Mother, there is hope.

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Kasz216 said:

feel like they'd lose out on some sales there, what with the fan made patch already out.

Haven't personally played it but i'm sure most of the core has.

Mother 4 though... i'd be all over that.

Earthbound was one of those games i always regretted not being able to get when my videostore closed down and sold there stock.  (Having come across it via rental long after it was out of print at Toys R Us.  My videogame shop as a kid.)

Mother 3 is the best JRPG I've played in the past five or seven years, bar none, no questions asked, and everyone who disagrees can eat a brick.

I bought the Japanese version of the game, played the fan translation, and I would not only buy an English release, I would buy it for my friends who I think might enjoy it. I have the disposable income to do that now, and I enjoy the game that much. A Mother Collection on 3DS would just blow me the Hell away.

But I don't think it's ever going to happen.

And we're not getting a Mother 4 - leastways, not from Itoi.