8 Mods that Need to be Made for GTA 5
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The first thing on the realistic driving mod's list of changes would be to have that god-awful anti-roll bias in the engine that rights your car mid-air and allows you to recover from impossible angles removed. God, that annoys me so much, I hate it in every game that it is in. I want to crash and roll spectacularly like in Just Cause 2, a game nearly half a decade in age and much more fun to drive in ATM.
Strange really.Charcharo said:So... we discuss future, possible, not all that ambitious mods for GTA V...
And mods like Lost Alpha, R&D, Black Mesa and many others get almost no mention here...
Possibly because GTA V is a brand-new game that people are modding for, and the Half-Life 2 mods you mention haven't been updated in a long time? Heck, R&D hasn't been updated since 2009 or so. Black Mesa hasn't updated in nearly 18 months. Lost Alpha is a year old next week.Charcharo said:So... we discuss future, possible, not all that ambitious mods for GTA V...
And mods like Lost Alpha, R&D, Black Mesa and many others get almost no mention here...
Not to say that those mods aren't cool, but this gallery was more about new mods that could be made, are being made, or that we think should be made. Older mods will probably have their day come up as well.
I've talked to a lot of game developers over the years, and they're nearly unanimous in their admiration for modders. I even had one guy tell me that they would look very favorably on a person who had released a mod, because it showed they could start and finish a project, and that they could make something that actually works.Caramel Frappe said:
R&D and Black Mesa are both Half-Life mods. I should have mentioned that Lost Alpha was a STALKER mod. That said, all of them deserve respect. The very fact that they released something is amazing, and the support these three mods in particular have offered is a testament to how cool they are.Charcharo said:
I wish that someone would make a mod like these in a game like GTA 5. I'd like to see someone build out that time travel mod I mentioned into something that's fully realized, where you could explore the various time periods.
Unfortunately, no one seems to be doing that.
I had no idea those mods even existed for GTA IV. That list reads like the saints row playbook: giant robots, super powers, zombies, even the time travel bit from one of game's epilogues. I really like the idea of playing as one of the cops, though.
I hope gta v gets some similar mods, but given some of the issues people have been having with it I doubt we'll get anything soon.
I hope gta v gets some similar mods, but given some of the issues people have been having with it I doubt we'll get anything soon.
It's a very different culture around modding these days. It used to be that we all waited for the mods as much as we did the games, and in some cases, the mods were BIGGER than the games. Desert Combat is a great example of that.Charcharo said:I just want The Escapist and other sites to give the coverage some of these mods deserve
That is all I want. People around the net have the stupid opinion that mods = hacks / pirating... and that annoys me greatly.
Nowadays people just don't get into it as much. I think part of that is that there's more of a disposable game culture now, but more importantly, we went through a few years where almost no games had mod tools, and now people don't know what they're missing.
Modding is not the same as game development, but consider how fan-fiction can be better than cannon stories, too.Caramel Frappe said:
There are many reasons for projects to fail to meet expectations, and most of it boils down to time, money and decision-making. Modders have a completely working piece of software and the independence to create a mod. Imagine if they had development teams and publishers with creative control telling them how and when to get it done. Welcome to the business world of wasted time, talent and resources.