I don’t even understand what they’re going for.

See, the interesting thing to me is I remember playing through Ocarina of Time 3D basically as soon as it came out and really enjoying it, but I finally tracked down a copy of Majora’s Mask 3D a couple years ago and just... bounced off of it. Admittedly, from what I remember the game is a little slow until it starts…

Outside of various one-time crossovers, didn’t IDW do something five or six years back where they combined a bunch of their comics into a single universe, including Transformers and GI Joe?

Little Mario does look weirdly like he was put into a vice and squished down.

I mean, I actually do prefer Ocarina of Time to Majora’s Mask because I sometimes find MM’s cyclical nature can grow tiresome but I definitely get the argument. (I mean, I also haven’t played either in at least a decade so it’s possible I’d feel different if I actually took the time to play them again.)

Yeah, I prefer the original MGS1 to Twin Snakes but I still think Twin Snakes is pretty fun and I wish it were available on other platforms. (I also don’t think it was actually built on the MGS2 engine; back in the day Silicon Knights never claimed they were reusing that engine and instead just said they were…

Why? Like, assuming Apple doesn’t want to accept a check for something like this - which we have no reason to assume is the case - if they’re doing the work to port it why wouldn’t they swap in a new generic mp3 player model and replace the handful of audio lines. It’s not like similar projects haven’t done things…

I will say that having played it last year (for the first time in a decade), it is definitely a flawed game but it’s still pretty good. It’s just... a completely linear Metal Gear game, which feels bizarre to play, especially after the mostly open-ended MGSV (which is the last MGS game I played through).

For what it’s worth, it seems pretty clear you should set your expectations for MGS Delta as “same game with a new graphics engine on top of it.”

I mean, the whole “teens finding out that they were all war orphans who lost their memories due to being child soldiers and discovering that they were destined to find each other again” feels pretty par for the course in a genre story like this, but even if we want to ding it (and it’s fine that you fell that way), it’…

Yeah, I mean, one of the most fun parts of FFVIII is breaking the game in half and running through enemies like a machine of death. I certainly don’t give a shit if a game’s balance falls apart if it means the game is fun. (That being said, I do think FFIX probably has the best combat and character progression systems …

I mean... I’m fairly sure the iPod product placement is not the sticking point here (if they’re doing the work to port it, they can presumably swap it out) but sure, the nature of its development is pretty well-known.

I mean, it’s definitely got a better one than VII, that’s for sure. VII’s plot loses all cohesion from the moment the characters leave Midgar, at which point they just ping pong between random mini plots, most of which don’t serve much purpose outside of killing time. I guess the one nice thing I’d say is that it…

...it sounds like Charles Martinet, what are people talking about.

VII is such a rough game in retrospect. The developers have been pretty open about how they were basically just throwing in whatever they could think of while getting used to using the hardware and boy oh boy does it show.

Nah, VIII is pretty much better in every way even if only because it’s actually a coherent game with a coherent design that doesn’t just feel like a developer throwing spaghetti against the wall while trying to learn how to use the hardware.

A bunch of us were joking when the collection was announced that Konami should get wild and include the NES games largely because we assumed it would never happen, but, uh... they sure proved me wrong.

What’s interesting to me is this more or less looks like a 1-to-1 remake. That’s not good or bad, but I’m just surprised that it looks so straightforward.

I think Mario & Peach look a little weird up close but look fine from the game’s usual perspective.

Oh wow this looks great? I’m no huge fan of the NSMB series (though I thought the DS one was fun and the Wii U one was surprisingly good) but... yeah, I’m actually pretty excited to see this.