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bikingjahuty: I was very lucky and found Earthbound for $5 at a thrift store about 3-years ago. Having been collecting for several years prior to this I was well aware of this games status as somewhat of the "holy grail" of SNES collection. Given such an illustrious title I had very high expectations regarding this game. Sadly, I was very, VERY disappointed. The graphics are below average, the music is meh most of the time, the gameplay is bland, boring and repetitive, and the story/characters are fairly uninteresting as well. The quirkiness of this game was lost on me and it never really inspired me to want to continue playing at anytime. Needless to say, that is my assessment of the game, but I still couldn't help but wonder where in the hell all the hype came from towards this game. My theory is that a relatively small group of people who played this around the time it came out probably liked it for a variety of reasons to the point where they remembered this game years later being way better than it actually was. I'm guilty of doing this myself with various games. Then comes the internet and all they can say on every forum is how amazing this game is and it is one of the best games on the SNES, driving people into believing it is really that good. But to answer your question, Earthbound is an SNES RPG, I'd consider it to be uncommon (not to be confused with rare), and it is a fairly unique game, all reasons why it would have an inflated price. However stacked against games like FF2, FF3, Chrono Trigger, Breath of Fire, and Super Mario RPG, all games that are objectively better and chapter than Earthbound, I can't justify this game being worth more than $60, tops.

aliensstudios: --- Quote from: bikingjahuty on March 03, 2016, 01:59:14 am ---I was very lucky and found Earthbound for $5 at a thrift store about 3-years ago. Having been collecting for several years prior to this I was well aware of this games status as somewhat of the "holy grail" of SNES collection. Given such an illustrious title I had very high expectations regarding this game. Sadly, I was very, VERY disappointed. The graphics are below average, the music is meh most of the time, the gameplay is bland, boring and repetitive, and the story/characters are fairly uninteresting as well. The quirkiness of this game was lost on me and it never really inspired me to want to continue playing at anytime. Needless to say, that is my assessment of the game, but I still couldn't help but wonder where in the hell all the hype came from towards this game. My theory is that a relatively small group of people who played this around the time it came out probably liked it for a variety of reasons to the point where they remembered this game years later being way better than it actually was. I'm guilty of doing this myself with various games. Then comes the internet and all they can say on every forum is how amazing this game is and it is one of the best games on the SNES, driving people into believing it is really that good. But to answer your question, Earthbound is an SNES RPG, I'd consider it to be uncommon (not to be confused with rare), and it is a fairly unique game, all reasons why it would have an inflated price. However stacked against games like FF2, FF3, Chrono Trigger, Breath of Fire, and Super Mario RPG, all games that are objectively better and chapter than Earthbound, I can't justify this game being worth more than $60, tops. --- End quote --- Hmmm… I'll agree the graphics are below average, especially considering that this game came out in North America AFTER Donkey Kong Country, which, imo, holds up well today. The music is… well I actually really like most of it. The themes for Onett, Twoson, Fourside and Winters are simply excellent. The gameplay is sort of bland, I'll agree with you on that score, but I think some of the places you travel in the game keep the game interesting, moreso than a few other RPGs I've played for sure. I'm pretty much 100% sure that if Ness was not in Super Smash Bros., EarthBound would be virtually forgotten, and only remembered by an extremely niche community. It'd probably be of the Star Tropics Status, rather easy to obtain. EarthBound is pretty common, I mean look at all of the listings for it on eBay, but demand causes the price to go up. Its the same principle as to why the GameCube's most common title, Super Smash Bros. Melee, runs on average about 38 dollars. I'm very glad to have a physical copy of the game because I am a genuine fan of it, my opinion of the game has not been forced upon me by the Mother community as a whole, I simply played it, liked it, and here we are now. I paid 78 bucks for it, which isn't a bad price for it, but a far cry from the 5 bucks you spent.

ignition365: --- Quote from: aliensstudios on March 03, 2016, 10:24:06 am --- --- Quote from: bikingjahuty on March 03, 2016, 01:59:14 am ---I was very lucky and found Earthbound for $5 at a thrift store about 3-years ago. Having been collecting for several years prior to this I was well aware of this games status as somewhat of the "holy grail" of SNES collection. Given such an illustrious title I had very high expectations regarding this game. Sadly, I was very, VERY disappointed. The graphics are below average, the music is meh most of the time, the gameplay is bland, boring and repetitive, and the story/characters are fairly uninteresting as well. The quirkiness of this game was lost on me and it never really inspired me to want to continue playing at anytime. Needless to say, that is my assessment of the game, but I still couldn't help but wonder where in the hell all the hype came from towards this game. My theory is that a relatively small group of people who played this around the time it came out probably liked it for a variety of reasons to the point where they remembered this game years later being way better than it actually was. I'm guilty of doing this myself with various games. Then comes the internet and all they can say on every forum is how amazing this game is and it is one of the best games on the SNES, driving people into believing it is really that good. But to answer your question, Earthbound is an SNES RPG, I'd consider it to be uncommon (not to be confused with rare), and it is a fairly unique game, all reasons why it would have an inflated price. However stacked against games like FF2, FF3, Chrono Trigger, Breath of Fire, and Super Mario RPG, all games that are objectively better and chapter than Earthbound, I can't justify this game being worth more than $60, tops. --- End quote --- Hmmm… I'll agree the graphics are below average, especially considering that this game came out in North America AFTER Donkey Kong Country, which, imo, holds up well today. The music is… well I actually really like most of it. The themes for Onett, Twoson, Fourside and Winters are simply excellent. The gameplay is sort of bland, I'll agree with you on that score, but I think some of the places you travel in the game keep the game interesting, moreso than a few other RPGs I've played for sure. I'm pretty much 100% sure that if Ness was not in Super Smash Bros., EarthBound would be virtually forgotten, and only remembered by an extremely niche community. It'd probably be of the Star Tropics Status, rather easy to obtain. EarthBound is pretty common, I mean look at all of the listings for it on eBay, but demand causes the price to go up. Its the same principle as to why the GameCube's most common title, Super Smash Bros. Melee, runs on average about 38 dollars. I'm very glad to have a physical copy of the game because I am a genuine fan of it, my opinion of the game has not been forced upon me by the Mother community as a whole, I simply played it, liked it, and here we are now. I paid 78 bucks for it, which isn't a bad price for it, but a far cry from the 5 bucks you spent. --- End quote --- Yup, this is the same reason Fire Emblem is so pricey now, because they put Marth and Roy in Smash.

