2008 Mod of the Year Awards
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Welcome to the 7th Annual Mod of the Year Awards - the premiere event that celebrates the best creations within the modding and indie gaming scene. Developers have poured their blood, sweat and tears into creating new gameplay experiences that truly "change the game". Now its time for the gamers to voice
their opinions and select their top picks of the year.
**Presenting the 2008 Winners**
From now until Feb 28th, the MOTY will present to you the cream of the crop for 2008 as voted by the public. The top mods and games will win the honors of being placed alongside other projects that have gone on to become commercial successes and cement their place in ModDB's hall of fame. And to the winner goes the spoils; ModDB has teamed up with a whole lineup of sponsors that have provided prizes ranging from software to servers to commercial engines. Everything to help budding developers excel at their craft.
2008 Upcoming Mod of the Year Winners
After 114,000 votes, you have chosen this years best upcoming mod.
Posted by INtense! on Feb 28th, 2009
Event Coverage
Everyday, ModDB's front page fills with news of recent development updates for projects on every platfrom. Many mods have recognized ModDB as the #1 contributor to the well-being of the community around their mod. The gathering of both gamers and developers that make up our audience and the easy accessibility to them have been the main tenets behind ModDB's success.
The players' choice awards were designed to gauge which mods and indie games hold the most clout among ModDB's community. 2008 saw a large number of quality projects come to fruition, with yet many more to see an eventual release in 2009. The mods listed here are the top five choices ModDB members are anticipating. We've already seen one release since the close of voting (Mideast Crisis 2) and there's a very good chance we'll see the rest release sometime this year.
Honorable Mentions
We would like recognize the mods Black Mesa (Half-Life 2) and Mechwarrior Living Legends (Crysis) who both polled extremely strongly and would have made the top 5. However, because each has already made this list in past years, they are ineligible from making the top 5 again in this category.
5.Third Age
Medieval 2: Total War
Third_Age wrote:'Third Age - Total War' is a total conversion modification for Medieval II: Total War that brings you into the world of Middle-Earth. The Production has been going since March 2008 and the mod is currently well under development and boasts a variety of new features:
Play epic and strategically demanding battles with the armies of middle earth and there respective heroes. An extensive playable campaign map of middle earth featuring locations taken straight from Middle Earth Lore. 12 unique factions, including Gondor, Rohan, High and Silvan elves, Dwarves, Eriador, Dale, Isengard, Mordor, Rhun, Harad and the Orcs of the Misty Mountains. There is lots more to discover including Improved AI, unique sounds, music, movies, custom artwork amoung many other new features. Nearing the last stages of development, with an active community, the Third Age is a must have for all fantasy and Lord of the rings fans alike.
Play epic and strategically demanding battles with the armies of middle earth and there respective heroes. An extensive playable campaign map of middle earth featuring locations taken straight from Middle Earth Lore. 12 unique factions, including Gondor, Rohan, High and Silvan elves, Dwarves, Eriador, Dale, Isengard, Mordor, Rhun, Harad and the Orcs of the Misty Mountains. There is lots more to discover including Improved AI, unique sounds, music, movies, custom artwork amoung many other new features. Nearing the last stages of development, with an active community, the Third Age is a must have for all fantasy and Lord of the rings fans alike.
4.Mideast Crisis 2
C&C Tiberium Wars
Mideast_Crisis_2 wrote:"Mideast Crisis 2"(MeC2) is a total conversion for "Command and Conquer 3: Tiberian Wars" by Isotx as the sequel to its "Command and Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour" conversion "Mideast Crisis". Isotx teamed up with Derelict Studios, in which the staff for MeC2 is largely composed out of core team members from past SAGE engine mods such as; Blitzkrieg 2, Halogen (now known as Asylum), Mideast Crisis and Rise of Rome. Features include 3 distinct factions; Israel Defense Forces, the Guardians of Islam and the UN Peacekeepers which you can play in both multiplayer and singleplayer spanning maps (and missions) from Beirut to Jerusalem. MeC2's gameplay focuses on occupation warfare within cities using 3 types of resources; money (from occupation taxes), fuel (from oil derricks and gas stations) and special ammunition (from ammo crates). We're also bringing back secondary resources in the form of; embedded reporters, settlements and hacking.
