I just died laughing.NLS said:In other news: Peter Jackson has announced that once The Hobbit trilogy is complete, they'll release "THE TOLKIEN MEGA PACK". It will include some artwork, The Hobbit: There and Back Again on 3D Blu-Ray, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey on Blu-Ray/DVD combo, LOTR: Return of the King on HD-DVD, LOTR: Two Towers Extended on DVD, and LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring on VHS. It will also include the animated movies on Laserdisc and Betamax, a downloadable code for the third Hobbit movie trailer (expires on January 1st 2016, must be redeemed through iTunes), and finally, "soundtracks" written with a permanent marker on a MiniDisc.
Seriously, though, I find this release to be...odd. If they're charging this much for a set, why couldn't they have done an upgraded re-release for all the early entries? I mean, they know people wanted a remake of FF7 - they could have upscaled the graphics, added some more goodies and showed it off as a centerpiece instead of repackaging the Japan/CD-ROM release from a decade ago. And what's with the native platform releases? They couldn't have emulated them and dropped them on a PS3 disc? Why re-release PS1 and PS2 discs?
Even then, there are a ton of games they could have included for completion's sake. X-2, FFIV: The After Years, the FF7 Compilation (Crisis/Dirge/Advent), Mystic Quest and XIII-2 would have been nice to have. Or, if they wanted to, they could have re-released all of the old GB/GBA games (Adventure, Legend I/II, Tactics) on emulated discs. I don't see the point of paying close to half-a-grand for a bunch of old discs and a handful of new content.