### I'm late to the afterparty!
Reading all of this thread in one blast knocked the wind out of me.
This is the first year where I stopped voting with 100% sincerity and began going for the obscure faves. And yet, my top picks from two years ago are mostly there. Next year my choices will be influenced by these results... if I remember, which I won't-- which means next year it's time to go off the deep end and turn it up to eleven.
I never asked for EB to hit the tippity top, this whiplash is so painful!! hahaha I didn't ask for this hahhaha
What was once the obscure underdog is now the mainstream top pick of the alternatives. Earhtbound is now likened to *HOT TOPIC* t-shirts wall, *apropriately*, beside _Green Day_ and _The Who_, _The Beatles Revolver._
As someone who feels *guilt* when I win a single round of SSB or any fighting game, I can only vote masochistically from now on.
My knee jerk reaction is then an self conscious ego-check. Is it a sign of Treefroggy brainrot seeping through the forum? is it egotistical to assume any cult of personality? do I take up too much space on the forum??
### a round of tequila shots on me for everyone who voted *Earthbound*! it's Mommy's Mojito Time!
Alright time to get sloppy
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Instead of over-explaining I think one can only describe earthbound's truest value as *a spiritual experience*,
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@“yeso”#p127132 sappy.
exactly.
It's what some call *Schmaltz*. That's the separating factor. It's from a love of *Michael Landon* type schmatlziness, which is like the closest western culture got to Hayao Miyazaki's idealistic crusade of sincerity.
I'm nearly wrung dry of beating the earthbound drum. I already was when I came here, then I made a huge thread about it. if don't like earthbound, it'll give you a clearer image of exactly why. go skim that --[ just look at the pictures](https://forums.insertcredit.com/d/673-mother-like-games-with-twin-peaks-sprinkled-on-top/101).
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Sentiment is the most powerful means of introducing new ideas … what the world desperately needs is an outstanding personality that can use the arts to lift up humanity in love and equality … the greatest problem holding humans back is racism
The term "Michael Landon Schmaltz" has been used in a way that belittles the sentiments that are exactly what we need to move forward as a society. **_IMHO_**
MOTHER invokes the sentiments of MLK, John Lennon, Michael Landon. **It was the first game where you beat klansmen to a pulp**. It succeeded in getting the message out through the medium of video games to some people, and failed with others. It's the **Jesus Christ Superstar of video games.**
So what first seemed like a larger than life "answer to the mysteries of the universe" in video game form is now just a coming of age stepping stone for the younger me. **It is the Burning Man for video gamers, you go there to wake up. You pay to have the experience. It's still a commercial experience, a shadow of real life experience.**
### moving on,
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@“yeso”#p126698 2004 was the average year of release
We somehow averaged to the year of climax of video games as we know it.
And by climax, I do not mean the highest point, but the beginning of the end. the last highest point.
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@“MovingCastles”#p126797 one year I want to see Goemon 64 on a list.
I'm super down for this, but my vote is with Goemon's Great Adventure, not Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon. But that kind of attitude is what will keep goemon off the list forever...
@"captain"#p127015 In recent endless Dark Souls datamining news, Lost Izalith makes so much more sense as a deeper swamp, and I'm looking forward to the mod that makes it as such. Will be quite a trip, much more beautiful and fun imho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opRvPILuBkg
Interesting that it would seem like they just said "fuck it, make izalith a hellfire biome". That is all I have to say about Dark Souls because _similar to Earthbound, I am fucking burnt out from talking about it so much._
I'm putting this here, now, instead of like, apple notes app, and it's totally fine because I will probably forget it's here anyway:
Chulip
No More Heroes
Goemon's Great Adventure
Legend of the River King
### _Syvalion_
Gomola Speed
Tengai Makyou**
**I haven't played this game but I am totally behind it as the unsung [in the english speaking world] AAA RPG of the era. the insert credditor's post completely changed my life. Was it a post by @"◉◉maru"#146 ?
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