
April 15th, 2008 | Interviews, Itoi, MOTHER 4
People ask every once in a while about there possibly being a MOTHER 4, so I decided I’d put together some info here for easy reference. If you see anyone asking about it, just point them here!
First, there’s this video. It was from the live online chat thing Itoi held the night before MOTHER 3’s release in 2006. In it, he says that there won’t be a MOTHER 4.
However, a few months later, in a really awesome and long Nintendo Dream interview, the following exchange took place on the topic of MOTHER 3. (see bottom of page here)
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– So let’s make a MOTHER 4, then!
Itoi: (makes a pu sound with his mouth, then laughs) Just making MOTHER 3 was already tough enough for me!
– But when you were working on MOTHER 2, ideas for MOTHER 3 sprouted in your mind, right? So some ideas for a MOTHER 4 have certainly sprouted this time around too, right?
Itoi: I just want to be the player now. (laughs)
– But there are already tons of other games out there you can enjoy from the player’s perspective.
Itoi: What I mean is, if someone were to come up to me and say, “I’d like to make a MOTHER 4,” I might just say, “Sure, go ahead!” (laugh) Yeah, if there was a MOTHER 4, I’d really love to play it.
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EDIT (June 27, 2008): I forgot to mention that in one of the earliest interviews (he posted it the day M3 was released), he also says there won’t be a fourth game. Note that the quote above comes from an interview some months later, so there’s still a chance there could be a fourth game, just not made by him directly. Anyway, here’s the small snippet about MOTHER 4:
– Do you think you’ll make any more games after this?
Itoi: (laugh)
– (laugh)
Itoi: There won’t be a MOTHER 4.
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There’s been nothing hinted at since that I’m aware of, so for now, a MOTHER 4 will remain an elusive dream for those who want more.
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91 Comments to Info on MOTHER 4
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| night said on Jan. 13, 2009 |
I thought that for sure there was going to be a MOTHER 4 because when you beat MOTHER 3 the screen says “END?” it says end with a question mark! I was getting so happy because i thought there was gonna be a MOTHER 4. My dreams are ruined!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE MAKE MOTHER 4 ITOI!!! PLEASE!!!!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!!
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| Sconner said on Feb. 17, 2009 |
I think the 4th one should be for the DSi and the main character would be Sid like Ness and SNES. Sid sounds like a good name too doesn’t it? There should be new pk moves like dark, aura, light, surf, earth, and others.
Altough this has nothing to do with Mother 4 but have you heard of a fan fic called “Ultima the Crossing of the Universes”? well Ness and Lucas are in it with other characters from various cartoons,video games and movies. They appear in Chapter 22 of the story. You Mother fans should check it out on FanFiction.Net, that is all, one last thing Aidan must say, Eh eh ehhh! and Fuzzy Pickles! Tee Hee!
Aw man this sucks mother 3 was amazing, and now this… i really think the series is over…
Hey, if Itoi said he would let someone else make Mother4….Just saying, I’ve been writing an overview for a certain game for two days. It focuses on a teenage boy name NoA…I mean Noa and his three friends as they try to defeat a man named Aon or Manny, possessed by an evil golden statue that some fans may be familiar with. I just hope he’ll actually give me permission.
You know, Mato…
This could be crazy but…
…One day…several people of Starmen.net could work together TO MAKE a Mother 4.
…Could This be a possibility?
Yes, it possible. Go have a look at the Fan Games forum on Starmen.net.
i don’t think that itoi will stop making mother 4
if you think when metroid series “finished” someone said that there will not be Metroid
and look now there are many metroid games for gba,Ds,Wii & gamecube.
its over he made what he wanted nuff said he rather see someone else make it besides its a great game and milking it with other sequals would make it suck so be glad there were 3 good mother games cause he ended it the way he wanted and i rather it stay like that beside use your imagination
It is NOT done, there are many people studying to do this kind of stuff, maybe one of those will continue Mother, if he knows how to…
itoi stinks.i dont have 1 mother game but im dying to get 3.i think that earthboundcentral.com and all of us should make mother 4 where lucas ness ninten are on a team with rika from higurashi.we start off with rika and then porkey somehow finds here and sends here to ninten.they team up with ana for a little bit but then they find ness.but lets make the game challenging and LONG it is more fun if its long.
You could get MOTHER 3 on your computer if you’re dying to get it. Don’t torture yourself if you want it that bad. And if MOTHER 4 picks up around the same time as 3, then Ness and Ninten and everyone from MOTHER 1 and 2 except Porky and Dr. Andonuts (is that how you spell it) would be dead.
