[quote name='ihadFG']Well there goes any chance of me buying the game. Can't say I'm surprised though. It is Activision after all.[/QUOTE]
Same. Though I was pretty much done with the CoD series anyway. But that seals it.
From the last thread:
[quote name='The Crotch']You ignored the second part of my post. If the end product is all that matters, then the fact that it is a "mere mod" is completely and utterly irrelevant. If engine = means and game = ends, then game = means and mod = ends.[/QUOTE]
I covered that in my first post. I conceded a modded game could be judged as a new and original game in some cases were it ends up playing as a totally different game than original. That's different than something that just mods in different character skins etc. that don't change the gameplay, story, etc. at all.
What matters to me is how original and fresh the end product is. It doesn't matter if it's a new game engine, and commonly used game engine or a mod. It matters whether the end result is something new and fresh or some game I've played umpteen times before with a new coat of paint. And I conceded that some extreme mod could (and has) resulted in very new game experience and should be judged as such.
But your little equation I don't agree with. Game engine=means. Mod=means. Mod does not equal ends. The game is the ends, and all I care about is that it's fun to play, and hopefully brings something new to the table. I don't care how it was made. New Engine/Old Engine/Mod I don't care any more about than whether a painting is in oil paint or watercolors. I care whether the game is fun and original and the painting is pleasant to look at.
But generally I'm just annoyed and getting sick of gaming again because of the lack of originality. Damn near everything coming out these days is a sequel, and if not a sequel it's just a generic FPS or other popular genre game that might as well be a sequel since it brings nothing new to the table. The only real innovation this generation has been shit that makes games worse like motion controls. So my mod rant is more just a frustrated with gaming in general rant.