Take you close to three weeks to figure out how to retort? No wonder your breath smells like corporate.

Whooooooosh~

And I think being willing to pay that much for so little content is much worse than being willing to pay $70 for a prettier version of the same game, which I already think is stupid to begin with. Unless it's given for free to owners of the original (or discounted massively) I don't buy remasters unless it's been a…

Keywords being "in this instance". That is far, far from the norm and you know it.

A single good remaster among a cashgrab sea of remasters and remakes is your counterpoint...? I'm glad you like the game and all, but that is weak.

on his own social media platform, X

In fairness, you’re trying to compare a song or CD’s price, or the price of a movie ticket/DVD to a $70 game. When the changes are generally minor or graphical in nature, asking you to pay full price for it is a much bigger ask.

At least fifteen to twenty years, minimum. Rampant remasters are frankly stifling video game variety, IMO.

The same reason you did. To offer largely useless pedantry.

You really lean hard on that whole Metacritic thing despite it being very unreliable. It got lots of praise because it was a self-insert Harry Potter game of at least decent quality. I can’t say a lot of other games listed were deserving because I didn’t play them (and thus didn’t vote in a number of categories), but…

WoW came back in a big way as well

Yes. Yes at all. Because it doesn’t actually matter.

Sure it would. But claiming that this, and this alone would be enough to sink a supposedly deserving game of a GOTY award across two different award shows is conspiracy theory territory. If that were true, GTA wouldn’t have ever been nominated for awards, and I don’t see many people rushing to ban HPL.

About as important a distinction, though. XD

You can like things that are considered bad by most. That’s totally fine, and it being considered the worst 3D Zelda does not diminish that, but your feelings also don't change reality.

And yet I'm not the one saying that conspiracy theories are the only reason it didn't get nominated. Say what you want, but neither VGA or Golden Joystick had it, and a result's a result. Deal with it.

And literally none of that matters, as I said. The game wasn’t nominated because the game has no staying power. The controversy is literally the only interesting thing about it, like most HP stuff nowadays.

...buddy. Fire Emblem debuted on the original Famicom, not the Super Famicom.

Meanwhile, several nominated games are still being talked about nearly six months later. The sales numbers are reflective of HP’s existing fanbase and how the game lets you put yourself in the school/universe. The game could be made with the least effort possible and those factors would still push massive sales.

It’s also a Metacritic score, which has been established to be heavily-influenced at best and meaningless at worst. Plenty of games have been reamed by MC’s critics yet been runaway successes, as well as the reverse. Just to use a related example to this year, Skyward Sword was way up there on Metacritic in its…