Higu… rashi? O.o I’m actually doing a Mother 4 game, but still long-way to be finished.
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| darkzzii said on Apr. 6, 2009 |
u know he whnts to play the game not make it so i say lets do it lets make a mother 4 for itoi get back to me at darksideofjosh@gmail.com if you want to help i get it
so Itoi wants to be the gamer. that makes sense because he makes the story behind the mother games, so he already knows whats gonna happen. so he wants to be player then, hmmmm. *mato that’s your cue*
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo more mother!
!!!!!!NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! MORE MOTHER !NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
M3’s composer did an extremely good job. He captured the spirit of the original Mother games, which he didn’t compose music for.
So if a different composer is able to accomplish that, I think a different game designer might also.
But I still have hope that Itoi will eventually get to making a new Mother game. Itoi gives me the impression that working on M3 was intense and tiresome; it’s only logical to reply with a firm no when posed with such a question just after M3 was done…
> There’s really nothing else in the series that could happen.
Oh, really?
well there sould be a mother 4 cause at the end of mother 3 there was and end with a questions mark
itoi would it help would it help you if we sent in comments sugestions to mother 4
if so why don’t hoever makes it make a story where nintin ness and lucas meet each other to defet a boss only those three commbied to beat
dude theres no evil left to fight giygas is dead poky(porky)is eternaly trapped so wat else HUH HU HUH?
just stating i dont hate mother 3 or earthbound
No evil left?
-Capsule expires/breaks despite confirmation…? No….
-Pokey was some random fat kid and became a villain with a little outside help–anyone else could do that, too.
-New alien, new galaxy….
-Crossovers? No….
-Plot that contains little/no evil? Wait, that would suck.
-Some random guy nearths a revival/timetravel tool to revive old evils
if there is a mother 4, what system will it be for? it be for the ds or wii, but nintendo might make something else just as they were working on it and then they might not release it in america again. and if they release it, do you think america will call it earthbound 2?
At Least It wont be a drawn out series like Mega Man and Final Fantasy. And maybe there will be a video game besides MOTHER. He did make a fishing game after he finished the first MOTHER game. Plus Nintendo Of America has been BADGERING Mr. Iwata for a MOTHER game. And they probably heard about MOTHER getting on Jones Soda bottles. So maybe we’ll get to have another
MOTHER game.
I think Itoi will make a new mother game…some time in 2010’s.
think about it, he made mother 1 in the 1980’s, and thats when the game takes place.
and he made mother 2 that came out in 1990’s, and again, the game takes place then.
And same thing with mother 3, he came out with that in 2000’s, and thats when the game takes place,
I think It’s possible he will make a new mother game. Just not for quite a while.
I can accept that fans love these games so much that they want a fourth, but do you really want Shigesato Itoi to focus the rest of his life on one gaming series?
That’s it. I’m not taking this crap from Itoi! I’m making mother 4 No joke. Excpect it to be in stores sometime in the future.
Taking what crap. Everybody bitched and moaned for the 3rd. you got it. now your just going to do the same thing. give the man a break. with all the imagination and talent over on starmen.net. i’m sure you guys could figure out how to make your own 4th game.
hello i am just a kid now but i want to grow up and go to colledge for graphic and proggraming disigning then if i can get itois permisson i can make mother 4 for you guys in about 11 years
forum.starmen.net/forum/Fan/Games/44663/first
Mother 4 fangame in the making.
You know I’ve been wondering for a long time the look on Itoi’s face looks suspicious to me at 0:02. What could he be up to?
Anyway Itoi’s mother games were great. It had funny, heartwarming, creativity in all the games. Even if the series is over I’ll try to get as much information as possible on Mother 4.
See ya ;]
9:03 Bad news everyone Itoi says the mother series is finished but the good news is the Starman.net team are working on a fan mother 4 game so its all good.
(I just hope its going to have Ness and Lucas in it Ness and Lucas rock) I will see you guys later !!
oH yEaH i FoRgOt To SaY tHiS
HeLlo. I fEeL gRoOvE i Mr SaTuRn BoInG !1
ITOI YOU LAZY BASTARD MAKE A MOTHER $ THE GAME ENDED WIDE OPEN FOR ANOTHER MOTHER GAME!!!
It may happen, but if it does Itoi needs to watch it closely so it doesn’t stray off to become FPS
I’ve already been working on MOTHER 4 for a while!
