Does anyone remember Earthbound???

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Earthbound. One of my favorite RPG's in the world alongside Final Fantasy, KotOR, Fallout, and Super Mario RPG. I have mentioned this game to so many people , but people just stare at me with a blank look on their face. Earthbound was a modern day story about aliens invading Earth. The story was so hilarious. You play as 4 little kids each with special powers or abilities. The game could be incredibly funny and outright propostrous at times (The first four towns are named Oneet, Twoson, Threed, and Fourside.)
If anybody has a SNES I urge you to play this game.
You use baseball bats, yo-yo's, bottlerockets, and kung fu to take down the putrid alien hordes from beyond time and space - what a concept! Speaking of the aliens, they are toatally funny in every aspect of the word: Funny looking zombies, A alien pile of puke named Barf, A giant mushroom monster (Not a penis)

If you like RPG's or have a since of humor,play the friggin game.
 
never had a console (etc etc insert drawn out arguement on why i have no respect for mario or neverending fantasy) BUT...earthbound is the best console rpg for sure..so weird

i love the opening sequence and the music is great..combat is really lame

everyone give it a whirl
 
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I've tried playing it with an emulator a few times because of all the praise I hear for it, but despite it's originality I couldn't stay interested. The gameplay in console rpg's are just way too tedious for me now.
 
Montez said:
I've tried playing it with an emulator a few times because of all the praise I hear for it, but despite it's originality I couldn't stay interested. The gameplay in console rpg's are just way too tedious for me now.
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Whoa whoa whoa... You play FF5? Or FF Tactics? Those games are amazing.
 
I played FFT and had fun with it for awhile but got bored around the time I got those two useless NPC's, the ones who had the abilities that hit at random - not because of them, just because I was tired of the game at that point. I've tried FFI-V over the past few years, never finished them though. Console rpgs, or at least old ones, have too many qualities that annoy me at this point: simplistic and repetitive combat, slow-scrolling and boring dialogue consisting mainly of characters saying "........." a hundred times, virtually no open endedness, and above all thousands and thousands of unavoidable random encounters. Whatever enjoyment I might get out of their storylines or the fun parts of the gameplay are overwhelmed by those annoyances. The only exceptions are games that I actually played as a kid, like the Phantasy Star series. To be fair, a lot of old PC rpgs are the same way but they're a little less annoying for me.
 
I actually downloaded the Earthbound rom and started playing. As soon as I got through the first "story" segment and started running into enemies, I just couldn't take it. There has to be a discernible promise of goodness to keep me playing. Chrono Trigger had that, but not this.
 
Heh, I just bought a mint condition Earthbound cart for my SNES for like $50 a month and a half ago at a classic gaming expo. Plus my wife wanted a copy as it is one of her favorite games of all time.

The production for such a console style RPG is impressive. The graphics may just under-par compared to Chrono Trigger or FF VI, but the music in Earthbound really shines above all (IMO).
 
Montez said:
I played FFT and had fun with it for awhile but got bored around the time I got those two useless NPC's, the ones who had the abilities that hit at random - not because of them, just because I was tired of the game at that point. I've tried FFI-V over the past few years, never finished them though. Console rpgs, or at least old ones, have too many qualities that annoy me at this point: simplistic and repetitive combat, slow-scrolling and boring dialogue consisting mainly of characters saying "........." a hundred times, virtually no open endedness, and above all thousands and thousands of unavoidable random encounters. Whatever enjoyment I might get out of their storylines or the fun parts of the gameplay are overwhelmed by those annoyances. The only exceptions are games that I actually played as a kid, like the Phantasy Star series. To be fair, a lot of old PC rpgs are the same way but they're a little less annoying for me.
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Mohrg :twisted:
 
I've had an SNES emulator with an earthbound ROM on my computer since 2002. Every few months I come back and play it, and then the saved game gets deleted somehow. Every time I come back to it, I get farther in the game every time.

Awesome game, one of the best RPG's ever made. Let alone the fact that it’s PG.
 
Ofcourse I remember, I love this game, one of my fav SNES RPG"s.

There are some other underrated SNES RPG gems I like a lot that, just like Earthbound, don't have that standard been there done that fantasy setting going on.
-Shadowrun, it's like a dark urban future meets fantasy creatures. So you get elven hackers, gangster-like hitmen using spells, orcish street thugs etc. You play as a human waking up in a morgue without any memory. As you advance thru the game you learn more about your identity and past to finally go after the person responsible for your death. You get 'karma' points to spend on combat and non combat skills (leadership, negotiation). You can use different kinds of fire-arms and learn to use spells. You'll hack computers to get entry to a building or just to 'steal' money, hire other "shadowrunners" to aid you and buy cyber-implants.
-Front Mission Gun Hazard. Also set in the future. But this one plays like sidescrolling mech shooter, you still gain xp for every kill. As you lvl your stats will increase, but you will also be able to buy new equipment to upgrade many of parts of your mech (like your main body, primary and secondary weapons, jump and 'dash' packs, shields). It's not just shooting action though, you get different goals in missions, like protecting someone, finding a buddy mech that can help you and at times you need to get out of your mech and play as a tiny human with a jetpack to advance. Quite some dialogue as well.
 
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