I wish I had the skill to make a game.
Greetings gamers and welcome back to top 10 gaming, im your host connor munro and there’s
a sonic game on here.
Fans really love the games they play, so much so that it inspires them with their own stories
and compels them to try their hand at developing.
But which ones stand out above the rest?
That’s what we’re exploring with todays list of the Top 10 Fan Games That Did Better
Than Real Ones.
Roll the intro.
#10 Pokemon Dragon Okay im stating off with a cheap one because
this was my pokemon game back in highschool.
In grade 11 I started making a pokemon game using RPG maker and ended up getting pretty
far into production.
For some reason you had gotten a dratini at the beginning of the game and team rocket
was dead set on stealing it and only it.
This is the only fan game I know of with this name, so im fairly sure I was unique.
I actually used to stream the production of it on twitch.
Oh god the crap I did in highschool was so cringey.
I never was able to finish it and that may techinically not count in this list, but to
be fair it did do better than any other pokemon game that gave you a dragon type to start
to my knowledge so you can put that in your pipe and smoke it.
#9 Cat Mario Cat Mario is one of the trolliest games of
all time.
This game was played so much on youtube back in 2013, more so than any real Mario platformer
if we’re honest.
This game takes the whole game of Mario and basically attaches it to an inclined plane
wrapped helically around an axis.
Screws it.
This game has trolls like killer stars, killer clouds, monsters that fall from the sky, falling
blocks that can kill you or drop you into the abyss, and even going so far as to trap
you with invisible question mark blocks that only appear when you’re underneath them,
causing your only salvation to be your demise.
Yeah, every gaming channel and their mothers was playing this game and it was certainly
more popular than any Mario platformer at that point.
Most channels were just playing Mario party if anything.
BTW Mario party 8 is the best one, no questions, no contest.
#8 Installation 01 Installation 01 is a fan made Halo game being
created by a bunch of Halo lovers from around the world.
Their goal is to build an artistic tribute to halo that recreates the multiplayer experience
from the games.
They probably say that in an attempt to avoid a cease and desist.
The game will be free on all PC platforms.
They are operating very carefully under the Microsoft Game Content Usage Rules, and have
made all assets from scratch or through the unity asset store.
They also claim to be in contact with Microsoft.
They are mostly trying to emulate the Halo 2/3 experience, but are using what they consider
to be the best parts of classic bungie-era Halo games, including some combat features
from Evolved and Reach available as well.
The game is not available yet, and while it may technically not be doing better, it will
once it’s released.
The hype surrounding this game is fairly large, and now that you know im sure it will be more
if you’re a fan of the classic halo games.
And you can play it on pc which is an added bonus.
PC Master Race, we are slowly taking your console exclusives.
#7 Black Mesa Black Mesa is a reimagining of the original
Half Life game by Crowbar Collective.
It is available on steam for 22 dollars Canadian, but is in earl access, meaning Crowbar Collective
deems it incomplete and the game may or may not get finished.
Considering how its been this way since May 5th 2015, im assuming the ladder.
While it may not be finished, the reviews were overwhelmingly positive.
Users claimed that this is updated enough to make it quote palatable for contemporary
tastes, but no so much as to deviate from the original.
End quote.
They’ve also said that its exactly what it promised to be, a modern faithful recreated
of a landmark first person shooter.
The game includes 49 achievements and a whole bunch of different modes including cross platform
multiplayer.
And normal multiplayer.
So if you played the original Half Life and are looking for a more updated version, look
no more.
However, my earlier statement about the game never being complete could be wrong.
In December of last year they released an update to all the Xen levels, and 10 days
ago they announced that they are nearing the release of version 1.0 which they claim to
be a full release.
So if you are interested with what im saying you can go check it out for yourself on steam.
#6 GoldenEye 007: Source Nearly 23 years ago, GoldenEye 007 for the
Nintendo 64 was released to worldwide critical acclaim.
It is seen as a landmark in fps history and helped to establish consoles as a platform
for the genre.
8 years later, Counter strike source was released by valve to similar reviews.
What do you get when you combine the two of them?
GoldenEye 007: Source.
A recreation of GoldenEye 64 using Valve’s source engine.
The game began development in 2005 and is still being updated right now according to
the information I found.
The game is an expanded recreation, meaning you have everything from the original, plus
a few new things the devs through in their also probably in an attempt to avoid copyright
infringement and a cease and desist.
The maps include Complex, Library, Facility, Silo, Aztec, Dam, Runway (work it girl), Depot,
Cradle, Control, Archives, Basement, Temple and Bunker.
Each level was been modified substantially in multiplayer, but has remained as faithful
as it can to the original levels and missions that inspired them.
This game also includes special maps that are references to the films and other missions
in the game, but ill leave those for you to find for yourself.
