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The Garry's Mod debate

What the community thinks of Garry's Mod, ordered by reader support. Agreeing, translating and reporting a message need no account.

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  1. CosmoSniper3

    Why does this rank above games with actual design behind them? What exactly are we voting for here, the engine or the memes people made with it?

  2. BossOwl1995

    my brother built a whole trap for me once and i fell for it every single time...

    VinylOwl

    Same energy honestly, my friends and I never needed a goal either.

    Iron_Shields

    Wasn't the trap basically the whole appeal though, or did the game itself ever pull you back in?

  3. ChaddOwl

    People act like no objectives is a flaw, but honestly that's the entire point, and honestly once you get a few tools down it just opens up, I don't know how to explain it better than that.

    TurboLegend

    Le souci c'est justement que sans direction, l'intérêt retombe vite pour ceux qui aiment être guidés.

    CoopRunner

    We never touched the tool gun much, just physics gun chaos for hours.

  4. Irma_76

    My roommate spent an entire evening just making NPCs fall down stairs and I couldn't stop watching.

    IronKid2

    Ah si, la libertad total, seguro, mientras tanto Minecraft te deja construir algo que sigue en pie al dia siguiente.

    suzanne16

    Same here, evenings like that are hard to forget.

  5. Mckenna_66

    It's not really a game in the traditional sense, more like a toolbox that happens to have a game engine attached, and I think that's exactly why it splits opinion.

    Homenick28

    toolbox w no goal, so what?

  6. CritSniper85

    I sank an embarrassing number of weekends into spawning ragdolls and setting up ridiculous contraptions with friends (I still have screenshots I refuse to delete). No goals, no story, just us laughing at whatever chaos we built. I fully accept I'm biased here, I'll defend this thing forever.

    LootNinja25

    So the votes clearly favor that kind of chaos, since 62% is nothing to scoff at, but I still wonder if it's the nostalgia talking for most of us.

    xkshlerin

    mine was less screenshots and more my dad asking why I spent an hour just launching a barrel off a cliff

    LootFox

    Sesgado dices? Yo también lo estoy, y qué, por qué eso invalida lo que se defiende?

  7. VinylMaster

    Minecraft actually gives you something to build toward, this is just a physics toybox with extra steps.

  8. GhostHunter10

    Ce qui me frappe c'est l'absence totale de structure, on adore ou on est perdu en dix minutes (perso j'ai mis du temps à accrocher), et je pense que ça explique une bonne partie des votes contre.

    Carpentier2010

    Le vrai débat c'est pourquoi on le compare sans arrêt à des jeux avec objectifs, ça fausse tout

  9. Leo_91

    Comparado con Tomb Raider no compite en diseño, o mejor dicho no intenta competir, son cosas completamente distintas y el ranking mezcla peras con manzanas.

    IrenePlayer

    Peras con manzanas o no, sigue ganando el 62% de sus duelos, así que el ranking parece darle la razón igual.

  10. Ghost_Archuleta

    Perder contra Minecraft casi siempre no dice mucho bueno de su posicion, ¿no creen?

    ArcadePhoenix2

    On refait ce débat sur la liberté totale à chaque duel, moi j'ai surtout gardé des fous rires improvisés entre potes.

    barton_alaina

    my cousin did almost the exact same thing, endless staircase traps, good times.

  11. FrameLegend2010

    Comparado con Assassin's Creed, esto no tiene ni narrativa ni progresion, es solo un sandbox vacio que la gente sobrevalora por nostalgia.

  12. LuckyMaster

    Va a ganar más duelos si le exigen objetivos, lo sé, pero para mí no necesita ninguno para justificar su puesto.

    Vinyl_Millet

    Nous, à l'époque, on passait des heures à empiler des props sans but précis et c'était déjà suffisant.

    Neon_Buisson

    Tu parles d'une liberté totale, mais est-ce que ça compense vraiment l'absence de direction pour toi ?

  13. TurboByte47

    Face à GTA V il perd presque toujours, mais il reste increvable dans son propre duel.

  14. PedroHunter

    Cada vez que veo este debate pienso lo mismo, tiene una libertad enorme pero tambien se nota que no hay nada guiando al jugador, y despues de un rato eso cansa un poco, aunque entiendo por que la gente lo sigue defendiendo.

    CritPlayer7

    The votes seem to reward creativity over structure, which explains why it survives duels despite having no real design goals.