>no crying until the end>omg this is the most emotional video game series ever>first 2 have nothing to cry about>third game expects you to care about characters with 20 lines of dialogue that die in the first 30 minu of the gameYou can't just market your game as sad when it's not
shut the fuck up juxtafag
>>3431372They meant you weren't allowed to cry about how bad the game is until the end, after you're done playing it. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to see or focus on the game.
>>3431372sorry you have no soul anon.
>>3431375>anyone who doesn't likes Mother is the the same guy
>>3432332i'm not going to tell you the things that give you away, bitch, but i can tell it's you every single time. don't even bother.
>>3431375lmao OP btfo
If Smiles & Tears doesn't make you weep openly and shit your pants you don't actually like video gameshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWtvU6SiMxA
>>3433781with no context of what scene it plays in, it just sounds like any other SNES era BGM.
>>3433804First of all, no it doesn't. Secondly>duhhhh but if you're not talking about what we're talking about it doesn't count
While I agree that Earthbound is the happiest of the series, the ending of Mother is you singing the lullaby your grandmother sang to Gygis as a baby. You beat him by reminding him how much he loved his mother and he cant stand to keep hurting anyone because of that. Hell, the only truly sad part of Earthbound is the knowledge that his race took him and put him in a machine to drive him so insane that that would never work again.Meanwhile, the story of Mother 3 is about the loss of family. Sure, you can create a found family, but the pain of losing your family will always be there. Then the game makes you mercy kill your brother, Porky gets away with everything (at the cost of eternal solitude), and you end the world with the last words being a shrug ispf what you did was the right thing.But the REAL answer is that these games were made by the Bing Bing Wahoo Company; they typically don't make games that have emotional cores to them. Its like if Watership Down released by Disney.
I loved the first 2 games, but I can't even finish the prologue of the third one. It's everybody's favourite but I keep dropping it out of boredom.
>>3433781>"I miss you."
>>3433804>>3433781What about it? Oh no you saved the world with no absolute downside except you couldn't beat the shit of the fat fuck?
>>3435176Are you autistic?
>>3435257Tell me what's so sad>it's the end of journey!!!!! And you get to talk to every npc!!So literally dragon quest?So lote
>>3435284>Tell me what's so sadYou wouldn't understand.
Are there any games, extant or incoming, that are/could-be MOTHER-like?
>>3431372>>3431375>shut the fuck up juxtafag>He's still seething
not a RPG
>>3435574Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass
>>3435574Marvelous: Another Treasure Island
>>3431375Fpbp
>>3435574YIIK
>>3431372Mother was never good, Itoi is a hack and got lucky with Ness being in smash
>>3438600k
>>3435574>>3435574my game.
>>3438774And that game is...?
>>3434099Fpbp
>>3435574Definitely not Undertale, that shit is not mother inspired at all
>>3431372Keep in mind the game is made for nintendo kids who just played Mario and Zelda
>>3434223>everyone You mean it's plebbit's favorite
>>3434223>can't finish a ten-minute intro sequence to a 20h gameholy zoom
>>3448051>ten minutesThe first 3 chapters are like 10 hours
>>3448219if japanese or english aren't your first language, maybenormal people complete the first three chapters (which are not the prologue) in around five
>>3435284>it's the end of journeyYes.
>>3435586He's got a new game coming now.>>3435574https://store.steampowered.com/app/2165130/Hymn_to_the_Earless_God/
>>3448313Absolute motherfucking garbage. Retard really convinced a bunch of sheep to give him six figures "for art" and apparently art alone. This on its own propels it to "fake indie game" status in my book.
>>3448321>to give him six figures "for art"Cunt have you SEEN Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass?Looks aren't its fucking strong suit.
>>3448313that is one hell of an ugly font
>>3448325>>3448313Why are all mother clones so ugly? Even the popular ones like Undertale are ugly as fuck
>>3441902It really isn't apart from some of the jokes, Undertale's much more inspired by Livealive and OFF.
>>3451301Mother itself had pretty shitty sprites. It wasn't a conventionally pretty game, a good chunk it the series charm comes from it's off beat aesthetics.
