Why EarthBound is still Great Almost 30 Years Later - Noclip Hall of Fame
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- Jeremy explains why Earthbound is so good, and attempts to convert Danny to a believer.
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Edited by Jeremy Jayne
0:00 - The History of Earthbound
7:20 - Playing the Game
30:32 - Finishing Thoughts - Ігри
BABE WAKE UP NEW JEREMY JAYNE VID
I love how I thought this was going to be a short video essay from the intro and it was just Jeremy being super extra.
The first thirty seconds is pure chaotic energy and I love it
3:45 SUPER MARIO BROTHERS THREE
Jeremy is sooo back
id love to see jeremy just play through the whole game like this
Love it! The melody when you leave the house as the sun comes up is Summer Breeze by Seals & Crofts.
Great new series. Can't wait for Franks feature length deep dive on Shenmue
I give this video a CAMERON LADD/10.
This format of historical opening into the let’s play commentary is way more suited to this channel - more of this gets me in the mood to see the game, “why aren’t we playing this now?” Feeling being filled.
Love waking up to a new Jeremy video~
I'm about 2 months late on this video, but the original discussions on the podcast inspired me to start playing Earthbound, and this morning I finished it for the first time. I agree with all the praise Jeremy outlines in the intro and throughout, thank you for finally inspiring me to play the game for the first time.
The game is both silly and sincere, often whiplashing you from one goofy moment into another totally unexpected or unassuming moment of vulnerability. One such moment that stuck out to me was with the museum curator "Mr Spoon" in Fourside. You pay to enter the museum which plays some of my favorite music in the game (a kind of eerie ethereal tune, calm and reflective) and when you talk to the curator, he gives some quest info or something not terribly remarkable. But then ends with "Please come back again to study...'cause I don't like being alone...". Without context, this probably reads as unremarkable, but in the context of the game where you speak with dozens and dozens of goofy NPCs, suddenly seeing one express this kind of lonely vulnerability, it just works. Its these little things that makes this game so enjoyable and lived in.
One other thing I want to touch on that I think is difficult to convey is that the nostalgia aspect works even for those who never played the game. And I think that's primarily due to the setting. Rooting the game in a suburban 90's setting, as a kid leaving home, you're forced to interact with the space using the ideas and technology of the time. You mention it in the video, but if you don't call home frequently enough, Ness will get Homesick which is like a passive status effect where occasionally Ness will miss a turn. But calling home isn't like calling on a cellphone, you need to find a business with a phone. I was born in 1991, so suddenly being forced to remember moments like this, where I couldn't just instantly connect with anyone I want at any moment - I had to check in when the opportunity arose - it really had me feeling like a little kid again playing my SNES. And programming systems in the game reliant on things like ATMs, or receiving allowance from your parents, it feels inspired in a way that other games weren't really doing at the time.
One final thing, Danny mentions that this game has more personality in its dialog than say Pokemon. It's even more impressive because Pokemon (Feb '96) came out 2 years after Earthbound (August '94), even accounting for the Japanese release dates! While playing I couldn't stop thinking to myself how unique the game felt given the era it was created in.
Great video, great recommendation. Thanks for all you do.
MORE JEREMY PLEASE
Great work Jez, good to see new shows popping up.
+1000 this video!
Amazing work Jeremy! Wonderful video. This game seems rad.
Absolutely delightful video. Great job Jeremy and Danny!
This was great, awesome job
Please be sure to engage a lowcut (highpass) filter to your mics preamp in the future, set it to 100hz, this will lesson the intense amount of plosives & rumble recorded with the SM58 for your intro.
OK, you got me... I've heard of this game many times, but sitting with you through the intro, now I wanna play it! Thanks. :D
Jeremy. This video is so fuckin good. Seriously. Well done. (From someone who never played it.)
I'VE BEEN RADICALIZED!
I wonder why they dont post this on noclip reg.
Jeremy, love the work. A+ content.
I was already radicalized into that kind of person, but this video has further reradicalized me.
I played Earthbound for the first time back in 2015 and as someone who's not the biggest RPG fan I absolutely adored it. My main complaint was it was way way too grindy of a game but it's an experience I'll always remember. It's hard to explain but there's this aura with the game that is absolutely powerful and so immersive. I still get a odd feeling when I think back to the final portion of the game that is still as strong as it was the first time I played it. That alone showed me that this game stands the test of time despite how primitive it may look by today's standards. Not many games get me feeling how that one did.
One of my all-time faves
I look forward to what kinds of games we'll see in this series, especially Jesse, whose inspirations i think i know the least about.
Love this video, Jeremy's the best.
Great video 🎉
I started this game once when I got the little SNES they released a few years ago and was so confused by the start, did not get that you needed to go back home! I walked around for half an hour and quit the game, woops! 😅
this was tremendous
The extended documentary intro had me convinced this wasn't another lets-play style video -but alas.
