awwwww
― Nhex, Saturday, 4 December 2010 04:28 (thirteen years ago) link
wow
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Saturday, 4 December 2010 09:51 (thirteen years ago) link
ok, playing this again
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Monday, 11 April 2011 06:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess Itoi was inspired in making this by a trilogy of novels called The Notebook/The Proof/The Third Lie.
This trilogy is very, very good, by the way – I read half of it last summer, and I reread the whole thing last week. I wish I knew anyone else (online or IRL) who has read this so I could compare mind meltedness notes. It feels kind of lonely having something so good to myself!
― Col. Pinkney Lugenbeel (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
i am curious (itoi)
― it is sad but their is so much beauty (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
The entire trilogy is printed in one book, too, plus it goes fast. I finished it in a day and a half.
― Col. Pinkney Lugenbeel (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.zacgorman.com/IDNIN/Strip001_PKWAFFLES3.gif
― Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 27 June 2011 04:53 (twelve years ago) link
We may be tiny, but we're still living beings. We eke out our lives as mole crickets.
― original bgm, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
that comic is great!
― Nhex, Thursday, 25 April 2013 14:47 (ten years ago) link
this game makes me bawl.
― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 03:16 (ten years ago) link
4 real dude it was a str8 connect w/my lachrymal glands
― even the beatles had a coinstar machine in their living room (Crabbits), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 03:28 (ten years ago) link
Lol this thread is crabbit's beetlejuice beetlejuice beetlejuice
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 04:51 (ten years ago) link
I love the way it builds up & how effectively it maneuvers in the emotional spaces between funny, weird, bleak, cute, cynical, repulsive, terrifying, heartwarming & heartbreaking.
― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 05:35 (ten years ago) link
probably a must play for any earthbound fan:
http://undertale.com/
― help computer (sleepingbag), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 03:21 (eight years ago) link
I bought that last week but haven't played it yet. I have seen it mentioned along side earthbound so much
― Ina-Garten-Da-Vida (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 04:45 (eight years ago) link
It's really good! I feel like there's a lot of depth, but that's just a guess, I was advised to go into this game with as little info as possible + that was good advice.
Definitely Earthbound-influenced enough so that it could be a game in the series in some ways, but still has a lot of interesting touches + fun gameplay elements in addition to the familiar ~feelllzzz&vibbezzz~
― help computer (sleepingbag), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 09:05 (eight years ago) link
I just want all of the games as thoroughly and charmingly playful/quirky/bizarre as EarthBound and Katamari
― Ina-Garten-Da-Vida (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 15:09 (eight years ago) link
What, sort of a pleasant level of amusing Japanese weirdness?
― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link
any and all levels of amusing Japanese weirdness tbh
― Ina-Garten-Da-Vida (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 19:46 (eight years ago) link
Fair enough. That's what I liked about the PS2 & Dreamcast, as it seemed they were great for importing such rich veins of barely translated Japanese insanity into domestic consoles.
― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 20:28 (eight years ago) link
What are yr fav examples of these things?
― Ina-Garten-Da-Vida (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 21:38 (eight years ago) link
LSD? Seaman? Incredible Crisis?
― Ina-Garten-Da-Vida (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 21:41 (eight years ago) link
I've played Undertale twice now, and got two different endings. I don't know if I have it in me to play the "genocide" route.
One PS2 Japanese import I loved was Gregory Horror Show. The actual gameplay in itself was perhaps a little repetitive, but it didn't matter because it was fun to just hang around and spy on the crazy tenants going about their daily routines.
― Duane Barry, Friday, 13 November 2015 01:18 (eight years ago) link
yooooo how do I play that (w/o dropping stupid coin on a mod-chipped PS2 and shipping an import game overseas)?
― Ina-Garten-Da-Vida (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 13 November 2015 13:25 (eight years ago) link
Can't help with that, sorry. I live in a country where it was released!
― Duane Barry, Friday, 13 November 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
ugh, fuckin' Europe
― Ina-Garten-Da-Vida (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 13 November 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
how good's your pc? i have emu'd ps2 before to some success
― nerd shit (Will M.), Friday, 13 November 2015 16:54 (eight years ago) link
it's a 3 year old Lenovo Thinkpad w/ onboard video. I just finished Super Mario 64 w/o any stuttering or errors but idk abt PS2
― Ina-Garten-Da-Vida (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 13 November 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link
Weird Japanese awesomeness:
That futuristic fishing game including as a demo on one of the OPM discs.
Seaman
Odama
Jet Set Radio
Katamari
Earthbound was like all of this, of course, particularly the tea break and power of collective prayer
― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Friday, 13 November 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
Oh I forgot abt Jet Set Radio!! Ugh Seaman seems impossible to emulate. I've got a Dreamcast lying around somewhere, too. I should just track it down.
― Ina-Garten-Da-Vida (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 13 November 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
did you play cave story?
― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 November 2015 18:10 (eight years ago) link
Only the very beginning, and Ikachan on my 3ds
― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Friday, 13 November 2015 22:59 (eight years ago) link
https://youtu.be/TYud4GeEF-c?t=8m55s
― aaaaablnnn (abanana), Saturday, 14 November 2015 01:08 (eight years ago) link
Undertale looks awesome but with the Fall Sale looming I feel compelled to wait & see if it gets discounted
― grinding like a jolly elf (jamescobo), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 04:01 (eight years ago) link
oh my gosh I love Undertale SO MUCH
― cory artangel (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 27 November 2015 16:26 (eight years ago) link
https://gifsound.com/?gif=https://media.giphy.com/media/QDYXASCjiW568/giphy.gif&v=204BDmIg7B4
― police patrol felt the smell of smoke and found that goat burns (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 22:43 (eight years ago) link
y'all I am finally playing thru Mother 3 rn and it makes me so happy that I want to cryalso I feel like as a game this game is better than EarthBound
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
Please note when this gets an okay for US Release; looks funnables.― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, April 4, 2006 12:28 PM (twelve years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
this made me irl lol
https://lparchive.org/Mother-3/Update%2010/51-44.png
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
yeah it's better than earthbound in all aspects imo
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
i am mr. passion
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
omg i love mr passion
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
i'm rly annoyed at how hard Masked Man is and i'm EVEN MORE MAD that when i tried to google battle strategies i got massive spoilers instead
>:(
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 7 December 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
how are you playing this Stevie?
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Friday, 7 December 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
I have a translated ROM and I've been bouncing back and forth between an emulator on my Wii and an emulator on my Android tablet (transferring the save file back and forth) but I finally set up my Raspberry Pi so now I'm finishing it on that
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 8 December 2018 03:54 (five years ago) link
oh wow. I'm really hoping they make some sort of ROM I can play on my SNES mini.
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Saturday, 8 December 2018 10:14 (five years ago) link
Doubtful, since it was a GBA game. Have you looked into the Raspberry Pi much? It’s $35 and you can build it out as an emulation box and fit literally every game for every console ever made up through the 16 bit era on a small SD card.
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 8 December 2018 13:16 (five years ago) link
belatedly, this is one of the few RPGs where stat up/stat down spells are not completely useless in practice, and in fact are necessary for most of the bosses
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
Stat buffs and debuffs are pretty much essential in Dragon Quest games(which is appropriate given how much inspiration the Mother series took from there), less so in Final Fantasy.
The only way Mother 3 would ever run on a SNES Mini is if you hacked it and installed Retroarch. There are plenty of devices that support GBA emulation though, even a soft-modded Wii will do it sufficiently.
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 19:30 (five years ago) link
i feel like i'm a retropie factory this holiday season. built about 4 so far and about to start saying no
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link