3.Renegade X
Unreal Tournament 3
Renegade_X wrote:Renegade X (formerly known as Renegade 2007) is a mod dedicated to recreating C&C Renegade in the new generation engine, the Unreal Engine 3. We all believe the Command and Conquer series is a very special one, and its fans have been following its games for over a decade now. C&C has been one of the most successful videogame series in the RTS Genre. Our modding team believes that C&C Renegade is truly a hidden gem in the FPS genre.
C&C Renegade's specialty was its multiplayer mode, because it was not mindless killing like most games. A player was thrown into a battle as soon as he joined a server, in which teamplay was the only way to win. The game revolves around a war between the Global Defense Initiative, and the Brotherhood of Nod. Each faction would have their own base of operations consisting of buildings. A team had to work together to destroy the enemy base, while keeping theirs intact. By simply switching engines, our team will have fixed many of C&C Renegade's faults. The original game had many problems such as bad netcoding, poor graphics, glitches, etc. Our main goal is to bring this great gameplay to the masses, all the graphical enhancements is merely just icing on the cake.
C&C Renegade's specialty was its multiplayer mode, because it was not mindless killing like most games. A player was thrown into a battle as soon as he joined a server, in which teamplay was the only way to win. The game revolves around a war between the Global Defense Initiative, and the Brotherhood of Nod. Each faction would have their own base of operations consisting of buildings. A team had to work together to destroy the enemy base, while keeping theirs intact. By simply switching engines, our team will have fixed many of C&C Renegade's faults. The original game had many problems such as bad netcoding, poor graphics, glitches, etc. Our main goal is to bring this great gameplay to the masses, all the graphical enhancements is merely just icing on the cake.
2.Neotokyo
Half-Life 2
Neotokyo wrote:Neotokyo takes place in and around a fictionalized Tokyo approximately 30 years in the future. Mankind has begun to fuse with technology. Government and corporate corruption have transformed Tokyo into a deadly dystopian nightmare. After a near-successful military coup by ranking members of Jinrai, the National Security Force (NSF) is formed - answering directly to the Prime Minister, it's mission is to investigate and eliminate all threats to Japan, both abroad and at home. The initial core of the NSF is made from an exodus from within the intelligence branch of the military. With this betrayal begins the war in the shadows between the NSF and Jinrai. Neotokyo is a first person shooter that aims to provide a visceral & realistic combat experience in a rich futuristic setting.
1.Dead Before Dawn
Left 4 Dead
Dead_Before_Dawn wrote:Dead Before Dawn features Crossroads Mall as a replica of the mall in the movie, Dawn of the Dead. Originally created for the HL2 Mod, No More Room in Hell but has since been undergoing major changes to be ported to Valve's Left 4 Dead. The campaign sports various locations from the movie, including:
- The Crossroads Mall
- Andy's Gunshop
- Anna's House
- The Park
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Congratioletions all mods!!! In my list 1st place gets NeoTokyo-you takes my mind,and you trailer blows my mind! Seriosly! It's the best trailer for mod when i ever seen!!!
This is possibly the weirdest and most unexpected outcome I've ever seen. Apparently I was wrong about MOTY. A mod for a turn-based strategy game in the top 5? A mod that doesn't have some obscene feature list and a rabid fanbase actually WINNING? I am speechless and completely impressed; well done.
You don't think L4D has a rabid fanbase? Congrats to darth_brush :D
what i dont understand is why would they have black mesa up during the voting stages if they never had a chance to win, i mean its understandable that they shouldn't be aloud to win again, but still.
Because we allow all maps to get an honorable mention and make the top 100.
Once they release they will be eligible to win the "Mod of the Year"
No CryENGINE² Mods in the Top 5. That is damn sad. And the winner of the "Best Upcoming Mod" is a map ... well I´m kinda speechless.
Mechwarrior Living Legends would have made the top 5, however because they placed high last year, they could not make it again.
I wonder though, even if the map pack can qualify as a mod, didn't left 4 dead come out late 2008, therefore disqualifying this to be even part of 2008 best mods?
apperently it's been development before left4dead, but that's besides the point, then it was different, now it's a left 4 dead "mod"(not rly) and that started late 2008... soooo sup?
Dead before Dawn was in development way before release by using Half-Life 2.
