Majora's Mask 3D: Why Bother?

[jerry coeurl]

I'm saying that a remake on a modern system allows gamers that don't own the classic system to experience a great game. It's about making things available for as many people possible.

I agree if you're talking about something like the Virtual Console or how Xbox Live and PSN have classic games available in their unadulterated states. I disagree when you say "remake." Why does it have to be a remake? Why not a 1:1 emulation of the game? A great game, in my opinion, is timeless. And it's silly, in my opinion, to be endlessly rehashing games ad nauseum, as it makes each previous iteration less worth owning.

Should the Beatles be kept on vinyl? How about cassette? CD? MP3?

No, but that's not quite exactly the same. When you buy an album on record, or a cassette, or a CD, or an mp3 player, you can play that album on any turntable, or tape deck, or cd player, or ipod or computer that you want to (DRM not withstanding). When you buy a remake, you're getting it in one specific format, for one specific device. Furthermore, releasing Sgt. Peppers on CD after releasing it on vinyl is different because you're not actually changing the music, or the vocalists, or the lyrics, or the album art or anything. It's still the same album. When you remake a game for newer consoles, you are changing and adding and subtracting things, so the experience isn't the same as it once was, however close it may be. Not to say that is necessarily a bad thing, I just think your music analogy doesn't really work here.

By saying "if people want to play Majora's Mask, go play it on the N64," you're basically telling a gamer to go drudge up an outdated format which they may or may not have. That's ridiculous. It may seem silly coming from someone like me who proudly has his SNES and Genesis connected alongside his Wii, 360, and PS3, but not everyone is a collector or classic gaming fan.

I have to say here, that I am against unnecessary remakes because they often rob a console of the better exclusives, and I hate to see people who haven't played the original opt for the remake just because it's newer. Oftentimes, remakes lose something special that the original had (the Wild Arms remake, just off the top of my head, has none of the charm of the original game). And this may just be me, but I think there's something nice to be said about playing a great game on it's original hardware, and I see less and less people doing that as more and more of the great games of yesteryear get constantly remade and re-released. Obviously, not everyone cares about stuff like that, but it strikes me as a little sad I suppose.

Basically, I wouldn't tell someone to dig up an N64 that they might not have just to play Majora's Mask (although it would be nice to see them make the effort), but I would say to Nintendo, "Isn't this game already on Wii VC? Wouldn't your time and money be better spent developing something new, and original, and interesting, compared to a game that you have released on no less that three formats already? You can still make money that way, and people with Wii's and WiiU's will be able to play it! And practically everyone and their mother owns a Wii! And they're all gonna buy WiiU's, too!"

Of course they would say, "No. We like our money, money talks. People talk with their money and they'll buy any one of our games no matter how many times we've released it, even if they already own it three times over. We are Nintendo, bitch. The fuck are you?"

I guess, ultimately, I wish people would be a little more conscious of their powers as consumers. If every single re-re-re-re-release from the top dogs wasn't a certified, hundred-billion seller, then maybe they'd, I dunno, make something new. Make something challenging, or unexpected. Make something different. Start a brand new franchise to bombard us with forever.

Again, if you want to listen to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, go buy a record player. How is that statement not ridiculous?

Depending on who you talk to, that statements not ridiculous at all!

[NeoVamp]

All these remakes/rereleases an nobody bothered to release Snatcher on the DS.

[Olls]

Didnt zelda come out on the regular DS or was that just a port of mario 64? I thought most of the 64 games got ds ports.

Naw, just Mario 64 and Diddy Kong Racing.

[grieverr]

I agree with things said on both sides of the fence. However, the main attraction here is the portability. No matter if you have an N64 or a Wii, the possibility of playing this on a portable is the main draw. I can understand being more against it if it were being released on another console (plugged in to the TV).

But as mentioned earlier, being able to play this on your commute, close the lid, and resume later without having to re-travel through Hyrule is a pretty good bonus. I think that, there, would make this enough to warrant a portable game player to want this.