Gaming Earthbound, Your thoughts...

[Ultima Legacy]

How d'ya like Earthbound? Myself, it's the ULTIMATE RPG on the SNES! Post your thoughts and opinions here!

[Guest visser 3]

What is it about.Id put up a vote if i knew what it was.

[Ultima Legacy]

You want to find out? Go to [url]www.Starmen.net[/url] for details on Earthbound. ^_^

[GinnyLyn]

[color=royal blue]I actually never got into it. I got halfway through and the whole thing...meh. A little weird for me. And that's odd, coming from me. :laugh: [/color]

[Semjaza]

Earthbound, in my mind, is the best RPG ever created.

I've found that people who have gotten into RPGs since the PSX days demand totally different things in their games. Most can't even seem to get past the fact that you cannot see your characters in the fights and you have to read what's going on. I personally like this because of the odd little details they give you such as "Pokey hides in the corner!" or whatever else.

I also find that people are turned off by the "simple" graphics. I don't argue that they are simple, but that doesn't make them [i]bad[/i]. The character designs are interesting and the towns look great. I love the fact the game reminds me of some 40s sitcom or a weird cartoon. It's part of its charm.

Then we get into the music, which is excellent in my opinion. Earthbound has one of the best soundtracks ever. It's one of the few that I'll actually listen to right out of the game (I have the entire soundtrack rip in MP3 form, something like 150 tracks). It's even better orchestrated, if the song allows it (many are somewhat ambient instead).

And the best thing? The entire theme of the game. The whole idea behind it is so radically different from nearly every RPG. You're actually on Earth in this game, and despite all the weirdness the game is actually like the real world. No medieval or future stuff (although there is a bit of that, and Magicant is still unexplainable). It just seemed so fresh at the time compared to everything else available.

It has flaws... The game is rather short (I'd say 25 hours maybe), which isn't bad... but it just isn't long enough either. It's fairly linear too. There is very little you can do in the game that you don't [i]have[/i] to do. However, the incredible translation (which was done by Dan Owsen) which was probably the best console RPG translation up to that point and the style the game has totally makes up for the flaws.

I'd hope that people play this on an SNES. It's not hard to get honestly, and playing RPGs in emulation form is about 1354265 times less fun than the real deal.