I used to post on here around 2007. Back then, the two main mods were the Sephiroth mod and the remodeling of battle models to field. 5 years on, while there's progress and a lot more mods, does it seem quite depressing that pretty much all of this will never be completed and eventually the projects die, sometimes not even half completed or even getting past a second beta?
Its like this everywhere, and you can really understand why of course. Public mods that are done for free and requiring a team to do the hard stuff, combined with life and schooling and whatnot, so nothing ever really gets finished.
So why do people do it? Why does it continue to go on? I mean, there's people who obviously want to get in that line of work and this is how they do it but I mean in the grand scheme of things, even websites like GTAforums. Highly ambitious mods never get completed and they always just die until someone takes it over. I remember on a gta website, there was an ambitious mod for putting GTA III in the San Andreas engine and its still not done. People have moved to the IV engine, but yet the project still survives but its like its in a coma.
I'm not criticising anyone for mods not being completed, I understand. But don't you feel a little disheartened when mods you were excited for or even games years back are still not completed? It's such an immense feeling of disappointment.
Still glad to see qhimm.com is around though, and wish everybody well in their projects. It's just a little sad, y'know?