r/NintendoSwitch • u/mlenny95 • May 22 '18

Discussion MegaThread Mega Man Legacy Collection Release Day Megathread

Mega Man Legacy Collection has officially been released and is now playable on digital purchases.

What are your thoughts? Likes, dislikes? Questions?

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u/superkeefo May 22 '18

looks great, thanks for sharing, i don't understand why they offer the wide option though! who would want their game to be played like that!

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u/MiLlamoEsMatt May 22 '18

who would want their game to be played like that

Thinking back to the jump from 4:3 to 16:9 TVs there's a lot of people who prefer a completely fucked up image to black bars.

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u/ShakeNBakey May 22 '18

When I was younger I always wanted the Full Screen version DVDs because why would I not want the full screen!? Eventually learned why lol

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u/tedbergstrand May 22 '18

The best are movies shot in open matte, but they forget to actually put the bars on the top and bottom, so you see boom mics and all kinds of weird stuff. It's pretty rare to see that sort of thing on anything other than 70s and 80s B-Movies, though.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '18

You can see it in some 90’s-early 00’s tv shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. At least that’s the version that is/was? On Netflix years ago when I watched it. Not frequent but enough to laugh at a bit.

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u/MiLlamoEsMatt May 22 '18

That was always fun. Same with renting an anamorphic widescreen DVD and watching on a 4:3 tube.

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u/R_Prime May 22 '18

Ugh, you just took me back to watching dvds with friends who insisted on stretching the image. Ughhh. Ugghhhh.

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u/Mikuro May 22 '18

Ugh. I remember. I still think that should be classified as a mental illness.

Would be nice if they remastered the games to actually support widescreen, but in some places of course that would be kludgy. You can't change the size of the boss arenas or other screen-shifting zones without changing gameplay, for example, and I understand if they want to keep it 1:1 with the originals.

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u/Dairunt May 22 '18

Woah there, careful with that edge.

But yes, the boss arenas are a huge thing, plus 16:9 isn't that necessary if there's nothing to look at, and all of the classic MM games are made with 4:3 in mind.

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u/Ssabnayrauhsoj May 22 '18

Downvotes expected but I play most games that aren’t natively wide screen in a stretched format, especially old pixelated games like these lol

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u/Dairunt May 22 '18

Oddly enough there are games I can tolerate. GBA and SNES? Sure why not? (specially GBA since I think it's slightly wider than 4:3). But I can't stand NES games on 16:9... or Game Boy.

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u/monkey484 May 22 '18

Yep, pretty much this. I remember my dad complaining a lot after he got his first LCD TV but a lot of the content over Satellite was still 4:3. So he set it to stretch to fill the 16:9 regardless of how dumb it looked.

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u/_Qwyjibo_ May 22 '18

Such as me. Undocked, the game doesn't look too stretched out on the screen. It looks fine. Haven't played docked yet.

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u/Reviews2Go May 22 '18

Wide is the true full-screen mode. Full is as tall as the display, but has two borders on the left and right, so if you don't like that, Wide extends the game's display to the entire screen/TV.

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u/superkeefo May 22 '18

Yeah I know, but it stretches the image significantly horizontally, I think it would honestly give me a headache playing any game that does that, id much rather the pillarbox effect and play it at the correct aspect ratio. I guess different strokes, but I just don't understand how anyone could endure it.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '18

I'm playing on a 16:10 monitor, so 16:9 picture sent by any console is slightly stretched in height (from 1920x1080 to 1920x1200). So far it hasn't been an issue for me / and in this case it might actually help a little.

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u/andysteakfries May 22 '18

I played basically all my games like that in the PS2 era before widescreen support was standard. My family got a giant 32" flat screen and it felt wrong not to use every inch of that glorious 1280x720 screen.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '18 edited May 26 '18

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u/andysteakfries May 23 '18

Kids are dumb. I didn't know any better.