How many more realism mods are we going to see?

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I really hate criticizing the work of fellow artists but jesus.

Where is the originality these days? Just looking though this forum all I'm seeing is real world guns made for real world mods.

What is happening to the mod community? Everyone and his dog seems to be making a realism mod these days.

Whats up with that?
 
I agree, not just mods but all games these days. :dozey:
 
I've heard Hostile Freedom is a pretty darn original mod...... ;)
 
Its not about originality but realism mods, are there to simulate whats happening in the world. the more realism mods we have the more about our world around us. Though this philosiphys has alot of flaws it the basic background of realism mods.
 
Well, the evolution of game sin general is heading twords more realistic approaches. A tank game today is a sim, unlike Combat, which was tyhe 2nd best game ever made.
 
Originally posted by aaa
Its not about originality but realism mods, are there to simulate whats happening in the world. the more realism mods we have the more about our world around us. Though this philosiphys has alot of flaws it the basic background of realism mods.
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Well if it's simulating the same thing over and over, it's unoriginal.
 
Yes i do have to agree like all the Black hawk down mods. but some thing like, EOD or Desert Combat for BF1942 those are pretty original for that kind of reality.
 
But I think this post was made for something other than shooting.. Like a puzzle or mystery mod, or even a sports mod!
 
well I have this idea of a swordfighting mod, but due to the total lack of any modding skills on my side, it most probably never going to be done.
 
lotsa sad cases like that.. I dont know how either... I have some good design ideas tho :)
 
I'm also getting tired of all the WWII games and CS clones.
I'd much rather see an interesting idea like Natural Selection, Buzzy Bots, HL Rally, Vampire Slayer, etc...

I think I'll go brainstorm and put some of my own ideas down on paper.
 
More mods that arent realism mods will come out.
 
Day of Defeat, The Specialists, Monkeystrike and Natural Selection are the best HL mods imo. I play them the most..
Monkeystrike is so funny, monkeys throwing skunks and stuff, fun fun :-D
 
Realism is very good thing in my opinion, I don't see anything wrong with that. Of course there are too many 'realism-mod' work in progress, but that doesn't harm anybody, right?
 
I consider my mod (The Wild West) to be original. Granted I intend it to be realistic, but the setting has been sorely neglected.
 
Originally posted by Kensu
Realism is very good thing in my opinion, I don't see anything wrong with that. Of course there are too many 'realism-mod' work in progress, but that doesn't harm anybody, right?
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Yes it does because it sucks up the few coders that the community has.
 
Originally posted by Private Snafu
I consider my mod (The Wild West) to be original. Granted I intend it to be realistic, but the setting has been sorely neglected.
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Cowboys?

Sorry mate but every major title has had a Wild West mod or two.
 
Out of curiousity what types of mods would you like to see Mr.Magnetichead?
 
Things that are totally out of teh ordinary.

Like for example a rail shooter. Like Time Crisis, that would be sweet.
 
Hehe well I hate rail shooters personally, but I see your point. Although I don't see your point about realism mods taking away all the coders. If a coder wanted to work on a non-realism mod they would.
 
Ok i have noticed this. NOTHING CAN BE ORIGINAL ANY MORE. if you make a shooter game ur coping someone if you make a fantasy game ur coping an already made RPG. if your making a sports game its boring same with a racing game. NOTHING CAN PLEASE YOU PEOPLE SO LETS ALL STOP BITCHIN AND TAKE THIS TO THE OFF-TOPIC FORUM WHERE IT BELOONGS I DONT SEE ANY MODELS HERE!!!!
 
Originally posted by aaa
Ok i have noticed this. NOTHING CAN BE ORIGINAL ANY MORE. if you make a shooter game ur coping someone if you make a fantasy game ur coping an already made RPG. if your making a sports game its boring same with a racing game. NOTHING CAN PLEASE YOU PEOPLE SO LETS ALL STOP BITCHIN AND TAKE THIS TO THE OFF-TOPIC FORUM WHERE IT BELOONGS I DONT SEE ANY MODELS HERE!!!!
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No but all teh weapons in realism mods are the same, theres always an mp5, theres always an m16 etc etc.
 
I'd like to see a mod where you just travel around nature, schools, streets and stuff doing nothing but admire the surroundings... maybe even get a job, something like an rpg, but no sucky skill level and stuff, just walking around quietly in gigantic spaces.
 
Well could always do a dating simulator where game geeks fail miserably at getting hot chicks ;). O wait that might be real life too...

:>~ : "look at the poly count on that hottie!"

aaa : "I'm sure those polys are fake..."
 
Omg, aaa what we're talking about is something that hasn't been done. A fantasy doesn't automatically mean it's been done. Just think a little bit and you will actually SEE and THINK for the first time after you just posted. :dozey:
 
I want to see some goffy off the wall mods. I mean a flame thrower dosn't real seam like it has a place in a reaslistic mod. But in some kind of funny mod where weapons aren't mean to be real we can have all kinds of fun stuff. Like an island where there are fish that eat you if you go into the water around it.
 
Im writing on something that havent been done in a mod before (and real games for that matter)

Sure, Singleplayer adventure games using cel-shader have been done before but i got some of mine ideas in there too.

You can take a good genre, but please make some changes so it dont feel like a mod/game you have played 500 times before.

Look out for theMalin mod.

Thats just my 5½ cents
 
But right now youre saying that there are too many in development. Thats a good thing!

My reasoning: only 10% of mods that get started make a release. so if we have a bunch of mods now, in the end we'll have 1 or 2 great ones.
 
Originally posted by SidewinderX143
But right now youre saying that there are too many in development. Thats a good thing!

My reasoning: only 10% of mods that get started make a release. so if we have a bunch of mods now, in the end we'll have 1 or 2 great ones.
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Or 30 piss poor ones. :rolleyes:
 
sidewinder the thing is ur thinking of it like that coz ur the leader of one of those kinds of mods.
butthe thing is the people build up a kind of resentment towards these "realism mods"
 
when it comes to terror mods, then i probably need CS2 and nothing else...
when it comes to WWII mods, then i probably need DoD and nothing else...

I agree that too many similar mods are started, that differ only slightly in their background setting. I also agree that usually 90% of all mods don't ever release. As a mod leader you should have a clue of modeling,skinning,coding and mapping - that will help to advise your team correct as you need to know the tech talk.

Many mods are founded by leaders that cant explain anything and just boss around the members... seen that so often
 
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