Hello peeps! It's me again! Things have been pretty slow and steady here for the most part... some more progress on The Wastes and the money rolling in from my job that I landed a few months back keeps me afloat for the time being. Other than that, I've been thinking about perhaps working more on Particle Fusion just to get a nice new piece of media for you guys to oogle at. It's not much, but at least it shows that I'm still interested in my project!
Now, I said in the title that I had a rant (which I do) so here it is... One thing I always liked to do when I first discovered this site several years ago was scroll through the recently updated mods and be in awe with how many great things people were making with older engines including GoldSource. I don't really get that feeling much anymore because people just aren't making anything NEW nowadays... The only really original project I've seen in the past few years is the Half-Rats series (which looks wonderful, by the way!) and that's pretty much it! Where has all the creativity gone? Why aren't people making actual mods or total conversions anymore? Why are all the "mods" just lazy compilations of models from various sources or stupid texture replacement packs for the base game? This doesn't take effort! All it requires is just the ability to google for stupid models to replace the ones you want to get rid of! These all also look absolutely awful in the base game(s) as well considering that the level design doesn't keep up the pace with the upgraded models... I'm wondering if modding really is dead for these old games now since there's hardly ever a diamond in the rough anymore. It seems that the creative force behind those wonderful mods in the past have moved on to bigger and better things nowadays, leaving people like me with nothing to go crazy over.
That's the end of my rant for the time being. Peace out.
Megan
