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2004 Mod of the Year Awards
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2004 Mod of the Year Results ARE IN!
Each year we see a flurry of 'Game of the Year' awards features. We have even seen some 'Mod of the Year' awards, however, they have often been small uneventful features, judged by a few biased reporters and limited to one game. Not anymore; 2004 marks the first year when the public who make and play the mods out there get to decide which are the best going round.
Two competitions will be run:
- Finding the best released mods from each genre (i.e. action, adventure, strategy, etc.)
- Finding the best mod designers, the talent within the community (ie. best models, website, animations, etc.)
The outcome will be interesting; will the next-generation mods on the next-generation engines prevail or will the old classics come through with the goods? Will the popular games with tons of mods win by masses of numbers, or will the games with a few mods fuelled by cult followings prove a force to be reckoned with? Well January 2005 has come and gone so the results are in!
Mods of 2004
After 2 months, 8 thousand votes and 1.4 million mod profile visitors, the 2004 Golden Spanner Mod of the Year Awards have been decided, by you the visitors and gamers who know best. Read on for the results & analysis!
Posted by INtense! on Jan 5th, 2005 digg this super bookmark
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3rd. Project Revolution
Project Revolution is a WarCraft3 : Frozen Throne Mod, that will turn StarCraft:BroodWar into 3D. With the release of the new Website comes a nifty gift to the community: Spinners. Spinners are gif animations of our Unit models, turning them 360°, so you can take a close look at them from every angle. And what a great view is too.. great models and this award is certainly deserved and great to see a non-FPS mod receive such recognition!
2nd. MechMod
The Mechmod team has already released a primary Alpha 1.0 version of the mod, which was based on mechs taken from the Gundam and Macross/Robotech series. Alpha 1.0 was a 'test' release which the team put together while waiting for Half-Life 2 to go public, and the Alpha is also considered as a stepping stone towards something much bigger and with sweet huge mech-models who can complain?
1st. Insurgency
The Insurgency team spends a lot of time perfecting all of our art so that it looks great ingame and makes the game feel realistic not only in the way its played but how it looks. There are a lot of people working on the art, whether it be models or skins in the mod, to make it look as good as it does. There's Spydr, who did most of the weapon models, Fiblah who did quite a few, Spezz who did a couple, and Jeremy who did some. However, the models would be nothing if it weren't for the wonderful skinners on the team; DarkNemesis, Polygon, and Seth. Jeremy spends lots of time perfecting the character models to make them how they will eventually turn out by the time the mod will release. Expect the artwork to only improve as the time ticks down to release. From hanging in the teams chat room they appreciate all of you who appreciate all of our hard work in the artwork/modelling part of the mod!
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W00t! What an excellent feature! I love the looks of SC2.
Congrats to all.
leetcaxe
Good job!
Congrats!
Congratulations to all of the winners!
Although, IOS should be #1 Sports Game. It appears people crowded around to vote RO for every award on here ;)
Red Orchestra doesn't look like it has the slightest thing to do with sports...
As much as I love RO, I don't think there's anything to do with sports.
Unless there's some soccer mini game hidden in there somewhere...
congrats to all the mods featured here and especially to red orchestra the whole mod team and all of the ex devs (polygon merca jeremy) deserve praise for their work on ro and because of them red orchestra has gotten to this point. Once again congratulations to all mods and I myself am wondering why moddb counts ro as a sports mod lol
Red Orchestra won the Best Sports Mod award since its profile quite clearly stated it to be a Sports mod. This has since been corrected, but to adjust the votes would badly skew everything else. Sorry guys!
Great article/awards :D
Strange that there were no roleplaying-mods though.
Well, we're really sorry - RO was logged as a "Sports mod" sometime back in the dim and distant past. Since been corrected, but obviously too late for the comp!
International Online Soccer and Deathball should be read as being in 1st and 2nd places in their category, really...
A quick correction from the RO team:
We have won the FPS prize for Phases 2, 3 and 4 of the MSU contest, plus some sound prizes - but not the whole thing! We wish :) But the winners haven't been announced on that one yet and we still have our fingers crossed!
