How did this game end up spawning hundreds of western RPG Maker games about depression and mental illness? Why is in so influential in the western indie RPG sphere?
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How did this game end up spawning hundreds of western RPG Maker games about depression and mental illness? Why is in so influential in the western indie RPG sphere?
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Because they put Ness in the first smash bros
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No one would pretend to care about Earthbound if Smash Bros didnt exist
The whole trilogy is fricking good though.
Because it took fantastical RPGs and made them grounded in the real world, thus spawning the multitude of shitty RPG Maker clones for people who wanted to turn their totally interesting and not at all mundane lives into RPGs.
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This. None of these homosexuals would have ever known about Earthbound if not for Smash Brothers.
Earthbound was actually marketed pretty hard on release. The problem was that the marketing was bad and leaned into the game being a weird nineties gross out thing and it flopped. But anyone who had a Nintendo power subscription was at least aware of it.
Earthbound wasn't even released in Europe. Ness in Smash 64 was a complete literal who for Westerners.
I kept seeing it in the rental stores back then, and being a kid I thought it was an educational game.
One day out of curiosity I rented it and turns out it was fantastic.
I don't think it really inspired them more of undertale which got super popular did and just happened to be heavily inspired by earthbound, with the homosexual story attached to it setting the standard.
this. earthbound community used to be based in late 2000s when it was just starmen.net and the community literally made their own fan translation of 3 from a ROM.
>ebcentral is down now
pouring one out right now
still waiting for H.M. to make that Mother 1 conversion to the SNES... any day now.
>still waiting for H.M. to make that Mother 1 conversion to the SNES... any day now.
H.M dissapeared and the morons continuing from what was left are basing it on the censored and worse translated american version.
...Why bother then? Imagine basing the game around the inferior version.
>look up youtube for current project lead
>about
>she/her pronounces in bio
>video that has a face and voice
>obvious troony
Christ almighty.
Also my bad, it was H.S. I forgot this shit because I gave up caring about this idea like 9 years ago after I found it. Mother fricker was working on it for 11 years, just like those "Mother 4/Oddity" idiots that still haven't put out anything where whole indie game studios with less than 5 people have shat out 4-5 games and closed their doors forever in the same time frame.
everyone with any skill realized you cant waste time with this shit because Nintendo will just go after you like AM2R. You are left with trannies and morons
That's because they are too busy announcing what they will do instead of just doing it and throwing to the internet like the old days. romhacking.net used to be a big thing.
announce it or not, it will be taken down by Nintendo at best or, at worst, you will be sued. romhacking.net used to work because the internet and fangames were still relatively new; once companies saw that it could take away from potential projects (AM2R and the 3ds M2 remake for example) they went apeshit over it.
It's the internet, nothing is ever truly purged if you know how to store it. Just don't tie your name or email to it. Look at weirdos like Empress releasing cracks and shit. Just do that.
Nintendo is a bunch of homosexuals but getting around their bullshit practices is really easy if you don't put yourself out there by a easy to reach call-sign. They can't sue who they can't find. Regardless, you are right about the talent moving on to greener pastures as there is no reason to try and please the internet masses anymore. Look at the modders on Nexus for example. Most of them have huge egos or have a weird sense of "the community owes me because." mentalities.
I truly miss the old internet like you wouldn't believe.
you're right, but my point again is, if someone has the skill to make something of worth coding today, why would they do something where they can't attach their name to it. Like you said, most of the people that still do stuff like this are autistic and just want to go on an ego trip.
you are underage and don't remember what happened to the dev when it launched
He released his fangame and got hired by the Ori devs.
Dumbass you can easily find AM2R with a quick 5 second google search.
LISA: the First did it first.
>yume nikki clone
I finished it. But I was done with indie games all together. Thank god for AAA titles.
But there are exceptions as always.
>I was done with indie games all together. Thank god for AAA titles.
its unique setting compared to the fantasy themed ones that were the rage on that time i suppose
Earthbound is such a bad game that it causes depression and mental illness.
>It really didn't, "le indie RPG about depression" applies to like six games
>Because it's an game that uses a contemporary and close-to-home emotional spectrum in a genre that typically goes for a high-flying epic one
Gygas and Yume nikki
Literally the only interesting part in the game, while the game itself has many references to real things, unless you dig to learn it, its just bland
But Gygas is quite the shock boss to witness, making you try to find more "dark" stuff in this bland game
Then there is yume nikki, that made the reference to this game, said game had a very powerful impact on the community and by referencing it, it created a genre
Running into something so openly hostile after a game as "light" as Earthbound is part of why it works. You can't claim people were only really hit by Giygas.