Stupid brad. Facts need to be voted down.
calling me a stupid brad isn't going to make people like you.
anyway I rested the subject pretty much, don't get all worked up about it.
I wasn't calling you stupid brad. I was telling myself I'm stupid for posting facts.
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I kissed a zombie and I liked it
Why all the negative Karma? I had a laugh reading this comment 8)
It's been overused and spammed all over the place, people care little for unoriginal comedic actions.
but being an internet hate machine never gets old...
Dead before Dawn took me be surprise, but well done to them especially anyway. :D
A map pack as the winner... there must be an error in the system. Whatever.
Congratulations Renegade X! Can't wait the mod come out.
Not exactly the results most of us were expecting I guess. Nevertheless, congrats to all the teams.
Congrats to the Black Mesa guys as well. Seems like MechWarrior: Living Legends is in good company ;)
awesome, dead before dawn rocks!
Dead Before Dawn; the Florida of MOTY '08.
First of all, that is a miscalculation. Second, this is the viewers choice. I doubt Intense or any other staff would give a left nut to only one specific mod. This is YOUR choice. Not one persons.
Again, this BS from everyone is what you get when you give people a choice.
No this is what you get when you give people choice in a matter that they barely actually have a choice in, then break your own rules and kick them in the crotch then run away without a reason why.
Ah maybe you should have re-read your post before you post it, there are a tonne of successful map packs with a story thrown in that have both won awards and be so very successful... Take for example Minerva and Portal Prelude. Both maps only with a separate launcher for them, both have won some awards, both had made a splash on the internet.
From what I can gather what your implying is that the staff somehow changed the rules of how an "UNRELEASED MOD" should go about developing for an SDK that is about to be released, and how this said mod should be handled within those said rules. The fact of the matter is that they are only working with what they have received officially, and they are counting themselves as a mod and until that point in time when an SDK can be released they will continue to do what ever they can to keep on developing the mod. Who are you to judge what they will do after the SDK is out? Who are you to deny the people who are making this mod the same right as Portal Prelude or Minerva? People had the choice to vote for released and unreleased mods and indie games, people have seen the work already put into this mod and they decided that it was worth there votes.
Also for all those people saying that it is a waist of prizes giving DBD a game engine I was not aware so many many people on the internet could tell the future. Who said any of the winning mods/indie games will use the same IP on the new engine? Who said anything about the potential of each of the winners? The winner is a shock I get that but this site prides itself on having a large number of respectable members of the community, don't tell me all that respect for fellow modders goes out the window when you don't get your way?
I'm more shocked by the overall attitude of most of these members, Duck Sauce I have to give props to you for correcting your harsh words and I would almost hope that everyone else would do the same...
After some discussion on the Jailbreak forums, I have something more to add to the discussion of what is a mod and what isn't a mod.
There are singleplayer mods that are in a way just map packs, like Dead before Dawn, but what they have definitely added is their own STORY, usually with dialogue, either written or voiced. And they have NPC's that are part of the story.
What does Dead before Dawn really have in this sense?
- Does it have new voices for the characters, to make them different and to make it suit more to the story of the movie it's based on?
- Does it have NPC's representing characters from the movie?
- Does it even modify skins to make the 4 L4D characters more like the movie characters?
- Does it have actual events from the movie happening?
- Does it modify or exclude zombies so it fits more like the movie?
If it has at least 1 or 2 of these things I suppose it could be considered a mod in the slightest sense, but if it doesn't then it's really Left 4 Dead on different maps that are based on the movie but without the story from the movie.
So basically maps from the movie, but with the Left 4 Dead story... infection, zombie hordes, francis, louis, bill and zoey have to survive and they're immune to the infection.
So conclussion: Even when a mod only really has maps, it should at least have it's own story. If it's the actual game just in a different map then it's really just that.. a MAP, even if billions vote for it, it's not a mod!
so assuming Dead before Dawn is just a map pack, and moddb is gonna really let it stay the winner, then tell ALL the MAPPERS in the whole wide WORLD should be told that all their maps can count as MODS from now on, because if not you're making a VERY wrong exception for this map pack, if you're gonna include this map pack, then do so for ALL maps out there, cause it's not fair to consider one map a mod while the other would in that sense be equally a mod.
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We were the ones that voted for it though =/
and I voted for NeoTokyo because NeokTokyo is not deceiving the awards by claiming they're a mod when they're not.
