LogFAQs > #949828010

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

If any hidden gem or cult classic was as good as a good Nintendo game, I would have heard of it by now.

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

It doesn't help to avoid buying the same game twice.

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.

Then I will spend $240 on maybe $80 worth of content. It's still a ripoff. I cannot afford videogames if I let every game company rip me off.

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.

The middle ground is still a ripoff. I can't enjoy videogames if I get ripped off.

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.

My brain is literally wired different from an average human. Unless you have a psychology degree, you are talking out of your ass.

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.

They have a bigger inch now than decades ago. They had never ported every single game from one console to the next one, but they did exactly that with Wii U. And I can't know when they are going to remake a game and I can't live with missing content on any game that I love. I bought Super Mario 3D World because Nintendo hadn't ported a Mario game in over a decade, they promised they would support the Wii U and they never ported every game from one console to the next one. I still got fucked despite knowing Nintendo better than anyone else. Unless I can buy any game and be 100% certain that I will never miss out on anything and never have to buy the game again, then the problem is not solved.