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Majora on 25 January 2013
Horrorfest said:
badgenome said:
Horrorfest said:

Surely you must be kidding. Are you trying to argue SNES games look better? I could say this same thing but replace PS1 with SNES. Only a few SNES games still look good even today. They are aged 2D games with low quality graphics. Most of the best PS1 games look great today. RE2 and 3 have aged very well. The FF games still look great. PS1 games look awesome on my HDTV. 

I assure you, I have never serious'd moar in my entire life. I own no shortage of PS1 classics, and it has been horrifying to realize that many of my favorite PS1 games have looked and played like absolute garbage this whole time.

You should probably upgrade to a nice TV. It's not the games' fault you have a bad TV. I hear a lot of people say FFVII has aged bad. I would like a remake as much as anyone but it still looks good today, it was released in what 97? It looks AMAZING for it's time. I started off playing that on a standard def TV and I upgraded to a nice big 44 inch 1080p LG TV. It looks literally 10x better on it. I didn't even know that PS3 upgrades old games. I can assure everyone it does. Even Silent Hill with all of it's frustrating controls and animation does look good. Incredible environment detail for it's time and even today. 

Umm I have a 47" Full HD 3D LED TV and FFVII looks hideous. Just no it's not a good looking game. Just ugly. It doesn't look AMAZING for its time at all, many N64 titles look fantastic compared to a lot of PS1 games.



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fedfed on 25 January 2013
RolStoppable said:
badgenome said:
Given how poorly most PS1 games have aged, I'd much rather play an SNES game any day. So, if anything, they're underpriced.

I was going to say this...


Me too!



Switch!!!

UnknownFact on 25 January 2013
Soundwave said:

Nintendo's whole VC is a ripoff.

Crap pricing, no account tied system, you have to pay a fee to download the same game you bought on Wii VC for Wii U VC, no ability to reassign buttons (which PSP/PS3/Vita allow), and painfully slow trod release schedule which now we'll have to start from scratch with on the Wii U.

3DS VC selection is pitiful as well, more than one year on.

The dumbest part is their back catalog should be a huge advantage that they have over Sony/MS, but the way they handle their VC is so anti-consumer that it turns just about everyone off from it.

Ah, so sad to learn about this.



cannonballZ on 25 January 2013

I find no problem with price. I thought the prices were alright. Not enough selection yet though.



Screamapillar on 25 January 2013

It costs money to add Off-TV play and Miiverse integration and debug the game to make sure it runs before just throwing it out on the market without any testing. So to say they don't need to charge that much because all they do is add new controls isn't correct at all.  Hence, they're releasing one game per month and not launching the Wii U VC until the spring.  Even then, they'll only have a limited selection as these games have to be tweaked, tested, and added-to all over again. 

$1 or a $1.50 to re-download a VC game that you bought five or six years ago seems like a bargain to me, with all the new features they're adding to Wii U versions of these games.



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Joaco <3 N64 on 25 January 2013

The prices are all right.



TheLastStarFighter on 25 January 2013

Meh, it's about value, not what system or how old a game is. Classic NES and SNES games have value. If people will buy them, they are priced right. Personally, 10 bucks or less for any classic game fine by me, $5 is ideal.

As most have said here though, those early 2D games have aged better than early polygon games. A game like MarioWorld or Donkey Kong Country is still quite pretty to look at, at the gameplay-focus of 2D games tends to hold up better than a lot of 3D style play. And the Nintendo systems have some real pieces of gaming history. PS1 not so much. Spyro or Crash and others have no where near the legacy of Mario or Zelda. Though I would pay upwards of $20 for the PS1 Final Fantasies.



miz1q2w3e on 25 January 2013
Jumpin said:

I've been gaming for quite a while, I have no problem with graphics on NES, SNES, or PSX. In fact, usually when a remake comes around I feel like an old classic work of art has been tainted.

I am sure there are some cases where I would feel otherwise, but certainly not for the most part.

Also, on prices of old games, I really have no quarrel with them. The lower the price, the lower the time I take to consider making the purchase. I mean, a single play at a videogaming arcade costs more than some of the deals Nintendo is offering now.

Just so long as they fix the refresh rate.

Ah, I know that feel.



Skeeuk on 25 January 2013

i think £1.99 for a nes game and £2.99 for a snes game



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Naum on 25 January 2013

Well if you don't want to buy them digitaly you can always buy the physical thing but then you better be prepared to pay 20-50$ or even more for it some game can cost up to several hundred $



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