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Master_Magnus posted...

If I'm not aware of a game it's most likely not worth playing. Almost every game worth playing is well known.

The very concepts of "hidden gems" and "cult classics" laugh at how obviously wrong this is.

Master_Magnus posted...

No plan will help when game devs re-release games. It's unacceptable to buy the same game twice ever. If I pay $60 for the base game, I'm not going to buy the base game ever again. Unless you have a crystal ball, no plan is going to help because you can't know when game devs will pull a Street Fighter.

Any plan will help you when it comes to long-term financial decisions.

Master_Magnus posted...

If game devs re-release the same game forever I'll never get to play all the content ever because I'll always have to buy the same game again to get the new content.

Hence you skip most of the remakes and only buy them occasionally so you can catch up on whatever content you've been missing. If, hypothetically, Nintendo continues to rerelease SM3DW every 7 years (which they won't, because this is obviously a matter of salvaging effort that was wasted on the WiiU and not a long-term remake strategy), adding new content each time, you can pick up whatever remake comes out in 2049 and get 5 remakes worth of content for $60. Do that again in 2084 and you get another 5 remakes worth of content. Maybe buy another one before you die (by 2084, I'm guessing you'll be well into your 80's, and the next ones would be in 2091 and 2098) if you really want to go out having completed everything that will ever be associated with the game, and you've spent a grand total of $240 on the game over the course of your entire life. $150 if you wait until the remakes are down to $30 before buying them (which is pretty sensible). That's really not the end of the world.

Should you do that with every game? Obviously not. That's really only justifiable for games you really love that are getting worthwhile content with every remake, such that you want to continue supporting them and it's worth paying for some extra content here and there. But the notion that you can't keep up with new content releases without driving yourself into bankruptcy is obviously nonsense. There's plenty of financially sustainable middle ground between the two extremes of buying every remake immediately and categorically refusing to ever buy any remake.

Master_Magnus posted...

You're just a rando on the internet, you have no idea of what I can or can't do.

You're just a human. Your abilities and disabilities are nothing special. You can do the same things any other human can do. It just might take a bit more work.

Master_Magnus posted...

I don't care. If you give an inch to corporations, they will take a mile. I will not give an inch to Nintendo. And I will convince as much people as I can not to give an inch to Nintendo.

As I've said, they've already had this inch for literally decades. They've been rereleasing games with added content for almost as long as they've been releasing games, and despite having more of a retro library to exploit than any other publisher by far, they've been pretty reasonable about it. If they haven't taken the mile by now, they probably aren't going to. On the off chance they do take the mile and go full Street Fighter with their rereleases (which, despite your insistence, they clearly have not)? It's very easy to say "that's not worth buying, so I won't buy it" and/or "If they're going to remake this soon anyway, I might as well wait for a few more versions before buying it," solving the actual problem in its entirety very simply.

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