This comic strip is 20 years old.

It came out in '98. There is over an entire generation of gamers now who have never played it.

I don't know the plan. If they're angling to just milk nostalgia, probably no big deal. If the game stands on its own merit and people under 35 see it as just "the new Zelda game", it doesn't really matter if it's a remake or not. That's a big slice of the market.

i would like to be able to play OoT and MM with a normal controller sometime

Did you see the trailer? It's impressive what they've done

https://youtu.be/KC656o7_zVk

I think they'll be including more lore and cut content, but thats just the vibes I got from the video

I never had a nintendo console beyond the NES until I got a switch as an adult since I ended up on the sega and then playstation. I missed out on many of these games. I know I could emulate them, and have done so for some games, but I never played OoT. I'm mildly hyped for a remaster/remake that uses modern control schemes and hopefully QoL changes.

I haven't really looked into it, and it won't be a day-1 purchase, but it's on my radar.

Because gamers have a finite amount of time and money? New releases are literally competing for both of those.

I don’t know why fans need to make it a competition. Like, why does it affect you if Zelda succeeds over GTA or vice versa?

Many people are on a budget. And with GTA probably being priced at 80+ dollar/Euro, it becomes an either/or thing.

If you release your years-in-the-making, multi-billion dollar, AAA-series game at the same time as a much smaller game that is just a remake of a very old game but has a MUCH bigger and much more loyal fan base on the same day, it could kill your first week sales which will usually set the tone for sales for the foreseeable future.

(Nintendo barely has to lift a finger to steal the thunder from something Rockstar has been spending years and years preparing for and making promises to stockholders about. Should be fun.)

It won't even be out on PC to be pirated for at least a year after it releases on consoles anyway.

Still better than just straight up selling the ROM of Pokémon Firered and Leafgreen for 20€, one for every language

They've been reselling people the same game on multiple VMs for years. They've been greedy for ages.

There's a demo out for starfox. It's definitely not just a remaster. I'd say I otherwise agree but I'd rather remakes than shitting out another title with BOTW jammed in for no good reason.

I think for a lot of people it is nostalgia, but for me personally oot feels like a really unique kind of game, the pacing the restricted-but-open feeling of the world, same with majora's mask. The later games seem to be more lighthearted or larger worlds. I would prefer they just make a new game in that style over a remake though, since oot is fine as is and there's already oot 3d...

I have no true evidence to back this up, just things I've personally noticed, I wonder if it has to do with the mentality of removing kids from the Internet, like, growing up, the only games I bought were ones that had recently game out, what I actively saw online, but if kids are being restricted, then they pivot to adults, which sequels tend to go poorly as the creators who made original games don't often work on sequels anymore, whether corporate greed and profit chasing or burnout of devs, so they instead do remakes, nothing is substantially changed just graphics and what not, but there is less backlash from remakes then "faithless" sequels, not my word, just a trend word I see, so they just continue doing those, banking on nostalgia

We've got Skyblivion (maybe?)

Exactly 😂