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Master_Magnus posted...

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

You grossly underestimate just how large gaming's historical library is.

Master_Magnus posted...

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

It does, however, avoid that being a genuine problem, financially speaking.

Master_Magnus posted...

Then I will spend $240 on maybe $80 worth of content. It's still a ripoff.

So you waste $160 bucks over the course of 70+ years. Not really worth worrying about. If that's still too hard to swallow, space out your purchases even more so you spend even less, or wait for the ports to go on sale. This is the planning I'm talking about.

Master_Magnus posted...

I cannot afford videogames if I let every game company rip me off.

That's exactly the point: You space out the purchases so you can afford them.

Master_Magnus posted...

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

It's not enough of a ripoff to get that upset about it.

Master_Magnus posted...

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

I know there are plenty of people with your problems that have been able to overcome them. Yes, it's going to be harder than for most, but it's still far from impossible.

Master_Magnus posted...

They have a bigger inch now than decades ago.

They also have a much larger library of games to rerelease now than they did decades ago. It makes perfect sense that they'd be making more ports now.

Master_Magnus posted...
They had never ported every single game from one console to the next one, but they did exactly that with Wii U.

They also never had a console fail that spectacularly after investing as many development resources into it as they did with the WiiU. A lot of talent and effort got wasted on the WiiU due to how few people were able to play its games. Porting them is obviously the best decision, both in terms of finances and in terms of respecting the developers' efforts and entertaining as many people as possible.

Master_Magnus posted...
And I can't know when they are going to remake a game

Rule of thumb: If it's worth playing now, it'll still be worth playing in 20 years' time, and that means it's worth remaking so contemporary audiences can enjoy it. You can fairly safely assume that any reasonably popular game will eventually be remade, especially if it's a console exclusive (and therefore can't be played outside of its original generation) and/or has a lot of room to be improved on the technical front.

Master_Magnus posted...
I bought Super Mario 3D World because Nintendo hadn't ported a Mario game in over a decade

No, you bought Super Mario 3D World because it looked like a fun game, which is presumably the same reason you bought Galaxy 1&2, Sunshine, and 64, despite all four of those coming out within a decade of a Mario port (64 was 3 years after All Stars, Sunshine was 9 years later, Galaxy 1&2 were 3 and 6 years after 64 DS, respectively). You're lying to yourself and to everyone around you if you think it was anything more than that (unless you also didn't buy any of the aforementioned four games, in which case... that's really weird, but carry on).

I know you're desperately looking for some way to rationalize how you feel about Bowser's Fury, but you shouldn't pretend your original motivations for purchasing the original were anything more than what they were. That's just enabling yourself to avoid confronting harmful thoughts and behaviours. How you feel about Bowser's Fury is irrational. I know that you know this, and I know that you don't like it and are looking for anything you can grasp onto to avoid having to accept that. This is what psychologists call ego-dystonic anxiety: you're aware that it's wrong to feel it, but you can't help it. It's tempting to avoid it by making up whatever reasons you can find to convince yourself it's not irrational, but you can't keep up that charade, nor can you expect others to enable it for you. You need to accept that your feelings are irrational and learn to work around that fact, rather than pretending it isn't there.

For what's it's worth, being frustrated by all of these ports is reasonable. It is annoying to have improved versions of games released so relatively soon after buying the originals, even if it's not going full Street Fighter. I'm not giving you a hard time for being frustrated by them, I'm giving you a hard time for feeling that your life has been ruined, throwing out objective falsehoods like "Nintendo lied to us and didn't make any exclusives for the WiiU," and demanding that the entire game industry reinvent a perfectly reasonable practice for no other reason than to satisfy your compulsions. There's a ton of middle ground between what you're doing and bending over and buying everything a second time, middle ground which I suspect most WiiU owners occupy (I myself have no plans to buy any of these remakes because I'm satisfied with the originals and the extra content isn't worth $60). That's where you should be, because that's a far more reasonable, healthy position to hold than working yourself into a frenzy like this.

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