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i can't help but think if the teenage me knew that i would look back on these games as the best video game experiences i will ever have... he'd be a little pissed off, what the gently caress happened? how did we gently caress up so hard?
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Mandator posted:i can't help but think if the teenage me knew that i would look back on these games as the best video game experiences i will ever have... After awhile people realized that they need money to make this stuff. That and the games that kept coming out had little to no support to make mods. That's why we went from custom maps for days in Counter Strike (alot of lovely maps, some really really good), to having to pay 15 bucks for three maybe well made maps in Call of Duty 4 and above.
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Fargin Icehole posted:After awhile people realized that they need money to make this stuff. That and the games that kept coming out had little to no support to make mods. That's why we went from custom maps for days in Counter Strike (alot of lovely maps, some really really good), to having to pay 15 bucks for three maybe well made maps in Call of Duty 4 and above. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39BIdOP0D6E
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May 12, 2016 03:50
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The best mod, which has already been mentioned in this thread sven coop, still has active servers and is free even if you don't have a copy of half life 1.
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May 12, 2016 03:52
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Mandator posted:any love for battlegrounds or bgmod as we called it? Oh my goodness why was that game fun. I felt like it was boring but I distinctly remember sensations of fun
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Macrowave Oven posted:Oh my goodness why was that game fun. I felt like it was boring but I distinctly remember sensations of fun novelty? everyone cared more about the concept of the game than winning so impromptu line battles were common especially on that snow lake level
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May 12, 2016 04:08
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Oh I also forgot, shoutout to hl2jks. The best half-life mod.
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May 12, 2016 04:11
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No mention of Scientist Killing Club I don't think, had a lot of fun with that. There were lots of good Quake mods too, I probably played more Quake Rally than the original game.
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May 12, 2016 04:28
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Half-Life mods, Tribes, and Diablo II were really the halcyon era of gaming.
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What was that one single player one that ended up being sold stand-alone were you were some space bounty hunter or something and you had like weird confederate uniforms.
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Spoke Lee posted:What was that one single player one that ended up being sold stand-alone were you were some space bounty hunter or something and you had like weird confederate uniforms. I think you're thinking of the one you had to pay for that was made by a company? Forgot the name EDIT: Gunman Chronicles. That's the one.
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May 12, 2016 05:23
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That's the one, was it any good? I played like an hour at a friends house and it seemed cool. Had like some kinda Judge Dredd meets Cadillacs and Dinosaurs vibe.
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May 12, 2016 05:36
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i think the big mod game in this day and age is more minecraft
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Pound_Coin posted:I blame stat tracking poo poo, like, BF1942 had a ton of mods and poo poo like total retardation, but then comes BF2 where you have an account with persistent stats and ranks that could take weeks to climb at the upper end to get a new gun, suddnely not even half as many mods as everyones too invested in MY KDR amen, I play TF2 without the regard that steam exists. No main class.
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BlueBlazer posted:amen, I play TF2 without the regard that steam exists. No main class. I play tf2 exclusively to troll, and it fills me with glee everyone hates the battle medic
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Pound_Coin posted:I blame stat tracking poo poo, like, BF1942 had a ton of mods and poo poo like total retardation, but then comes BF2 where you have an account with persistent stats and ranks that could take weeks to climb at the upper end to get a new gun, suddnely not even half as many mods as everyones too invested in MY KDR I'm glad that the only thing leveling does in Overwatch is unlock skins and poses and sprays and voices and poo poo. But yeah, stat tracking really did a number on FPSs. I don't recall Battlefield 2 having that though? There weren't any guns to unlock as far as I remember, that came after in BF3. BF2 was full of a bunch of ridiculously fun and funny poo poo you could do -- it was the last game of that series worth playing.
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LGD posted:
Another mod that was in development hell for so long by the time it actually had a release no one really cared anymore. Still had a HEAP of fun playing its single player mook maps though. Game was really well done but youre right in that it never quite lived up to its potential. Part of the problem is the development teams trying to act like a proper game studio and "releasing when its 100%" which just ignores the fact that people doing it in their spare time is incredibly unreliable. The mods that released early and updated incrementally were the ones that succeeded.
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May 12, 2016 06:49
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Mandator posted:i can't help but think if the teenage me knew that i would look back on these games as the best video game experiences i will ever have... game tech budgets scaled and so did consumer expectations for graphics mainly games stayed simple, making weird interesting games match consumer aesthetic demands isn't sustainable given how hard it is to make even simple games look decent
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May 12, 2016 06:52
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I remember this weird mod that had you ending up in like heaven or something and there were ghosts/holograms of the enemies you killed and also anime wallpapers everywhere. HELP?
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May 12, 2016 07:02
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Science & Industry was pretty good.
