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Mods that alter the game so much, it is not the game it was anymore. Different story, sometimes even diffferent world and rarely, a different artstyle.

Post the ones you know (/vr/ related of course)
Doom engine TCs are too numerous to list, so don't bother - there's a Doom thread here already.

Quake, Half-Life, Unreal and everything else are alright though. Not sure whether romhacks count, but drastic ones, worthy of being called TC's sure do.


I'll start.

Some time ago I stumbled upon picrelated thing. It's called Olympus 2207, and it's a Fallout 2 total conversion - new sprites, new post-apocalyptic setting and lots of altered gameplay. And of course new story and quests with choices that sometimes matter. It was made by some russian fans of F2.

Here's a link to the site, which has an english (or rather "inglish", due to language skills of the russian dude that translated it) demo if anyone is Interested
http://olympus2207.com

The thing is, the the rest of the game is not translated and is only available on russian. Since I know both languages relatively well, I wanted to ask /vr/ if it is a waste of time, or is it actually worth being translated properly?

>> No.2184365

There's Action Doom 2, which turned Doom into a Beat-em-Up with a completely different style. It's not bad either. http://action.mancubus.net/

The prequel made it more like Metal Slug, but it was still Doom.

>> No.2184389

OK so its only 10 years old but unreal 2004 had thousands a few even got made into there own games ie. Killing floor, red orchestra.

>> No.2184420

>>2184356
Cry of Fear for Half Life, Zombie Panic Source for Half Life 2, Zen Dynamics for DOOM, The Great War mod for Empire Total War.

There's also a quite notorious episodic mod that was officially released for free, called "They Hunger" for Half Life. I'd recommend checking it out.

>> No.2184437

>>2184356
I know both languages supir gud, but I'm pretty sure the dialogs and the story would be too depressing to translate. That would be my main concern, so look out for that.

To answer "is it worth it?" I'd look up the numbers of restoration project popularity (there must be some) and multiply by 0.1 to get an approximate number of potential players. If this number is worth it for you - go for it.

I haven't played this mod, but did restoration and was pleased like a motherfucker.

And I don't know mods like you describe.

>> No.2184460

>>2184437
X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse is a Quake TC. It still uses the same, unmodified engine, and requires the original game, but replaces all the assets and changes gameplay somewhat.

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Diaspora - Freespace 2 Open TC

>> No.2184706

>>2184356
Movie Battles 2.

So much goddamn fun.

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Fallout 1.5: Ressurection also for Fallout 2.

Created by Czech fans. Already out in Czch and now it's being translated to English.

>> No.2185362

>>2184356

I think translating and practicing the language is never a waste of time and is certainly a better way to pass time than posting on a burmese cartoon board

>> No.2185380

>>2185339
Looks good.

>> No.2185517

I just noticed that there are Total conversions of King's Field. Well, sort of. They use the same engine/editor.
Has anyone played them?

http://www.swordofmoonlight.com

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http://web.archive.org/web/20080725053648/http://www.planetrainbowsix.com/gravedigga/rltc.shtml

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DD2C2TC, a total conversion turning Carmageddon 2 into Destruction Derby 2.

>> No.2188842

Chomp, the Super Mario Bros 3 romhack. Other than being a platformer it is a completely different game. Very puzzle and physics oriented. Very nice.

>> No.2190658

>>2185339

Release never

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The 1.13 mod for Jagged Alliance 2 is pretty awesome, but you need to really understand the vanilla game before you play it. It has a lot of user controllable settings and not understanding them will make the game way to easy or hard.

>> No.2193057

There was a russian localization of Blood that completely overhauls the setting, turning Caleb into Lenin and the plot into him turning cultists to Marxism. It had lot of altered textures and voices and in some cases Enemies. IIRC it was called something like "Lenin: the first BLOOD"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doacpkkopwk

>> No.2195972

>>2184706
I had almost forgotten all about it and just nostalgiad everywhere.
That was a very interesting mod.

>> No.2196147

>>2184420
You're going to list HL mods and not mention HL2's MINERVA? The total conversion that was so good that Valve hired its creator? For shame.

>> No.2196165

>>2190658
Why?

>> No.2196282

>>2196147

>/vr/
>HL2

>> No.2196548

>>2196147
Minerva's barely even a partial conversion

>> No.2197236

>>2196282
>10 year old game
>somehow not /vr/

>> No.2197252

>>2197236
read rulz

>> No.2197531

>>2197236

It's not.