Mod Our Comments: More Mods for Game X!

Welcome back to another edition of Mod Our Comments! For those of you who missed out on last episode of our mad epopee to comment heaven, Mod Our Comments is our not-at-all-regular feature where we ask you, our ever dwindling but ever so awesome readerbase, what you think.

So, what is it this week?  This week, we want to know what games you really, really wish had more mods – either because there was never an SDK, or because nobody realised how awesome the game was, or for any number of depressing reasons.   So, tell us!  Tell us of the opportunities lost, the mods left unfinished, and the hopes dashed against the harsh rocks of the internet waves.  We want to know!

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Unmissable Mods Month: The Nameless Mod

The internet is a fabulous place.  Even filled with the most repugnant of the crazies, the scariest of the mad, and the most disturbing of the loonies, browsing our world wide web is somewhat akin to watching a car crash – it’s horrifying, and faintly traumatising, but you can’t help but stop and stare.

It’s also most definitely a place.  If you’re talking about Planet Deus Ex, the Deus Ex fansite that spawned The Nameless Mod, and its attached forum – affectionately named Forum City – then it’s in fact so much of a place, that it’s been entirely recreated, a long with all its twisted denizens.

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Unmissable Mods Month: The Cassandra Project

I’ll admit, of all the mods I championed while sitting around planning this list – all the crazy leftfield experimental stuff, and all the flawed beauties of the modding scene – this was the most difficult inclusion to justify. It went in and out of the list a few times when we were trying to free up some space at the end, but eventually I threw a bit of a petulant strop and demanded it make our Unmissable Mods feature. It’s not that the others think Cassandra’s bad, or anything. Clearly it’s not. It’s just that, y’know, it was never properly released. It was never finished.

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Interview: The Nameless Mod (Deus Ex)

With Off Topic Productions’ ever-persistent plugging-for-votes in this year’s ModDB Mod of the Year awards, I realised I’d never actually spoken to them about their exceptional Deus Ex project, The Nameless Mod.  First released ten months ago and reaching its final version in November, it’s a sprawling, dual-campaigned and completely mammoth piece of work that spawned from a piece of Internet fan fiction into a game that took seven years to complete.

Far from being just a huge mod, it’s also a highly intelligent one too.  It takes Deus Ex’s conspiracy soup and pours it into a big bowl of geek-culture, casting various real-life forum members as characters in the game world, who quip and bond and war like the members of just about every forum you might care to mention.

So, as the team begins its brave venture into the world of commercial game development, I caught up with producer Lawrence Laxdal and project director Jonas Wæver to talk about their work. Lots of words are below.

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Video for Victory: The Nameless Mod (Deus Ex)

Off-Topic Productions’ remarkable The Nameless Mod might have been out for a good while, but that isn’t stopping them from slamming their foots down on the promo accelerator.

They’re pushing for votes in ModDB’s annual Mod of the Year awards, is why. And, to be honest, they probably deserve some plaudits more than any other team in the past 12 months. Not that the others don’t work hard, but this is an amateur team using up seven years of their lives to create the most astonishingly detailed, intricate and lengthy Deus Ex mod, which, if you play through everything, might even take longer than the original game did to complete.

If you fancy giving them a vote, head on over to ModDB. You’ll need to be a member, but registration costs nothing. The Nameless Mod’s latest promo video is beneath the jump.

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