Let's see....Originally Posted by Malon_Forever
Valkyrie Profile, Suikoden 2, Tales of Destiny, Tales of Eternia, Persona 2, Klonoa, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Shining Force 3, Dragon Force, Chrono Trigger, and Earthbound to name a few.
I was too naive when I learned about these at the time and figured they would always be easy to get in the future. They aren't insanely expensive or anything, but I still skipped them. Don't do what I did.
In Heaven, everything is fine.
How could they get into legal troubles now when they didn't back then?
I personally don't like that game. I say play it on an emulator to see if you'll like it or not. Good thing I did, I didn't waste $100 on it. Now if you just want it for collector reasons and don't care how awful it is, go fer it before it gets more expensive.
Maybe I just need to give it more time. I only was a few hours into it.
Eh. If you're dying to own Earthbound then sure the price may be worth it to you.
But you can always hold off for a steal. Personally scoring an expensive game for cheap is a lot more rewarding to me than slapping down full price for a "gotta have it now" moment of weakness. I'm still keeping an eye out for Earthbound and Panzer Dragoon Saga, but Ive gotten great deals on those other games by being paitent and lucky.
As for the price raising or falling, your guess is as good as mine.
Last edited by Daria; 08-06-2010 at 01:37 PM.
all the references were pretty obvious to me though in 1996...
And don't bring up that stupid girlie Aladdin rip off! Shantea?
I really don't buy the argument that Nintendo is holding off because of legal reasons. But given that they excised the demo from Brawl, a VC release does seem awfully unlikely.
The non-GH version seems to be holding its value pretty nicely. VGPC doesn't track such differences, unfortunately.
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." --Bertrand Russel (attributed)
Keep in mind that Final Fantasy VII's price spike was caused largely in part by hype surrounding the movie and hype about the game from fans in general. Remember how it became "rare" all of a sudden too? I would be far more suprised at EB's price dropping than VII's. EB's price has been fairly consistent over the years, not to mention being generally harder to find than a game that sold over a million copies. I remember when GameStops quite literally had a section of their PS1 bins JUST for Final Fantasy VII. Movie came out, the hype train grew longer, and boom. Silent Hill went through a similar phase if I recall correctly.
Even so, I figured it would finally lower. The prices shot up unbelievably so for something that could still be ordered by shops new until recently. (By recently I mean between 2005 and 2006.)
In Heaven, everything is fine.
How can it be one of your favorite games of all time, and you don't own it.This is messing up my plan to get Snes games after I buy the system.
Seeing as earthbound is one of my favourite games of all time I might have to pick it up soon .
Its been jumping up quite a bit because of the Series resurgence in smash bros.
[does anyone have a guess on how much it might go up in the next year?]
[I still love Mother 3 the most though]
Thanks Malon for metioning this game. I went into a Kmart store about 10 years ago
and saw this game discounted for about $18 to 20 bucks. It came in a big oversized
box with a Full size 100 or so page Players Guide. I bought it and then threw it on my
game shelf and totaly forgot about it. I think it is time that I give this Cart a try.
I will try it for the first time this weekend
Rick 2007
If you don't like it, you can sell it to me on the cheap.
Someone just listed this on my Craigslist with the guide (no box, just the cartridge) for 150
I might just sell it to you some day after I have played it. My Game Closet has over 1000carts from Atari 2600 to Xbox.
When I do sell any of my carts or systems, I will only sell to true collectors that
will preserve them.
Rick
Nz17 (06-23-2018)
It's just going to get more and MORE expensive. I'm thinking of buying a complete copy off ebay as an investment at this point.
Amazing game + amazing packaging + guaranteed to never be re-released + unreleased fantranslated sequel = Ultimate collectors item
Yeah, I'm watching one on ebay right now and it just keeps jumping up higher. It's at $74 shipped for cart only with a couple hours left.
I remember when Earthbound was $30-40 cart only and ~$100 complete five years ago. Price has risen quite a bit.
It's a decent game but it's extremely overrated. The game is just a Dragon Quest title with a real world setting. It's mainly such a highly rated game due to word of mouth, mostly from people who haven't even played the game. Being a character on Super Smash Bros, Melee, and Brawl gave the game more fans.
Good game + amazing packaging + guaranteed to never be re-released + overrated Nintendo property = fairly expensive collectors item
Last edited by kupomogli; 08-06-2010 at 11:33 PM.
Everything in the above post is opinion unless stated otherwise.
Where would you rank it among other SNES RPG's?
There really aren't too many SNES RPGs but I'd say about half of all that I've played I'd recommend over Earthbound.
Everything in the above post is opinion unless stated otherwise.
The GBA port from 7 years ago and it's inclusion as a Virtual Console demo in Japan on Super Smash Brothers sure cast doubt that's guaranteed to never see rerelease.
It already has once and seemingly got close to it a second time in just the past few years. I don't think it's going to stay dormant forever.
You forgot about the bizarro and equally touching script. That's another thing that set it apart from other RPGs, at least in my eyes. I find EB a wonderful title, but have failed to place it on a holy platform of untouchableness. That would reek of Final Fantasy VII syndrome. :/
In Heaven, everything is fine.
And let's not forget the thoroughly kickass music. I put the game right up there with Chrono Trigger - but CT is more accessible, game-wise.
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