Comments - drunkymonkey

Holy crap, I'mma going to install this. It looks mint.

The site for Sands of War is down!

The thing is, when you mod a game, you already have the foundations of it laid out by the people who originally made the game you are modifying. You don't have to work on merchanics, and if you are designing it to be based oin the same universe, you don't even have to make any new skins or models.
Also, you don't have to have a huge team to make something effective. Half-Life was made by a small group of people, as were games like Quake and Doom. Have you seen the people from Double Fine? They are a small group of people, and their game, Psychonauts, is as gripping and excellent as any game with a mammoth sized team you care to mention.
Yes, the modders tend to have less experience (albeit with more creativity), and yes, they're not getting paid for it, but look at Minerva. It's a quality game, and while it has hardly any new content, it builds on a great game, making it, in my humble opinion, even better. And only ONE person makes that. Imagine what ten (which I believe is the average size of a modding team nowadays), could do, even if they are creating new content.
As far as the budgets go; if you are making a mod you don't need to shell out on a graphics engine, it's already supplied for you. No-one seriously expects you to get voice actors, and in any case, it can be just as effective if you do it yourself (the voices in HL2CTF are all custom made, using one of the team). You can actually make money from the project, by letting advertisers on your website (I know that it costs money to fund a website, but you get my point).
So, yes, I think they should be compared, because they are all games, and you have the most important parts set out for you when you begin to make your mod. That's the thing with mods, it all comes down to the quality and consistancy of the finished product, not some marketing mumbo jumbo.

It's totally awesome, the new chapter is really quite good. The ending, with that hint about what the next one will be, well, I'm wetting myself already.

I'd certainly like to try this, please. I used to playtest for Half Life 2 Capture the Flag.

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Yeah, this mod's humour is definitely inspired by Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett.
Downloading now.

I'm going to give this mod a spin. I've been eyeing it for a while, and there's a large gap in my mod database where a mod like this should really fill.

It will be fun playing as a girl. Just make sure you get the cosmetics done like the hands and the weapons and you should be onto a winner :)