Have you ever purchased a game older than 1 year because you wanted to play a certain mod(s) that required it?

If a mod looks really good for an old game I don't have, I'll seriously consider picking said game up, especially if it's cheap.

I love breathing life into older games...
Just wish I had more time to play...

yeah, the last one was doom 3.

Most of the mods I want to play I already own the game for. HL, HL2, Doom3, Quake4, Diablo2... Yeah...so no, I really haven't.

1.How old does a game have to be before it's considered old?
2.For me it was Red Alert 2:Yuri's Revenge,the mod was Mental Omega.

I got some of the old Unreal tournament games just to play the mods, I don't actually like the gameplay in plain unreal tournament.

I buy Old games regardless, although I got back into GTA:SA just for mods.

older games were when software house`s cared about what they released now they just shove it out and you fix it with patch`s so long live mods.

im going to buy doom 3 soon, because of the dark mod.

Works with the Steam version :D

I would say "possibly yes". Usually I don't get a game just for one mod but there can be exceptions if the mod really is a blast... especially if the games can be obtained from a bargain bin.

I did but only ever for the original HL mods like CS and TFC.

Now however theres tooo many crap mods.

Of course..!!
I also found Deus EX for 99p the other day :O

2-5 years.

Battlefield 2142 for First Strike.

nEVER DONE IT BUT i WOULD.

I bought Wolf3D to play trench warfare, it was worth it ;)

Half-Life 1 for Natural Selection

CS:S for Smod:Tactical
And Doom 3 For the Doom Classic mod, it's nearly better than the original Doom 3.

i've bought bf1942 a year ago for the mod fh

Half-Life for Temporal Cold War. Still waiting for it. :D

Nope, but i will Buy Crysis when MechWarriors Living Legends comes.

I never have any money to buy games

I've purchased games that are 10 years old for some mods.

UT and HALFLIFE mods are some of the best going.

and also... dont forget the good old unreal1

when me and my mates where like 10 - 12 we used to sit down and modifie the monsters to hate each others and mod there ablitys. then make a simple battle ground and make them fight to the death :)

soooooooo many hours :)

bought half life, for paranoia.... it was so worth it! and since have played many other mods for hl.

I purchased old 1-5 years games old because they seemed fun, not necessarily to try mod.

I have never done it but I could buy Far Cry just to play The Delta Sector

I bought another HL1 just to play Sven Coop over steam. -So now i got 1 for the world and 1 for only LAN-games.

It doesn't matter for me how old a game is if i see and like a mod, The only thing the matter is how much money i have over...

Yea, i bought hl1 for brainbread lol

I got BF2 for a lot of great mods, same goes for Unreal Tournament 2004. I often don't buy games at release, because there are no mods for them. Once I see mods, e.g. for Crysis getting ready, I'll definately be buying Crysis.
So yeah - I JUST buy the games for the mods and often don't even play the original game at all.

I'm going to buy CS:S for Insurgency and maybe I'll make a couple of maps too :D

Yeah, buying old games to play mods is good. The games are usually pretty cheap and being able to play the associated mods makes it well worth the price. Recently we got Battlefield 2 so we would be able to play Forgotten Hope 2. Next it looks like we're going to have to get a copy of Deus Ex so that we will be able to play The Nameless Mod when it releases in January (and you should too!)

I've never bought old games for mods, but I have bought older games, I actually bought Deus Ex in a pack without knowing anything about it, but it's my favourite game now.

Voted no, but on second thought I bought Postal 2 Share the Pain about two years ago just for a mod. However, I already had the regular version of Postal 2, but if I hadn't had that, I would've bought Postal 2 Share the Pain for the mod and the game itself instead of just for the mod. Hope that made sense. :P If a certain Max Payne 1 mod ever gets finished I plan on buying that game just for the mod.

2-5 years for me. Unreal Tourney for that take on CS that I can't recall the name of.

Guess Half life 2 counts for me, I bought the Goty version in 2006 for a mod.

Old games ROCK......an mods of them are awsome.... YAY SVEN/AS/KF/etc

UT2004 for Killing Floor and all those other klew mods/mutators.