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Video gaming plays host to a loyal, passionate fan base.
Many games have gotten community-created patches and fan translations after the original publisher abandoned them.
These games' fans stick with it through thick and thin.
One of the most compelling types of fan creation is the total conversion mod.
To celebrate the fans who made them, here are mods so great that they surpassed the original game.
This forgottenboomer shooterreceived a surprise remaster in 2022.
Even more surprisingly, it received a fan-made sequel on the same engine in 2021.
The remaster includes the level editor as well as the MS-DOS version of the game.
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It lived up to expectations.
It also has two superb soundtracks: one by prolific guitar maestro Buckethead and the other by James Paddock.
The Buckethead soundtrack of Sigil is exclusive to a standalone version sold onRomero’s official sitefor 6.66.
If not for DOTA, we might not have MOBAs.
These games paved the way to create entire genres.
Few games can claim to have made as much of an impact on multiplayer gaming as this mod.
Gabe and co. saw something in Counter-Strike that the world quickly cottoned onto: deathmatch was dead.
The game offers endless possibilities for tinkering, but most mods are simply alterations of the base game.
Not so for Enderal, which is, in essence, an entirely new game within itself.
Enderal features high-quality voice acting and a story to match any WRPG being sold on Steam.
Originally restricted to a German-language release, it was soon translated into English and became a fan favorite.
If only Bethesda would take the right lessons from their fans' talent for modding.
Stalker: Anomaly’s developers heard you like mods, so they put mods in your mod.
Stalker: Anomaly has more than 4000 add-ons created by other fans.
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