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OoT3D and MM3D are still tied to the 3DS, it would be so simple to port those games as a duo compilation minus the 3D effects.

The Oracle games are still tied to the 3DS eshop (save GBC carts) which will be closing soon, and those could easily reuse the assets from LAHD as a duo compilation.

The original two Zelda games haven’t properly been reimagined in any meaningful way. They are borderline unplayable today (at least Zelda II) and could easily benefit from a PSX-era sprite overhaul (think Legend of Mana) and QoL changes to iron out the esoteric broken English translation and add in a proper storytelling device to these classics. All of this in a duo compilation.

Every one of these I would take over a lazy port of two Wii U ports of Gamecube games.

Will I buy them if they are released? Yeah, probably. The only non-CD-I Zelda games I don’t own are the GBA ports of the original and II.

Do I believe the rumors? I haven’t for the past five years they’ve been swirling, and nothing is going to make me believe it without hard evidence.

Do I think they need to be ported? Not really. Wind Waker can’t get better than with the game pad anyway, and it kind of makes it a mandatory game to pick up for people who get into Wii U collecting in the future, given it’s one of the few “exclusives” left on the console.

@nickeddowes you must be unaware of the Ms. Pac-Man debacle, then.

Why not just buy Sonic Mania separately and be content in making the right decision?

Square and Enix games, respectively, we’re almost entirely Sony exclusive (handheld notwithstanding) from 1997 to 2003; it could happen again, only this time in a permanent manner.

I wouldn’t put it past Sony to make an offer soon.

I always suspected DQXII would be PS5 exclusive…

@UltimateOtaku91 Maybe. Quite possibly maybe not, also. Nobody would have expected Banjo and Steve in Smash or Cuphead and the Ori games on Switch, but here we are.

This game would be good if it were a completely different game.

This game would work as a bad mobile game.

This game should have just been an NFT.

Is there a way to guarantee getting a North American version through pre order? I’ve seen no concrete answers on what version I’d receive if i decided to go ahead and commit to a preorder…

Not that this affects me, but I’m curious: with NSO, you only get to play the new course as long as you’re subscribed, right? Meaning that the moment you are no longer subscribed, you can’t access them?

Great news for Double Dash; sad news for the original…

@BrazillianCara They’re releasing both Pyra and Mythra, which along with Sephy and Kazuya makes four.

No word on Sora yet, which would be hilarious if they were just like, “meh… nah…” with the last fighter.

At 37 hours recently into XCX, the last one I need to complete, I don’t think I’m going to finish it time…

Been collecting since release day back in late 2014. I have 180 different amiibo all boxed. They’re all currently housed in about five 27-gallon storage boxes, but I used to have them all lined across where the wall meets the ceiling in a previous home; but that was five years and at least fifty amiibo ago.

If he’s descending, then he’s doing it while falling because NO ONE is safe if they’re in that position relative to a center of gravity in a stairwell.

@Grawbad which is even more hilarious to me considering after the game drops, none of the scalped CEs on eBay are going to go down in price even though it’s minus the actual game. These dip-sucks will be asking for $200 for what essentially amounts to $30 worth of retail.

When your CE consists of 1/3 the value of retail and gets poached for nearly a 700% increase because you rushed a comparable game out because Zelda’s still not ready, you might be Nintendo.

Cue the FFS, SMH…

Even if this takes a year to make it to physical like Sonic Mania did, it will probably still be the buggy mess it is now.

@LittleGhost The merger with Enix was a good thing for the PS2/GBA/DS cycle, which I think almost matches the quality of their respective SNES/PS1 offerings pre-merger, but things really did fall off for nearly every other platform. It was definitely a win in the early days.

@Tyranexx Oh, for sure, anymore most recent amiibo are pretty easy to find in the wild, unless it’s a low run current Smash Bros. one, and even then, they oftentimes get restocks a year or so later.

I should have specified “2015-2018 era amiibo preordering” as those days were absolute hell, and I’ll never forgive the collector in me during my time without steady income in 2017 and missing out on literally some of the most expensive amiibo there are today within literally just a few months’ timeframe.

@Tyranexx I’ve preordered more amiibo than games at this point, and I gotta say, this felt much more like an amiibo preorder than a game preorder.

@Tyranexx I had the exact same situation.

I still hate myNintendo.

Nintendo is still anticonsumer.

But at least I’ll have all four XBC special editions now.

@Ulysses you mean in this comments section? Nah, we posted those concerns before the updated article confirmed a native port.

All bets on cloud version.

