Resident_Hazard said:
What's a Dragon Quest? Oh right, that franchise I started playing way back on the NES when it was called Dragon Warrior in the Us. Nintendo's more numerous franchises mean more fodder for remaking, rereleasing, revamping. And Nintendo does it all in spades. Yeah, I missed Dragon Quest--so chalk that up with Final Fantasy and the couple times Chrono Trigger has been released. That's still way less than Super Mario Bros appearing on no fewer than four Nintendo systems. The NES and SNES Kirby games being remade and released a couple times each. Link to the Past, Link's Awakening--Hell, every pre-GameCube Zelda game has appeared on three or four consoles. The 3DS marks the fourth time in three generations that Ocarina of Time will be released. Or is it the fifth? Let's see here: N64, N64-DD (Japan), GameCube (OoT set), GameCube again (Zelda Collection), Wii, 3DS. Fuck, sixth. How many Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest games have been released six fucking times? And if they have, they certainly haven't been released that much in the span of three generations! Nintendo is averaging 2 Ocarina of Time releases per generation these days! Seriously, who the fuck hasn't played that game to death by now?? Zelda 1: NES, Game Boy Advance, GameCube, Wii. And come now, Nintendo just released an SNES game for the Wii--and it's a retail package! You'd think for Mario's 25th Anniversary they'd do a little more than just port an SNES game like it's a new title. They could've, at the very least, put the SNES and N64 Mario games in there. Maybe the first two Mario Land titles. But to simply port Super Mario All-Stars? That's pretty lame. The Game Boy Advance and DS were both used as platforms to simply port generation-old titles for full price--mostly to people who already had the damn things. |
I played it to death.....but then a little fairy flew over to the game, sprinkeled some fairy dust on it, and brought Ocarina of Time back to life!
I pretty much agree with your entire post but for the life of me, I can't stop being hyped for the re-releases and I can't stop buying them!! And All-Stars is a bare bones package, but it's not too expensive (compared to downloading from the VC) so I don't mind too much. Then again, we have Sonic/Genesis/Capcom/Konami collections that offer tons and tons more content. Hell, even the Metroid Prime Trilogy offered more than a few MB of memory on a disc. They probably could have fit every single Mario game released from Donkey Kong to Sunshine on that disc with room to spare.
But I'm getting the ones I want (except Yoshi's Island) for a price that's not too hard to swallow. And I've seen downloadable games like Plants vs. Zombies (Xbox 360 Disc version) retailing for $19 at Gamestop. I guess you have to pick your battles. This one wasn't enough to ruffle my feathers.
