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> games are no longer moddable I don't think that is true - success of Skyrim (or other TES series) stand in direct contrast. FPS are indeed non-moddable nowda

> games are no longer moddable I don't think that is true - success of Skyrim (or other TES series) stand in direct contrast. FPS are indeed non-moddable nowdays but FPS have been done to death and only the franchises (like Modern Warfare, CoD, Crysis) are making enough money.

rektide 12y ago
A bunch of content packs isn't really pushing the bounds. That you end with a discussion of money and survivability of the FPS somewhat drives the point home of how different our views are: an open system doesn't necessarily attract commercial value, it attracts eccentric purposes. AirQuake wasn't made for money, it was made because someone wanted to take something known and explore. Conversely, CoD and MW might be fighting for life because it's only the same commercial hacks doing the same thing to death and not letting other people come in and muck around with shitty barely working mods. Not that people necessarily still do wide-scale show up and start building mutators, anymore: most would rather get paid by the hacks to do "blockbusters." As per Gibson: "The street find's it own uses for things," and it's that ability of the street to do so that gives long renewing interest into the thing. Either let oneself be reborn again and again, or die of certain irrelevancy.
- cubancigar11 12y ago
  Skyrim mods are more than content packs. There is one that converts it into a 3D platformer, one that converts it into a puzzle game and one that converts it into an FPS by giving everyone a gun. At some point you have to consider the fact that there really isn't much left to do in FPS. When Quake and HL came we were still in infancy. While CS survived every other mod died a horrible death in neglect. People now know what sucks. And what doesn't has been honed to perfection and there really isn't much left to do anymore. If you want to see modding don't look at FPS, look at Minecraft.

rektide 12y ago

A bunch of content packs isn't really pushing the bounds. That you end with a discussion of money and survivability of the FPS somewhat drives the point home of how different our views are: an open system doesn't necessarily attract commercial value, it attracts eccentric purposes. AirQuake wasn't made for money, it was made because someone wanted to take something known and explore. Conversely, CoD and MW might be fighting for life because it's only the same commercial hacks doing the same thing to death and not letting other people come in and muck around with shitty barely working mods. Not that people necessarily still do wide-scale show up and start building mutators, anymore: most would rather get paid by the hacks to do "blockbusters." As per Gibson: "The street find's it own uses for things," and it's that ability of the street to do so that gives long renewing interest into the thing. Either let oneself be reborn again and again, or die of certain irrelevancy.

cubancigar11 12y ago
Skyrim mods are more than content packs. There is one that converts it into a 3D platformer, one that converts it into a puzzle game and one that converts it into an FPS by giving everyone a gun. At some point you have to consider the fact that there really isn't much left to do in FPS. When Quake and HL came we were still in infancy. While CS survived every other mod died a horrible death in neglect. People now know what sucks. And what doesn't has been honed to perfection and there really isn't much left to do anymore. If you want to see modding don't look at FPS, look at Minecraft.