Congratulations to all of the winners, and Red Orchestra in particular! Like I said in my previous comment, this mod really stands out from other WWII games. I'll be sure to check out some of the other mods in those categories, some of them look really interesting. Once again, congrats to all of the modmakers - your creative products make the 'gaming industry' much more interesting and colorful. GG!
no RPG's where nominated ?
you gota be kidding me !!!
i voted for a RPG, so the vote counts - and i think, a dozen other people voted for RPG's too
this spanner award thing is so stupid...even a WW2 mod got 1st at Sports (!!!!)
Galactic conquest didnt even get a mention. How on earth can people not even mention galactic conquest. its a damn travisty.
On behalf of Game-Panel.com, we would like to congratulate all of the mods, we hope that with these awards and our sponsorship here, will help the mod community in receiving recognition on all the hard work that you do. Congrats to the winners, we will see you here again in 2005!
bring on the riots and arguements i say :D happens every year, only this year i have to say the results reflect the voice of 8,000 gamers and i believe they got it all pretty spot on.
hopefully next year the results will reflect the voice of 16,000 gamers and prove an even more accurate reflection of everyones voice and opinion
And also next year, people will have their profiles correct. :P
Congrates to Sven-Coop 2 and Red Orchestra for winning their respective awards, and also to all the other winners in the categories they were nominated for. Good Job guys!
Congrats to the winners and good work to the organizers. Didn't even know about UT2004's Utopia Online and that looks pretty cool. Pity Snow War HL didn't get mentioned, but the results leave me no reason to riot. Well, maybe just for the fun of it.... *grabs a crowbar & flame thrower*
whats so great about sven coop for HL? I played it for awhile and it got repetitive really fast
Woah! I'm surprised :D
Congratulations, but I still can't believe SS2845 lost to a graphics remake of SC! Nooo!!! Congratulations all the same. ^_^
Congrats Guys. :D
wow, not the results i expected but 'as voted by you!'
fuckin lame
you people have no taste whatsoever
Well, while the moddb team worked hard, i mean the following as constructive criticism:
1) you guys really should have noticed the Red Orchestra as sports mod thing. I don't agree adjusting anything would skew anything - RO should be disqualified from the sports category, and put in the action category instead, as it should be, not as first, but depending on it's votes.
2) what the hell is Xel'Naga Vengeance doing as the 3rd best RTS mod??? The Mod was closed down by the copyrights holders Blizzard, and never finished. That ALONE would be sufficient to desqualify it from the 2004 Mod Awards. I understand wanting fans to decide this, but one thing is being unbiased, another one is being unreasonable.
As understandable, since this is voted by fans, they tended to only care about the bigger mods, or be a bit weird. The three best websites are not bad, far from it, but they aren't anything special either. There are A LOT of better websites out there, i work at webdesign professionally, i do know what i'm talking about.
And since when does Cold War Crisis (best model textures) have better model textures than Forgotten Hope, Point of Existence, SS2845, or any major FPS mod for that matter??? The only reason they look so good from other Generals mods is because they're using skins with much higher resolutions than the other mods, which really taxes your computer, but of course that isn't taken into account in this vote...
The fan issues i can understand, there are weird choices here, just what people like (every half-assed Starcraft mod would make this list if it were up to the fans). But the two issues i raised above are the responsability of the ModDB crew, and should have been adressed prior to this.
Still, good job ModDB crew, here's to a great 2005 full of great mods! :)
I thought screwed up voting was just something that Florida was good at. The sports mod gaffe certainly showed a lack of professionalism but then to brush it off and not make things right?! Really invalidates your contest. Shame on you.
I didn't expect RA would take second place for level design, considering I did the levels for it, along with the buildings... Many thanks to those who voted for us!
It's a disgrace that IOS is put into second place by a WW2 mod to be honest.
So....2004 awards where the winner is not even in the right category :D
I think Counter Strike should have won the sports category...
