Is, of course the PC. I know, I know, my nerd is showing. But I love getting other people to recognize the greatness that is PC gaming over the tripe of consoles. You pay less for your games, you can scale your graphical settings to optimize your frame rates, you can upgrade your hardware over time for less than the cost of the newest console (and get better performance than the console as well), most of your input is all superior digital controls instead of analog, and then there's the mods. I got to introduce someone to the glory that are mods today, which blew his freaking mind.
After you've payed for your game (that was cheaper than the console's) and had it for a while, you can change your game experience to be something completely different. If the game you bought was fairly popular, and it's code reasonably accessible, some basement-dwellers will inevitably get together and make some crazy total conversion mod for it, and release it to the unsuspecting public for free. Which, for all intents and purposes, gives you a whole new game for free. Jackpot!
So in the interest of getting this guy some more recommendations, Here's a small list of some of my favorite total conversion mods out there (in no particular order):
1. The Allied Intent Extended mod for the game Battlefield 2.
This mod is insane. It adds more than two dozen new vehicles, three dozen new weapons and pieces of equipment, and about a similar number of new maps, with an original soundtrack to boot! The gameplay has also been tweaked somewhat and the mod team even fixed a number of bugs and glitches the vanilla game had issues with. What's exceptional about this mod, is that it was made with the idea of strengthening the multiplayer co-op experience. My friends and I still play this at LAN parties to this day. Just check out their website for more info and to download the client and server files.
2. Priboi Story mod for the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl.
STALKER is one of the best games I have played in the last few years, but is suffered from a feeling of being slightly unfinished. This mod not only fixes bugs, but unlocks content that was cut from the final game, adds oodles of boomsticks and goodies, improves the environment and visuals, but also a new storyline with new characters as well. The idea of this mod is like an unofficial epilogue and expansion to the original game, but it manages to accomplish so much more. The mod is just so well done, you would think the content was made by professionals. Heck, it probably was.
3. Sacrifice of Angels 2 mod for the game Sins of A Solar Empire.
Do you hate the fact that no good Star Trek games have been released in the past few years? Well, the day is yours!!! What do you get when you take an under-appreciated space RTS and convert everything in it to be like Star Trek? A full-on nerd-gasm, that's what! This mod is every trekkie's dream. Careful, though. This game is a major time-waster. We played this at a LAN party once, and it took us around 6 hours just to finish one round. So yeah, definitely not for those without honor. Qapla'!
4. Nehrim: At Fate's Edge mod for The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion
I never really liked RPG's that much, that is, until I played Oblivion. Now, as much I liked that game, I think this mod actually rivals it in everything. Forget anything you know about the world of Oblivion, because none of it makes an appearance in this mod. It has it's own landscape, lore, story, and characters. This incredibly detailed world was what the modders called 'hand crafted', in other words, nothing was auto-generated at all. I will only warn that this mod was done by a German dev team, so the only English is in the subtitles. But, just like a good foreign film, it's worth every minute.
The possibilities of mods are nearly endless, and these ones just scratch the surface. Well, I could go on, but it's getting late. Hope you appreciate the recommendations. Ta ta for now.
Oh yeah, and here's a list of my favorite mod hosting sites:
http://www.gamefront.com/
http://www.fileplanet.com/
http://www.moddb.com/
After you've payed for your game (that was cheaper than the console's) and had it for a while, you can change your game experience to be something completely different. If the game you bought was fairly popular, and it's code reasonably accessible, some basement-dwellers will inevitably get together and make some crazy total conversion mod for it, and release it to the unsuspecting public for free. Which, for all intents and purposes, gives you a whole new game for free. Jackpot!
So in the interest of getting this guy some more recommendations, Here's a small list of some of my favorite total conversion mods out there (in no particular order):
1. The Allied Intent Extended mod for the game Battlefield 2.
This mod is insane. It adds more than two dozen new vehicles, three dozen new weapons and pieces of equipment, and about a similar number of new maps, with an original soundtrack to boot! The gameplay has also been tweaked somewhat and the mod team even fixed a number of bugs and glitches the vanilla game had issues with. What's exceptional about this mod, is that it was made with the idea of strengthening the multiplayer co-op experience. My friends and I still play this at LAN parties to this day. Just check out their website for more info and to download the client and server files.
2. Priboi Story mod for the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl.
3. Sacrifice of Angels 2 mod for the game Sins of A Solar Empire.
4. Nehrim: At Fate's Edge mod for The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion
I never really liked RPG's that much, that is, until I played Oblivion. Now, as much I liked that game, I think this mod actually rivals it in everything. Forget anything you know about the world of Oblivion, because none of it makes an appearance in this mod. It has it's own landscape, lore, story, and characters. This incredibly detailed world was what the modders called 'hand crafted', in other words, nothing was auto-generated at all. I will only warn that this mod was done by a German dev team, so the only English is in the subtitles. But, just like a good foreign film, it's worth every minute.
The possibilities of mods are nearly endless, and these ones just scratch the surface. Well, I could go on, but it's getting late. Hope you appreciate the recommendations. Ta ta for now.
Oh yeah, and here's a list of my favorite mod hosting sites:
http://www.gamefront.com/
http://www.fileplanet.com/
http://www.moddb.com/
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