Quote Originally Posted by professorspatula
The thing with mods for these next gen FPS games is the requirements for making a decent mod is surely far greater. To get anything resembling anywhere near the professional of the original title, you need bigger teams and more skilled ones. I bought all the 3 big FPS titles of 2004 - Far Cry, Doom 3, and HL2 and there's been very few complete or interesting mods for any of them 2 years on. As games get more advanced, it's surely going to get harder for bedroom programmers to make good mods in a timely fashion. Even MTW2 is going to push the modding requirements up. People will expect new units to be as (or more) detailed and complex than those that ship with the game. And the units in MTW2 sure seem a bit more lively and more impressive than those in RTW. I suppose it's up to the developers to make it easier for the modders where possible.
I agree with that.
Counter strike, by beta 7 wasn't really looking great. It's graphics improved by retail but even 1.6 is poor in comparasson to Source.
It's just the way it is now. The new mods for HL2 are made almost by gaming studios making a new game except using the basic code.