Favorite Mods and Total Conversions?

[Koeryn]

So I was talking to a friend about some total conversions he's playing on Doom 2, and it got me thinking of some of my favorites from the olden days of Unreal Tournament, Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight, and the INI tweaking my brothers and I used to do to Command & Conquer / Red Alert.

So what are your favorite mods and total conversions to games? Preferably BEFORE current generation, preferably for games from before the year 2004. Older stuff. A Psuedo Nostalgia thread.

I think my all time favorite would have to the Infiltration mod for Unreal Tournament, especially when you combined it with Xanth Realism, and a few other mods I can't remember the names of. When you could have 20 bots in a giant map having gunfights large enough to leave little snow-drifts of physics-objects shell casings that would cause you to slip and fall down, you know you're having a good time! Though it made the Invasion / Gateways mods WAY too easy... And Christ, bots with the Benelli SM-90 were disturbingly accurate at range, usually able to snipe you with their shot gun before you could hit them with your .50!

So what are your favorite Nostalgia TCs and mods? Got any awesome stories?

And for a deeper discussion value, do you think the quality of modding has improved or gone down as time's worn on?

 

[octafish]

The Nameless Mod, it's pretty freaking epic.

 

[Squilookle]

I think my all time favorite would have to the Infiltration mod for Unreal Tournament, especially when you combined it with Xanth Realism, and a few other mods I can't remember the names of. When you could have 20 bots in a giant map having gunfights large enough to leave little snow-drifts of physics-objects shell casings that would cause you to slip and fall down, you know you're having a good time! Though it made the Invasion / Gateways mods WAY too easy... And Christ, bots with the Benelli SM-90 were disturbingly accurate at range, usually able to snipe you with their shot gun before you could hit them with your .50!

any chance of a video link? Sounds interesting. I've heard of Infiltration, but not Xanth Realism.

 

[Koeryn]

The Nameless Mod, it's pretty freaking epic.

What game is that for? What's it do?

any chance of a video link? Sounds interesting. I've heard of Infiltration, but not Xanth Realism.

I don't have one and I'm too sleepy to look one up. If I remember right, Xanth just changed the way damage worked to make it more realistic, it wasn't what left the casings everywhere as physics objects.

 

[IBlackKiteI]

The Nameless Mod, it's pretty freaking epic.

Oh hells yeah.

I like how its an entirely different game rather than just a tweaking or addition to the base version.
That way the awesomeness of vanilla Deus Ex doesn't suffer, and you get a huge heaping of ultimate winsauce.

Aside from that probably Oblivion Lost for the first Stalker, and the Steel Legion and Witch Hunters mods for Dawn of War Dark Crusade.

 

[Cazza]

MovieBattles 2 for Jedi Knight 3: Jedi Academy

Gameplay, Mapping, Community. So much fun. Until it died (for Australia anyway). Now just waiting for The New Era mod so we can have it for the source engine.

 

[Hader]

Any major conversion mod for Rome Total War gets my vote. Mount and Blade mods are also up there.

 

[ydkwidrmw]

Defense of the Ancients for Warcraft 3. The mod is more popular than the original game.

 

[Ellen of Kitten]

/looks both ways

really? No mention for any Half-Life games? I'm the first one on that? THE mod monster of days past and so far no mention? Well okay.

They Hunger, HL1. Brilliant.

 

[Cogwheel]

/looks both ways

really? No mention for any Half-Life games? I'm the first one on that? THE mod monster of days past and so far no mention? Well okay.

They Hunger, HL1. Brilliant.

I was just about to mention a few HL mods, albeit for the sequel. Nightmare House 2, Dear Esther and Korsakovia are all excellent, especially the first and last of those.

I'm quite fond of a few Dwarf Fortress mods too, like Dig Deeper.

 

[insectoid]

Nehrim: At Fate's Edge for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is fantastic.

 

[Sp3ratus]

Zombie Master and Minerva: Metastasis for me, both for HL2. The first is hilariously awesome, both as the zombie overlord and as the actual players, especially seeing new players get killed by devious traps, used by the zombie master. The latter is the best mod I've ever played. It's probably also the closest you'll get to more HL, without it actually being made by Valve. The vertical instead of horizontal level design is ingenious.

I was just about to mention a few HL mods, albeit for the sequel. Nightmare House 2, Dear Esther and Korsakovia are all excellent, especially the first and last of those.

I recently downloaded Dear Esther and Korsakovia. I haven't had time to play them yet, but I heard a lot of good things about both of them, so I'm really looking forward to it.

 

[tzimize]

Action Half life.

Christ the fun I had with throwing knives. Not to mention the melee combat and all the fancy weapons, and the slippers for totally silent movement...good times.

 

[Cogwheel]

I was just about to mention a few HL mods, albeit for the sequel. Nightmare House 2, Dear Esther and Korsakovia are all excellent, especially the first and last of those.

I recently downloaded Dear Esther and Korsakovia. I haven't had time to play them yet, but I heard a lot of good things about both of them, so I'm really looking forward to it.

Dear Esther is very short, and really more of a story that you walk through.

Korsakovia is mildly less confusing in that it at least hints at a few possible interpretations, but your reaction will probably still be along the lines of "bwuh? What was that about?"

In other words, they're confusing, Dear Esther isn't really a game at all, and Korsakovia has the worst level design I have ever seen.


Also they're both great.

 

[Simon Pettersson]

Fall from Heaven 2 for Civ IV

 

[Sp3ratus]

I was just about to mention a few HL mods, albeit for the sequel. Nightmare House 2, Dear Esther and Korsakovia are all excellent, especially the first and last of those.

I recently downloaded Dear Esther and Korsakovia. I haven't had time to play them yet, but I heard a lot of good things about both of them, so I'm really looking forward to it.

Dear Esther is very short, and really more of a story that you walk through.

Korsakovia is mildly less confusing in that it at least hints at a few possible interpretations, but your reaction will probably still be along the lines of "bwuh? What was that about?"

In other words, they're confusing, Dear Esther isn't really a game at all, and Korsakovia has the worst level design I have ever seen.


Also they're both great.

Hehe, sounds awesome. I really like the premise of Korsakovia, seems like a very interesting idea to base a game/mod on.

And yea, I read about Dear Esther "just" being about exploration, but also read that it was really well done.

Oh, and also to add something more to the thread, I'd like to mention KotOR 2: Restored Content Mod. I haven't completed the game with the mod yet, but what I've seen so far is awesome and from what I read, it really completes the game, making it what it was supposed to be all along.

 

[Denariax]

Aw crap. Here I go.

As a former staff member at Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy III at FileFront.com, I can just give you the links to my favorite ones. But in all honesty, there's really just one that I enjoyed out of all of them.

Harley Quinn for JK3. The model was by far mediocre, but being able to review it and putting that joke down just made me feel awesome.

 

[Cogwheel]

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More than anything, Korsakovia has really, really good voice acting and script. Wonderfully creepy, in a suitably subtle way. I quite liked it, atrocious level design or not.