What are your honest thoughts on modding? Is it REALLY a good thing for gaming?

What are your honest thoughts on modding? Is it REALLY a good thing for gaming?

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Yes, right or wrong.

Yes, you don't have to like them or use them if you don't want to.

Yes

Mods are fucking great. There's absolutely nothing wrong with them.
No one is forcing you to download the ones you don't like.

Yes. Made Skyrim from a mediocre fantasy RPG into an episodic adventure of a necromancer who ends up helping people out regardless of what I actually want to do, because people don't like players having the freedom of choice.

Yeah, because video games aren't art so you're not sullying any vision

Yes, one of the best things for gaming.

Mods are a necessity.

What do tits feel like?

Salty coins and milk.

Larger balls

Yes
It extends a video game's life by decades

Many game developers started as modders.

Name three

I have a friend who's more excited for the mods for Bannerlord than the actual game itself.

Im not sure how I feel about this.

Is modding still alive? Like for "modern games". Skyrim came out in what 2011? What are some recent games with a strong modding community???

Yes it is great to be able to modify a game you paid for.
Also devs might not realize this but this also helps them; by checking what mods are in the highest demand they can see in what regards their next game could be improved.

> not Median XL

>Implying the artist's vision matters for 99% of games

majority of valve employees

Hell yeah. Most games are shit or have shitty mechanics that ruin my experience. I want to be able to fix developer's mistakes.

Modding is slowly dying because most games have absolutely no mod support these days.

minecraft would not have been the smash hit it was without mods.

What's wrong with having more options?
It's not like you cannot play the original version.

Also SDKs that don't require a base game to be purchased.

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Of course it's a good thing. They're not mandatory in any way shape or form. They allow you to change things you don't like, and can turn a mediocre or bad game, into something truly enjoyable.
They give you more options and allow you to play the game you want, adding more freedom to your experience.

Saying there is something wrong with it, is truly baffling to me.

Yes, for multiple reasons:

>Can fix bugs if the devs left it in a incomplete or rough shape after the last patch.
>Allow for higher resolutions if the game came out earlier.
>Reimplementation of cut content.
>Allow for higher resolution textures or higher poly meshes that (usually) help.
>Completely new content that helps lengthen the game and give it more life.
>Allows spin off games or full conversion mods that can easily become their own franchises if decent enough quality.
>Addition or Removal of unwanted features.

There are a ton of titles that I think would have fizzled out and not gained the popularity they did if modding wasn't a thing.

>Previous game has a great modding community
>Sequel is always online that actively bans people using mods

95% of mods are utter shit but even the 5% makes it worth it.

Practically everyone in Valve. That guy who did that mod for Witcher and got recruited, though I can't be fucked googling his name. And that other guy who did Skyrim mods and then worked on Fallout, again can't be fucked googling it.

There are probably several dozen from that alone.

Name one (1) game that wouldn't be better if it had cute lolis.

>Mods are good because they turn an original experience into a 1:1 copy of an existing game
Why don't you just play Melee at this point??

My playtime of XCOM-2 is three times as long as it would have been if mods didn't exist

theres nothing wrong with modding a game into an experience you prefer, thats the point of modding games right?

GTA IV/V?
Just like anything else

Hell yeah

Yes, idiot. Not everything is skyrim mods with giant tittied horsecock monsters and animu girls. There are tons of stability and QoL mods for many games that turn terrible ports or releases playable, like DSfix or half of the New Vegas mods.

Most Paradox Grand Strategy games have pretty good modding communities, especially CK2 and Hearts Of Iron 4. The Kaisereich mod for HOI4 is a very active community thats constantly growing

Look at Quake's and Half-Life's modding scene and tell me it's a bad thing.

Forza

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Yes it lets me give my waifu in skyrim giant boobs and butt so I can actually enjoy the game.

I hate it. Modding is work. I wanna buy the game, install it, and play it. I want the game to be complete out of the box.

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It's always better to have options.

>implying

>mods ruining original vision is okay because they are optional and nobody forces you to use them
>hypothetical difficulty slider in dark souls is optional and nobody forces to to use it as well, yet everyone goes fucking bananas about it

Yes, it's good.
What the fuck is this?, every day we stray farther and farther from God.

