New controls maybe, but at the end of the day you're just playing the same game you played years ago all over again.  You're going through the same areas, fighting the same enemies, getting the same power-ups, facing the same challenges.  Remakes and combination packages need to be judged on two levels:  appeal to existing owners and appeal to perspective owners.

MPT and Orange Box are great for people who haven't experienced the games before but there needs to be new content to appeal to existing owners.  For some, new controls and slightly updated graphics is enough to warrant a repurchase.  However, there are a lot of people like TX109 who are going to say "If I played all 3 games already and nothing significant has been added, why buy them all again?"  I mean, if they played the living daylights out of the 3 Metroid Prime games when they were first released, why not spend their money on something that provides a fresh new experience like... Boom Blox.

You dont play any VC games you owned before?

Review scores for compilations are usually meant for perspective owners, since it's expected that existing owners already know the quality of the individual games anyway.

This isn't about TX109 though, it's about the justification of the 1UP score for which you used his comment. Review scores for compilations are usually meant for perspective owners, since it's expected that existing owners already know the quality of the individual games anyway. Which is exactly what brought up the question why 1UP scored MPT lower in the first place.

They usually are and pretty much always they get a lower score than their original release. The exception being enhanced ports which have a good chance to maintain the score and compilations which might actually get a higher score because of their value.

And should MPT get a higher score because of its value?

Probably not, because the first MP was revolutionary and of course it isn't anymore seven years later, so this little score bonus from back then is no longer valid. On the other hand the new controls improve the game.

Overall the fairest way would be a score that settles somewhere in the middle of the three individual games, because while there is nothing revolutionary about them anymore, it's still a package of three great games for the price of one. I don't see how someone could justify to give MPT a lower score than each individual game. They aged very well, even more so with the updated controls.

Even the original has aged well?  I was reading the thread about differences and saw that there were few minor graphic improvements too.