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Who’s winning Star Citizen and Elite DangerousThe crowdfunded space sim sensation that two of the genre’s most celebrated game directors pitched to us a decade ago? Star Citizen is a spiritual sequel to Wing Commander and Privateer, while Elite: Dangerous Edge is a direct sequel to The Elite, Elite Frontier 2, and Elite: First Encounter. Well, that depends on how you define “winning.” Or, really, “existing.” That’s just one of the passionate splits we encountered on the Best Games Ever Podcast this week, along with Grand Theft Auto vs. Saints Row, Call of Duty vs. Medal of Honor, and another we lost count of.
Remember Lemmings vs. Humans? Well, Lemmings was a puzzle game where the player had to guide hordes of the titular rodents through increasingly aggressive levels, using units like: Builders. Interceptors. Diggers. Others. I don’t know, it was a long time ago and I’m 40 years old (which is to say dead). Humans were more or less clones of Lemmings, right, and there was some kind of rivalry between them that, in my young mind, felt like the definitive battle between 90s pop culture icons, like Oasis vs. Blur, Oasis vs. Ocean Colour Scene, or Oasis vs. Oasis.
Who wins this competition? Well, these things are subjective. You could define it by sales (hard to verify) or cultural influence (hard to quantify), or you could simply define it by which series has survived the longest. That would give The Humans the win by three years, as it released its last game on the Nintendo DS in 2009. No one noticed. The last Lemmings game similarly failed to make any splash on the PSP and PS2 in 2006, and it wasn’t even really a sequel so much as an enhanced re-release of the original. Remarkably, both series hit the road with a bang on the seventh generation of handhelds, and it’s really amusing to me that the once-beloved Lemmings (with a bronze statue in Dundee) loses this battle to the never-beloved The Humans (without a bronze statue). Neither in Dundee nor anywhere else.
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