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The_Liquid_Laser said:
I'm going by earliest release date in every sense of the term (i.e. region, platform, etc...). Pokemon Crystal is really an enhanced version of Pokemon Gold and Silver, so it gets lumped in with them. This is a person's only shot to vote for Pokemon Crystal. I believe I already said that compilations like Super Mario All-Stars are not eligible since it's just a compilation and all of the games in it already had their shot in earlier years. Basically each game only gets one year where it's eligible for votes. It can't be repackaged in some way to get another shot, and graphical improvements and added DLC (or content equivalent) are not enough of a difference to give a game another opportunity. The only exceptions to this are "remakes" which are really an entirely different game from the original like Metroid Zero Mission or Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Those games are actually significantly different experiences from the "original", and can be treated as brand new games. |
Yeah makes sense.
Half-Life: Opposing Force came out this year as well, but is just an expansion to Half-Life (and not as good), just like Blue Shift in 2001. It's basically the same while playing as a different protagonist and much shorter.
Well maybe not just any old expansion if Wikipedia is to be believed:
Half-Life was followed by an expansion pack, Opposing Force, on November 1, 1999,[6] developed by Gearbox Software.[7] Players control US Marine corporal Adrian Shephard, who fights a new group of aliens and black operations units.
Opposing Force was received favorably by critics,[8] many citing the game as being as influential on setting expansion pack standards as the original game had been in influencing the overall genre.[9][10][11] The game won the Computer Game of the Year Interactive Achievement Award of 2000 from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.[12]
It definitely lacked the impact the original game had on me, I was more interested in replaying the original campaign instead.
Still waiting on a modern remake of half-life, but there's Black Mesa which I think is actually finished. Lol how did I miss that releasing 3 years ago after following the project for years. 16 years in the making, now it's in my Steam library :)
Nice of Valve to allow selling it on Steam (I guess they have no plans for a remake themselves). Although probably why I didn't notice the release:
"This game doesn't look like other things you've played in the past. As such we don't have much information on whether or not you might be interested in it" while it's recommending Half-Life: Alyx to me based on my library lol.
Edit: Damn that makes me all emotional playing the fan made remake, goose bumps all over again. I'm going to take my time with this, awesome. It's pretty much exactly as how I envisioned a remake. Worth the wait (and forgetting about it haha)