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Spoke Lee posted:That's the one, was it any good? I played like an hour at a friends house and it seemed cool. Had like some kinda Judge Dredd meets Cadillacs and Dinosaurs vibe. I personally loved it, and had always held out the hope there would be sequel. The game was all about super customizeable weapons, and I loved the setting. It also had DM and basic poo poo like that, but not many people played it.
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May 12, 2016 07:56
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the best part of cs for me were the nipper maps. anyone up for some crazy car?????
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ive played cs since beta 1 like when you didnt spawn with money and only 2 clips so the first round almost always ended in a knife fight action: half-life is missing here and i liked the high damage and the game modes and whatever but a neat thing were the secret levels in Hondo's maps that were obtuse and very hard to figure out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjdpxPegMk8
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May 12, 2016 09:01
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sven co-op had loads of hosed up levels that made no sense and it owned
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Jesus Christ posted:I'm glad that the only thing leveling does in Overwatch is unlock skins and poses and sprays and voices and poo poo. But yeah, stat tracking really did a number on FPSs. I don't recall Battlefield 2 having that though? There weren't any guns to unlock as far as I remember, that came after in BF3. BF2 was full of a bunch of ridiculously fun and funny poo poo you could do -- it was the last game of that series worth playing. Vanilla wasn't too bad, there were only 6 unlocks, 1 alternate gun for each class and you could get them all by the time you hit 20k total points on a account, but then all the expansion packs like SF, euro and armoured fury added another unlock per class and poo poo just got silly, to this day I don't think i got half of them.
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Phobophilia posted:i think the big mod game in this day and age is more minecraft Fallout and elder scrolls as well
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Jesus Christ posted:Half-Life mods, Tribes, and Diablo II were really the halcyon era of gaming. I'd add a few more things like Command & Conquer, the LucasArts adventure games, but yeah really it was this late 90s/early 00s period the golden age of videogaming
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Justin Tyme posted:BF1942 Galactic Conquest motherfuckers. Simply being able to walk around inside stuff as it was flying all over the place was something else, no matter how janky it was. Any BF1942 mod really. Desert Combat (Battlefield 2 and 3 lol) , BF 1918 (Battlefield 1 lol), Forgotten Hope. They were all so great. Silent Heroes was a mod about a war between  and  and it was amazing.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyIBWkau9Q4
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Lot of helmcamming hijinks in anything which let people go prone but overall A Good Time. The Trenches was a fairly sick mod, although BF1918 kinda pissed on it. e: that said UT99 mod Infiltration is still in my brain at least the best "real combat" mod ever. Had some really good mechanics involving weapon length that haven't been copied despite being solid.
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TacOps for UT99 was pretty fun for a CS clone until they released a retail version and the player base collapsed. There was a similar mod for the Q3A engine whose name I can't recall right now, but it wasn't as good It's not a mod, but Wolfenstein Enemy Territory was probably the best free game
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jBrereton posted:Lot of helmcamming hijinks in anything which let people go prone but overall A Good Time. The Trenches was a fairly sick mod, although BF1918 kinda pissed on it. Nice to see someone else liked Infiltration. I loved the grenade launcher with the multi-staged ladder sight that could be real trouble unless you knew how to use it. It was a change of pace from the "noob tubes" they usually are in most games. Supposedly Criterion Games' Black used physical weapons where you could get snagged on a door jam or break windows by accident. The only improvement I could see on the weapon length would be to allow other players to grab or parry longer weapons with their off-hand, making guys with knives or pistols or even unarmed deadly in close-quarters if you were stupid enough to run with your sniper rifle out.
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Agreed on Action HL - that game was most certainly my poo poo. I felt it did a great job of balancing the 'action movie' stuff of diving and akimbo guns with the low HP, one-shot headshots that made for really tense fire fights. With the added bonus of all the maps being really good and designed with 'action' in mind I always had a great time.
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Philosopher King posted:Earth Special Forces (Dragonball Z) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0NKxgX7hTs I'm glad I wasn't the only one who was big into this...and now I've got to try out the newest updated version. Thanks for the inspiration!
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Not the HL1 era, but what was that one UT2004 mod that added a bunch of over the top but ridiculously satisfying guns?
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I am very glad that doom modding is still highly alive and active
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Ahundredbux posted:I am very glad that doom modding is still highly alive and active Brutal Doom is like a whole new game, but in the same maps. Gore aside, the new guns and mechanics are great.
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Ahundredbux posted:I am very glad that doom modding is still highly alive and active Calling Brutal Doom "better than Doom" in Games is an easy way to bait a whole bunch of people.
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I saw someone hating on brutal doom because the gore was trying too hard to be edgy Hmm yes I shot the top of this skeleton of now his whacky skeleton legs are running around help the edge is too much
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Mordja posted:Calling Brutal Doom "better than Doom" in Games is an easy way to bait a whole bunch of people. It's even easier in the new YCS forum, they get twice as triggered.
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