/v/ - Video Games

If you don't like the gameplay than don't play it. What kind of fucking question is this? I love the whole series, but it's retarded to make a thread for "should I play a game that I don't think is fun?"

>>16342101

Forgot to sage because I have Downs Syndrome.

>>16342101

I don't know, maybe the gameplay gets better or more rewarding past the first part.

It's just an OP bro, it's practically irrelevant to the actual content of the thread. It's like a conversation starter.

>>16342106

>my retardation doesn't matter, bro

>>16342095

Not sure. Play it and then report back to the thread.

>>16342203

Please continue

>>16342114

Earthbound is one of the most over rated pieces of shit on the snes I have ever played. Play Romancing Saga III instead.

>>16342114

El diablo americano

>>16342471

He's french.

Welcome to the 'watercooler gamer' generation folks. Where people dont want games, they dont even want story. They want "Lore". A wikia with production value.

>>16342105

Earthbound gameplay is pretty shite. Combat anyway. There aren't really any fun systems to play around with or interesting animations to watch during battle. Just grind until you're good enough to chip away the numbers.

Earthbound's gameplay is shit and Super Mario RPG is the best JRPG ever made. Prove me wrong.

>>16342095

EarthBound (the B is capitalized, faggot) is a masterpiece – I say this because I encountered it at the right time and at the right age, when it was first released with the MASSIVE 8.5" x 11" players handbook that was every bit as overly detailed and nuanced as the game itself. EarthBound bombed in the US market, for a number of reasons, namely that Nintendo was already pushing to the next gen and was less interested in pushing content for a platform they'd already planned on phasing out (at this point, Nintendo and Sony were working together on the SNES-CD mod – yes, there was a planned CD drive that was going to connect to the underside of the SNES via a peripheral port, and when the relationship soured between Nintendo and Sony, Sony told Nintendo to fuck off and released their work as the Playstation).

No video games are worth playing at all right now. The only game worth playing is chicken with yourself and a bottle of Unisom and a fifth of vodka.

>>16346701

That's the edgiest bait I've ever seen.

>>16346675

Never could finish Super Mario RPG. Outside of timed hits, there isn't much to the gameplay besides the various minigames you go through as you explore. It's good, but not even close the best JRPG. Not even on the SNES.

>>16346701

>No game is worth playing these days

Sure, if the only games you know are AAA garbage shown on TV. There's plenty of games out now.

>>16346701

>No video games are worth playing at all right now. The only game worth playing is chicken with yourself and a bottle of Unisom and a fifth of vodka.

This is what retarded 90s console kids became, eh?

>>16346648

>There aren't interesting animations to watch during battle

I am a fan of flashing colours in a screen so maybe the game is just not up your anus alley

>>16342203

moar

>>16342438

>romancing saga 3

Full translation when?

>>16346941

Shitty console JRPGs soyboys grew up with.

>>16346941

Young children go off in the world and get molested by spacemen and cults.

>>16346955

You're making it sound way better than it actually is.

>>16346941

The first one aged fucking poorly. It's basically a normal NES JRPG but with a different setting. Earthbound and Mother 3 at least threw in an odometer health bar for good measure.

That said, OP, I'd suggest playing Earthbound first. If you get bored out of your mind before shortly after getting Paula or thereabouts, then the series as a whole probably isn't for you. 3 is more narrative-based, and has more refined gameplay, but is obscenely linear, even compared to the already-linear Earthbound. If you really have a MOTHER itch after getting through 3, then you can take a whack at the first one.

>>16346941

>Mother

One day, a man and his wife are abducted by aliens. The man eventually returns, but his wife is nowhere to be seen. He becomes increasingly reclusive and eventually passes away, leaving behind his daughter. The daughter marries a businessman who works long hours and as such is almost never home and has two children with him, one of them a boy named Ninten. Paranormal activities become increasingly common, until one day Ninten and his sister are attacked by a flying doll in her bedroom. As it turns out, aliens have invaded Earth and are the cause of this activity, and Ninten's grandfather had been planning and preparing for this ever since he returned from abduction. He'd left behind the means of driving back the invasion, which Ninten must travel the country to discover. At the end of the game you meet the mastermind behind the invasion, an alien named Gyiyg (Geeg), and defeat him using the secret weapon left behind by Ninten's grandfather.

>Earthbound

Twenty or so years after the alien invasion was driven back, a meteorite crashes into the hilltop outskirts of Onett, a city in a country named Eagleland. A young boy named Ness leaves the safety of his home to investigate and discovers that the meteorite is actually a spaceship and that its passenger, a psychic insect named Buzz Buzz, has come from the future. In that future, Gyiyg (Giygas in the English text) has conquered the world, and Buzz Buzz came back to the past to prevent this. Ness is then given the quest to journey across the world, visiting eight places of power to discover the means to stop Giygas's conquest.

>okay, but what do they play like?

Dragon Quest 2 and 4, but with a 1970-1990s aesthetic and a setting that resembles America (for Mother) and several other countries (for Earthbound). Earthbound and Mother 3 added a rolling HP Bar, which gives the player some leniency in surviving fatal attacks, and Mother 3 also added a minor rhythm mechanic to attacking, but beyond that they don't diverge from Dragon Quest's mechanics in any meaningful way.

>What's so great about them, then?

Nothing, really. They're mostly remembered for the games' humor, and are otherwise just comfy weird JRPGs.

>>16346648

>Just grind until you're good enough to chip away the numbers.

You only need to grind for about 10 minutes in the first town. After that, bosses provide enough exp to keep going, as long as you're picking up the best equipment and playing well.

>>16347011

>and defeat him using the secret weapon left behind by Ninten's grandfather.

This couldn't be more wrong.

>>16347027

Would you prefer I spoil it?

>>16347011

Well, I guess that answers it.

Thanks.

>>16347029

Do you need me to tell you what to do?

It's not as if the experience of the game will be ruined by reading about it.

>>16347045

Calling it a "secret weapon" was my attempt to dance around spoiling what the player actually does.

The "secret weapon" is actually a lullaby, originally used by the man's wife to put Gyiyg, whom they raised during their captivity, to sleep. The man's wife isn't gone but rather she died, and her mind lives on in the form of Magicant, both indirectly in giving form to that world and directly by serving as its queen. The lullaby is used to awaken the wife's memories, whereupon she gives you the key information needed to link it to Gyiyg. It is then used, during combat, as a means to appeal to Gyiyg. It succeeds, but only because the memories brought about by hearing it drove him to tears.

>>16342101

Fuck off, shill.

>>16342095

Jesus christ