sworddude: --- Quote from: ctracy87 on March 03, 2016, 10:36:14 am --- --- Quote from: aliensstudios on March 03, 2016, 10:24:06 am --- --- Quote from: bikingjahuty on March 03, 2016, 01:59:14 am ---I was very lucky and found Earthbound for $5 at a thrift store about 3-years ago. Having been collecting for several years prior to this I was well aware of this games status as somewhat of the "holy grail" of SNES collection. Given such an illustrious title I had very high expectations regarding this game. Sadly, I was very, VERY disappointed. The graphics are below average, the music is meh most of the time, the gameplay is bland, boring and repetitive, and the story/characters are fairly uninteresting as well. The quirkiness of this game was lost on me and it never really inspired me to want to continue playing at anytime. Needless to say, that is my assessment of the game, but I still couldn't help but wonder where in the hell all the hype came from towards this game. My theory is that a relatively small group of people who played this around the time it came out probably liked it for a variety of reasons to the point where they remembered this game years later being way better than it actually was. I'm guilty of doing this myself with various games. Then comes the internet and all they can say on every forum is how amazing this game is and it is one of the best games on the SNES, driving people into believing it is really that good. But to answer your question, Earthbound is an SNES RPG, I'd consider it to be uncommon (not to be confused with rare), and it is a fairly unique game, all reasons why it would have an inflated price. However stacked against games like FF2, FF3, Chrono Trigger, Breath of Fire, and Super Mario RPG, all games that are objectively better and chapter than Earthbound, I can't justify this game being worth more than $60, tops. --- End quote --- Hmmm… I'll agree the graphics are below average, especially considering that this game came out in North America AFTER Donkey Kong Country, which, imo, holds up well today. The music is… well I actually really like most of it. The themes for Onett, Twoson, Fourside and Winters are simply excellent. The gameplay is sort of bland, I'll agree with you on that score, but I think some of the places you travel in the game keep the game interesting, moreso than a few other RPGs I've played for sure. I'm pretty much 100% sure that if Ness was not in Super Smash Bros., EarthBound would be virtually forgotten, and only remembered by an extremely niche community. It'd probably be of the Star Tropics Status, rather easy to obtain. EarthBound is pretty common, I mean look at all of the listings for it on eBay, but demand causes the price to go up. Its the same principle as to why the GameCube's most common title, Super Smash Bros. Melee, runs on average about 38 dollars. I'm very glad to have a physical copy of the game because I am a genuine fan of it, my opinion of the game has not been forced upon me by the Mother community as a whole, I simply played it, liked it, and here we are now. I paid 78 bucks for it, which isn't a bad price for it, but a far cry from the 5 bucks you spent. --- End quote --- Yup, this is the same reason Fire Emblem is so pricey now, because they put Marth and Roy in Smash. --- End quote --- I disagree since allot RPG's command high value even if they are not now known very well. Fire emblem is pricey but definitly nothing in comparison to earthbound wich is heavily overpriced. The fire emblem games have comparable value to other uncommon good rpg's. Rp's are expensive especially older ones. Besides my guess is that even if fire emblem was not in smash the prices would pretty much be the same since it is very high quality rpg series and the prices are not that expensive compared to other rpg's wich are not known very well by most. People collect rpg's and the prices are pretty much up there with other high quality rpg's wich are expensive but not overpriced compared to some others out there. All FE games can be bought for under 100. Usually around 50 or less for cib stuff of the fire emblem series. I doubt smash would make a difference in price except that there would have been no new fire emblem games. Earthbound cib however has a price tagg of 400+. It's an rpg, without smash it would probably only have been 150 - 200 if not for less if it really is common as people say. If it's uncommon and not that easy to get 150 - 200.  If it's pretty easy to get maybe in the 100 range or less. Because the game is so expensive there are allot of offers since people will not buy them immidiately and people want to sell it as fast as possible. Thanks to that many available autions for this game.

ignition365: Pretty sure Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn are both fairly pricey.  I wanna say Path of Radiance is near if not over $100.  And Radiant Dawn and the first GBA games are fairly pricey for CIB. I mean maybe, but you said so yourself, had they not been placed in Smash we may not have received the games, in which case it'd be a moot point.

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