We cover a lot of mods here at Don’t Feed The Gamers, especially for games like Skyrim, GTAV, and Fallout.  While there’s a regular stream of mods coming in for these games, there’s sometimes a couple outliers that skew towards the unusual.  This mod is definitely one of those.  A user on ModDB named ‘Magic Nipples’ has posted an update regarding their progress on a mod titled ‘Year of the Dragon’ that will bring Spyro the Dragon to the first Half-Life game.  Check it out in the video below:

As you can see, the video is amazing and absolutely absurd.  It is hilarious to see Spyro in the setting of Half-Life burning scientists and charging armed guards to launch them 50 yards into a wall.  Personally, I’m really hoping this mod will work in the vanilla campaign of Half-Life. Can you imagine “Questionable Ethics” or gliding on the “Interloper” level? It would probably make the platforming parts on the latter more enjoyable, to be honest.  This mod is such a delightful oddity but it’s also simultaneously impressive that someone was able to rig up a PS2 character model of Spyro in a game that isn’t built to have a character like him playable.

The video shows off some tremendous progress and it’s encouraging to see the more strange side of modding alive and well in a project like this. But it looks like this gameplay only scratches the surface of what Magic Nipples has planned.  The modder claims that they will add Sparx as a follower and fodder to blend in with the other enemies in GoldSrc and Xash3D (two popular modding engines for Half-Life).  They claim that Gem Collecting and other forms of Spyro’s breathing powers will be present in the final release.  Magic says they want to get the first release out by September, before the Spyro: Reignited Trilogy comes to PC and Consoles.

So, thoughts on the ‘Year of the Dragon’ mod? Would you play through the first Half-Life as Spyro?  Let us know in the comments section below, and be sure to follow us on Twitter for updates on this project and keep it tuned to Don’t Feed the Gamers!