(Played Earthbound for the first time extremely recently. One of the few games I'd be pretentious enough to call a true work of art, for a number of reasons.)
Absotively. There's a reason that upon a single playing, I am confident in calling it one of the games that heavily affected me and one of the games that can be claimed to step above mere candy. There's a lot to it, a lot of emergent meaning.
I've always been tempted to put together a hack that increases gained experience (and reduces random encounters) by about three to five times to speed the thing up, so I can point people at the modded version and say, "There. Play the quick version, but damn it, experience it."
That would be an admirable project, and I hope you do it. I played with a friend who was willing to sit down with me and guide me through some of the harder parts just to have me experience the game, and I'm hugely grateful for having been given that. It's a game I would never have really thought to play on my own (I'm an RPG fan, but not so much for the kind of setting the game has, typically), yet now I have, every time I hear of someone who's an RPG fan and hasn't played it, I'm like "...why the heck not?"
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Date: 2008-07-20 12:44 am (UTC)(Played Earthbound for the first time extremely recently. One of the few games I'd be pretentious enough to call a true work of art, for a number of reasons.)
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Date: 2008-07-20 02:09 am (UTC)I've always been tempted to put together a hack that increases gained experience (and reduces random encounters) by about three to five times to speed the thing up, so I can point people at the modded version and say, "There. Play the quick version, but damn it, experience it."
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