What else is super hostile in earthbound?
We are foreshadowed the whole game that gygas is this super unbeatable being, and as good players we brush it off, until, you can literally only pray to survive him, after all Ness doesn't kill him, nor the good will of the whole planet, (you) do, its a really off tone moment in the whole game, aliens and corrupt officers or cultists are just there
No, anon, that's my point. Nothing else in Earthbound was quite as threatening or hostile as Giygas. I'd argue whatever you saw with Poo came close for a moment, and that's really the extent of it. Thus, the entire game was emotional setup for the final boss. It's very well crafted.
oh sorry, but yeah
i agree
Earthbound was Chuggaconroy’s first LP and many people grew up watching him.
It was the first video game that made me FEEL something, which I didn't really know was possible. Granted, I was like 12 at the time, but it left an impact on me forever. I think Final Fantasy and all that just did not hit the same and was probably over my head.
great larping anon, did you just finish watching youtube essays about earthbound
tbf the only parts that made me feel shit are pretty deep into the game; coffee break, giygas encounter, making the conscious decision to become a robot, doing Poo's sacrificial meditation, and the marquee text in the fobby cave
I don't understand how you could NOT feel something if you played this game before becoming a jaded cynical 30yo maldy
Most people who are too cynical to like Earthbound find it patronizing. They're so allergic to genuine displays of emotion that they think the game is talking down to them when it has them.
People take the wrong aspects of Earthbound
>Dragon Quest/other RPGs
High fantasy about self-inserting as heroes
>Earthbound
Play as literal who kids, beating up random people, animals and signs, to stop aliens invading your world.
>Dragon Quest/other RPGs
Interact with taverns, priests, potion salesman. Meet with kings and kill dragons
>Earthbound
Met a blues band, got burgers, call up my dad, get cheese pizza from my sister, and deal with a cult of weirdos. I don't even know if the bluepeople actually did anything
>Dragon Quest
Your hero becomes a ruler or is at least famous and loved
>Earthbound
You ride your bike home and become a kid
The ending/horror is just part of what it means growing up, the horror of dying one day
Weird how those games are about mental illnesses, when the protagonists of earthbound have none
Undertale doesn't count. I love Undertale so much bros. 🙂
The correct question is, why do homosexuals like you think every RPGMaker game is an earthbound copy?
Most of them are not even similar outside of top-view style.
Same reason people claim JRPGs are about killing god: They're morons who want to write off a genre they don't "get".
it's mid at best
mother 3 is where it's at
Deltarune is just Chrono Trigger but quirky
Nope, it has Ralsei in it. And in my book, that makes it the best game ever. I love Ralsei with all my heart... what a sweet fluffy boy. <3333
I think part of the problem is that indie devs think EarthBound is defined solely by having a contemporary urban setting with "quirky" characters/enemies and a random "See, guys, Nintendo's not just for kids!" moment at the end. They don't realize how much of Itoi's own life, and his personal life experiences, are what makes EarthBound its own thing.
I'd argue that just the attempt to approach a contemporary setting with RPG gameplay can be quite interesting.
Contemporary settings are fine. It's just that when they specifically try to be like EarthBound, they tend to miss the point.
The thing about Earthbound that speaks to people is that it feels honest. You don't have to have a super fulfilled and varied life to do that, you just have to be able to write from the heart and not get wrapped up in "what an RPG story SHOULD be like".
The amusing this is that Earthbound is inferior to Zero/Beginnings.
Earthbound itself is an Earth Bound-inspires RPG.
Toby Fox ripping off EB (and tons of other games) led the way for homosexuals to make more low-effort shitty ripoffs. Undertale and its consequences have been a disaster for the gaming world.
He made a descent fangame, but the negative repercussions might live forever
More like wanna be dark douls
Not to be 'that guy', but LISA: The First is very, very different to the later LISA games and is for all intents and purposes a Yume Nikki clone. Which is probably why it wasn't included in the definitive edition remasters, thinking about it.
>hundreds of western RPG Maker games about depression and mental illness?
Name five.
What is the best Mother 1 (and 2) rom hacks for getting into the series
It's an ok game but the gameplay is not that fun and is basically dragon quest but with peanuts characters
None of the so called "Earthbound clones" are even Earthbound clones, they don't even have rolling HP meters.