first encountered Yoshi's Island 2 on Super Mario World, SNES. Ooh, football guys what the heck.
>>12305926the splash dmg of the bazooka would take like 5-6 turns to kill a self-destructing enemythe bazooka is great not because the dmg, but because you can finish off row of enemies faster
>>12305164Nobody contradicted me though
>love Mother>love Earthbound>fucking hate 3Whatever dumb dick sucking retard thought including a terribly designed rhythm minigame built into the core combat itself was a good idea should've been fired and blacklisted from the industry.
>>12306789that's the best part of 3, though. you just have no sense of rhythm
>>12306789You can comoletely ignore the rhythm aspect, 'tist
>>12306789Three is really great on your first playthrough if you are willing to trust it.The game has like 0 replay value to me though. All the twists and side stories only work once and become a chore on a replay.1 is charming but suffers from early jrpg problems that make it a real grind.2 is the GOAT for reasons everybody knows2>3>1>3(replay)
>>12306140heavy bazooka already does comparable single target damage to gaia beamthe only reason to use the latter is if jeff is dying and you need to mash A to attack fast
>>12301614>>everyone has reached level 99Did you know that if Ness reach level 99 before defeating Ness' Nightmare he won't receive the big power-up at the end of the game?Feels like you would complain about it if you actually had that experience.
I just cheated the best weapons in with PAR
>>12305909Every character's ultimate weapon is (arguably) a 1/128 drop. If you put the time in then you're damn sure going to equip them on everyone for the final battle. OTOH I bring Paula's Holy Fry Pan and Saturn ribbon along because each is arguably better (great Guts/Luck boosts vs. raw defense/offense trade-offs, IIRC). For the other three, their primary weapons and armor are the best. The only real choice to make is how you want to distribute the Pixie's Bracelet, Cherub's band and Goddess band among everyone who isn't Poo (oddly, despite its name, the boys can equip the Goddess band, although it seems intended for Paula since her HP is so low and she's critical in the final fight), as well as the Souvenir Coin and Shiny coin among the two Western boys. This leads to 12 distinct possible setups where these five items are concerned. The other eleven slots are easy: all of Poo's "kings" gear (4 slots), the ultimate weapons on the other three (3 slots), Star Pendants for the western characters if you're a total masochist, otherwise your best available pendants (3 slots, hope you bought more than one Earth pendant in Magicant) (3 slots), and your choice of Goddess ribbon or Saturn ribbon for Paula (1 slot).
>>12306789You've heard common time your whole life and can't replicate grooves? Sad.
>>12308586wtf is common time?
>>12309228It's a shorten phrase of "common sense" and "modern time". It refers to how modern time children don't have enough common sense to google something before posting to ask about it.
>>12309845I've never heard of it and picking two different words from two different phrases and mixing them together while acting like it's a well known phrase is silly. Googling it yields nothing related so I'm assuming you are making it up so you can be a condescending nigger.>modern time childrenThis feels like it was written by an ESL.
>>12309912It's a bot. You can tell because it's spouting incoherent nonsense.
>>12298382Unfortunately I'm one of those kids that didn't even exist when it came out, or have a semi-functioning brain before the SNES stuff (or even the N64 stuff) was pulled from store shelves. Smash was the main way I even knew about it (along with Chugga's initial let's play of it).
I’m a 90s kid and no one knew who Ness or Kirby were when smash dropped and only one friend who had super Metroid knew who Samus was. RPGs in America before ff7 were rare. I had one friend with an older brother who was a DnD nerd who showed me ff6 and my older cousins had dragon warrior for NES. And my first consoles were Genesis which has few and n64 which basically has no real RPGs. Pokémon was the main one but we never knew it was called an RPG for a long time, and that didn’t hit until like summer 98 or 99
>>123092284/4. It means 4 beats per measure, it's quarter note is one beat.
>>12310734My older brother told me about Earthbound years before Smash, and I thought it sounded cool because a modern day RPG wasn't something I had ever played before (I had also seen the big box in stores before that). But yeah, I didn't actually play until after Smash like most people.As far as RPGs in general, you're right. They really took off after VII, though Final Fantasy and such was already fairly popular in America. I was a big fan of FFVI before VII came out, and played some other RPGs like Phantasy Star IV. That same older brother played a lot more than me though, he had a friend into RPGs and they'd play through them at his house. So he got to try all kinds of things.
>>12310751Yeah it would be been dependent on the older brothers of the time I think to introduce younger 90s kids to RPGs but my older step brother was into mortal kombat and nba jam or tecmo Super Bowl. But also had yoshi’s island and super Mario world. I liked mortal kombat but less so the sports games until I got NFL blitz for n64. I eventually got my own snes (he sold his to buy clothes or something but kept the games) but I didn’t really get any other games for it until I got comfortable with eBay which in the mid 00’s was a nightmare having to pay for shit with postal money orders at the post office. By the late 00’s it was easy. It also sucked emulating them at the time because there weren’t great controllers. I remember buying some useless PS controller USB adapter to use with our computer and it never worked right, like they do today. So id emulate earthbound final fantasy 3 NES, other stuff that was hard to find but it sucked using a keyboard. For awhile you could get earthbound, Chrono trigger, ff6 and link to the past not too extensively on eBay but I only ever bought ff6 for SNES. But that was a lot fun. Eventually I either got the gba ones or emulated them as an adult
>>12301614>play through once>get sword of kings>never play through it again>find out twenty years later that it was a rare drop
>>12309912Guess you shoulda googled it before you outed yourself as a retarded child.
>>12310734People knew Kirby. Kirby's Dream Land was pretty big on the og gameboy. Kirby's Adventure on NES is a classic too.Hell I even had Kirby's Dream Course for Snes too
The game is really so easy that I never bothered getting the most powerful weapons.
>>12311851Yeah Bottle Rockets usually did the job on any boss fight
>>12310746I have no idea what a quarter note, beat or per measure means.
>>12312558Too bad there's no way to learn things that you don't know if you're actually interested in knowing them.
>>12312596You could tell me, but otherwise I don't care enough to research it myself
>>12305945I mean the cartridge on its own only goes for around $100 or->what the fuck
>>12312615>"minor cosmetic wear">label is torn off in two places
>Earthbound with the Vancian Magic/Spell Charge SystemWould it be sick or lame?
>>12312607I've heard of unusual time signatures but don't know much about them.But even you should be able to understand a basic song timing of 1-2-3-4, where you can tap your fingers or clap your hands to that basic rhythm.Mother 3 has a diverse soundtrack with lots of different time signatures though, so you can't just do the same 1-2-3-4 timing on every battle, especially when the tempo changes for different sequences within a song.
>>12312558>I have no idea how to google>>12312607>i only care enough to shitpost asking to be spoon fedThe literal state
