The "Mother" series

These games are fantastic!, playing them will make you smile and sometimes cry. Mother 2's gotta be my favorite but playing mother 3 is real close with the added nostalgia of things they reference in there. BOING.

I'm aware of the series, but despite trying both the second and third games through emulation, I couldn't really spark an interest in them.

Shouldn't they localise the Mother series if they added characters from it to SSBB, despite most people having never heard of them before - eg. Lucas?

I've heard of the game Earthbound but haven't played it. Thanks for the daily dose of game trivia.

Makes me want to bust out my SNES and play me some earthbound!

I love three the most followed closely by 2.

I loved the games, but I'm not happy that the developers didn't have the common sense to realize that maybe, just maybe, using copyrighted work (to the point where the Brawl remix team didn't catch that Porky's theme intro uses the same melody as the intro of the Godzilla theme) in their games might not bode well with American and European companies.

I'm playing Earthbound right now on my PSP SNES emulator. I never finished it for the longest time because I knew it was a long game. I started it up again a month ago and still playing it here and there during breaks and commutes. I'm finally near the end of the game now that I'm at Magicant.

Probably after the game; I'll download the mother 3 rom and the english translation patch. I'll play it on PSP GBA emulator.

I never tried Earthbound Zero (mother 1). Heard it's hard and really badly polished compared to earthbound. It's like going back in time.

I always wanted to play these games, but the way the combat is, just watching still images where your characters aren't even shown... I don't know, it just pulls me back.

pley dis if u cri evritime :'(

I love Mother 2, my favourite JRPG of all time. The first one isn't so good but it's interesting. Have yet to play the third...

Nothing has ever come close to matching the unique style and charm that Earthbound has. It's one-of-a-kind amazing game. If not for Chrono Trigger it would probably be my favorite RPG ever.

And if you've ever played Earthbound you should probably seek out the excellent fan translation and play Mother 3. Not as good, but still fantastic and charming, and way better than most RPGs that I've played in my lifetime.

Earthbound was probably my favorite out of them. Mother was a little too archaic for me and mother 3 just wasn't the same. 'Poo gains PP by drinking water!' still makes me giggle.

This one of the games I really wanted to try for a long time.

EDIT: And speaking of GBA games, anyone played Riviera: The Promised Land?

Isn't Mother 1+2 just a collection with Mother 1 and Mother 2?
Yeah, I never played any of them, but I plan to! It's just that my backlog is enormous. I'm playing HL and HL2 mods on Steam right now, Okami on PS2, Parasite Eve on PS1, MGS4 and Demon's Souls on PS3 and a ton of Zelda games on Wii. I want to play through all the Zelda games first before I start playing another series on a Nintendo system. So it will take some time till I get to the Mother series. Oh and The Walking Dead on Steam, before everything else I have to play this!

Mother 3 is the best by quite a lot for me (because of the storytelling), but Earthbound is great too. I don't like the combat in any of them, and the graphics in Earthbound just seemed awful to me for quite a while before I developed a taste for them. The games mostly win affection based on their charm and ability to evoke empathy rather than their gameplay. I never tried the first, due to lack of interest based on what I've read about it.