So far, it’s gonna include all the MOTHER 3 characters
(Lucas, Kumatora, Duster, Boney, Flint, Salsa) With
the addition of two new characters. The game takes place after the final needle gets pulled in M3. This
game is actually more like EB because there are several towns(referred to as towns in EB until i can think of some cool names). It’s gonna be on DS too! sadly, all
of my ideas remain on paper ’cause i don’t know how to make my own games… But one day i may ask for lots of people with good technical skills to help me
get the game started. I’m planning for the game to be very long for those of you who thought Mother3 was too short. And out of the two new characters, one of them will be able to use PSI! She’s more like a combination of Paula and Jeff because she’s very smart and can fix small machines like Jeff and like paula in that she’s actually the equivalant to Ness’s Paula and Ninten’s Ana. Yup, that’s right.
She’s Lucas’s girlfriend(since he was severely lacking one in M3) The other character…
well all i’ll say is that by looking at my user name, you can probably guess what it’s gonna be.
(He may not be able to use PSI though, I’m barely
just getting trough the first few parts of the game so PSI will be one of the last things i work on)
Even though I say that, I’ve got The ‘New Girl’s’ PSI completely finished. (I just need animations because her PSI is PK Beam and alot of other PSI’s from the original EB0) I’m planning for the game to have a party member system like Chrono Trigger, in which once you get over four party members, you’ll be able to configure your party to you liking.
As you can see, I’ve got the game pretty thought out, but i still need to actually get the game to a playable state. First, I’m gonna finish the story and THEN I’ll ask for technical help.
im planning to make a game for mr.saturn called THE ADVENTURES OF MR.SATURN!it will take place 10 years befor the start of the mother seirs and the main villan is gigues(did i spell that right?XD) in his from in m1 but i havent programed before and havent started yet so it might take long time!
one of you said that there are no evils left, well why not use other evils from other games zeromus???lavos???jenova???heck even black viper or red falcon from contra will do.
why:it has to be either against aliens (mother),or ultimate evil(mothers 2 and 3).
i am also thinking about revivng giugas.
giugas revived version 1:chrono trigger crossover-lavos goes back in time and brings giugas (from mother,not mother 2)to the present and crono,lucca,marle,frog and others notice lavos gone and go to the present too.this starts the adventures of -insert hero here- who gets a vision of giugas and lavos(blurred up)destroying earth.helpers could be chono t characthers.and maybe even ninten or ness could team up and help couse time travel.
giugas revival 2(no crossovers):the final needle is pulled but other than the events of mother 3 something else was released,giugas is deafeatedand has dissapeared for eternity but far away in a distant galaxy giugas race detect a outburst of power(from the needles)on earth their new leader-insert badass name here- is after the needles to steal their hidden powers:fire ice earth(ground,not the world)water air light and darkness (light being last couse it stops farkness from unleashing its full power)
the race (giugas race) leader possesing 6 nedlees
summons guigas (also from mother not mother 2) but using the light needle you beat the leader and then giugas. well these are my ideas for the future. crossovers are great but i only have 2 stories which i came up with.
Im going to (try) to make a 3d game called Mother Heros. Ninten, Ness, and Lucas will be in it, warped back in time to their 12 yr old selves. Also, a choosable 4th character can be chosen of Ana, Loid, Teddy, Paula, Jeff, Poo, Duster, Kumatora, Clause, and Boney. Why Clause? Because Lucas gets a wish, and it is that his mom is alive (YAH!) and also Claus (FIINALLY). The story is that Giygas apparently had a son (I’ll make up a name later), and he screws up Picky Minch’s mind (also young like Ninten, Ness), and he becomes evil! All the games’ worlds will be 3d and present, and there will be a new battle system!
no no more fan games
i hate them speacially Mother 4 the fan games
that is the same history of Mother 2!
Well with the way Mother 3 ended, I think the series was meant to be over and done with.
As discouraging as it is that Mother 4 won’t be happening, it’s good that Itoi isn’t trying to over milk the series.
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. itoi you son of a ……………………… bitch. sorry but is true.
mother3 ended with a wide open space for another game…. so make it alredy and be quick abaut it . im geting borred here. seriosly besides i miss it. realy badly. I LOVE IT SO MUCH. PLEASE I BEG YOU.
I hope Itoi’s son will make it man I NEED more Mother. Mother make ‘Me Happy’
i have a good story for mother 4. Dr andounuts finds Claus in the new earth (because of the Dragon) dr andounuts rebuilds Claus so hes even more half robot then he gives you your mask and yay your playing as the Masked Man you can shoot thunderbolts at enemies
and run away before they revive. you can also fly (like PK teleport) and theres 14 chapters oh and at below chapter three you hear sounds like “Claus s-save me please.” in 3 chapter you find lucas tied up in a cave! the work of none other than (porkey style music)Ray! Porkeys best friend from the past. when the new earth was made kindhearted peaple will have the miracle of life Ray was saved but, then he turned EVIL!!! and we make a little more detail and MOTHER 4
My wish this for this chirthmas is they make mother4 for the wii.im REALLLLY GETING BORED HERE ITOI IM MEAN SERIOSLY MAKE MOTHER4 THIS NOVEMBER AND BE QUICK ABUT IT.
