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Re: Soapbox: The Trauma Of Giygas & Growing Up In EarthBound

ShonenJump121

I played through Earthbound very recently, in fact I finished it about a week or two ago and moved on Mother 3 since I heard that was just as good.

Even without mentioning Giygas, there's plenty of eerie things about Earthbound. Cults, gangs and odd looking creatures. I remember when I was a kid watching a let's play of Earthbound in the early era of YouTube, 2008-2009 that the boss music for the Sanctuary bosses would give me full on nightmares.

As an adult it may not seem all that scary, but some of the enemy sprites are still a tad unnerving. On another note, I wish that Nintendo would give us more Mother merchandise outside of Japan. I really wanted those plushies, but paying over $100 with shipping and fees is really rough.

Re: Nintendo Switch Online Free 7-Day Trial Now Available (US)

ShonenJump121

@sanderev Considering I only play around 10 games or so on the service, then yeah VC ended up being cheaper for me in the long run.

There's many games on the service, but I don't play on playing all of them since I don't have an interest in all of them. Really, Nintendo could of easily done it like they have it now, but have it so you can purchase individual games if you want for a fee. That's not even bringing up the drip-feed nature of the series, I mean its been 7 years and the library still seems lacking to me.

You can sub to NSO and get everything under the subscription or you can buy some individual games for whatever amount and have it locked to your account. You can buy classic PS1 or PS2 games on Sony's store and have it forever, its not like they're only locked to their sub service.

PC players do have online for free and they do not have to pay for it like we do still. So I guess they got the better deal here. There are many people that have experienced issues with online games during the Switch's lifespan so those people's issues are valid.

Re: Nintendo Switch Online Free 7-Day Trial Now Available (US)

ShonenJump121

@sanderev Sony and Microsoft's online services are better than Nintendo's. Its not like the online is substantially different from the Wii U era, and we didn't pay anything back then.

And those old games can be played on practically anything, my phone can play 90% of those games and for me this is the 3rd time I'm being offered NES and SNES games, so I'm not impressed at this point.

For me its a moot point, since I barely play online games anymore outside of FFXIV, but there are many people that do play games online such as Splatoon and Smash and it sucks that their experience isn't better.

Re: Nintendo Switch Online Free 7-Day Trial Now Available (US)

ShonenJump121

You know I was using my 3DS the other day and that if nothing else just made me miss how I didn't have to rent those games or anything.

Their worse mistake was not allowing these things to transfer over from previous consoles. Its so crazy to me that we doing this whole retro library thing again after the Wii U, 3DS and Wii. You can't expect me to pay for decades old games a third time and still see as exciting.