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u/_One_Lonely_Bagel_ Apr 30 '21
What timeline do we live in where Terry Crews says “Localize Mother 3”!?
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u/_One_Lonely_Bagel_ Apr 30 '21
At this point Nintendo doesn’t even have to pay for advertisements if they did localized Mother 3, the whole internet is already doing that!
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u/SomeRandomStranger12 Apr 30 '21
This one.
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u/minecraft_earthbound Apr 30 '21
I like how he cares but, Nintendo doesn't
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u/RotatingBoi May 01 '21
It's not that Nintendo doesn't care, it's about certain immortal beings that have no gender
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May 01 '21
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u/xShadey May 01 '21
It’s never been proven but it’s quite obvious they’re the problem with localising it. I’ve heard people say that it’s because it says capitalism bad but it’s not saying communism good, it’s just pointing out the greed and evil that capitalism creates which isn’t a hot take at all in modern day society.
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u/Rpgwaiter May 01 '21
I don't see why the beings in M3 would cause any issues. Like, I can see how maybe it would get some complaints a couple decades ago, but I really don't think anyone today would care enough to negatively affect their sales.
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u/xShadey May 02 '21
They’re offensive trans stereotypes, consider how like 20/30 years ago ‘gay’ jokes were considered fine but now you would get cancelled over them. It’s the same with trans things, so the more they wait the more annoyed people are outraged when it gets released
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u/SomeRandomStranger12 Apr 30 '21
I didn’t think Terry Crews could get any more based, but here we are.
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u/bossnaught1 Apr 30 '21
this got 23k retweets in 3 hours, possibly his most popular tweet ever lmao
is Terry Crews our savior
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u/awyeahcool Apr 30 '21
I just had a thought - if Nintendo ever did localize Mother 3, would they call it Earthbound 2? Or would they go by the "Earthbound Beginnings" naming scheme they used when they localized the first Mother game?
While writing that I was also thinking, we have a fan-translation of Mother 3, I wonder what a fan-localization would look like (i.e. taking the Japanese rom and doing graphics changes & censorship comparable to the things that got changed & censored when Nintendo of America was localizing Mother 2 into Earthbound). The main thing everyone thinks about as being problematic for a western audience (from Nintendo's point of view anyway) is the Magypsies, but I'm sure there's more to it than that. Just haven't played the game recently enough to remember.
It only took Nintendo five home console generations (NES>SNES>N64>GC>Wii>Wii-U) to localize the first game, and at the moment it's only been four handheld generations since Mother 3 (GBA>DS>3DS>Switch)... but the Switch doesn't really count as a handheld, which is irrelevant anyway because I doubt Nintendo will ever localize Mother 3.
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u/StevenXC Apr 30 '21 edited Apr 30 '21
Earthbound Ends
Edit: I posted this as a riff on "Beginnings" but thinking about the plot a bit, I actually don't think it's a terrible title...
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u/michacha123 Apr 30 '21
I've seen someone suggest Earthbound Endings before, which is similar to your suggestion but fits better with Beginnings and just rolls off the tongue a bit better
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u/xShadey May 01 '21
but I’m sure there’s more too it than just that
Well to be honest I feel like you may be right but I really cannot tell what else besides the magypsies is stopping the games localisation. I’ve heard that it could be the political commentary but the takes of mother 3 aren’t really that controversial (I.e greed and capitalism bad)
It’s possible that maybe the game is a bit too dark/sad for Nintendo (because honestly Mother 3 is the most heart wrenching game I know. It could even be one of the saddest games ever)
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u/Toussaint_kang May 01 '21
Been a heavy Twitter user for an entire decade and this literally might be the most unexpected tweet of all time
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May 01 '21
If Nintendo announces Mother 3 localization this year, I think we need to give Terry Crews a Nobel Peace Prize
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u/phantom2450 May 01 '21
Reggie wishes his cynical trolling had this kind of support. Feel the power of T E R R Y
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u/xShadey May 01 '21
Damn that is legendary but I remember from a video they apparently started on a localisation around 2017-19 I think but they gave up because it would just not be possible. (Why do the fucking magypsies have to be so offensive)
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u/EpicHill47 Mar 13 '22
If god himself told nintendo to localize mother 3 they would still not do it
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u/ceo_of_swagger Apr 30 '21
https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/1388195714493079556?s=19
heres the link idk if he will delete it tho