#5 Crisis on Earth One Sure DC has had its fair share of games.
Some good, some god awful (Superman 64).
But one of the better ones was going to be Crisis On Earth 1, a DC fan game based on
the DC Arrowerse on the CW.
It originally planned to have several stories, from several seasons of the shows.
But later was changed to be a video game based on the 2017 Crisis on Earth X Story line.
The game was going to have several characters and plenty of things you could do.
And if you noticed that I’m talking in the past tense, that’s because the game’s
developer Tecosaurus received a cease and desist from Warner Brothers to prevent the
game from getting completed.
The dev however recorded full gameplay of the story and it is available to watch on
youtube, and the game did get a release, however it was a release of the base version with
no story elements at all, where you just run around hitting bad guys in a open world.
Which is actually pretty fun, it’s called Teco’s Cheap Alternative To Crisis On Earth
1 if anyone wants to check it out.
And its been doing better than any game based on the arrowverse since there are none so,
good job teco!
#4 Donkey Kong Country 4: The Kongs Return The Donkey Kong Country series is one of the
best series of games hands down, but when they stopped creating installments after number
3, it was a sad time.
But when fans created Donkey Kong Country 4: The Kongs Return everyone was able to rejoice!
You can play as all Kongs, Donkey, Diddy, Dixie and Kiddy.
And it’s a very faithful expansion, with the same assets or at least very similar assets
being used.
The animations are smooth and the gameplay is solid.
The development videos are on the games youtube channel, and their sprites are both regular
and custom and the artists are credited in the description which is nice to see.
The game has been available since 2016 and they have a download video with a link in
that videos description on their channel.
So if you love Donkey Kong country, then go check It out.
I enjoyed playing it so I’m gonna be looking into this game too.
#3 Sonic Utopia Sonic Utopia is everything you want from a
Sonic 3D game.
The style of the original 2d games in an 3d open world platformer with limitless possibilities
on how to get where you’re going.
It’s a wonderful homage to the original platformers and it does a 3d sonic game right,
unlike most of the others we’ve seen.
Travel through the green hill zone in a way you never imagined and find secret areas serving
as other levels and throwbacks to other games.
If you like sonic this is a must play because this is how a 3D sonic game should be done!
Just be careful of any underwater buts and remember, gotta go fast!
The videos online by SonicWindBlue claim that Sonic Utopia is an experiment that not only
tries to expand on sonic gameplay in an intuitive way in 3d, but also aims to capture the best
of sonic’s style and tie it together in a cohesive experience.
Everything in the game was made from scratch, even the music and wonderful recreation of
the textures.
So for any sonic fan, old or new this game is for you so go check it out, the download
link is in almost all of the videos on the SonicWindBlue channel.
#2 Skywind Skywind is what it sounds like, similar to
Skyblivion this game is a total recreation of The Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind using the
Skyrim Engine.
The game has been in production for a long time (like 9 years) and has a team of developers
around the world working on it.
But a lot of work still needs to be done, if you are a developer or texture creator
or modeler and you think you could help them you are able to apply.
And you’re probably thinking why?
This could all be for nothing since Bethesda could just shut them down.
And while this is true, the lead developer of Skywind said that they’ve communicated
with Bethesda, and they’ve said while they cant support the mod, since theyre using their
content, they don’t have any plans on stopping them, haulting production or shutting them
down.
Which is good, since this mod is involved with recreating a whole slew of previous elder
scrolls game, in conjuction with Skyblivion as I said before.
They call it the Elder Scrolls Renewal and when this gets released its going to blow
up, since I know for a fact that if ESO used the skyrim combat mechanics and such I would
have played it.
But It didn’t so now im playing Skyrim Together, I wonder if this mod would be compatible.
You will need to have a copy of morrowind for the mod to work however.
#1 Pokemon uranium The pokemon uranium game was in Development
for 9 years, and was made using the same program I was using to make Pokemon Dragon; RPG Maker
XP.
The game adds 150 new fan-made pokemon along with a new region.
The game includes both online trading and battling as well.
In august of 2016 the game was taken down after half a million downloads, because the
developers wanted to respect nintendos wishes.
The month after, they announced that they had to officially stop development and shut
down the website and servers.
After that happened, the community banded together and started a new website and have
continued to develop patches for the base game, including bug fixes and new features.
The game has lived on after being shut down due to the community, and recently they’ve
been bugging Nintendo because they only added a few new pokemon and don’t have them all
available in Sword and Shield.
And that’s the same as this version, meaning this game is doing better than the current
ones.
There we have it friends the Top 10 Fan Games That Did better Than real Ones, im glad I
was able to talk about this because fan games are awesome!
What are your favorite fan games?
Let me know below
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