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Offline namida

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What's the right name for large packs that mimic the original games, anyway?
« on: November 19, 2013, 08:41:30 AM »
You know, packs with huge amounts of levels, multiple rankings, etc. Things like Lemmings Plus, Revenge of the Lemmings, PimoLems, etc. Do we actually have a special name for them other than just "large pack"? Should we be considering them fangames rather than level packs?

(Just me thinking too much about stuff that doesn't matter... xD)
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Re: What's the right name for large packs that mimic the original games, anyway?
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2013, 03:03:51 PM »
Probably fangames, like all of those flash games that are based on real ones.
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Re: What's the right name for large packs that mimic the original games, anyway?
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2013, 04:18:21 PM »
I like fangames as they are much larger than your standard level pack levels which is usually 10 levels. 
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Re: What's the right name for large packs that mimic the original games, anyway?
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2013, 07:29:59 PM »
If you ask me, "expansions", or something in that vein - the same as would be used to refer to official stuff, like Oh No! More Lemmings - would probably be perfectly valid in instances like this.

If this were Ye Olde Dayes, I'd say that "data disk" (as was used to promote Oh No! More Lemmings, and also the never-released add-on packs for The Lemmings Chronicles) would be valid, too, but we're not using floppy disks anymore, so that term really doesn't work. ;)
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