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Music_Rock_Cat
02/03/24 11:09:02 PM
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That game would've been epic for a N64 rpg

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VampireCoyote
02/03/24 11:09:45 PM
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why didnt they do it

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Antiyonder
02/03/24 11:19:33 PM
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I'd at least like to hear what Itoi fully had planned for the ending. Most we got was the player feeling betrayed.

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Music_Rock_Cat
02/04/24 12:12:18 AM
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found the trailer and damn this is like the n64's sonic xtreme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pcd9VnnXSQ

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Robot2600
02/04/24 12:13:45 AM
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looks like shit i see why they cancelled it. i would have liked a good game tho.

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Kamil
02/04/24 12:35:08 AM
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It obviously has the ugly n64 polygon look (Playstation had this too). But I still have this strange story. Where an old friend (last I knew he was still a postal worker). He got super into Earthbound and that is the only rpg he liked.

It certainly has personality. Which does help, one of the last times I saw him I just gave him my Earthbound big box for free b/c when I sold my copy a long time ago I didn't feel like shipping just a box. So this was like 2014. I said I still have the damn box you can just stop by. I forget what happened to rhe guide. It was amazing though. It was written like a tour brochure and had amazing art.

I feel like I left it somewhere or traded it.

Anyhow I appreciate Mother 1 in ways, Earthbound (Mother 2) is the best something at the time just made me annoyed about Mother 3 after awhile. I don't think it was the tapping music note combat. But I needed something visually darker (though I know it was a dark game behind that).

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FortuneCookie
02/04/24 12:36:00 AM
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At least Ness made it into Super Smash Bros.
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Kamil
02/04/24 12:37:20 AM
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Starman.net probably bribed them somehow *smirks* heh I am really glad it got is due desserts.

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masterbarf
02/04/24 1:17:23 AM
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I remember seeing it listed as an upcoming game in Nintendo Power. I am still disappointed.

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Smashingpmkns
02/04/24 1:22:21 AM
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The art design was awful tbh. Looked like mud. But I think an Earthbound game on the Gamecube would have revitalized the series.

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Solar_Crimson
02/04/24 1:29:14 AM
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VampireCoyote posted...
why didnt they do it
It was in development for the N64DD, which was a massive flop and only released in Japan, and perhaps for technical reasons, the game was considered unworkable for the regular N64 and subsequently cancelled.

Smashingpmkns posted...
The art design was awful tbh. Looked like mud. But I think an Earthbound game on the Gamecube would have revitalized the series.
Doubtful. Mother 3 was always planned to be the final entry in the series, so if it had been made on the GCN, that would have been it.

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Kamil
02/04/24 1:35:34 AM
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Yea it was supposed to have been an eventual 64DD game that was cancelled. Also I got this guy I knew into the game. I talked about Dragon Quest that and Final Fantasy that lol but I brought over Earthbound and this guy loved it.

Last I talked to him he still does not like rpgs. Again last about this, bjt I found it amusing he only became a mega fan of Earthbound. I am not even sure if he played 3 or 1.

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IlkhanInsomnia
02/04/24 1:36:58 AM
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VampireCoyote posted...
why didnt they do it

We got Mother 3 instead, but I think wikipedia has the full story at this point.

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Ulfar
02/04/24 1:48:30 AM
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Its cancellation still disappoints me. Sure Mother 3 exists but the story was supposed to be darker.
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Music_Rock_Cat
02/04/24 1:52:49 AM
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ohh the 64dd

I was expecting that on cartridge I was like woah damn that would be tight riding around a desert with the little dipstick on the n64 controller

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FortuneCookie
02/04/24 11:17:38 AM
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With the benefit of hindsight, Nintendo made the wrong choice in going with cartridge-based games. I would have hated the load screens every time I entered a world in Super Mario 64 (which likely would have been called something other than 64), but we could have had Luigi. We could have had more bosses. We could have had Final Fantasy 7 on a Nintendo console and a sequel to Super Mario RPG.

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Kamil
02/04/24 11:36:23 AM
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Early Playstation games had terrible load times depending on the game. I think Mortal Kombat 3 had like a 30-45 load time from character select to fight.

Carts were fun, but meh it probably did hurt the 64 at that time sticking to them. Expensive too because I think the developer had to pay for the cart whereas paying for a disc cd is nearer to pennies. Stupid shit like that I would never think of back then and over think about stuff like that now for no reason.

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TotallyNotAGirl
02/04/24 12:02:37 PM
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I'm still mad that Starcraft Ghost never came out.

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Starks
02/04/24 12:04:39 PM
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Earthbound 64 would've been a repeat of Quest 64. The failure of the 64DD made sure that RPGs would be out of reach for the console.

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Kamil
02/04/24 12:12:09 PM
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Quest 64 seems about the most pointless generic rpg out there and I know somebody out there likes it, here. Hell I like snes rpgs less than a dozen ppl like so......

Hmmm. Depends what you have I guess or your vibe at the time.

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MorbidEngel
02/04/24 12:13:42 PM
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I actually never heard of this back in the day until someone wrote into Nintendo Power about it and they confirmed to the writer that it was canceled. This was sometime in 2000.