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Has it been released yet?
Can you be sure you know all the details of the mod?
Have you looked exactly what goes into making a L4D CAMPAIGN?
Not pretending to defend any of the choices of MODDB'S COMMUNITY, but simply stating that you should respect the winners and know what goes into making the mod if you want to hash out specifics and start introducing your own definitions. Please refrain from making broad assumptions. Thanks.
considering the L4D SDK ain't even out no one except valve can state what it's really like mapping for L4D afaik.
also you may have noticed I was asking if had those things in a questions form? and stating for both cases of whether it being a mod or not, without really saying OMG THIS ISN'T a mod, so how am I making assumptions?
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Your comments are aimed at introducing all sorts of technicalities that would serve to disqualify Dead Before Dawn (among many other mods) and make MOTY a convoluted mess of rules. The purpose behind player's choice is for people to individually discern the entertainment value behind all mods, no matter how small or large, and nominate/vote for their favorites.
Saying the winner isn't a mod is the most damaging assumption you can make provided you do not know all the information behind it or what goes into making a full campaign for L4D.
you got a point, btw further on top of the comments:
maybe an idea would be to consider naming all maps "mods" since there seems to be a very very thin line between what is simply a map and what a mod, also allowing all maps to be listed as mods would potentially increase the amount of people that will enter the larger modding community as a whole.
Also there's no denying that each map adds something new, even if's the same textures as the original game, in this aspect you could really consider every map a mod of some sort.
Have you gone to the Dead Before Dawn page? Have you remembered that the whole thing is being done by ONE mapper? and hes just MAKING the map? All he can do when the SDK comes out is add events that are default to L4D maps?
Letting a MAP win is saying that MODDB believes ALL L4D maps are mods, and that's garbage and shouldn't have even been considered for this award.
I seriously thought the admins here had more sense then that after all these years of MODDING.
You are damn right!
DBD isn´t a mod, so it IS against the rules to let it win here.
It is kinda sad that a TC lost to some mappack... =X
Thanks to those who voted for Neotokyo.
Great! Renegade-x made it in the top 5.
Also gratz all other mods :)
Dead Before dawn shouldn't be on there. Sure it's a good addon for L4D, but it doesn't modify anything whatsoever! It shouldn't be classified as a mod, it's a map pack!
I think its sad that the other people put so much work into there mods, only to be beaten by a map pack for a game that voters love just because it has zombies in it. Props to NeoTokyo and RenegadeX :]
********. Maps are not mods.
I must agree on that, ********, there is a great diffirence bitween maps and mods, this is no diffirent than a Counter-Strike map, it's still Counter-Strike but a new enviroment to play in same with this, a few new maps to play. So yeah, ********, that's what it is.
(I'm not saying that the maps are bad but it's clearly not a mod and therefore should not win or even enter at all.)
Fact is, this is what you guys voted for - members votes were the main determining factor for all the finalists you see. I bet everyone thinking Neotokyo should have won didn't cast their vote for it. The results weren't a landslide by any means.
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yeah
and how come they know that DBD is maps only. I mean it is not even released lol..
Valve never releases source code so you can make new weapons etc, for their multiplayer games.
Doesn't mean it can't be a mod just because additional code can't be added.
I said "yeah
and how come they know that DBD is maps only. I mean it is not even released lol.. "
sorry if you got me wrong
Let me restate; DBD is not released. Thus there is no way to tell if it is a mod or a map pack. So, How do you claim that it is just a map pack?
just so you know, I thought it should have won, or at least not be beat by a map pack and I definitely voted for it, both before the top 100 and also after in the second voting stages.
Also I wonder, if it won by so many votes, and long time member votes count for more, then there must have been an INSANE amount of people voting to overcome the votes of many longer time members here?
Also surprising to not see zombie panic source then, considering the amount of zombie fans?
why are you surprised that you didn't see ZP:S (A released mod) in the upcoming category?
woops haha!
I just committed the same mistake Jayjack made on the JB forums
he was like: WUT NO JB ON THE LIST?
then later: oh wait this is upcoming...
heh my fault
The prizes are aimed at game developers, not mappers. What is a map "team" going to use a game engine for?
I'm thinking that dead before dawn should get an honorable mention
Congrats guys you made it into the top 5!