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>>3975356
The contemporary setting and (by 90s standards) off-beat humor made it stand out among the crowd back. With that said, the plot is nothing special and the combat system feels rather barebones aside from the rolling HP meter which feels underused. It's worth playing from a historic standpoint but if don't have time to play many JRPGs there a better choices out there.Mother 3 still slaps though.
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The people who like it are the same people who think AI is trained on "stolen" data.
Even though musicians have been sampling tracks for decades. Earthbound is a great example.
You'd think they'd paint themselves into a corner by appreciating something so unethical. But they learned how to split their soul from J.K. Rowling.
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>a human intentionally using part of another work of art in the creation of a new work of art is the same thing as sovlless corporations hoovering up literally the entire internet and every book and document they can get their grubby VC paws on for the purpose of generating an infinite amount of slop and replacing human thinking and creativity, forever, with LLM "AI" garbage
One, you're fucking stupid. I don't even think you're baiting, you genuinely thought this was an insightful comparison.
Two, this song is mournful existential dread personified
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXLwI9uAUws
>You guys still talking about this game? I haven't played since before most of the people on this board were born.
Not much else to say about it. It was great back in the day, but I can't see replaying it more than once every fifteen years or so.
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>>3975356
It's a charming little game and holds up despite nostalgia. Don't play it expecting the best game of your life, especially since the gameplay is fairly dated, but I would say it's worth playing for the soul put into the game.
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>>3975439
Bro it really is mournful existential dread. Good on you anon. Brings me back to the days of playing EarthBound and grinding for the fucking Sword of Kings and Gutsy Bat. I actually lucked out and got them fairly easily.
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>>3975592
Yup this dude has it correct. EarthBound is just a wonderful experience with a ton of soul and love. It has a crazy amount of charm all throughout, the soundtrack is fantastic, the story is interesting, the humor and light touches make you smile, the aesthetics are superb, and there is a challenge to it. It's not SMT or Dark Souls difficulty (which I happen to love) but it plays perfectly.
I still remember getting this game as a kid, the big ass box from Toys 'R' Us. My cousin had the game first and I had a little sleepover at his house. I wanted it, and being a spoiled little shit you bet your ass I got it within a week. Thanks mom and dad.
So yeah, go play EarthBound kids.
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>>3975592
That's all RPGs. The genre eschews "gameplay" in favor of cerebral experiences. The story isn't the action or the process. The story is what happens within you as a response to what the game presents.
>>3975356
It's an important experience in video game history, especially if you are familiar with the context of that historical period.
It's also an extremely crystallized example of Jrpgs as they were in that time, and so if you like the genre at all, it is the first and last word on the subject. Other words in between would be Mother 3 and Final Fantasy 6.
Is it all nostalgia? No. But after you've played it, you will always look back on it fondly. Nostalgia isn't a bad thing. It's a sign of having had a significant and fulfilling experience. You aren't nostalgic for the morning shit you took in 1995.
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It's a game that coasts by on its setting, themes, and presentation. If you're looking for mechanically developing and customizing your character or a more indepth battle system, it isn't found here.
If you want something more straightforward in mechanics and story progression then it'll be a good fit.
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>>3975356
I like coming to /vrpg/ after playing an RPG (something I don't do often) just to see if there's a thread about a game.
I really enjoyed it playing for the first time, so I wouldn't say it's nostalgia. Maybe in the sense that when playing any SNES game, I can really feel the time period it was made in shining through. It's got its issues and some things made me want to pull my hair out, but I also don't play JRPGs often so I don't know if I'm the bad guy for getting mad.
Honestly, one of its greatest strengths is its humor. It almost always presents the joke straight-faced, which makes it much funnier.
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Every time I try to play earthbound I end up getting filtered as soon as paula joins my party, why is this foid following me around. A lot of gameplay aspects just feel so insufferable to me, too. Having to spend $400 just to heal at a hotel and then if a party member dies having to spend hundreds more at the hospital. Seems insufferable. Mother 3 just had those hot springs.
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Earthbound has hotsprings, too. Why are you dying, though? It's an easy kids' game, anon. Also it's set in Eagleland (America), so expensive healthcare and housing are literally fundamental parts of the game's story.
But for real though, if losing being expensive is "insufferable" to you, then kill yourself because you're a loser.
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>>3975356
Yeah, it's good if you just take it for what it is. The Mother series is really just Persona for an earlier generation. It has the solid traditional JRPG mechanics with a couple of semi-interesting twists and doesn't take itself too seriously despite trying to tell a fairly emotional story. Play it for a couple of hours and see how you feel.
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>>3982151
I mean I barely consider Undertale a JRPG, RPG even.
Earthbound might be a DQ1 clone in combat but everything else feels fresh and open-ended unlike DQ.
Sadly being DQ1 clone also means the combat is braindeadly boring.