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[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

NGL, the vast majority of these fan-games and crazy large mods have been beyond disappointing.

EDIT: Except for Fnaf fangames those are lit for some reason.

[–] wccrawford@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago (4 children)

And "100 developers working on it" doesn't mean much when they're unpaid and there's no lower limit on how much they have to actually contribute.

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In fact, it often seems like the more unpaid contributors in an unstructured organization the worse the product. Like Starbound or Fallout: The Frontier.

[–] degen@midwest.social 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ugh Starbound was supposed to be so sick. That might be the only time I actually bought into early access hoping for more and got let down.

[–] IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] degen@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago

I had a lot of high hopes for what it was striving to be, but it kind of fizzled out and never really excelled at any particular thing. Not saying it's necessarily bad, I just remember being so hyped about it.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago

A tale of a quantity of cooks in a designated room comes to mind.

I used to cut my teeth on modding, and I was even part of a team. You think elementary school groups were bad, where one person carried the whole team? Yeah... That's modding.

The challenge is that its volunteering.

It's volunteers trying to Project Manager AND contribute AND be encouraging. Because the moment someone gets "too" serious, you leave.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

More than likely it's a long the lines of "you get Cell x, y" on the map.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So it's going to be a mess of mismatched art styles?

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

No idea. That's just usually how mods like this get doled out.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

As someone that couldn’t get into modern fallout games, but actually loved going back to 1 and then 2, this just sounds like 2 but worse.

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Personally, I'd probably prefer to see Fallout 3/4/NV converted to an isometric turn-based engine.

However, I know I'm old and have a niche opinion on such things, so I genuinely wish them good luck :)

[–] Bogusmcfakester@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I like your internet moniker sir

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

Thank you, and likewise. It's good to know I'm not the only person using a pseudonym. I guess everyone else is using their real names :)

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 4 points 5 months ago

Nehrim and Enderal for Oblivion and Skyrim respectively are both phenomenal.

[–] PostaL@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Black Mesa was also good

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You’re looking in the wrong places

Wars of Liberty is the best way to play Age of Empires and even has competitions strictly on the mod

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 0 points 5 months ago

Exceptions usually prove the rules.