Mods of 2006 - Player's Choice feature - MINERVA Mod for Half-Life 2

No idea how Red alert 3 got the strategy award. Probably because it is completed. Cold War Crisis and Tiberian Sun rising will blow it away next year for sure :p

I also agree, there should be a scoreboard!

We're trying to work out the best way to show a scoreboard. Instead of actual vote numbers it's probably going to be a rank (ie Ranked x in MotY 06)

wtf that couldent be the mod of the year that mod suucks i wish ther ebe at least a better game the mod it was for

i think the 5th place 11 shoulda won or arshura dark regein shouda gotton best unreleased award

BTW just to reitterate for those that kinda missed the point (maybe I am just misjudging you all ;P) but these results are from the player vote, so the only people to blame are yourselfs (and each other :paranoid:).

The simple reason for this maybe that no other mods of that catagory got into the top 100, therefore the vote defaulted to the Phase 1 voting. The MDB voting system is rather complex to prevent haxxoring and rigging of the votes.

Congrats to all that won :D !!

And the voiceover of the year award goes to: Stuffie! Or methulah. Or Intense. There are just too many sexy voices on those videos.

Congratulations to all mods, where would modDB be without you, winners or not? And congrats to ModDB of course, a particularly successful MOTY this year! Awesome work :)

**** the navy!

w00t PoE2 won ^^
i knew it!!!
woot woot,
this was all fun :)
and good job moddb staff.
that must have taken some nerve to sort through all that stufff.
but all in all, you guys did a good job managing this :)

I just can't wait for the Standalone game of the year and the editors choice awards. The game I'm looking for is a standalone, and I would liek to see how the experts here judge the mods.

Woah some lookin good mods. I was gonna see the awards when there was a hour left but fell asleep.

Awh...Drawn to be Alive didn't make it, anyway, good luck to another year of modding guys.

V|GO didn't win anything.

=D

All the MARIO KART SOURCE team thanks all people who vote for us to make the mod in the top100.

Congratulation for the others, you guys do nice job.

As happy as I am for BF2142 gamers that they'll be getting a star wars experience, I can't help but think that Galactic Conquest, the old Star Wars BF42 mod, will be able to kick First Strike's butt up and down the street. Galactic Conquest was a masterpiece, and I don't think it's going to back down from being the best star wars mod out there right now. Who knows, though, First Strike may just surprise me. Here's to the future gents.

Congrats to Black Mesa and POE2, voted for both of you :D

Cheers, means a lot to us. I do think Stuffie wins the sexy voice award, though.

Some of the blurbs that were read were a little chewed up and grammatically.. unsound. Plus many of the recorded voices were faint and hard to easily understard.

Disappointing. Roll on 2007 awards....

sorry, but for me prm and poe2 aren't mods. Just skins, maps, balance of weapons. For me mods fix and improve the game, tho mode of the game. They can be a expasion pack, but for to be a mod they need very more creative.

Wow. Point of excistance looks great. Congratulations to them. :)

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I am totally happy about MOTY 2006, and gosh, Rumpel is gonna be happy when he hears about his success. ******* cool!

Warsow team is very pleased to reach the 2d place of Standalones category playr's choice award.
Tks for the cash and for the big work, MODB team =)
overall, tks for the votes and for your support, gamers !

Solomonk - Warsow founder

Ok...I could hardly understand the commentary, and thus have a few tips so that you don't sound like a goose when trying to do audio commentary on the mods in the videos.

Firstly, plan what you're going to say, because it sounded like you were making stuff up on the spot, and words were being jumbled around, things didn't make sense.

Talk like you mean it...it sounded so monotonous and boring, I really was pretty much awake before, but after about 2mins into one of the videos, I found myself getting very bored and was yawning very badly. Fix this by emphasising some points, like instead of saying "The great thing about this mod is that it gives players something different to play, and yadayada yada" say "The GREAT thing about this mod...is that it gives players something DIFFERENT to play"...just a simple little bit of emphasis on words can make a huge difference in the outcome of your speech, and it won't be plain, boring, flat, and monotonous. Also...get EXCITED about what you're talking about...even if you arent excited, pretend like what you are talking about is the greatest thing you've ever seen...trust me..it works.

Confidence in your voice ALWAYS helps, right now I hear alot of voice wobbling, which tells me you're in a rush, and that you arent really sure what you're saying or something, I dunno, but it DOES NOT sound like you guys are confident when talking, and this shows, AND it makes the speech sound really ...uninteresting. So this kinda fits into the Talk like you mean it category, you have to talk with a loud and clear voice, you have to talk slower than normal, and you have to have a smoother deeper voice...even if your voice is rough and croaky like mine, it still helps to talk CLEARLY, because in those videos, I couldnt understand half of what was being said.

I guess the last thing to do would be to know what you're talking about, at one stage, it sounded like one of the commentators were simply basing their opinions off what the trailer for the mod showed..and that told me nothing...getting a few basic points down about the story of the mod and the features is about all that is needed for a good quick description of the mod.

I think the black mesa commentator was one of the worst (sorry man :( )...It just DID NOT sound like he knew what he was talking about...heck, it sounded like me in a higher pitched unconfident wobbly voice when i've just been woken at 3am because someone has called me and wants to know about a game I don't really even know anything about. Maybe these points will help whoeever that was.

Oh...there was also profanity in some of the commentary, words like "bitch" and "sh*t", "f*ck", and comments like "totally awesome", "sweet", "cool" just sound so unprofessional and childlike, this is also why I thought the comments were made up on the spot, because it sounded like people were getting a little excited and going off on their own tangent....you can't do that in this sort of thing.

I hope that has helped, and I really am not saying this to be a downput, I'm saying this as constructive criticism for the future ;)
I look forward to seeing an improvement in the video commentary later this year.

I totally agree with you natace25. We are learning and thats the main thing. This was our first attempt at a big video feature, we tried to mix it up with different voices and ended up biting off more than we can chew.

We've learnt a great deal and will take all of that with us when creating our next video feature.

I'm a big fan of Half-life 2, so I can't wait for Black Mesa: Source and Insurgency XD XD

"It's all bloody the same, right?"

You said it. What a load of BS.

ummm is it just me and my monitor or is there a typo on the first line?? "Every time you read one of these "Best of the Year Awards" features, you always hear the same >stpry.<" ??!!?!?
the word story seems to be ^ ^
wrong but hey i read the whole thing and liked it!

Looking back at all of my PerfectDark MISSION'S, now knowing that the one's I wanted to Show, I can't and are the Future, and are still CLASSIFIED.

Looking back at all of my PerfectDark MISSION'S, now knowing that the one's I wanted to Show, I can't and are the Future, and are still CLASSIFIED.