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boxxleman · Sat May 21, 2011 8:53 pm

Back in the day, RPGlunatic and myself had a website called Earthbound Invasion. This is def. one of my favorite games ever made. And I also think it is the first RPG I ever beat. Smile

Flamez · Sun May 22, 2011 10:06 am

One of those few SNES RPGs that I missed. Sad

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SoulBlazerFan · Sun May 22, 2011 11:56 am

Whatever happened to that website?
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EverPhoenix · Sun May 22, 2011 12:08 pm

never played earthbound. but, i have heard many things about it. strange, disturbing things
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Flamez · Sun May 22, 2011 1:51 pm

boxxleman wrote:

Back in the day, RPGlunatic and myself had a website called Earthbound Invasion. This is def. one of my favorite games ever made. And I also think it is the first RPG I ever beat. Smile

If I recall you guys also had a Lufia 2 website?
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boxxleman · Sun May 22, 2011 2:06 pm

Flamez wrote:

boxxleman wrote:

Back in the day, RPGlunatic and myself had a website called Earthbound Invasion. This is def. one of my favorite games ever made. And I also think it is the first RPG I ever beat. Smile

If I recall you guys also had a Lufia 2 website?

The lufia 2 website was all RPGlunatics. And sadly they got deleted once homestead decided to start charging people for websites.

tay120n64 · Fri May 27, 2011 5:26 am

Lufia 2 = Amazing.

Earthbound = Overrated.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Earthbound, but it feels rather dated (even for its time).
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I enjoyed Earthbound quite a bit. It had a few unique gameplay concepts that surprisingly didn't catch on. The one that always stood out for me was that once you were significantly strong than an enemy the game auto-resolved the combat and gave you the money and xp. Smile

I remember listening to my Queen album "It's a Kind of Magic" while playing EB. So much so that when I hear those songs I think about the game. Smile

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Freedan · Fri May 27, 2011 2:17 pm

tay120n64 wrote:

Earthbound = Overrated.

Personally, I think it's underrated. It only ever achieved a cult classic status, and never really got the widespread attention it should have.

The only thing I found dated on it was the graphics, which was an intentional stylistic choice; if they could make such mesmerizing battle backgrounds, they could have made the sprites more detailed. To me, Earthbound was one of the earlier examples of the graphics debate; they set out to show that a simple game can keep a player engaged through its less tangible elements.

And yes, they did introduce a few concepts that I wish had stuck for more RPGs. The fleeing enemies on the map, the rolling HP meter, etc.
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tay120n64 · Fri May 27, 2011 7:13 pm

Fleeing monsters and Rolling HP were awesome, but the battle system as a whole just screamed NES Dragon Quest. The style and humor were really the only things keeping me playing. The game was very demanding and never forgiving.
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TENCHI · Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:29 am

Yeah,I played it last year.it's a delicate and intersting game,the story is childlike,music is funny but good
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