What's with all of the Earthbound-inspired games that have been coming out lately?

What's with all of the Earthbound-inspired games that have been coming out lately?

such as?

LISA and Undertale

Hipster indie shitter nintenbabies being assmad that their beloved "muh feelingz cult classic RPG" had been abandoned completely by Nintendo.

That and the Mother 4 team dropping the ball.

Earthbound modding communities and fans getting onboard the Kickstarter train roughly the same time to kickstart their indie game studios.

Lisa, undertale and pretty soon OMORI

The success of Undertale mixed with the re-release of Earthbound on Virtual Console helped a lot of people loving the genre and so many tried to make their Motherlike rpg.
It was a niche genre (hence why you see many screaming "hipster shit"), very few games tried that approach, like Contact. So I don't mind seeing more.

BRAVA

>Contact
Such an interesting game.


I think the genre can still improve and it's nice to have new turn-based games. I'm looking forward to all of them.

>waaaahhhhh, stop making games i dont like

Wow, people besides me have played that game?

I'm a little put off from Omori because it's an rpg maker game, but from what I've seen in the trailers they're making their own assets and generally putting a lot of work into it.

What makes an RPG Earthboud-like? Simple graphics and quirky humor? Because that applies to a bunch of RPG maker games done by 1 to 3 people.

fox was an earthbound romhacker

lisa was designed on rpg maker, nuff said.

>couldn't ever find a copy
>had to pirate it on my Acekard

Same for that Animal Crossing like game where you're in a school full of animal wizards and stuff, can't remember what it was called.

Why is every quirky RPG supposedly earthbound?

Most of Sup Forums are as bad as SJW, except instead of saying that, they just claim doom and death upon games they don't like because they're popular.

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it also needs to be socially progressive and make autists cry like they're experiencing true art

The same reason other things like TMNT and Power Rangers get threather reboots. Nostalgia and the old fanbase growing up

Randomly picked it up at a gamestop in king's bay, georgia in 2008. Back of the box convinced me. I was not dissappointed.

People realized that they can make an xd random quicky pixelated rpg and just say its earthbound mother inspired and people will eat it up

>tfw wanted to make an Earthbound-inspired RPG forever now
>working on it for a while, finally making progress
>undertale, lisa, mother 4, that awful tumblrnose city game, whatever's next
>even more coming out of the woodwork
>having to scrap as many mother references as i can so i don't get shoved into that pile or look like i'm just trying to ape off Undertale's success

God fucking damn it, I hate you Toby Fox.

Picked it up at gamestop because I saw the maker. ended up loving it. Real grindy but I like old-school JRPG's so that never bothered me.

I don't get why so many people here in Sup Forums hate feelings based games... Honestly they are my favourite kind of games.

I'm not afraid to confess that i cried rivers of tears at the ending of mother 3
It actually changed my way of seeing the world and it almost felt like experiencing something greater.

Earthbound is all atmosphere. Gameplay wise it's basically Dragon Quest with some extra battle commencement mechanics anyhow.

So what is Earthbound atmosphere, you may still wonder.

Well, it's a game that doesn't take itself seriously. Right up until near end the game carries itself lightheartedly, with even dramatic moments being mostly tongue in cheek.

The story is also arbitrary and daffy but the game doesn't ask you to analyze it and look for every little theme and thread the story leads to, it just takes you on a fun little rise through a pile of nonsense and at the end of the game you turn into goofy looking robots and pray at a big red dace til it dies.

If something's said to be Earthboundlike it has these traits of being goofy trips that don't try and make you think about things. It's the RPG equivalent of the horrifying Disney Small World ride, except at the end something fucked up happens like one of the little animatronic dolls getting its face fucked by a cyborg dinosaur so that's all people ever talk about.

Other than the top-down POV similarity, nothing at all about Undertale reminded me of Earthbound. Earthbound had unique, quirky humor. Undertale has try-hard but fall-flat humor. Earthbound has a huge sprawling adventure through space and time for four distinct characters. Undertale is a short, mini-game ridden, "dungeon-crawl" for a completely ambiguous, silent protagonist. Finally, Earthbound was visually rendered as best as it could be for the tech of the time. Undertale has deliberate low-res piss poor graphics because it's the hip thing to do lately.

kys