Earthbound/Mother is so underrated

[Shawn]

Mother is a HORRIBLE game. It's flawed beyond belief.
Earthbound was wonderful in every way.
Mother 3 was strange, funny and hearttrending. (and obviously perfect)

[triptych]

mother3 has so many sex jokes that it becomes amazing

[Mewthriii]

I like Earthbound. Haven't played Mother/Mother 3, but I want to. :/

I don't think it's that they're underrated, they're just so unheard of. I mean, people don't argue about whether they were awesome or they sucked. Like the Oracle Series in Legend of Zelda, the Earthbound/Mother was just sort of in the middle and never got much attention.

[mozzy]

Mother 3 ;______;

[Cshad]

I like Earthbound. Haven't played Mother/Mother 3, but I want to. :/

I don't think it's that they're underrated, they're just so unheard of. I mean, people don't argue about whether they were awesome or they sucked. Like the Oracle Series in Legend of Zelda, the Earthbound/Mother was just sort of in the middle and never got much attention.

It did not help at all when the Earthbound commercial was so absolutely god awful >:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRL_DWRIvjM

[Rökkan]

I like Earthbound. Haven't played Mother/Mother 3, but I want to. :/

I don't think it's that they're underrated, they're just so unheard of. I mean, people don't argue about whether they were awesome or they sucked. Like the Oracle Series in Legend of Zelda, the Earthbound/Mother was just sort of in the middle and never got much attention.

It did not help at all when the Earthbound commercial was so absolutely god awful >:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRL_DWRIvjM

what the shit
this didn't even show battles
when I thought it was going to show one, that was just those "lucky OHKO battles" that happens sometimes.

[triptych]

oh yeah

no, dont


stop resisting

oh yeah

right there



CONGRATULATIONS YOU KNOW HAVE PK POWERS

[Goemar]

I started playing Mother 3 but JESUS CHRIST it's so hard.
And I suck at RPGs >:

Compared to Earthbound I found Mother 3 really easy. If not the easiest RPG ever made. You can complete it at almost any level.
I find that people who find it hard hardly use Duster's special abilities, which will get you through most of the game easily without any grinding.

As for Mother 1 (Earthbound Zero), yes it does suck. Early RPGs age badly, but if you can get past the awful game itself it's an 'ok' game.
I must say though I love the music from all these games. Earthbound's over-world music is awesome and Mother 3's battle music is just wonderful.

[Cobalt Blue]

duede gygas had to be the more rage inducing boss out there if you didn't had a fucking clue of what to do.

[Rökkan]

I started playing Mother 3 but JESUS CHRIST it's so hard.
And I suck at RPGs >:

Compared to Earthbound I found Mother 3 really easy. If not the easiest RPG ever made. You can complete it at almost any level.
I find that people who find it hard hardly use Duster's special abilities, which will get you through most of the game easily without any grinding.

Yes, I do use Duster's abilities often on that ghost, but it.just.won't.die.
Most of the times I Hypno-Pendulum him and that bitch wakes up after 2 turns, if I'm lucky. 3 hits from the ghost and you're done, and since you don't have a partner, you must cease attack for a turn in order to recover health.
And I suck at RPGs, the only ones that I actually finished were from the Pokemon series >:
The rest of them I just watched my older brother beat them. (ie: tales of symphonia)

But okay, I might give it another chance.

[DioShiba]

I'm going to be honest, I in fact enjoyed mother/EB0 as much as I enjoyed Earthbound.

Have'nt really played Mother 3 though

[Cobalt Blue]

I like Earthbound. Haven't played Mother/Mother 3, but I want to. :/

I don't think it's that they're underrated, they're just so unheard of. I mean, people don't argue about whether they were awesome or they sucked. Like the Oracle Series in Legend of Zelda, the Earthbound/Mother was just sort of in the middle and never got much attention.

It did not help at all when the Earthbound commercial was so absolutely god awful >:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRL_DWRIvjM

what the shit
this didn't even show battles
when I thought it was going to show one, that was just those "lucky OHKO battles" that happens sometimes.

this should had been Earthbound's commercial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRaPaTMiwjc

[Badassbill]

but the music is only ok

There are some tracks from it that I love (Your Name, Please; Hospital; and Boris' Cocktail most notably), but there arent' *that* many awesome tracks. Mother 3's is more consistently awesome.

The beat combos in M3 as a rule of thumb follow the drumline to the song and go at a fixed tempo with the exception of fights against Big Bros (Dry Guys), Carpet Monsters (Fate), and Stone Rexes (Accellerondo). If you have Duster in your party, you can use the Hypno Medal to send a foe to sleep, and it will layer their 'heartbeat' on top of the music, making is easier to time (The game will off-handedly hint at this before you enter Osohe Castle for the first time. This also works with fake battles in the Battle Encyclopedia, and the Hypno Medal has a higher success rate there - go nuts).

If you happen to be playing on VBA, there's a chance of input lag, which may prevent you from inputting the beat correctly.

Oh, and note that all bosses in the EB series are weak to at least one type of status effect. For Mr. Passion it's Crying. Throw a smoke bomb at the motherfucker, and all those candlesticks and kitchen sinks will miss. Once Boney joins you he can automatically detect weaknesses for you.

That's probably the biggest reply to the smallest post I've ever seen.

[GrooveMan.exe]

It's a reply to 3 different posts, but I didn't wanna quote them all.

And it's useful advice. =/

[Raytheon]

i've still never bothered to play an earthbound game

i'm not really in a rush to play one either