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Starks
02/04/24 12:21:53 PM
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Kamil posted...
Quest 64 seems about the most pointless generic rpg out there and I know somebody out there likes it, here. Hell I like snes rpgs less than a dozen ppl like so......

Hmmm. Depends what you have I guess or your vibe at the time.
Quest 64 was phoned in as a laughable answer for FF7. Mystical Ninja was at the limits of what the 64 could do.

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MorbidEngel
02/04/24 12:25:33 PM
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I'm kind of convinced that the only good English N64 pure RPG out there is Ogre Battle. Quest 64, as well as Aidyn Chronicles, I've never heard anyone say anything good about.

Of course I'm probably missing some. I know Hybrid Heaven exists but that's also a multi-genre game (RPG + wrasslin')

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Kamil
02/04/24 12:26:38 PM
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I really liked Goemon: Mystical Ninja on the SNES, I never tried the one on the 64. I don't even remember watching a video on it. Probably was at least decent.

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Alteres
02/04/24 12:35:10 PM
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I think Aeriis likes quest 64, I agree with you guys though but I never played it, so

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Kamil
02/04/24 1:07:06 PM
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Alteres posted...
I think Aeriis likes quest 64, I agree with you guys though but I never played it, so

Yea you called her out, not me. She was streaming it for some reason too. I don't bother with live streams anymore. But glad she seems to enjoy it and the dozens who watched it? Heh I don't know. Maybe she has a following there lol

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FortuneCookie
02/04/24 1:07:49 PM
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Kamil posted...
Early Playstation games had terrible load times depending on the game. I think Mortal Kombat 3 had like a 30-45 load time from character select to fight.

Waitality
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Kamil
02/04/24 1:17:56 PM
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FortuneCookie posted...
Waitality

Wasn't that Striker's finisher? Mortal Kombat 3 was dumb in general. I prefer Rain than here is some Bozo looking street cop.

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FortuneCookie
02/04/24 1:21:38 PM
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Kamil posted...
Wasn't that Striker's finisher? Mortal Kombat 3 was dumb in general. I prefer Rain than here is some Bozo looking street cop.

Sheeva was a welcome addition. (And, no, not in a Death by Snu Snu kinda way.) Sindel was alright. The rest of the characters were pretty lame. They replaced the ninjas with robots and most of the newbies were uninspired.

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FortuneCookie
02/04/24 1:22:45 PM
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I guess Motaro isn't bad. I kinda forgot about him.

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Will_VIII
02/04/24 1:23:17 PM
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masterbarf posted...
I remember seeing it listed as an upcoming game in Nintendo Power. I am still disappointed.
That along with Mario Artist and Sim City 64

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MorbidEngel
02/04/24 1:39:47 PM
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Will_VIII posted...
That along with Mario Artist and Sim City 64

SimCity 64 kinda did happen; there's a N64 port of SimCity 2000, but only in Japan.

Also, regarding MKT: if you really wanted to troll people with load times, play Shang Tsung.

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Kamil
02/04/24 1:42:12 PM
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Sindel was cool. Ultimate Mortal Kombat was on the N64. But Mortal Kombat Trilogy fixed the load times from MK3 on PSX and had more characters than the 64 as well.

Ultimate Mortal Kombat may have been on the SNES too. Anyhow hey the N64 had WWF Wrestlemania 2000 and WWF No Mercy.

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MorbidEngel
02/04/24 1:45:49 PM
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Ultimate Mortal Kombat (3) wasn't on the N64; Trilogy was on basically every current-gen system of the time.

N64 had less characters, no playable bosses or human Smoke without cheats, but it had basically no load times (or much much shorter) and Khameleon as a hidden character rather than Chameleon (Khameleon was based on the female ninjas while Chameleon was based on the male ones).

It also combined the movelists for masked Sub-Zero due to the absence of unmasked Sub-Zero.

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Kamil
02/04/24 1:48:48 PM
#35:


Thanks. I was getting lost there in ancient MK lore while I was trying to initially stay on topic.

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Solar_Crimson
02/04/24 1:52:15 PM
#36:


Kamil posted...
I really liked Goemon: Mystical Ninja on the SNES, I never tried the one on the 64. I don't even remember watching a video on it. Probably was at least decent.
I loved it. Unfortunately, we only rented and because we never had a Controller Pak (which it needed to save the game), we never did actually finish the game.

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Music_Rock_Cat
02/04/24 1:57:24 PM
#37:


Quest 64 looks kinda cool I never played it just Hybrid Heaven which was awesome

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Solar_Crimson
02/04/24 1:59:57 PM
#38:


And as for Quest 64, I remember my aunt renting that for us back in the late 90's. Even back then, with the extent of my RPG experience being Super Mario RPG and maybe Pokemon (can't recall when exactly she rented it for us), I thought the game was trash.

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YellowSUV
02/04/24 2:08:08 PM
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Would be really cool if the last build of the game eventually was leaked. It was apparently 30-60% done.

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Kamil
02/04/24 2:13:04 PM
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YellowSUV you'd think it would have been by now. Even if it was just a glorified tech demo. Stranger games with no fanfare have been leaked.

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