MOTHER 4 announced...

Regulus Tera · 10-21-2010, 09:06 AM

...as a fangame.

Quote:

If Mother won�t come to the mountain, the people will move the mountain to Mother. Or something.

Some Mother fans has taken it upon themselves to make Mother 4, as you can see on TheKartel.

To cut a very long story short, the third game in the RPG series was never released outside Japan, although it did get a fan translation. Mother 2 was released as Earthbound in the west.

Obviously, the game has nothing to do with Nintendo or series creator Shigesato Itoi. Which means it�ll probably be closed down by Nintendo next week, but what the hey.Mother 4, if it ever gets that far, is likely to be released on PC for free. There�s no date.Via Kotaku and GoNintendo.Posted in: Nintendo, RPG

Fucking MOTHER fans, why would you do this?

Kim · 10-21-2010, 09:10 AM

Because they're fucking idiots.

I mean, there's a lot of hubris or stupidity coming from these people if they think they can put together something that is even halfway decent enough to be called Mother 4.

Regulus Tera · 10-21-2010, 09:26 AM

Obviously this is all a clever ploy by the Starmen.net people. Their plan is to get taken to court. Some representative of Nintendo will be at that trial. They will use their time in the courtroom to present to Nintendo a comprehensive case for why they should make Mother 4. They will bring hardback professionally bound books, vinyl albums of fan remixed Mother music, and hundreds of Mr. Saturn plushes.

In their mind there is no way Nintendo could ignore such a pitch.

**Satan's Onion** · 10-21-2010, 09:34 AM

This sounds awful. Nothing good can come of this.
Regulus, your link's wonky; it has an extra http in it which screws it up.
Also, you want me to slap a thread tag on this mofo? I can think of one or two possibly appropriate ones.
I reiterate: This sounds awful on every level.

Regulus Tera · 10-21-2010, 09:40 AM

Yes please. Goddamn my brain actually hurts after this.

**Satan's Onion** · 10-21-2010, 09:46 AM

Done! I used Warbot because we don't yet have a specific tag for "sad things which inflict trepidation and despair".

Roland · 10-21-2010, 10:41 AM

I remember reading an interview with Itoi sometime back where he said that while he personally wasn't going to work on any more Mother games, he encouraged pretty much anyone who wanted to do so... to do so.

So I don't have any particular problems with fans making Mother 4. So long as it doesn't turn out to be a clusterfuck of contextless Mother references it could... oh who am I kidding? That's probably what it's going to be.

On a more serious note, this is something I just asked myself: Why a Mother fan game instead of an original work? The term "spiritual successor" comes to mind.

Regulus Tera · 10-21-2010, 10:44 AM

Even Nintendo isn't arrogant enough to try to do a Mother sequel without Itoi.

Yes, that is literally the first time in human history the words 'Even', 'Nintendo', 'isn't', 'arrogant', and 'enough' have ever followed each other in sequence. That should tell you how heavy this is.

Donomni · 10-21-2010, 01:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Regulus Tera

Obviously this is all a clever ploy by the Starmen.net people. Their plan is to get taken to court. Some representative of Nintendo will be at that trial. They will use their time in the courtroom to present to Nintendo a comprehensive case for why they should make Mother 4. They will bring hardback professionally bound books, vinyl albums of fan remixed Mother music, and hundreds of Mr. Saturn plushes.

In their mind there is no way Nintendo could ignore such a pitch.

The thing is, I can actually see this happening. Either that or yet another desperate attempt to bring over an official US release of Mother 3 or something like that.

Again, not really a sound plan, but these guys are... dedicated enough to pull such a stunt.

But yeah, I wouldn't really mind if they actually made a fan-game(Or just a similar, but not fan-game game), but calling it Mother 4 is arrogant as hell.

Kim · 10-21-2010, 02:07 PM

The Underside

It's heavily inspired by Earthbound and Cave Story, to the point that it even uses some sound files from the games, but it's still clearly its own thing, doesn't claim to be the next Cave Story/Earthbound, and best of all is from a person who has made fan games before that were actually good.

As far as I know, these arrogant Mother 4 people haven't made anything before. At least, they haven't made anything I've heard of. Correct me if I'm wrong.

10-21-2010, 09:10 AM	#2
Kim adorable Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 12,950	Because they're fucking idiots. I mean, there's a lot of hubris or stupidity coming from these people if they think they can put together something that is even halfway decent enough to be called Mother 4. __________________ this post is about how to successfully H the Kimmy Last edited by Kim; 10-21-2010 at 09:13 AM.

10-21-2010, 09:34 AM	#4
Satan's Onion Swing You Sinners! Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: 4th Street Posts: 2,666	Four items. This sounds awful. Nothing good can come of this. Regulus, your link's wonky; it has an extra http in it which screws it up. Also, you want me to slap a thread tag on this mofo? I can think of one or two possibly appropriate ones. I reiterate: This sounds awful on every level. __________________ Good evening, ladies. Please enter and be tained .

10-21-2010, 09:46 AM	#6
Satan's Onion Swing You Sinners! Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: 4th Street Posts: 2,666	You know, maybe we need a tag like that. Done! I used Warbot because we don't yet have a specific tag for "sad things which inflict trepidation and despair". __________________ Good evening, ladies. Please enter and be tained . Last edited by Satan's Onion; 10-21-2010 at 09:47 AM. Reason: my title

10-21-2010, 02:07 PM	#10
Kim adorable Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 12,950	The Underside It's heavily inspired by Earthbound and Cave Story, to the point that it even uses some sound files from the games, but it's still clearly its own thing, doesn't claim to be the next Cave Story/Earthbound, and best of all is from a person who has made fan games before that were actually good. As far as I know, these arrogant Mother 4 people haven't made anything before. At least, they haven't made anything I've heard of. Correct me if I'm wrong. __________________ this post is about how to successfully H the Kimmy

10-21-2010, 09:26 AM	#3
Regulus Tera lol i dont even know Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 7,271	Obviously this is all a clever ploy by the Starmen.net people. Their plan is to get taken to court. Some representative of Nintendo will be at that trial. They will use their time in the courtroom to present to Nintendo a comprehensive case for why they should make Mother 4. They will bring hardback professionally bound books, vinyl albums of fan remixed Mother music, and hundreds of Mr. Saturn plushes. In their mind there is no way Nintendo could ignore such a pitch.

10-21-2010, 09:40 AM	#5
Regulus Tera lol i dont even know Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 7,271	Yes please. Goddamn my brain actually hurts after this.

10-21-2010, 10:41 AM	#7
Roland Professional Layabout Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: A desert on and surrounded by mountains. Posts: 722	I remember reading an interview with Itoi sometime back where he said that while he personally wasn't going to work on any more Mother games, he encouraged pretty much anyone who wanted to do so... to do so. So I don't have any particular problems with fans making Mother 4. So long as it doesn't turn out to be a clusterfuck of contextless Mother references it could... oh who am I kidding? That's probably what it's going to be. On a more serious note, this is something I just asked myself: Why a Mother fan game instead of an original work? The term "spiritual successor" comes to mind.

10-21-2010, 10:44 AM	#8
Regulus Tera lol i dont even know Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 7,271	Even Nintendo isn't arrogant enough to try to do a Mother sequel without Itoi. Yes, that is literally the first time in human history the words 'Even', 'Nintendo', 'isn't', 'arrogant', and 'enough' have ever followed each other in sequence. That should tell you how heavy this is.