Giant Bomb should do mod reviews and quick looks.

Hello y'all. My name is Murdouken.
 
I was recently doing one of my very frequent 'download every mod I see and see which ones are awesome' sessions (Which I do like twice a week, it's awesome) and it suddenly just sort of hit me that no credible site provides any relevant information on the modding world. Some of the mods (Flesh, Curse, Jailbreak: Source, Neotokyo) do fantastic things that publishers would sort of just go "wat." to if anyone decided to pitch the idea. On top of that, because they get nearly no coverage on any reputable site (save for the few that make it onto steam) the multiplayer parts of these mods often die quickly. I mean, for example, Battlegrounds got some good coverage on Rock Paper Shotgun and that is still active.
 
So I'm suggesting, or hoping, or whatever, that the Giant Bomb video crew people could maybe do like, one quick look or review of an awesome mod every week or two weeks. Not even specifically for Half Life 2. Crysis, Deus Ex, Far Cry, Half Life 1, and many other games all have strong modding scenes. I mean, it doesn't just benefit us who get to see what is new, but it would also increase traffic to giantbomb by a small amount as the developers would most likely post a link to it on their site and on their moddb pages. 
 
Thanks for your time.

I don't think the GiantBomb staff at large are even interested in PC let alone mods. Jeff and Dave probably check out mods from time to time but I doubt enough to write anything meaningfull about them. Besides they're both incredibly busy with what they have to do already.

I guess you're right. Just pains me to see some of these mods go so unnoticed when they do so much right.

They've expressed disinterest in covering free games & mods in the past - since anyone can play try them out, they don't really need to do quick looks or reviews to let people know whether they should play them or not, since it's not like people are paying out money to get them. They are a very small group of staff, and sometimes struggle to cover all the big releases, they really don't have the time or resources to cover mods. I can perhaps see a quick look or two, but reviews are a big no.

As others have said, I wouldn't count on the Giant Bomb guys doing something like this. They are a small team with a full enough plate already. As PenguinDust suggested, why not do it yourself in blog format? It wouldn't be that hard. Pick a mod you like, supply some screen shots, and tell us why it's good and where we can get in a few paragraphs.

" @MattyFTM: If this is the case, why do they cover XBLA titles? Trials are available for all of these. "

" @Murdouken:   Everyone can write a blog here.  If you do one that focuses on PC mods for games and it's presented reasonably coherent, I'm sure members would be appreciative.   Title it "Murdouken's PC Mod of the Week", tell us what it's about, what game it runs off, where to get it, add a few screenshots and then write up your impressions.   It doesn't have to be complex like Video_Game_King or TrueEnglishGent's stuff. "

We've thought about doing Quick Looks at mods in the past, but haven't done any yet.

I'd appreciate some kind of monthly highlights of the best mods by Dave, maybe just a couple of minutes a month talking about whats going on with the mod scene (mods that are new, dying, upcoming, etc.)

The fact that it's a small staff size doesn't really matter, the guys do tend to dip their feet in some weird games, I don't see why mods would be no different. It's a great idea

I vote for Dystopia!

Leave the mods for the modding community to scrutinize, I don't see why GB should cover stuff that won't matter for 99% of it's audience.

" We've thought about doing Quick Looks at mods in the past, but haven't done any yet. "

I could see them doing Quick Looks on specifically awesome mods, but I wouldn't see the point in reviewing a free product when they could be critiquing something that costs me $60.

" I could see them doing Quick Looks on specifically awesome mods, but I wouldn't see the point in reviewing a free product when they could be critiquing something that costs me $60. "

" @MattyFTM: If this is the case, why do they cover XBLA titles? Trials are available for all of these. "

Mod reviews might not happen but quick looks of prominent ones are possible.

I seem to remember Brad covering that Black Mesa mod or whatever (it still isn't out, by the way), but really I see no benefit as far as mod coverage goes.

" @Murdouken:   Everyone can write a blog here.  If you do one that focuses on PC mods for games and it's presented reasonably coherent, I'm sure members would be appreciative.   Title it "Murdouken's PC Mod of the Week", tell us what it's about, what game it runs off, where to get it, add a few screenshots and then write up your impressions.   It doesn't have to be complex like Video_Game_King or TrueEnglishGent's stuff. "

Do some yourself and post em on youtube, maybe you'll gain a following.

Alright, I guess I'll right a few blog things, short ones that probably aren't great but some people may find them useful.  And at some people, you don't need to pay for mods but there are absolutely thousands of them out there getting no coverage at all, so looking into the mod community is very intimidating at first.
 
Someone needs to suspend my comma rights, seriously.