What are some of your favorite tools that have given individual games a new life?

kfwyre
2018-10-14T21:50:21Z

I grew up playing DOOM, but if I were to boot up the original game I would find it frustrating to play by modern standards (e.g. mouse movement?!). Thankfully, there are a ton of source ports that modernize the engine and make the game more accessible to current gaming sensibilities (e.g. WASD-movement). They're basically community remasters of the game.

It got me wondering about what other games have strongly benefited from tools that exist outside of the game itself.

Examples of what I mean:

1. Source ports (e.g. DOOM)

2. Community bugfixes (e.g. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines)

3. Restored/extended content (e.g. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II)

4. Significant mods (e.g. Frostfall for Skyrim)

5. Rulesets/challenges (e.g. Nuzlocke Challenge for Pokémon)

6. Anything else that doesn't fit the above categories

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