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Ok Impala!
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Ok!
To make it short:
- Mother (NES) - Not released in US
- Mother II (SNES) - Released in US as Earthbound
- Mother III (GBA) - To be released, new game, no remake.
They released Mother I&II for GBA months ago, it wasn't released in US though. |
Grey the Stampede
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Wait, does that mean you've never played Earthbound? 
You better not say yes to that question.... |
Ailure
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Sadly Earthbound was never released in Earthbound, so it's pretty much known just in US... and emulation/importer fanatics in Europa. 
Why they don't release the Earthbound remake here is beyond me...  |
Grey the Stampede
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I knew about the GBA game, but I was referring more to the cancelled N64 sequel when I said axed. I also thought the GBA game was just gonna be a remake of Mother or Earthbound? It'd be cool if it really were an all new game... |
Ok Impala!
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Ok!
Guess it will please you to know that Mother 3 was announced over a year ago for GBA... |
Grey the Stampede
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Indeed Earthbound kicks ass. IF ONLY, if only Nintendo hadn't axed the next game in the series. The game was an underground classic, it just isn't right that Nintendo can't continue the madness for the real fans. Plus, HAL Labs is still turning out games, I don't see why they can't reform Halken and make it.
You signed that old petition a few years back, right? I did. The world needs another Mother! If it did come out, I have a feeling this thread would have plenty to talk about for years to come. |
Dylan
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Go Grey!
Earthbound is a great game, and as I was reading your post, Grey, I was getting ready to make a post saying "Don't forget Mr. Saturn!" Until I read the last sentence. I think I will have to deem Mr. Saturn the coolest video game icon whos relevance remains ambiguous.
So cool... =D |
Grey the Stampede
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Originally posted by Ailure
Originally posted by HyperHacker
That's another thing. What the heck is the year '20X5'? Is that like every 10 years from 2005 to 2095?
That reminds me about Earthbound. Year 199X... and a libary say that you should return a book before year 2000. 
Oh, please. Earthbound's got so much more you could point out as strange, it's what makes it one of my favorite games.
Let's see if I can hit them all: Psychic powers, talking appliances, phone calls that cost a dollar, alternate reality hallucinations, dinosaurs, swamps that poison you, a giant walking desert idol, moving heiroglyphs, the loch ness monster, the fact that it takes Jeff the same amount of time to fix a spray can as it does to fix a random machine or gadget, but he can fix a UFO even faster. The UFO itself, randomly hearing music, a bee from the future, gangbusting, the starmen, aliens, the greatest enemy you'll ever face ending up being your next door neighbor, the mani-mani statue, a cult devoted to the color blue, a baseball bat or frying pan doing more damage than a laser, the awesome healing powers of (insert food here), the whole Poo character, the cast of enemies, the Runaway Five ditching you constantly, the diamond mines, time travel, turning into robots, the guy who randomly takes your picture, fatal hospital wounds costing 110 dollars per revival, magic butterflies, magic cakes, magic tarts, magic pudding, magic truffles, the piggy nose, multi bottle rockets...
And finally, the greatest enigma of Earthbound: Mr. Saturn. |
Slash Dafter
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Originally posted by Ailure
Originally posted by HyperHacker
That's another thing. What the heck is the year '20X5'? Is that like every 10 years from 2005 to 2095?
That reminds me about Earthbound. Year 199X... and a libary say that you should return a book before year 2000.
Yeah, just enough time to copy all the relevant information from it.
Why would the dude in Dig-Dug take an air pump with him underground? And how can Pac Man eat all those pellets and fruit and avoid ghosts if he doesn't even have any eyes (I'm talking about the old version of him)? |
Ailure
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Originally posted by HyperHacker
That's another thing. What the heck is the year '20X5'? Is that like every 10 years from 2005 to 2095?
That reminds me about Earthbound. Year 199X... and a libary say that you should return a book before year 2000. |
Ten
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In Kingdom Hearts, I found distrubing that in all the worlds of Disney, there are sickos that like stuffing puppies into treasure boxes three at a time. |
Ran-chan
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They |
drjayphd
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Originally posted by HyperHacker
That's another thing. What the heck is the year '20X5'? Is that like every 10 years from 2005 to 2095?
They learned from Crystalis. Last time I checked, 1997 didn't feature a nuclear holocaust.  |
HyperLamer
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*If you haven't beat Mario 64 (), minor spoilers ahead*
Another thing: When you meet bosses multiple times they always use stronger and stronger attacks. Why not do that the first time when you're too weak to survive them? Bowser in Mario 64 should have just used all the various attacks at once. Or for that matter, in the last fight, he breaks off platform chunks. Why not just smash it so much there's only room for him and you're forced to either stand there and die from his poison-to-the-touch skin or fall into the bottomless pit. That's another thing, in the first Bowser level, Bowser must have known where you'd start, given how the level's designed. Why put a platform there? Just let Mario fall to his doom.
Also: Proportional-damage attacks. Super Fang in Pok |
Alastor the Stylish
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Originally posted by HyperHacker
(Plus what if things still aren't like that by 2095?)
Then the people who first made it will be long dead and no one can complain about it to them. |
HyperLamer
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Pfft, lazy writers. When I'm writing a futuristic story, I base it in the distant year; if it's still too futuristic by then, there's a simple explanation: It's just a story! Hell, say it's the year 3182, nobody'll criticize you about it for a long time. (Plus what if things still aren't like that by 2095?) |
Alastor the Stylish
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X is a variable. It can be 2005, 2015, 2025, 2035, 2045, 2055, etc. It's just a convenient way for the people to not specify a date so that if the technology doesn't come in that time, we'll say it's later on. |
HyperLamer
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That's another thing. What the heck is the year '20X5'? Is that like every 10 years from 2005 to 2095? |
Ailure
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Originally posted by Cheveyo Chowilawu
Ailure: She had a gun. The guards had swords. She could attack them before they could see her probably. See my point?
That's understandable for the castle in "today". (in that game, that's it)
But she comes too you after Lucca have disappared, just like that. And she hadn't shot on any guards. (otherwise they would have gotten into trouble for that)
Another odd thing is that the year 1999 looks like year 999 in terms of terrain, but the bleak future terrain is totally diffrent.  |
Grey the Stampede
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Originally posted by HyperHacker
Originally posted by Colin
Because he's a GUY.
More like because she's a girl.
I saw the funniest comic regarding some of that a while ago. Villian school or something. To put it simply, if the hero can only jump a pit 4 blocks wide and the villian's 50 times his size and could easily step over it, why not *gasp* make a pit 5 blocks wide? Or if he can only jump 3 blocks high, make a wall 4 blocks high? Even better, make one that covers the entire screen. And no, you don't need to leave powerups sitting after the hard parts!
There's also the matter of Bowser's random sizes. In SMB, he's twice Mario's size. In Mario 64, he's 10 times as big. In a lot of other games they're the same size?
The villain movie is at http://home.att.net/~miller.daniel.r/dictator2.htm.
And the worst contortion of Bowser's size was in Super Mario Sunshine. One moment, he's about 100 times Mario's size in a hot tub, then when you kick his arse, suddenly he's back down to being a little bit bigger than Mario is! And he talks instead of roaring! I liked his voice, though... |
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