what am I in for? EB was a 10/10 for me but mother 3 more like a 6/10.
>>12401102I think it's a better game than EB, but if you think EB is a 10/10 you'll probably like EBB/Zero/M1 more than 3 but less than 2. Well worth playing regardless. Enjoy; the music is based and the map is fucking huge
if you like chad more than chud look up a guide on how to keep him or you'll miss it.
random encounters every 2-5 steps and unrewarding exploration
>>12401102why are you defiling an angelic game with satanic names
>bringing nu-4chan irony poisoned memes into a retro gameDisgusting.
>>12401147>>12401146there were no default names put in already when you name them and I didnt know what they were so I had to improvise
>>12401112I cant play jrpgs with random encounters now without using a no encounter cheat code toggle when I want to just explore so thats no big deal. yes its cheating but makes the game 10x more enjoyable for me, and makes them a little more challenging too since I have less exp than usual.
>>12401162>and makes them a little more challenging too since I have less exp than usual.This reasoning is not compatible with most Famicom RPGs. Random encounters *are* the challenge and meat of the game, the vast majority of them don't engage in the "one dungeon, one boss at the end" formula, for instance DQ bosses tend to be a bit everywhere and not necesarilly in dungeons. In the case of Mother pretty much every boss fight in the second half are puzzle fights you don't engage with normal combat. If you're going to play Famicom RPGs you have to understand and enjoy the design mentality of the time, trying to apply some more modern logic to them does not work. In other words if you don't like random encounters, don't play them.
>>12401308>stop playing single player games the way you enjoy them!! youre not allowed to play with your toys like that!!lmao
>>12401316I bet that's also what you say when you try to move all your pieces diagonally in chess and another player explains to you this isn't checkers.
>>12401317>comparing a 1v1 competition to a single player gamenot too bright are ya. relax dude I leave the encounters on 90% of the time. its really not a big deal. I promise you no one is going to get hurt as a result of my cheating.
>>12401147This. He should use retro memes like duckroll.
>>12401320This board would be 3000% better if it was only posters using memes from before 2010. At this point half of the retards who raided this board probably couldn't even read at the time.
>>12401102A painful life of bad decisions to which your bad judgment will consistently lead you.
>>12401321It would also be an option to refrain from using any crappy memes at all
>>12401102>those namesreddit moment
>>12401308i run away from almost all random encounters. grinding makes the required content easier and less fun. the only time i grinded in this game was when the dragon forced me to be level 25stay mad
>>12401319Single player games are actually 1v1 competitions between you and the game designer. Modern gaming has largely lost this concept, but it's common for retro games to have intentionally adversarial design and actively seek to defeat and even frustrate the player.
>>12401882one part of it is because the game isn't very long, so they need to extend the game time with bigger numbers or bullshit segments + backtracking/redoing shitanother part of it was to make the player want to spend more money on a strategy guide. the internet killed that shit quick.
>>12401112pretty much this. youll spend an hour mashing thru random battles "exploring" the wilderness at the start but theres literally nothing there. i like the game since it has so much in common with earthbound (far more than mother 3) but its the exact definition of a nes jrpg slog
>>12401102Huge maps, but an interestingly modest scope. Especially early on you'll be feeling like you're walking around fields behind your own backyard.Not nearly as much grind as people say, but that's provided you're mostly not running away from battles as you're exploring, and you're not using a walkthrough. Encounter rate is relentless but that's par for the course in this genre.It's a well made game, some ideas are very innovative when compared to its greatest contemporaries (Dragon Quest III and Phantasy Star II most notably) and even the notorious last stretch offers some quality of life stuff for the player. It's a fun romp, even if it is fundamentally a basic bitch turned based RPG with some mildly amusing dialogue here and there. Don't expect to progress linearly and just go wild, be smart.
>>12401321>immah firin mah lazer>shoop da woop>longcat is long>candlejackthose were simpler ti-
>>12401963the rage comic era that happened after this one was really cringe looking back. I unironically prefer the current wojak and pepe climate.
>>12402054>the current wojak and pepe climate2012 was 14 years ago
>>12401102
>>12402201???
>random battle>take literally one step forward>random battle>take two steps>random battle>3 steps >random battle>half a step>random battlewow what amazing, cool and fun game design :)
>>12402054you were in diapers when rage comics were at their peak
>>12402896And don't forget, if you complain about it you're "filtered"
>>12402896true but you can use the easy mode hack that doubles xp/money and also turn random encounters off/on in emulator
>>12402896I really wonder WTF were they thinking with some of these famicom rpgs. They're really fun games aside from this one fucking issue. Just turn the fucking encounter rate down!
nta but rage comics are shit, trollface and pepe is based
>>12402896>>12402907>>12402921>>12402931And you see, that's exactly the problem with you people. You're only looking at the glass half full and you don't even realize it. Saying that there are encounters every 1-3 steps is a half truth, Mother uses the same encounter rate system as the DQ games which differs from Final Fantasy. In FF every step you make has the same % encounter chance and that rate might differ from area to area. The DQ system doesn't work that way, what it does is that it alternates being combat phases and exploration phases, you're going to get 3-4 encounters in a row in just a few steps, and then the game will leave you alone for a while to let you explore before repeating the process. The fact that you never noticed means you should stop giving your opinions about games.
>>12403381there's a reason no one uses that system anymore you braindead faggot
>>12403428You're right, pretty much nobody designs games like they used to in the 80's and 90's so I guess they're all shit then. Which is why we should all forget this board and go back to /v/
