What would you play?

[SOX]

Looking at successful mods like Team Fortress and the original CTF for Quake, there is obviously an X Factor that makes one mod rise above the rest.
Payload is my favourite new game mode of recent memory and it surprises me no one had thought of that before.

So I'm wondering, what gets you sucked into a mod?
Is it the polish?
The uniqueness of it?
Achievements?
Would you play on an older engine if the mod was fun enough (ie Quake 1)?

What would be your perfect mod/mode?

[AranchineD]

I think the one trap a lot of mods fall into is that they have perhaps an interesting gimmick...but the makers of the mod don't develop it into something more tangible, or into something that will be entertaining for a long while instead of just having novelty value for a little bit of time before people will get bored of it.

I guess in that sense you could call it wanting a mod to be polished, but then again I wouldn't mind playing a mod that isn't really polished if I can see it has potential for growth or for the modder to keep adding new, interesting things to it.


Oh, and yes, if a mod was fun enough I wouldn't care what game engine it runs on, no matter how old it may be.

[Clockw0rk]

The same thing that gets me sucked into any game - if it's fun to play.
The main mods I used to play were TF (the original Quake version) and CS,from 1.1 to 1.6. I was in boarding school when I played them and both had brilliant multiplayer, so chances are if you were in the hostel's computer room there'd be a game going.

[SOX]

It might not be obvious but I'm fishing for ideas to make (using Quake 1) so if we can come up with a solid design I'll make it a reality (currently making a Quake L4D mod, I've been working on it for 6 months but I'm starting to think once I finish that no-one will use it :/ BUT it has been a good learning experience)

[FX-GTZ]

It depends how the website rates a mod, i dont mean any website, say for example, one like this: http://www.hl2mods.co.uk/modsdetail.php?id=35, the highest rated and most interesting sounding mods is what i'll choose. Skip the weak and buggy mods until they are better fixed.

[McChimp]

I just bought UT3 specifically to try out mods. I'm a big fan of total conversions of games, giving a game a new, different 'coat of paint', so to speak. I find it interesting seeing people's ideas (sometimes) breathing new life into games that are a few years old, or series that haven't evolved much on the whole.

[TrinityJayOne]

Only mod I've really played is DotA. It attracted me because tower defense is fun (I'm a massive turtler in RTS games) and I really dig the Blizzard art style so there was no half-arsed graphics to burn your eyes with.