>>3451471>Mother always had bad graphics Mother 1 had acceptable graphics for it's time, better than the majority of dq clones and even better overworld graphics than all nes DQsMother 2 had great overworld graphics but combat sprites were lackluster compared to its peersMother 3 is graphically one of the best gba games
>>3453291>Mother 3 is graphically one of the best gba gamesHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OH WOWWhat a dogshit opinionAs expected of a reddit spacing retard
>>3453353Name 10 gba games that look better
>>3451301Cause spritework isn't as easy as people think.It's not as hard as people think either, it's such a simple technique when you consider that it's just grid-painting with colours that never run and never cross the grid.But it has its technicalities and its tricks and its rules and if you don't learn them, it looks like dogshit.Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass, for example, treated it pretty much like just drawing in paint. And that might be ok if you're a good artist, which the creator of JatPM is not, even if some of the things in the game are pretty cool.It might be ok if you're going for a stylistic choice. But he was just going for Sprites and drawings do not translate into sprites 1 to 1.Blending colours and shadows in spritework uses a technique that's like fragmenting the colours into increasingly separate dots. Proportions are very important in spritework, to keep it from looking messy as fuck. And with Mother-style sprites, it very much relies on what isn't there as well as what is. You gotta make sure the things you draw allude to what you couldn't draw due to limitations.Draw too much and it's gonna look messy and incomprehensible.
>>3453291>Mother 1 had acceptable graphics for it's time, better than the majority of dq clones Acceptable for the genre was still pretty shitty. Dragonquest and it's children were not graphicly impressive games because that wasn't much of a concern for the genre.>even better overworld graphics than all nes DQshard disagree.>had great overworld graphicsNo Chronotrigger had great overworld graphics. M2 had acceptable graphics but there was a charm in it styling. They were by no mean impressive.
>>3454179>hard disagree How? It's like Enix never bothered to improve the graphics after 2, compare dq4 to any other nes jrpg, Ultima IV, double moon, chaos world or any square jrpg have better graphics and Earthbound 1 has better graphics than thoseI like DQ but the nes games are pretty damn ugly even for the time, the only nes rpg I think it's uglier than them is Ultima 3
>>3453353What GBA games look better?
>>3453508>>3456576>Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga>Fire Emblem>Advance Wars 1&2>Castlevania Aria of Sorrow>Metroid Fusion>Metroid Zero Mission>Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap>Sword of Mana>Wario Land 4>Golden Sun 1&2>Boktai
>>3457040>M&LSSCorrect>FE >AWNot really>AoSEquals>MF>LOZ MC>WL4Yeah>SMEquals>GS>BoktaiNah
>>3431372>first 2 have nothing to cry aboutI fucking cried during the last 2 melodies of MOTHER and also the truth about Magicant.>>3433781For me it was hearing this while visiting every place in the game after beating the final bosshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBwdE-L_Jcg
>>3431375but is he wrong?
>>3457320yes. juxtaposition of tone is sometimes good, not bad
>>3431375why does that anon think the society depicted is mutualism? it isn't even close to mutualism, it's obviously a moneyless society
>>3431372Games were made for gooks, not fat american tards with zero emotions over life and shiz
>>3448051why are you responding to bait from someone who wants people to call him hecking based for liking mother 1 more than 3
>>3457320yes.
>>3457962Ironic, because japs are the ones that are obsessed with being emotionless fucks and a hivemind while Americans can be themselves without fear
Never played m3 (and I never will) but saddest part for me was the end of Ness's story, being able to go around and talk to all the friends made over the course of the game, walking Paula home, and so on. I get a bit pensive thinking about it for some reason, because we only see Ness for a small part of time, and he goes through a heroic arc, but it always makes me wonder how he turned out as he goes into adulthood and such.
>>3459688>crying over a happy ending
>>3434223It's only "everyone's favorite" because they can't get it through normal means, it's pure Streisand. If it was translated back in the day, people would be hailing EB as the best one.
>>3461818They should have translated Mother 1 and 2 for the gba at least in the states Mid 00's were peak earthbound years yet nintendo was retarded and wasted the chance to capitalize on the people what wanted to know more about Ness from smash
>>3431372the third game isn't meant to make you sad, it's meant to make you nihilisticyour community's way of life is slowly erased and there's nothing you can do to prevent it
>>3464254Except the village after the time skip is 100 times more fun
3 is such a generic slop compared to 1 and 2
Mother 3 at its most simple narrative understanding is an inverse of Mother 1 and 2.
>>3435574athenian rhapsody :)
>>3435574Towelket series scratches the Mother itch for the most part
>>3431372>completely misses the point of the first two gamesTell me you haven't played the games without telling me you haven't played the games
>>3435574Pretty Pumped for Encore. Yeah, it's not faithful, but it doesn't need to be and the demo they released oozes soul.
>>3471950How is Encore not faithful compared to the original?
>>3471950I just hope Pippi becomes an optional party member
>>3474670It's a bunch of forced soul/artificial animation shit that just looks like it's designed to attract normalfags to buy and drop it after 2 hours.
>>3431375wow OP is obsessed anyway, i came here to show my teddy% run
also i wanna comment that Itoi is a bum but he can make a good vidya gaem