Vault101 said:
hahaha thats a bit fo a loaded statement
there are plently of really good mods..however Modding is not actually somthing that interests me,
1. because I havnt quite worked out how it works
2. by principle Vanilla game should be good enough, if its not I'll find somthing else to play
In most cases, it's not so much that there's something wrong with the "vanilla game" as much as it is just getting something different or extra.
Think of it in terms of, say, a car. You buy a brand new car (or have a nice one already), but you decide you want better tires. Or better rims. Or some pin-striping. Or perhaps some nicer leather seat covers.
It's not as if there was anything wrong with the car before hand. In fact, you probably loved it before. It's just that, sometimes, you want something a bit different or you want to tweak it a bit to suit your wants exactly. This is usually what modding is about.
There's also the occasions of people just wanting to make their own game, and thus use the tools made available to them by the gaming companies. In these instances, it's not about adding some content to a game, it's about making your
own game using the engine and assets of the core game.
Oh, also, modding is fairly "easy". (easy is quoted because
making a mod isn't that easy, but installing one is. usually.) Most of the better modders create self-installers that will set it up for you. Other, less skilled or lazy modders will just archive the files and tell you to put them in the right folders. Unless the setup of the core game makes it impossible for a self-installer to work, in which case it's the fault of the original developer and not the modders.
Plus, in most cases, you can find relatively easy instructions on how to set up a mod online. A quick google search is all you need.
Somonah said:
I can't imagine that consoles break as often as they have for you. So maybe, just maybe it's not the company's faul? Maybe, and this will probably be hard to accept but maybe it's you?
While i adore PC gaming, it isn't cheap. you complain about going through 4 xboxs and some controlers, yeah that's 2 gaming PCs. And you will blow up your first gaming PC so yeah 4 xboxs you're still spending less.
Programmed_For_Damage said:
I might be in the minority but the PC gamers can keep their mods. There is a reason game developers generate content for their own games; it's because they're good at it. I haven't seen a mod yet that isn't in some way half-arsed or stands out from the original content like dog's balls.
Ever heard of a game called Counter Strike? because it was a mod. lets list a few other games that started as mods.
DOTA (a mod which created an entire genre of games)
Team Fortress (started as a quake mod)
Nehrim - (Oblivion mod that is pretty much an entirely new game)
There's also the unofficial Oblivion patch. A fix to many many many (not all) of the bugs in Oblivion. A patch. Created by gamers to fix a game the developers couldn't. half arsed indeed.
Now, I don't know about that. I still have my gaming PCs from 2004 and from 1998. I still use the one from '04 on occasion to play things that, well, don't quite "agree" with Windows 7, .net framework 3, Direct X 9+, or OpenGL 3.0+.
In general, I've found you can buy much more reliable hardware for a PC when compared to the made-on-the-cheap hardware you usually get in today's consoles. I know not all Xboxes fail, but the failure rate of Microsofts console is still quite high. Higher than would usually be considered acceptable in other product lines.
Also, even if you "blow up" your first gaming rig, it's usually only one or two pieces of hardware that'll go. And you can easily replace them without having to shell out a fortune. In most cases, a good bit less than you'd pay getting a couple of controllers for a console, let along another console.
Unless you're buying pre-built. In which case, oh yeah, you're quite right. That'll cost you WAY more than getting a couple of consoles.
But then, I never recommend going pre-built. It's like buying an unreliable console, only for eight times the price.