Cultural osmosis is no substitute for playing a game for real. Anons out there who think they know about EarthBound but who have not played it, your assignment is to play it to completion before the end of the month.
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Do you think Onett is a big filter for lots of players? I mean you only have Ness and until you get Lifeup you're really up shit creak.
Just grind outside the arcade for ten minutes and you're good.
Yeah I was just thinking of how hard I found it as a kid before I understood how to videogame like a good boy. Onett screwed me a lot and so did Threed. Honestly it's kinda funny how long it takes to get a new party member in Earthbound they really make you fly solo for a bit.
You can get to Paula within the first two hours if you know what you're doing
And if you don't?
>filtered by random packs of pogo punks
>filtered by frank
>filtered by the titanic ant
>filtered by the police battles
>filtered by peaceful rest valley
There are lots of moron filters in EarthBound in the first 2 hours, and things don't really get better until after you're about halfway done with Threed anyway.
Fourside is easily the hardest part of the game next to Magicant
I recently replayed the game and all those roadblocks that bodied me my first playthrough were surprisingly easy.
Earthbound loves to frick you in the ass when you don't expect it though. Someone playing it for the first time isn't going to know to avoid the Ramblin' Evil Mushrooms, or the Angry Oak, or the Spheres, which are going to lead to a lot of frustration.
There's a reason every copy came with a strategy guide, you weren't supposed to play it blind.
the in-game hint system is pretty damn clear though.
it seems to me they just weren't confident in the players' ability to figure things out on them own, even with lots of good information available.
All those fights were easy to me wtf?
>until you get Lifeup
Ness learns lifeup alpha at level 2 what the frick are you talking about
I have not played this game since 1994 but i bet the parts where you have to deal with constant heat exhaustion filters zoomers
>Do you think Onett is a big filter for lots of players?
beyond a doubt.
Nah that game is clunky and busted my guy. I just played Undertale instead
This applies to anybody who watches people play video games on the internet. You aren't a fan if you didn't at least sink several hours into it yourself.
>played "earthbound"
>not MOTHER 2
>thinks he can tell anyone they didn't play the game for real
lol
you played a fanfiction censored version of the game
hahaha you're hilarious
>t. EOP fanfiction shiteater
You didn't play MOTHER 2.
I beat Radiation's Halloween Hack. It was better than expected and the final boss theme was really good. I wonder if the dev is still active.
I've never said anything about this game so am I exempt?
Mission accepted, OP.
I'll make a thread at this time in exactly two weeks (7/28) with my findings.
Game is unplayable without a guide. They even had to include a guide with the game because its puzzles are so goddamn random.
>never once used a guide
if you're somehow actually stuck find a hint shack, idiot
>Game is unplayable without a guide.
How do you get filtered this hard?
>think they know about EarthBound but who have not played it
Why are EarthBound fans accused of this? In all my years I've never seen this phenomenon happen with EarthBound.
Obviously nowadays you get zoomer twittertards that latch onto the "fandom" of a game while never playing the game itself. It's happening with games like Ace Attorney, Yakuza, Danganronpa, MGR or Persona 5.
EarthBound was from a time when people actually used to play games, It's probably one of the most emulated games of all time.
>mom said i could only buy 1 game
>picked street fighter 2 turbo over earthbound
i still regret it to this day
Earthbound is one of a kind but I think you have to be somewhat patient at points. You gotta take its weirdness in stride for sure.
I still have my copy, but I lost the guide. Had scratch and sniff stuff with it too of the bosses. I loved watching my mom play so I could git gud on my own file. Sometimes I would play on hers when she was sleeping to see the new areas, but I wouldn't save.
>you talked to that one Mr. Saturn twice
This is true. To truly experience Earthbound you have to experience the exploding trees, hospital fees and night time stuffiness for yourself.
I don't think you can claim to have experienced Earthbound unless you saved your team from mortal danger with a quickly pressed heal while everyone's HP counter was rolling to empty because a tree exploded or Ghost of Starman was a piece of shit.
The horrible truth about earthbound is that it's a mediocre dragon quest clone held together by its unique (for 1994, the original release date) setting.
I've already played the trilogy multiple times, what's my assignment?
Thematically, Giygas is the best boss fight ever made, prove me wrong.
He is the single best instance of cosmic horror ever done in a video game until the last prayer.
>mfw THE POWER
>pc broke
>stuck on old laptop
I decided to play some old classics. This is what I am starting with. Any suggestions are welcome.
Start from the basics. Super Mario World.
Super Metroid is unsurpassed in the modern day.