A policy question for the Zekemeister

[Zeke]

Good question. Similar ones have come up before -- IJD and I, for example, have been debating whether to treat the original Metroid and Metroid: Zero Mission as separate games.

I think the best policy is this: If the two versions of something are different enough to make it worth doing two fivers, then we'll do 'em. If they're not very different, we won't do both unless someone has a clever way to do it. For example, Ringu and The Ring are different enough to justify two fivers (though my Ring fiver was designed to sort of cover both -- it was based on the American version, but had a number of nods to the original where they diverged). On the other hand, the Star Wars Special Edition wouldn't qualify for its own fivers, since the differences are relatively small. Another example is Frank Miller's Sin City. The movie was virtually a note-for-note remake of the graphic novels, so if we had a fiver for the movie, we wouldn't have one for the comics, and vice versa.

That said, you can't have anything in the Ring series. They're mine. FOREVER.