Have Mods ruined our enjoyment of games?

I would say paid day 1 dlc has ruined more games for me than mods ever will.

I'm not saying all mods are great, some are rubbish. However i've never bought a game for the mods.
 
I generally think mods give you something greater than the original game, but they can just as easily ruin it.
 
Without mods we would never have seen the macho dragon or large chested young ladies :D





Got 1900+ hrs of fun out of skyrim but most of that is modding :p
 
Rroff said:
Disagree - some games have had crazy lifespans and enjoyment factor far beyond the original purchase i.e. quake 2 and 3 due to modding.
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Another on is Sim City 4 (released 2003), a old game that is still going strong due to all modding that been done to it. When that floop Sim City *something* come out, (forgot the name but the one before Sim City 2013).. people bought it and then just went back to Sim City 4 because it was much better game then the "new" one, due to all modding that been done to it... (should really remember what it was called, I bought the game myself.. and had it maybe 2 weeks.. :o )

So yeah, modding is positive.. =)
 
Sometimes. I do on occasion find myself spending more time modding (and getting them to work) than playing the darn game. Skyrim is a great example, I have put so much time into modding that thing.
 
I've never been an advocate of mods because they often detract from what the developer intended. I prefer to play games vanilla, warts and all.
 
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I know what you mean, I think I should have just played Oblivion rather than waiting until there was a massive overhaul mod. Morrowind I waited years until there was a big mod, downloaded it, still never played it.
 
Columbo said:
I think in some cases yes.

I found skyrim so boring that I modded it to death to try and breath some life into it, still found it boring. By the time I given up on it I realised I'd spent more time modding than actually playing.
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This is exactly what I did with skyrim :(

Only really bought it in a sale because of the hype, fortunately I only bought the base game tho so not much money wasted :D

I think some games are improved a lot from mods but then again some mods become bigger than the original games and people buy certain games just to play a mod.

I don't think mods have ruined anything really, maybe it's more mods make people realize how bad/constrained some developers are (doing poor ports of console games and spending minimal time optimizing pc games)

At least mods are free and mostly community based, so much better than DLC :(
 
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game makers have a vision, and that vision is close to yours because you buy the game, but maybe not exactly the same.

with mods, there is always at least one guy out there who has the exact same vision as you and the skills to make it happen.

i do always play vanilla first, with one exception: minecraft, but depending on how easy it is to mod and what mods are out there i'll go for it. free content is free content, although sifting to find the gems is a bit arduous at times but definately worth it.

a good example of modding going right is kerbal space program, i recall reading some of the modders for that game ended up on squads payroll helping with the game. i hope the guy who made the russian rocket pack was one of them, he knows how to make rocket models.
 
I remember asking a mate about modding Skyrim before I'd even started playing! Silly. But there are some mods that are good fun, silliness, graphical upgrades, etc. So, it's probably best to try something before looking at mods. Some people get lost in mods :\
 
As others said some mods helped games - unreal tournament in its 1st installment had some amazing mods, tac ops being just one of many, one of the gta's had a mod called mta which allowed online play long before gta got official online play.

That said I feel addons have pretty much ruined mmo's, its got to the point where you need so many addons to raid that you end up with a screen the size of a postage stamp to play on, & so many cant actually play properly without all the mods/addons they demand them built in from the start.
 
My first play through on any game is always without mods. I like to play the game how the developers intended it to be. Once I've been through it all, then I will mod away to the point where it feels fresh again for another play through.
 
I have yet to mod any game. I like to play them vanilla as the devs intented.

And if a game is poor on release, I refuse to use mods to make it better. If the devs can't release the game in a fit state for play, then I simply ignore it and move on to the next.

A lot of people seem happy for devs to release games in a pretty shambolic state, so long as they're modable. Kind of annoys me.
 
FoxEye said:
A lot of people seem happy for devs to release games in a pretty shambolic state, so long as they're modable. Kind of annoys me.
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Agree with this, mods are a bonus not an excuse for shoddy developing.

I haven't played it but the discussion over watchdogs being 'modded' to get the advertised graphics is a hot topic. To me thats not a mod but a workaround patch, but your point applies here.
 
FoxEye said:
I have yet to mod any game. I like to play them vanilla as the devs intented.

And if a game is poor on release, I refuse to use mods to make it better. If the devs can't release the game in a fit state for play, then I simply ignore it and move on to the next.

A lot of people seem happy for devs to release games in a pretty shambolic state, so long as they're modable. Kind of annoys me.
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Depends on the kind of mod your talking about, some mods add or extend the original game while leaving the original experience itself untouched, others add standalone content that is entirely seperate to the original game and just use the engine as a base and so on.

Stuff like Skyrim though needing serious modding just to make the original experience somewhat more accessible and polished is just fail.
 
When i finally download Skyrim I will mod it without pure vanilla first but I am sure there is a list of mods out there which change the game for the better but mostly keep the vanilla experience. Vanilla improved kind of thing.


Mods are one of the reasons I have not played any console in years. They are brilliant.

Just look at Il2 cliffs of Dover for one of the best endorsements, the game was so broken that the developers and publishers stopped working on it without the game being in any decent state. Then modders took over and now it is one of the best flight sims out there.
 
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