>play melee, a 17 year old game that hasnt changed
>play pm, a game with more characters, stages, updates, balance patches, etc
Boy howdy, I wonder which one I'll play

>1:1 copy

I don't recall ever seeing threads like this until the PS4 was expected to have no mod support for bethesda titles, and then eventually got a stripped down version that can't use any external assets. They don't pop up as often lately but oh man it was funny to see so many people saying the grapes are sour anyway and they don't want them.

This was meant for

Removing the difficulty would go against the director's vision. The atmosphere of Dark Souls works because of the gameplay. There are mods that remove all difficulty from the game and nobody cares because that isn't part of the base game.

Like bags of sand.

>Is it REALLY a good thing for gaming?
yes
artists are faggots

We live in a world where games come out broken, incomplete, and devoid of meaningful content. Mods can fix all of that, plus you can get a bunch of silly bullshit added. It's a GREAT thing for gaming.

bags of tornadoes

I would never take away the option of modding but have never personally had a need for it. I like playing games the way they are and try to meta the shit out of them with all their flaws.
I played Skyrim for a good 5 years with nothing but a HUD mod and no levelled items mod, despite trying 100s of mods.

That being said, options are always great and certain games and their communities would be dead with no mods.

Power to the people.

Of course. For example, in Stardew Valley there are mods that add character locations to the map or change the look of the game like alternative character portraits and removing the ugly yellow dirt. I never would have considered playing it if I didn't have options like these.

>"games are shit and we fix them! we're actually saviors!"
>Proceeds to install 40 loli vampire porn mods on skyrim before playing/fapping for 5 minutes and uninstalling again
Mods are retarded unless they contribute to the performance of the game

>BTW If you want to know what it is based off, click here.
>links to her actual fucking instagram profile

Yes. You choose what mods to install, if it turns into rainbow coloured weeb shit then that's your own fucking fault, not mods. If something wasn't allowed because retards fuck things up then we wouldn't have anything.

Sorry, an inferior copy because this one has retard deviantart shit like 2 Sonic characters and Lucario

we call those people cheaters

It's great, it's what keeps its fanbase alive throughout time and keeps it from being too stale. DOOM's a good example of this

>not installing gameplay and porn mods then ignoring the porn till you get kidnapped and raped by bandits with their wolves
It's like you hate surprises

>Just looking at the pictures
This looks like just some gook as a playermodel
>a girl that I met in science class back in 2012
Alright then....

The one with an alive playerbase that wasn't banned from all tournaments by Nintendo

>What are your honest thoughts on modding?
Fuck should i care as to just how people chose to play with the toys they bought with their own money? fuckers paid for that shit so even if i find it dumb or silly no skin off my back as long. They aint hurting anyone or anything so whatever really.
Seriously though why do people care so much as to just how people choose to play with their toys?

There is literally nothing wrong with this. Jack drew an image of the girl he liked on the titanic, this is the modern day equivilent. It's endearing

Yes. If you dont like mods you're a filthy commie.

The girl wanted his dick way before that and she asked him to draw her.

Knuckles was only in the beta and was actually really well-made despite being unfinished
Sorry you're a dumb sperg who hates fun

t. neckbeard niceguy
When Jack does it it's endearing
When a random beta does it its stalking, that's just the way it is.

You can't re-use a painting you made in pornographic animations.

I mostly play racing sims and pinball games, so I love quality mods.

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Yeah except for the part that he blathers on to himself incessantly about it. Almost violently obsessed.

What exactly am I looking at, here?

A healthy individual.

Look Sup Forums I modded my steak.

>bruce cockedbum

>>bruce cockedbum

this is fucking gore delete it

His instagram has the same name too so I think it's fucking real.

>Cockedbum
Oh, fuck off. No way.

/OUR GUY/

What did he mean by this?

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Like a latex glove filled with pudding.

ayo hol up

PROVE YOURE NOT JAN THE FAG

that's cool man, if that is how you enjoy the steak then go for it, not my cup of tea particularly but since I wouldnt do something like that then there isnt any problem.
>Just trying to get ppl to rage at it
Ah, I see, you are one of them trolls right?

What is this was the "artists vision" of a steak, modding would allow you to take the ketchup off.
what a travesty.

OP is a phoneposter, do not bump his thread.

Let's be honest now, why the fuck would you ever date someone just because he made a 3D model of you?

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Because it's impressive of course

Yes

Yes, how else am i supposed to enjoy bethesda games?