Half-Life 2 Mod Opinions

Will people really pay money for something they already have?

I'm really worried. I love the original Half and it's mods, I really do, but it's possible to have too much of a good thing. I've played Half-Life and it's mods (when they started releasing) but I am getting bored of looking at the same engine, I'm ready for a change and nothing has filled it like I'm sure HL2 will. The reason I'm worried is that HL2 will have to compete with all the stubbourn kids who can't/wont want to switch over to the new engine. I'm not talking about just modders, but all the players out there. To use the CS community as an example, there are a hell of a lot of players. Are they even going to want to convert even if CS2 is better (Yes it's being worked on, well, the graphics portion, Goose doesn't have the SDK yet)? Assuming it is, how many will give the typical "It sucks!" insults and stubbournly stay with HL1. Attitude like this for both groups (Players, modders). There are a hell of a lot of stubbourn people in the HL community, idiots, and people who just wont upgrade (Of course there are people that are strapped for cash like myself and can't upgrade, but that isn't going to stop me from converting).

Here's hoping that people see the light and do switch over to HL2. I love Natural Selection but I wont hold my breath for a conversion/update for HL2 as Flayra seems to cater too much to the people with 200MHz stock Compaqs from '96.

cs is holding back games development i think. so many gamers have CS ranked as the best game in the world and everything else sux; so many times i have heard in servers "WHY DO PPL THINK JUST CAUSE A GAME LIKE QUAKE 3 HAS CURVES IT IS BETTER"

well cs frankly looks like crap and i hope hl2 comes out and is even more popular so the majority of gamers out there will get off their asses, upgrade their computers and populate more games that require more than a tnt1!!

That article didn't sound like Valve has been communicating with mod authors very well...which worries me. Those guys are some of the top mod makers, and they haven't been contacted yet. That's not a good sign. How does Valve know what these hardcore authors want?

can one of the mods here ban ubergear? and i dont mean some temp thing. i mean a full lockdown dont even let him on period. spam like that should not be allowed. even his nickname is advertising his business for fucks sake. he is a walking ad.

hl2 will usher in a serious mod glut. It's pretty bad right now but it will be insane. there will be a hundred cs-clone and ww2 mods. It's like that with ut2003 and by the time hl2 rolls around, the larger ut2003 mods will be finally coming out and get no play. Basically every kid that warez'ed max and photoshop will slap up a homepage and a forum then put up some renders, wait for a community that never comes or argue with the few that do come or ignore them, then fizzle out. I actually hope the current popular mod teams had a little more integrity and NOT redo their old game on hl2, and actually try to come up with a new game... you know.. in the spirit of having fun with an engine and making a fun game YOU want to play, not trying to sit there and make the most polished ego stroking clone in hopes that it gets published.

as a mod maker myself, those are just my random opinions on the topic.

(Sigh) I guess there will be no They Hunger for Half-Life 2. :(

Mmm, Team Fortress 2 should be good. I shudder at the thought of another Counter-Strike ...Too early to see really..


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What I want to see is a Jedi Knight type game using the source engine. Imagine the possibilities you'd have with all the force powers with a great physics engine.

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It seems premature to ask people about this before they've even seen a HL2 SDK.

OMFG. CS-2. JIZZ.

If I had time (and sadly I have virtually no time anymore), I would be really pumped about doing some mods for HL2. I actually have several ideas in my head...but I will probably never do anything with them because I never seem to have enough time (not to mention assembling a mod team is difficult...its damned hard to find art people and mappers with the time and willingness who aren't already taken).

I'd love to do something with a ton of vehicles and several team based modes (maybe something akin to BF42's conquest which I always liked...and something where you have to collect ore using special vehicles or slower pipelines...a map based scripted objectives system would be ideal)...and you'd have to pick and choose your players abilities, augmentations (you could buy all sorts of implants, robotic exoskeletal pieces, nanotech, etc), equipment, weaponry, and armor/headgear. That way if you wanted to run and gun fast as hell you could but you'd have to make some sacrifices...and basically everyone would be able to play the way they wanted to and to specialize their role. Now I'm rambling incesantly over something I'd like to do and never will so I'll shut up about it.

Anyway, the physics stuff alone makes me drool and all the little graphical details...OMG! I'm really looking forward to this one to play and to make mods with (well to play...like I said...I don't have any damned time for mod making anymore these days...albeit maybe I will after work if I get this job I applied to).

i want a straight port of action quake 2

action half life was lame... so very very lame

I really don't want any of the old mods ported...how about some new stuff for once mabye WITHOUT guns?

can't wait to see all the new mods that come out as a result, as well

heh what a cheap excuse for an article =)