Since it’s not a regular Nintendo Direct, but a Special Edition Direct, do you think it’ll crash the servers and no one will get to watch it, like the XBC3 special edition fiasco?

The shared pain in this thread is palpable.

Had to come back here and share my experiences from yesterday, but literally everything that happened to me has been stated multiple times by you fine folk.

I was going to give the benefit of the doubt to MyNintendo because while I waited in the queue all day, I was at work and wasn’t able to keep my eyes fixed on my phone the whole time, and thought, “ah, dang, I missed my chance, *****, this is my own fault…”

Nope. Eff this flustercuck aday. Terrible, Nintendo. Why are you so adamant on being anti-consumer?

A date listed with no time is still infuriatingly limited information, Nintendo. Do better.

Not necessarily too little, but way too late, and I wouldn’t want to pay that extra EXTRA Switch tax, either…

At least LRG is doing what these developers and publishers simply refuse to do for Switch physicals. Props to them.

Laughs in sealed XBC3 Special Edition with no game included going for $299 in six months’ time

What a clusterf*ck, Nintendo. You’re almost as anti-consumer as Square-Enix at this point lol

I have more coin boxers on Team Bowser, but I have a grander total with higher overall levels on Team Peach, many of which are Peach variants anyway, so… I guess I’m going Team Peach.

@WeLiveInASociety I guess they’ll bring in Shadow to be the villain because apparently Jim Carey is taking an extended sabbatical from movies.

What exactly does, “score pending” entail, NL?

The last time I bought these games was for GameCube in 2002 and 2005, with Mega Collection and Gems Collection, respectively.

Will I have to pay extra to unlock black borders for the 4:3 aspect ratio versions?

Further evidence mounting that Sony is buying them? Or have we squashed that rumor already?

This is likely a common response, but I waited a year for the physical copy of Mania; I can do the same for this.

@Browny I’m right there with you (including the XBCX special edition) and I just have this sneaking suspicion that they’re all gonna be gone within minutes after going live and I’ll be ass out with nowhere to turn but eBay for twice the price 😵‍💫

To a five year old at the time, this solidified a great deal of my love for this little company.

@Kintypoo121 100%, brother. If you still wanted to support S-E for their GOOD games, Live-A-Live is coming out soon, and it looks dope af.

I downloaded the demo and was allowed to play the training mode and the prologue race of single player and that was all.

I laughed, deleted it, then got back to Disco Elysium.

Just picked this up for $20 physical. Sure hope it’s as good as 5/10 for that price.

@Magician Same. I guess I’ll finally bite the bullet and download Actraiser Renaissance since it seems unlikely of ever getting a physical release…

It’s funny to me that 19 years ago, we got a compilation of literally half the available proper Zelda games at the time from 17, 16, 5, and 3 years prior, respectively, on one sexy little disc that no one was expecting and yet we all loved.

If we were to expect, say, a collection of remasters/HD ports, from 11 years ago (OoT3D), 9 years ago (TWWHD), 7 years ago (MM3D), and 6 years ago (TPHD) on one cartridge, we’d be considered greedy, delusional, and ungrateful.

Anybody surprised by this news was always kidding themselves.

@MostHandsieBoy

I have ten times those amount of letters saying that I’m handsome but what I do is scan ‘em in and throw those letters away, digitize everything- keep a clean record of my account.

My mantra: Making Metroidvanias mustn’t make me mental.

@vio @Crumpet123 I’m seeing a lot of speculation on Reddit that presumes “Tour” is literally just for courses based on actually worldly locations, which I think is dumb, and/or that Ninja Hideaway and the entirety of the booster pack courses were meant to be released way earlier but Covid messed everything up and so it got ported to Tour first.

If it doesn’t get “corrected” soon, all we have to do to find out what Nintendo thinks of its origins for its courses, is to see if they release Merry Mountain in a future DLC pack and e see if it had “Tour” listed in the track. If it doesn’t, then Nintendo simply doesn’t count non-real world locations as MKT courses, even if they originated there.

If I’ve learned about S-E over the past few years, it’s that if it’s Final Fantasy related, I’m probably gonna be pissed off about some stupid *****; if it’s Dragon Quest related, I’m probably gonna be really pleased by the overall quality and care put into it.

If it’s anything else in between that I care about (Mana, Saga, pop-up style SNES inspired games) it depends on if it’s console (good) or mobile (already lost me).

I’m worried that the baby thinks people can’t change.

Steam punks and their retro futuristic technology…

Hard agree.

Majora’s Mask still sits in my rotating top three zeldas.