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Mother 3: It's never coming out in America, cry more.
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That being said this game is long, and you should probably atleast try it once to see what the fuss is about. For many people it contends with CT and FF3/6 as the best SNES RPG's. This game bleeds character out of every pore, from Buzz Buzz the talking bee 5min into the game, to the Happy Happy Cult, to The Run-a-way Five, and everyones favorite Mr. Saturn. Its legandary because the game IS legandary.
I should note that, even if you want to call Earthbound a "unique skin" of DQ, Mother 3 has enough going for it to be called original. It's even addictive. (Plus, it's one of the best stories ever told in a video game, and a great story in it's own right, regardless of format.) I realize that this does bring up the argument of whether a great game can be great based on other factors when the gameplay isn't as good, but even if you don't want to call it a good game, people outside of Japan deserve to experience this game. Hence, the constant effort of the community, especially those who have already played it in Japanese themselves, myself included.
If only every awesome RPG that never got a US release had that kind of fanbase; we'd have been playing Sakura Taisen years ago.
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With that said, I would still really like to play the GBA sequel. It looks like it spices the gameplay up with some interesting ideas and I could always use another good portable RPG that I've never played.
P.S. That fan book rocks!
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It was awesome, and completely killed that crap where you're forced to fight monsters you can 1-shot, because they ran up to you.
It was a genius concept for it's time, and I've never really seen it replicated even in today's RPGs.
Anyway, they should send this book to the creator of Mother, as well as Shigeru Miyamoto and Iwata. Nintendo USA might be stubborn as hell, but Nintendo of Japan might not be as bad.
No we didn't. Because here, in America, we only had games like Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG, and Earthbound. We had to settle. In America.
Oh yeah. Terranigma was only released in Europe...
My bad.
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No worries, as Terranigma is still awesome. I think we still got the better end of the stick.
It was pretty damned close.
I can say it's better than FF6, but on-par with CT.
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Hopefully this will be a good thing.
Terranigma is a good game. The biggest problem is how it either forces you to grind in order to beat a boss or be very careful and wait for-fucking-ever while you whittle down its HP at 1-2 damage at a time.
Not to say I mind a challenge but whacking at something for 20 minutes is just tedious after awhile.
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Hehe...
Because I'm stoked.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of these people decided to buy it on their friends' Wiis too.
It's Earthbound! Earrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrthbound!
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I might be wrong, but my impression is that Earthbound didn´t actually sell horribly bad in USA. The problem, AFAIK, was that Nintendo had too much expectations, took a huge first print run, and lost a ton of money when the game ended up selling just a reasonable amount and plenty of cartridges were left over.
I would bet its probably a kid icarus game for the wii or ds personally. You could make a kicjass update to either one, and no one really knows where Pit came from when they see him in Brawl.
I want mother 3 too though
And I think that, at least in the US, it's been about as dead as you can get; even Pit got some new life on Virtual Console.
The whole series is already available on the GBA, why the need for a DS pack? All they need to do is translate the GBA versions and you can play those on your DS if you want. A DS version would just be unnecessarily big and clunky and have a useless second screen, like the DS versions of Battle Network, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Phoenix Wright 2 (not 1 mind you, because that one had DS-specific features) etc. etc. compared to their GBA counterparts.
Me too, but I think a Kid Icarus game is most likely, Punch Out for Wii next most likely, then something Mother related. Though they could come out of left field with a new Startropics. That wouldn't be too bad...
The mother series yes. Exactly how many of those got released over here? 1. How many did we get for the GBA? Zero.
Earthbound has been "dead" here for awhile
Just here and in Europe. The Kid Icarus series has been dead everywhere since the NES.
KI had a GB game.
Also, Virtual Console.
Nevermind that like fifty percent of those characters are Mario characters now.
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Maybe they will bring back their Popeye games or maybe even Gumshoe! I am going to start a rumor that the game will be like GTA.
The GB game was appearently 16 years ago. That sounds pretty dead to me.