This is fucking ridiculous. Where's the problem in just kicking Red Orchestra out of the competition since it's a freaking WW2 Mod. Is it so much work to set IOS as winner?
new HL2/HL mods cleaned up rather nicely.
great job to all the teams featured here.
no comment to the sports category
it is only shaming
RENalert SUX, AIRCRAFTKILLER DOESN'T EVEN SUPPORT THE RENEGADE ENGINE NOW AND DISS's IT WHENEVER HE HAS THE CHANCE.
WHY SHOULD THIS MOD BE RELATED TO RENEGADE WHEN THE TEAM LEADER DOESN'T GIVE A STUFF?>???
DIE IN HELL ACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Natural Selection > almost all commercial games and mods.
This is so stupid.... a worldwar2 mod in a sport competition... can't you just see that it's not a sport game? Is it so hard to understand it and to erase it from the competition? IOS rulez.
Ok you guys are right, and we have caved in to the pressure.. its just wrong to have Red Orchestra as best sports mod when it clearly isn't a sports mod at all...
hence the sports mod results have now been corrected and has made the top 3!! Furthermore, has been moved to its rightful category 'Action Mods' and given an equal 1st position with Sven-Coop!
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@ INtense: thanks for clearing that up for everyone, mate, and apologies from the RO crew for the misunderstanding! It was one of those dumb things that happen...
Thanks for doing the right thing and declaring ios as winner.
meant moddb of course :<
Congratulations to everyone !! :D Nice Work!!
Glad to see you guys came around, INtense. Nicely done :)
Kind of nitpicking here but is mixing up mods with total cinversions really recognizing the work and quality thats put into these projects? No one is a bigger HL2 fan than I am but lets face it, voting HL2 Sven over the Starsiege TS as well as the W3 TS just screams popularity contest. The latter two have an enourmous amount of new assets made specifically for the game and implemented in such a way that its impossible to tell that these were done by "amateur" teams.
I think modding is evolving into its own sub-genres and perhaps we need to start recognizing that.
You do have a point, but where do we draw the line? That's the issue here.
Furthermore, you have to realize "fan awards" are basically just a popularity contest, otherwise you wouldn't have stuff like Cold War Crisis winning Best Model Textures, or The First Tiberium War and Xel'Nagas Vengeance as the 2nd and 3rd Best RTS Mods. For example, PlanetC&C recently reviewed Tiberium War and they got 55% gameplay, 65% overall, and mine, for example, Capellan Solution, got 95% gameplay, and 85% overall.
People just voted on them because they are a mod of the original C&C (a big classic in gaming), and the other a Starcraft mod, which IMO should have been desqualified because they were closed down, and will never be finished. Like i said in a previous post, every half-assed Starcraft mod will make this list if it's up to the fans. These depend heavily on the base material (known franchises, for example).
It's great to see stuff in there like Ghost Ops, Natural Selection, HL Rally, and ZooW, just to name a few.
Bottom line, in fan awards you will get what's more popular (you see here mods based on Dragonball Z, Starcraft, Star Wars, WWII, Matrix). I don't consider these awards to feature the best modding has to offer, just the most popular. And as you know, sometimes what's popular is the best, sometimes it's just hype.
I don't want anyone to think this is a rant at any particular mod, i am just stating my point of view - the winners are to be congratulated, and winning this is great. Just don't read this thinking they are modding's "best of the best", because several of them aren't.
I probably shouldve read more closely. Wasn't aware that it was reader driven numbers. Given that, I'm surprised SS showed up.
I think modding is evolving into its own sub-genres and perhaps we need to start recognizing that.
This is a very real problem we faced / considered and as stated perfectly, a line needs to be drawn somewhere. In the end we decided to go with the feature you see here whereby people vote for mod of the year and also for different design elements (best models, maps etc..). This does mean that the competition largely ends up as a popularity contest, however to have sub-categories and break it down further would just result in an even more confusing system with 300 winners.
The aim of this comp was to recognise the best mods irrelevant of game, and i believe we have done that quite well.
We allowed you to suggest mods to us and we would select what we thought was good and bad and didnt have you the user vote. This was our first year doing that.
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