So there's a big divide over Wind Waker HD. Some are thrilled to visit one of Link's more unique adventures while others thing this is lazy. Mind you Sony's been doing HD remakes for the last few years now. This year I spend playing HD compilations of Sly Cooper, Ratchet and Clank and Jak and Daxter and there's a slew of other HD Sony collections out there.

To me I say why not? In the case of the above mentioned, I didn't own a PS2 so for me, I got to play a bunch of great platformers I missed the first time around. Isn't that the same thing with the Virtual Console or 3DS shop? Not only do you get to have nostalgic memories but sometimes play something you missed the first time around. Hell when the Wii was selling, people who skipped on the Gamecube were going back and catching up on old GC games hence why used GC games hung around in Gamestops for a good while long after all the Xbox1 games were scrapped. And rereleasing old games in compilations is an easy way to make a profit with little effort.

"But Katie, I already played Wind Waker why do I want to buy it again?" That's like saying you watched a movie once that you liked but don't want to watch it again. How often do movies get rereleased in extra special edition box sets? Now true games aren't movies and sometimes you can enjoy a game but don't feel like playing the whole thing again. The problem is to, with movies if you want to watch an old movie, you can go on Netflix or Amazon and usually find it and have a device to play it in. With games it isn't that simple mostly due to proprietary issues and lisencing. We talked about this in our Virtual Console wish thread.

Now let's talk about the last Zelda remake Ocarina of Time for the 3DS. I have a nephew who is 6 and is already an avid Nintendo fan (thanks to me somewhat). He loves Mario and Kirby and Smash Bros. (as well as Sonic) but really loves Link. Probably because when he was 2 or 3 his mom was playing Twilight Princess while he sat on the floor playing with toys so Link is one of the earliest memories he has. Fast forward, he gets a 3DS with Super Mario 3D Land, Sonic Generations and Ocarina of Time 3D. Here's someone who never played Ocarina before because he wasn't born so for him this is a new experience and it's interesting hearing him go on about how great Ocarina of Time is. There are a lot of youngersters out there for who New Super Mario Bros. Wii was their first Mario game. A lot of kids owned Wiis. Just recently I suggested to my sister in law to pick up the Sonic Classics Collection for the DS (which he could play on his 3DS of course) once again, he loves Sonic, why not expose him to the classics. And no, graphics don't bother this kid, he's loving having a bunch of Sonic games he's not played. Better that from a bargain bin then something like Sonic 06 or Shadow the Hedgehog.

I think we sometimes forget about the next generation. Kids who are only now discovering Mario, Link, Kirby, etc. And it's good that there are HD remakes, and compilations. Don't we want kids loving Mario and friends like we did? Or would you rather them just eat up Skylanders and crappy lisenced shlock.

Since we're on this topic, is anyone interested to see if Nintendo starts making "HD Collections" I mean we've seen Wind Waker here but it makes me wonder, if Nintendo is going to release HD remakes of Wii and GC games or just compilations in general. And the gamepad makes porting DS games work as well.

Seriously Kirby's Anniversary Collection is a pretty good start, you get six games, though personally I would've gladly dropped those episodes of his anime for the DS games but still, after seeing that I would like to see Nintendo do more collections. I'm sure having them for download is great but some of us like having them on one disc. It saves space on the hardrive.

Super Mario Collection HD- Come on that anniversary limited edition was ok but it didn't even have Super Mario World. So Release a collection of Mario All Stars with Super Mario World, and Super Mario 64.

Now we have to think in limits of disc space itself. My friend was mad that the Ratchet and Clank Collection didn't include either PSP game or Deadlocked and my guess was there wasn't enough space on the disc just as the Jak and Daxter Collection didn't include Daxter, Jak X, or The Lost Frontier. So release another Mario HD collection that is Super Mario Sunshine and the 2 Galaxy games. Imagine those in HD.

Zelda Collection HD- Remember that awesome disc for the Gamecube that had Zelda 1, Zelda II, Ocarina and Majora's Mask? Why didn't Nintendo rerelease that for the 25th anniversary? Anyway they should rerelease that disc, maybe throw in Link to the Past, Link's Awakening and the Oracle games. Then do another collection with, well they're already doing WW but maybe a collection with that one, Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword.

There's nothing wrong with remakes, but as a general rule there's no reason to get them if you've still got the original.

If a remake has enough new features I am willing to get it but I don't ever buy it at full retail price. I just wait for a price drop and buy it used or something.

Most of the time, anyway. I mean I have the Advance port of FFIV but I still wanna get the DS version since it'd be nice to see the entire world of FFIV in higher detail and the bonus features they added are interesting. 

I don't know why we would even need to "defend" remakes of any kind from people. If they have played the game and don't want to buy it again, that's up to them.

But I'm totally down for a remake that includes missing dungeons.

I don't get why some would call this lazy. I mean, they are working on another totally new Zelda game anyways, which simply takes longer and so they give us this game to offer us a bit more of Zelda during our wait for the next new Zelda game. Plus it's a great way to experience this game for all people like me, who haven't played the Gamecube version of the game. Not the biggest fan of Zelda games, but I'd surely like to give this one a shot, especially since it's in HD.