Is Earthbound really worth it?

[skaar]

I have no complaints about paying what used to be retail price for a game years later - especially when I now have a job and can afford it.

Paying $80 for a game used to be normal back in the day, especially an RPG. Yes it's years later, but the price is not totally unreasonable. I'd argue it's a better use of the $80 than some FPS game that'll devalue and be in the bargain bin 6 months later.

I paid a little over $200 for my CIB Earthbound off Kitsune awhile back. That was more than retail price, and it's probably the only time I've done something like that. I'm still happy with the purchase.

[FantasiaWHT]

This is how I approach classic and expensive games. If I want to play it, I buy it, regardless of what it costs me up front. When I'm done, I sell it, probably at roughly the same price I bought it, and I've spent virtually nothing to play this game.

[ubersaurus]

Awesome game, and one of my fav RPGs solely because of the atmosphere of weirdness. Though I have to admit, once you get to Deep Darkness it starts to fizzle for me just because it stops being AS bizarre as the first chunk of the game is.

Considering I've had it since it came out, and it was what, 80 bucks then? It's worth it.

[alexander4488]

I'm not a big fan of RPG games. Find them too slow. But even I acknowledge Earthbound to be a high quality RPG game and should not be missed... Even for $70...