AND HERE IAM STILL WATING FOR THE DAMM BASTARD ITOI TO MAKE IT……. HURRY UP AAALLLRRREEEEDDDYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Yes but its just pictures no real gameplay
(that I have seen) so its being worked on..slowly
but it looks cool and i can wait to play it.
Itoi wants us to drown… so he isn’t making Mother 4… where would we drown? in a pool of our own tears… i want my Mother…4…
there’s gonna be a game called The Another World that kinda looks like a Mother 4
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| Keiji Dragon / OKei said on Dec. 28, 2009 |
Why do people [still] expect him to make a MOTHER 4?
Hell, after spending 12-13 years trying to bring the story of MOTHER 3 outside of its development hell, wouldn’t you think he’d likely not want to make another MOTHER game? Honestly, if he’s done with ise series that’s his choice. He said that a MOTHER 4 was already “out of the question” far before we got the GBA version. He even just stated recently that he’s done with video games for good. I definitely wouldn’t blame him. He’s had a wonderful run, and he should get all the respect he deserves.
Now trying to bring MOTHER 1 & 3 to the western hemisphere, on the other hand…
Give the guy a break! He’s part of Nintendo, for giygas’ sake! He’s probably making some other game! If you want Mother 4, ask Shig-whatever Myamoto to make it!
And Itoi, if you’re reading this, I have played every single mother game.
Mother
Earthbound Zero
Mother 2
Earthbound
Mother 1+2
Mother 3 (English and Japanese)
Um.. guys… What’s that dark cloud coming this way?
IT’S MOTHER 3′S ENGLISH RELEASE!!!!
Oh…wait. Itoi hasn’t made an english release. MAKE ONE!
Holy crap, the fanboys are amazing.
Listen, Mother is finished. He said so himself. It was a very good series while it lasted, but evn for me, 3 is enough. I would love if they made a fourth, but he has given us something that many other developers never even attempt–closure. He straight told us there would be no more. Now we don’t have to wonder. Just let it go.
I mean, seriously, look at this stuff here. “At 0:02, he was looking suspicious”? WTF? For God sakes, you so called “fans” are pathetic. If it weren’t for him, there would be no Mother, and you would have never experienced the game, so be grateful to that.
Chaisu productions is making a mother 4 with all new characters and settings (and obviously, plot). I won’t spoil any big things but the two main characters are a young boy named Chase an his hardworking older brother named Zack. They haven’t finished, but on their website (sorry, I don’t have a link)you can see their progress and fan stuff. they will announce when it comes out when they’re near finished. If any info is wrong,(highly doubt it), then sorry.
I think there is going to be another Mother game. It could be Itoi’s story, but I’ve got a feeling Itoi might be the game tester. Let’s not lose hope…
Heck, I haven’t heard of the fan game, ghostgirl21696.
Thanks
I would really love another Mother. But the Mother 3 didn’t give a clue for next mother and it really didn’t have a villain that ended didn’t end up dying (except for Pokey but he’s trapped forever so he doesn’t count). So There might not be another one.
Frankly, the ending of Mother 3 was such that it would be pretty hard to make a direct sequel. If there was a M4, then it would be a prequel.
Frankly, I think that no sequel is sometimes better. Every story must end somewhere. There’s nothing worse than a story which doesn’t get a proper ending because everyone were unwilling to give it one.
A personal story. I’ve once partaken in a collaborative comic drawing project on a forum. Each person made a comic page, then another person made another one, etc. We had great fun, and told a story about heroes uniting to fight a villain. After many, many posts everything seemed wrapped up. The bad guy has been defeated by the heroes’ sly plan, all other problems have been dealt with…
…And then some oaf of a forumgoer decided “No, I want it to go on!” and introduced some cool new villain who was so much stronger than everyone else and unleashed his own wave of tyranny. Obviously the author hoped that this new villain would lengthen the story for another epic amount of posts, but instead everyone got all bored and left the project and the comic never got a proper ending.
I agree with JudgeDeadd, sometimes series are better off without a sequel. Of course, the sequels for Mother 1 were all awesome.
But, whatever. Itoi might change his mind sometime in the future, or maybe he might make an entirely new series altogether.
Who knows?
I’d Really like another EarthBound/Mother game.
Even if it has to take an extra two years for a English patch!
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