urprobablyright said:
PlasmaFrog said:
I'll start!
- Minecraft and Mojang
- Team Fortress 2 and Valve/Other source games
- Stalker and GSC
- Oblivion and Bethesda
So, does anyone want to provide an explanation on why this is so?
Purpose: I want to see what everyone has to say about this.
Problem with two of those ones. I don't know about S.T.A.L.K.E.R/Minecraft, but the problem with saying the modding community was better than the developer about Team Fortress and Oblivion is that the original games were amazing. Half Life will always be a better game than TF/CS, and Oblivion was a wonderful game that didn't need mods. Sure the mods for both games were awesome, but they don't belong on this thread.
Out of TF2 and all of the Half-Life games, which do you think I'm still playing? You'd be dead wrong if you answered the latter.
Actually, you may be right on it not belonging in this thread amongst other things. As though TF2 does have quite a few mods, most of the focus I've seen comes from user submitted content (such as hats and weapon models) and map making. There's few outside elements that would really be considered mods, and most of those are merely new game modes such as Zombie Fortress.
Then again, if we simply consider modding to mean 'new content created by people who are not the original creators', then TF2 does have a vibrant community of modders.
For my submission, the fine community over at The Elder Scrolls/Fallout 3/Fallout New Vegas Nexus. Quite frankly they've enhanced those games immensely, and yeah...they wouldn't be there if the game wasn't there first, but that doesn't mean they haven't made the games better or improved them vastly. Though, that doesn't necessarily make them 'better' than the devs.
