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Aww, oh well. It's not like the fake X form looked THAT much less dumb than the legit form - Mewtwo is still the best. I really wish people wouldn't try to make fakes to start rumors.

And yeah, but the way people are incessently rabid about Earthbound (as opposed to any other thing that doesn't get released here, period) - is too much. I mean, it's incredibly, incredibly easy to get all three games for free and play them on your computer. I wouldn't even REALLY call it pirating at this point because Nintendo doesn't care enough to (or can't, probably) release it here. They don't care whether we buy it. Itoi himself doesn't really seem to care much about the series anymore either. The message I'm getting from them is pretty much, "go ahead, pirate it, we implore you." So I mean, it's not REALLY that big of a deal that people need to be spamming up the Miiverse and badgering Nintendo and crying. Nintendo knows. I can sort of understand wishing to have physical copies of the game, but if they do release them it's only going to be digital on the Virtual Console anyway. And it's not going to make the games any better than they already are. In Mother 2's case, they might have to make it worse because of copyright issues.

But anyway, my point is that I don't like how much other people's opinions have to matter. A stupid reviewer could label a game with a number and it might change your mind about it when it turns out you'd actually LOVE it, or vice versa. I could like Earthbound or Ocarina of Time and be stigmatized for it because "EVERYONE thinks those games are the BEST when they're really not so you must be one of THOSE PEOPLE if you like it!!!"

I don't think pirating is really wrong if a game is out of print. The company has given up on making a profit of it, and ******** resellers. Who cares about those people? I never sell my games.

Jeez. People who are not gamers can be kinda boring.

I'm not sure where you're getting that Itoi doesn't care about EB anymore. He's not planning Mother 4, but he seemed to be pretty involved with the VC release of EarthBound in Japan last month. That's probably why you're seeing lots of people on the Miiverse asking about it too; there's a recent release to rally around.

Where do physical copies or extras factor in? A super nice updated Mother Trilogy release would be amazing, but I think most of the fanbase realizes that that isn't happening and would be fine with simple VC ports of the games.

At least speaking personally, I don't see 'you can download and play all of the games in English' as really being equal to an official release. I completely understand people being fine with pirating games that are long out of print (it doesn't bother me either) and I'd certainly take that over nothing, but I'd like the ability to "upgrade" to a legal release at some point. If I liked the game so much, I want to show my appreciation to the people behind it.



I disagree about a reviewer changing your opinion being a bad thing. If just looking at the final score changes your feelings about a game then you probably didn't have very strong feelings about the game to begin with. However, if the reviewer writes a review that is well thought out and addresses some aspect of the game in a way that you hadn't considered, and you think about it and change your opinion as a result, I don't see that as a bad thing. Discussion of something affects your feelings about it, even if it just strengthens your existing opinions.

I do agree that crazy fans can be really annoying though.

Well, I got into the beta for the new (bleeep) MMO
Goodbye life.

Nah I got s**t to do... but... not right now. So I guess I can play a little... *plays well into tomorrow*

what about fans of the classic kid icarus games?

Yes, but the quirk, dude. The quirk.