I loved Chrono Trigger, which I played around 2003 or something. This reminds me of it, in some ways. Released within a year of it. (But amazing how the Chrono Trigger graphics kinda blow it off the charts). But this looks to have a very special tone and story. :D
It really does feel like they made Stranger Things 20 years before it was even a thing. Like it has the energy of 80's Stephen King cosmic horror. I'd love to know what Itoi was both watching and reading at the time of making this.
Great video, completely explains what I love about the series. Wish there was a mention of the rollback system and healing as fast as you can just to barely survive though! that system was incredible and wish it was in more modern games.
I've seen very little o er the years, but I like the artstyle.
"I used to get the spoon (as a child)."
Q: Is this the official SNES English release, or a "Fan Translation" version?
I like the writing in the version you played here.
In retrospect, this game is sort of like a weird blending of the Pokemon games and The Adventures of Pete & Pete, only with psychic powers instead of nature spirit cock fighting...
Pokey is basically cartman in a setting where other people are actually decent beings
Wow video games have sure come a long way since pacman
Blue blue! Convert to Happy Happyism!
*Super Mario Brothers 3*
It's such a 90's energy to be like "-but kids love gross stuff. They think it's funny!" as if marketing like this like Boglins or Play-Dough was the way to go.
nintendo put this on steam please
Somehow all those rpg‘s went past me as a kid, i had like 3-4 games max on my snes, that was all we could afford. (F-zero, mario and yoshi island world stuff and choplifter)
I dont understand the hype behind „the last of us“ 🙈 that game never grabed on to me. Ive watched a lp of the first but…. Im just not interested to invest my time in it 🙁
i want to replay mother 3 but 1 and 2 are better in my opinion
Oh wow, the US ad campaign was structured around the scratch-and-sniff fad? Truly unfortunate.
But if all the other places are based on numbers (two, three, etc.), why would you pronounce Onette like "on" when it should be pronounced like "one" (won)? 🤪 Is that just one of (ha!) those things where you pronounced it that way as a kid and can't change when you get older? 😉
Exactly. It's too deeply ingrained in my brain to change after all these years. In my child mind, "on-ette" made more sense than "one-ette" because the E was used in the pronunciation of "ette" and therefore couldn't be part of "one." Hence "on-ette" rather than "one-ette" or god forbid "one-tt" (pronounced wunt.)
@@jeremybjayne LOL! Yep! I can relate! 😉 Thanks for sharing more about it! Take care! 😎🤘☮
PS: Btw, GREAT video! I actually want to play this game now. I've found that in my advancing age I'm yearning to play those games that I missed out on back in the day. Retro consoles and legacy PCs are in my future, as the world is poised to release more video cards worth more than entire nice computer systems. That and I feel bad for today's youth because more and more, with so many games being "live service" or that require an always-online connection to servers (for whatever reason), many are winking out of existence when they are no longer profitable for the company. There will be fewer "Earthbound-like experiences" for them in the future than we have now with games from our day. There needs to be some sort of legislation that prevents companies from letting games die like that. Either plan for an end-of-life scenario from the get go or release the source code to the public so that someone can try to keep them playable in the future.
Sorry for my mini-rant. It just popped into my mind. Take care, buddy! 😎
Promo*SM ❤️
You guys could take some things from the corridor crew and react to good and bad video games and try and get some industry people to give their thoughts on things.
I think it was maybe intentional in the intro, but man, make sure to back off your mic a bit.
Wonderful vid otherwise!
Having someone swoon with nostalgia over the game is not a great way to get people to like it.
I love JRPGS/RPG's, they make up 90% of the games I play (mostly because of number go up syndrome), this video did nothing to sell me on any reason why this game is strangely revered besides "quirky writing".
The hurdle of the gameplay being extremely barebones (even for the time) and the game entirely relying on being different than every other RPG in setting was not overcome.
Not denying it might be a great game. The way people go about selling it always makes it really hard to care because they can never be objective about these sorts of games (usually because its one of their first RPG's). FF7 is another example.
Try the 3rd game, Mother 3 I was also very skeptical but then finally played Mother 3 at the start of the year and I'm a full convert on the greatness of the whole saga experience (also I played them this year in reverse order lol)
I do have to add this whole concept is NOT for cynical people so maybe you'll never connect with it either way
I liked that he was upfront about it being a nostalgia game. Too many reviews of old games try to pull random stuff to make it seem like they aren't just being nostalgic. Jeremy did present what he liked about the game, so hopefully more check it out
That being said, I liked other parts of the game not presented in this essay. But it's not my essay, and many other people have covered this game that address what I liked about the game