Wayward metaphors aside, in the case of the first and third DMC releases, these are some of the most significant action games of all time, but is a re-release of the HD Collection worth your time and money? That, and he looks desperate enough to stab someone if you openly display your disinterest. Sure, the stories are great, but you’ve already heard better stories from more recent times. If the annual release schedule was a party, and publishers were the guests and their games the conversations, Capcom would be the suspicious old looking dude telling people about AC/DC concerts from thirty years ago, all the while smelling of engine grease and fermented socks. And yet, like clockwork, Capcom is here once again, fresh off its fortune reversing success with Monster Hunter: World, to resume the status quo with a re-release of a re-release of a trilogy from the early 2000s. Preying on nostalgia continues to be a depressingly cynical cash cow for publishers in the off-months of the year as an increasing number of older games are being palmed off under the banner of “HD Remaster.” Few releases actually earn this title, though, and with recent notable exceptions like Shadow of the Colossus and Crash Bandicoot, it makes it even harder to accept the prominence of resolution-bumped shovelware being used to pad out the second quarter of each year.